skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is one of the joke sites Groupon has made. Andrew Mason, and Groupon as a whole, loves jokes and pranks.

Two of my favorite Groupon jokes:

Groupoupon (http://www.groupoupon.com/), a tease at the Gilt Group luxury sales. NOTE: you MUST try to buy one of the items. Hilarity will ensue.

The monkey rental deal (http://www.groupon.com/chicago/deals/rent-a-monkey-for-a-wee...). NOTE: you MUST watch the video. Hilarity will ensue.
It's not squatting in a conventional sense; seems more of an anti-competitive thing to make it harder for brand-name rivals to enter the market without acquiring the company. Having seen the number of acquisitions of local competitors Groupon has made (including some operations in South America accused of shady tactics themselves) it's easy to understand Scoopon's motivations, if not their lack of ethics. And chances are if Groupon did build or acquire a successful Australian operation they'd severely dent any hopes Scoopon had of making big profits.

It's a bit of a risk when WIPO or an Australian court can potentially take the domain off them for nothing though...
I use chrome for music (currently mixcloud playing), this way I can restart ff without stopping music. And have it on the 3rd or 4th workspace so it doesn't bother me on my working ones
Not necessarily... AT&T blocks non-Market apps on their phones.
This would be good for Twilio, which doesn't have any phone number validation methods in its libraries.
PostUp Buys Twitter And Facebook Application EchoFon
What about free apps?

I would be OK with my $0.99 app costing $0.79 if Amazon thinks it sells more but I wouldn't want my free app to suddenly cost money.
This is interesting: "Any operative trying to reach a colleague—whether in the hotel down the street or at the command post in Israel—dialed one of a handful of numbers in Austria, from which the call was then rerouted to its destination. But since dozens of calls were made to and from this short list of Austrian numbers over a period of less than two days, the moment that the cover of a single operative was blown and his cell phone records became available to the authorities, all others who called or received calls from the same numbers were at risk of being identified."

Given that the agents have had enough time to leave Dubai, I wonder how did the authorities identify the initial phone number whose billings were checked. Have the agents called an easily identifiable hotel landline?
Wonder if Amazon are also considering selling apps on AWS via this appstore?

Would easily work for EC2 images but might also work in the "platform as a service" space like the sort of thing Heroku is doing. Or just "buy a blog" e.g. wordpress can sell via the appstore and it's running on the AWS cloud.
Ruby on Windows – The Last Frontier
Wow, this is a serious hack. Everyone can now sniff and decrypt GSM calls with some cheep old phones. The tools and the new faster rainbow tables discussed can be found here: http://srlabs.de/research/decrypting_gsm/
Keep in mind, they also actually make physical objects that exist in reality.
You should have majored in art (graphic web design)
There seems to be a strong bias toward using Emacs, probably because Emacs itself uses a Lisp. There's no reason other (programmable) editors couldn't talk to Swank (the Lisp-side of Slime) though, and I'm not sure why people writing things like Eclipse plugins haven't taken that approach.
Ask NH: Are people hacking hacker news?
In recent days, I have seen a lot of stories/urls/questions, which do not deserve to be on first page of HN, but they are.

It is obvious that the story will gradually move down the list if its content has no worth, but to be on first page gives enough exposure.

If I ask some of my friends to vote my submission up within minutes of submission, it will bring the story on first page and then if I ask them to keep voting in batches, the story will stay there.

I am not sure whether HN algorithm checks for such voting patterns or not. If it does not, how can it or we prevent such acts?
Any company whose logo is the Death Star...
I can't reproduce on CentOS:

$ php -v
PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May 5 2008 10:32:59)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.5.3, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator

$ uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:39:21 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I've seen several posts now with this same theme.

Emacs is an awesome lisp IDE and it appears to be not widely known that emacs is written primarily in elisp, a lisp dialect.

So I would highly recommend learning emacs and elisp together and forget CL for the time being. Sure elisp isn't as pure as Scheme but it's still a good first start and learning the pitfalls of dynamic scope will provide an appreciation for the features of other lisps.

Moreover, though you may not use lisp much in your other work, by learning emacs/elisp you end up with an awesome programmable editor that you can use elsewhere.
My knowledge of the banking and financial system is limited, but from what I can see the article contains several factual errors that it exploits to make the point that private banks are evil.

Example: the author claims that the ECB (european central bank) is co-owned by Deutsche Bank, which is directed by a private council. This is simply wrong. While Deutsche Bank is a private bank, ECB is co-owned by the "Deutsche Bundesbank" which is a state-owned and controlled organisation (even if the bank is intentionally only loosely controlled by the state, which is a common for several organisations in germany).

Another example: he claims that private banks can 'create' money. That's not true. The federal/central banks do, and they give that money to the private banks, which have to pay interest for that money.
Where to find friends who can review my code?
All of my friends don't know anything about programming or they don't code in there spare times like I do.

It is really hard to find someone who can explain what is bad about code design and what should I do about it or what should be "best".
First you said that Google just continued with free services. This is incorrect: Navigation was not free and they severely crippled the paid navigation market.

Google Navigation is on Android, a paid add-on that providers add to products that you pay for. There is nothing free about it.

Quality e-mail was not free. A quality office suite was not free. And it still isn't, because Google has failed so far to provide an alternative to MS Office, but they're trying alright!

No one paid for consumer email -- it was long a free, ad-supported market via options like Hotmail. Adding weasel words like "quality" to disclaim some exception doesn't make that any less true. OpenOffice is entirely free, and is a huge superset of the limited features Google offers.

But even then, the "free" Google office functionality is very limited. Businesses pay for business plans.

Speaking of Apple, they ARE a premium brand.

Most of the buyers of Apple are buying iPods and iMacs and iTVs and iPads, all fantastic values. The people buying Apple laptops are usually developers targeting the first set of buyers.

GM sells the Corvette CR1. They still aren't a premium maker.
Don't you think it will improve vertical space if tabs goes to side, also these days all the laptops have widescreen - this will be quite useful there.

As for the default state of the browser, the tab bar can be made to appear only when second tab is opened or something like that.
Eavesdropping on GSM Calls
first thing i thought when reading this was "distributed twitter"
You're so right, the Wii was totally a gimmick. How did it ever become a huge success for years now? Kinect must also be a gimmick, a break out successful gimmick.
mendeley desktop?
http://www.mendeley.com/
I'm more stunned by the price: I pay 20€ for unlimited and unrestricted data access with a double SIM (one mobile broadband, other for phone). And they want to charge more for other video access?
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6e91e20f2... has some good advice for making life easier when hacking Lisp regardless of the editor involved.
I think even if they came with Bing as their default search engine, most of the users would switch it to Google. I think at least Google is thinking they would. How many of you chose Bing as your default search engine when you installed Google Chrome?

I think some entrepreneurial mind can write articles on changing the default search engine on different phones, since I believe most of the people who doesn't know how to do it, will search how to change default search Samsung Fascinate
My understanding is that the Eclipse plugin CUSP does use slime to talk to the SBCL instance.
> Also, on your initial post you made the assumption WP7 is runs on .NET, which is mostly incorrect.

I never implied this. I just meant that the SDK is based on .NET, so .NET runs on ARM. It was a reply to the comment asking about .NET on ARM. Nothing more.

And when I said "are you trolling?", I was referring to

> Have you tried running Office 2010 on your phone?

so I hope I wasn't downvoted for this.

About the 3 points, "I doubt ...", "I don't see" and "people will want" is no evidence, just personal considerations, and mostly on the short term. So I don't want to continue the discussion any further.
They didn't leave it open on purpose? Why do you think so? They even threatened legal action when the Kinect first came out and a company offered a bounty for OSS drivers. They'll likely never do anything about it, but they're not opening it up.
My solution was to turn to PLT Scheme (now: Racket) and DrScheme. I figured that would work just fine as long as I didn't understand the difference between Scheme and Lisp anyway.
Judging from the porn study, you'll get better results if you write a script to screen-scrape the winning numbers after they're posted online, then display them to you alongside some hot pron amidst several sets of randomly chosen lottery numbers alongside SFW pictures.
> If I ask some of my friends to vote my submission up within minutes of submission

If you and everyone else stopped doing things like that, the front page might start to mean something again.
facebook.com.au redirects to facebook.
I agree with you, Emacs is great and I am only just starting to realize how cool it is to have a Lisp environment underneath all the text editing facilities.

But if this writer picked up Land of Lisp, they might not be that quick to drop Common Lisp and jump to Emacs Lisp.

That being said, I think they should just start reading and hacking and not worry about which editor to use. That's going to be the least difficult part of learning Lisp, but people seem to make it out to be much more than that.
Switching to Windows from Linux as a developer can work most of the time, but there are always subtle things and expectations that don't work, and in general, the experience is quite frustrating.

In either direction, there are things to get used to. I'm used to good package management and being able to customize certain window management behavior. Both are sources of frustration on Windows or Mac.
Red Faction: Guerrilla and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 both have pretty decent destructible scenery.
Add to that:

* horizontal scrolling websites are regarded as undesirable; vertical scrolling is expected behaviour
(and a >320px pane adequate to display a reasonable fraction of a title + favicon will result in horizontal scrolling for most users on a typical 960px width website)

If I want a vertical list of my tabs I can get a pull-down menu using the existing interface...
Apple looking for Ruby contractors
Many PC manufacturers supply a "recovery" disc or partition that reinstalls all the bloatware too, instead of a normal Windows installation CD/DVD.
Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft
I definitely use a salutation in my first email, but omit it in subsequent replies for the same thread.
Ok, do tell: Please describe the name (Australian personal or business name) that Groupon USA has rights in, to which the groupon.com.au domain is confusingly similar.
Wordpress frameworks that don't suck
By now there is a considerable amount of WordPress code around that is meant to be re-used by other developers. Unfortunately there is little to none practical and solid information on it and generally you are stuck going through frameworks one by one until you find the first you like or think they all suck terribly (whichever comes first).

A community writeup on which frameworks and parent themes we really use and why.

I for one have always found it painful to find a decent wordpress master theme/framework to work off.
Yes, evidently it does. Seems strange that it would be tied to a specific version of SBCL then, or is that the user not knowing how to start Swank elsewhere and connect Cusp to it?
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Variations on Pi
'By now there is a considerable amount of WordPress code around that is meant to be re-used by other developers. Unfortunately there is little to none practical and solid information on it and generally you are stuck going through frameworks one by one until you find the first you like or think they all suck terribly (whichever comes first).'

A community writeup on which frameworks and parent themes we really use and why.

Featured question on the stack exchange (beta) Wordpress site http://wordpress.stackexchange.com

I for one have always found it painful to find a decent wordpress master theme/framework to work off.
Totally agreeing on the benefits. But remember one thing: You english speaking people out there have it easy because of points 1-3 in the article.

This stops being the case the moment you are dealing with any non-ascii character. At that point, some assumptions stop being valid, like the fact that it stops being the case that every document is a valid UTF-8 encoded document.

If you treat arbitrary encoded data as UTF-8, depending on your environment, you will get thrown exceptions at or you will see question marks in various designs all over the place.

Combine this with the fact that browsers sometimes are not quite sure of what they are doing:

I've seen them sending latin1 but telling the server it's utf-8 or the other way around.

The rails people tried to detect utf-8-ness using the snowman and lately a checkmark (http://railssnowman.info/).

Finally, keep in mind that it's impossible to accurately detect the encoding if it isn't utf-8 without actually doing language analysis.

Soon, you'll notice that utf-8 isn't magically solving problems.

It's funny how many english speaking people talking to english audiences think that slapping a "; charset=utf-8" to their content-type headers suddenly makes their site utf-8 compliant.

As long as their content is 7 bit english and their users send data in 7 bit english, they could as well just have left the charset alone or set it to ASCII as ASCII = utf-8 as long as the first bit isn't set.

The application I'm maintaining, while being multi lingual, is, thankfully, targeting countries with languages that can be expressed in latin-1, so that's what we are (still) using.

I made various attempts at going utf-8, but in the end, between browsers lying and external third-party APIs still insisting on latin1, these efforts never bore fruit.
It was an example. I do not know anybody else on HN. :-)
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Screenaphilia
No doubt you are part of a consumer segment that do not like the Wiimote and Kinect. The question is how big is your segment and what percentage of gamers the segment is. These two numbers will tell us whether there is a market opportunity for another device or this segment can be safely ignored.
> 4. The biggest problem with BeOS back in the day was lack of applications. I don't see this being fixed with Haiku unless they have translation layer.

Keep in mind that beos is basically posix-friendly. You can already compile a lot of applications which work on linux. Firefox needed some changes for example, but works now. Applications like vim compile without any changes at all - just get gcc, make, make install.
Pretty sure the NDA co era confidential info you might learn about the company and upcoming projects/products/plans, not their interview methods. I dont have access to it right now but I've posted the exact language from it in the recen past on another thread relates to Google's interviews.
The reason for asking this question was to know whether HN has implemented such features or are they working on such features?

Did I screw the message up? Or was it difficult to comprehend?
System administration with scsh (Scheme shell)
Funny how he does not even provide single reason, why he discards Emacs as a Lisp IDE.
You'd hope so! I know most of Facebook would be classed as engineers, vs. a lot of Yahoo as sales, support, etc. But really? 1/10th the employees, you'd expect their salary bill would be less.
Yeah there has been a few of these types of sites popping up on TV ads. Was wondering where one of them, cudo got the massive funding they must need to be pushing all these TV ads and promotions on thing like the cricket, turns out it's a Microsoft/PBL company. That's going to be some fairly steep competition for groupon in Australia.

http://thenextweb.com/au/2010/09/10/microsoft-launches-group...
The standard name for this design pattern is Lazy Registration. I admit Progressive Signup is probably a better label as it is more descriptive, but lazy registration is what people have been calling it for some years now...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lazy+registration+demo
It's not just scratch. It's also spare capacity and stuff to deal with level wearing. They also advertise the actual usable space as opposed to the 'max' space. A SSD might actually have 256GB of space, but it'll be advertised as 240GB. They're actually fairly honest.

Remember, most of the major SSD manufacturers -aren't- harddrive manufacturers. They're chip and memory manufacturers (which makes sense).
Ask HN: What product could be built around NFC and smart tags?
Since the Nexus S is equipped with NFC. I'm curious if anyone has fun/interesting ideas using this technology, other than payment/ticketing. I'm thinking about how to use those smart tags.
The functionality is quite similar to QR Codes, except that the user experience is completely different and way more instinctive, and the content on NFC smart tags can be modified.

I know there must be obvious use cases that I'm missing. In any case I'm interested to know if you have thought of interesting ones.
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The article questions the indepence of central banks - very tough call.

Giving politicians direct influence on central banks, is one of the most dangerous things I can imagine.
Does anyone know if Land of Lisp could be done (and by done I mean cradle to grave) in Racket?

I own the book but have put off starting it for the lack of knowledge regarding a cross-platform IDE to do all the exercises in -- as my time would be split between my work Windows [1] and my home OS X environments.

I do, however, have Racket installed on both; so...

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[1]: and I have already been shot down on Cygwin
Plan 9 has no super-user. Each server is responsible for maintaining its own security, usually permitting access only from the console, which is protected by a password. For example, file servers have a unique administrative user called adm, with special privileges that apply only to commands typed at the server’s physical console. These privileges concern the day-to-day maintenance of the server, such as adding new users and configuring disks and networks. The privileges do not include the ability to modify, examine, or change the permissions of any files. If a file is read-protected by a user, only that user may grant access to others.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
Editor-independent advice for working with Lisp
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Is anyone looking for a part time Perl programmer?
Whoa. MetroPCS is considered cheap in the USA, as most plans are around 60 a month.
Down and Out on $250,000 a Year
How do you know it does that, then?
Sifteo announces early access details for Cubes: $99, Q1, lots of extras
Thanks for sharing this! I just submitted it to HN, so that more people will notice that great article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2070905
For those interested in this. Luke Wroblewski wrote on a similar theme "Gradual Engagement Boosts Twitter Sign-Ups by 29%" - http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1128
From the horse‘s mouth [1]. The pre-order page [2]. An information page [3]. An FAQ [4].

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[1]: http://blog.sifteo.com/2011/01/sifteo-announces-sifteo-cubes...

[2]: https://www.sifteo.com/early_access

[3]: https://www.sifteo.com/product

[4]: https://www.sifteo.com/help
It actually isn't. This example won't execute on page load, but it will if someone clicks in the search box.

http://fluin.com/?search=Search%22%20onclick=alert%28documen...

Since you're using PHP, I recommend you use a function like htmlspecialchars here rather than whatever kind of filtering you're doing.
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That isn't the goal of an XSS attack. :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
I suspect that Lazy Registration/Progressive Signup is far more important for lesser known sites. Facebook has the weight of some 500+ million users behind it and there is sufficient motivation for new users.

When working on wedding proofing sites I found that users would be willing to put up with more steps because they were motivated to begin with.
Because Linux installers are superior in every way to Windows installers.
I like the look of djangy.com as well. I also noticed stable.io on HN a while back and I think another one (I don't remember).
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