skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's investment in government lobby has been relatively modest but growing:

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=Apple+I...

compare to google and microsoft:

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=Google+...

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=Microso...
Not all doctors are good. You're tarnishing the bad name of doctors that are bad.
I think this does more to tarnish the reputation of the web designer as an immature, spiteful person, instead of being a true business person. The best way to handle situations like these in my experiences is to take the site offline and say it is due to nonpayment, and provide a means to contact you discreetly. Then send the bill to a collections agency with a 33% markup to cover the collections costs. Most clients are honest, eager to correct what is most often a communication or clerical error.

I've experienced non-payment only a handful of times over 15+ years of freelancing. Barring bankruptcy, I have ALWAYS been paid by using these two tactics. If they go bankrupt, you will be just another creditor, and a low priority one at that, since there are no physical assets involved.
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Beautiful and useful app, I like it!
Yeah, contacting now.
JPMorgan Said to Have Doubted Madoff Long Before His Scheme Was Revealed
But to be fair - they have now hired another 6000 HR managers to work out why not
Weirdly enough, I have a chiropractor client who owes me for hosting, and has been extremely rude about it. I have to resist the urge to redirect his domain to ChiroBase.
Watch this talk[0] from Qcon SF November 2010. Ryan King goes into a lot of detail about many nosql implementations at twitter. This is the first time I had heard about distributed counting by way of Cassandra to implement tweet counts specifically and obviously count other things in general. In particular Cassandra is pointed out as having tremendous write availability to enable this sort of thing. He also mentions various specifics in how the feature is coded/designed and different approaches they had to take until they got a final version.

[0]http://www.infoq.com/presentations/NoSQL-at-Twitter-by-Ryan-...
The CKAN software is a platform for hosting data and metadata, but as far as I see, http://ckan.org does not actually list data sets.
Steve Wozniak Prints His Own Money and Uses Fake ID’s
Thanks! I actually already located the problem and am about halfway through fixing it. :-)
As I read it, because ICANN have apparently disallowed numeric TLDs so they don't expect they'll be allocating .42 anytime soon. Whereas ICANN might decide that .foo sounds nice and hand that out to someone, and then you wouldn't be able to figure out which registry to resolve the address against. It's not foolproof of course.
Hmmm. I always thought that 'free reign' made sense in that it was like self-governance with no restrictions.
Top 10 Xs that are the new Ys with benchmark vs Redis, Mongo and MySQL and why it proves google is evil.
i use this almost every day in SF to find lunch
Hmm... Sounds like an opportunity to me. No way to verify identity in such a way to make this possible?
Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake
Ask HN: Best web based Gantt Chart tool?
Looking for a dead simple online Gantt tool that allows me to collaborate with others.

Services I've looked at:
Tom's Planner
Wrike
Ext-Scheduler

Anyone have experience with these or any others?
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> The first user consented to his click analysis by installing the toolbar.

The toolbar says nothing about taking his data to improve Bing, only for Site-Suggestion which, to average user, is clearly a browser feature.

> Google doesn't lose a customer because the second searcher was already on Bing to begin with.

What about one who could have converted to Google if he search on Bing and didn't find a result?

Google couldn't lose a customer but there's no way Google would gain a conversion from Bing in this situation.

> Bing does nothing but analyze their own users' behavior

Assuming that this is a search result that Bing wouldn't have found by itself, then this "user behavior" wouldn't have occurred for Bing to capture had Google not exist.

Without Google each user can then probably only have behavior of clicking same old web site they have collected from long ago, there's no search engine for them to learn new relevant site easily.
I guess, it was a reply to "but it would be quite illegal for them to start tearing the house down".

Designer seems to have recovered his goods domain/hosting and used it for what he wanted. To slag off the debtor.
This electronic communication thing seems to be a western myth, the protests took place throughout a week of cut down internet. It's just how we currently observe it, but that doesn't mean it's how it works on the ground.
I've got a 5mx here that's not been used in a while, should have plenty of life left in it..... :-)

(Disclaimer - I stopped using it because I changed jobs and no longer needed its functionality, then eventually went for a netbook as I no longer so needed its portability and valued being able to run Visual Studio! I'd still recommend them to anyone who really wants a portable machine rather than just a toy though; in some ways I genuinely prefer it to my Android phone.)
You know, I hope they end up with some starry-eyed dumbass who doesn't know his own hole. Maybe someone who just watched the social network and picked up a book on facebook markup language?

What about the product? I'm a pretty talented guy and can get jobs easily. What is going to make me quit my well paying job at a _successful_ startup and jump on your bandwagon? The romantic notion of risking everything and working at a coffee shop?

I'm sorry, but whoever else said the "ninja" and "rock star" metaphor needs to die said it best. Please, please get rid of these things and replace them with some substance!
Check out our FAQs and Privacy Policy, we try to address this and other issues there:
https://www.readyforzero.com/overview/faqs
https://www.readyforzero.com/overview/privacy

As a datapoint, since the public launch a few days ago we are already helping people track over $35M in credit card debts. We believe trust is earned not paid for.
Well yes, except that it is already revenge, and will presumably remain so until the developer gets paid.

...if in fact this whole thing isn't a hoax.
The no embargo policy is really only enforced for startups that don't know what they're doing. That happens to be a lot of otherwise-unknown YC startups that choose to launch on TechCrunch.

I don't see how it's at about principles at all or at odds with giving stuff to readers--it's always been about embargoes getting broken, and nothing else, as far as I know.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Even HN isn't immune to linkbait.
this is what i do, a simple rename of the index with a contact message.

although, the "get bent" is awesome.
No, the question is "Does this sound interesting?" "Sounds interesting" would be a statement.
>On Android, voice dialing requires you pull out the phone and press a button

That might be a quirk on your particular model of phone or headset, or maybe it was fixed with 2.2. The N1 definitely supports the headset button for voice commands.
I work at a big-ish ad agency, but I aspire to do something more.
I've wanted one for a while. As a student, I take notes all day long. Digitizing them by hand is a pain, but if they were immediately put into digital format, that would be great. I could carry around years of notes on a flash drive, conveniently organized by subject. With a little work, you can even add keywords/subject searchability to notes.

Currently, I could take notes on a laptop, but in mathematics this is extremely difficult (you have to be very very fast with LaTeX), and realtime diagram entering/editing is basically impossible with a laptop.
In fairness, that also describes FTP, POP3, and DNS.

Edit: and LDAP, and Redis, and medical PACS datastores, and RDBMS in all their multifaceted splendour... a freakish amount of programming boils down to CRUD.

Edit 2: and Gopher. I feel a little sad for forgetting about Gopher.
the OS doesn't mind threadlets/green threads/OS processes

Except for the blocking system calls and blocking page faults that block all your green threads.
If you guys have any manufacturing questions please feel free to email me, I've helped out a few companies that post on HN.

Manufacturing Guide:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896
It tells you something about how the competition is doing, and a particular area where Apple excels.

Knowing how Apple compares to the competition, and what they do differently, is interesting.
What's the minimum amount that a collections agency will go after?
i rang up about 5k in credit card debt. six months ago, i decided to put my nose to the grindstone and get it done.

i paid my last $600 off this morning.

i stopped buying unnecessary shit, stopped eating out all the time, and most importantly, made payments -every- time i possibly could. if i opened my bank account online and had $400 left in checking, i'd put $250 into the card. if i had $200 left, i'd put $100. there are a whole boatload of $50 payments and many even smaller.

just start paying and don't stop until it's gone. pay your bills, stay fed, and whenever you have money left over, move it to your credit card. try to make a small payment every couple days. just focus on that damn number and make it smaller every single opportunity you have until it reads "0".

i also made enough during this period to pay for a trip to jamaica in cash. i only make $39,500 yearly so it's not like i'm hauling in bags of dough, but focusing on my credit card debt also had some interesting side effects - like learning money management and learning how to save WHILE paying down old debts.

it got to the point that i found more joy in moving $50 to my credit card than going out and dropping $50 on drinks over the weekend. it's funny, but all that stuff that i just 'had' to buy before ...... it turns out i didn't. imagine that.
> simple "system calls" like memove

Minor, pet-peevy point: memmove(3) and memcpy(3) are not system calls. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_call)
That's not very fair :-)
It's also been indexed to the top of the term "winona chiropractic" (probably not hard to do, but sucks for the chiropracter: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...)
I would definitely not apply for a programming job that included "porn star," anywhere in the description. I could do the job, but I'm sure as hell not going to.
Ditto. I got my invite the other day. I like that it is one place focused on getting my debt down. I paid what felt like a bunch of money the other day, but on RFZ it's clear that it was a drop in the bucket of what I owe in total...

I second that. RFZ is top notch.

Edit: this thread reminded me to check if a trade cleared. Just paid another $800 towards credit card zero. Woot!
Since the various Xpolls were added to the kernel, I would disagree. Even based on a select loop the kernel has still been happy to do many things asynchronously for a long time now, it's just a bit of a klunky API.

I have the suspicion that we're in violent agreement. One way to look at it is that select/epoll/kqueue/etc are hooks that allow the programmer to work around the kernel's threading model by doing several tasks at once in the same thread.

It's not even in the OS; the OS doesn't mind threadlets/green threads/OS processes, it's all in the high-level languages.

No, the OS does not mind these things. On the other hand, User-Mode Linux proved years ago that the OS doesn't mind you implementing a whole other OS on top of it. This is essentially what BEAM is: though it outsources the "interacting with hardware" stuff to the underlying OS, it has all the other fundamental parts of an OS built-in. One could argue that, given this, the OS does not actively fight you on anything.

In a perfect world, there would be no need to do this. The process architecture would suit Erlang's purposes all by itself, and BEAM could be a regular old VM that outsources scheduling to the OS. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world, and real-world schedulers generally need to worry about a wide variety of things. Not only that, but things like permissions are typically strapped onto scheduler primitives for historical reasons. BEAM punts on many of those things, and thus trims a whole lot of overhead.

Missing things can be added, I'm talking about things where the underlying layers actively fight you.

On that basis, I can argue that C is perfectly happy to do all those same things. BEAM is written in C, so anything BEAM can do is empirically possible in C.

When it comes down to it, the hardware doesn't know a thing about "events", "processes", "threads", "semaphores", or even "concurrency". The hardware performs calculations, and it does not care whether those calculations are specified in "The Operating System" or "A Userspace Program" or "A Library".
relevant video: http://www.hulu.com/watch/1389/saturday-night-live-dont-buy-...
Certainly the value of the finished structure must always be far higher than any recoverable materials?
Have you heard of BACON JAM and know where to get it? Why is it so hard to discover specialty products?

Love With Food (http://lovewithfood.com) is a a social media platform for food brands to easily reach out to home cook and foodies, so that

(1) food brands have a new marketing/distribution channel to promote their products other than regular grocery stores or farmer's market.

(2) home cooks and foodies (like me) can easily discover unique products that are not usually sold in normal grocery stores, e.g. Bacon Jam.

(3) and a % of our revenue goes to FeedingAmerica.org to help fight hunger in America because we love others with food.

@jason - Love With Food is a 4 months old company. Is it too late to apply to Launch? Btw, thanks for the free table offer!
Congrats Steve, for abandoning it.
WOW offers kind of the same addictive business model, but is obviously better at keeping ppl busy.
I myself never had that kind of problem since I never got the clou about that swarm thing, or about social interaction either.
However, it surprises me how constant connection to all parts in the world, a phenomen the internet introduced, can lead to such effects as depersonlization.
As a business proposal - wouldn't it be interesting to have a platform that artificially separates people, to allow for some deference so ppl actually have sth to say to each other when they meet? I guess WOW got that right again. Seems we can learn something here - mankind is not supposed to be a swarm, at least I wouldn't like the idea (that's why I'd be the only individual left when that happens to happen ;).
my 2ct
This describes an excellent employee (for some, anyway). But it doesn't describe a porn star.
Shameless self-promotion, but important point nonetheless:

VoltDB is truly fantastic at this kind of workload. It's one of the first use cases we had traction with. Also, VoltDB is open source today.
Don't really have a need to advertize but if you haven't seen this post, it may be helpful getting more bang for your buck out of your servers: http://mocko.org.uk/b/2011/01/02/how-to-survive-a-slashdotti...
Look at Trac (trac.edgewall.org) and its plugins (trac-hacks.org).
I suspect that they are, and when you can simulate a million users doing what ever activity you want them to be doing then the impact on Google and lots of stuff will change.

Of course my favorite was the Amazon hack of repeatedly putting some item in a shopping cart and then adding in a bit of pr0n (or some other weird combination) so that Amazon would put the other item in their auto suggest product combination.
D'oh, I should've guess that!
I think that the tilted playing field is a great analogy. This has been my biggest complaint. There are many actors as you say, and when you add situations in there that are beyond our control it snowballs quickly.

Take myself for instance...
Me and my wife are both college graduates. We both come from non rich, roughly impoverished backgrounds. Her mom was a single mother, my dad is a small farmer. So we went off and had to pay for it ourselves. College isn't cheap, that means loans. Lots of loans. So we walked out of college with 80k total in just student loans. We both worked summer jobs, plus jobs during the school year as much as we could. Now, neither of us had nice cars, so they needed to be fixed from time to time. You know, a head gasket here and new transmission there. It all adds up.
Then we had this crazy idea... Lets get married! Nice, but now we have to pay for that as well. So I've got a mountain of debt that we're both working to pay off (very slowly) and its not like I have a flat screen tv or any of that stuff to show for it. We don't spend more than we make, but we have a huge hole to climb out of that leaves us with very little at the end of every month.

And our expenses aren't getting smaller... health care goes up, so does food, and gas, and heating oil. Welcome to the new American Dream.

My hope is that my bootstrapped web hosting service will someday allow me the flexibility I long for, but its a lot of sacrificing of sleep and some family time.
I'm feeling a whitespace backlash building within me. Perhaps as a natural evolution to "below the fold" making its way into web design, I'm starting to think poorly of websites that place their content low in the viewport. WU's redesign puts the top of the content about halfway down the viewport, but the entire header, including the nav tabs, could be half as tall if they tried; I doubt anybody is typing sentences into their massive search box.
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I find it's easier to track spending by credit card.

I download a csv of my transactions, import into ledger (https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki/ it's like mint, but for the command line), then just "ledger balance --cost expenses". All my CC transactions are labelled ("expenses:entertainment:bar", "expenses:computer:github"), then I have a big black box: "expenses:cash".
The one that requires high-level cognitive functions. Any idiot with a prescription for Viagra or Cialis can do the other one.
When my friend and I saw the Boogie Board the first thing we thought of was saving off what you write. So I'm pretty excited for this NoteSlate if it comes out of vaporware mode with just that feature.
Manufacturer-owned stores are future of tech
there is a difference between statements : (typical marketing style BS coverup of missing feature) "you don't need hints" and (honest) "we think that our limited resources should be all working on optimizer. In our view the priority of a few percent of cases where hints are necessary is much less than the rest that is covered by optimizer".

The latter shows that the people are rational and open to reason. The former shows that ideology and resulting BS byproduct have overtaken the project.
God forbid anyone dial 9-11 and it not connect thanks to AT&T or bad antenna design.
Obviously not for me. I finish all my programs in under 5 minutes. :-(
Is this truly better than a real notebook and pencil? I'm having a hard time convincing myself it is...
FedEx supports this functionality through their InSight service, but only for packages inbound to a verified address.

You can't just look at anyone's incoming packages. That would be like walking into a post office and asking if anyone is receiving a flat-screen TV on your block this week.
I can't live without this app. I use it everyday.
Yakto, sounds like only 1 and 4 set you apart from other incubators for hackers. And I feel 1 could be addressed by using an alias until you're ready to jump ship. So, not enough differentiation for "w/ day job" niche.
AND I feel the seed idea has something to it. There is tension and pain there. Perhaps develop points 7-n?
Any idea on the mode of personalization?
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g0atbutt, one tip. Putting together a mockup using this Wordpress theme last night (http://wpshower.com/free-wordpress-themes/sight-1-0-free-wor...) I noticed a typo in the social sharing links thing. If you mouseover the digg button it actually pops 'Bookmark on del.icio.us'
"It's minus 40 (Celsius) outside," Turkeyev said.

Celsius, Fahrenheit, what's the difference?
Or 5% cashback sometimes (look at Discover More etc).
Interesting, I started a site in 2005 (flightr.com) that was to allow you to pick flights based on a certain price and see on google maps what legs flew out of any given airport given that price... Kind of like a destination lottery.

The project died after I couldn't get much interest in it. But I still have the domain - took everything offline some time ago though...

After about a year or so, the same features started popping up in sites like kayak.

(although that may be in part to me showing early revs to a buddy who worked there)
The humourous thing is that Dvorak points out the ink equation. This self inflicted inversion of value by artifical manipulation of supply of ink. However manufacturers are on to that (since they create the artificial ink market) by selling new printers with 'demo' cartridges which are 1/2 to 1/10th the volume of 'real' cartridges.

Given that the patents around inkjet printing are expiring it might be time to really shake up the market with a printer which doesn't demand the ink tax.
Those are completely irrelevant problems. The problem you cite is the nature of the beast with an open market. I think you'll have a hard time finding Android fans willing to sacrifice the open intentions of Android and Google's Market to prevent copyrighted apps from getting into the Market.

I find it funny, that image, as if some random bloggers "indictment" should motivate Google to action. They're handling it just as they handle Youtube, and I think it's brilliant. If you see your material in the Market, file a DMCA. Problem solved.

Yes, customers ignore permission warnings, but again, that's an unrelated issue, and surely you're not suggesting that Apple's lack of a permission list is better simply because users sometimes ignore it when offered.

In terms of security, both from a disclosure, per-permission level granting and sandboxing perspecitve, Android has a superior model.
They claim that "no antialiasing" is "one of our best features". I guess they like the jaggies.

I could see this as being useful as an input medium to something like Balsamiq, but that might conflict with the "we're keeping it simple. just like paper. nothing you can't do with paper." feel they're going for. Which is an odd pitch --- people selling electronic whiteboards usually say something like, "you can pretend it's like your other whiteboards, but here's all this other stuff you can also do with it!"
Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
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Flightlite is very much about tracking what's in the air right now (visiting relative, the plane you'll be departing on, previewing a route, just being a plane(plain!) nerd, etc) :)

I've definitely thought about integrating pricing information / ticket affiliation stuff. But it is a personal project, and unless it was getting enough of the right kind of traffic it wouldn't be worth it as I couldn't afford to market etc effectively.
Weird part is this quote precedes that quote in the article:

"It was here that the coldest temperature ever found on Earth -- minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit) -- was recorded."

So it seems the writer wasn't simply just writing from a Celsius perspective and felt the need to clarify a quote (from no units to units).
Sir, you have a knack for teaching like I have never seen.

This is an absolutely fantastic way to introduce people to game physics.

Next step: Make it slightly interactive so that people can modify the javascript in each example and see what happens.
Google bets $20,000 you can't hack Chrome