skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok but what if they are providing web hosting as well?

Then the analogy is that your running a shop selling stuff, and then when people come in asking for product x you tell them you won't give them product x because the owners of product x don't pay their bills to you.

It all depends on who owns the hosting. You can't sued for libel if you tell the truth.
Once you hit the 7 year mark those late payments fall off your record. Just keeping your current bills paid on time is probably the best thing you can do if you already have several years without any problems.
Seems cheap for a piece of e-ink display that size...
try this book: I loved it. Just the right balance of deep stuff with great explanation. Later you can go onto something more esoteric.

Principles of Finance with Excel: Includes CD
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Finance-Excel-Simon-Benning...
The most recent Survey of Consumer Payment Choice estimates that there are 178M card holders. The 2009 Survey of Consumer Finances (2) estimates that percentage of card holders of "bank-type" (eg: not Macy's) cards that revolve balances is just under 50%. With store cards, this number is right around 100M.

(1) http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/ppdp/2009/ppdp0910.htm
(2) www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2009/pdf/scf09.pdf
Of course, he would say that.
I agree, that chiropractor certainly burnt the bridge to use that web guy again.
This is why you set up milestones to get paid instead of waiting for your complete payment at the end. Develop on a test server and then after the final payment, move to the production server. This is a highly inappropriate response to a problem, and I would never work with this designer because of it.
Fasted Training Boosts Endurance and Muscle Glycogen
A lack of making a profit or positive cash-flow over an extended period of time would seem to be traits that might doom an entrepreneur.
this basically explains it all (from TS founder, David Cohen):

http://www.davidgcohen.com/2010/06/18/you-have-acquisition-i...
I think it's unfair to say that the focus on word count is absurd. Like most things, writing well requires practice. The only meaningful metric educators have to determine whether a student has actually practiced is word count. The unfortunate thing about the way writing is taught isn't the emphasis on word count; it's the total neglect of editing.

I received a formal education in technical writing. In college, I probably submitted a peak of 40 thousand words to my professors in a single semester. But I wrote at least double that, in the form of things like notes, outlines, and stuff discarded as inadequate or unnecessary. That was the chief thing I learned: not to write less, but to discard more.

One of my favorite adages about writing is a good complement to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's quote. It's Sturgeon's Law: "Ninety percent of everything is crud." To get ten good words, you're going to have to write 100. I don't think it's a bad idea to teach that to kids, so long as they're taught to throw away the other 90.
No in the UK, if you do not pay a building contractor, court gives builder permission to "recover their goods" which is demolishing it.
I wouldn't pay for that design either. The reason you don't pay up front is to ensure you are delivered a quality product.
> I haven't had credit cards in years

That raises flags for me, because as far as I know from what I've read, some of the key components of your credit score are 1. length of credit history (i.e. if the average age of your open credit lines is 0, then that's bad) and 2. credit limit (if you have no credit cards, you have no credit.

Certainly having no debt helps, but many of the other things hurt more than they help.
Are the API keys etc stored at your end or are they sent through the use of your API?
If you are providing hosting also, have failed to collect and are writing the debt off, I think it would be MUCH better to disable DNS or the host or something like that, rather than put up a public page like this. I'm a developer, not a lawyer though. If your lawyer tells you it's acceptable to do something like this, then I wish you all the best. Personally, I'd just take the site down and file a lawsuit, even a small claims suit.
As I understand it, the poor refresh is because each pixel element doesn't store its state in silicon; the physical orientation/charge/whatever of the display element itself is the state. So you have to wait on each pixel to change before moving on to another (you can of course do multiple chunks in parallel, but your bus is only so wide). In an active-matrix lcd you write to a memory cell that lives close to the liquid crystal, and that cell continuously drives the crystal to twist the desired amount. You can rapidly write to those memory cells without waiting on the physical twist of the crystals to complete.

You can see on the kindle the loading indicator is able to spin at a decent refresh rate; ditto word selection, menu selection, etc. This is because you are waiting on few elements to make the physical change at a time.

A simple pen based drawing surface would only update a few pixels at a time would and presumably work quickly as well.

(Any corrections welcome; this is just sort of how I assume it works based on using a kindle, not based on much looking into of how eink actually works)
My argument is that violent protests would do very little to help. We're having an election that will throw the ruling party out. The next government are campaigning on the basis that they'll get a better deal. I doubt they will succeed, but rioting on the assumption that the problems can be decided away won't make it any more likely.
Please, don't do this... If you are a webdesigner, just take down the site or put up a note saying "This customer did not pay their bill." This is never the right way to solve your issues.
Digital image improvement server software for Windows.
True. Applying to ARIN now...
Hello Jason,

We are building a Social Ebook Reader for Tablets - http://www.Appitude.com. Applied for OAF at Seattle and had a chance to talk to Jason Krute. Launched private beta in november and have signed up interesting authors like Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the soul), Jay Conrad Levinson (Guerrilla Marketing) etc.

Would love to attend Launch.

Thanks
-Vj
It's the "nice way" to go by replacing your stuff with the original design when you decide you're really not going to be getting paid. Can see just removing the page entirely, kind of. However, I don't think it's good for either side of the table if you do something like this.

If you take away what they gave or took down the site entirely you would be justified and perhaps quickly pay. Doing something classless like this is just going to make the client bitter and perhaps damage your personal reputation.
Find out what is new from iDealyzer
So, the question is: does a hashmap implementation exist where accessing and normal writing is not serialized, but expanding the table has the appropriate locks?
Put two pieces of toast together and what do you have? Toast.

The WP7 seems like a pretty good platform but the way that Apple and the Android group are going it's hard to seem them catching up.

It seems like forever that Nokia has been working on their new platform. The question for them I thinks is can they keep their profit margins by just being a hardware manufacture.

Of course this is all speculation at this point.
To the designer, that is definitely not the way to go about your business. You are begging for trouble and doing more harm to yourself than the guy that is stiffing you on payment -

That said, after a quick double-take, I have to admit I laughed when I looked at the site.
Can a coming soon page for new features of an existing product go viral?
Do you have the latest Maemo version? It made it a lot faster.
They're stored at our end at the moment, but I can see that there would be value in allowing both methods.
"Recovering your goods" in the sense of a website is to take it offline or restore the original contents. I think filling the page with stuff like this goes beyond recovery.
E-Ink has a very slow screen refresh rate, so I'm skeptical this can deliver a snappy writing experience. I have found writing on a laggy screen to be quite unpleasant.
Inadvertently like the Bing toolbar. It has been shown to log every pageview like Bing toolbar. Whether they filter out the pageviews when a user goes to Bing no one knows besides Google. (ie: The article below shows they definetly do not filter it out at the application level as a Yahoo query is sent back by the Google Toolbar and Yahoo now runs on Bing).

http://www.benedelman.org/news/012610-1.html
Yep, I read it. In fact, David absolutely insists on getting a ball park figure first. That's what I wanted to get advice on from HN.
That is certainly a better strategy, but is it realistic? It seems to me most people do not succeed in doing so and never will. They get addicted easily and forget to pay attention to what they are doing on a meta-level.
"Traits" are neutral and don't predetermine outcomes.

"Lazy" -- my sons assure me it's another word for "efficient". If done right, it absolutely can be an asset. "Arrogant" -- often what other people call "confidence". If you can bring it, other people will accuse you of all kinds of crap for doing so. So? "Risk averse" -- depends on a lot of things. I am very risk averse. I expect to go out on my own someday because I don't trust my future in the hands of BigCo. Seems to risky to me do so.

Traits are two-edged swords. If you are stuck with some trait and it is in your way, getting it out of your way doesn't necessarily mean changing the trait. It can mean looking for the right fit between who you are and the world around you.
I've contemplated this measure a few times but the fear of legal repercussions is a little too overwhelming to go through with it.

At the same time - I feel sympathy for this designer and don't blame them. One overwhelming gesture of disrespect (devaluing ones work and not paying) sometimes deserves another.
Simple Game Physics in Javascript
Ask HN: My site, Flightlite.com, just got featured on Lifehacker - help
I posted my side project a while back (http://flightlite.com) a very visual flight tracking tool for flights currently in the air.

I've just been hit with more traffic in 20 minutes than the two months the site has been live, it's a bit slow.

I've been struggling to find a way to justify the data costs for running the service (it's not an issue considering the low traffic up to now) and I'd stuck it on the back burner while doing some bread and butter work.

I really want to find a sponsor to help cover the data costs and of course get some lovely prominent branding on the site. I need around £1-2000 pcm to service up to 1,000,000 visits with better hardware and pay the per-transaction data costs.

Is anyone interested? Does anyone know anyone who might be interested?

For now I don't care about making any money off it - it's a labour of love. But with some time to evaluate options it could be profitable I'm sure!
Pacific Northwest (Seattle) SysAdmin Conference
BackType is hiring hackers [SF]
We're growing!

We live and breathe product and ship to production every day. We're obsessed with measurement and data to inform decisions, learning about our customers and their problems, and doing whatever it takes to minimize waste.

We hack with a wide range of technologies: from Python and Clojure, to Cassandra, Hadoop and Thrift. We open sourced Cascalog, a query for Hadoop, created a database optimized for batch exporting and serving data and are currently developing a stream processing framework (code-named Thunderlog) that will generalize our real-time work-flow much like Hadoop does for batch work-flows.

For the back-end hackers:

- we have > 25 TB of compressed data

- more than 100 billion records

- serve more than 400 requests per second

- operate a cluster ranging from 60 to 150 nodes

- we do this with 3 full-time people (just added two interns)

For the front-end hackers, our flexible back-end lets you build what customers ask for very rapidly. Features that take other companies months take us less than 24 hours.

We have world-class investors (http://twitter.com/BackType/investors/members) helping us out and are generating significant revenues. Drop us a line at jobs@backtype.com.
The the role of open porn on the decline of the industry is highly overvalued. the huge availability of free commercial porn in many forms is probably a more important factor. even without open porn , i bet the situation would have been pretty similar.
Final Post: How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship
Psion Series 5 or Revo.

QWERTY keyboard with proper keys in a decent shape and that aren't much smaller than netbook keys. But it'll fit into a pocket and run for plenty of time on AA batteries. I could and did touch type on it fast enough to take very usable notes in meetings. And for those that want to draw diagrams, it's got a touchscreen too.

Honestly, I've never found anything quite as good and think it's a major shame they're not still available. A smartphone with the keyboard from one of these things would be brilliant; I just can't understand why companies play about with these silly modified calculator keyboards when there was something so much better available in 1997. If I were HTC I'd be making it, if I were a VC I'd be funding whoever could make it.
So Microsoft's defense is that they are not copying Google in particular -- they are copying every search engine?
Last thing someone wants after a post which it #1 at HN. :(
"Now, be fair: Erlang papers over the deficiencies of the lower layers (namely, the kernel) with significant manual effort. It's just that someone else has already gone to this effort. BEAM is an event-based server behind the scenes, with lots of syntactic sugar to make it look multithreaded. The PLT Scheme webserver is another example of this."

This really is not a valid critique. When you get down to it, I/O is going to be interrupt driven. Everything other than the interrupt handlers is just going to be "sugar."

Node.js is the worst of both worlds - all that "significant manual effort" is now pushed into the application logic, and all that it's doing for you is just thinly "papering over" the syscalls.

If you really want to see a well-done papering over, take a look at Gambit Scheme, instead of BEAM. Marc Feely really understands the issues with green thread scheduling, continuations, and concurrency.
What if you used something like the EnforceSSL Rack Middleware with a Rails application. I feel like that would be a little more useful.
I'd like to build a service where unpaid web developers can point DNS or redirect to, that on every visit to the unpaid website, would send an email to the owner explaining that someone visited the website, but only saw text explaining that they were a bad debtor.
Which profession?
OT: A blog peeve of mine is when you read a blog and want to visit the home page but can't find the link. Out of years of systematic reflex, I clicked the logo in the upper left, only to get the blog home. After a little link hovering I discovered the "try it out" button goes to the home page, but to me that means sign up, not read more about it. If you're going to use your blog for marketing, make it really easy for visitors to visit the home page. Don't make me think!
Sweet! The iPhone app is quite nice.
You don't need to be based in the US to hire an attorney in the US. No one in my company has ever met our lawyer in person, and he did quite a bit of work for us.
I think the main intent of this isn't to simply seek revenge, but to hopefully pressure the chiropractic office into paying. I could be wrong, but that's what my intent would be.
Thank you, no-downtime upgrading is another thing definitely bold for such a service indeed!
One interesting tidbit: the most popular support request we've received since launching is to make the service available in the US and Canada.

One natural reason that this situation has gotten worse is that the credit card market has become completely saturated (everyone who wants a card has one [almost]). This, combined with relatively easy credit recently has resulted in the card companies marketing to people that they would previously had stayed away from.

We've learned that people often become accustomed to credit at an early point in their lives (college), rely on it for awhile, then don't suffer any explicit repercussions, and so grow accustomed to it until the problem grows and it's too late.

I don't really think it's a 'conspiracy' either, since it's clear what the motivations for all of the involved parties are.

Would love to chat about this more, but I need to tend to the serverz :)
Agree. The phrase "from the creator of XMPP" never fails to make me cringe, for a variety of reasons.

It's a tribute to the simplicity of IRC that you can write a channel logging bot in like 20 lines of shell (https://github.com/acg/logbot).
Hopefully we will add more info in the next few days, truth is we had way more signups than we expected (a good thing!) and we have to take care of a lot of things. Future is bright and reliability is the are where we want to put more effort.
I got my RFZ invite code the other day and took the 10 minutes it required to get my credit cards in the system and play with its tools.

I found it to be SO much simpler than Mint, which I've just ignored for more than a year now.

With RFZ, I can quickly see that if I stopped using my cards and paid X per month for 3 years, I'm out of debt and am only paying about 15% more over what I owe. Thats not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Now, I think I underestimated what I can afford to pay, so hopefully I look at my bank account one day and see there's a few extra thousand that I don't need to save and can immediately put that on a card. Feels like I'll be better off much sooner than 3 years.

Mint can do this, I know, but again — the simplicity of the experience of RFZ is top notch.
Tell HN: Thanks for all you do for startups & VCs
I've been using HN for roughly 2 weeks now and just wanted to personally say 'thank you' to everyone involved w/ YCombinator & HN including staff members, contributing startups, startup applicants, VCs, commentators & anyone else I may have forgotten to mention.

I'm so glad there are people out there who are much smarter than me, otherwise life wouldn't be nearly as fun and entertaining as it is!

Now, Tell HN why you're thankful for them?
I've used socmetrics. I'm a beta customer and being able to search and find influencers according to topic is awesome!
Been using the app. When are you rolling out deals? Will I be able to get deals on dishes I want?
I think they have a facility available like this for their larger customers to ease receiving. You'd probably need to have a decent sized account before they would give you access to something like this, and it would only be for addresses you have registered with them, not a random lookup of any address.
In my experience, the Psion 5's are starting to break down now. I went through 4 in a year!

My solution was to buy a Psion 5MX, not because it's better built, but because it came out 2-3 years after the 5 and thus will last on average 2 years longer - which means they'll break in 2012. Also stockpiling the 5MX's so when mine breaks in 2012, I'll have 3 or 4 more to last me a few more years.
I just moved to SF, and it has a ton of suggestions for dishes to try by where I live. I like how I can narrow down my search to walking or biking distance.
Thanks for the link, great article. Ripe with memorable quotes.
You know, obviously you are right. But, I think people (especially intelligent HN type people) greatly underestimate how much psychological tricks affect them. I know deep down that spending with credit card is the same as spending with cash. But, I tracked my spending using cards and only withdrawing from ATMs and using cash. I spent about 20% more. And my life didn't feel any better or anything. Now I use credit cards on the big stuff- like travel, transportation costs, and other large ticket items where credit versus cash is unlikely to affect me spending habits. Point is, you get some tiny cash back, but I think for 99% of people you spend more than you get.
Vidinotes (http://vidinotes.com) lets you learn from videos by making printable cheat sheets. Great for how-to and exercise videos. - Chris
Thanks. We would love to hear more about your experience as we continue to make improvements.
This is a great app for finding food - like they say a "yelp for dishes"

I saw the pitch and the underlying platform is pretty amazing - lots of opportunities to build additional products on top and to integrate with other companies.
That's a good point. I didn't really have a clear view on that matter. I just wanted to emphasise that however that discussion bore out - it is irrelevant to the argument against Bing.
What makes you assume that no one is attempting that?

Botnets are run off of the computers of ordinary, clueless folks, who might be real Bing users submitting real data in addition to whatever the botnet sends.

I've already linked to an analysis of the actual protocol data submitted by the toolbar and I can see obvious ways to copy and fake it.

If you use only the computers in your set that already have Bing, copy that unique ID and figure out what IP they're sending it to, your data will be identical to that sent by a real user.

At that point, you have to harden the protocol and hope it stands up to reverse engineering, or start spam filtering it (if they weren't already). Maybe they can do a good job of that, but it really lowers the quality of the data they're getting once enough people are feeding them garbage.

SEO types already set up thousands of spam websites to game PageRank. I don't see why this would be any different.
No. It's not. But without clients knowing about the fact that a site should be accessed only over SSL, there is no fix. Chrome isn't the only browser to support this. AFAIK, NoScript for Firefox also adds support and once this becomes widespread, more browsers might follow.

Fixing the problem for some is certainly better than not fixing it and waiting for the perfect solution that might never appear.

Especially if the fix is this easy to implement.
Could be. I used internal chaining also in the program I mentioned in the other comment. And probably a power-of-2 size and another tweak or two -- I don't remember details.
If I was in this situation I would just erase/kill the site, as the web developer is clearly in the position to do so, and most clients wouldn't have the know-how to do anything about it. Some of us try to maintain a little bit of class.
As has the web guy for me too.

Now, I'm not ever going to need his services; I can handle the tech stuff just fine myself thanks and I know plenty of graphic designers. I also tend to pay bills when I receive them :-)

But there's no way I'd take a hosted service from someone who's pulled this stunt in the past. Let's say we have a small disagreement - happens in business, doesn't necessarily mean either of us is a crook. But how do I know he won't fly off the handle and do this to me too? That's not a liability I want to think about.

Our web designer has a childish sense of humor

Indeed, and that's why I won't take his services.
Sweet looking app... 2 thumbs up!
Being too egocentric. E.g, if your prospects don't like your product you should change it and don't insist that it is great and they are too stupid to use it. It's not about you, it's about them!
Is their business model subscription based or recommendation (like Mint) based? I don't know if I would trust anything from a company like this if I was already in debt. Usually people already feel screwed over. They should really work on PR and branding so people feel like they can trust then.