skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
International Shipping companies
You can find many International Shipping companies but shippinginternational company is a leading shipping company which offers services like full shipping containers, part shipping containers, and shipping crates to all the major countries.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2299975

That says a lot right away.
I have an online and an offline life. FB is associated with my offline life, my real life. I don't want what I do online associated with my real life, and being forced to sign up through facebook before I've even tested what you're trying to sell me is a real no-no.

As I said elsewhere. The day I'm forced to authenticate through Facebook is the day there'll be a pseudonym account set up for me.
Are these compatible with the scripts from Adsense or Facebook?
Ask HN: Lead generation sites and Adwords
I'm in the process of teaching myself how to be an expert in marketing and lead generation. I do this, I must confess, because I tried to learn coding, was pretty mediocre and wisely chose to focus on the other, more interesting side of start ups and business ventures. Anyhow I digress.

I asked on some Adwords forums and I can't seem to find a definite answer to this. Would I be banned by setting up a site which offers basic lead gen pages to businesses and then promoting those pages via adwords?

Some people say it should be fine as long as it's op-out but others say it's too much like the affiliate marketing Google likes to ban.

So how do I test this without permanently losing the ability to use the awesome traffic builder that is Adwords?
Clickable:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17l_q2qeseDuPE9XQK7z...
right now it's the commenting system. Before that it was general backlash and before that it was the like-button-everywhere shitstorm that also spawned diaspora.

Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.

Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.

You can't expect consistency in a society with a cumulative attention span of about a week.
hey there, you never replied back to my thread. :)
While not something to read, I always thought the bullet ant way ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ6rFKhyn0 ) was a nice way to go about it.
The shared library model ensures (at least for C/C++) that if a bug has been found and fixed in certain library, all packages that depend on it will take advantage of that bug fix. Imagine how many packages would need a rebuild if let's say the openssl package has been updated by the vendor and openssl has been linked statically into applicatons. Using the shared library model eliminates the need for rebuilding all packages that depend on a given library, if the given library has been updated.
As long as website owners are aware of the consequences, it seems to me to be up to them to use this or not.

I'm guessing the main attraction is to have the comments automatically propagated to the commentator's Facebook friends (that IS how it works, right?)

Personally I'd like to see a similar system for Hacker News - you'd get a much better comment moderation while keeping the discussion in one place and not having to worry about running a commenting system yourself.
Facebook is trying to be that douche' friend who takes something out of context you said in front of a couple of friends and goes babbling it to everyone they know you know.

I don't think FB is making itself a good app when it's actively trying to make itself the bottom of a social circle. Not the foundation of a social circle, but the scum sucking parasite that's only in your social circle because it just happens to be in everyone else's too.
We tried both and didn't get on with either, Assembla bugged us less but we moved everything over to codebasehq.com about 8 months ago and never looked back.

Funnily enough Assembla sent me a bill today after 6+ months :)
Very cool. Works perfectly for me Chrome/osx.
Getting something up and running on Amazon EC2 is actually quite easy.
Had zero sys admin experience as well, but managed to run a simple app on my free micro instance in less than a day.

Another popular option is Linode.

EDIT: There's also http://stable.io/, which is kind of similar to Djangy, but it's not ready yet so keep an eye out.
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HTML (1 through 5) enable "crap things" too. As long as skilled users can create quality products, who cares what everyone else does?
Happy users are billable users.
A huge difference is the controls. In CTC you aim by timing the release during the swing of the trebuchet. This is tricky, especially since you can't see the target. In Angry Birds you aim by pointing in the direction you want to launch the bird.

A slight error in the timing of the trebuchet launch easily turns your shot into a complete miss.

Angry Birds does introduce timing later, with the various types of birds whose behavior changes with a tap while in flight, but that generally occurs when the bird is close to the target where a slight error usually doesn't completely waste the bird.

The net result is that in Angry Birds I feel like I'm spending most of my effort concentrating on how best to attack the puzzle of understanding the physics of the level so as to efficiently get through it. In CTC I'm concentrating on the reflex game of clicking at the right point in the trebuchet swing. The former is simply a much more engaging game.

PS: I disagree that CTC is not about killing the people. There are levels with people outside the castle. Take down the castle but leave some of those people alive, and the level is not over. Killing the people is the victory condition, so I'd say the game is about killing the people.
Umm, actually you can revert to previous versions.

Google docs saves revisions of every edit: File -> Show Revision History (Could be slightly different, because i translated them from my localized google docs)
Compare side by side 3 web-based Accounting Suite for UK SMBs
For those on OSX Glimmer Blocker ( http://glimmerblocker.org/ ) provides really nice OS-wide ad blocking and there's a custom ruleset that blocks all the facebook widgets with click-to-enable at http://visuao.net/facebook/glimmer.xml
Not only that, but there is no reason that the physics loop would have to be run in real-time. They could just as easily run the physics loop for a few frames as fast as the hardware would let them with fixed deltas of average frame length (probably 1/30th of a sec). Chances are they could run half a second of simulation in just a few milliseconds without the need to render.
Launchpad was conceived from the perspective of an organisation optimising the process of working on and building Debian packages (Ubuntu/Canonical), designed the same way 90s three-tier systems were: database schema first, and built as a monolithic platform rather than iteratively as a user-facing product.

Zed Shaw is trying to divine the failures of Launchpad backwards. When you know the story behind it, it becomes brutally obvious. :-)
Startup employee sample contracts?
I have come across a ecommerce startup in the which has existed about five months. I have been interviewed and have been offered a position in the company doing content creation tasks. I have been given a contract, which is a very generic such with some questionable terms and conditions.

Medical coverage is mentioned to be covered, but due to the age of the company, they don't have any insurance policies to back that clause up yet.

Basically they want me to sign and let the quirks be straightened out along the way. I really want to start working with them and I understand the situation in which they are in. I also trust them fully. Is there such a thing as a standard contract for startup companies I can peruse? A company like i.e. Groupon must have gone through the exact same phases I assume.

Any thought in the matter is highly appreciated!
Thanks!
So this is just a version of Disconnect that only blocks facebook? Does Disconnet do all this anyway? I discovered at the weekend that Disconnect blocks results on a Google custom search I made where analytics is running also. Seems a little overzealous.
Oh God, please, not more crappy video and poor speech synthesis, forcing me to listen for nearly four minutes to something I could read and actually laugh at in 20 seconds, instead of getting deeply, deeply irritated.

Please, just write something.
Ask HN : why my android app not in market
why my apps are not shown in android news we market , they are shown in market app but not in website .

I have tried searching and also edit the link by adding package name .
You may not necessarily want to use the cards in crossfire, in which case you get impressive performance in a one-slot package.
Any solid, good Howto's; we're using puppet as well and had the same issues. We use Capistrano + Puppet + some custom scripts; we would like to get rid of the latter.

Is there any howto for setting up a completely clean/empty Linux (Ubuntu / Debian) with RVM as Ruby installer? But thanks for this; at least now I know there is a solution :)
Someone should write one of these for aspiring MPs. I'm pretty certain most modern Western Governments seem to have forgot the basics.
I'd get rid of school. Teach kids writing, arithmetic and show them the internet. What do they need from teachers?

I'd be hard pressed to name ONE class that was worth my time to attend.
I hazard that its not so much the game itself but the climate within which it was launched and advertised. Saying that, i imagine there were probably enough similar if not identical games that would have failed miserably, in which case Angry Birds set it self apart with simple gameplay, story line and characters.

I do find it depressing that this is the only thing people can bloody go on about though.
While it's not what I would choose for my kids, the money isn't uneared. His parents or ancestors earned it

Oh, come on. You're just spliting hairs. I'm not jealous of it, but in no way is it earned.
I have to admit being a little underwhelmed by many of the AppSumo bundles recently but this one actually has a decent selection of products (and you can use them internationally which is a bonus!)
I blame child labor laws. Since children below a certain age are unemployable adults lock them away in school where they can't cause trouble and learn to do what they're told.
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Works perfectly in Safari 5. Excellent job. Beautiful to look at and works great, just like the Apple keyboard itself. The only way it could be better is if the focus (the cursor) is automatically loaded and placed on the first line of the page on page-load. I had to click on the paper to start typing.
> You need ruby and its dependencies, you need facter and its dependencies, and possibly a couple of other libraries (ruby-augeas, etc.),

But how is that nice? Perl, sh, bash are built in to every distribution. Learn from the RVM setup; it's very good. Or better; just deliver OS packages; we didn't get this far with aptitude to have everyone roll their own!?

On Ubuntu Lucid EC2 images there is no Ruby and if there was, I don't want it; I want RVM. So basically, you are saying that to provision my server I need to provision my server...

Another comment said it can be done auto; is that true or do we still need to install Ruby etc? We have it all automated now, but the use for Puppet is kind of gone; by the time Puppet is up and running, > 80% of the required software is already installed...
Aaah, thanks! I hadn't realised that.
A lot of people are being rather critical of this launch, which in itself is a rather mean spirited thing to do considering a) anyone launching anything should be applauded, b) and the 20 year old solo founder got into ycombinator with this product, c) data porn startups should be fascinating to hackers.
Almost 20% of the comments here, and one of the most upvoted comments here is calling it a clone.

I believe that Like.FM can and will kill Last.FM. The reason is because Last.FM is in the corporate doldrums, and since Last.FM got acquired a few fundamental things happened: Facebook & Twitter.
Last.FM has little to no integration with these services, seriously, imagine a social service in 2011 that entirely ignores these networks.

I love Last.FM, I have been a user for over 5 years (http://www.last.fm/user/Hejog) but I am infuriated to no end at the lack of innovation.

Last.FM has forgotten its roots of being a startup, and in this process lost the one thing products need to relentlessly focus on - delighting users. If Like.FM can focus on that, they will beat Last.FM.

The major roadblock with beating Last.FM is that their API is a very defensible beachhead - I refuse to use music services that do not scrobble, as data is worthless if you only see 90% of your listening habits.

Chris needs to run around SV and convince everyone to let him integrate his APIs with their music service. (seriously, isn't Earbits in the same batch as you?)
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Ask HN: Best way to generate recurring income
Looking to learn some new skills and make some money.

What do I have the best chance of making real money (say $50/day) with?

- Apps: iPhone/Android/WinMo/Ovi/Mac App Store/iPad

- Web apps: like most of the things that come up on HN. (Appt Reminder, for example)

- Digital content: ebooks on easy to learn and write about topics. Think long spammy testimonial pages
From the website of al bogari Holdings, the company Omar is the CEO of:

"If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at marketing@albogari.com"

Case in point of building features valuable to customers and the company before those that are not. Why is there no feature on this website to unsubscribe from marketing, just as there is to subscribe? Because it's work to build one, and it doesn't have immediate benefit to the company.

On a side note, as CEO of a 35 year old international holding company - I find it odd that Omar is claiming to be the "little guy" in this thread.
Eh, that's not really what I said/meant. The fact that Apple's only serious competitor is something open-source and freely distributed, shows how other proprietary operating systems have been blown away by iOS (and Android).
Ask HN: What are your goals for the next 1-2 years?
It seems to me your intention here was not to point out the perceived wrongness of this particular decision, but to provide "yet another case of Brussels bureaucrats meddling in our lives". In doing that, you're purposefully confusing the lawmaking and judiciary parts of the legal system to create an imagined body which you creatively name the "Eurocracy", while this was a court decision independent of those actually making the law. In short, your intention was to rant, using this ruling as an excuse, and not to provide potentially interesting information.

As for the ruling itself, I don't see what's wrong with it. It's gender discrimination, and gender discrimination is (IMO rightly) unlawful. I have never been in a car accident, I'm a careful and relatively safe driver and I don't appreciate having to pay more just because I happen to be male.

I'm sure you can come up with statistics that show people of a certain ethnicity are more likely to be in an accident too, but insurance companies know that's a no-go. Discriminating by gender is exactly the same; it's based on something you are that you can't change, unlike driving experience and where you live which you can.
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You can recreate the effect by going to your history listing and scrolling up and down. Kinda like those pages with tiled backgrounds that create epilepsy-inducing strobe effects when scrolled.
Amazing that that was only a year and three months ago. It feels like forever. (Oh yeah, that was midway through the final deathmarch at work. That's why.)

I just found my emails about Wingify/VWO to Paras and a friend of mine. Notably, I told Paras to raise the price (the proposed prices topped at the lowest price now) and told my SEO buddy that VWO was going to make millions.
A collection of essays like this would make a very nice book.

It's taking me a while to read in short bursts during work ("It's compiling.") but I'm determined to finish.
From my limited understanding, if you simply submit a application, you are protected until it is reviewed plus the time granted with a patent. So if you pay the new smaller amount, and it takes the PO 5 years to review your patent instead of the normal 1 for corporations, you'll have an extra 4 years of protection over the life of the patent. Clock starts once it's reviewed and accepted, but protection starts once it's filed. Depending on how much cheaper this is for small businesses, it could potentially help them out by offering longer protection for less money, if only because it takes longer for their patents to be reviewed.

But I think I agree with asnyder for the most part. Most people don't even know where to start, and may lose protection simply because they didn't know what to do before the idea spread and someone else with the know-how made the product and patented it.
> Killing the people is the victory condition

True, but do you really want to kill those people? They don't even behave like people -- more like "statues that bleed".

> A huge difference is the controls. In CTC you aim by timing the release during the swing of the trebuchet. This is tricky

I'm not so sure. I find operating the trebuchet more intuitive / simple than pulling the sling in the right direction with the right amount of force to send the birds in the air.

BTW, birds fly; they don't need a sling to be airborne... Those "angry birds" are in fact chickens.

Chickens vs. pigs: a simple farm image that speaks to everyone and draws on childhood memories?
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It is in fact a perfectly real condition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinhibition
> I've just never gotten this whole sort of unbounded ambition that thinks it's not good enough to be the 3rd best thing in the entire world -- we're talking the entire world here...

Reminds me of something...

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on th'other.
when action script will easily be converted to html5, then all mobile apps will finally move to the cloud
Yep, I remember that you once mentioned that you would have loved to code VWO yourself and then make millions out of it. You can't imagine how powerful and motivating that was (and still is) to me.

Also, Patrick, notably you dedicated a full post on your blog on VWO http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/09/bringing-ab-testing-to-t... and it brought bootload of beta testers. That was AMAZING! I iterated through every piece of feedback and refined it.

It's hard to imagine VWO existing in form it exists today had you not helped initially. Thanks for all of this! I owe you a lot :)
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The EFF made an online "unicity" test one year ago: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

HN discussion: (36 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082464
Ah, this will be how Facebook crumbles.

The value of Facebook's users is that the overwhelming majority of them are real. People use their real names, and hook up with their real friends, resulting in a real social graph.

But if Facebook becomes the single-sign-on provider, the identity provider, for a majority of blogs and forums and other venues where people today participate anonymously, then Facebook will start seeing a huge number of fake profiles appear as people make multiple identities to preserve their privacy and anonymity, and the more those fake profiles are used, the less the real userbase will be worth, which ultimately threatens their bottom line.
Looks like it, yeah.
FTC releases huge report on patent markets & law, urges competition come first
For me, it resembles Microsoft's Basic Gorillas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) and Worms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(series) .
Both used the same simple and addictive formula.
So, if the scrobbling API is the same like Last.fm's, there's slight chance some client (player plugins) could support Like.fm thanks to Libre.fm (yay, Micronesian registrar must be very profitable).
For example, in Quod Libet's QLScrobbler plugin you can choose to which URL to scrobble, instead of post.audioscrobbler.com you can use turtle.libre.fm or any other URL. And there's much more clients - http://bugs.foocorp.net/projects/librefm/wiki/Clients

Just give us URL to point our scrobblers to.
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From a programming standpoint, I want to have great Clojure chops two years from now.
Having some Chrome about:flags turned on this hanged my machine...
Lesson learned!
I've become paranoic enough that I pretty much never say online what I really think when it comes to "delicate" topics.

It's sad, but I miss the "old" internet days where I felt I was really anonymous and could be as politically-incorrect as I wanted to.
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Currently Webkit only (uses CSS3 animation with the Webkit prefix). Did a fairly good job on a keyframe/tween animation I'd done. There were a few problems with masked images but I imagine that could be fixed.

Most features are supported where the HTML/CSS equivalent exists. No support for any Actionscript conversion (oh if only AS3 hadn't decided to reinvent itself as Java 2 this might have been possible).

Questions:

1. How modular is the code produced? Could I easily use Flash to create chunks of animation but then control them via Javascript?

2. Will Mozilla ever support CSS Animation? Last I heard they weren't too keen on it.

3. IE? Scratch that. I'm not even going to ask.
I'll go a step further: the person that uses IE6 really shouldn't be changing the software on their computer because a big shiny graphic on a website tells them to. Either you're wasting their time because they don't have the permissions from BigCorp to install stuff, or they don't know very much about computers and shouldn't be downloading malware because ad banners tell them they might get a virus or speed their computer up. Just because your motivations are more noble doesn't mean that using the same design antipatterns is a good idea.

The Microsoft banner is horrendous too. If you must (because your functionality doesn't work on IE6), give them a text link to the Microsoft upgrade page with a "You need to update your Internet Explorer for this site to work correctly. You can do this by going to the Microsoft free download page _here_. You can also find out more about the latest version by going to Microsoft.com and searching for Internet Explorer".

Other options (probably via browserchoice.eu) should be secondary. And I say this despite IE8 being a horrible browser I wouldn't use voluntarily.
> I would be scared out of my wits if a neighborhood kid took a shine on me and started coming over to my house to say hello.

Most people in the UK would feel the same way. (I'm not sure if that's true to the same extent in non-English-speaking European countries.)
How is 1 even possible when they don't control the platform?