skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative is what we will get next, which is that everyone gets a rate hike AND these draconian overage charges go up and increase in number and complexity. If you think that this single cap will magically keep your rate down, whilst penalizing only those big bad pirates, you're dreaming. This is the same company that has a 200MB monthly cap on cell data, because its internal data says that lots of customers tend to just barely go over 200MB, thus forcing them into the 2GB tier.
Our CEO just posted a comment on the article for clarification:

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-aft...
Startup lessons learned by Omar Hamoui
HP already had cloud services in 2006 called Flexible Computing Services when I worked there as an intern.

These services still exists (maybe with a different name), I have friends working in those departments.

But Leo is new and HP is big, he probably didn't know about them ;).
As pointed out by various users above, you're simply wrong. This will not only cap pirates.
Yeah - keen to see it!
At least they weren't looking for "zero point" energy or perpetual motion. I have to agree though that this article isn't worth your time.
That's a good point. Even if they think it's hype, their clients don't think it is and they will look bad if they don't join the bandwagon. Large companies have a harder time being opinionated.
I must protest. 2 microns is not ridiculously small. This, built by some former colleagues, is ridiculously small:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html

Though it is - god help me - nearly fifteen years old so presumably it is no longer that ridiculous. [1] These things probably ship inside every iPhone by now, or something.

Of course, none of this banter should lead you to conclude that the OP's chip art is any less than awesome. Remember, it's not the microscopicness of the equipment that matters, but how you use it. The colors are a very nice touch, for example.

---

[1] And I'm not even going to talk about those AFM folks, or the self-assembled nanomaterials folks. They are just too ridiculous.
Currently number 3 on the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322696
And neither did I, is this anything like the other cloud services people know off?

Also, if I was CEO the first thing I'd change is the damn website. That's probably why he hasn't heard of it, it's almost impossible to find anything on that site.
All of the .net developers that I know who have one only got it via a prize or gift at a tech conference.
I have bitten severely by 2. I think having parameterized modules can go a long way in eliminating the pain of refactoring.
Success isn't measured in critical acclaim. He was in many popular movies including some blockbusters like Jurrassic Park and was quite successful long before Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction was far more notable for reviving John Travolta's career than doing anything for Sam Jackson.
Try searching for images of "Morgan Freeman Electric Company".
$10 is fully half the monthly fee for ATT DSL. So they are charging quite a bit more for data if you go over the cap.

I'd be less ticked off if the rate above cap were more similar to the rate below cap, and if the cap allowed saturating your link more than 9% of the time, which is what this cap does for DSL users with a typical 6.5 Mbps download speed.

To buy a connection that can actually be used 24/7 with the new price structure would cost well over $200/month. That's not cool.
I think one major thing is that SV is not exposed to giant tsunamis. Does anyone know for sure if the narrow entrance to the bay would prevent the kind of devastation caused by a tsunami? Could a tsunami be generated inside the bay? It seems to me that a lot of the damage in Japan (including the nuke plants) was from the tsunami not the earthquake itself.
The deal isn't so simple as you make it out to be. Bing will get access to Ovi maps which will fill in the gap in EU and Asian countries. Even Google tried to court Nokia but the talks failed.

$1 billion over 5 years is literally peanuts between such big players.

And Google "pays" handset manufacturers and wireless operators to use Android.

http://www.puremobile.co.uk/insiderblog/google-is-paying-car...
See http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/s... for the services back then, I think Amazon EC2 didn't even exist at that time.

It was just not called "cloud computing".
Zynga Rolls Out New Virtual Currency in Addition to Facebook Credits
I think you make a good point and I really don't mean to be critical but the pedant in me must point out that the correct phrase is "hear hear"

....or should I say:

WTF man! English is your native tounge. What the hell are you doing writing if its clear that you don't even read??? How could "here here" make any sense as a phrase? And if it doesn't make any sense why don't you take the fing finger out and google it!!! Have you been this moronic all your life or have you just started recently?
That's a great life hack!
Is this a joke? I know a whole bunch(around 50) of ASP.NET developers and none of them own a Zune.
The birth rate is below replacement level, in fact it's almost nearly 1 which means that the population halves every generation. At least you are lucky and your politicians don't flood your country with immigrants making sure that your culture and gene pool stay intact.
> He announced the plan after laying out a strategy combining the cloud, connectivity and software that “enables and joins them together.” He portrayed it as a natural move for HP, which is a powerful player in the server business. “Today seven out of 10 cloud providers are already our customers,” he said.

... so of course we knew we had to compete with them!
Thanks for sharing your story Chad. It honestly is quite inspiring.
I like summary comments. They let me know if something's even remotely worth looking at before having to click through.
Demand for grains is actually quite elastic. When the price of things like corn and wheat is low, farmers feed them to animals and people consume more meat. When the price increases, people consume less meat and more grain, and in doing so, consume a lot less grain.

In economies where people are too poor to afford meat, fluctuating food prices are a much bigger issue. But in the US, we use more food than we need to in order to enjoy a luxury commodity.
Theo Jansen, hacking together Engineering and Art. More links via YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY

Very interesting.
Erm isn't that what effectively happened?
Didn't we get a phone out of it? Except they're not made by MS.

Microsoft likes to build platforms where other companies manufacture the hardware(XBox excepted). That's why Windows/WP7 run on multiple OEMs hardware.

The theory is that competition among hardware manufacturers will drive down costs. Sure worked with PCs.
"We do have plans to give buyers on Etsy the ability to hide feedback for certain purchases". "Certain purchases", really?
Why not all purchases. I see a train wreck coming.
And those people were probably steam-rolled over by a group of 'experts' who decided that 'very few' people would care about this, because, y'know, it's social? And everyone likes social?
I think it is targeted at larger companies and HP is also not only providing the infrastructure but additional software by the hour as well.

The HP website is so chaotic due to the many sub-organizations and regions fighting for attention (I worked in the HP web team in 2007/2008).
Flickr Head of Product Steps Down
Very amusing FakeHackerNews Twitter account
San Fransisco? Not really. The largest San Andreas earthquake is probably 8.0 plus or minus, probably an order of magnitude smaller than Japan's. The damage will be comparable because because the fault runs through an urban area. The most likely next earthquake will be on the Hayward or Rogers Creek faults, still smaller. There may be hundreds killed, but not thousands, because there wont be that type of tsunami.

Seattle OTOH is a place to avoid. Possibly a 9 earth quake. Volcanoes. Lahars that could sweep the land nude to the ocean.

Now if you are a tsunami maven, Google La Palma tsunami (Canary Islands). That monster will be thousands of feet high and hit the east coast with a wave perhaps hundreds of feet high.
Yes, I do sometimes. Flipping bits is just so much fun.

Thanks for reading!
I assume the idea is to create American jobs. So, couldn't you just require the company to have so many US citizens on their payroll at a certain minimum salary.
Etsy's team should be willing to publish a highly visible feed of their staffers purchases since they obviously shouldn't have anything to hide.
I assume this is a joke...
There are worse things than corn syrup
The post has been moved, and updated by members of MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering community: http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japa...
Apparently craftsmanship means making products that are pretty and clever, well made and totally useless.

I get it, you're using a journal metaphor because we're wandering medieval craftsmen, exchanging bits for broth. But really, it's impossible to read, so I lose all faith that your company has anything reasonable to say on the subject.
FWIW, it's not just "your" feedback, it's also any feedback left by sellers on purchases you've made, which identify your purchase whether you left any feedback or not.

(search etsy for my username for an example)

I see this as a _major_ privacy screwup by Etsy. I don't mind people being able to see the earrings I bought my girlfriend a few years back, but I can _easily_ see people having purchases exposed that they really didn't ever expect to be made public. (and I'll guess there's a whole category of items that stop being bought on Etsy, and a category of purchases that won't be made there any more (who's gonna buy their mistress jewelery on Etsy any more?))
> It would appear that you hang around on a different internet than I do. I'm envious.

It's all who you associate with. I've seen my share of bullying online and done some of my own that I deeply regret.

During my first year on the internet as in interactive participant I was exclusively surrounded by furries[1]. After that I ended up programming bots[2] for deviantArt's chat network. That ended after being I was banned for discovering and exploiting security holes. (my bad, I haven't done that since)

Since, I moved on to help moderate an art website[3]. That didn't work out because there wasn't well defined rules for moderators. I still have great respect for the current admins. I left moderating on good terms. Then I moved on to hanging out on irc with system administrators, iOS developers (I'm a rails guy), a ruby on rails community, and a chatroom of former usenet users that are at least 40 years older than I am and are published authors. I'm working on building my own art website[4] so who knows who I'll end up being around next.

After being banned from deviantArt, I've made it a point to not tolerate douche-baggery in any form in myself or others. Most of the communities I hang out with now encourage respect. If you want to change, there are hard decisions to make. I was lucky and a deviantArt administrator made the decision for me.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

[2]: http://botdom.com/wiki/Dante

[3]: http://epochwolf.storm-artists.net/

[4]: http://epochwolf.com/tag/singleforestcom
But most of them don't have industry trade groups astro-turfing for them...
But surely there'd be less of an incentive to move to the US if you're already successful? Surely the main reason to go to the States is to start and grow, not live there for already established business-people. I don't doubt that the US is a nice place to live, but is it really a dream to move there other than for monetary gain?
Not at all. Just that there are more and less tasteful ways of doing so. This isn't one of the more tasteful ones. It could have been an accident, but it is what it is.
I thought Penny Arcade broke this back in 2007 with the piece "The Microsoft Zune: 2006-2006" http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/10/
You may want to try posting in the jobs section for maximal exposure.
Visualize Your Taxes
I think it's a tough situation when nothing has changed overnight, but they might as well cover all their bases and hide all buyer feedback, until they figure out what to do.

The limbo leading up to a decision isn't going to do either party any good.
An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What’s Really “Killing The Music Business”
Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away
He's not being sarcastic. It's a non-obvious disclosure of people's information they consider to be private. It's a very good example, actually, of how Etsy is not respecting peoples privacy, regardless of the language in their privacy policy.

So no, Thomas is serious -- as am I. I hate shit like this because these kinds of security and privacy violations are not things the average consumer knows how to protect themselves against. It's non-trivially solved. You and I might be able to do it, but most folks can't, and they shouldn't be punished because of it.
An effective hourly rate can easily be calculated from your salary.
When you're programming something complicated, arbitrary ugliness in the APIs you're using brings you more trouble than when you're programming something simple. Right? So what's different about complicated math or physics?

That's how I realized pi was wrong, back before the manifesto came out -- from looking at math the same way I'd learned to look at programs.
It's often tough to justify from a ROI perspective, but it turns out that there is quite a bit of emotional reaction to real time analytics.

Sort of like fear of flying vs. fear of driving, people like to feel in control.
That's funny, I'm always trying to create a Google profile but I can't, because my main account is on appdomains and they don't do profiles for appdomains. Which means I can't check into places on latitude from my android, for instance. You'd think they'd be a bit more worried about the potential user base they're shutting out of their platform, rather than worrying about deleting private profiles. Oh well.
Ask HN: Any Services that matches you with Apartments?
Looking for any services/sites that matches you with a furnished apartment to also be used as office space in SF/SV.
Was Franklin the first agile hacker? The questions are very similar to the ones you do in the daily stand up.

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum/daily-scrum
I say someone with no exposure to Apple marketing would still have a big smile on their face if sat down to use a MacBook Pro/Air.
China To Export CPUs To the U.S. … In 2030.
Nobody cares how hard things are to code except for people are are already naturally disinclined to pay for software. Difficulty of execution may, for a very large swath of possible apps, be inversely correlated with success.

FWIW: The answer is "yes", followed (implicitly, because you didn't ask this) by "yes, people did pay", followed by (to the question you actually asked) "reread the article".
Its surprising how rarely you find any of the mentioned Excellent's in daily life
> At least you are lucky and your politicians don't flood your country with immigrants making sure that your culture and gene pool stay intact.

Erh, I hope I'm misreading this here. I'm sure there are no racists hanging out on HN?
Apple approval process for iPad apps
Just wanted to let everybody know that Apple is accepting iPad apps really really quickly right now.
I submitted an update yesterday to my app Quicklytics (http://escoz.com/quicklytics) that added iPad support, and this afternoon, less than a day after it, the update was already accepted and is available in the AppStore.

In case some of you are there trying to finish an iPad app to submit to the AppStore, now is the time to do it!
Ask HN: Best way for nontech person to get startup job in the northeast?
HN, I need your help.

I started my own start up that has been doing some what well, its gaining traction, but not generating very much money. Because of this I'd like to find a day job working at a start up. Since I'm located in the northeast I'm guessing Boston may be my best bet?

I have a degree in Industrial design, but haven't had much luck landing a job out of school. My lack of experience has been the issue, but no one will give me a chance to gain any experience (which is why I launched my start up). I've learned a ton over the past year of launching and am loving the ride I'm on, but a day job would definitely help with bills.

So any ideas on the best way to land a nontechnical job at a start up? The reason I'd like to go with a start up is to gain some experience that I could apply to my own start up.
Favorites, feedback, etc being public is not opt-in on Etsy. They're public by default.
I have been thinking about the same sort of things ...I know that Ca has not experienced this yet ....and lets pray it doesnt ...and for the Japanese people who are going through incredible tough times/
Haskell:

mapM_ (putStrLn . show) [1..1000]
You can't even imagine how badly it will be exploited by immigration lawyers, while it may sound good in a morning chat with other latte-sipping liberals.
Sama7b
Etsy is trying really hard to be 'social' lately. Some members like it, others don't. It seems like they swung harder down this path after the recent investment by Index Ventures.
How the scum of the earth will profit from Japan's pain
I wonder if the asker was deliberatly trying to avoid saying "For free", while still wanting to not do anything at any cost.

They might already know they're being unreasonable, and are just hoping to avoid having to think about or admit it.

Then again I'm an outrageous cynic who thinks that any organization slowly tends towards screwing their employees unless careful, deliberate measures are taken.
Yes, that makes sense; difficult to achieve though
Haiku, inspired by BeOS
Most of their team that I've met over the years (my wife used to be a pretty big seller on that site) have shops and actively sell or have sold things so you could see what they bought already through the feedback system.
The difference is that now, there are ways to identify people by their email addresses (via the address book upload), and Etsy asks for and displays people's real names. Neither of these were the case before a couple of months ago.

They let you enter your full name easily, but don't let you change it very easily. You have to ask customer service.

Privacy changes on Etsy aren't communicated very well, in my experience. They very rarely communicate changes to all members via email - hence, like the article says, if something changes and you don't visit the site frequently, you will never know. Some features start as opt-in, turn to opt-out, then change to not-opt-outable, and so on.
As the author of Hummingbird I'm happy to see it get exposure, but it doesn't serve the same purpose as most of the other packages on the list. It doesn't tell you where you should optimize your site to get the best conversions.

The purpose of Hummingbird is mostly just emotional--it feels really cool to watch your site go from 2 pageviews / second to 400 pageviews / second.

At Gilt Groupe, this happened daily and on an order of magnitude larger scale.
Okay, that was weird.

(And I watched that when I was a kid, too - I don't remember much of it.)
What about J1 visa holders? A number of people come in to universities and national labs from abroad on these...It's already a great step--if J1 holders were added, it would be even better.
What does it say about me that I run my own mail-server?
This article seems really misleading, or I'm confused. If it's really just your feedback, then it's just like every other ecommerce site, where reviews are public, and ars should correct themselves.

Otoh, the screenshot in the article makes it look like it's all purchases. So which is it?
Considering the rather flamboyant and slightly misleading title of the article, I can see why a summary could be useful.
i like what you are doing at salestie.com keep it up
My favorite line: "Ignore the next big thing. By the time the press is writing about it it’s already too late. Don’t set out
to build the next social network, mobile app, viral game, or social network mobile app viral game.
You will fail"
throwing errors:

TemplateSyntaxError at /keyword_tool/

Caught OperationalError while rendering: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")

Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://domaingroovy.com/keyword_tool/
Django Version:	1.3 rc 1
Exception Type:	TemplateSyntaxError
Exception Value:

Caught OperationalError while rendering: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")

Exception Location:	/home/domain/domaingroovy/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py in __init__, line 187
Python Executable:	/home/domain/domaingroovy/env/bin/python
Python Version:	2.6.5
People change fields all the time. I personally love diving into an area where I have no expertise. My father goofed off until he was 35 (at which time he was driving a cab in Des Moines) and went on to build/sell companies. I was working minimum wage in a bookstore at 25 and feel like I went on to do okay. I know-- the plural of anecdote is not "data", but still-- I've met lots of people with similar stories.

Success comes from giving a fuck + talent/wisdom (mostly the former). It might take folks a long time to find their muse (whether it's money, fame, or building something they love).

Quote from Jessica Livingston:

"I wish now that I’d started a startup in my twenties instead of wasting those years in a series of boring corporate jobs. But the idea never occurred to me."

I wonder if you think Jessica built a "formidable skill set for achievement" in her boring corporate jobs that prepared her to be an author or a partner in a seed-stage software fund/incubator? My experience with great founders is that they spend more time doing stuff that they've NEVER done before than doing stuff that they've practiced for years.
We tried that in Quebec during the mid-90's. The goal was to create a Silicon Valley in Montreal. Then other regions got upset and it was made province-wide.

Then non-technology entrepreneurs got upset and the definition of "technology" was enlarged to include anything that had a web site.

Then the money dried up and we still don't have more world-class technology companies than before.

The morale of the story: Silicon Valley is what it is because there is a critical mass of venture capital and world class universities within a small region. That's not something that's easy to replicate in 40K increments.
I don't know anything about how they run their operation but my guess is that this was a big initiative and most people didn't see this reaction coming because so much information on the site is public already.
This is the 2nd year of this, last year there were 40 grants right? Guess they were content with the results.
I thought Martha was more of an inside trader...
He's not alone. If Etsy doesn't fix this by tomorrow, they're dead to me.

That said, I'm not surprised. Fred Wilson has a habit of investing in companies without ethics.
If Jackson himself measured success in the amount of supporting roles he could land, then sure he was "successful" prior to Pulp Fiction. Surely you'd agree that he didn't play in any noteworthy lead roles until AFTER Pulp Fiction...
Realtime Chat w/ Redis backend using NowJS for MIT Admissions
C, The Beautiful Language
New hydrogen explosion rocks stricken Japan reactor
I'm in Santiago now and can confirm this an amazing program. There are some great companies down here and the application process is only getting more competitive as more people find out about it.

March 15th is the last day to submit applications for this round, so don't put off applying if you're at all interested. Stay up late and get your proposal finished.