skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For p2p shopping: Craigslist > eBay

What I would like to fix: Less Spam. Less Scam.
Yup. You get the behavior you incent, and my impression is that the incentives to play politics at Microsoft are far more pervasive nowadays than the incentives to build good product. In fact, one of the biggest incentives to build good product seems to be the additional leverage it gives you politically...
(Update 7 minutes later) Should be back now.
I dont think this is representative. There have been comparisons made between Anonymous's DDoS and sit-ins. But there was also a more antisocial and violent part of the civil rights movement as well.
Shall we expect Google, Amazon, Microsoft et. al. to start posting their energy efficiency stats from tomorrow?
This presentation by DJB talks about DNSSEC a lot: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2047794
"When I was your age, I managed my own web servers."

Nowadays, I can't imagine a startup not running on AWS/GAE/etc.
Losing the Forest for the Trees: Systems Thinking & Web App Health
Does API really count as a buzzword?
Is There a Hyperlocal Search App?
Is there any app that comes close to indexing hyperlocal search data to answer questions like:

Where is the nearest place to my current location that sells money orders? While in an unfamiliar area (I had to go to the courthouse to get a certified copy of a marriage record, and they don't take Visa or debit). I know that banks, post offices and grocery stores offer them, but should I really have to do separate searches for banks, post offices, and grocery stores and then find the closest result on my own? As it turns out, I popped into a convenience store steps from the courthouse to grab water for the long walk to the post office, and they actually sold money orders.

Where is the cheapest place to buy an iPad charger within 5 miles? I forgot mine while travelling recently, and I didn't have time to have one shipped from Hong Kong like I normally would. So for a brick and mortar store, the obvious answers to the where question are the Apple store, At&T or Verizon store, Best Buy, Fry's, Radio Shack, etc. who all carry these for $15-35. But the cheapest turned out to be TJ Maxx, a discount women's clothing store. They apparently have a small section with electronics, and they had an OEM charger for $4.

Where is the nearest notary public that is open now? Searching for "notary public" gives you lots of results for notaries, but if you need one that you can go to right now, especially if it is in the off hours, you'd be surprised at some of the places that offer this service. The problem is that they are not easy to find using a standard search. For example, within 1 mile from my house, there is a locksmith, a mailbox rental place, an internet cafe, and an Indian grocery store that offer notary services. The problem is that when I search for "notary service" and my city name, zip code, or GPS location, all of the results are for farther away places that are dedicated notaries. More relevant, perhaps, but not the closest.

I think the way you'd approach gathering a data set is to add an extra layer on top of existing data sets. For example, there are already plenty of databases of businesses and locations. What is missing is a list of products and services provided by those businesses. If you could somehow get information on what services and products businesses offer on a local level, you could combine that with existing business and location data and provide a really valuable service.

Is there anyone out there working on anything like this?
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Read close: the "horseshoe" is only relative to Earth itself. Encounters with Earth moves the new asteroid from an orbit inside that of Earth's to an orbit outside that of Earth's

I'd be interested in seeing a heliocentric plot of the orbit, over along period.
"Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours."

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313#
It's very interesting to see folks rediscover what we always knew: there's a big difference between a group with a purpose and standards and a mob.

It used to be that geography contained a lot of mob-like behavior. You might be mad at the guy who lived in the nearby castle, but there were only so many villagers you could round up. And some of those liked the guy, some didn't want trouble, some didn't like your plan, etc.

Now the internet lets us find the most emotional people possible about a particular topic and put them all together in one "place". Then people can feed off each's other anger, saying and doing more and more preposterous things in order to impress the group. Information that might challenge the groupspeak is discarded. "Acts of valor" the group commit are spread far and wide, drawing in more members, thereby creating a feedback cycle which encourages more and more dramatic acts.

The thing is: the issue doesn't matter. The larger story isn't about Sony, or Anonymous, or any one particular issue. It's about how governments are going to be able to consistently function when the world is breaking up into thousands of little angry groups like this.

I have no idea how this is going to play out, or how many kids and families of corporation execs are going to suffer because of things they cannot control. But there will be a backlash. It's building, and I'm concerned that when it happens we are going to see governments step in and take control in ways that are as equally terrible. </doomsaying>
On one side, I think it's great that "important" people who make major decisions take personal responsibilities, instead of hiding behind corporate/government entities;

On the other side, this sort of hack-attack could easily go out of hand: what do we do if someone uses this sort of technique for malicious intents?
The only reason I agree with this idea is because it'll finally give me access to someone in Microsoft to complain about how much their products suck. I'd call instead if it were only possible to find a phone number and get to speak to someone even though none of my MS gear is under warranty. I know, it's not fair to gripe to a lowly sales person or a customer service rep, and I normally wouldn't be "that person", but their products, in my opinion, have hit a new low of "unacceptable crap" rating.

I recently went to my local mall and saw one of their new stores. It's sad to see how Microsoft has become a phantom of a company. Their store, predictably, was two doors down from the Apple store. It was twice the space as if to show them up and it was laid out in the same way. Like Apple they also used a brand new picture logo, which unlike Apple's, failed to depict anything unique about the identity of Windows.

Microsoft has become a Tully's to the Starbucks: copying instead of contributing to the market something new and revolutionary. It's just sad. I think it's clear due to the diminishing quality of their products and their lack of real creative leadership when it comes to new products, that they really are just a ghost of their former selves. Eastsiders (the folk who live in Microsoft country) consistently seem to prefer Apple stores to the Window's store at a mall just 6 miles down from MS headquarters. That has to be a bad sign. I guess if they can't make it in technology-savvy markets, there's always the technology-backward markets that Microsoft can rely on...
'Don't forget to add the .png extension to the file'

... what? Why is this not automatic?

(Oh, this is being generated client side maybe? thus it's a browser/html5 limitation I'm guessing?)
Have you tried sharing it on facebook? Given the typical network in a college, its the quickest way to market your game. Also try getting some of the more popular women to sign up or share your game. This quote i read in the book 'Love is a mix tape' is actually a very obvious yet insightful observation
"bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don't like the music, they sit down and stop the show. You gotta have a crowd if you wanna have a show. And the girls are the show. We're talking absolute monarchy, with no rules of succession. Bitch power. She must be obeyed. She must be feared." "
I found these hall-effect switches from Microswitch:

http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?SKU=6422...

I wonder if they're suitable?
> Are you claiming there's a java language requirement that array indices are named with more than one letter?

No, but it _is_ common practice to name things with long names, rather than one letter, even if they are loop indices. E.g., in the FLTK source code, most objects inside a short loop are called "o", e.g., things like

for (Widget o = window->first(); o; o = o->next()) {
o->activate();
o->show();
}

I think that is extremely readable, 'o' in my mind stands for object in the same way that 'i' stands for index. Have you ever seen Java code in the wild that follows such a convention? I haven't -- it's always things like theWidget or even theChosenWidget instead.

> I like go and Rob Pike's reputation speaks for itself but don't put words in the guy's mouth

Please don't put anything in my mouth. I'm paraphrasing pike, you may disagree with the paraphrasing, but I was referring to, http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html , specifically the section titled "Variable names". It's about C, and predates Go by some 18 years (and Java by 6). Not any "pet language" of mine.
Way ahead of you: http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenter/efficiency-measur...
Just let me know when I can do:
port selfupdate; port info ...
Larry Page Ties All Employee Bonuses To Social Strategy's Success
IKEA is one of my favourite places actually. We go there for coffee if we're in the area - I really enjoy looking for the clever little adaptations in their designs that make all the difference.

However, I have found in the last 5 years or so that they appear to have slipped a bit from good value to cheapness.

It is possible to circumvent some of their tactics too, for example going in backwards up to the checkout area and in to the "warehouse".
Very impressive, hope that you guys get in.
RubyGems also have signing facilities. Most authors don't bother signing however because generating a key is too much trouble.
You may be exaggerating. I visited the #opsony room, and at one point they were broadcasting how many LOICs were in operation. Millions? Thousands? No. <100. Less than 100 people in this mob of internet justice. And fewer still doing more nefarious stuff like stalking down execs.
I wish there was a K&R like book for every programming language.
Emacs??? ;)
I just started a poll over there & made a php script to display result with charts. http://karthi.us/tools/yc/results.php

I hope this may help someone, who are interested to know some stats :)
Well, it's a stored authentication token mechanism, which is the same as is used by many other client-side software. However, there are two possible ways to improve the authentication:

- use a second factor in the authentication, such as the MAC address of the primary NIC in the machine

- limit the time that the token is valid by getting the client to periodically get a new token from the server. This prevents two clients using the same token indefinitely without detection.

Both these would be good improvements to the security of the host_id data that Dropbox uses for authentication.
Thanks for the follow up post pg, we are looking forward to hearing from you!
Comparing clojure and node.js for speed
I totally agree with the East-side West-side thing. I commuted across Lake Washington once and I'm never going to do it again. In fact, I turned down what seemed like a promising position at a cool startup because they were threatening a move from Fremont(!) to Bellevue(!?).

Of course, two years later, they're still in Fremont.

Microsoft has done some good work with their connector shuttles. I could actually take a little shuttle van from my neighborhood straight to Redmond if I worked out there, and spend the commute time playing Tiny Wings on my iPad instead of driving.
Who needs a great product, when you can just...
This exactly is the issue I'm running into. I am getting emails for 'joenone@gmail.com' sent to my inbox. I have that person's bank details, most usernames and passwords, and his attempts to reset the password on the account. When I registered, I got the "joe.none@gmail.com" email address. And everyone (including the GMail forum as someone else mentioned) seems to point to this link, saying GMail does do that. That I understand. But I need those emails to the other person to stop. I have personally replied to lot of people saying they have reached someone else. And it's been annoying. That's why I'm asking for help, posting here on HN, if i can reach one of those GMail folks, lurking here.
That has nothing to do with whether the installer is a shell script or a binary.
SSN (and possibly home address) are not just primary keys, but super-keys in that they are primary keys across systems and datasets (in general).

They may not be immutable as a primary key suggests, but are very hard/costly to change, so the difference is moot.

Another reason to not give out your superkeys to anyone who doesn't need it.

Finally, though in general I'm in favor of privacy, with the complete lack of corporate accountability, I support the intention behind Anonymous's actions.
Thank you. Been There. Done That.
Yeah. "Ask HN" should be used for genuine questions, not as a coat-rack for your own opinions. Whoop-de-fricking-doo, you're sick of hearing the words "API" and "cloud". Why don't you tweet about it?
Sorry, but still not getting in.
Has Stack Exchange gone too far?
So you registered the account recently, and when you did you somehow "supplanted" the existing account? Or have you had the account for a while and suddenly started getting this guy's mail?
Yes, I am purposely overstating and glossing over certain details, mainly because I'm attempting to extrapolate.

Thanks for pointing that out, though. Perhaps if we're lucky (?) tools to monitor and control mobs will evolve faster than tools to communicate and collaborate securely.

Anonymous is working at the basest level of security -- just drop by and jump in. I imagine what we'll see soon, what we see already in organized crime, is a combination of better ways of vetting while still integrating to the wider net in order to attract new recruits. As they say in the movies, the night is still young. If we get something with the moral foundation of wikileaks, the activitst appeal of Anonymous, the secure communication system of Tor, and the virality of Facebook? We're going to have problems (once again, I'm overstating for effect)

Having said all of that, even if it's only 100 people, and even if it's always 100 people are less, that's a problem. Smaller groups that fly under the radar are more problematic than large noisy ones. How many people did it take to dump all the secure embassy traffic of the United States government?
The fist language i ever learnt more than 10 years ago in 8th grade.
We are. mmatcher.com & odpiralnicasi.com
What if? I'm sure this is already being done, and probably sponsored by governments/corporations.

Just because we get visibility into this sort of attack doesn't make it any easier or legal to do.
Don't forget Hunch :)
An animation would be even better. But yeah, basically we're talking about a standard-pants elliptical-looking orbit which occasionally gets perturbed by the Earth.
There isn't any one "self-taught programmer" who can be characterized, so a lot of these comments are claiming to be more general than I think is fair.

I have close friends who are utterly top-notch software engineers who didn't learn any of their skills in a formal educational setting. Often they have been able to learn-as-they-go. After all, these days the field is so large that nobody can be an expert at everything. And we often change jobs enough that what we need to know changes over time. So we all need the ability to learn-on-demand.

I was fortunate to get a computer science undergrad degree from M.I.T., but at the time, they didn't have any courses whatsoever on database systems. I ended up in a position where I needed to write a DBMS, so I found the textbooks and papers and learned how. A lot of my career has been based on that. It's not necessarily all that hard to learn things yourself.
I would argue that the term 'sleep with' implies consent. Even without that it's a wording issue of the goal, not a case of satisficing. Flying the 777 probably is.
Congrats on the growth guys - keep up the good work. I have suggested your service to IT folks at some financial firms that are deprecating physical pagers.
I'm going to echo the 'real lawyer' advice. It's really not that expensive - your first consultation is likely free, giving you the ability to shop around to find a firm that you trust. With the right lawyer and a boilerplace incorporation, you should be able to get incorporated with only $2-3K.

Though there's nothing terribly complicated about forming an S-Corp or a LLC (the two entities you'd be likely to form), there are a lot of little niggles that, should you get wrong, can go very wrong. Allow me to remind you of this disaster that happened on HN just a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399139

tl;dr Don't hack your legal stuff. Get a real lawyer.
Depends on what type of business. My first startup was a mobile app development business, so I formed an LLC on LegalZoom. It was no more than $200.

My current startup, Munch On Me, was going to be much bigger and I needed several contracts drafted with founders and such. I knew I wanted funding eventually so I set it up as a C Corporation from the start. Legal fees are in the several thousands for a good lawyer. There was a lot of customization in the process, which is why it costs so much as opposed to a one stop shop like LegalZoom.
For me this isn't an issue of privacy as much as its an issue of decency. If they released the bank records of these executives and said "these guys are loaded so why are they suing some kid" I wouldn't have a problem with that.

But once you graduate to involving their families you cross a line.

The only thing that can be accomplished by releasing the names and addresses of someone's spouse and children is to put them in harms way. That harm might just be getting yelled at but it could be much worse. Which puts this act into the category of "threatening someone's family"

As someone who agrees with Anonymous on the facts I would only support a small fine for violating someone's privacy. But for involving their family I would support and encourage local governments to send the members of this subsect to jail
I'm guessing they're 13 and 17 year cicadas because that's how long it takes to develop.

That's a tautology. "A baby takes 9 months to be born because that's how long it takes to develop." Well, yes, but the question becomes, why does it take that amount of time to develop? Were there direct selection pressures acting on that length of time, or is that length of time mostly a function of other variables which are acted on directly by selection pressure?
smart headline, you rock.
Probably the guy thought he had the gmail address and filled it in forms when actually he didn't.

If one of these emails has his phone number, call him. If not, contact e.g. a bank that sends email to him, tell them "you've got the email wrong. Please notify your client because I have no way of reaching him, and you probably do". The fraud department of the bank will be able to take care of that quickly - you can start with "either this is a fraud, or a mistake, but here's the story ..." when you talk to them.

It might be helpful to tell them (and hopefully relay to him) that this is YOUR email address, you've had it for a while.

Expect the guy to ask you to sign over your email address to him, because his name is "Joe None" and your violating his property, or something crazy like that. Don't get angry, and definitely don't do anything stupid like impersonating him, logging in to his bank account or anything like that.

This is not legal advice, and I hope you won't need any after you do the right thing and try to resolve this....
Isn't this exactly the type of information that Sony was seeking on George Hotz (geohot), as well as anybody who even visited his website?
"One Googler we talked to was irritated by a new risk being introduced into their compensation package."

Risk is part of being a startup. If Larry Page is turning Google back into a startup, he's going to need people who have the hunger and the drive to handle risk, and not people who only want paychecks. I'm starting to really like Google again.

An aside: I dislike anonymous quotes. I personally think every journalist just makes them up. They never quote, they paraphrase opinions that fit perfectly with their arguments.
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

-Picasso

Jobs is an artist. Ballmer isn't.
Sounds hard. How would you get all the data? How, for instance, do you find out that TJ Maxx has iPhone chargers without going there? You'd have to persuade the whole world to put some sort of catalogue online, or rely on user-generated data.

The first approach might be possible if you're google, and the second might be possible if you're yelp. I'm not sure how to do it on a small scale. Though I suppose you could start with a single city and a lot of shoe leather.
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A certain amount of humidity helps to prevent issues with static electricity. And unless you're pouring water directly across electrical components, there's really not a problem.
The only meaningful difference between the two techniques is the extra step required to explicitly execute an installer. Is that your objection, that you don't like something being automatically executed upon download?
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If < 100 people can cause this level of disruption, I think it adds to, instead of detracts from, GP's point. Ye' olde pitchfork mob couldn't even think of causing this kind of disruption, even at similar numbers.
Amiga E was one of the first programming languages I tried to learn. I had started with Apple BASIC, and happened to get a free Amiga E compiler and booklet on some Amiga magazine. The booklet left a lot to be desired; specifically, it showed how to do output but not input, and as a clueless novice BASIC programmer, I naively assumed that Amiga E could not do input.

I did not write much of interest using Amiga E, and that booklet was nowhere near as useful as K&R.
I registered 'sai.ganesh@gmail.com' when GMail was in the invite stages. And a few months later, I started noticing these other emails that are being sent to 'saiganesh@gmail.com'. I ignored those, and slowly over time, all my Google stuff have been associated with this email address, and I'm getting password reset emails, almost every week lately :( Hence, this request.
Eep, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm going to stop messing with it today. Try it now.
Pretty standard in telecoms. Never quite understood why Google went per server.
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The cost per license for hosted app is also almost 0, but what about those webapps that consume space - e.g. say a Dropbox or Basecamp - that actually gives storage.

Then surely it's not 0.

If it is something like an accounting app, then sure....but I am talking about apps that will incur a cost per each new user.