skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. Look back through his(?) comment history, and you'll see that the point where he was autokilled/hellbanned (around nine pages back) was, while a very downvoted (and nonsensical) comment, not actually malicious. Before that, he had a few comments which were downvoted maybe two or three times (you can tell by the color). It's probable that he was autokilled/hellbanned because those caused his average comment karma to drop too far, as well as making his karma negative, though I am not aware of the exact criteria.

At this point, he seems like a false positive based on his recent comments. It's a pity that there's no real procedure for being unhellbanned, even if the user discovers that they are, other than starting a new account.
You can't patent interfaces, you can in theory have a copyright over "look and feel"[1] but it's very rare for someone to successfully sue for a look and feel violation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel
Update just posted:

At 36 requests and counting, I imagine we may now be nearly out of servers. Until each request is reviewed, I am not sure. Consider the entry period ‘soft closed’. The email address still works for now, so feel free to send in requests. It cannot hurt. ~ RobH on 2011-06-17 @ 12:35 EST
URL shorteners are dead, long live URL shorteners
invokes Ayn Rand!
We mostly talk about internet software start-ups. Founders can be succesful with only coding experience and little capital, while most other industries require a roster of contacts, experience, capital and etc. Not that these don't help online software start-ups, but they are not as important.
I don't think that you'll find many people arguing that there aren't still good things happening in the tech world, nor that there is no money to be made.

The problem is the "this time it's different" sentiment. It never is.
It'd be nice of the awe.sm blocking regex didn't block blog.awe.sm, since that's not a url shortener.
I'm in QA - what niche does this fill for you?

The reason that I ask is that usually DSLs and other user acceptance tools exist to allow non-programmers to design tests. That is why cucumber's Gherkin is not in a Ruby syntax, and why robot and FitNesse use html tables. And further, they generally operate at an integration level, which is why the have hooks in for like Selenium frequently.

I think the project is cool, but I do wonder where you see it fitting in. A way to make jsunit tests more readable and cleaner?

EDIT: Let me add that I love it whenever QA topics make it to HN. I know QA is usually a post-seed funding activity, and that's a shame (in my biased opinion).
Sure, but what blackhats often claim is that even if a company pays whitehats large sums of money, it is often fairly easy for the blackhats to do just as much damage as they could before.
Assuming India has 250 Million students who could make use of such a device. If every one of them is given this tablet:

250 Million * $35 (will probably be even lesser when produced in such a massive quantity) = ~9 Billion USD

Add distribution and other chores.. takes it to ~10 Billion USD.

To add some perspective, India's infamous 2G scam is 5 times bigger than that.

[Edit]: Costs could go even lower if the device is ad supported, like kindle.
Bingo. Their magazine viewer is bloated. RMSDK is garbage. Start by bringing their expertise in layout and fonts to things that people are actually using. Namely, WebKit and JS.
(Nitpick: I think there's a difference between "False--" and "FALSE!".) Regardless, though, it may be on the blunter side, but I think it's a better choice than, "I'm sorry, good sir, but in my humble opinion you are perhaps less than correct."

To the OP--I'm sorry if I came off as impolite, I truly was aiming for conciseness, not malice.
Funny that you use diamonds as an example, when the diamond market is one of the most rigged institutions on the planet.

Your jeweler is always gouging you when you buy diamonds.
SMS API for international numbers
I am looking for an SMS API for receiving text messages from users in Europe, and Australia. Both Twilio and Tropo do not support local numbers outside US/Canada to which people can text to. When I Google, I see lots of services, but I would like some inputs from your personal experience.

(I only need to receive messages, need not send it. And the number needs to be local because, otherwise user will have to pay an international rate.)
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Indias_35_tablet_Saksha... this article indicates that they will ship 10,000 units to IIT Rajasthan late this month, but 90k more units will be available over the next several months... but why? There are only a few hundred students there.

I'll believe it when I see it.
The article mentions developers that have reverse engineered Kinect's protocol.
That's so blindingly obvious that it makes one wonder about the motivation behind posting it. My current assumption is sheer trollery, but I'll reply anyway.

Yes, it's true that no laws were broken. The fact that Facebook is a corporation doesn't make them exempt from moral and ethical expectations people have. For example, if a large corporation finds a loophole in some law and exploits it to detriment of a significant number of people, you would get similar outcry from those people as we're getting from Macedonians right now.

In short, a blindingly obvious reply to a blindingly obvious statement: Just because no law was broken, it doesn't make what Facebook did good or right.
Dear Photograph
In real life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa
Ultra KSM: transparent full-system memory deduplication for Linux
What if you're a second-generation schaudenfreudist? I take pleasure in the pain of those that take pleasure in the pain of others.
My sister is also self-employed and I believe she pays ~$600/mo. That's too much. I'd like to get the best coverage I can for $200/mo tops.
Living Untethered
I take it you don't see two different ways in which Global Warming conversations take place? How about discussions on the merits of nuclear power? gun control? reproductive rights? gay marriage? Generally all of these share the properties that there are some people who want to talk about them rationally and there are some people who want to talk about them emotionally. At least that has been my observation.

And btw its 'not some dreadlocked hippie' (what a horrible generalization) its people like you and me.
I read the first 40 pages of "4 steps to the epiphany" at http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl.... It's remarkably dense reading but for someone who was not around during the 2000 bubble, it contains valuable information about what happened.
In HTML 5 you can use the h1 element multiple times. For example, lets say you are writing an article

article
h1
h2

That is perfectly valid, now lets say you have an header that gets added before each article that contains some information such as author, time created/published

header
timedate
h1
Article Title
author
article
h1
h2

This is valid HTML 5.
Illegal video streaming to rise to felony status?
"Fuse4X" - a reference Fuse API implementation for MacOSX
Here comes the relevance from an earlier discussion of mine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623722 - "Nobody in India uses computers in Indian languages".

This tablet can revolutionize rural education, especially since the Indian govt mandates rural connectivity as a pre-requisite to handing out telecom wireless licenses. But you cannot teach village kids in English - especially, if in a few years they have to go and read the land records, inheritance documents, local newspapers which are in regional vernacular.

But the system is running Android - guess what is the top request on the Android bug list? (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?sort=-stars)
Arabic language support.

Same problem as Indic fonts. Same problem on all Linuxes.
"If passed, the bill will make illegal streaming for commercial purposes a felony punishable by up to five years in prison -- if the streaming in question involves ten or more instances of streaming copyrighted works during a 180-day period, and if the retail value of the stream exceeds $2500, or the licenses to the material are worth more than $5000."

If you penetrate these limits, odds are pretty good that the copyrighted material was obviously copyrighted material and you were being pretty wanton about it.

I'm all about small government and keeping their hands off things they don't understand, but I'm not sure how anyone can be opposed to them enforcing laws.
The first comment has it spot-on for the first example: the html version is an alternate version -- it's not the same content. The example of content distribution networks (and other mirrors) is much better.
Practical Data Storage: MongoDB at foursquare
This is classic psychopathic behavior. Instead of torturing people physically to see them squirm they're doing it digitally, but the same lack of empathy is there.
There are two factors that can allow you to throw your salary out the window. Being young and having no expenses/obligations and being a bit older and having some accumulated wealth.

But I think you're right. MOST younger folks have no obligations. Relatively few older folks have actually managed to keep their burn rate low and accumulate wealth.
As well as me and many other people who love and use the OSM project!
When I tried freenet it was so slow that it would compare unfavorably to a website being DDOSed, so that's perhaps a bad example. As far as bittorrent goes, it is entirely possible to DDOS the distribution of the contents of a single .torrent: DDOS every computer seeding it. Might take more effort than DDOSing a commercial site, or it might not, depending on how much downstream the seeds have.
Jedberg leaves reddit
In the video they mentioned "2gb" of ram.
You are right, it does work. Thank you!
Our laws already cope with warlike human civilizations, why would an alien one be any different from an equal protection standpoint?
No, the author has misunderstood "joins are slow." (Edit: not the post author, but the HN submitter. This reaction made more sense before the submission title was changed.)

The point is that joins are slow _when you scale past one machine_ because the data you are joining will be on different nodes.

(Yes, I'm familiar with pk-based sharding or entity groups, or even more sophisticated partitioning like volt's. None of these can always always be made to fit your data; I'm talking about the general case here.)
Maybe it's a silly question, but how did you output sound after decoding the stream? I wasn't aware browser JavaScript had any APIs that work with sounds directly. There is Audio, but IIRC it just streams the file from the server.

I've looked at the sources, but couldn't fine the part that would answer my question.
I grew up in Xinjiang, arguably the most ethnically divided region in China, so I know where you're coming from. China's approach to taming ethnic minorities is straight forward: various forms of oppression. Besides racism, the other major reason is that minorities in China, unlike those in the US for example, do not want to be Chinese. There's no civil activism because neither side want true equality (both want to be separate).

Back to the original point: the Han peasant class is far greater than any other demographic. That demographic has been responsible for the dynastic cycles for thousands of years. It's still the case today, and the Chinese government is well aware of that. At the same time, the government has to keep stoking the economic fire, promote innovation, etc.
The Beta SDK FAQ is chock full of interesting issues, including:

Not being able to distribute applications standalone, users must also download SDK to get the runtimes
No commercial use, and on top of that, due to the fact that MS cannot predict the usage of the kinect SDK, all SDK derived applications should not be considered “allowed under the SDK”.
Microsoft owns the right to say what software you can use the hardware with, and using the kinect with anything outside of the SDK is not allowed. Even with this wording in place, the MSDN Channel 9 launch video lauded all of the open source applications currently available for the kinect.
The SDK will not run on Virtual Machines

Source: http://www.nonpolynomial.com/2011/06/16/console-controls-usa...
From what I've been reading the attacks were not sophisticated, mainly using SQL injection. Many here on HN understand that kind of threat but it seems lots of companies and important services don't. Is it possible that the attention shone on these simple/trivial hacks will cause those less security conscious admins to get rid of that low hanging fruit?

If so, it should help reduce the impact of a broad, simultaneous attack across many sites from much more dangerous foes. I am not saying it is right, but it may be more effective than the legislation our congress comes up with to protect us, with fewer nasty side effects.
I remember when that happened. And that was a hack. But MS releasing an official SDK does not help them 'hack the Kinect'. It helps them use it officially.
Handoff -> http://www.handoffapp.com/

Works well. I'm not sure how many of the other solutions do this as well, but it treats maps, websites, and phone numbers (and maybe more?) differently, launching the appropriate apps in response.
IBM - 1935 (photo)
It's less the jeweler and more his suppliers.
مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء 2 الحلقة 23
The part that knows some conscious and sentient things are delicious.

Barbaric, no?
Maybe I'm not fully comprehending the validity of this bill--so is profiting via illegal streaming a big thing in the United States? Judging from their reasoning, and not to get ethical, but is this really the answer to this issue?
The no-standalone bit is just like the rest of MS's DirectX and whatnot. I'm not sure why that would be a surprise.

The rest is annoying, though. Maybe they'll see the light, or maybe they'll just be replaced by something better.
The technique he uses is called deep learning. one startup is binatix.com.
If this person is going to be around less than a year, then nothing.

Otherwise, about 4-8% of a percent.
when the government represents the interest of a small group agains the people that voted for them is time for change:

meta-government + minarquism.
I'm not sure which one you think it is, but I sure hope it's the one that does it for fun.

A society driven by preying on the weak for profit is far more distressing.
Einstein didn't do away with the concept, Michelson and Morley did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experi...

Einstein filled the hole they left. It is worth mentioning because Morley was the first American to win the Nobel in Physics. That experiment changed business as usual.
The term "introversion" dates to the 17th century.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/introversion
Interesting, so what other defences do "interface innovation" companies like HipMunk have available to inhibit the encroaching of copycats?
Security philosophy -- strategy and posturing
You can prepend two spaces to insert <code> (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc):

rm -rf ./*
rm -rf *.*

To stay on topic, because of this thread, I just added alias rm="rm -I" to .bashrc, and I have never yet needed -f.
I think the author's point is that MySQL JOINs are slow if you are joining more than 2 tables.

More mature databases like Oracle or PostgreSQL can eat 4 or 5 way JOINs for breakfast.
These men are nihilists, nothing to be afraid of.
> I think betting on the founder breaks down as a company grows to a certain point.

And even if it doesn't, having a good intuition about people and particular acquaintance with the founder in question are prerequisites to using the technique. A lot of experience with startup founders in particular is also really important.
also: Dexter's Lab. "Mooooooooooon!"
Zim'sclassicbook"CodesandSecretWriting"beginswiththisexample ofaverysimplecryptogram:

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do 20 i = 1. 10
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do 20 i = 1, 10

Which,ifmymemorydoesnotfailme,istheoldFortranwayofwriting

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Full article: http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2011/06/teen-brain-data-...
What are the odds he ends up at Hipmunk?

It's not mentioned at all in the post, but it seems like a lot of ex-reddit employees end up there.
2g scam?
Bitcoin Security Under Scrutiny
Here's my simple HNSearch API JavaScript example. It lists submissions from the last 3 hours and sorts by points.

http://www.hnjs.dotcloud.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2663282
In Saudi Arabia Today, A Lady Went for a Drive
Agree, I had to call my bank and make them label eFax' transactions as fraud to make it stop. Please don't recommend eFax!
Awesome! But...

I'm not a JS guy. I can't contextualise this. How does this compare to HTML5 browser-based audio playing? Will this be a new way to make an audio button? Or does it go much deeper than that for JS apps?
A Mac Os app for reddit : Alienblue
But it's a felony.
Thanks a lot for mentioning grumo!
Cocktails The Next Generation: Centrifuge Martini Anyone?
I wouldn't count on it. Standard CMOS sensors can see infrared, but are filtered so that they do not. It would not be much of an engineering challenge to use the CMOS sensor to read an IR data stream while filming.
Company I work for does giveaways to get market penetration / market share / market grab. So can give free 1 yr subscription (in the hopes they'd renew after 1yr) worth b/w $35 - $50 in retail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G_spectrum_scam
The phrase is on this page:

http://www.vintank.com/about/

under Our Story

I don't think he is talking about any physical device, he is using optics in place of Paradigm Shift - it is the new meaningless buzz word. Try it out! anytime someone uses optics this way substitute "paradigm shift" and the sentence will still read the same and still convey no information.
They're mostly taking publicity, the joy is mostly for show.
Just because a cartel exists somewhere in the supply chain doesn't mean I have to participate in the transaction or my perceived value of it is artificially inflated. The two caret ring was just hypothetical, but there are plenty men who value those rings more than the asking price, and their wives appreciate that. (at least the sensible ones do)
Apple's cash
If you are still living among 'they', perhaps it's time to move.
5 Fundamental Reasons To Switch To WPSumo 
Before skipping this post as “yet another infomercial”, let me tell you a few things about myself. My name is Dragos Roua, and I blog for 6 years now. DragosRoua.com, my main blogging outlet, has more than 100.000 unique users per month. I don’t buy links, I don’t do any black hat SEO, I don’t do AdSense or AdWords. Yet, I make a (more than) decent living out of this blog. I’m also one third of WPSumo, the main topic of today’s post.
Youtube adds rainbow loading bar to original Nyan cat video
Ah, I see. Yeah, the "first" claim is bad, we're going to take it out when we update the video.

I do think you're probably taking the video a little too seriously, though.
Wait, so songs people like might be hits?

Color me amazed.
Probably the part that likes to eat meat.
I can use your help.

So in all my postings here, and when I talk with folks in person, and at conferences and the topic comes up. I start with "The climate changes, we know it changes because we have lots of evidence in the geologic record that it has been very different than today, both colder and hotter. This process is continuous."

And yet you, MaysonL ask "What evidence do you see that it isn't happening?"

When I had stated categorically that it was happening. The only solid difference between my position on global warming and the 'alarmists' that I can find is that I don't believe that humans can control the global climate. I agree we can change our contribution to its change, but I strongly disagree that if we eliminate our contribution that change will stop happening.

I'm a strong supporter of climate science, and I try to keep an open mind to avoid confirmational bias and I seek out conflicting data in an effort to 'keep myself honest' that I'm looking as all the data and not just data that supports my point of view.

And still in some groups if I ask "what is your opinion of this conflicting report?" or "what do you think of Boyd's iron hypothesis?" or any question which reveals that I don't think humans can control the climate, the cry 'Denier! Denier! Denier!' is raised with metaphorical pitch forks and clubs.

Its unsatisfying to just shrug my shoulders and leave but my experience is that anything said once the cry goes up is effectively white noise. So if you have any suggestions on how I might state my position without triggering the 'denier! denier!' mode I'm all ears.
OK, so for the remaining 3 people out there who were pathologically not paying attention, computer hacking is easy. The state of computer security is poor. Lulzsec deserves a medal and a chest to pin it on for breaking this news to all of the people who don't have a facebook account, have never been on irc, didn't see the movie wargames, don't know anyone who plays world of warcraft, has never read the new york times, has never heard of china and has never heard anyone utter the word "stuxnet".

For the rest of us, it's pretty tedious.

There's another situation that fits the general parameters of what they describe. Almost no one is protected against it. Being a gunshot victim.

At least in the US, pretty much anyone can get their hands on a handgun either legally or illegally. Almost anyone can use one with a bare minimum of instruction. And almost no one is protected - if you pick a name out of a hat of all america, pretty much any possible outcome will be dead easy to track down, stalk, find the right opportunity and shoot dead. And a vanishingly small numbers of shooters make an announcement about the whole incident on the Internet.

But, all that said, if you go around shooting people for no real reason and bragging about it you're assuredly a psycopathic asshole.
Note LulzSec claims to 'not be Anon' (lol).

It seemed like there was idealism lurking because there was!
7" Resistive touch screen, 32GB hard disk, 2GB RAM, 2 USB ports, WiFi.

http://techpp.com/2011/06/15/indias-low-cost-sakshat-tablet-...
Facebook Prepping ‘Project Spartan’ Mobile Platform
Where do you get your icons?
What's your favorite icon set to use for your own applications?
We could potentially use you. Drop me a note: matt@acceptly.com.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmunson
Thanks the grumo love @kn0thing!
@iworkforthem Yes, I do fun demo videos for startups. Come and say hi at Grumo Media anytime ;)
If you are more of a DIY guy, I also teach how to create demo videos like the ones on Grumo at http://grumoschool.com
You're talking about the HTML5 <audio> tag.

We're using audiolib.js, which abstracts over Mozilla's Audio Data API and Chrome's Web Audio API - both of which allow direct access to the sound device :)

(And no, it's a really good question! More people should know about this stuff!)