skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those 2 weren't quite as bad in dollar terms... although they went to 0.
http://www.cnet.com/1990-11136_1-6278387-1.html
Webvan was at peak worth $1.2Bn, Pets.com raise $82.5m in IPO
Ask HN: How the PayPal Verification process works?
Hi,
I heard lot of horror stories about PayPal verification process. I have a fake account since I'm in a country where you can't receive funds with PayPal. I verified my account with a Virtual Credit Card that made me match its information with my entered ones.

I made this, well, 3 years ago and just forgot about it. I'm logging from my local IP (always), but the other country is a neighboring one. Last days, I read a discussion on how someone account was blocked because he reached a $3.3K limit and how it took him two weeks to get verified. I was little bit frightened because I had a good balance there and my account is very active.

I was surprised that with the VCC and the 3 years-old verification, my account is still verified and there is no limit to my transactions. Hell, the verification process only took me 5 minutes!
I read on the PayPal website that the verification process is a very strict one (and is similar to military process or some crap like that).

So is the PayPal verification process fundamentally broken? How it stops legitimate users, while fake ones are not caught? Why PayPal is not working on this? What's problem actually?
jokull@solberg.is
They like to show Window's in an obsolete manor, that or they aren't bothered to change it.

I don't know if you noticed but the icon for a networked windows pc in the Finder is actually a pc with the blue screen of death :P (I find that a little unprofessional of Apple tbh tho)
And share your story - as it says how you think and approach ideas/problems.
My first full time job was at an electronic trading company that used a distributed system to price and buy options in real time. our system consisted of a visual studio solution with around 300 projects in it. to get a development environment running, you had to start about 10-12 different applications. it took me a full 8 months before i finally felt like i _really_ knew what was going on.

Programming takes time. You're not going to do anything earth-shattering in your first few months.
Microsoft turns to unused TV airwaves to solve spectrum crisis
If you like the program, read through the data file: http://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt

Some pure gold buried in there. For instance search for candela.
He was bound to get snapped up quickly by some company or another, it was just a matter of time. Being arrested was the best thing that happend to his carrear!
Whoa .. there is a big story in here somewhere, which appears to have gone way over the head of the LA Times hack who wrote this regurgitated press release.

He was arrested on criminal charges for running a simple benchmarking program? By the company he was formerly the CEO of?

This is patently ridiculous, and can only be a case of YouSendIt having some major grievances with him about something else, or some other kind of ulterior motive. It seems only reasonable that he was running apache benchmark for curiosity, not with any serious malicious intent, and is now being held on some trumped up charges concocted by people out to get him.

If anyone knows of an article that actually explains the relationship between YouSendIt and their former CEO, please link to it.
Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla
It would definitely fit into git's naming convention for commands better. Whether or not that makes it stickier with users is probably an question only focus testing can answer :)
I'm not making a statement about those people, but what I said still applies: the opportunities on that list are available in SV, and a small number of other places in the US. Not in Saigon or Amsterdam -- at least not to a large number of people.

HN is about news that happens mostly in SV, or is relevant to it. It's about startups -- high-risk, scalable businesses -- and SV is where they are (at least, many, many of the successful ones are). I'd expect that a solid majority of the readership is based in this area too.

My premise is this: people who choose to live and work in SV have huge opportunities that exist (almost) nowhere else. Sure, you can setup a consultancy and dabble in a few side projects while you make your way around the globe and have remarkable experiences.

But let's not pretend that, if you choose to do this, you are exposed to the same opportunities as the rest of us -- you're not.
A lot of orthodontics is fixing things so someone can chew correctly, reducing pain etc. I'll assume that you didn't mean those folks....

Maybe you meant cosmetic dentistry, but even there, should we forever brand someone who didn't take care of their teeth earlier in life? What about folks who were given tetracycline when they were kids (which permanently stains their teeth)?

Maybe there's a good example in dentistry, but let's see one.

As to your "positional" argument, how are you separating out the "bad" positional change from "her teeth kept us from seeing his superior skills"? Or, is the latter also bad?
What does it do and why do I need it? <- needs to be clearly and concisely answered on the home page.
We're not talking about replacing TCP as the standard transport protocol. But if you're a mobile app developer and you control both the client (via a native app) and the server you can use whatever you want. If someone provided client and server implementations of a more efficient networking protocol it could become popular.

I have no idea about monetization though. I doubt just charging for the code would work.
Looks like Safari on a Mac to me
No, the thing is that KPN does not only provide internet, but also phone calls and SMS. So what they want to do is e.g. make Skype traffic from smartphones more expensive to keep their phone and SMS alive.
You'll usually run out of entropy before cpu usage becomes relevant with SSL processing, I've seen old versions of apache hang with little or no entropy to process SSL connections. I recommend some sort of RNG or a poor mans software version such as http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/
The biggest chunk of the overhead is all the sales folks, right? Once the selling is done, can't you cut the sales people and cut your margins?

Seems like a good way to re-excite businesses who may be frazzled from their previous Groupon experience: "We'll feature you again, but this time, for 25%". Then a year later, "How about 10%?"
Yep. And caffeine is its ideal fuel ;)
Agreed. Thank you much for providing us with this great resource!
I feel like this is the attitude that drives good designers away from open source projects - the attitude that they are swooping in after the fact to destroy the hard work of intelligent programmers. If you instead see designers as intelligent people who chose to specialize in understanding and translating raw "feedback on what's working and what isn't, and [...] data" and time-tested design concepts into a final product that ties the chops of programmers with the actual human-centered goals of projects, it may result in better software.

Are we really trying to, for random example, create a protocol for individually and consistently addressing nodes securely within an ad-hoc mesh network of inconsistent size which needs to route requests to one or more gateways to the larger internet, OR are we trying to help average people create their own neighborhood networks where they can share services?

I submit that we're doing the latter, and the hard problem in order for programmers to facilitate it is the former. As a programmer, I stumble across magnificent libraries bitrotting on various parts of the internet that sometimes do things that I wouldn't even have imagined possible, yet no one but hobbyist techs will ever use them until they are integrated onto the backend of something that designers somewhere created to scratch a person's itch, not a programmer's. The big problem: when will a designer ever be meandering around the depths of CPAN or an aside on some obsessed functional programmer's blog?

To be even more extreme, I'd like to see more projects primarily headed by designers or end user types, ones with little to no technical knowledge and a healthy respect for people who do. As a programmer, I pride myself on telling people the best way that things can be done with a computer, not what people should want a computer to do and how they would like the computer to do it.

Seriously, the less I have to think about ui, especially in the context of projecting myself into the mind of somebody who isn't clear on the difference between a directory and a file, the better. Background shit that automagically runs with no interaction? Love it. Something that helps grammar school kids collaboratively research their school projects in a transparently sourced way? Somebody please draw me a picture, tell me where to put the buttons, and tell me what they should do. And even though I've written an awesome algorithm to realtime index and classify the contributions of the individual students and make suggestions about who should be assigned to clarify a portion of the outline based on keywords and library proximity - tell me where to put it, or whether I've been wasting my time and that no one needs it. I don't have to have a big red button on the toolbar. I'm smart, I can certainly use the algorithm for something else.

Sorry for ranting:)
You might consider seeking out a mentor within your own organization. In addition to knowing how complicated your particular processes are, such a person should be able to give your pointers on how to master the material faster, which parts to master first, which bits the company most needs help with, etc.
>> "By intentionally transmitting the ApacheBench program to YouSendIt's server..." the FBI said in a statement.

This statement makes it clear how unfamiliar the FBI is with technology.
Strong opinions, weakly held.
Tethery.com domain for sale. Cheap. Great for new startup.
Thanks for creating this, guys. Any chance you might consider sticking your code on Github?
Yes, it's 35 lines. But that's not including the source. Such as the definitions for Point(), which is a couple 100 lines of code, not including its dependencies. I want to port it over to Flash, which is in ActionScript not JavaScript.
I can attest to this. This was my first insight into the Perl 5/6 issue. Until now, I always assumed it was along the lines of Python 2.x and Python 3.
Never. iOS is constrained by the size of fingertips and its current widget system. You can make a useful UI with a smaller screen, but reworking the current code base to that screen size will never happen.
If you're using IE then the screenshot has an IE window frame.
> I'm pretty certain the acquirer won't be approaching me. To them we look like a turnkey operation.

Huh? "turnkey operation" does not imply "won't fall apart if the wrong people leave".

> Whether or not it's communicated upward is my concern.

Then you're hosed, going to feel used, ....

You're the only one who cares whether you get what you deserve. If you don't care either, then no one cares.

Note that the sellers want to argue that you aren't essential, because if you are, the acquirer needs to take care of you. Taking care of you increases the cost of the acquisition. (That can put the deal at risk and can reduce their payout.)

No, an earnout clause doesn't change their motivation wrt you much.
That sounds super complicated and like an opening for somebody to write some software.
It was. This new device could very possibly be free with 2 year contract if it only costs $300-$350. The unlocked angle is mostly for the international markets where more carrier competition exists and there's a real incentive to go contract free. In the US, due to incompatible 3G frequencies on GSM phones and little real competition, there's not a huge market for these unlocked phones.

If this new iPhone 4-ish device was a CDMA/GSM hybrid with a healthy frequency selection it could shake things up in the US. At minimum you really need at least 2 fully functional carriers to choose from to bother with an unlocked phone. As a hybrid they could (in theory at least) support all 4 carriers on one device and push the US market closer to the international model where the consumer has an incentive to spend the money up front on hardware.
FBI May Not Have Had Access To Instapaper Hard Drive Data After All
Tweetbot 1.2.1, 1.3 and the State of Push Notifications — Tapbots Blog
Look at the volume for Mt. Gox: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html
Planning to buy the paperback. While checking out the paperback info, I noticed that the pdf is still free on lulu.
The Crappy People FAQ
the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla

This isn't necessarily an either/or thing. They can both be right... it's all a matter of perspective.

So what can enterprises do?

One option is to wait and see if some enterprising (no pun intended) young startup emerges, that offers long-term support for older versions of Firefox. If EnterpriseBrowser Inc. existed today, and sold a guaranteed support program (including backports of security fixes) for, say, Firefox 4, for, say, 5 years, they could probably make some nice coin from the corporate customers.

It doesn't even have to be a for-profit startup as far as that goes... a few $BIGCORPs might pool some resources and create a new open-source project to maintain older releases. Who knows?
http://www.qwink.com
A Trip Through Twitter's Lazyweb
The term lazyweb has been used to describe the act of outsourcing questions to people online....
Android's Log.wtf Method
30 Revenue Generating Apps Within 30 Days - The Software Sith Challenge
>> The program doesn't use GCC... <<

Before your kernel panic out of nitpick mode, shouldn't you at least have compiled and run that hello world program with ICC? ;-)
In Europe, they also sell the 3GS limited to 8GB storage. In its heyday, the 3GS was only sold in 16 and 32 GB versions. Note that all the software for the iPhone 4 (except for a few apps that require front-cam, flashlight or gyroscope) also runs on the 3GS. Seems to me the older 3G has been left behind for over an year now.
Ask HN: Do you wish you could rent URLs?
I'm testing a number of startup ideas, and for each one, I need to either:

1. Buy a new domain
2. Use one I currently own.

Both options suck. I don't want to buy 50-100 domains, nor do I want to cycle through the same few that I own.

What I want is to pay like $10 a month to rent domains. I don't care if they have been used before, as I'm just testing out ideas. If I find an idea sticks, I should be able to either buy the one that I'm renting, or just redirect traffic to a URL that I subsequently purchase.

Does anyone else have this problem too? Do you wish you could rent URLs?
Here is a talk by linus about git, although it isn't a tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
> I'd like to point out, that while China has a communist party, it is no longer a communist country.

What makes China "no longer a communist country"?

Can anyone run for office? Are there significant legal and extra-legal controls on "private" property?

Every communist country has allowed some private property, so if your answer is "Chinese can now own land/cars", please tell us where the line is on that slippery slope.
Startup accelerators in 2011
Tesco sets up Virtual Store in South Korea subway
How many queries per second could you do that with just a personal machine (i.e. not a cloud machine with huge bandwidth limits), before your ISP shut you off?
If I am starting to see this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20773870/IMAG0004.jpg
in my local stores, I'm pretty sure Groupon is well past it's fad stage. Since it can only operate based on it's exposure/marketing it'll be interesting to see the crash.
so they took the blades but not the drives?
what would the point be?
If you're interested in PC interfaces, computer games can be pretty inspiring because of their UI diversity. Some have really good ideas, others have obvious issues one can learn from.

It's difficult to discuss things like this without more context.

Hm... Draggable checkboxes. Let's say you have several checkboxes arranged in one column. The user points cursor at the first one, presses left mouse button and then drags the cursor across other checkboxes. When the pointer crosses a checkbox, the latter acquires the same state as the first checkbox clicked. The benefits over the typical solution (extra 'select them all' box) is that the user can skip one or several options by swaying the pointer, while maintaining the ability to easily select multiple things in a row.
> China is not like the US where you can engage in corruption and get a slap on the wrist.

Slap on the wrist? US public officials who engage in corruption are often rewarded. (Rod Blagojevich, the former Ill governor is going to jail because he pissed off the wrong people, not because he was corrupt.)
Show HN: canvas glue chrome extension v1.2, more than screen shots
I was replying to the context of the post, and specifically spoke to horizontal scalability so I am confused that you felt it appropriate to "correct" that.

Having said that, hundreds of millions of records equals a small dataset. I still don't understand when that's held as some sort of edge case when it's easily accommodated on commodity low-end hardware.
So the FBI runs YouSendIt. Don't upload your warez there folks.
Freelance Mac App Bundle (Includes Arq, WriteRoom)
Maybe they swindled him out of his vested options too.
Are Facebook and Foursquare toying with a merger?
Why exactly must each idea have a domain name? How about prioritizing your ideas some more to cut down on them? You can't possible have 50 equally good ideas.

Also, you can get .INFO domains for $1.99 so even if you have 50-100 domains that's fairly affordable. Can't imagine you would be able to rent a domain cheaper than that.
Aah, bummer - the opportunities I have are local. Send me an email anyway and you can evaluate it for yourself :)
Umm, did you actually read the article?

The former chief executive of the YouSendIt,
a website where users can post files too large
to send over email, has admitted to launching an
online attack against the company he once ran.

According to FBI investigators, from about December 2008 to June 2009, Shaikh sent an ApacheBench program to YouSendIt's servers, which measured the number of requests per second the site was capable of handling. Sending the program multiple times in essence amounted to a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack.

No "curious" person would run apache bench on a website they formerly cofounded for 7 months.
"some states are 2-party consent states, which means, both parties have to consent to an audio recording."

IANAL, but I believe that there is no state where this applies to public recording. The issue is "expectation of privacy". http://www.rcfp.org/taping/consent.html

In the rochester case, the public servant informed Ms Good that they did not feel safe, and then used the "refusal to obey a police instruction" as the crime. However, citizens are only required to obey lawful instructions. I do not believe that the instruction was lawful.

Until our public servants in law enforcement are educated on the matter of law, a citizen will be taking a risk in exercising their rights. I believe that it is our duty to do so.
Starting Lineup
After a long, cold recession, small businesses have begun to expand and hire new employees. But in the business game, you need....
Hadoop implements the map reduce api. It is a full software stack that typically is taken to mean:

1 - hadoop proper: java code that implements the MR API;

1a - all the software to allow for job trackers, job retrying, job distribution, reporting, etc; across a cluster

1b - cascading / competitors that help you compose individual MR steps;

1c - task tracking and scheduling software such as the SNA projects from linkedin;

2 - a distributed file system called hdfs;

3 - binary file format code such as avro;

4 - various software that provide a sql like reporting api, such as hive, sawzall, pig, etc;

edit: and you might think the MR api is trivial (which is in some sense true), getting it somewhat right is a lot of work. Building software that will run on your 1 node dev box for development and run on a 6k node cluster is not a simple task. Neither is properly dealing with map/reduce task failure and retry while correctly removing the data that a partially complete task wrote.
Maybe this is older news ... http://www.allfacebook.com/yes-facebook-is-talking-to-foursq...
It still does nothing to support the millions of IE6, 7 & 8 users, and VML has been around since IE5.x - it's really not much different than SVG either. Seeing a vector library these days that doesn't support VML is just sad. I've written my own and it works back to IE5.5. Animation performance isn't great but it isn't that bad either. IE's DOM is actually not as slow as one might think it is.
No I have no wish whatsoever to 'rent' urls. Anything that makes urls more impermanent than they already are is, in my opinion, a very bad thing.
I think a key statement is missing from this which is that the opinions should only be weakly held in the face of little information. Once you have convincing evidence, you should also hold your opinion strongly.
Thank you for creating and maintaining SearchYC these last few years. I used it more than any site except, well, HN. (My apologies for the server load.)
No. The payload was the binary ab.exe (ApacheBench), sent over and over again using the YouSendIt service, which sends files from person A to person B instead of using email.
This seems like a change similar to the perl 5.000000000008 to 5.8 change (yes, I know it had fewer 0's in it but there were a lot).
Pulling a trigger is pretty easy too.
No. He POSTed the binary ab.exe to the website/service over and over ... using ab itself to do the POST.
Here is the full vision statement "Discover, experience and connect with apps, websites and people on your own terms, everywhere."

Two problems: forgettable & undifferentiated. Seems like this applies to just about every technology company out there. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, ...
A rarely promoted benefit of a SAN!
"This is patently ridiculous" ... how? The guy plead guilty to what was essentially a DOS (corrected from DDOS) attack intended to interfere with the company's ability to do business. Was it a really simple attack? Yes. But I'm not sure that's relevant. It's kind of like being caught trying to burn someone's house down and then claiming you were just testing to see if it was flammable.
This reminds me of Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. I love the idea of the book being online in HTML for free, but you can pay for a better learning experience: screencasts, PDF files, and online training courses.
How Facebook Pushes Me Away From My Friends
So it is. When I saw it was $1 for the PDF of v2 I didn't think twice. Been using v1 and pretty pleased with it so far and I was happy to pay such a low amount for v2.

Might buy the paperback in time just so I can have it on my bookshelf.
"It's a deer". Blam blam blam. "Oh, sorry dude"

Sometimes you need to sure.
Well that is certainly an interpretation that would make sense, so thanks.

I reread the FBI's statement, and I'm not convinced that what you suggest is what they actually mean, however. Does yousendit actually work that way? Can I send someone an arbitrary executable referenced from an email and it actually runs?
Sorry, but I don't get this.

I don't see the case where you need a domain (especially what appears to be a semi-poor/random name) to test a startup idea.

With a wholesale account you can register a domain for less than $8/year. What would the market be for renting them? Also, how would you deal with domains that might have been essentially blacklisted by Google for crappy SEO practices?