skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrington reported on her blog post and didn't get his facts straight about the financial help. What he quoted as an update was, in fact, already stated. The impression he gave of airbnb's indifference was unfair.
Personally I don't know why people get a hard-on about the story of Airbnb.

So they sold a fad product (cereal) at the right time to make a little bit of money. Just tells me they have no moral integrity (which explains the craigslist email spamming).

So they struggled to make rent in SF a while. Who told them to stay in an expensive city with no savings? That's bad financial planning, and they could've bootstrapped their startup in Austin.

Oh, and they made a startup that is illegal in many parts of US, and manage to dupe investors to give them hundreds of millions. Now they won't even help a girl whose life they help tear to shreds.

Sounds like upstanding fellows to me.
Google Apps partner Cloud Sherpas acquires NZ start-up
"... RUN FASTER. I really can't stress this enough. The reason he got caught is because he didn't run fast enough. If you're going to do stuff like this, LEARN TO RUN FAST. Cops are fat and slow. ..."

Got COM?
Really, really nice design. I'm loving Google's newfound attention to aesthetics.

What's with the Gotham though? I know H&FJ keep talking about making their fonts embeddable one day, but it hasn't happened yet: http://www.typography.com/ask/faq.php?faqID=126#Faq_126
Perth company MOKO.Mobi acquires US networking site
This is exactly what's wrong with paying money over the internet. There is no way to control how much the person you're giving money to chooses to take.
I don't claim that ideas are property.

Claiming Madonna's work as my own wouldn't be necessary for me to sell her music, so not sure fraud is the crime.

I wasn't saying mechanisms for payment need to be created. I'm saying they are essential. And not just for one kind of innovation.

And I know about opportunity cost. That's one reason why I am NOT arguing for the continuation of the current system.
Yes, that is partially true. However, the major reason is safety and liability. I have spent quite a bit of time overseas, and jumping in some random car of questionable roadworthiness, with an equally questionable driver, is not really something that the average citizen should have to deal with on a regular basis. If you don't want hotels or taxis regulated, then perhaps the same could be said for all businesses, and housing (construction regulations), etc. If that is the case, then please be sure to be in Iran or Afghanistan the next time there is a major earthquake, and then tell me that regulation is about the "cartels who control entry into the market".
Naked Came the Null Delegate part 6: The Great Destructor
I'm Bothell and interested. :)
It's only sock-puppeting if you use multiple accounts to upvote your own shit. Posting under a throwaway and sock-puppeting are not the same thing.
So, how's running that datacenter been? Any trouble setting up peering agreements?

Sorry, but using the "no third party blah blah blah" is just a strawman looking for a match.
Google was showing 27,200 results so if they are all valid user id's without repetitions, I would assume around 27,200 registered users but that seems pretty low, doesn't it?
I like this, supposing that it lets extensions request permissions at the point when the user tries to do something requiring the permission, rather than at install time. At install time, the user has no idea why the extension needs a permission, and for the user's use-case it might not even need it. The extension has to ask for maximum permissions from the beginning.

This should make it easier for the user to gauge privacy lost vs. feature gained, rather than having to make essentially a brand trust decision from the start.
"If I don't push BugMuncher EVERY SINGLE DAY my traffic can drop as low as 50 uniques, where as days I plug it I get around 700."

I see that too. I stopped pushing my blog while I was doing a series of articles and my unique hits dropped precipitously. I would up pushing specific parts of the series just to bring them back up.
As competition rises, Instapaper shuns outside dollars
In this case, wasn't a door broken in order to steal the jewelry? I'd assume most people take at least this level of precaution...
The key here is that the button leading to 'register' was 'checkout', and not 'register'. Because web links are essentially blind corners, where users can't see around the corner, the process involves a certain amount of trust between the user and the guide. For example, imagine being at a fair ground, and without knowing where you were there's a sign that said 'Ferris Wheel' and following that sign took you the ticket counter instead. Sure you need a ticket to get on the ferris wheel, but you were looking for the ferris wheel and not the ticket counter. This is the same thing. Checkout should lead to checkout. Register should lead to register. Checkout shouldn't lead to register. Once you've checkedout, you can close the transaction by creating an account for future purchases, but that's only because you've already completed all the necessary work, and so creating an account becomes a value added bonus.

Simple directions, simple prompts, and mechanize the rest.
(Zip Code? -- Fill in the City automatically.) as mentioned by jobu below
No, that is not where you draw the line. That is a random point very much on the far side of where you want the line drawn.

The problem for any organization dealing with a large volume of possible cases is that you need to figure out where to draw the line. Preferably you want it in some place that is transparent and easily communicated to people. Otherwise you'll have an endless stream of cases close to the line with arbitrary outcomes that you can't explain.

Clearly, "So and so drilled through my walls to steal my stuff" should be on the far end of the line. Clearly, "So and so stole my pencil" should be on the near side of the line. But where do you draw it in the middle? With the claim of a broken TV? With a hole in the wall?
I can't wait for HTML5 full screen spec implementation on major browsers, not just for videos, but for web pages in general including canvas. It will deliver a more richer User Experience.
I think that you're possibly trivialising the effect of people's friends saying "Did you see the latest Family Guy last night" and them having to say "no, it's not going to be on Hulu until next week". The bar to acquiring it via thepiratebay.org is so low that I can imagine the eight-day wait being enough to send some people there instead.
Brilliant. I'm amazed that more sites don't let you do this.
which build are you using?
You might be surprised - see this :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-16/death-derivatives-e...

Other examples in the entertainment industry - say there exists insurance that your movie will earn a minimum revenue say 25 million usd. Your competitor simply buys those contracts and then trash talks your movie on the opening night ( by simply paying out bloggers and amateur journas some pittance sum of money ). Your movie tanks and so the contracts get exercised and your competitor makes a whole lot of money. So the next time around, you make a shitty movie to begin with. Then YOU buy the contracts, wait for your shitty movie to tank and cash in the contracts! This actually happens sometimes in Bollywood, though not in the exact fashion I described but in a more shady fashion.
I love that the entire investment community is gaga over this company.

So they sold a fad product (cereal) at the right time to make a little bit of money. Just tells me they have no moral integrity (which explains the craigslist email spamming).

So they struggled to make rent in SF a while. Who told them to stay in an expensive city with no savings? That's bad financial planning, and they could've bootstrapped their startup in Austin.

Oh, and they made a startup that is illegal in many parts of US, and manage to dupe investors to give them hundreds of millions. Now they won't even give financial help to a girl whose life they help tear to shreds.

Sounds like upstanding company/fellows to me.
I'm going to eyeball what seems most requested. If only two people request Eastside, it seems silly to ask everyone to go there.
People Still Use Torrents?
I work in a bioinformatics/proteomics lab that does all open-source work. I am sure we are not alone. https://github.com/princelab is where our code lives. OpenWetWare is a wiki for biology labs that several bioinformatics people use as well. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
Google+ Sees its First Downturn in Traffic
Transaction processing - Currency of Progress
"35 YEARS IN PRISON? Avon Barksdale is only serving seven! :)"

So... where is tptacek assuring us all that he won't spend a night in jail?
Just the tool I was looking for, but the current support for CSS3 rules is very limited, I hope they add more implementations for IE. Thanks Jason.
The Rise of Digital Hipsterism
It's OK if x is of an unsigned integer type. If x is of a signed type, though, you're right: strictly, the value of x-1 is then undefined when x==0.

(In practice, of course, it's perfectly safe unless you're on a distinctly exotic system, and if you are then you probably know you are.)
sounds like you went through a similar routine to me. I had the Norton book - which was excellent. I had second hand or pirated copies of everything though.

my first thought on pointers was 'this can't be right because it is too dangerous, i can write a program to do anything!'
How are people supposed to find you?

Looks like you haven't written a new blog post since May 4th.

Looking at your source I have no idea what your most important keywords are, I think you really need to understand the key-phrases which people use to describe the kind of product you have made -- and then you need to optimize for them. 'Multiple revisions'? I think theres gotta be a better search phrase describing this product. Maybe 'mockup tool' or 'revision tool' (note: havent done google keyword search, just off top of head)

Are you actively engaging press? You need to write up a reviewers guide and ship it off to every tech writer with a decent designer audience that you can find. You need to personally email every author or blogger who says something good or bad about your competitors, are you doing this?

Do you comment on high-trafficked freelancer/designer blogs? Do you participate in freelancer/designer forums?

Are you collecting emails anywhere? Preferably on front page! Use MailChimp it's free for less than 1,000 subscribers. I would be far more likely to give you my email address then to signup. Once you have me on your email list you can have a time-based email campaign that introduces people to your program and offers discounts towards end of trial period.

Just my .02
Slightly more accurate:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&biw=1...

Apparently there are a bunch of pages in the index that just go to "No such user" pages (looks like killed spam accounts).

Unfortunately this search also includes people with accounts created between 100 and 100000 days ago, regardless of karma level. Not sure how to filter that out; you can't use the range syntax in between double quotes, it seems.
Money aside, it is much easier to get someone from the south to move to the coasts than to get someone from the coasts to move to the south. This is especially true if you are not white, male, straight, and protestant. While I'm sure there are some awesome black lesbian atheists in Birmingham, those of us who are from outside the area are quite wary to move there.

My home (Arizona) has a similar reputation now with the SB1070 flap, and make no mistake, it has hurt recruiting.
Electronic Arts: Apple iPad "our fastest growing platform" for gaming
"Both ideas are taken on faith, they may both be true, they may neither be true."

They aren't equally true or untrue. There's more evidence cryonics will work than that afterlife-capable souls are real. The question is whether it's enough to be worth spending money on.

I like your idea about supernatural cryonics fiction though. I've considered writing stories like that myself. It doesn't have to be unpleasant for the souls; perhaps they are sitting in a camp outside the gates of heaven or hell, communicating with each other and sharing ideas. They could perhaps later carry messages back to the mortal world, granting empirical proof of the afterlife as soon as they are reanimated.
I heard that UX tip in some podcast with Luke Wroblewski, a web forms expert.
Biology is being held back by the low-quality code that the biologists are forced to write and maintain. Producing better programming tools means that biologists can start writing better programs.

This is already happening. The world of science woke up one day and realized that the C++ and Java their CS friends were talking about weren't helping them solve problems. So they switched to Python and Perl and now we have the human genome.

Programming tools are a big fucking deal.
Vancouver Chinatown buildings are pretty interesting. There's also a number of buildings with 1/2 floors.
http://scoutmagazine.ca/2011/07/21/secret-city-on-buildings-...
Quora Testing User Credits For “Ask To Answer” Questions
I'm kind of new to Seattle, what is "Eastside"?
This kid didn't control a botnet. He sent a handful of megabytes of data down his residential connection.

He had the functional impact of a single person at a sit in. No, realistically even less.
Ask HN: Can there be another gmail?
Since email service providers like gmail encourage not deleting any email, I am assuming there will be a point in time (rather in the size of the mean inbox of user-space) at which point it will become unviable to launch a new email service because u will have to offer migration as part of the package.

Will there be such a point or am I missing something?
Aside from hyperbole about their legality now or in the future...

The way I suspect a deal would be structured is that the institutional investor would not be insuring the homes of Airbnb's customers, but insuring Airbnb against claims, with a process of validating those claims that involved sending out a third party adjuster.

I have full confidence in the insurance industry's ability to find a way to finagle a deal of this sort if there are enough zeros behind the dollar sign.
And all of those are instances of unjust punishment.
The entire 4.0 release was considered pretty sub-par - it was common practice to remain on version 3.3 until 5.0 was released.
I think not firing someone is a much bigger hit on team morale. If someone is either doing something that affects everyone badly/not doing what they're supposed to do (causing other people to do their work), why keep them? Firing is a temporary downer; keeping someone on staff who shouldn't be there is a long-term one. If your team is great and they care (which I think all great teams do) you owe it to them to replace that person with someone who is on the same level.
35 years is the maximum possible sentence according to the law assuming he were found guilty on all counts and given the maximum sentence for each.

For comparison, Bland was facing a maximum sentence of 120 years. (Six charges of up to twenty years each.)

http://dukechronicle.com/node/107961
Yeah, cringe inducing.
Wow, I only thought grow-ops and meth-labs were limited to actual rented houses, but I guess AirBnB and the like can take it to a whole new level.
Cops don't need our support. They have guns for that.

Throwing a constant stream of criticism at those in power keeps the system healthy. There is no reason to let them rule over us and heap them with praise.
Rob Walling has written about this a bit.

"The 5 Minute Guide To Cheap Startup Advertising"

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/43774/The-5-Minute-Guid...

3 part series on startup marketing, although this is more about retention than advertising:

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/12/15/startup-marketing-mi...

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/12/09/why-focusing-on-traf...

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/01/12/startup-marketing-mi...
Micromanagement Destroys Employee Motivation
I ordered Learn Python The Hard Way but received this instead
Oh, so the HN hivemind decided it's shit all over Gmail day in this thread because a guy with pictures barely indistinguishable from child porn had his Google account temporarily banned? Good to know.
This makes no sense. All of Fox's shows are available DRM-free over the air, broadcast directly into your skull via the power of radio. And, they're usually uploaded to The Usual File Sharing Places Whose Names I Will Not Mention within hours of being broadcast.

So once again, they are trying to push people to piracy so they can blame the dirty old pirates when nobody buys their shitty pay-extra-money-to-watch-ad-encumbered-shows-on-our-website service. Then there will be another round of laws mandating that we implant anti-priacy chips into all of our children to protect them from pedophiles. The G.O.D.I.S.G.R.E.A.T. Act they'll call it.

Every time I read an article about Big Content I fantasize about being killed by an errant meteor. Why can't I pay $1 to download a DRM-and-ad-free episode of The Simpsons?
Well, yes - I'm just talking about the cost of a wrong hire. Sure, if you have a bad apple, get rid of it. But it's better to ignore a few good apples if that means you reduce the likelihood you get a bad one.
This doesn't change how I currently do things but the move disappoint me. I want to watch things when they air and conveniently. It is inconvenient to pay $50 a month for cable + $10 for an HD box + $10 to watch it when I want to. It is convenient to pay $4 a month for a Usenet account and DL the latest episode in under 5 minutes and either stream it to my TV or play it off a USB or even just on my laptop.

I use my parent's HBO Go subscription which lets me stream their entire catalogue including new releases after it airs. HBO gets $15 a month from my parents for their subscription and I would gladly pay $15 a month for HBO-only On-Demand streaming.

If other companies followed suit, I would subscribe. I will pay $5 a month to subscribe to a show or $10 a month to subscribe to a channel. Yes, it can add up to be the same price as cable, but at least it's convenient and at least I'll have a choice of content.

Am I alone here?
Why not remove/disable the offending material? From what I've read he didn't have any calendar appointments like "Friday 12:30pm Take windowless van to the candy store". Why kill access to completely unrelated services because an automated (possibly error-prone) process flagged a picture?
"I hate being pedantic[1] but I keep seeing people make this mistake: JSTOR is not just public domain works, and there is no indication that the downloading was limited to public domain works."

I'd like to tweak the presentation here. Many of the comments I keep seeing (including here on HN) seem to go with the take that

1. That it positively did include works that weren't in the public domain. There doesn't seem to be any indication that this is the case.
2. That Swartz intended to distribute content downloaded from JSTOR not in the public domain. Given the credentials and history of the person in question, it just doesn't seem to be a rational conclusion that Swartz's visions of the future included consciously distributing infringing material (nor the consequences that would go along with it).
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There's no need to close off an old account when you move to a new service, so you can leave your gmail as an archive - that makes for an easy spring clean too.
My guess is that as cloud platforms evolve though, more and more will offer ways out - since people/companies will begin demand it before signing up as competition mounts. Those "ways out" will initially be bulk downloads (like Facebook's "download your info" feature), but over time will become more useful, offering filters on what's downloaded, pagination on downloading data, and migration APIs such that new services can pull data from the old ones without you needing to middle man the data. This isn't of benefit to providers though, which is why it relies on competition / user adoption based on ways out, and also why it will take time to become the norm.
In a certain fashion, it reminds me of the usual comments regarding kernel developers (and other hackers) and their love for truth and accuracy, disregarding feelings.

I think there's something to the idea of emotion minimization when making decisions. Certainly standard stock market advice is "don't make rash decisions".
Thank you! I was approached by a head hunter a couple of weeks ago about working at bridgewater and decided to pass on it, even though the money was incredible. Ultimately, the culture sounded too extreme and really a bit creepy. So it sounds like I made the right decision.
Actually, I've used AirBNB multiple times -- hosts CAN talk to the guests... but it's done through the AirBNB messaging system which actively removes real identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers.
East Side of lake Washington... ie. not Seattle. (ducks)
Don't such policies exist, though? Homeowners insurance and renters insurance typically have options to cover burglary. I would argue that the risk here is not people gaming things on the market side, but likely the traditional route of filing a false police report and making a fraudulent claim. Ideally there could be an extension on existing policies for people who are going to be offering their homes on services like airbnb.

Edit: I should have scanned the thread
Scribblemaps.com: Draw on maps
First time I've heard of Radical Transparency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_transparency) seems freakin' awesome.
Yep, its great you guys could separate it from internal dependencies! Congrats.
In fact, more and more I want to encourage my friends to stay away from gmail. Hell even I'm in the process of moving away from using Google accounts.

I can understand that Google is trying to collect as much user data in as accurate way as possible, but recently it's been increasingly annoying how they are trying to fix what's not broken.

I have multiple google accounts for different purposes, and recently Google started disallowing multi-user access to their sites. This is extremely inconvenient and annoying for me that I'm even thinking about switching to another email provider. In fact I have already started using ymail for certain purposes.

I might be a minority for now, but I see this annoyance will only accelerate in the future for even ordinary people as Google tries to fight against Facebook with identity.

What do you all think?
well, not that i support these taxes, yet just for illustration, SF hotel tax is also a source for grants to arts and culture programs which supposedly make the City more appealing (again i have no informed idea about the effectiveness and alternatives to such a tax program)
33 Curious Uses of Periodic Tables
One of the first contacts we all have with a data visualization, in the early stages of our academic life, is the Periodic Table of Elements. I know, we do graphs and charts way before that, but, really, is there a more universal, and recognizable, visualization in the world?
The cryonics question (specifically, cryopreserved brain tissue -- the rest is more or less irrelevant) should be answered within a few centuries.