skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on, that's the first time that they take on a technically competent group that is being helped by an even larger group. In many ways that's the SCO trial revisited, I wonder how that would have turned out if groklaw had not existed.
An offsite status site would certainly not guarantee that it won't go down at the same time, however it would dramatically improve the chances that one is always up
Suddenly, blackmail is a legitimate business strategy.
I use GDB to read code.
Yahoo announces Yahoo Mobile
Still, the article should have been more careful about terminology, especially in the title. Color is a description of human visual perception, of how a set of light amplitudes and frequencies is perceived. A photograph displayed on your computer monitor has different frequencies from light given off by the photograph's subject, but it has the same colors.

Magenta is definitely a color. What the author meant to say is that magenta can't be a single frequency -- but that title wouldn't have gotten as many clicks.
Usability is inversely proportional to number of mouse-clicks.
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
This is great news for people who live in places w/ bad signals and great wifi. I've been waiting a while for someone to do this. Hopefully they'll force apple / at&t to follow suit.
May I remind that we are talking about ordinary people here (and their ordinary data).

For example, I don't care how copyright law applies to this comment, but I don't want it to be deleted for no reason otherwise why I'm writing it.
> I think we all know who to thank for this development... Thank you Mr Jobs!

Maybe, but I've been using Skype on my Windows Mobile phone for longer than the iPhone has existed. I guess we can thank Mr Ballmer instead. (Eww, gross.)
I agree with many of the approaches here and just have some personal experience to add.

I would start with writing down descriptive works and just keep playing with them, creating different combinations, looking them up in the thesaurus, etc. I haven't had any luck with latin, greek, etc names, the approach always sounds good, but I find the results unrelatable (if that's a word). You want something people easily understand, starting with foreign languages is starting from the complete opposite side.

Also, don't expect to pick it in 20 minutes. Give yourself a week or more where you toss all kinds of ideas around in your head, let different variations sink in, bounce ideas back and forth between friends, etc. Keep coming back to it over and over, even if it's just for 5 minutes.
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I'm getting sick of the "vote this up if you want ___" mentality. If you want to change the world, start by understanding it well enough to know that you need to convince people outside new media.
This is an excellent Idea for companies on the east coast.
I really want Google and Android to succeed, esp. against the iPhone, but I'm just not seeing it in these devices - the scrolling isn't instantaneously responsive as it is on the iPhone, the keyboard and drop down styling is a cheap ripoff of the iPhone... this just isn't going to cut it. And a proprietary headset? Really?
That was suggested. The problem is: we don't know how to easily make custom shirts like that. We didn't expect this to blossom at all: this was just a quick test site we made before we started work on our big project. So this has taken us completely by surprise. We didn't expect 5,000 users in under 2 days: it would have been silly to.
I'm not at odds with what you or unalone have said. I understand the need for TOS agreements, good or bad as they may be (even though not tested in a court), and the difficulty interfacing with bazillions of users.

My specific point was to say that it would be extremely _easy_ for Facebook to have notified it's users of a change. My credit card, mobile phone and utility providers can all seem to do it via snail mail whenever there is a change. Whether they choose to do it for whatever reason is another discussion.
Finance (funding IS finance, right?) in itself is rather uninventive. Would you prefer to learn different rules each time you get new CC?
For those wondering:

dot - makes ``hierarchical'' or layered drawings of directed graphs. The layout algorithm aims edges in the same direction (top to bottom, or left to right) and then attempts to avoid edge crossings and reduce edge length.

neato and fdp - make ``spring model'' layouts. neato uses the Kamada-Kawai algorithm, which is equivalent to statistical multi-dimensional scaling. fdp implements the Fruchterman-Reingold heuristic including a multigrid solver that handles larger graphs and clustered undirected graphs.

source: http://www.graphviz.org/
Not the way the NY Times reports it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/technology/companies/17sil...
Petition:'Pols, Invest In Next-Gen Banks'. Via biz plan praised by MSFTies, AMZNers, etc.
JQuery Case Study: How WordPress uses jQuery & jQuery UI
> If you're expecting a different language, framework, and platform to behave like a ruby, I would argue no amount of eschewing documentation and getting down to coding will help you.

I actually learned this lesson the hard way in the past week and basically consult the iPhone SDK and Objective-C documentation constantly. Thanks.

For example, looking at NSViewController's documentation for loadView, pointed out the fact that you should override this method if you want to do any intialization (like initialize instances of custom classes you need to handle
controller interaction).

And yes - I did spend some time looking without results at NSString object dumps before stumbling on the NSMutableString tip via google (and it would have been much faster to have read the NSString documentation)
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If someone is searching for porn or xxx or whatever is flagged, then they certainly can get it elsewhere on the internet. Justin.tv is not directing them to it, they would have already found out how to find it.
No: topic is actually about demands of writing message objects: http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2009/02/09/cos...
Will Google phones catch up with iPhones in popularity?
Practically none of the grid systems accommodates the most common ad widths (120, 160, 180, 300)px well (https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/AdFormats.html). I use malo (http://code.google.com/p/malo/), incidentally by the same author as this post's framework.

It's simple enough to grasp in a few seconds and it allows me to use a grid that fits well enough around most ads. It's also so small that cross-browser breakage is easy to detect.
AT&T plans 20-megabit 3G by 2009 [movement toward 4G]
That's a good idea but it could have the consequences that a poor person would have to front money to go to trial, just in case he or she lost.

I think getting rid of the large settlements (replaced with criminal charges) is the way other countries have it. Again, I'd be interested to see if work can be done towards this.
For the Arora project when I do a commit it doesn't run all of the autotests, but it does detect that I am changing files X, Y, Z and lookup the matching autotests and run them. This results in very quick testing. I found having local hooks very powerful and you can do many things that you could never do on the server.

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/10/git-hooks.html
"profoundly not safe for anything" sounds like you're saying it exposes liars (i.e. is not safe for them) but is itself not always trustworthy (i.e. not safe to believe 100%), especially within the context of your earlier comments about untruth.

That you were trying to warn that it's NSFW was not at all clear.
One thing regardless of your apps utility. The logo on the top has color profile information in it and thus does not display correctly on mac computers with safari meaning it does not match the background.

I see a lot of startups make this mistake. Here's a quick post i wrote about it back in March with screens explaining what i mean: http://danielrhammond.com/post/29596079/dont-embed-color-pro...
Evil Genius: How to Get People to Tweet for You Without Them Knowing
I strongly disagree. That's like saying we should keep shovelling by hand and not waste time to invent the backhoe. Programming exists to automate tasks and thus lends itself to automation quite nicely. If you put together 10000 code snippets like the one in the article you'll get a completely unmaintainable piece of software. The cleverness the author shuns helps make very large projects possible, among other things.
Nothing matters less to me than mee-too-ness about startup programs. I'm desperate for 100 absolutely same programs to be available to me in absolutely same time in absolutely same places.

Be serious man, copying a application form cann't be seen as a brutal act of uncreative vandalism.
In the para 'Using twitter and @dmpp: (new, intelligent way!)' the @dmpp links lead to a 404 not found.
I would also mention Switzerland. I met plenty of people in Google's Zurich office who didn't get an American visa or were waiting for an American visa. For an engineer who has a job offer, getting a work permit in Switzerland is a few days process. I don't even remember the names of forms and visas involved, unlike "H-1B" or "L-1B" or "Adjustment Of Status" and the rest of the crap half of the engineers on the planet are still having nightmares about. And, at the risk of stating the obvious, Switzerland doesn't look exactly like a third world country. Way less so then, say, East Palo Alto (just a random example.)
41% of museums don't know how dogs actually walk
I don't think this is a parody site. The same author created the Hartija print css framework and a few other css frameworks. There is also good documentation and demo code available for the Golden CSS framework. It looks very interesting.
Unless you're a bank or something similar, you should never have to send people a confirmation code via text. And what if the person doesn't have a cell phone?
Report on Silicon Valley's economy offers hope, but warns of problems
Fair enough. Context fail on my part, the phrase "not safe for $foo" is given to include NSFW regardless of the value of $foo elsewhere it's hardly a guaranteed assumption.

If pg or someone wants to include an explicit NSFW in that comment I'd be much obliged.
T-Shirt Hell not really shutting down
We aren't unique by far but to say that you can easily make photography or music a career is a stretch. Not everyone with a camera and a passion can make a living taking pictures. It seems far more common that those who love to code can get full time employment doing just that. You can also say that photography and cooking are unique in the same way as programming in that it is possible to use your skills on the job and in your hobby. There is no absolute truth in opinion pieces like this but don't discount the whole story on this one line.
For me (newbie to jQuery), the number of possible plug-ins & the decisions to be made about which jQuery UI features are worth tapping... is rather mind-numbing.

It's helpful to get an introduction to how folks as well-established as WP are attacking it.
It's ironic that the MPAA and RIAA's lawyer lackeys thought they could argue convincingly on technology against a group that's been doing this longer than they've likely used a computer.

It's the whole DRM vs crackers in games. All the scene members have been cracking DRM since it came out, all the people making the DRM have been doing it anywhere between 0 and 2 years. It's an unfair battle and companies don't get that they've already lost. The only reason why Apple succeeded so well with its DRM is that no one was used to the technology, Apple came out with a competent DRM to begin with so the crackers didn't get step by step challenges.
> ... a dog ... step with their left hind leg, followed by their left foreleg, then the right hind leg and the right foreleg.

So let's see, that means it goes: left-rear, left-front, right-rear, right-front, left-rear, left-front, right-rear, right-front, ...

> that dog in the Finland museum is shoving its right front paw forward, followed by its back left paw.

Yes - according to the sequence he just listed, this is correct, it's just at a different part of the cycle.

The blogger appears not to know how to check his facts.
Mobile phones were a solved problem. You can buy a almost indestructible low-end Nokia or SonyErricson that's small, will make clear phone calls, pair with a bluetooth headset, has a keypad sufficiently good for sms, and a battery that lasts the better part of a week - all for less that $100. Remember when phones used to be big, fragile... we waited so long for them to get better! And the did, eventually, then it was hard to imagine what more we'd want in a phone. We had it all!

It seems to me that the revolution of the iphone and it's ilk, is that it has inspired the manufacturers and users to see the promise of the next generation of devices.

Unfortunately even the best of existing technology isn't able to deliver on that promise - mobile internet speeds aren't as fast as we'd like them to be (Apple had to speed it up in the adverts), the keyboards range from passable to intolerable, and the battery life - well, the best way to make any of this generation of devices last all day, is to not use them as much as you'd like.

How long does HN think it'll take until this generation of devices is mature again? How long before we don't have to make a tradeoff to get everything? 1 year? 5 years? More? GSM mobile phones have been around for 15 years now.

And yes, I know there's the next next big thing waiting around the corner, once smart phones and mobile internet devices are a solved problem.

But if I wasn't excited about that, I woudn't be on HN.
Very interesting utility. It's mini-apps like these that make Unix such a powerful and flexible platform. I have to try it out on Ubuntu.
http://twitter.com/abyssknight

Might I suggest #hn for hashtag categorization?
Not really knowing knitting patterns, it took me a little while to figure out the example. Here's what I come up with through some wikipedia-ing and staring at it for awhile:

1) p = purl stitch and is represented by the horizontal line

2) k = knit stitch and is represented by the vertical line

3) the numbers are the number of stitches of that kind

4) the line start in the lower-right and work to the left and up

Anyone who knows better, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Sure, why not. Nokia sells phones, not air time.

Don't expect to see Skype on any of those subsidized phones you get for cheap from your phone carrier, though.
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Thanks for the answer.
Now I understand.

But there is still one thing bugging me ... why are the names changing ?
On the flip side, Switzerland is one of the hardest countries to earn citizenship in. 10 years continuous residency requirement!
Hm... Neat, but it looks like unencrypted mini-ssh to me, at least that's what I use to quickly send files or tunnel X between machines. What did I miss?
Bill Gates wants to help the third world with cellphone banking
Now all you need to do is compile it down to punched cards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#Importance_to_Com...
The moment of truth is a real audience
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Apple profiles customer who saved $70k by using Macs and Basecamp
I disagree as well:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/09/business-programming-sim...
> what are the typical objective elements of the business-relationship process...

This is actually turning out to be a fairly fascinating/interesting topic. Have done some preliminary Google 'research'.

Using Agents as intermediaries for business connecting:

http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas08/proceedings/pdf/i...

Abstract only but some juicy bits:

http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?refe...

"VisiVenue is an online service helping business people find, connect, and interact with one another more efficiently and effectively - using scored profile matching that gives you a "short list" automatically"
http://calendars.techvenue.com/VisiVenue/

And if you're thinking blue-sky (in terms of data access) - merge the physical tracking with online tracking (where people frequent online):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/technology/22proto.html
Sometimes though, you only need to dig a small hole and a backhoe will not only cost too much, but destroy your yard. The invention of the backhoe hasn't made shovels obsolete.
The top post (ED entry for moot) says he's made $3 million - which is probably closer to the truth IMHO. The site serves ads. I have a hard time believing he's making no money and is still doing it.
It sucks sometimes, imho. I think there's a middle ground between the situation he describes and being on the bleeding edge. Much of my work is as tedious as he describes, but I also get a certain satisfaction out of refactoring legacy code and improving it.

And on occasion -- if you stay alert -- you can find interesting & challenging small projects that improve the business or make life easier for other developers. Sometimes that might just be a shell script or something. Small victories, I suppose...
They are YC clones coming up all over here. Some of them invest, some dont. But none of them have anybody's of PG's stature behind them. So dunno whether any of them will ever succeed.

IMHO, incubators are a bit too early for the Indian ecosystem. Is very immature right now. Especially for first time entrepreneurs. Severe lack of talent and mentorship, angels are few and far between, Series A or further rounds, if you make it that far, happen at low valuations and successful exits are very rare. Add to that the very low internet penetration rate here. So focusing on the Indian market is a non starter. If you are targeting the global market, then its best to take advantage of the valley ecosystem. Eventually you'll have to have an office there if you want to succeed.
Shopping Cart Redesign Boosted Software Sales 94% in A/B Test
Thought you guys would like to hear an update. Short version: the new cart appears to be working spectacularly well. Long version: see submission link.

Original HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477233
Why is this up rated? Why not just use tables and get the job done instead of "hacking" tables in CSS sigh
It's a technicality. I did a thesis on the movie, and that's why I suppose I'm picking on a nit. Clarke wrote the novel later, but he and Kubrick wrote the screenplay together over the course of maybe three years. Clarke did always intend to novelize it, but a simultaneous release wasn't planned. (But I admit I'm totally picking nits.)
Anyone have any experience with DevHub. It sounds like it could at least be useful to testing a start-up idea to check the demand... So then the question about ease of transition to one's own hosting/development environment arises.

Anyone have cautions, etc.?
Exactly. The value of each of these programs is directly related to the guidance, advice, and networking involved. Having a good selection process is also a good validation of teams/ideas.
Hey, it's a start.
My 3gb/mo data plan is $8/mo and includes unlimited access to Starbucks WiFi. No voice component required.

No handset included, but no minimum subscription period either. $300 for a unlocked Nokia E71 from eBay still leaves you $1188 up on a 24 month $70 contract.

That's 1650 minutes a month on VOIP over WiFi or 3G, or 198 minutes a month even at out of bundle carrier rates if your VOIP service breaks, with the bonus that calls you don't make you don't pay for.
I don't think this is a matter of numbers, but about what America would like for its future.
A trip to Ellis Island may help remind the bases of a nation built upon immigration.
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Wonder if the client is still P2P. If your phone becomes a supernode, imagine what's going to happen to the battery!

On the flip side this opens up a market for traffic shapers in the 3G world. DPI would be the only way you can block P2P VoIP. I forsee good times for DPI companies. :)
Speaking of the logo, that little bird looks a lot like the [Twitterrific icon][1]. Especially in [sm12.jpg][2]. Do you have permission to use that icon?

[1]: http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/
[2]: http://dmplusplus.com/images/sm12.jpg
Most of the things one wants or needs to do on the net are most easily accomplished with dedicated tools, so places where only netcat will serve are rare. It comes in handy for odd corner cases, or in restricted environments where dedicated tools might not be present (it was invaluable when I was a consultant).
OK, I wanted to make sure that you were indeed asking for that. While you are correct that "gateway" is well-defined, most of the time I see it, it is misused or used vaguely.

So, I can help you out. The only library that I know of that is designed specifically for the purpose of implementing gateways is Thrasher Bird: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/thrasher/ (git at http://repo.or.cz/w/thrasher.git ). I am the lead developer of that library. While the "sales pitch" is that it wraps libpurple, it is actually designed so that the "gateway" part of the library is separate from the "protocol" part of the library, unlike every other gateway I've seen.

It's in Perl, and it's still a bit alpha-ish, but it is also exactly what you are looking for and in active development, so you'll have to decide whether that meets your needs.

If you're interested in more information or need help, contact me at jbowers@barracuda.com . Compiling may be a bit of a chore, but I've managed it on a couple of different Linux systems now.
I was wondering what the arrows actually mean. Turns out A->B means that A can be reduced to B (using a "polynomial-time many-one reduction"). So if we assume that B is NP-complete, A is too.

So it all boils down to showing that Circuit Satisfiability is NP-complete.
I guess this graph shows the order in which the reductions were actually done for the first time.
When I was at college, we reduced everthing to 3-SAT and directly proved that 3-SAT is NP-complete, I think.
Ideas are waves and the Internet is just a medium.
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Agreed! :-)
It's tiny, you don't need keys, it can run any any port privileged or not with or without an install. It can take a port and pipe it to a shell, or a program, or the file system. I guess I didn't say anything the article didn't, I've mostly seen it as part of rootkits honestly. Good tools can be used for anything good or bad.
For some reason, I'm thinking this is one small step towards a real-life The Truman Show. Maybe, it's the birth of Truman (how it was captured for TV).
I am really interested to see where Andriod devices go in the marketplace. I really like my iPhone but would happily consider an Android phone if it offered the same level of hardware/software integration and polish of operating system I enjoy with the iPhone. I think the biggest struggle for Google may be providing that experience since they do not manufacture the hardware.
more news about this:

http://www.thelocal.se/17640/20090217/

Swedish news coverage, note the *AA spokespersons doublespeak.
"Technically, if I republish your email to me, you can sue me."

There are also long established exceptions to this. Many writers have got around this by publishing users emails in book simply by putting a clause stating something like 'by sending me an email you are agreeing that I have all legal rights to the work'. As long as you make it explicit then you can own someones email, however there's no explicit notices anywhere on FB that they have a right to any information you give.