skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an amazing feeling isn't it! I have four kids with two now in college and I have a bit of advice. Tuck the memory of how instinctually protective you're feeling away so that you remember it when they're teenagers and have managed to inspire the opposite feelings in you.
Perhaps it was something like:

1. OP finds an IP in [insert-not-so-large-irish-city-name-here].
2. OP remebers having a friend in [not-so-large-irish-city],
somehow obtains his IP (which is not a hard thing).
3. Bingo, adresses match!
4. OP is confused, but then remembers that his friend has
teenage soon, so he calls the friend to ask about the kid.

In other words, if it were some random troll, he wouldn't be able to do this.
From the article:

"Twenty-five years from now, piloting one's own vehicle will seem weirdly anachronistic and unnecessary, like riding a mule to the mall. Just say the address, say "go," sit back and get on with your hologram. What's your problem?

. . . .

". . . . For the majority of Americans, the [American Romance with the Automobile] has been repealed for some time. The automobile is an onerous, expensive obligation and necessity, and in the case of the working poor a brutal tax. Even for those who can afford them, the car/truck/minivan offers precious little succor. The average commute in the U.S. is about 50 minutes, the scene of accumulated years' worth of lost life and productivity, trapped behind the wheel."
IPhone 5 vs .50 Cal
As the creator and owner of deadmansswitch.net, I hate you :P
Collaboration happens all the time in the physical world. For many sorts of collaboration, I like it better, in that you can get much shorter feedback loops. Depends on what you're up to, though.
Yup: the assumption is that it won't even semantically parse. The only way that "correct horse battery staple" even makes sense is with an image and a story!

Much as passwords work on the lexical level, and adding random punctuation ensures it's not a dictionary word, breaking syntax and semantics is the analogue for passphrases.
Ah yes, sorry. I missed that.
Or "cry when you get caught."
Hm. I've got "It's". Will investigate.
Probably not, I am a tech aware, young adult with lots of disposable income and nowhere to spend it. I can see how they would prefer to target the teenage set. Though I guess that isn't their target either as they say "you are at your parents house", which would be sort of tautological if their target were teens. So maybe it is middle aged folks? Retirees?

Here is another possible explanation: they aren't some kind of master marketers who unfailingly target their niches and never fail in such attempts.
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I think that just reinforces his point. Making a solid database is hard work.

And making a solid, featureful, and performant database is vastly harder.
Not a million... Just 5
Thanks mate, I'll pass the praise on to the design team. I'm on the dev team here, so my involvement hasn't been as great as theirs. The response from the video seems to be pretty positive, hopefully everyone is just as impressed when the final site is ready for the public to use. I am a bit biased here because I'm proud of the work my colleagues have done, but it definitely is one of the nicest looking music products out there.

Visually I think it's rather pleasing. It's different and the horizontal scrolling might not be everyone's cup of tea, but screens seem to be getting wider so it makes sense that sites start adopting a more horizontal oriented approach to web design to accommodate larger resolution screens.

I do find it kind of ironic the design team use Mac's and people are saying that the new MySpace looks like it got inspiration from the Windows 8 Metro / People Hub, haha.
not sure how "one website" -- a relatively new website, too -- is much more stable than a full-time job. also i noticed you've got quite a few little gittip buttons on your blog.
PushState, for example, is not a bandaid

In the sense of overall web architecture, it is a bandaid. You're using an imperative language to change the state of the page, and then you're using imperative language to fake moving from one page to the next. If you want the whole things to be crawlable, you also need to have extra code that generates the new "page" as if it wasn't a result of client-side manipulations.

Did you ever ask yourself what would it take to go the opposite way and efficiently represent client-state changes by page navigation? Not that much, especially which proper technologies built into the browser.

In many cases such as WYSIWYG editors, which he mentions, Javascript is the only way

There is nothing wrong with using WYSIWYG editors written in JavaScript. However, they shouldn't interfere with standard functionality, such as spell-checking.

It wouldn't hurt if such a popular control was built into browsers either, rather then re-implemented hundreds of times.

I particularly disagree on the last two points: These days, Javascript and CSS is minified, sprites are used on basically all popular sites and content is gzipped.

That doesn't stop people from writing inefficient JS code or simply loading too much stuff. Open this with FireBug, for example: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ . That is one of the leading websites on webdesign. What is there to expect from corporate pages and various product (i.e. movie or game) websites?

Try browsing on Kindle (not Fire) to see which websites really are efficient and which ones aren't.
I don't see how 3Taps is any different a client than google is. Now, i dont know enough details, so i m not saying 3tap has a case. But, if they scrape data off craigslist, not via their api (to which they agreed to abide by terms and conditions), then they _do_ seem to have a case!
I run a shop in Los Angeles. We focus on product / UI / ux work and also do mobile and web development. Feel free to contact me if you're interested.
This might be dependent on the country in which the transaction takes place. Under some circumstances, if Bob believes that the laptop is now his, it actually is his property in some legislations.
I think their rationale is that they need to fit a lot of battery somewhere. The Model S is not just long, it's wide for a sedan. That's all about fitting the massive battery pack under the passenger compartment.
that is not "trolling", that's (pretty bad) harassment. I get the feeling this is a story written to prove a point. Nobody would refer to this as "trolling".
Man, I would have loved to have this about a year ago. Although then I would have missed out on some of the hilarious drama on the websocket mailing list (e.g. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg08668.h...)
Jobs. I sure respect the man. Uncompromising vision!
You can put all the disclaimers you want before a use and they will "venture forth into the unknown". However, they will ignore (if they even read/understood it) your warning and then bury you in support tickets, complain loudly to their friends, and leave you with a mess to deal with and no real clean/easy way out.
I am truly amazing by this post. What an incredible human being the OP is. If faced with a similar situation I'm quite certain I lack to moral fiber to conduct myself with that level of class. Odds are excellent I would have pasted that kids guts all over the street.
My own experience with their hiring process was sadly not as positive. After the initial screen (which was face-to-face with one of their engineers and which I thought went well), I got the runaround. All I really wanted to know was whether it was a "cultural fit" issue or a "skills aren't up to par" one.

Mostly I'm just disappointed because it seems like an awesome place to work.
I'm glad that we can move another one into place, but the fact that we can't do any physical work on this is an example of the opportunity cost of retiring the Shuttle.
Musicians like myspace because you can customize your homepage. And it's accepted to send invites to random people. On Facebook you don't have either of these. Also they added music friendly features such as letting users select your tune as their homepage theme song. As a musician I've found Myspace to be invaluable.

I think they face stiff competition from soundcloud. But a big problem with soundcloud is the amount of spammy bands that comment on songs and the lack of casual listeners like on myspace.
It could have been something as simple as politely asking the ISP or the police. Given some of the circumstances which transpired and how difficult it may or may not be to get the ISP to give you the street address, I wouldn't be surprised if they went, or at least tried, that route.

Keep in mind he translated three ip addresses into street addresses and two of them turned out to be public hotspots.
Ah. Sorry about the oversight. Should now work on rubygems.org
I run a business(appmonsta.com) that relies heavily on a whole bunch of various periodic processes running when they should. I'd easily pay $19 to worry less at night about whether everything ran like it should have. I'm not sure whether Dead Man's Snitch would alleviate my worry, but the pain strong enough to justify the price point for me.

What I will say is that I probably would want to be able to set up 3-5 snitches before I'd feel comfortable committing to setting a bunch more up, which incidentally, is also the point I'd be willing to start paying money.
For a 7 passenger vehicle, the Model S is tiny. I hate SUV's and my wife hates minivans, but a 7 passenger vehicle would be really quite convenient. Nobody makes 7 passenger wagons any more, so we're quite likely to end up with a Model S simply because of the form factor. Not this year, though. Our youngest daughter is still too young for the rear-facing seats on this car. Maybe next year, though.
Don't mix "development cost" with "overall support cost".

Overall support will include specific feature testing, regression testing, and user testing. Additionally, support tickets may be opened and introduce support costs in ticket management, escalation, and assessment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Legal_issues

Hard to say what will happen. They will sure as shit get sued, but what will happen is up in the air as far as I can tell. If I remember correctly, if you are somehow changing or making new content from the data, then it is protected under fair use somehow.
We have an elaborate system that someone cooked up a while ago that involves a tree of communicating Processes running on different machines that monitor our real time services. If we could consolidate our 'checker' processes into one that may be the right thing to do. Can the system be set up to use authentication to get behind firewalls or do hue things being monitored have to be accessible over the public Internet?
Were that the case, internet service in Manhattan/Chicago/LA would be cheap.

It isn't.
Instapaper adds another accessibility font
A physical activity agenda to fuel the future
One thing that this article missed out on:

Prior to 1984 Business telephone users cross subsidized Residential users, both thru higher local access rates, and higher LD rates.
I'm sure this will make tons of money and will be amazingly useful as a hip tool for those developers we all know. But honestly the rest of us build this kind of stuff into our company dashboards without thinking twice. Where it belongs, in the hands of an internal team who can share the monitoring of more than $20 worth of "snitches".
When I read that, I thought it was a reference to the movie The Game: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/
build this as a plug-in and we'll all use it.
It's disturbing how terrifying and malicious this suburban 17-year old kid could be.
If it helps, it has a restorative ending. I would recommend trying to get trough it knowing how it ends.
Many times -- they made you pretty paranoid about fraud at training with horror stories of people who got fired for letting checks get through too loosely, so I was always proactive about it.

After about four years of it, you got really good at being able to analyze every deposit in under 30 seconds or so before the customer even knew what was going on.
Kickstarter Changes: Blessing or Damnation?
I had this happen to me on Google. I opened up Google Reader, and poof, I was staring at someone else's set of feeds, but I could also navigate to gmail.com and access their email. I wasn't able to reproduce it after logging out. https://twitter.com/anantn/status/81128281197387776

The most convincing explanation I received was that it was a cookie collision. Very small chance, but still possible...
All with a thing called Round Robin Database, a database format built for temporal data and used by every graphing solution known to the IT world.
For what it's worth, if you're the target of especially terrifying harassment like this, it's important to keep two things in mind: the more targeted the harassment is, the easier it is to identify the harasser, and the more likely it is that there's some sort of personal connection.

If you're receiving stuff in the mail (like the lunchbox with ashes) or stuff literally just dropped on your doorstep (the dead flowers), it's extremely unlikely that someone on the internet you have absolutely zero connection with just randomly picked you to ruin your life that badly just for some lulz.

I'm glad the OP was able to take the steps he needed to identify his harasser, which I'm sure was a lot more empowering than living in fear and checking his door locks every night.
* I have a standard MSA that each client signs. Each project gets a separate statement of work.

* If you have subs, include provisions that your clients won't hire them behind your back. Make sure that it's clear that they own the IP once they're paid in full. Payment terms.

* I haven't had a resume in years, my sales strategy: referral or chance meeting (business mixer, etc.) -> conversation -> contract.

* Chesapeake, VA. A bedroom community with virtually no technology scene.

* I used to do work for a lot of funded startups out of SF/NY. I now only work for profitable small businesses (I need to be sure that the work I do will end up making the client more money than they spent.)

* 100% remote
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-toyota-electric...

From today: "The current capabilities of electric vehicles do not meet society's needs, whether it may be the distance the cars can run, or the costs, or how it takes a long time to charge," said, Uchiyamada, who spearheaded Toyota's development of the Prius hybrid in the 1990s.
Why not use a bloom filter?
^ yikes.
Thanks for adding a Django backend, that's pretty awesome. I'm a fan of filepicker, so of course I love to see first-class Django support. It'd be even better if you'd consider spending a bit of time adding some tests and docs. Our community places a pretty high value on tests and documentation, and so the lack of tests/docs in the Django plugin kinda means that most Django folks will probably ignore your code. That's a shame!
Rdigitalife - Social Currency [video]
I understand they're in sniper mode, and I understand why the Model S is the size it is. What I don't understand is why the Model X (http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx) is the size it is. They're going to have two seven-passenger vehicles and zero four-passenger vehicles. That doesn't seem like the right way to diversify.
Yes -- it dramatizes to the difference between "software developer" and "web developer". If you mess up a page design, airplanes don't come spiraling out of the sky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQpUgHkBcg
It's not at all like that. The interesting thing seems to be the claim that Craigslist posts lack creativity, which Amazon reviews certainly do have. 3Taps is claiming the posts can't be protected by copyright, because you can't copyright facts. I think their case has merit.
Hmm, this is similar to http://historio.us, which I built. However, this doesn't require any user interaction, which might work well.

Do you store just the URL and depend on Google returning the results? How does it work exactly?
Direct link to the counterclaim: http://3taps.com/papers/3taps-answer-counterclaim.pdf

As a developer who received a C&D from Craigslist for a pretty innocuous app (seriously, it was built in a weekend), I'm glad to see someone test Craigslist's legal position in court.

At the very least, I hope it will expose that Craigslist is not just a happy, hippy-infused neighborhood listserve like many seem to think; rather, like most other companies, it actually goes to great lengths to quash threats to its very profitable business.
> a) People go to craigslist and create content about some aspect of their lives. They, as the original authors of the content, post it to craiglist with the intention that the general public can see it.

Craigslist users only agreed to have their content displayed on the Craigslist site, not on any other random site on the Internet who wants to relist their posting without the users explicit permission.
I think the migration from Apple just hit my wife.

I've been an iPhone user since day 1, made some money on the app store, and my wife followed with the iPhone 3G, then my cast-off iPhone 4 when the 4S came out.

Now though, after I bought her a Nexus 7, she mentioned that she'd happily get an Android phone now. That's quite an indicator, and probably occurring all over the US. Google really hit it out of the park with the N7.
If someone told me to use google the way he did, yes I would tell him that in real life, except I'd say open your ears and stop being a duche. And no, the comment was not productive as it had nothing to do with my comment that he was replying to. It may have been productive as a reply to the guy who asked the question, but that wasn't me.
and mercedes
The interface is a simple HTTPS request. The authentication is done using a unique URL component. This is an example of how to use Dead Man's Snitch:

$ curl https://nosnch.in/c2354d53d2

Dead Man's Snitch does not ping your servers. It is the opposite way around. If your server stops pinging Dead Man's Snitch, you will be notified.
The irony is that if Craigslist would just take the time and effort to add a bit more functional / elegant interface, these third parties would have no reason to exist, and all the legal matters would disappear

I understand that Craigslist wants to "Serve their community" and believes that changing their interface would interfere with that mission somehow (both, in terms of having to charge more in order to hire UI people, as well as engineer their Ops environment to handle additional load), but, I have to believe their is some way of simultaneously serving their community, providing a rapid response, as well as keeping their cost and overhead down while at the same time slapping a somewhat more elegant GUI and Search Interface.
> He wanted to call the authorities there and then and turn him in. But I said no.

That's an impressive show of self control, but I wonder if his next victims will have preferred that you did contact the authorities. Presumably, at age 17 this guy won't be living with his parents for much longer.
contract

"Send me your standard contract or the company I consult through has an MSA and we'll attach my mini-proposal as a SOW."

sample contract

Varies widely based on your locality. In Japan it's literally shorter than this post is. In the US most of the ones I've seen are 2~3 pages long and most explicit about IP assignment, for the obvious reason.

resume

I'm sufficiently well-known to decisionmakers at my clients that the conversation is generally more about what I can do for them than where I went to school or what the exact name of my previous employers were.

city

I live in Ogaki but work across Japan, the US, and (very occasionally) Europe.

big biz vs. startups

Software companies with $10 to $50 million in revenue is sort of the sweet spot for me: ability to pay like megacorps, agility/relative-lack-of-process-BS akin to startups.

on-site or remote

First engagements are probably 90% on-site, existing relationships closer to 50/50.
If I charged my clients $19.99 a month for something like this they'd laugh at me and hire someone else.
No I'm not rationalizing, I'm stating my opinion about the morality of the issue. And you're making yet another irrelevant and bad comparison, property taxes are generally rolled into a mortgage and you are given a bill for the taxes due. You're grasping at straws.
Yes, but it's definitely true that they understand that to mean public, and it's almost certainly true that they would rather have more eyes than fewer. It sucks that that isn't a legally compelling argument and this guy will wind up being shut down though.
Small and Fast
But founders would never know when the startup will be bought, right? Probably it is better to hack ways out of the jungle and prepare to die in the way.

To be bought also requires luck and timing.
It's an active cable, like Thunderbolt. Nothing especially nefarious right?
I'm not sure I understand, however, it works by your process reaching out to US to check in. I'd suppose you would maybe have to open up outbound traffic to our domain? I'd love to hear more. Feel free to email hi@deadmanssnitch.com.
That's what I thought when I read the title.
Passbook’s Best Is (Probably) Yet to Come
I see what you're saying and that may technically be true.

I'm not really arguing the legality of the issue though. I'm just talking about the spirit of what the content authors were trying to accomplish which I believe is: have some random person on the internet see their post and, subsequently, arrive at some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement with that person.
Woz doesnt expect it to change in the US either. He is applying for Australian citizenship to get better broadband.

http://afr.com/p/technology/wozniak_likes_nbn_so_much_he_app...
What I'm saying is, in the rare chance we are down and your service can't check in, that one time we would send a false positive. We wouldn't be flapping between off and on sending you a lot of false positives. The resolution on our checks is so large (the smallest is an hour) that we won't be flooding you with emails in any case.

We don't replace something like monit to make sure your process continues to run, we are validation that one-off periodic things run... things that are easy to forget about but are important.
I don't know of any precedent that gives sites that accept user-generated content grounds to sue when their users' copyrights are violated. I would like to hear of one.
Can you add a "cancel" button next to the "reply" button to close the box? If I decide not to comment the box just stays there and is annoying.
Don't Chrome plugins work with Opera with minimal modifications? I was under the impression that the APIs were standardized or largely compatible.
How would you define trolling and a troll? I'm sincerely asking since it is my understanding that these days harassment over the internet is often cited as trolling, as in for example "We trolled Jane by spamming her inbox full of animal abuse and violence lol".

I work part-time at a school with kids ranging from 7 to 16, and of what I've tried to inquire them about the subject(I'm 22 myself, so it's quite easy to go into the subject by mentioning some local websites and memes, kids open up voluntarily very well), it's exactly the online harassing and bullying which is considered(perhaps a form of) trolling. These are exactly the imageboard kids who find it cool to "piss people off". Why? "I dont know. For the lulz". It's like a hobby for some.

I personally find this stuff disgusting and directly relate it to bullying in school. Just because it happens online is not any more tolerable. Turns out many people disagree.
You fail to take into account the small team, whose only objective - or at least that which consumes 99.9% of the brain share - is getting a product out the door and keeping the user-facing part of it running.
Ask PG: Syntax highlighting on HN
Title is self explanatory.. but a simple syntax highlighting format in comments would make code discussion so much better.
Criticized for overpriced parts, company gives away 3d schematics instead