skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations to Nicholas Okorie for being the first scammer on the planet to be suckered into having a tattoo!

I have a few more scammers going through the same process, and they are showing a little more resistance than Okorie. Just shows what sheer greed can do to you I suppose.

Okorie may or may not be greedy, but I would say he is desperate. He scams people because there are very few opportunities to make money in Nigeria. Of course it is not right for him to scam people, but the whole situation is not much improved by fighting back. As a result, Okorie becomes even more desperate and 419eater wastes his time.

Who knows, instead of scamming Okorie might switch to the kidnapping business or something.
Anyone can log in and post a listing. Unlike how it's represented in the Techcrunch article, there really is not much protection against brokers here. Particularly as RapidRealty is one of the "management companies" listing rentals on the site. Anyone who knows the NYC rental market should be able to draw their own conclusions from the presence of Rapid Realty on this site. Disappointing - got my hopes up that this really represented a change for NYC housing.
Orson Scott Card, is that you?
Eh, maybe not now, but they were apparently picked up by YC - they probably have at least some novel ideas. I just had a look at their NY Times article, and they seem to have at least one - setting up appointments with the realtors online.

But yeah, I know the NYC housing game is pretty brutal, I've played it too, unfortunately.
Well, the guy that probably orchestrated this Wave presentation came to Google from Microsoft (where he was "General Manager of Platform Evangelism").

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/29/technology/msft_brain_drain....
apple isn't in the netbook business, so it may not be a conflict of interest
I'm sorry, but their code formatting (an equals sign and a brace each on their own line to start a function???) and choice of syntax is just atrocious. "Fi" and "esac"... are you serious? At least we don't have to type nuf to end functions and ipa to end api definitions. In VB, you type End and then what you are ending. In Ruby, you just type end. In Mythryl, who knows? Sometimes it's a backwards word, sometimes it's end, sometimes it's a brace. This is what a well-designed language looks like to them?

Furthermore, they talk about things being built in from the start, but the site says that one of the current projects is implementing object oriented programming. How in the world is that not going to be bolted on? If there's anything that you need to bake into a language (if it's going to have them) it's objects.

Finally, there is a lot of talk on that page to not have any sense of organization or "here is some cool stuff you can do now that you couldn't before."

Usually I'm excited to read about new languages. (Potion looks AWESOME.) This... was disappointing. Sure, it may perform well, but I really don't care. I'd rather ease of programming and maintenance any day. Python and Ruby for the win (at least until Potion is done).

Also, they say they're putting the "fun" in "hacking", but as mentioned before, the page looks like it was written for managers and certainly not for hackers.
419ers generally justify what they are doing by claiming Americans are evil and deserve to be scammed. An interesting parallel here.
I looked at the image:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1098453615_f41fb895bd.jp...

and I still have no clue what are the 4 commands...
This whiteboard product from Rustoleum looks very similar http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=128
Note related the blackboard and magnetic paints.

In NZ there is an alternative paint solution, Resene Aquapoxy in Black White, though perhaps not as neat - as it requires a solvent to clean it off. see article NB pdf http://www.resene.co.nz/homeown/habitat/pdf/paintnotpaint.pd...
Looks a bit like HousingMaps - except without all the pesky features.
For #26, just check the cookie headers...
The cat is telling you that the cookie were eaten/written...
Very easy.
RentHop advertises itself as "apartment hunting without the broker fee" but if you live in NY, you know the idea of a no-fee apartment is mostly a mirage, as it is here.
Technological:

-Compilation of "Best How-To and DIY Sites" from PC Magazine (includes Instructables, WikiHow, Expert Village, WonderHowTo, etc.) - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347650,00.asp

-DIY from Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/diy

-"Type of Skills Everyone Should Know" (originally "100 Skills Every Men Should Know") from Popular Mechanics - http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_to/4284709....

-"64 Things Every Geek Should Know" - http://laptoplogic.com/resources/64-things-every-geek-should...

Intangible/"Lifehacks":

-How to do better socially - http://www.succeedsocially.com/

-Productivity section of Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/tag/productivity/?refId=0

-Studying strategies - http://www.studygs.net/

Financial:

-Mint.com's blog - http://www.mint.com/blog/
That's interesting - the rental market here (western NY) has been the opposite, at least as of the last time I looked a few months ago.

I assume you mean high vacancy rates rather than low.
Anyone ever looked at flipping the relationship? e.g., people looking for accommodation post their budget, basic details (no name or photo, just rough indication of job status, industry, pets, etc) and then owners would try to get the best tenants from those available?
...sinusoid, which is Greek...

On a pedantic note, sinusoid is at best half Greek. -oid is Greek ("form of"), but sinus is Latin, referring to, among other things, the fold of a toga. The English word 'sine', by the way, is rooted in mistranslation from Arabic:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sine
The Education of a Game Designer
Yes, I meant historic highs. As a renter, I never thought I'd see the day. Too bad I'm locked into a lease at the moment or I'd be looking around.
Wow...first time I have seen the HN community more critical than the TC community.
heh yeah, heavily inspired. This was basically an attempt to fix the problems I had using HousingMaps. The features are there, just tucked away - click "Filter Listings" in the box on the lower left, or the blue bar on the right that says "Favorites".
I wonder why Posterous keeps spending time on little features like this instead of writing a good plugin system.
Found it myself - http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=128&sid=2411... - and it is indeed something like $20 for 50 sqft of coverage.

Also, see this thread for more info on the subject - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583521
http://www.calnewport.com/blog/

Very well written blog for "Zen" like study hacks.
I know the title says (needs work), but I just wanted to point out that having points and posted time will be really useful.
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I can't get past the initial screen. When clicking on an article I just get an extra grey bar at the top on the same screen. Tried it on a iPhone 3GS with 3.0.
Our company (http://www.clockwork.net) used ideapaint to create wall/whiteboards in our new office this spring.

Yes, there are other whiteboard paints. This stuff is different, and far superior. Dry-erase marker comes of instantly. No residue at all.

It's some kind of epoxy or similar material, with a separate catalyst which is mixed with the paint. It forms a very thick, incredibly hard surface.

Yes, the price is quite high. That sucks.

The odor also sucks. It smells like superglue for a day or so after installation. The whole building smelled bad for a few days. After a week the smell disappeared completely.

It's also very high-gloss. This was a big disappointment for one of the rooms, which has a projector aimed at the whiteboard/wall. The glare was awful.

On average though, it's a good product. It makes a fantastic whiteboard.
There is a doctrine in UK copyright law known as "sweat of the brow". I imagine this is what the NPG's lawyers are referring to when they mention "painstaking effort":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
High performance in math competitions is simply a result of a lot of training. There are only so many different kinds of problems and only so many different techniques that can be employed to solve such problems (the kind that come out in olympiads, etc). I'm not saying there's no creativity in math (absolutely, there is) but coming up with a new theorem is very different from simply knowing which theorem to apply where.

I didn't really say critical thought and creativity are the same thing but yeah, I shouldn't have lumped them together. From my experience, critical thought is much more common here than creativity but even that is not applied to anything outside quantitative subjects, such as politics or philosophy.

P.S. There are many creative, smart people here but they are creative because they are creative not because of the school system. What happens to these people later in life? Why don't they found companies? I suspect the answer here is because of the Singaporean mentality where entrepreneurship isn't valued as much as a stable job. But even more that, it's because these people are often given scholarships to study overseas. These scholarships have bonds where you have to work for the company (in most cases, the government) for 5/6 years. By the time they get out of their bond, there are already ~30 or older, have a family and can't bothered to switch/start companies.
Yes I noticed the same thing. But the title of the post says Interface and mentions needs work, so, I will give these guys a slack.
Just an update: I have fixed this and your PDFs should work with Preview now. I had accidentally commented out a fairly crucial line of code residing very close to a not so crucial line of code... ugh.

Having said that, Preview is not the best in rendering PDF forms unfortunately...
Not sure what you are basing that off of. IME, right now you can find some decent FRBOs and haggle down price. You also can probably haggle down broker fees in some situations, but it's not like there is a glut of cheap housing to be had. I guess if you are renting a 3K month 1BR in a condo conversion downtown, you might be able to pull off a free month (but you aren't getting it cheaper).

It still sucks to find a great place in NYC, it's just sucking less.
The most critical comments are coming from several accounts that were created in the last hour. I wonder if someone is gaming the thread.
I remember reading a discussion on a post that was a dupe of another that was over a year old. PG said it was cool and that a year was enough time.
Which is why I said just put it in the profile. He doesn't have to beat us over the head with his band's name, but surely there is no taboo against casually dropping it when it's the subject of the conversation.
I love it when journalists are forced to cover low level technical details in order to explain something important:

Aleynikov claims to have created a tarball - a Unix aggregate of a number of files (like a .zip file) [...]. He says he encrypted the files, then erased the encryption software, the tarball and the bash history — which is basically a back up of the Unix commands used to amalgamate and transfer the files. Goldman’s security server, however, apparently prevents or at least alerts the company to bash deletions

You can just picture the author carefully writing down someone's explanation of what the .bash_history file is, and their source's frustration with their inability to grok a totally obvious idea. "... so it's like a backup, right?". "No! Well, sorta. But that's not what it's for."

On the other hand, the monitoring for deletions of .bash_history seems like a niftily paranoid idea/. I know I'd never expect the IT department of a financial services company to have thought that far ahead, or even to know how command histories persist across shells.
Sure enough. They were all from the same ip address, and so were nearly all the upvotes on them.
Words can't begin to describe what a bad idea it is to have comments semantically significant, as http://cms.thewikies.com/pages/how.html shows they are.

See JWZ's take on such things: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html
Looks like at least some of those comments are being replaced with [Dead], I guess that means a mod agrees with you?
I think it said somewhere that a professional painter with an experience applying this specific paint type was recommended. I'm guessing the paint is simply more viscous and it needs to be applied quickly and uniformly.
French "3 strikes" law returns, now with judicial oversight
I tossed this out there the last time this came up. Good for parties:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/3221346015/
Google Chrome OS and the Third world (why it will fail)
No, it goes to prove that most people think "browser" means search engine and don't grasp the significance of the actual browser at all. Before Google, they thought Yahoo or MSN was their "browser"* . They clearly recognize that they have a choice and most of them choose Google, at least when asked by a Google employee.

* At least, that's the simplest assumption we can make, unless someone has some actual data from back then.
Bad submission title (I know it's same as the title of the page, but they're both bad). Outputting log statements is not debugging. Well, perhaps for PHP programmers it is due to the pathetic state of debuggers for PHP, but for anyone using a decent language it isn't.
Because sharing nice-looking things isn't the point of Hacker News.
Aside: I personally feel like this is awful. I'm a Linux user now, but I was a Mac OS user for a long time, and everything I loved in its design is lacking from this one.
XtreemFS can also replicate write-once files over the WAN in addition to striping. There is a screencast at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0co_-_e0Hq4
It looks like his code has no error handling of any kind and will be incredibly non-robust against any kind of malicious/invalid input.

PHP is basically fine, but it is not the language of choice when you want to get a lot done with very few lines of code.
Huh? It looks like comments are used for template processing, just like Apache SSI does. The jwz link talks about a completely different situation.
Heh. You probably misunderstood my post. I essentially agree with you. By hysteria I meant that everyone is getting oh so excited about chrome without too much detail calling it the windows/office/full scale OS killer
Not necessarily the case.

This may be true for building console and hardcore PC games.

I've spent the past year working on a kids MMOG, which means it's browser-based. Flash/Flex front-end, Java back-end. Flash is no walk in the park, but it's more accessible than C/C++.

We're an indie shop, so we work startup hours, but not the abusive game industry crap you hear about. Pay is on par with any other startup I've seen. Crunch time happens, again, similar to any startup.

Casual and kids gaming are growing segments of the games industry, and mean you don't have to sentence yourself to a routine of 80 hour weeks, horrible pay, and fighting with low-level languages.
IANAL JALS - also may be jurisdictionally biased

There are multiple copyrights associated with most content items.
You don't get copyright based on time nor the effort involved - rather it is based on originality of the work.

So you can't claim the copyright of a play by typesetting it - but by typesetting it one can have the copyright in your original typographical arrangement of that play.

So just because the underlying work is in the public domain does not mean it safe to copy a representation of it which has been created in a way which allows the person who created the representation to claim copyright over their work.

Compare a person selling a photocopied 17th century print of a book against a person who retypes the text of that book and lays it out in an original way.

IMHO the issue here is with the policies of the publicly funded museums - there is an argument that if a public funded organisation creates a new copyright work based on public domain material then they should place that new work within the public domain or at least license it using CC.
come on don tell me what to share on hacker news! i know the rules..
The comparison with RDNY.com (a 14-year-old competitor) is fairly illuminating/discouraging, if somewhat brief. Regardless, I certainly hope these guys succeed. The more services to help New Yorkers avoid abuse from real estate brokers, the better.

The interactive free-broker-service angle that the RentHop guys are taking is perplexing to me, but I must say it helps them stand out. I hope the approach does not hinder them from scaling up to the point where they can offer a better range of listings.
<i>Ugh. The kernel includes the drivers either in the kernel image itself (hence monolithic) or (more likely these days) as modules, most of which are part of the vanilla kernel source. ANYONE who's ever compiled a kernel knows this, because it's right in the config menu — which drivers to include and which not, which should be part of the image and which should be modules</i>

Right I'll go tell NVidia/ATI to shut down their driver department and dust out my 15 year old dot-matrix printer. And please note, this is not from the perspective of the Chrome OS but from the point of kernel including all the drivers which it honestly cannot. There are a LOT of hardware devices/printers whatever. If the kernel included drivers for ALL the hardware available out there (how about the zillions of cheap chinese devices) then I think it would be bloated even more than Windows! What I do accept is that the kernel does include generic drivers for essential hardware (VGA or generic video drivers, k/b, monitor, mouse/touchpad etc)

<i>it may be possible at some point in the future to write a good image editor for the web using HTML5 canvas.</i>

Sigh.. That was just an example. There are a lot other tasks that users expect out of a even a basic system that say windows/linux netbooks CAN do that chrome (from what information is available) will not be able to.

<i>They said the Linux kernel (which apparently includes more than you thought it does). They didn't say only the linux kernel. I imagine glibc (or eglibc) stays. In fact, I suspect most of the GNU devland libraries will be present, if to be used only by OS developers and not by app developers.</i>

From the official announcement:
<quote>The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform.</quote>

The announcement clearly states: The basis is clearly the kernel. Assuming it as targeted at consumers, I doubt glibc or the various compilers or development libraries never to be used by the consumers will be included.
And the last sentence, The platform for app developers is the web. It is not targeted at OS or app developers so it would not make sense to include those libraries.
It may not be against the written rules but it's certainly against the spirit of the site, which evidently you do not understand.
Hello HN, and thank you for the kind comments! I'm one of the founders of RentHop.com.

To clarify, there are many honest brokers with exclusive no-fee listings, especially in certain neighborhoods such as West Village and Midtown East. If we banned even these brokers, then we would be missing out on a legitimate subset of the available no-fee apartments.

Our current policy is that we will only accept brokers with no-fee exclusives to post on our site (as opposed to a broker with an open listing, which is easy to detect).

In short, the legal landlord gave that broker the exclusive right to be the rental agent and-or property manager. Think of them as mom & pop versions of the big corporate leasing offices; the real landlord specifically does not want to be involved in the leasing process and paid to outsource it.
While I'm somewhat sympathetic to this, the line "When you're poor you wait" (the very last line of the article) is bogus. Sorry, but lineups are a part of just about every class's life.
Amateur spammers are behind it.

Edit: Wow and the comments keep appearing. The Rent Hop guys must be doing something right.
How the hell would you know Okorie's motives?
With the amount of money at stake here, I'd almost expect a CCTV camera pointed at every computer screen in the building!
You're doing a great service. Even Craigslist NYC is a nightmare with all the bait and switch tactics.
see also: http://reason.com/news/show/134723.html
Fun with a webcam
This article is nonsense.

You [a typical poor person] don't have a car to get to a supermarket...You don't have three hours to take the bus.

80% of the poor work less than half time (20 hours/week), and therefore do have 3 hours to take the bus. Also, 3/4 of the poor do have a car. The article even describes a poor person driving her car to a big box store, something it claims the poor can't do.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2005.pdf

http://www.heritage.org/research/welfare/bg1713.cfm

When you are poor, you don't have the luxury of throwing a load into the washing machine and then taking your morning jog while it cycles.

Actually, 65% of the poor do have that luxury.

The poor pay for caller identification because it gives them peace of mind to weed out calls from bill collectors.

The poor pay more money to avoid hearing people informing them of their overdue bills?

...Harrison Blakeney, 67, ... uses the check-cashing store to pay his telephone bill. The store charges 10 percent to take Blakeney's money and send the payment to the phone company...Blakeney says: "I don't have time to mail it..."

What's his occupation? Blakeney [is a] a retired auto mechanic... You know those retirees, working their 80 hour weeks, don't have time to mail a letter.

"You pay rent that might be more than a mortgage," Reed says. "But you don't have the credit or the down payment to buy a house...

Yet somehow, 45% of poor households do manage to own their own home.
I stopped reading once they cropped the image and started manually getting rid of the shadows on the side of the header. This is a horribly inefficient way to create a website. I think this guy is gonna learn more from the responses to his article, then the readers are going to learn from him.
Slightly less innovative: use glass (windows, doors, or just put glass panes on the wall). Works better than any whiteboard I've seen, we've had one in our house for 10 years and it erases completely no matter how long stuff has been on it.
would love to see pictures.
Good start! Reminds me of iUi

There's also the mobile view we did a while back at http://yc.mobify.me/ - back then pg said that the HN mobile strategy is in the works, so maybe we'll see something soon
Did you try just straight glass?
"Why restrict yourself to a few bumper stickers...now your wife can write the grocery list on your car door!"

I'm not sure if this would be cool. If you imagine some of the potential shopping lists, I wouldn't want to be the guy advertising his sundries to everyone he drives past.

eg

* Tampons
* Hemorrhoid Cream
* Milk

Ouch! Just use RTM instead :)
It doesn't seem to work right now but is it going to be anything more than http://www.icombinator.net/ ?
Looks very slick. I wonder if they are allowed crawling other sites like craigslist to add content to theirs. I realize most craigslist ad's for NY dont list addresses but some must.
this is what I was asking. It looks perfect. Thanks nirmal