skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can almost always talk to lawyers for free, on an initial consultation. They're happy to talk to you in exchange for the opportunity to get your business. That will yield enough information to figure out whether it's worth proceeding. They should be able to tell you things like how much it will cost, and what the likely outcome is.
If you're using a private, invitation-only Google Group you could probably replace it with a Tgethr group.

Hopefully we've made it a ton simpler and more secure.

Some examples about security:

I don't believe if I setup a private Google Group with my coworkers about a password or
upload a sensitive file, that any of that would be encrypted with SSL.

Also with an email certificate and a little setup, I can easily send and receive encrypted emails with my group. If I want to send that password or document to my group, I don't have to worry about the email being sent in the clear to this 3rd party application. I also don't have to worry about the emails that the 3rd party app sends out. If the group is setup as "secure", tgethr is only going to send out encrypted emails if we have people's public emal certificates. If we don't, they'll get links back to the app where they can login and view the conversation under SSL, until they send us their cert.

This feature is definitely inspired by the constant worry we'd have about what we can and can't put into a message on other SaaS collaboration tools we've used, because of the emails that it sends out. "Better not share the username/password in XYZ trouble ticket, because it's just going to send it out in the clear to everyone else."

It's also inspired by Rackspace. We love using Rackspace. Those guys kick ass. But their support system just sends me emails with links in them to login and view the discussion online over SSL. I like using email, and this email is full of text, but none of it is actually about the ticket. Because rightfully they know they shouldn't be sending these sensitive emails about our hosting over unencrypted emails.

So we put something tgethr to take some of the worry away about these types of issues.
I think you have to look at his audience before you judge what he's saying. If you're a major company the Apple app store is a really bad play right now...if you're nimble startup then what he's saying is crap. Your overhead is much lower so gambling 70k worth of your own development is different than the half million it costs to make a major mobile app.
Beautiful, I think you've just made my life a whole lot easier. I've been building a Ruby->Python compiler, Prooby ( http://github.com/daeken/Prooby/tree/master ), and that should make a lot of my code simpler.
Would you steal a purse?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXavXZwRcg ;-)

(this judgment is a bloody disgrace btw).
Also in my experience, kids are less interested in computers than we were precisely because they are so ubiquitous.

Back to the original artice: We ruined my 2 year old by letting her play with an iPhone (which she can handle perfectly well - find videos, look at photos as she pleases). Now she expects every screen to be multi-touch. I haven't tried her on the mouse - I figure technology will soon catch up with her expectations :-)
Looking into it. It's back up now, but if it goes back down here's the google cache:
http://74.125.47.132/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2...
All In the Family: Sergey Brin Loans 23andme $10mm And Google Ponies Up $2.6mm
send them a cease and desist letter, a lot of people will roll over right away
If the comments on the linked page are to be believed, it's worse than your assumption: Apparently Kauffman only selected "small businesses" with at least $1MM annual sales and 50 employees.

That excludes an awful lot of landscaping companies AND legitimate startups.

My gut also says it skews a little towards older entrepreuners. Because it takes time grow to $1MM in sales, and I'd imagine that more young people found startups that fail than do 40 and 50 year olds.
There's also acts_as_enterprisey, which has been around for a while now http://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey/tree/master

From the site:

Rails make life easy for us but -- and it's a big but -- we don't want it to look easy. acts_as_enterprisey is your friend.

How does acts_as_enterprisey make webapp development look hard? Well, the only way your client can judge your app is by playing around with it. What better gives the feeling of heavy weights being lifted behind the scenes than slow response times? Exactly. That's what acts_as_enterprisey does.

So while your client clicks, ...waits..., and then gets the page, you can blather on heroically about wrestling with clustered indexes, cache expiration strategies, n log n seek times, etc ad nauseam.
This was posted 18 months ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92007 ). No problem with a repost - this is an absolutely wonderful list of books - just mentioning it because there are a couple of interesting comments on the earlier posting.
can I ask you if you had trademarked your name? I was recently asked a similar question by someone else. He had registered a domain through gandi and a minute later as he went to register the plural, he discovered it was taken in that instant. I imagined that there was little he could do legally if he had not trademarked the term prior. Neither of us know how someone knew to register the plural or whether it had anything to do with gandi. It was registered anonymously through iregistry.
Call up any lawyer in your area charging less than $200/hour, explain your situation in less than 15 minutes, say that you are willing to pay him/her $100 just to send that competitor a formal letter demanding them to stop the redirection or threaten further legal action.

This sometimes works, i.e., assuming your competitor is not well funded enough to afford a lawyer either. Otherwise? I don't know, do something similar to your competitor?
To address one of your sub-questions: you can generally find a lawyer in any field who will work 'on contingency' (meaning they get paid a percentage of damages awarded), but they'll only take your case if there's a possibility of a substantial award, which seems unlikely in your case.
agreed. ever since i started playing around with GAE, i keep getting disappointed at the fine print of its limitations. its almost useless to do any kind of meaningful reporting from the datastore and i'm sure even this task api as you mentioned will keep hammering away at my sanity.

but with that said, i still play with it since i have faith it'll mature into a full platform. and if nothing else, it's a free hosting service for experimental websites, bringing down the barrier to entry officially to zero.
Microsoft IE8 Comparison Chart - “Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one”
Yes, and it pains me to see you guys making the same mistakes. (Though, you have done some things really right!)
It's striking how broadly engaged Kay is with the world. He finds ideas, problems and inspiration everywhere. To know how to write a program, all you need to know is APIs, algorithms, and tools. But to design breakthrough software - to know what program to write - it obviously helps to also be broadly engaged with the world.
Color me purple! Now I can finally do away with NAT!
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It is trademarked, which also complicates the issue as we're obligated to defend our marks.
Somebody did this to me, too. I've never bothered to take action about it. Realistically, what harm is this doing your business? Customers who weren't getting to your website anyway aren't getting to your website. A microscopic number of customers, actually, since direct navigation is all but dead these days -- thanks, Google. If you doubt me, pick another off-by-one domain name and typosquat yourself, then read your HTTP logs.

Some people on the Internet are jerks. Oh well, you've got more profitable uses of your time than to worry about them.
How do you think it stacks uo to what happened back in 2002 :

Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers announced today that five of the largest U.S. distributors of pre-recorded music CDs and three large retailers agreed to pay millions of dollars in cash and free CDs as part of an agreement on price-fixing allegations. The companies will pay $67,375,000 in cash, provide $75,500,000 worth of music CDs, and not engage in sales practices that allegedly led to artificially high retail prices for music CDs and reduced retail competition as part of the agreement. Tennessee's share is an estimated $993,948 in cash and $1,507,852 in CDs.

http://www.attorneygeneral.state.tn.us/press/2002/story/PR13...
One thing I've been pondering lately, is the more general purpose of reading books.

I used to read quite a lot of books, library books and personal books. Mostly fiction and popular science, I hesitate to admit (not hesitate to read them, just hesitate to admit because they are 'lesser' books). There are a lot of things that I couldn't tell you whether I have read or not, let alone what the main points were. Now I mostly read online and read pages every day that are forgotten within hours.

Every day or two I find somethings really interesting and hold onto those ideas for a while, but they fade. How many great ideas did I read from Kathy Sierra? Lots... I think. As long as you don't ask what they were.

Am I really doing this just to feel good about saying "I've read that!"? Am I reading for the occasional "ooh, I read something interesting about that once... where was it?" feeling of contribution?

Am I missing something fundamental about reading and remembering that other people get - ought I to be studying books instead of skimming them? Ought I to remember more of the content?

Am I really a better person for having read more books? For having been exposed to certain ideas?
Some part of this is that Kay is more concerned with cognition and learning, and especially in children, than he is with computer programming as such. Programming happens to be a uniquely exciting way to engage with mathematics, and computers happen to be wonderful tools in many types of learning, so he has devoted of his career to inventing programming environments and interfaces for kids.

Because all programming – even to some extent pure numerical algorithm design/optimization – is an exercise in communication and human-usable abstraction, most programmers should probably spend more time on developmental psychology than they do currently.
Quote: "If you’re over, say, thirtyish, you grew up in a world where a good chunk of what you read was true."

What kind of moron writes this crap?
That's interesting, because I liked a bunch on the original list but I'd probably consider most of the books you listed to be junk. To me this looks like the kind of list you'd put together if you wanted to look intelligent, but weren't actually intellectually curious. The only common thread among the books you've listed is that they're all hard to understand, but the questions most of them answer are rather banal.
Personally, I find that I remember much better with a pen in hand. If you've really engaged with a work – scribbled all over the margins, written a review, discussed it with your friends – you're much less likely to forget either its insights or your own reactions.
We actually have about 30 visitors per day coming to our site from searches on this exact misspelling (which google knows is a misspelling). Based on the number of people searching for our domain name including the .com, this translates to a few hundred missed visitors per day. I hope that people who type this into their location bar realize their error, but the site they visit is a direct competitor, so I'm sure a few visitors stick.
What an awesome article - Startup, Rapid Development, Django, Recovering from adversity (unemployment), the new Push Notification mechanism from iPhone, and a successful launch on the iPhone OS 3.0.

I wish we could flag some posts as "Featured Hacker News" article.
I wrote a little flashcard script that lets me enter and later test myself on facts. If I get the answer to a question right, the delay before a repeat of the question increases. If I get the answer wrong, the delay decreases. When I read something I want to remember, I just enter a bundle of relevant questions into the program. It's helped a lot with retaining knowledge.
Agreed, but what do we do? I've seen few reasonable copyright reform ideas, and none of them actually discussed how we can push forward to implement them. Everyone simply says that too many people with too much money want things to stay the same, but I don't buy it. This attitude bothers me most when I see it here; this site exists because we know the power of the little guys in the market, and I know there's a workable approach to the copyright issue, it just needs to be found.
yeah I can't wait
Ask HN: What's the best tutorial for iPhone development, sans Interface Builder?
I tried out Interface Builder, but I'd prefer just to write the code. I understand this is reasonable and many iPhone developers don't use IB.

Does anyone know any good tutorials/resources about this?

All I have found so far is this video: http://www.vimeo.com/3363949
The phenomenon that people tend to adapt to their material circumstances is generally referred to as "the hedonic treadmill."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
We've had a home-brewed solution for a while. PendingNotification(s) that get processed by a cron task that runs every minute. The PendingNotification has all the data the cron task needs to execute it.

Actually, for a while, GAE didn't even have cron tasks. So we were kicking off stuff using silent ajax calls from clients.
Honestly, they're probably not making any money. I'm sure they're mostly setting themselves up for holding market share in the future. But yea, it's still odd.
You want XSLT. ;-)
I agree that is a pretty silly statement, but your rebuttal doesn't add a lot.
Honestly I have a hard time taking anything this gentleman says seriously when he starts his article saying he doesn't know anyone who buys iPhone apps.

I was confused by that statement to. I personally don't know any iPhone users who haven't bought at least one app. Okay maybe some were bought with iTunes gift vouchers around Christmas, but still, the app was bought by somebody.
The genie is out of the bottle. I don't know who's paying $25.00 a game on their mobile phone -- but if they did it a year ago, they aren't going to do it now. Now that has Apple come along and changed the market, every user is going to compare the experience and price and decide that what came before was bullsh*t.
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You can potentially try something more grass roots and start blogging/twittering about it.

No idea what type of response you will get but people love rooting for the underdog.
Interactive NYC Homicide Map
I can see why this kind of article will annoy people, but I think there are some fair points. In particular, it is quite obvious to me that certain (by no means all) users are really over-immersed in social media, to the point where it is reasonable to start talk about addictive behaviours. I don't necessarily buy the neurological fears, but when you have people literally consumed by activities that are not truly productive, it is not unreasonable to ask them to see if they can take the odd day off.

It's like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the drinker can take a week off the booze and still be fine.

As the Greeks used to say: pan metron ariston: In all things, moderation is best.
Reading books is mostly something you do for entertainment, like going to the movies, or eating nice food. There's nothing wrong with that! It's very pleasurable, and occasionally useful. But generally most reading doesn't make you a better person, any more than watching opera or other "high" art does.
It's much less than 20%.
This would be really useful if it tied into all crimes, not just homicides. Furthermore, an option to go beyond NYC and tie into national police databases would be very desirable. I could see this becoming a very useful when considering moving.

A heatmap feature would also be nice. Similar to a real life Sim City map.
Thanks, this is probably the best advice. Having never dealt with lawyers on a professional level, I figured they would start draining our money immediately upon contact.
Focusing on copy can dramatically improve user response
I think there might be something to that. I've noticed I enjoy writing better on a pad than at a word processor. Part of it is because I find the ability to format distracting, but I think there is more to it. Reviewing and editing feels more natural when I can circle and strike out, or pen in possible differing directions.

I wonder how natural it feels is related to how early people begin typing. Though I am quite kinesthetic so that may be more likely.
Has anyone here actually read Piaget? I've heard that he was such a bad writer that even his closest disciples often had no idea what he was talking about. I'm tempted to read these books, but on the other hand I'm worried it will make it even harder to understand his ideas.
I think the broken thing in this trial was a misdirection of efforts. The defendant was quite clearly guilty, (her cable modem, her mac, mysteriously replaced hdd). The defendant spent her time grandstanding obviously false innocence, thumbing her nose at the court and the intelligence of the jury. The RIAA representatives spent their time grandstanding obviously false damages, thumbing their collective noses at the whole justice system.

In the end, the whole thing was just a circus that missed the most obvious point: What is a reasonable course of action for dealing with this type of infringement? The sad part is, this trial was a wasted opportunity where we could have begun to address this issue. Instead the judge let it slip once again into a good ol' fashioned case of American side-show freakery.
A Guide to Managing Peers: Generation Y (Best practices for a young manager)
Am I really a better person for having read more books? For having been exposed to certain ideas?

Yes. Even if you can't directly recall what you have read, if you understood it while you were reading it you would have internalised some of the world view, if not the blow-by-blow account.

As somebody else replied, discussing it with your friends (or, making friends of the people who would discuss such books with you) is a great way of integrating the ideas into your thinking.

As to the list: Anybody interested in reading Arthur Koestler (and he is really worth reading) might want to start with The Sleepwalkers. It is a very readable account of the development of science - if you like it you will be motivated to delve into some of his other work.
Experts Exchange is a favorite whipping boy here lately (and with great reason). I bring it up because if Google put as much weight on the UX measurements as you claim, SERPs would be bereft of Experts Exchange links. Most of us here know you can see the answers by scrolling to the bottom, but even a lot of professional devs I know hit the back button when they see the "join now" links, let alone the novices and hobbyists.

A few friends of mine in the eCommerce business hit top 3 rankings on semi-competitive keyphrases by doing nothing to their sites but building rich internal link structures.

One of them sold ipod covers, for example. Product descriptions, marketing text, etc, all read "[iPod covers], also called [iPod Jackets] are [covers for the iPod]" etc etc etc. And each of those phrases link back to the Index.

After they did this-- creating thousands of links leading back to the index-- they went from google obscurity to top of the rankings. And they've held that spot for a long time.

And this massive amount of text with every 3rd word a link back to the index is not good content. It's horrible, actually. And there's a LOT of it.

And that's not blackhat. That's 100% legit SEO!
With a list this long, I start to miss the capability of seeing it sorted by avg. stars.
You may want to read How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/06712...
If you trademarked the original, its like an automatic go card for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution. Send the UDRP folks your trademark papers and they'll yank the domain from the squatter and deliver it, silver platter style to your registrar of choice.

You do trademark all of the domains you register for your startup, right?
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Me too.

I think China's approach is censor so long as costs are manageable. Shutting down the internet is too a big deal. I think they are willing to accept a certain leakage. If you are really motivated to learn about Tiananmen, you can. You just can't get at it in a mainstream way.

This is fine so long as motivation to access information is relatively low. Iran has just experienced a sharp increase in motivation

*One thing to note is that the Iranian regime can feed the President to the lions without breaking stride. It's almost what he's for. The protesters do not seem to be protesting against either the regime or the media controls.
> At the risk of sounding like an old-fogey, when you [ignore people in favor of your mobile], you are telling the other person that they are not interesting enough to hold your attention[...]

Good. We are telling them this because this is the truth. Some people are boring. It's time that society learned this, stopped encouraging us to be patronizing of such people, and instead started encouraging them to be more interesting.
I've always thought it was rather silly (and extremely overkill) to use Windows as the operating system for an ATM. After all, an ATM has relatively simple requirements, which haven't really changed all that much in the last ten years. Of course, this is Diebold we're talking about. Back in the days of voting machine bashing a common refrain was "they make ATMs, so surely they know how to make a voting machine secure". Well, perhaps we made the wrong assumption about how secure their ATMs really were... :)
If social media is making you gullible, then why would you believe this? If you think a couple of tricks and some neat Web 2.0 tools are going to save you from becoming a social media outcast, then you are probably already a social media outcast. It drives me crazy all these people making totally unsubstantiated claims about how the internet makes people stupid. I suppose because we grew up with TV we're stupider than our parents. Does anyone really believe that?

Since citing some popular books and Times articles apparently means I've got a point, I'd like to refer you to this fascinating article by... a real doctor:

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/on_the_information_a.h...
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I was going to say this. Specifically that this is particularly true when you are young. I recall discussing Atlas Shrugged with a friend not long ago. I can see that book permanently influencing someone's world view. (For better or worse, positively or negatively, I cannot say.)
Here you go:

http://books.google.com/books?id=jJZ7aWY4tIcC&printsec=f...

Some pages you can read to see if you understand his writing.