skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing about this lawsuit is that it is charging Amazon with various forms of trespass and breach of contract. One of the causes of action is for illegal hacking; one is for trespassing on the Kindle; one is for stealing the book; two are for breach of contract; and one is for deceptive trade practices.

The case has nothing really to do with copyright. It seems unlikely that Amazon can justify its actions on the grounds of protecting someone else's copyright. (If you sell illegal contraband to someone, you don't magically get a right to steal it back.)

If the case succeeds, it might have some interesting limiting effects on DRM systems.

So if this case succeeds, it might have
I think the US and New Zealand are the only (or one of the few) countries that allow alcohol commercials on TV.
That probably would have gotten more clicks.
I thought Pith Helmet was the Safari ad blocker.
Portland have diverse neighborhood; classic suburb (beaverton), edgy & expensive (pearl dist. & uptown), hip (NE & SE). But whereever you live there are a lot of coffee shop and bar that have free wireless, perfect for late night hacking with friends.
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It took me a second to realize that this is a web app!
You are correct. There are game developers who innovate and there are ones who get the job done. These guys fall into the latter category. They are the pulp novelists of the game industry. There is a place for them and they know their role.

I'm not sure that's terribly exciting to anyone here, though. Few on HN, I presume, would start up a game studio in order to be the next Realtime Associates, even though they have been around for 23 years.
Too bad that the US carriers are dragging their feet on releasing readily-available Android phones. They could really capitalize on all the iPhone and AT&T hate; but not with the G1.

(The G2 is supposed to be released in a few days, but nobody knows when the HTC Hero is going to be here. Too bad, as that one is the real iPhone competitor.)
I'm really liking the minimalism of all of your sites/apps.
Pros:

- This app has some potential.

Cons:

- No search.

- It's supposedly an 100% offline app but some items display "Unable to contact cheat server."

- No way to add cheat sheets.

- Very poor formatting.

- I'd expect each cheat sheet to be formatted for the iPhone.

- No categories or sorting of any kind.

- No PHP!?

- The Java cheat sheet has a few paragraphs on WHAT JAVA IS!? No actual useful information.
You didn't read the whole article:

He also realizes that if Apple proves to be intransigent, and nobody joins his revolution, there's no way he'll bother to keep this up for 1,984 days, but it's just such a perfect number to use, and instead he'll keep it up for a few months then give up in disgust and ultimately sell his iPhone when his AT&T contract runs out.
I thought my symbols were just as good, if not better, than the regular

symbols -- it doesn't make any difference what symbols you use -- but I
discovered later that it does make a difference. Once when I was explaining
something to another kid in high school, without thinking I started to make
these symbols, and he said, "What the hell are those?" I realized then that
if I'm going to talk to anybody else, I'll have to use the standard symbols,
so I eventually gave up my own symbols.

-- Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman (http://www.gorgorat.com/)

That said, I'm inclined to say that at some point it makes sense to break backwards compatibility in favour of a better system.
The Little Secret of Web Startups
A little trivia, memcached was invented here in Portland (LiveJournal).
You're right -- DecentURL is not a shortener. You can do some shortening with it, but its main goal is to make decent URLs, not tiny ones. So ctxt.us has it's place -- I stand corrected. :-)
Nope: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733113
Great! Now gmail needs to make the "conversations" view optional and give me the ability to view my mail just like any other e-mail client (that is, without automatically combining unrelated e-mails into the same "conversation" just because they share a subject line).
Thats cute.. I paid for premier and I don't have any ads and didn't need to tell my friends about catastrophic events. $50 per year is definitely worth it.
Not to be a wikidick about it, but uh, citation needed. I'd love to see some real data on this.
Ask HN: Review Our Club's Site
All summer our small team of 3 people has been working on the website for a small student organization at Pennsylvania State University. Our club hosts battles with Nerf guns, scavenger hunts, and other outdoor games. After 3 months of hard work we've finally finished our site and we're all curious what the experienced hackers here at HN think of it!

Our site is: http://urbangaming.org

Some tech specs:
Everything on the site was done by our team of students.
We use the CodeIgniter framework and phpBB to power the backend of our site.
Our server is provided by Linode (seriously, the rock for donating the server!) and runs nginx.

Our goal for the site was for it to be professional, expandable, and stable. We believe we've reached those goals, how about you guys?
It doesn't look like it, but every 3rd party client I know of has the ability to use any SMTP server available to you.
From the help page http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m... :

Note for IMAP/POP users: If you access Gmail through a POP or IMAP email client (e.g. Outlook) and would like to send messages with a custom "from" address, you have two options. We recommend that you configure your email client with two outgoing SMTP servers, one for Gmail and one for your other address. Your second option is to use Gmail's outbound servers with a different "from" address. If you've already configured the custom from address in the web interface, your message will be sent from:otheraddress@domain.com, sender:username@gmail.com, regardless of which custom from configuration you chose. Your messages will be sent from your regular Gmail address if you never configured your custom from settings in the web interface.
The smiley does look like it's floating. I assume the reason is for Wordpress sites not hosted on WP servers? Often people will be using WP without the expertise or ability to deal with server-side stats.
Slax had somewhat similar service for quite some time now. http://www.slax.org
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Popular flyers are the business cards,Leaflets became popular during the 1980s and 1990s. They are constantly evolving and a lot of creativity is coming into play.
I tried slax custom distro service. http://www.slax.org

I was never patient enough to finish the task anyway :).
Already been posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578632
They look awesome but I hate sites that force me to click n times for n images. I wish advertisers had a better method of paying than pageviews.
Vote with your dollars. I've put off buying a fancy phone, but seeing the way that apple has treated it's developers and customers I will definitely not be getting an iphone. These days I've been liking more and more the OLD apple. Before ipods and iphones and OSX and brushed aluminum. But I digress. I eagerly await a capable android phone on verizon. Hope they don't screw that one up.
keep it a side gig. You won't need to invest much and can keep it limited in terms of time commitment. A basic website with what you do and your hourly rate is great. Don't start listing prices for other stuff or getting fancier descriptions for your services. A one page site is the way to go.

Your focus is to help as many people as possible. Business cards are awesome. Always carry them. I remember a friend who told me once the key to networking is not how many cards you can get but how many cards you give out. So be generous.

My advice is forget about flyers, business services, or paid advertising. Craigslist and kijiji are a must so just keep updating a single post on each. If you want to advertise then put up posters in coffee shops or leave a deck of cards at grocery stores all over - you have to keep visiting them and shopping all over for them to keep them.

The key here is you are not a business. You are a smart student who won't take advantage of anyone. People would rather go to you for lower cost and trust factor. Be friendly, generous, and not greedy. Then you're set.

This is how I have done these things in uni to make extra money and yes you can make good money and still focus on school.

Good luck!
"Duplicate" was a poor choice of words, I'm trying to say that the point of the scope is to give kids the same experience that Galileo had.

I mean, yes, they opted for a modern achromatic lens - they also chose plastic instead of wood - but that doesn't change the basic point of the scope.
-I respectfully disagree, think the downloads will still go up because even though the user(s) who bought the computer wont need to download it, the user(s) will surely tell others about how much better it is than IE; thus, others will download it because of word of mouth. --Or that's what I expect to happen.
You're absolutely right. A better comparison would be if you bought a computer from Apple and were using iWork to write some notes, and then Apple decided to delete the notes you had been writing without your permission and without warning.

Regardless of the legality of deleting the 1984 ebook, it's ridiculous to assert that Amazon should be able to destroy anyone's annotations for any reason. Those annotations belong to the user who created them.

I don't really understand what you mean when you say "semantics aside". Are you intentionally saying something that is equivalent to "Ignoring the meaning of 'intellectual property' and 'physical property', intellectual property is not like physical property?" I assume not, but I'm not sure what you meant to say there.
I used to be a case modder, put together my last three PCs myself. Got sick of it. Now I have a Mac Pro.
South Australia has banned most plastic bags now and we're Western. When I see someone calling something a Western problem I typically think they are the sort of person who decries Western culture but still indulges in its benefits. That or an angry third-world dictator.
Thanks for having a look! Search is definitely coming, along with favorites, in the next major release.

Cheat sheets are manually synced by me from http://cheat.errtheblog.com to avoid too much spam, will be able to sync inside the app in the future. For now if you create a cheat sheet on the previously mentioned site, I will pull in new cheats when I send an update to Apple.

I hope to move to a UIWebView soon which will allow much more in the way of formatting. It's a very difficult thing to do for this content though when you have lots of lines that are potentially very long. The previous development version had line wrapping almost every line, was much worse :)

Hope that clears up some of the things mentioned.
Having that many options does make the browser market seem healthier, but how does that make the search wars look?

- Perhaps its different because the profits it generates aren't equal to search.
Nerdfury, as awesome as it is to behold, does not necessarily indicate there is all that much hate out there. It just seems that way because it's so intense.
? The Celestron Firstscope has a tripod mount? Not as far as I know. Does it replace the altitude screw on the side?

If you're referring to the Galileoscope, yeah, I know that.
Sussman's critique of mathematical notation is hollow.

I don't do enough math to have a useful opinion, but it strikes me that something as simple as 1 + 1 = 2 is ambiguous (does f = x+x or x+1?) and using unambiguous notation would be tedious and useless.

Unless you're trying to turn it into a program. I sometimes think of programming as the opposite of math.
Stupid mistakes: Remember to check the obvious
I did say "emulate" not "replicate".
Okay, so this post means nothing... but this is just an ingenious and cool use of nature against itself. Likely it will probably destroy the world!
Why would you want to use smtp.gmail.com, rather than the SMTP server that matches your From address?
Thanks. I didn't hear about them till June; hopefully the scopes will show up soon.
Listening to "statistics" from people who quote percentages is really dangerous.

Percentages are really, really, easy to lie with. And for people who only quote percentages, this is usually what they are trying to do. Spin.
I think we need to stop calling other phones a "iphone killer" as that is similar but younger than looking for a "google killer" - I just think the iphones first mover advantage; and legacy for the first multi-touch is going to make it hard to move from the top...

-- What I thought would be my stronger point is shorter, I think the profit in the iphone is maximized because of the exclusive deal with AT&T, and perhaps carriers make less on the android; so they then use, cheap touch screen phones that suck :/
Excellent points about commoditisation. I don't think Microsoft wants Macs to be cheaper (though they still probably see increases in windows sales to mac users if there is more money left over) but they do want this to be a price argument because right now that's where they win.

I think Microsoft should do two things:

1. Push Windows 7 as superior. In my experience and that of others who have used it, so far it really is. (NB: The people that have used it were not die-hard fans either way, so naturally there will be Mac fans who disagree but this isn't the point).

2. Offer a Mac-Only version of Windows at a cheaper price to get more windows installs on mac (price of Windows OS for someone using it as a second OS is quite prohibitive).
My personal prediction is that Windows 7 will be a big hit for Microsoft. I installed the RC on a 3yo media PC with 1GB RAM and it’s really been quite good – it found all the hardware including slightly obscure things like dual tv tuners and an IR receiver on install. The only thing it missed was the graphics card driver but it found it on the first update. The digital tv playback is smoother than XP and it “just works” as a PVR – you can fully control it with a remote from across the room. It plays Xvid and can burn DVDs out of the box.

Gruber’s right that MS have lost the enthusiasts and yes, they’re now a bit player at the top end of the market. But then again, so is Toyota. People who use Windows are like people who have a car to get from A to B. MS have always been about the mass market and that’s not changing. There’s still substantial advantages in being the dominant platform – especially as the default business desktop. I think Windows 7 is good enough that the great, unwashed hoards will switch from XP in surprising numbers. But we’ll see…
"Unable to contact cheat server." was left in from when the app was not offline capable. Any cheats that show that now don't have the data on the device and I would love to know if you run across them so I can fix them.
First $200 (I didn't believe it) - then $300 (I figured he wouldn't risk raising the price twice; - now its $400, unless he hits a grand slam and gets this thing into a carrier or even multiple carriers; and subsidized for $199 with 2/yr mobile broadband contract..
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Do you even know? Or are you really keen to make us guess?
my hosts file is riddled with all the sites i visit on a regular basis.. in fact just today I had enabled everything (except my personal email) it's interesting because i found myself checking my email once every 10 seconds for lack of any other site to go to. Sometimes its really hard to get motivated to work on a project you hate.
The HTC Hero is probably the best Android device on the market right now. HTC did an incredible job making Android more usable and attractive with Sense UI, much like TouchFlo 3D for Windows Mobile. I have a hard time liking Android, in addition to all the reasons in the article, because it is just not a very attractive UI. Sense fixes that a bit and actually makes me want a Hero now.
wow - mad respect; for taking a 'outside the box, crazy ' - 'never to old to grow up' idea - and not only make it happen; but in college, and then to build a website .. and spread it..

- honestly; I feel old, and jealous - in the clubs I joined chicks weren't diggin it :/
Uses ABP lists.
If I was a investor in this startup (1.31mm raised so far)I would be pissed that my failed investments's founder is airing out laundry for money..
You'd probably get a much more polished experience by manually writing each cheat sheet. You'd be able to standardise the formatting and ensure each cheat sheet is useful, relevant and succinct. Currently there's a lot of useless cheat sheets (hobo_template? contains "test", useless! lorem/lorum? you only need one. taxes? this is useless. girlfriends? nothing to do with software!)

Touting "Over 475" isn't anywhere as useful as 10 decently edited cheat sheets. You can always add more languages later when they're done and polished.
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The "osxbash" cheat sheet has that. Not sure what that cheat sheet would even contain... the same as "bash"?
Original article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729144030.ht...
Ask HN: Income on the Side? 
What do you guys do for income on the side?

I am devoting my entire time working on a startup (bootstrapped so no income yet), and completely living off savings, I am sure a few others here have done the same.

I'll start. I usually aim at very low time commitment tasks.

Photo shoots for people (just with a simple dSLR)
Fix Computers/Networks and IT guys for local businesses.

Share your ways, helping your fellow HNers ease their bank drain.
You're going to judge someone not by the merits of their arguments but by the topics which they've chosen to argue? That is a weak, disgusting, small-minded practice that has no place on HN. You should be ashamed.
I did the backend for this site, it was a great experience. I hope you guys like it!
A better comparison would be if you bought a computer from Apple and were using iWork to write some notes, and then Apple decided to delete the notes you had been writing without your permission and without warning.

Agreed, this is a much better comparison! :)

I don't really understand what you mean when you say "semantics aside"

By "semantics", I was referring to the word "property". I mean that if I sell you a loaf of bread, it's a transaction governed by a nearly disjoint set of laws than if I sell you a poem or program that I wrote.

For example, I can't sell you a loaf of bread and force you to eat it on a Monday, but I can sell you a DRM-ed program that only runs on Mondays (enforced by people with heavy sticks and shiny guns ;)).

If our goal is creating a productivity-maximizing society, I think enforcing some restrictions of copyright are a good idea, as long as they "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" [1], but current copyright law seems as if it might over-reach that. What I would love to see is a real debate about where the line should be drawn.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
A strange response from a very smart person to a rather impressive technological achievement.
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what if one of his class mate had thrown away his homework notebook. Would he be still be able to sue the other kid? Courts aren't setup to deal with this kind of issues.
Hacker News is really not the right place for a serious conversation on this topic, and jokes would only lead to a flame war, so I will rather abstain.
Lawsuit against Amazon: "Kindle ate my homework"
design a few websites and help local business's get found on the web - more "best practices" that others are selling under the name SEO - which is starting to make me feel dirty.
Christ, I'd rather pay the $400. A 2-year mobile brandband contract is practically useless for anything but very light usage, since the monthly limits are usually about 5GB.

I don't really plan to buy a Crunchpad, but you'd think we'd been bitten hard enough by AT&T recently to learn our lesson.
why not spending these efforts finding a side job which will add to your income $36 a day? This way you can eat anything you want as much as you want.
This is what I want: a printer driver that outputs directly to an e-book reader.
The start-up is shutting down, so it isn't 1.31 million so far, it's 1.31 million. And it isn't as if he is saying anything about the investors, or any secret information being released. He's trying to explain why the start-up failed in order to help others.

At the same time, the title 'the little secret' seems very misleading, unless I'm missing something.

Is there one statement in particular that struck you as offensive or 'dirty laundry'ish?
Perhaps it's an offtopic, but still ..

> Historically, Apple has made bad decisions, but they’ve generally corrected them. The $100 refunds for original launch-day iPhone purchasers after the price dropped come to mind.

That was a store credit, not a refund. And it was a calculated marketing move that was planned long before the drop was announced.
Watch the "Jays Garage" video on the page where they print a working crescent wrench and an even more amazing working model of a steam engine, no assembly required. Its closer than you think.
http://getfiregpg.org/

You don't want server side PGP support - you'd have to give your private key to Google. As much as I trust Google, I still don't trust them that much.

Much more secure to handle the crypto client side. Ideally, Google should work with the firegpg guy so that he has notice before they change the interface (FireGPG tends to break for a day or two whenever there is any change to the GMail UI).
I do the same. I read easier books that don't require in-depth understanding on the iPhone Kindle app, and I go ahead and buy books that I know I'm going to have to look back to again and again.
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Many major hardware players have some form of tablet device in the offing. This market space is going to be a competitive one.
I also do basic IT work, but try to keep more to development oriented work. So, small-medium projects are my ideal.
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Hmm, at first I saw the title and thought it was an app that would make cheating on tests in class easy (think like the blackjack counting app - could do something like "put the phone in your pocket and shake your leg N times to ask for help with #1, and then get M buzzes back to indicate which answer from fellow students"). I don't condone it, but I bet it would sell well if implemented cleanly.

As it were, this is also a cool app. :)