skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you mean now. Multiple rooms are definitely overkill for just a few people. The three of us also just use one room right now. However, my last startup grew to about 30 people, and at that point, multiple rooms were a necessity. We've tried to make it easy to switch tabs using keyboard shortcuts and indicate activity in other rooms by highlighting the tabs.

Sounds like we should consider increasing the priority of the desktop client. Thanks for all the great feedback.
He should sell predefined videos that can be customized... bet he'd make a fortune, cause that was pretty neat.

Hell, he'd probably even be able to put that on his resume.
I think we've been through this recently:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=732923

(sent from the Sheraton Portland Airport)
Laziness Inspires Innovation
I had some friends that made OLEDs in a MatSci lab last year. It was an incredibly complicated and drawn-out process, not to mention sensitive and nit-picky. Sure, automation would most of the problems, but I don't envy the people who have to make and test each revision.
Russia  - Putin rejects international energy charter : 
http://blog.tradersheadstart.com/2009/08/russia-pm-putin-rejects-international.html

"MOSCOW, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed an order rejecting Russia's participation in the Energy Charter Treaty, the government said on Thursday."
Portland really is a great city, and I think it's a lot calmer than Silicon Valley. Although your local pub might not be filled with a dozen angel investors, Portland has embraced the young startup culture. With groups like OMSI, DorkbotPDX, Cubespace, and recently TechShop, it's a haven for hackers of all types. Not to mention a great music scene, delicious food trucks, and the best microbreweries in the nation.

The crucial thing it's missing is a large technical school. And that's likely the reason it will never be able to touch Silicon Valley in terms of startups.
I drank the kool-aid. :) Goes great with the doughnuts.
If you are in the US, you can get a passport in a hurry at one of the national passport offices if you need to leave the country within 14 days; if you can't make it to the office in person, you can ask for expedited service to speed up the processing for your passport application though (at an additional cost).
Nice comment. The article is long but worth reading. Besides applying to newspapers we may soon see the same logic apply to newsmagazines, and ultimately all magazines.

The recommendations at the end of the article almost look like a startup project -- not making a "local paper" but rather a platform others can use to create their own "local papers" without needing much technical knowledge. The startup provides the hosting and tons of templates and pointers to clip art, etc. The customer provides the content. The startup manages the finances and takes a cut of the ad revenues in addition to renting the hosting and software.

Or is that not an original idea?
This is the clearest example I've seen of the Dieter Rams influence:

http://www.air-port.com/blog2/07/19/2007/iphone-calc-braun-e...
Sony to support open ebook format
Either model is hardly innovative.

The installer bundling has been used by the shareware people for ages as an alternative for paying for the application. From recent notable examples - Trillian IM introduced the exact same bundling over a year ago.

The CPU stealing add-on is not exactly an innovation either. The very idea is actually covered by a patent held by a company called Gomez (may be not them, can't remember 100%). The fact that I have to disable it (instead of optionally enabling it) is a reason enough not touch this Digsby thing with a long pole.

Also calling this lovely add-on a "research module" is nothing short of trying to conceal and obscure its real purpose. It is there to generate money by reselling my CPU time. Period. It does not matter if it is not running when the laptop is not plugged in. And I am sure as hell if it was called "let other people use my CPU when it is idle", no one would've enabled it ever. So they are effectively tricking people into using it, which in turn doesn't sit right with me.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Successful products usually fulfill expectations of legal rights or just claims? Really?

It may fulfill some needs or desires, but only rarely a sense of entitlement. If that's what you want a product to do, I suggest that you buy an Android-based phone, and perhaps contribute to the project. After all, if you think that's the recipe for product success, we'll soon see it eclipse the iPhone, right?
I disagree with that; as soon as you need one other person who is local, location does matter.
Really old, but a classic tale that needs to resurface every 6 months or so.
This is Valley-specific, but the same applies to a lot of metros in California. Portland is at least somewhat convenient to get around.

For me to get from my apartment in San Jose to my office in Palo Alto requires two train trips, one on VTA, one on Caltrain. Both trains are almost always off-schedule (by a lot) and have the shittiest ticketing systems in existence. Not to mention, the train schedules are totally useless (for my needs, at least) if I want to either get up at a reasonable hour, or make my morning meeting.

San Francisco's BART is a lot better, to be fair, although it's still not better than the trains I've been on in a handful of other countries (Canada, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea).

And for all of this glory, the state legislature wants an extra 10% of my paycheck? Right.

California schools are their own unique mess, and that's too long of a rant. Water is also pretty lousy in a lot of areas -- the tap water at my office is on a par with the youth hostel I stayed at in Beijing.
This is not a logical argument; it's a collection of unrelated paragraphs.
Oregon has no sales tax, and as such its income and property taxes are much higher than many states. This is especially true in Multnomah County (where Portland is located), due to county income and business taxes on top of state. See, i.e.

http://credc.sterling.net/business/infocenter/Clark-Multnoma...

I've lived in both San Francisco and Portland, and anecdotally I found Portland's infrastructure and services to be far inferior to those in San Francisco: worse roads (climate doesn't help), more homeless, more difficult city bureaucracy, etc. This is of course somewhat subjective, so YMMV.

Personally, if I were to move from the Bay Area due to cost of living and taxes, I'd be looking at Texas.
Ask HN: REST and Authentication
So there's been something I've been wondering about for a little while now with respect to REST and authentication. First let me set up a basic scenario, and then I'll describe the problem.

Let's suppose that you have have a simple app that allows you to track your book collection. So you have a books table, and you want to expose that using a RESTful web app. My question is this: how would you restrict me to only mucking with my own collection?

I'm sorry if this seems really simple, but I've never come across an example that deals with this. If I want to expose an API to my users for my site, and I don't want them to be able to just willy-nilly muck around with all of the data in my site, how do I deal with this?
I am in Portland now and have been for the last nine years. I would say that pdx is a great place for startups if you are a hardware company and/or a venture related to Intel. Other than you will be hard pressed to find qualified SW engineers that are actually can write something else other than drivers. Then there are the occasional VB slackers or .NET potheads that do contract work.
I am a designer so I never really got REST, but now I do. Definitely a must read.
"There was nothing like the iPhone when it was brought to market. Nothing even similar."

That's not true. The iPhone is a rip off of the Linux based deeda Pi that has been developed way before the iPhone. The iPhone actually killed the open source deeda Pi project.

See here:
http://applephones.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-apple-iphone-copy...
I find that the people who are against REST, or don't understand why its neccessary, don't really understand the finer points of HTTP, either. This post really helps describe what it is about HTTP that makes REST obvious, and easy.
Stolen design is cheap:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763491
Lowest bid wins the contract. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_auction
Good to know; I live in the south bay, not SF, so I can't say anything for the city proper, other than BaRT seems to be a decent way to get around.
I have always had exceedingly good coverage with AT&T, in San Francisco, in Rochester NY, and all along the country in between. I can't think of the last time I didn't have service, except for when I'm in a basement or deep within a thick-walled building.

It's pretty damn good.
No, but like I pointed out in my first comment on this post Apple sells the same products for twice the amount of money:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762944
Karl Duncker on Problem Solving
Remind me of this article:
http://72.249.21.88/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-...

This past summer I signed up for a Java Web Service course, which made my life a living hell trying to get SOAP, WSDL, and WS-* working. It also makes me appreciate REST a lot more.
yea that's a good ideas, video templates for people who are about to quit their job :)
I challenge you to find a place 50 miles outside of the center of any major metropolitan area that lives up to your transit expectations. If you travel the equivalent of San Francisco-San Jose from Portland, you'd be in Salem and would be complaining about the Greyhound.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

For all the complaining people do about MUNI, I live in the city and need my car maybe once a month.
Aside from the fact that this article is very political and I flagged it, any economic ranking where Greece, Portugal and Italy are leading is probably not indicative of good things.
Also make sure to read the story about the original iPhone, the Linux based open source deeda Pi (now RIP):
http://applephones.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-apple-iphone-copy...
Reading this article I wondered why it is published in UK by an American economist and what is the point of publishing such an article. If this academic economist lived a little bit in Europe he should know better.

I made some research. The bottom line - an American economist supporting Hugo Chávez.

Ad Hominem. This doesn't make less true that the US has less self-employed people per habitant than other developed countries.
Google for "gsm repreater".
E.g. http://salestores.com/digita18.html
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It does add security, because now your attacker needs the source code as well, which is probably on a different machine, requiring different login credentials, etc. Every little bit helps and it's a trivial addition to the authentication code.

Of course you would not depend upon it solely but it's called defence in depth.
Isn't this really old or has this been done before?
You know what Portland does really well? Not start-ups, not yet. It has fostered an amazing array of web geek user groups. Check out this list of goings on in the local tech scene, and note that the calendaring app itself was developed by a collaborative effort that spawned from a user group:

http://calagator.org/

And the quality of discourse at some of these local meet-ups is astonishingly progressive and technical. It feels like Portland's start-up scene isn't the best indicator of our technical culture and potential. Our traditional start-ups stand in the long shadow of Silicon Valley, and may expend too much energy wondering when someone will swoop down and invest.

Portland will make a name for itself by doing business in a much different manner than is done in the valley. The absence of venture capital will force us to invent better models.

BTW, have you guys seen Urban Edibles? It's a collaboratively developed wiki detailing where one can find food growing in Portland's urban areas.
http://urbanedibles.org/

My roommate used it to make 3 jars of golden plum jam entirely from foraged fruit.
You're probably remembering the guy that made the mario flash movie where he tells he's leaving. Don't remember what company, but I do know it was in AU.
He's arguing for a non-forking timeline, which is nice, but I like soft science fiction with stories rather than people spending much of the story monkeying around with technology so that it's consistent with what we currently know about science.

I'll quote something I wrote elsewhere: The two major time travel literary views are forking & non-forking timelines:

* The game Achron has forking with merges via non-instantaneous time waves, sorta like Back to the Future.

* Lost is not forking. I think.

* The original Terminator's non-forking, but the sequels & series have forking timelines.

* Forking: Primer, The Butterfly Effect.

* Non-forking: 12 Monkeys, Slaughterhouse Five, Bill & Ted, All You Zombies.
As a noob to web coding, I appreciated the information although the format was a bit dragged out. Good share mrlebowski, I look forward to more of your info dude.
Here's an example of an "industry" that gives away the product of their work for free: academic research.

Now in this "industry" the free flow of this product has allowed people to build on the shoulders of giants and arguably made a big contribution to the world.

Likewise I notice that these days when we are building, for example, various embedded gizmos, we can suddenly achieve a far higher level of functionality, integration, communication etc -- because we no longer have to write (or buy in) building blocks such as TCP/IP stack, memory management or whatever.

So open source greatly facilitates this "standing on the shoulders of giants"...
What is a Botnet anyway?
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Perhaps because she is too busy thinking "I have never been at the receiving end of such a patronising explanation before?"
According to Maryland State Annotated Code, Title 12, 12-101(b)7, the University System of Maryland is defined as "University, University of Maryland", and "University Maryland System". Then there is all the consolidated universities in the University of Maryland including College Park and UMUC. People ought to check their facts before they spread untruths. If you doubt what I'm saying, look up that code in Lexis/Nexis or some other legal database and you will see it for yourself. UMUC is not a distance or correspondence school. It is located in College Park, MD and both UMD-CP and UMUC share the SAME campus. It is apparent that people in this forum are truly uninformed and do not have the sense to fact check their information. This in and of itself ought to cause doubt on any other postings that dispute these obvious facts.
You severely misunderstand academic research. It is "given away" to get more research funds, to advance one's career inside academia, and to abide by the guidelines of the previous money you have taken.

EDIT: For some it's "given away" to fill some deep hole in one's ego.
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Looking at the comparison in the report I see no correlations between the health care system and the amount of self-employment.

There does seem to be a strong inverse correlation between self-employment and GDP-per-capita, with Norway Luxembourg and US being at the bottom and Spain, Italy and Greece on top. The only thing this report suggests is that a strong economy has relatively large businesses.
Of course but it takes time and effort. In case you already run a business it's cheaper to hire someone than to learn it from scratch.
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(snark) If you think the MRI's would show different results, you haven't been following politics long enough.
Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009
This Google search reveals a ton of similar potential bugs:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=digest\.equals+...

For example, it looks like org.apache.ws.security.processor.UsernameTokenProcessor.handleUsernameToken might be vulnerable (although WS-Security's nonces and timestamps make things more complicated, since you have to generate a timestamp like a week in the future, and then hope that the server does the digest comparison before rejecting you based on the nonce or timestamp):

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=31&...
Wow I sat there for a whole minute before realizing I was supposed to control the guy myself. So much for reading instructions eh?
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My buddy has a travel startup http://www.yowtrip.com/ and he might be interested in sponsoring you for a small amount. I sent him a message.
I'm going to be fair and say that Japan really spoiled me on public transit.
Again, your information from Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Maryland Annotated Code, Title 12 of the Education Article, 12-101(b)7 informs that the definition of the University of Maryland includes all the colleges and universities as the University System of Maryland. And, you are making assumptions that everyone knows that University of Maryland implies College Park. It doesn't. As well as the fact that the University of Maryland, University College is locating directly on the College Park Campus in College Park, Maryland. As well as the fact that the University of Maryland College Park campus includes courses that are similiar in content at UMUC. If you doubt that this is the case, I would suggest you ask UMD-College Park to present their 2001 - 2009 Graduate School course listings for their software engineering Master's degree and compare it with UMUC's software engineering degree. You will find similiar courses between the two. Yes, you are splitting hairs and doesn't help your argument at all.
The guy seems like a crackpot-if you look up his site its full of 'psychic workshops' and other mumbo-jumbo.
But still...deep in my geeky heart I totally hope there's a huge cave complex under the pyramids full of traps and ancient artifacts.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) authentication system is a good example. It uses an HMAC sent in the request headers, so that each request is effectively signed by the sender:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/2006...

This allows authentication without any sort of server-side session state, since each request can be authenticated individually. So it can be more horizontally scalable than a stateful session, but it may also be more CPU-intensive on both server and client, since they need to compute a cryptographic hash for every request. Also, the lack of a widely-reviewed standard library for HTTP+HMAC authentication means that you might end up rolling your own, which would probably have security holes that you don't catch, like all the recent timing attack vulnerabilities:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760917
Also: as soon as you need funding, location does matter. In-person access to investment shouldn't be discounted.
Feels like this guy has married ELIZA
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Nice! It's one of the perpetrators of You Look Nice Today, but this isn't, as I expected, a joke.
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Rest is obvious and fairly easy. It solves a specific set of real-world problems.

On the other hand, that list of problems is a pretty small part of web application design. Solutions other than REST seem to work just as well.
This is a very good start IMO. I think they should try to monetize these websites and run like a corporation and then lower the taxes side-by-side. I dont see a reason why they should not. People will be paying money from all around the world and we (US tax payers) will be saving money. :)
More:
http://www.opa.medicine.arizona.edu/newsroom/releaseText.cfm...
Arguably the real reason many people are keen to move to Portland, especially from California, is that it's the whitest city in North America.
Again, the Maryland State Annotated Code, Title 12 of the Education Article, 12-101(b)7 informs that the definition of University, University of Maryland, and University of Maryland System refers to all colleges and universities in the University System of Maryland including UMUC and College Park. Also, UMUC is located directly on the College Park campus in College Park Maryland. It is not a valid assumption that when refering to the University of Maryland, people are stating "UMD-College Park". But, then...it is still the truth...they are both one in the same as it pertains to quality and content of education but not necessarily in admissions.
Cheap?!? I don't think I ever had a landline that was less then $50 a month in the U.S. Sure you might be on the $29 plan but there is another $14 from a dozen taxes and another $8 of this months pick of "charges" by the phone company. Price was actually the reason to move to a cell phone. And with the ability to get pay as you go phones you can actually put a hard budget of $X a month to phone without needing to have a +-$5 fudge every month for changes in policy and company charges and taxes.
Netscape 4 was indeed a crime against humanity. Great video and very informative. I always enjoy Douglas Crockford's talks.
Wow! I wish you all the best.
I still struggle with this, and maybe someone can provide some insight.

I am a sloppy thinker. When I read the word science in a casual setting, like the news, I think of men in white lab coats and rocket ships, rather than the messy unreliable quest for truth that is really going on. This usually leads me to conferring the predictive power of physics on whatever science is being discussed. Everyone's job is hard, but the predictive power is the thing that makes my life easier, and as a consequence the thing i remember instead of the struggle against the unknown.

I don't think I am alone in making this mistake. Furthermore, i doubt that most people who make this mistake ever become aware of the error. I think articles like this are the result of the exact same error. Rather than accepting economics as a science this particular guy went back and redefined terms, and wants us to do the same.

If only there was some way to replace "a scientist said x about science" with "an expert in a field that requires a confidence interval this big (big number) for theories to be taken seriously, said x about something in his field"

The, "economists predictive power sucks so they aren't scientists" is a trap.
"are busy writing layers of complex specifications for doing this stuff in a different way that isn’t nearly as useful or eloquent"

What is that supposed to mean. HTTP is such a simple protocol that people need to invent technologies atop it because on its own it can't do much. lack of state, for example, so people came up with cookies and sessions and so on. These were necessary and an integral part of the web's evolution from the days back in the early 90's when people had 'home pages' of pictures of their cat.

I personally found the article badly written, overly long and full of passive aggressive attacks at what the web has become.
Thanks, I try to share good links that I come across learning stuff at my internship place :)
I want to make one like that about the project cycle.

It starts with people saying "Lets dream!" "We're going to touch the stars!"

Then it evolves in to "We need more time." "We're going to have to cut things."

Then after that, it switches to "We'll never ship on time." "Gotta get it out regardless."

And then the final jump off the cliff will be off the stock price chart.
twitter is an SMS mailing list provider. Anyone can do this, but they quickly find that it costs lots and lots of money.

For whatever reason, twitter has been given lots and lots of money to provide this service. It's otherwise impossible to compete with "provide a very expensive service for free"