skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one has mentioned it, but sifter looks like a great app (www.sifterapp.com). I tried it for a project I was working on, mostly because I was curious about the interface. It was much more than we needed, but could be a great option for you.
Imagine what it will be like for him when he gets to 1,000?

And imagine what happens if he loses just ten. That sword cuts both ways.
IPhone Car Charger For Less Than A Nickel
> The point isn't whether you or the other respondent has recently edited the registry or hunted down a driver. The point was that all operating systems have their troubles.

No, the point is I haven't had those troubles on Vista. I haven't had these issues for a long time. I could care less about open or closed source drivers. I just like it when things work. And I like it so much I'm even willing to pay money for it. That is the point.
"You realise there are no CC licenses without copyright. That anyone can take my published work and reprint it as their own without any attribution."

That's the natural state of things. Changing the social relationship between artist and fan, unilaterally for a whole society as copyright has done, better have some darn good reasons. I am not convinced it's worthwhile.
You missed something.

HelpHive uses the same bullshit model that GetSatisfaction and Seth Godin's lame new project got railed for, where it sets up an official looking page for every company it can find, regardless of whether it has that company's permission or not, and basically tries to extort money from that company by hoarding customers who think they're dealing with the actual business.

The article you linked is about a 'feature' they're experimenting with, where a business signs up for the opportunity to pay for the leads from these pages. From a quick look at HelpHive's site, it looks like basic claiming is still free, but it specifically says: Your business contact info (email and business phone) are used when customers call or send messages to your business. Your business information isn't displayed on your business profile page... You are not permitted to enter your email, phone or other web contact information in other areas of your business profile page.
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> Plumber pays helphive $99 a year

Please show me where this is mentioned. In the link that you submitted the plumber claims (in the comments): "These local business listings are not placed there by the business but have been harvested from other sources."

So:

- HelpHive listed plumber's company with falsified information

- Plumber didn't request the listing or authorize the 'proxy' phone number.

- Plumber has no recourse to 'turn off' the feature.

How is this ethical again?
Right. If I win, you wear a dress on our date.
According to Marissa Mayer's tweet, Google is doing a week worth of doodles (which would end on Nov. 10th).

http://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/5427907816
Share photos, videos, and calendar events with rich controls like video players and embedded Google Maps. Then allow participants to comment on (and even edit) all of the above. Items with recent comments/changes float to the top.

It seems like this is exactly what Wave is designed for.

Half of the point of my original comment, however, is to say that Wave seems to be designed exactly for everything, which is one of my biggest criticisms of it.
At the end, this links to the following item which is better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920770
Perhaps. But Microsoft is almost certainly not really worried about Zoho or Zimbra. But Google? Yeah, that's a different story, and mentioning all three of them in the same breath is a subtle hint that they're all just "bit players", as someone else in this thread pointed out.
My bad. I meant that the idea was fully-formed, not the startup. Fully agree that it's just some random thoughts.
How is the plumber a customer? He didn't sign up for the service and he doesn't want the service, but he's forced to have it 'provided' to him for free by HelpHive.

Measurement is important to HelpHive, not to the plumber (who doesn't even want the service, let alone the metrics).
Sometimes life itself is worth celebrating. A birthday is as good an opportunity as any and is traditional.
I have no idea wether the cost is holding this back but I've always been doubtful about this "pad" format for devices - it just doesn't seem like good design.

- It's too big to be operated with two thumbs (i.e. Blackberry and iPhone)

- It lacks a physical keyboard so I suspect that typing anything isn't going to be a positive experience.

- It lays flat which isn't a good viewing angle, which means that I will need a stand (unless it has one built in - don't know),

- I suspect it's too heavy to hold up like a Kindle.

Maybe I'm wrong about these things but it seems like a lot to pull off and I don't think the TC guys are the ones to do it. Now, Apple might be a different case, we'll have to wait and see.
The author mentions http://www.bricklink.com/
I am taking a negotiation class right now and we are using the three books listed below. The professor is really great, and the books are not boring college textbooks - they're really engaging and I'd read them on my own if I wasn't taking the course, too.

"Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive" by Goldstein, Margin, & Cialdini is a great book on influence and persuasion.

Cialdini is a great resource for influence/negotiation in general, so look for other articles/books written by him.

"Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" by Ariely is a great book on behavioral economics

"Negotiation" by Lewicki, Saunders, and Barry
Zoho is an awesome company and I have written many blog posts among them. But this sort of marketing is pathetic and doesn't suit any reputable company. It's simply childish. Stop it zoho. Nobody likes a cry baby.
I've been hoping for a cryptographic solution to the question of vote-counting integrity for a long time. This looks really promising (and, possibly, affordable). Hopefully we'll see wide adoption of systems like this, and can toss Diebold machines like the trash that they are.
JQuery 1.3 Visual Cheat Sheet
Having the ability to do something doesn't mean it'll be focused that way or convenient to use that way.

Look at Twitter and say: "why won't blogging kill this?" Part of the answer is focus: they're making some things easy, not just possible.

Part of the answer is demographic/cultural. Reddit isn't Hacker News, even if a lot of the technology is very similar, and StackOverflow isn't any of its many different-topic clones even if nearly all of the technology is shared. A community is affected by focus, policies and advertising, not just the technology.

If Google Wave has the technology to kill most web startups (I'm not sure I believe this), then it's not focused enough to matter in almost any of their specific domains.
The SAT only has any correlation with anything for someones freshman year of college, afterwords high school GPA is a far better predictor.
How would that be different from HTML5 web apps? (besides being slower, larger to download, uglier, more proprietary, less accessible and more CPU intensive)
I think you are completely right. I had been using both Google Docs and Zoho for some time, but I switched back to old Office 2000 - the desktop version is still more comfortable that in-browser editor, and I can have sharing capabilities with services like Live Mesh or Dropbox.

Next year, Microsoft will come with Office 2010, which will have both desktop client and online app, while Google or Zoho has only the online app.

Even if I would like to stay away from Microsoft, I will prefer Open Office + online sharing service over Zoho or Google Docs.
I'm guessing you mean non-security technologies? How about consumer P2P?

See Joseph Menn's book on Napster for the backstory behind MP3 file sharing (many of us w00w00 folks were involved, including guys like "minus", who stole the Winamp source code off my friend Ian Rogers' laptop).

Other example I can think of - anakata and The Pirate Bay, which is sort of mainstream, I guess (!)
Correction: has been up and running since January, when this was actually news.
Ask Y Combinator: Notification information for W2010?
1) Originally, tomorrow was the day that applicants would hear if they should book a flight for demo day. But the application deadline got extended two days due to the Twitter and Justin.tv deals. Are things still on track for tomorrow?

2) Will all applicants be notified of their status, or just the ones who are invited to demo?

3) Is there a specific time that you expect applications will go out by?

I hope this doesn't sound pushy; I wanted to set realistic expectations for myself. Thanks for the opportunity to apply.
Chromium Installs User Scripts as Extensions, Bodes Great Things for Chrome
A lot of Microsoft bashing is unjustified (easily >90% of it), but some of it is warranted. And this is a good example of that. In this case, rather than figuring out how to make its products better for consumers MS instead sought to make its products look better than the competition, by making the competition look worse. This is anti-competitive and anti-consumer.
Apple, on the other hand, doesn't have anything even close to a package manager, for example. Also, "transition". There is no transition for Linux. Nobody is really interested in completely phasing out an old platform and port everything to a completely different new one, which is what Apple did. Apple's Mac OS has rather limited hardware support, in fact you shouldn't even try to run it on anything that doesn't have Apple sticker. Linux is expected to run everywhere on everything.

I can't see any possible difference for the fatelf solution and the package manager and scripts solution for an end user. It's not about the ease of use, because there is no difference.
I think the issue here is that someone viewing HelpHive's website would be under the impression that the phone number provided on the listing for "Mountain View Toyota" is their direct number, and not a 'proxy' number that redirects them.

What happens when HelpHive screws up their phone service and loses customers for "Mountain View Toyota" because they got no connection or a 'line disconnected' message?

What happens when the customer puts the 'proxy' number in their phonebook and calls it whenever they want to call "Mountain View Toyota?" When happens when a majority of "Mountain View Toyota" customers have the proxy phone number in their phone? Now it looks like there is a lot of phone traffic coming from HelpHive, but it's grossly exaggerated because you have people using the number multiple times (rather than once when they first find the business through HelpHive).
Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores
"It takes just five seconds to make a website for your family. Enter your last name above, invite family members, and share some photos, videos, messages, events, or websites! It's that easy..."

From their Site..So i believe this gives a more personalized experience for the user and their family.
I am not saying this app will be a killer app right away...But i can definitely say Wave Wont kill this...
>> But what the online apps do well, MS Office doesn't do at all.

Yes, but:
1) This will probably change next year with Office 10
2) It can be partially supplant with online sharing services. For example, I use Office 2000 (still a good product) with Live Mesh, so I can access my files from different locations. I think the collaboration could be achieved this way as well.
This whole thing reminds me, also, of the GetSatisfaction pile. Bottom line at the top, I doubt if HiveMind is illegal, but I believe the phone number hijacking is unethical.

But what this also reminds me of is news organizations' objection to article links on aggregation sites. The difference, of course, is after you follow a link you're "there" (assuming you haven't been framed) and can bookmark it as you wish, and click on all the tasty advertisements.

If "all the plumber needs to do" is to trademark his business name to keep HiveMind from listing him (assuming HiveMind wouldn't just remove him by request), then wouldn't this also work for Rupert Murdoch and his ilk? [conscious use of the negative and inflammatory "ilk," with no small amount of satisfaction]
It's true that SAT scores correlate poorly with college performance -- but that's because someone can be admitted with, e.g., a bad SAT and a great writing sample, or a great SAT and a diffident high school record.

Take a middle-tier state school: if someone has a Harvard-worthy GPA and chose the mid-tier school, it's probably because of other factors that kept them out of Harvard -- and those other factors will probably lead to a lower GPA. If another student's SAT's would imply community college, you might expect them to have some kind of focus or determination that would let them perform at the state school level (and you could detect that determination in their extracurriculars or in student interviews).

So this is only surprising data if you try hard not to think about it. What's amazing is that a four-hour test has almost as much predictive value as four years of GPA data -- is four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars really a good investment, when the result is a ~20% more accurate measure of your abilities? Doubtful.
Any HTML or CSS spit out by that app would be unusable without a tremendous engineering effort. Anything can be dragged anywhere. Even if export was only available if you limited yourself to certain functionality and layouts, I'd still be extremely impressed if exported HTML and CSS were worth using.
Ask HN: Can an LLC contractor receive stock options from a startup?
Background: I recently survived a serious illness. At the time I was self-employed. Fortunately COBRA covered my family from my last job, which is why I'm not bankrupt. Today, I can't get individual health insurance. Once I disclose my health history, insurers pretty much hang up the phone. So I formed a California LLC with a group health plan and hired myself and my wife as managers. As long as I work for this LLC, I shouldn't have to worry about health-care coverage.

I've since gotten a few informal offers to join startups. As with most Valley software startups, a large part of implied compensation would be through stock options. I'm thinking of moving forward with one, but I don't want to abandon my LLC. It seems like these are my choices:

1. Keep the startup and the LLC separate. Join the startup as an employee, then maintain the LLC in my spare time. Hope that nobody (IRS, state tax agency, my group health plan) hassles me about the legitimacy of the half-asleep LLC.

2. Join the startup as the LLC's contractor. Take all compensation in cash, no stock. Cry when the startup is acquired in a couple of years.

3. Join the startup as the LLC's contractor. Arrange compensation exactly as it would be for an employee: some salary, lots of stock.

My preference is #3. But can an LLC receive stock options? Is this an unusual thing to do? Do you personally have experience joining a company as a contractor but receiving both cash and equity as compensation?

Approaching from another angle: are the fears I express in #1 well-founded? Have you heard of an LLC or corporation getting penalized in any way for, uh, not trying very hard?
Happy Birthday Trevor - it's my birthday too!
The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years?
That I will get spammed with invites to it until I find the time to log on to Facebook and block the damn thing.
Linux Deleted my work
Apple is not a nice company. They make some nice products (or at least some very pretty and shiny products) but they are not friendly to consumers, developers, or competitors. If Apple had won out over Microsoft back in the day we would all be in a much worse position.

Apple today is very much like IBM was 30 or 40 years ago. Only, Apple is far more hip and savvy than IBM ever was, which is rather scary.

Regardless, the iPhone is not yet a monopoly, though it may well be soon enough.
We've been using Hesk and I'm perfectly happy with it.
Where does the water go if it doesn't go in the sewer? Is it somehow destroyed, never to enter the environment again?
As one of the co-founders of Ramamia, I have to say this is a great answer, probably even better than I could give. Domain and niche expertise is powerful.
Geeking with Greg: Using only experts for recommendations
Use the firebug net panel to check which items are taking so long to transfer and load.
I don't know about anyone else, but I would definitely pay for a Flashlight RPG. (kind of like a reverse Boktai...)
Service for whom? It doesn't serve the business - I'm sure they'd much rather people contact them directly - and it doesn't serve the customer - who wants to deal with a middleman when your toilet's overflowing? The only one served by this is the middleman, who gets to hijack leads and extort businesses.
All Verizon has to do is continue my tethering plan to the Droid and they have a sale.
No, GetSatisfaction is different. The business model of Yelp or Zaggats is to sell ad space or books or whatnot. The business model of GetSatisfaction is to get companies to pay them so that the company can take down negative information about itself.

With Yelp, there is no option for a business to pay them $100 per month so that you can take down bad reviews of your restaurant. That's a fundamental difference. GetSatisfaction has a desire to get users writing things on their site so that the company their writing about gets over a barrel where they have to pay them "protection money" to remove bad things people complain about their service. And $100 isn't much for the ability to silence a bunch of people bad-mouthing your service.

GetSatisfaction's wording has even tried to push the point using phrasing like "X is not yet participating" and "X has not yet committed to open conversation about its products and services" (which used to be their tagline). They both try to make it sound like they've approached X and X has declined to participate. That's different from a review site where users can say what they want, but there's no claim that the place being reviewed has declined to participate.

If you allow users to post negative things about a business, fine. If you allow users to post negative things about a business and then go to that business and ask them for $100/mo to silence those negative things, not fine.

If you allow companies to participate in the conversation and say, "we have no affiliation with X" for the companies who have nothing to do with your forum, fine. If you make it sound like the company is trying to avoid your forum because they're scared of the truth, not fine.

The devil's in the details. Here, HelpHive is trying to put themselves in a position where users have their number for places of business rather than that place of business' number. In the future, there's nothing to stop them from adding ads for competitors (and offering to connect the caller to that competitor) or worse, if they're really successful and become an online directory that a lot use, holding customers for ransom.

What it comes down to is truth. GetSatisfaction is obscuring the truth by allowing companies to moderate for a price and by using misleading language about the companies who aren't paying them. HelpHive is obscuring the truth by telling customers that their number is the number of the business they want to call. People don't get uppity about Yelp or Zaggats because, while a user can post an untrue review or a reviewer might have just seen a bad night, it's a lot closer to the truth and a lot more fair. If you're getting a massive amount of bad reviews on Yelp, that's not good for you, but at least Yelp isn't coming along to extort $100 out of you to get rid of those bad reviews.
Impressive stuff. I was taken aback by "Waterfall", but then realized it was a photo trick. Nonetheless, impressive!
Why You Should Do Prototyping
Yes, because Agile clearly means "don't design anything" and "have no direction".
Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
It shouldn't be hard to make an binfmt_misc handler that would rip the correct elf from the fatelf thing (or rather a simple tar) and feed it to kernel, so you can just type ./fatelf-something. You can also make it a shell script with the binary in it, that will choose the correct one and execute it. Both these solutions works without a single kernel line (really), and I can't see anything that fatelf has and these doesn't.
The worst I can say about monopolies is that they destroy economic value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Monopoly_and_efficienc...

Microsoft has removed Billions from the economy, even above the Billions they transferred from others to themselves.

In more prosaic terms, monopolies "make articles scarce, make them dear and make them bad". All in all, not good and while it is generally recognized that Microsoft makes things shoddy and expensive compared with a free market, I find it a shame that it's not better recognised that they have limited the spread of computing technology.
How to spam-protect DecentURL? (my URL nicifier inspired by a reddit comment)
Good idea. Maybe have a way to synchronize all iphones in a crowd for changing color and frequency.
We'll have to steganographically-encode our data in a nearly infinite set of exchanged lolcat jpegs.
I understand that people believe this to be important, and I see the value in interesting communities. It's just that I don't consider the forum model something to emulate, but rather a regression from earlier models - I much prefer mailing lists or Usenet groups, both of which allow a user much more control via their client, and both of which seem to, on average, suffer less from "the idiot problem" than their web-related counterparts.

Part of the reason may have been that many web fora try to appeal to the broadest possible audience, while many mailing lists and Usenet groups have a formal or informal charter.
Well, the voter doesn't have a second ballot. In a well run system, ballots are very secure, one per voter, observed into the booth, out of the booth, and into the box.

In the scenario I described the voter takes the money and turns in a spoiled ballot. So the buyer only gets a spoiled ballot, instead of a vote in favour of his candidate.

All vote buying scams are vulnerable to this tactic, even the Reel.
I doubt that it's too heavy to hold up as that would defeat the purpose. I imagine that a device like this would be more pleasant to keep in your lap as you browse the Internet or such then a traditional laptop. Plus, you could always mount it on a mechanical arm or on the wall. I can imagine having such a device hanging in my kitchen, so I could check my email, or look up recipes while cooking.
Do these guys(and girls) ever sleep?
Great post, but business can actually pay to remove negative Yelp reviews: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=yelp+...
In related news, Botticelli made ~100% of his net income from the Medicis.

Which is to say, what role does/can patronage play in the modern world?
Zoho is something of a non-competitor anyway. Their product is ok; but only just. (EDIT: this is my opinion obviously. I tried them for a few months along with Zimbra and Google and settled on Google in the end.)

I think their main focus is on some of the other apps rather than word processing / spreadsheets.

Will this give them some publicity: yes.

Will it make them a player? Unlikely.

This is smart MS moves against Google (as someone else already pointed out)
Smart = Intelligent + Having a lot of domain knowledge

It's as simple as that.

Being intelligent can also make transforming information to knowledge easier. If you have high IQ and still are stupid that must mean that you don't pay much attention to the domain that you are stupid about.
> I just want to see if ... I can improve sales by doing whatever users say to do.

Thar be dragons down that path... Users don't know what they want:

http://www.extremeplanner.com/blog/2005/04/users-dont-know-w...