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I've been 1.5a since 1.4 was released (or since I knew about it). 1.5 is mostly bugfixes. For my purposes 1.4 was completely unusable.
Yeah this is the best solution I've found for putting dynamic content on a Facebook Fan Page. It requires a custom solution but I'd like to eventually build an app that allows anyone to add a custom/dynamic tab to their fan page.
More importantly, these kinds of meta-threads allow the community to comment on these types of topics. Things that you might think are only happening to you, or that you only care about, turn out to have a rather large number of users with the same problem.
The free service right now (having a 'mini newspaper' emailed to you every morning) is nice, but to be honest, I would value this at about $1/month, but I might pay up to $1.50/month to support journalism. I suspect that they will want to charge more than this.
Ah, I think I misunderstood what you were saying then.
Great -- I'd like to support their journalism efforts and I'm not interested in home delivery.
well, I heard 2 names for the gen after this next-gen ...
One is next-next gen, although of course, this will have to stop at some point.
The other one is simply 3rd generation sequencing (much more future proof :))
> b) proper integration of them with your site practically prints money.

Explain please =)
>190k followers in 19 hours. Very impressive.
HW vs SW seems to be a false dichotomy to me. It's a matter of time, rather than fundamental difference. Software is slower but more flexible. Hardware flows into new niches as it gets more powerful and has lower energy costs, and when it has a surplus of power, much of its function moves into software.
Presumably the same way anyone else verifies someone is who they say they are: by looking at their ID.
I realise that he will get a lot of @replies but its a shame that he's just replying to the celebrities on twitter..
Except you can't, since none of that works in IE.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. There is basically an existential conflict between the stated goals of YC in running HN, and the expectations of the community that has formed. A bit of collateral damage here and there does not impact YC's goals at all, as you have said, although it does rattle the community.

It's an interesting situation - I don't blame PG or YC for their occasional failings. I expect they are surprised, and perhaps not in a 100% comfortable way, at the way the community, and expectations, have grown. Arguably HN is now too large to fulfil its purported function of screening YC applicants prior to interview.

That said, doesn't matter if you wanted the kid - once it's in your arms and screaming, a kid you have. I hope that PG is at least considering anointing some more moderators - "community selected" would be best - to take up the mantle when he doesn't have the time or inclination to take an in-depth interest in things. I certainly have some people in mind that I would gladly support being moderators, and I think they would gladly accept.

The HN story is quite fascinating, really. It's still the best we've got, seemingly completely by accident. Quite inspirational.
According to the People's Republic of China everywhere is a region of People's Republic of China.
Yes, it's technically part of the PROC, but they've been independent from the mainland for hundreds of years.
It's an interesting spec but it requires server-side changes.

I wish browsers would implement an 'application mode' which would require some kind of installation step and then open up more permissions to code from that domain.

Even if you get users to install Prism you can't make cross-domain requests, which seems crazy, as I could get you to install some other binary and have full control. (Air does allow cross domain requests.)
They left out "Segfaults Firefox 3.5.7 on x64 ubuntu 9.10"
You are free to save and pay off your debts.
"Beg[ging] Forgiveness" is only better than "Ask[ing] Permission" in one-off situations, where the consequences are tolerable. It's a terrible fit here for two (2) reasons:

1) It's not after-the-fact forgiveness you'd be seeking, but forgiveness "during-the-fact". It's like indulgences - it's hard to make a sincere apology for a sin you're still committing.

2) The other party has them over a barrel. If Amazon doesn't accept the apology, it's not a broken friendship - they'll shut off the API and put the company out of business. It's only a sound strategy to Beg Forgiveness if you can survive the consequences of a refusal to forgive. Consider copyright infringement - it's better to get permission up front than trust that it's fair use or that the owner won't care, because you can't survive the multi-million dollar lawsuit they can bring.
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Agreed, title is misleading. Still, an interesting, if outrageous, article.
I had the same initial response where robg == billybob. Then I started thinking "why must good content be free?". The best alternatives (Economist, WSJ) all charge and I'm not about to start reading cnn.com. Perhaps the BBC site.

I could cobble together a morning read from other sources. I guess it just depends on their pricing model. I'm willing to listen, at least.
The problem, of course, being that you've never heard of them.

The more visible people have more followers largely because they are more visible. I'm not saying this makes it right, we need to learn how to find people based on value instead of visibility.
I can't imagine Bill Gates giving personal informations to a company just to have a verified twitter account. Maybe you're right and if you are, I still can't believe it...
Particularly because things like this are not always the result of pg personally moderating or killing accounts. Many times it's due to user abuse. AFAIK, HN grants different levels of power to users based on their karma. When I first joined, I couldn't downvote, and could only comment a couple times a day.

Who's to say that the guys on here http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders don't have some kind of uber-user power because of their high karma score?

We've already established in a number of threads over the past few months that some of these folks (to be left unnamed) have invested remarkable effort into attaining these scores and think very highly of themselves and don't feel the need to answer to anyone for their otherwise abusive behavior (like hitting the downvote cap %, or flagging users they don't like etc.).

More interesting is that the community discussion around those guys' behavior also showed interesting patterns in the way HN works. Eventually pg shows up and says something like "yeah well, if your karma is above 10k, and you have a 30% upvote surplus, and it's a thursday, you can kill user accounts, but only 2 a year, unless their name starts with a t,s,kh, or an odd number." and then somebody posts the relevant arc source for that.

We all then walk away scratching our heads as to why that's something built into the site, but we have no internal mail system or simple way of contacting the admins.
is there a downmod threshold? once you reach it your banned? i've had a few posts down graded, and still no ban...is there a document somewhere someone can point me to?
I can confirm that it doesn't work in links2 either.
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One of the life lessons I've recently learned is that the people who talk the most, generally accomplish the least. However, on the first meetings, these people are very good at giving the impression that they accomplish a lot.
That's a well-reasoned reply. I too appreciate the tone of this site and given the fact that there are hundreds of non-moderated places I can go and say whatever I want to online, I'm ok with HN being tightly moderated.
You're basically willing to trade one cup of coffee for a month of decent journalism, but no more?
There's no real distinction anymore between "online" and "offline". If I'm near my tower computer and we're not in the middle of a storm, I've got internet. If I've got my laptop and I'm near a coffee shop or college campus, I've got internet. If I've got my iPhone and I'm not in the middle of a desert, I've got internet.

It's a major shift from 10-15 years ago, when you weren't online unless you were on your desktop computer and dialed in, and a major shift from even 5 years ago, when you weren't online unless you were on your desktop computer.
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I think the reason the quote didn't match at first is because some websites use weird special symbols, which I wasn't able to strip yet. I must admit that the parser is not all that smart right now. But it definitely should strip all the tags.

About the "heart" ico - you're probably right, I just thought that "heart" means "I loved that quote, i.e. I'm upvoting it".

Thanks for the reply.
I don't follow. You don't think the US has interest in China labor being so cheap? What do you think would happen if standard of living for the average Chinese reached that of the average American and they had to be paid the same amount it would cost us to produce materials?
Unless you're Steven Fry, Ricky Gervais, Miley Cirus, etc etc

I agree with the poster who recently likened Twitter to Mullets. We'll look back thoroughly embarrassed.
I emailed him (Tavis Ormandy) and asked. If I get a reply I'll post it here.
neither I, but it was funny to see his follower count increase like Gmail´s space counter. Actually I think it took Twitter down today.
Since Yelp depends on sponsorships to turn a profit (trick question: have they turned a profit yet?), they depend on the sleazy tactics of their sales reps. I'm reminded of a line from the opening of Mission Impossible: As usual, should you or any member of your I.M. Force be captured or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence.

Any advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malevolence.
I don't think the problem is that they are unreadable, it's that while your patent attorney friend can provide a clear explanation of the patent on narrow grounds and get it approved, some other attorney can come along a year later and file a suit based on a much looser interpretation. So a patent is dual-natured: it's strictly interpreted at approval, and loosely interpreted while enforced.
I thought it was past Monday (1/18). Can you guys maintain a community calendar or find a way to notify people of the next meeting?
Maybe you could stick it in your backyard and just sell tickets to the "Space Experience" like this guy did with an old Airbus 300 in India:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2558...
When did middle class become a synonym for a particular range of pay? The majority in the $120k+ USD pay range may be middle class but I'm sure there are working class folk in there too. Consider sportsmen, Beckham and Rooney are very high paid but they're not members of the traditional middle-class.

Membership of various classes is a huge quagmire. If you want to refer to people solely on what they are paid then talk about wages and steer clear of notion of class.

Edit: not so stupid now.
As an alternate version of this, has anyone ever considered buying a semi tractor with sleeper and taking just enough long-haul work to break even, while spending the rest of the time tooling around? Practical? I had though that with mobile internet and a driving partner you could actually be pretty productive on the road as well.
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They also split affiliate programs so that I can't include links for UK and US folk, say, that will simply take them to the most appropriate store I have to provide 2 links or do acrobatics sniffing IPs and whatnot.
wowsers. You could probably have GMail in that size.
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"The article is cherry picking this small population of kinda-sorta-unfortunates (they're still making $120k a year!) and using it to argue against a bunch of government programs that provide real benefits to people with a fraction of their income."

It's a regular NYT feature - The Plight of the Not-Quite-Rich-Enough. Sure it sucks for this lady, but 2/3 of the families in this country would be thrilled to have a single wage-earner making $60k. However, Mrs. Not-Quite-Rich-Enough gets NYT articles, and Joe Schmoe, who's struggling to send his kids to college at all, gets ignored.

Edit: This is a Forbes article, but it reads just like any of a dozen NYT articles over the last year. It makes more sense in Forbes, because that magazine is targeted at the people in the upper income bracket.
There's an implementation of the "Seam Remover" that Norvig demonstrates in Fiji: http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de
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Admittedly, I am uninformed here, but what is the plan to maintain manned space flight in the interim between now and whenever they complete the next vehicle platform?
No, but you can imagine his publicist/agent/whatever arranging for twitter to call billG and discuss the situation, or vice versa, surely.
And at $1.50 it's not going to be a particularly good cup of coffee.

But I'm in the same boat. I already shell out ~$100 a year for the Economist, and various other subscriptions. If I have to start paying for all the news SOURCES I read I'm going to be out a great deal more. Note I said SOURCES. I'm willing to pay for news, but not a monthly subscription to a news site I only read occasionally.
I switched to dvorak 3 or 4 years ago after 15 or so years of touch typing on qwerty. At the time I switched I could type ~120 wpm with qwerty. It took very little time to get up to 60-70 wpm on dvorak. Now, after 3-4 years on dvorak, I can type 90-100 wpm. So my advice is similar to others here. Don't switch for speed. I have never had RSI problems, so I can't comment on that aspect.
Sorry no, it was an eBay auction of all things. But I don't remember what for.

When you scrolled the ebay page it had that affect, but it was not in the entire page, just in the description area of it.

Basically you attach the flag to the background (fixed).

Then the pole moves normally as the page moves. Use z-index and move the flag on top of the pole, and it's quite a cool effect.
I'm interested to see if paid subscribers have ads alongside their articles. I would consider paying it to contribute to good journalism AND have fewer ads (I am aware of AdBlock, however, I am also aware of how the Internet economy current works.)
One of the admins accidentally marked a site as a spam site and you later submitted something from it, after which your account was briefly banned.

This post, however, was killed because we can't have people submitting top level posts every time they want to complain about something being killed. If you have a question pertaining to your specific account, email us (info@ycombinator.com).
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There are some striking similarities.

> In our case all candidates are reasonably corrupt.

Our previous batch of rulers at least had the decency to try and hide their corruption. This president is pretty open about it.

> What we do know for sure is that he's a pretty good manager,

Our president not. He has grade 3 and is just seen as a populist.

> The biggest problem I think is a bit different. I'm very very scared by the politicization of public institutions. Top management is always chosen based on party, and automatically so is middle management. This breeds a brand of bureaucracy interesting more in politics than in getting things done, and the more it lasts the lower the mindset seeps.

This is extremely similar. In my country it is called “cadre deployment” and is an official position. The ruling party employ their members (cadres) at all public institutions to follow the ruling party’s will. This includes but is not limited to all branches of national, provincial and local government, including places such as hospitals and government owned companies (such as electricity utilities).

So, these people are employed on the basis of where they are in the ruling party – and not based on competence. They then also ensure that the whole institution is politicised.

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There are two other things, which I do not know if it happens in Romania. The first is an extremely well politically connected oligarchy which are members of the ruling party. They get government contracts (and are favoured by government policy) while they give money to the ruling party and members. Does this happen there?

Another thing we have is the ruling party’s “investment arm” (Chancellor house) which holds stake in many tenders given by government. (The government therefore give tenders indirectly to the ruling party).
We're going to depend on the Russians. So much for American know-how :/
An application just appeared on my Verizon Blackberry the other day with a link to Bing. I clicked it and it wanted to install an app. I'm happy with Google on my Blackberry.
Killing it makes very little sense when the vast majority of the capital investment has been made already.

Further, whatever possible (unlikely) brand damage a moderately unsuccessful piece of hardware would do to Google it would pale in comparison to what would happen if they pulled it from the market.

Google isn't the kind of company that needs things to be an overnight success, I think in the long run they will gain ground.
Reasons I'd get rid of my iPhone and get a Google thingy:

* They put flash on it.
* They put *anything* from microsoft on it.

Guess the time may be coming to try Android.
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Interesting post about perl, but the end is most interesting about Life In General:

"But I guess there's also a moral to it all. We all start somewhere, and in a way it's reassuring to find five-year old proof of this fact. A newbie is just on a part of the learning curve you've already visited; they haven't had a chance to tweak their keyboard and developing environment to maximum efficiency yet, and they sometimes forget that the manual is there, or misread it in some way. So, don't hesitate to be be kind to them, and help them connect to the goodness that is perldoc, PerlMonks and Planet Iron Man so that they can grow and bloom into experienced wielders of Perl.

But don't hesitate to call them insane, either, when the situation calls for it."

The only thing missing from Life In General is The Fine Manual.
There's likely quite a bit of classified material in the shuttle that they wouldn't like to give out. Perhaps that all gets stripped out before delivery though.
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So, bets how long until he gets hacked ? :)
We definitely know how to outsource.
Speaking of the iPhone/iTouch app, I would love to see a caching HN app. I read NYT on my iPod Touch (without wireless) most days when I walk to/from work, but I would switch to a substitute news source rather than pay.
I wouldn't read anything from this think tank....
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2010/01/haiti-disaster-ca...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLiqgm2ma0
Well, maybe not leaving them on home row, but keeping them grouped together nearby, maybe on the M,./ keys.
This is Tavis's "thing" (one of them, at least); he's better known for fuzzing the device virtualization code in VMware and Xen and finding hypervisor escapes. I'm not even a little surprised that he found privilege escalation in VDM.

It's a cool bug, but it's a bit strange to see it get written up like this, because it doesn't matter a whole lot. On most Windows machines, if you have a normal user account, you have everything you need; in corporate environments, if you have one admin password you probably have all of them; in servers, the user account you bust is probably a local admin.
The romanticized Indians where the victims bent, is a little old. The fact of the matter is the Indians (all distinctive cultures) where the looser in a bitter battle between two cultures. Both where right and both where wrong. Both committed atrocities that are appealing by today's standards. The white apologist thing is just neo-trendy but true history does not support your conclusion.

The fact of the matter is, for better or worse European and Asian cultures with the help at times from middle eastern cultures have bettered the human condition and history clearly supports that conclusion.

The grandparent post is right, society has congealed into functional and dysfunctional land masses. I would go so far as to state that it is a gradient, where land masses like the middle east are somewhere in between. Now we can stick our head and the sand and say it is not true and continue with the standard kumbaya, everybody is a winner, Disney movie observations, that it is not the case or we can accept that either culturally, geographically, racially, nutritionally or via some other unknown, there are regions that are prone to violence, rampant corruption, less innovation and political abuse / instability.

We will be none the better, until we come to that acceptance and formulate real solutions that address the real issue and not just band-aiding it with aid and dictator coddling. That just furthers the problem.
Oh, believe me, constructs in Perl (both Perl 5 and Perl 6) mean different things depending on context, too. :)

As a simple example, which you'll find in various languages, not just Perl: brackets ('[ ]') construct list objects when standing alone, but when they occur after something, they do array indexing into that thing. This all falls out naturally, and humans are very well equipped at switching between this type of contexts.

The Perl 5 behaviour of overloading 'reverse' with double meaning could be said to be context-dependent in this way. But the flip/reverse/invert distinction goes in the other direction, saying "hey, maybe we do want to keep these three concepts separate rather than crowding them all into the same method".

A similar thing has happened with 'length'. In Perl 5, 'length' always meant 'number of characters in the supplied string', but newbies kept expecting the function to work for lists too. It doesn't. In Perl 6, there's a method '.elems' for lists and '.chars' for strings. Neither of them are accessible as 'length'.

In a lot of places where Perl 5 overloads words and depends on context for the right semantics, Perl 6 strives to make things consistent and eliminate mental lists of things you have to remember.
I doubt it, compared to the overall volume he would still be a drop in the bucket and it isn't unusual to see outages even on normal days.
I'm pretty sure Google didn't sic Tavis on Microsoft; this is a logical extension of work he's been doing for years.
When I saw the Bing search results, and saw how much of a knockoff it was of Google's design, all I could think about was Arial being a poor knockoff of Helvetica, but at exactly the same widths, because Microsoft didn't want to pay licensing fees to Adobe.

Apple, back in the day, chose Helvetica.