skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two computers I use most, an Athlon 1.1G with 768MB and a dual core Athlon 64 X2 4000+ with 2G both run chrome more snappily and lock up far less often than with FF. FF is still my browser of choice as I'm used to firebug and the other addons.

The limitation appears to be flash handling. Practically every website has some flash if only for cookies and/or adverts.
Yes. It just puts people with viable $900k/yr companies in a ludicrously bad negotiating position.
Why is anything I said false? Because I used the word "just"? Take out the word "just" and everything we both said is true: there are VC's that aren't rich, and rich people will be able to abuse this to get their friends green cards, while those without connections have to wait and work for 7-9 years to get their green cards.

Look at http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4659.htm.... It says that the US government is just now processing applicants who filed under EB-3 back in 2001 and 2002.

Put the "EB-6" people in the same line as the EB-3 people and the proposed legislation becomes a lot more fair, but useless. Speed up the EB-3 process and lots of people stuck working under a H1-B would quit their jobs and start their own businesses. The could do so with the money they've saved, or negotiate fair deals with investors.
I read the EB-5 rules before I commented. I stand by my comment.
GoDaddy store your passwords in clear-text and may try to SSH to your VPS without permission

That's the title of the post. without permission -- what you're saying could be true; however, permission is granted in that case.
Absolutely.

BUT tort-law firms do NOT lightly make decisions about where to allocate resources when being the FIRST to move in a class-related suit.

Neither of the firms is huge or that well established, but I imagine that they have sufficiently compelling evidence in hand to proceed, and the point of doing a PR blitz like they’ve done is to find other pissed-off, potential clients which will only grow the pool of riches should they win.
A minimally- and anonymously-substantiated rumor. Even their headline isn't as definite as this one.
5 is also a very nice feature that allows never-ending fights known from forums to die. There's no way to bring back some old rant by replying "You're wrong!". Unfortunately that happens on mailing lists and forums quite a lot.

Otherwise I can imagine the front page would consist of "git vs hg", "dvorak vs qwerty", "python vs ruby", "nosql vs rdbms", "lisp vs everything", ...
and people, remember that removing or messing with any of thode devices is in violation of the DMCA. So dont look too much. You are not expected to know how an atm or gas pump work. Just insert you card as you're expected to and be a law abiding citizen.
Even when they stop doing this, businesses will still get mad. They are mad that one bad employee can mistreat one customer, and the Whole Internet will hear about it (because Yelp is actually popular). The extortion claim is the only way to get Yelp into court.

In the end, the local businesses will lose. And I think that's a good thing; they should hire good employees and provide good customer service! I'm glad that Yelp can make some money off their indifference.
This reminds me of the book "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal" by Joel Salatin.
The latest beta for me on Kubuntu requires 50MB of installs. That's a bit fat for my liking.

I have 5.0.307.7 beta but am avoiding the .307.9 update.

Appears to be a new dependency on LSB that simple enables the dependencies to be shorthanded rather than giving the genuine deps.
The only way the app would have been age limited for viewing and downloading was if the app was rated accordingly and parental controls were active

This would seem to bolster my argument. The only way to not see them as an adult was to declare oneself a child. Whatever you may think of people who are categorically disinterested in these applications, this is not a good way to treat users. I know you're not saying it was fine the way it was, I just think it underscores the importance of a solution that fits in prevailing social mores. There are some things that people expect not to see unless they are specifically looking for them. That would seem to lead into the idea of segregating that stuff into a "back room", but as I explain below, I think that only follows if the retailer wants to sell that content in the first place.

Apple could have had...

What you and many others seem to avoid is explaining is why you believe that putting these applications in a ghetto would be preferable to simply not selling them at all. That Apple is demonstrably willing to go without them would seem to undermine such arguments. If they don't want to sell porn-like apps, why should they devote resources--any resources--to developing such a ghetto, classifying things which should and should not belong in that ghetto, verifying adult status through some unspecified system, ensuring the accuracy of that verification system, dealing with the complaints of ghetto-ized developers, complaints of developers afraid of being ghetto-ized, complaints of developers who wanted to get into the App Store via the ghetto but where rejected, complaints of adult users shafted by the verification system, complaints by users who don't think there should be a ghetto in the first place, complaints by users who thing the ghetto should include X, Y, and Z, and complaints from people who just like to complain. And this on top of an App Store review process that has borne criticism for inconsistency and delays from the start.

Again, why would they bother expending the resources to support something they don't appear to want to do in the first place? It may be that Apple is making a mistake that will hurt them in the long run, but it's not clear to me what they would get out of ghetto-izing that is in line with their aims.
Account Execs being unable to delete reviews does not mean that account execs are unable to tell customers that they can.

"Give us money or bad things will happen" is a shakedown, regardless of whether bad things can or will happen.
From the techcrunch article: "in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments in the guise of advertising contracts, in exchange for removing or modifying negative reviews."

Yelp doesn't remove reviews and reviews themselves aren't modified; simply one positive review is moved to the top. You could argue that by moving the positive review to the top, that in turn modifies the order of other reviews (positive and negative), but seems like very shaky ground for the case to stand on. Of course, I'm no lawyer, so take this all with a grain of salt.

Or are you pointing out the loose quote I posted ("the first review your customers see will always be a positive one") is what will give the case legs?
For convenient definitions of "conflict", sure. But that doesn't necessarily mean Africa is that much better a place to live. For example, there might not be a "conflict" in Liberia right now, but the place is still hell on Earth.
I think my parents are keeping Australia Post in business with their Tim Tam "care" packages...
Ha ha ha... well then, storing passwords in the clear? who cares :-)
They take all the intellectual property to the investors' other, wholly-owned company.
Please, no more! It's still measuring different algorithms (memoizing, iterative) and measuring them in different ways (including/excluding startup costs).

This says nothing, and does no one any good.
A "legal lock" is ridiculous. There is nothing illegal about the domain name. They should sue to have the domain name unlocked, and then move their site to a host under a less oppressive regime.
This worries me, apple doesn't handle age ratings well. My app shows wikipedia content about parks, and therefore apple made us declare our app 17+. It'd be really bad for us if we had to move to the explicit category.
If you have CPC ads on your site, you have to optimize
for failure: the ad has to be more enticing than your
application/content or you don't get paid

If either of you ever come back to this conversation, would you please point me to a detailed description of this point?

I'm having trouble getting my head around it.
Isn't that message copyright FFS Enterprise, and distributing it may be illegal?
SURF feature extraction library written in Flash using Alchemy
We can hope. But with China censoring the internet to suit its political gain, and with Australia trying to get Google to censor their searches too, and now this, it seems a lot of the world is following suit.
Strings that look like text or markup may or may not be, depending on whether they are surrounded by comments, CDATA marked sections, or processing instructions. Most people who try this get it wrong, and end up with a tool that randomly fails on some documents. Getting it right requires a regex big enough to actually be an XML parser, and why write that from scratch rather than use one that's known to work (and understand well-formedness and namespaces as well)?
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity."
I think the grandparent is just looking to score a few cheap karma points by stirring up some populism.
Yeah, I get it. Personally, I am an avid skier, and I'd love to use this product to get together with fellow skiers/snowboarders and take advantage of existing steep discounts in group lift tickets.
Seesmic's web-based Twitter client gets an overhaul
Why Degrees Are Overrated
One Good Thing About Crowdsourcing
Open Source 101: Paying for Free Software
"swordfish"
Very interesting. So how is it working? Are you paying the mortgage yet? How do you get new subs?

I am trying something very similar in GPS tracking space
Mozilla has active projects working on almost all of the complaints mentioned here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects

They are working on startup speed, UI responsiveness, reducing I/O, a new uncluttered theme, redesign of the addon manager, resource packages (to speed up page rendering), and asynchronous calls to the Places database (which powers bookmarks, history, and the location bar).

They're not ignoring the problems, although we'd all like to see the results sooner rather than later.
Why we should eradicate "agnosticism" from the dictionary
I do the same thing for a friend of mine in SF, I send him Tim Tams and Cherry Ripes quarterly!

Chocolate smugglers ahoy!
In effect, No. The computing power required to crack SHA-512 is infinitesimal compared to that for, say, bcrypt. However, modern crypt() implementations support multiple rounds just like bcrypt and that would make it significantly more difficult (time-wise) to crack. But then again SHA-512 is already being replaced due to some potential flaws found, so.... shrug

Kind of pointless to crack your password, though. I mean, it's not like you use the same one for more than one account.
Not sure if you read the section below that where I talked about the part of the pitch that I feel is responsible for these issues. I don't rule out that a Account Exec wouldn't say something like that, but from my experience, Yelp is very serious about such instances and will most likely fire somebody who does that immediately. I say most likely because even with their exceptional training, people do make mistakes and that person might be able to convince Yelp it was unintentional - then again, I wouldn't be surprised if Yelp is at the point where they would fire somebody even if it were accidental.

There very easily could be an exception, especially with the number of Account execs they have right now, but it's clear from the very start of training to making actual calls that such actions will not be tolerated.
It's like the vi or emacs of file managers. It's kinda hard to explain. It's value increases exponentially with the amount of customization you put into it. I polished my settings for years until I got to what I'm using now; but from then on, I never changed a single setting, I'm using the same settings file as for version 4 - current version is 7; It's got everything from different colors by file type to shortcuts for different folders, ftp, scp, crc verification, multiple file rename, viewers for lots of formats, tons of plugins...
What Does ISO 27001 Mean to You?
As someone who might be interested in this if it passes, I think it's a step in the right direction, and I don't really understand the objections.

I think this is much better than an H1-B. In many ways, you have more control over your fate as an entrepreneur than as an employee - I've seen mentions of entrepreneurial servitude, but working for a company on a H1-B seems like a much more precarious position. In addition, with this proposed visa there are clear targets to hit - you know what you're getting into upfront.

Talking about rich people bringing their friends into the country... as far as I understand it, it sounds like EB-5 is still much better suited for that. Pay $500,000 to start a business somewhere in rural America, and you're done - no strings attached, no work required (the business doesn't even have to be successful, unlike this proposal).
Aren't we all improbable people on HN?
wow. Drupal, a job, cnet?

How did this ended up on the front page? Does the article link to mahalo article to explain drupal or what?
My grandfather, whose background was in economics, became very interested in science later in life and built a fully functional Tesla Coil [1] in his basement in his 60's (this was before wide-spread availability of information on the internet; he did research in libraries and universities and built it out of hardware store parts). I was about 7 at the time.

We would do experiments with it such as lighting up free-standing fluorescent bulbs up to 15 feet away, or affixing an ion motor attachment which would reach incredible speeds.

I am now 25, and like my grandfather, I never want to stop learning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil
Dante's Inferno Divine Edition by Electronic Arts (Video Game) (PLAYSTATION 3)
Your post happened :)

I did see a decrease in bounces, thanks.
Wow, great minds think alike - this is the equivalent of 'If you ran the world, what would you do?' :)

As you may have seen, my answer is I would turn every single good intention into action.

If you have a mo and would like to, do email me - cindy@ifwerantheworld.com. Would love to discuss further.
One of big benefits of the async model that ngninx uses i that it can keep many open connections. If you don't have many long running open connections (I/O on the socket), then going that route doesn't really help as much.
In a chemical sense, no difference, but fire is complicated. Check out Wikipedia articles on Redox, Radicals, Combustion, etc.

Fuel cells are cool because they grab electricity straight from the freed electrons as the fuel is oxidized. More efficient than using the heat to make steam to power a turbine to spin electromagnets, your typical power plant.
You might want to double check that. Labels may send your station free CDs, but if you broadcast them, you should be paying ASCAP/BMI fees based on how many songs you play.
Right until your new chosen country does the same. If everyone does as you are suggesting, pretty soon you will run out of options and every nation will be the same.
Ok, if what you meant to say was that the bill could be abused, let's examine that. What protections does it have against abuse, and why do you feel they're inadequate?
- Network Warrior from OReilly
- The TCP/IP books, especially Vol 1, from WR Stevens
- Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 from Cisco Press
- TCP/IP Network Administration from Oreilly still has a little relevance.
I was in Sydney last April for a wedding and I got addicted to Fountain Sweet Chilli Sauce. I bought a bunch of bottles and I'm down to my last one.

Import that.
I just lost 8 hours straight on lesswrong. Thank you.
Can't you imagine a home server which is already set up?
Sorry to have to ask this question, but can you show any proof that you worked at Yelp as an account executive or that these processes are in place?
The fashion chains do face one pretty nasty issue - different seasons... do they offer Aussies 6 month old styles each spring/summer? ... or do they use Australia as the testing ground for the US.

That issue is what has prevented H&M, Zara, Top Shop and many, many other European brands fast fashion chains from heading to Australia (one of very few Southern Hemisphere markets).
cross domain xmlhttprequests? Is this wise?
I quit my Ph.D. program in mathematics because I saw that the opportunities for reasonable employment were very limited. Tenure track positions are very hard to get. Increasingly universities are relying on adjuncts and their pay is dismal.
NoSQL conference coming to Boston
As they mentioned it can work on variety of fuel sources, they can probably create Gasoline -> Fuel Cell -> Electricity -> Motor type powertrain and create very efficient cars like 100mi/1gallon or something.
I'm pretty sure if someone would try to explain Monads without actually using Haskell syntax it might actually be possible to understand. This explained nothing.

Haskell advocates mention pure code and monads as pros of Haskell and typical Haskell conventions. But I'm simply not willing to learn a language's full syntax to learn about some generic computing concept and how it is employed in a specific language.

If I need to learn the language you are trying to sell me to understand the concept your are trying to explain me in order to sell me the language, don't expect to get very far.
Square isn't about value. It's about trying to monetize off of the hype expected around any startup from a twitter founder.
Thought it was about the old R-type game's ship system.. ;)
Curate lists of YC companies, founders, VCs, etc.
You guys are misinterpreting my duh. It was meant negatively for the site, not parent's comment. :)
Which could be argued (by entrepreneurs looking for a startup visa) is still better than nothing.

No, it's not perfect, but what alternative do you propose?
Except that using bit torrent is considered distribution automatically. Actual distribution is not shown.

I'd consider that using bt to get a copy of a recording you own (backup, format shifting) would be pretty close to fair use in the USA and certainly not immoral. If this were considered then even showing distribution would not necessarily show tortuous malfeasance.

However, being practical, a proper measure of the data distributed should be made using the available evidence. For example, the copyright holder can show the recording was available for 1 day and the ISP can confirm that the uploaded data that day was 1Gb (my broadband connection maxed for 6 hours).

This would yield a potential upload of about 150 tracks of 5MB. Assuming the tracks are 50p each then the maximum possible amount is about £75. Now apply whatever factor has historically been used in damages for those who sell bootleg CDs in the street and voila.

A few hundred pounds at most. Equivalent to a very large speeding ticket.
I know they do. My point is they shouldn't. Give them an already set up server, and they won't.
I don't see why trading in patents is such a bad thing. Seeing that patents have a shelf life, why is this such a bad thing?

I am amazed that a secondary market for patents was there... Myrhvold is showing us that it does... what's wrong with that?
One reason universities overproduce is because graduate students provide a cheap supply of labor. Also, much funding is contingent upon research and this means, for the most part, a research department which means graduate students.

The reason we need universities to be better funded, though, is moral. Fewer than 50% of all people who start a 4 year degree every complete it. These people end up with a great deal of debt and it's debt that can't be forgiven. In an effort to cut costs universities are increasingly using adjunct labor. I believe that most people who teach in higher education are not tenured.
That would be exactly why this new technology might be more efficient than centralized power plants.
Interview with Seth Godin on Life and Linchpins
You may be right, but I doubt it. I've worked in a few cold call centers and the mentality was always a hard sales mentality, which is that the ends justify the means.
sorry i'm just seeing this thread now; been working all morning / early afternoon keeping up with posts & info on Startup Visa Act. i'll do my best to comment where appropriate based on my understanding of the proposed legislation.

1) people who want to "buy a VISA" (aka have the money to invest in a new business already) wouldn't need any new legislation. the existing EB-5 handles this.

2) VCs have no specific control over entrepreneurs ability to qualify / remain in the US, however the entrepreneur is initially required to get at least one sponsoring US entity (VC or qualifying angel) to support the application and invest at least $100K. for renewal, they would have to qualify either by reaching profitability at a $1M revenue run rate, creating a minimum of 5 US jobs, or achieving a subsequent round of financing of at least $1M. True there are a few edge cases which might not qualify, however we're doing the best we can to draft legislation which is reasonable in most cases. (creating 5 US jobs in 2 years is a fairly low bar, which should be substantially easier than getting to break-even on at least $1M revenue, or raising subsequent capital).

3) it is not my understanding that creation of this new class will put substantial hardship on processing other types of visas, altho obviously the cost in time & resources is non-zero. that said, since most of the rqmts for the application process in this new visa class are market-based, not based on bureaucratic review, we expect to have a faster processing time than for other types of visas (and hopefully would not slow down existing visa processing much if at all).

for more info, please see http://StartupVisa.com
How could someone expect a minimum serious service of a provider named "Go Daddy". Really, this is not ironic.
The promoted review is clearly marked, with both messages that say "This business is a Yelp Sponsor" and "One of the Business' Favorite Reviews." If it was unmarked, this would be a problem, but there's absolutely nothing deceptive about it. Example: http://www.yelp.com/biz/addys-sandwich-bar-portland
I'm wondering what happens when you mix various types... eg mixing a "fo' shizzle" with a "broheim" - would it return an error similar to trying to add a string to a int?