skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this quote. I think most people apply the Sophisticate's error to China by supposing that since both the US and China are different shades of gray, they may then decide arbitrarily to critique China... similarly:

We saw it manifested in yesterday's post - the one who believed that odds of two to the power of seven hundred and fifty millon to one, against, meant "there was still a chance". All probabilities, to him, were simply "uncertain" and that meant he was licensed to ignore them if he pleased.

If you care about censorship, you are not licensed to ignore censorship in the US just because both are gray. If you care about humanitarian abuses, you are not licensed to ignore them in the US just because China may commit worse ones.
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Hrm-- that's some pretty selective data. I'd be curious to hear you fill in the blanks on this sentence:

"Organic searches with the word 'bingo card' makes up ___ percent of my sales."

As you say, tho-- might be hard to parse out brand searches. But every single one of your holiday-specific landing pages benefits from "bingo card" being in your URL. Isn't long tail SEO a big part of your acquisition?
Only slightly related, but a number of media outlets are currently talking about cartelizing their web subscriptions.

I think that Michael_Dorman's largely correct on this issue, however: If they do find they can even legally follow on your suggestions, there is still the next question of whether it's the most cost-effective buy. For some branding purposes (the prestige buy you mention), it might be. But while that is a substantial spend, it's not the majority spend and at the end of the day, cartel or not, the revenues simply won't reach where they need to be to support their businesses.
As do I.

Seriously, I love the Google-foo/showdown challenges that sometimes a HN reader poses. This search was easy.
Totally agree. Although I actually use a thick black sock where the top and bottom are sewed together :). I lose face masks all the time so I started to just make my own and not worry about losing them.
Is that akin to saying "It made me smile."?
related to this? http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/insurgents-...
Fiction: stranger than truth.
To many people the browser is just stuff around the page they are interested in.

Yes some of those personas is but ugly but it doesn't have to be.

I don't understand the problem. You don't have to use them.
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The panorama example at the end is fantastic. I hate cropping all of my panoramas down, I loose so many great things on the edges.
Can I just have Instapaper support in an HN app? Please...Pretty please.
Oh dear. Mozilla has just exhibited its first symptom of "everything disease," in which it has noted the ascendancy of a competitor (Chrome), observed it, and started copying it without critically evaluating what it's copying.

Call it a shark jumping or whatever you will, but this to me marks the moment Firefox's post-peak status became unambiguously evident. Remember Blake Ross' philosophy that a browser should be as invisible as possible? By turning the browser UI into a dormitory wall, Firefox's gradual descent into bloat is made concrete, and its acknowledgment of Chrome as the future leader is implicit in its blind imitation of its theming system.

As for me, I'll stick with Safari.
What is even worse is that the bubble also drains the talent pool to chase social media startups.

Just take a look at recent batches of YC or Techstars.
More discussion over at the original link from Jason's blog: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175416
Maybe I'm not looking in the right places on their (Mozilla's) site, but how is this different than the 'themes' that have been a part of firefox for several years now?
It's readline that has the vi mode

set editing-mode vi

in .inputrc will enable it everywhere.
Right. I guess I don't understand what part of all this makes you "not really impressed" with us?

The other companies in the list you actually gave reasons, but with us you just keep referring to this previous conversation and I do not understand your point.
This was actually implemented way back in 2009. It is also entirely possible to not use a persona and completely ignore this feature. Skinning/theming is actually a feature that some users may want. I've tried it and it doesn't seem to impact performance at all.
That doesn't sound so bad. It's going to be cold even if one waits an hour or two.
You aren't required to use them.
> the Appstore and the iPhone device are two components of one product

Disagreement with this is the source of the uproar.
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Chrome has the same thing: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Zero-click preview, one click installation, and much, much easier to create than themes. But I don't see much real value in it either.
There's no reason you can't go in to work at 5am, or just work from home at 5am.
Chrome has this too, and Opera's had support for it for a long time. I'm not sure Mozilla should get the credit for this "idea".
Depends on the exact encryption but from the sounds of the tweet ("$/CPU") it sounds like it could have been just brute forced.
That's funny.
Does this app download the hacker news comments as well? I should hope it does, as that's where a good 50% of the value from HN comes from, the community.
Yeah, arrears of pay is unacceptable as a rule.

Nolan Bushnell of Atari fame said that you aren't a real entrepreneur until you've made a payroll from your credit cards.

I myself have experienced this once, and the company did everything right. It was Lisp Machines, Inc. (LMI, the competitor of Symbolics) and we had been kept apprised of the status of our effort to get an investment from TI.

At one point we were told that our paychecks had been cut and then locked in a safe. If we got the investment, we'd get them ASAP, and in the meantime we were free to do as we saw fit. (It being a crusade to being LISP to the masses, we all stayed and worked. :-)

This went on for two semi-monthly pay periods, and then we got the investment. And celebrated with a make-you-own sushi party; my suggestion, enthusiastically endorsed by the president, who was even more of a sushi fan than me. It's good, messy and cheap fun, as long as you know how to make the rice and have a good source of fish, which we did from a Japanese grocery store in Cambridge.

But outside of special cases like this---we were far from shipping product and we knew we needed another round of financing---it's a clear signal to pull the eject lever.

At the very least, it tells you something very solid about the margins on which your company is running and the other resources it has on tap, as well as likely the character of the top dog.
Some good points, but I beg to differ with, "If social tools were creating real economic gains, we'd expect to see a substitution effect. They'd replace — disintermediate — yesterday's gatekeepers."

User reviews on sites like Amazon or Yelp (current legal issues aside, I have found it very useful) have largely disintermediated gatekeepers, to the benefit of customers.
Tried a little, not going to go back (place where I am is going to stick with Blackberry / iPhone). I am more concerned with the Android NDK, testing on both ARM and now Intel seems sane. Simulators are not good enough.
I think this is a great idea actually, assuming step 2 is followed: proper nutritional education.

In Canada, nutritionists are heavily subsidized by the health system (the idea being that whatever the cost now certainly beats giving you a new heart in 20 years), and in fact nutrition courses are free for people in at-risk weight ranges.

This has worked out great for me personally - I used to be obese, and this type of education has been instrumental in allowing me to return to normal weight. In fact, given the depth of the obesity problem in America, I would think that this sort of education should be mandatory in the schooling system.

All the labeling in the world will do you no good until your population learns what the labels mean.
Specials and limited-time items are not included in the requirement.
Were you there? I was and didn't see this "meh" reaction you're talking about.
Is there anything 'functionally' different once you have one applied? Or is it really just Themes 2.0?
Jeez take off the video of the startup founder and get a good lookin' ladyactor to present it instead.
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I would think that depends on that employee's autonomy. They could hit a roadblock that they need you to clear, but you're unavailable.
Absolutely. It's perverse that they'd even worsen their dire startup lag with this kind of bullshit bloat. What has happened to the good people at Mozilla?
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I did not and would not applaud Google. They're a massive and soul-less multinational with far too much influence over the Internet.

You are mostly incorrect in your hypotheses:

- While I indeed do not like the Chinese regime I see lots of anti Chinese propaganda that I do not like.

- I do not like any censorship whatsoever, and thus any attempt by any government to censor to any extent is bad and should not be tolerated.

- Wikileaks deserves to be supported and is indeed a great service.

I am a non-American westerner that has lived in China for several years and have had personal experience with the censorship there and the way that nationalism and controlled information shapes and corrupts people's minds. It's awful. I take issue with your initial statement to try to draw equivalence between China and the US. It isn't equivalent at all and drawing any equivalence detracts from the horrible consequences that the Chinese regime has on its people and the world.
Great question. Thankfully, we have a terrestrial link from down south all the way up to the Knife, so we have decent access. I say "decent" and not "amazing" because our bandwidth isn't anything like it is in some bigger markets down south, but it's totally reasonable for most stuff I find. (There's no buffering for Youtube or most streaming video websites, Divx movies need some time to buffer, usual throughput at home is around 300 kb/s down 100 kb/s up, at the office it's a couple megabits, enough to never have to wait for anything.)

I guess this means we don't do too much dogfooding, but our lives would be a lot more difficult if we did.
If it were, why would there be any need for brute-forcing it? Isn't the point of that story the lack of encryption?
It's not a one bit encoding of "Hacker vs. Normal" and early adopters are different from technologists. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_chasm

Technologists enjoy new things even if they don't work, early adopters are trying to solve a problem but don't mind going first as long as it works. Pragmatics (early majority) want to solve a problem using tools that other pragmatics are also using because they want the comforts of a whole product. Conservatives (late majority) are very cost conscious and want it dead simple. Laggards make do with pre-existing solutions until they are no longer available at a reasonable price.

By the way, it's extremely difficult to build simple products that work reliably. They always come later. It's much easier to build an innovative productive that is partially reliable but provides functionality or performance that is not available.
Where is the app around this post? I've always thought it would be interesting to have some social network way to know about jobs via friends and previous co-workers. LinkedIn has never really done much for me and it seems you have to be more proactive there.
well, all this is true... but at least MapQuest is still around (since 1967). And I don't think GOOG makes any significant $ from maps yet.

Perhaps you tried to say that in 90s they should have tried to make a better search engine instead, apply advertising business model to it, make a lot of money... and then proceed to make the best maps on web by deploying those profits?

Because otherwise I don't see how MapQuest could have done it.
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If you can't hire any female engineers, part of the reason may be that you don't already have any. This can be a huge red flag. Basically, most women applying for the job want to have some assurance that they're going to be respected and their concerns taken seriously, and the best way to demonstrate that this is true is by having some women on your team. Otherwise, the question just sits out there: why don't you have any? Is it coincidence, or is there something wrong with your culture?

(Disclaimer: I'm a man, but I know a lot of female engineers. I obviously can't speak for all of them, but I've noticed some trends.)

Many women in engineering are wary of situations in which they won't be taken seriously.

For example: say there's one guy on your team who tends to patronize women, especially ones he finds attractive. He might not realize he does this. You have a female engineer who's getting fed up with this behavior, and tries to gently (because she's experienced this before) point this out. He gets defensive -- maybe he says she IS different than the other engineers, so it's only natural, maybe he just gets angry, whatever -- but, whatever he does, it's not an honest effort to improve. Later, she tries to bring this up with someone else on the team, look for help, but to everyone else he's always been a nice guy, so why is she making trouble?

Or let's say someone illustrates a presentation with some unfortunate images or metaphors. (Where have we seen this before?) Nothing flagrantly unconscionable, but, you know, kind of skirting the edge of acceptability. This makes a female engineer uncomfortable -- the presentation marginalizes her, makes her wonder if the team sees her as a colleague or an object of desire. Now, she knows it's going to end badly, but she mentions that it made her uncomfortable, and asks that everyone please try to avoid that mode of presentation in the future. And suddenly everyone on the team is explaining, no, he didn't mean in THAT way, the presentation wasn't REALLY about her -- well, if you hadn't marginalized her before, now you definitely have.

It doesn't have to be that way. But in some places, it is. I've talked to women looking for software engineering jobs, and this is definitely something that gets considered. Are other women willing to work there? Willing to stay? Will they have anyone to back them up when shit happens? Because when the answer is "no", life sucks.

That said, I don't know how you hire the first one. But you've got to be aware of these things. You've got to make completely sure that you look like someplace where women will be respected and taken seriously, not marginalized and undermined. Because, if a good female candidate gets a whiff of that, she's probably gone.
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Yes! SSi Micro! We're waaaaaaaay up North!

See my above comment in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215882
Microsoft decided to kill IE, with 6 being the final version, in order to integrate the browser into Windows. Five years and a few major court cases later and they changed their tune and began work on IE7.
I got two offers at startups as a finance undergrad still in college because I networked my ass off. I found some companies and founders I was interested in, reached out, continued to develop those relationships, and then came into offers from said startups.

If you're not someone's best friend, then become it.
Better in what way?
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Are you my boss? I got gruff about taking off three days to go to my little brother's wedding, too! The new Mrs. McKenzie is a wonderful young lady. She started dating my brother after I arrived in Japan. I had met her once before the wedding.

Please continue talking about how the real world is giving you flack for the grave sacrifices you are making here. I'll be sympathetic.
I take issue with the WinAmp comparisson ... normal users liked that stuff. It's partly the reason Winamp was such a success (the other being that it was ingeniously simple to use).

I think the author is the one thinking like a programmer.
while i know that HN is not an events board and hope it never turns into one - I think this particular gathering is notable because so few events are ever focused on failure as a learning experience.

typically what you get is some uber-successful entrepreneur using their failures as a way to add drama and depth to their story as a smashing success. shouldn't we give a little credit to failure on its own? i think so.
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- Jobs HN: We are hiring

- Jobs HN: We are available

One for entrepreneurs to post their openings.

One for hackers to post their availability and skills.

I know we already have HN jobs, but this may be an informal way for HN readers and contributors, and who knows, it may grow to be part of our community.
Am I the only one who likes Version 11 much more than Version 12? The problem with these iteration posts is when my personal tastes don't coincide with the end result, I guess.
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I agree. This is a total non-issue. If you don't want to decorate your chrome, no one's here making you. It doesn't seem to have any adverse technical effects. And pretty much the same functionality has existed in Themes since forever.
The majority of IE6 are "corporate" users, yes. But there is still a great deal of home users who just don't know better.
I realize those users don't know what a browser is, the email would try to explain that.
Advocating for enabling windows update is not a bad idea also!
Re-read both of those criteria, substituting 'women.' Now recall the sorority system.

I think everyone strives for status, and don't see any evidence that women are better than men at deciding who to impress. What may be different is WHAT is considered impressive.
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success is a great thing, but this constant "we're the only ones that are doing it right" attitude is getting old.
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I was pretty impressed just by the first part, but when it got to the desert and finally the cloud, my jaw literally was open by the end. Totally gobsmacked.

Unbelievable.
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I'm based in Slovenia. IE (all versions) has 46.00% share on one of our webpages (one of the biggest in Slovenia), IE6 has 23.98% share (inside the whole IE share).
"I am not sure that women necessarily have the same attitude towards material objects"

This is one of those self-perpetuating falsehoods that people only say because they heard it somewhere else (which I guess I am now complicit in).
no account support (login, replies, etc.); hit targets for important links are insanely small; when I last used it (maybe 12 months ago), it would routinely bomb out on me with bizarro server-side error messages.
I would say the fact that the "created" mountain goes down outside of the selection with no real reason behind that.

Though I'm not saying that it's not real. It would dumb for Adobe to make up such an impressive video.
...and HN jobs seems to be limited to Ycomb founded startups.
Hamlet makes the mistake of killing Polonius

I'm not sure I agree that was a mistake. Unexpected, maybe. Only real problem is that Shakespeare, master of pithy phrases, missed a golden opportunity to coin the term "You dirty rat!".
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duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1216129
Don't ask for permission. Recognize the need for something important at work and write it in Clojure and often coworkers/bosses will be so glad to have it and not have had to write it themselves that they won't care what language it's in. Of course now you're responsible for it.
It is and it isn't a valid comparison.

Some Winamp themes were genuinely just different spins on the main window chrome, and even looked kind of nice. Some, though, had "backgrounds" and otherwise got in the way of the UI.

Which is the only thing that Mozilla personas do.
Really? I've never seen a better webmail interface than Gmail's. Can you justify your claim by providing some of "it's" qualities that are so laughable?
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Wow. Now I need this in the GIMP.