skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things I can't live without:

Link Widgets:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2933/

Basically, it studies the source for links like "next" and "previous," and lets you page forward and backward with alt+pageup/down. Works great on xkcd, New York Times, and many others.

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Noscript/Flashblock: 'nuff said.

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Colorzilla:
http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/

Color picker. Combined with Firebug, great for web dev.

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Leet key:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/770/

Okay, this one I could live without, but the ability to rot13/hex/morse/octal/binary encode text at will is nice.

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Facepad:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8442/

I don't really use this one that often, but it's a good example of Firefox's superiority.
But it also makes developing extensions more accessible to more developers.
Most of the funds in the company I work at make position decisions once a day. Some only trade once a week. Liquidity intraday really adds nothing.

The investors get a daily price, and they have to notify us they day before.
I tried Xobni (post yahoo acquiring) in a 'corporate setup' and found it to be a memory hog, The startup time is ridiculous with increasing mailbox size. I am better off searching outlook based on filters than using Xobni. And now adding more gadgets to outlook will just make it an obese guy in designer clothes.

I wonder who uses Xobni? Any genuine Xobni users here?
I asked the same question several weeks ago. Google's reverse geocoding api is a great solution. Instead of inserting hundreds of thousands of records into a database and juggling different tedious validation techniques it's a much better idea to only use latitudes and longitudes for locating people geographically. However, the project's details may require other routes but still thought I would share:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/geoc...

Users just click on their location on the map and Google hands off the nearest address info.
Mayor Pledges Wi-Fi Across London by 2012
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Why was this downvoted to zero? Asking to improve in the future.

My point was that line extension has been shown time and time again to be toxic for businesses and Google's bevy of marginal non-search projects seem only to reinforce that this is accurate.

Al Ries has dedicated an influential book to the subject called "Focus" and I've seen the damage line-extension can cause first hand in businesses I've worked in and invested in.

Considering the variety of points of view this comment spurred, I was suprised to see it = 0 which tells me that HN doesn't want this type of comment in the future?
MySQL and CSV to Python Objects (Made Easy)
+1 Chrome. But Firefox will always be entrenched.
Oh...so much for that security.
Certainly it was easy for firefox to grow fast as netscape had died and ie, well, it's ie. They were right time right place.

For chrome to come along and take a large fraction of firefox users is an entirely different situation. If your claim is that it's easy to grow fast from zero as a proportion of the global internet users then the data from other browsers adoption rates does not support that conclusion.
This is why the Wired article seems a little exaggerated to me.

1) He will never be responsible for any of these claims from merchants ("seller beware")
2) Any major transaction would not go through since they'd pull a credit report and see his profile is frozen (I believe LifeLock just freezes credit for you on your behalf)

Given the above, it seems like this is a trade-off between the time spent getting this stuff off your credit report (I think you would just file an error with the bureau, but perhaps it's more involved), vs. the benefit gained by the marketing tactic.
Last I hear Chrome share was more along the lines of 6-7%.
And that 6-7% is generally an internet-savvy group, who are more likely to adopt this extension than the average user.
Finally, I think it's safe to say Chrome share will do anything but go down for the foreseeable future.
It's typical of older teams or companies to fall behind and new people to outdo them. Firefox, inspired by idealism and being open source is no exception.

Their code and mindset is solving old problems. Firefox didn't need standards bodies' agreement to think of threads for tabs, but they didn't. That's because they think of a browser as something between an app and an OS, they're not sure. Google made no apologies, said the browser is the OS, hence many decisions to make it into one.

Now Google is making a huge leap to erase distinctions between the web and the desktop. Their Go language compiles so quickly it's comparable to JS compilation, but performance is comparable to C++

Talk and demo here
http://blog.golang.org/2010/05/new-talk-and-tutorials.html
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/100428-ee3...

Google NativeClient is what will run this code on the frontend.

Maybe Firefox's motivations are old news now? It will be interesting to see how they react to these new developments, whether they'll add good support for NativeClient or view it as another plugin. Will they welcome desktop app capability or insist that the web just needs a few tweaks?
> I wonder if this is a red flag...the name that is.

It is for me. I speak with graphic designers and have had designs done and didn't know the term. I am in the UK if that makes any difference.
0.facebook.com is not neutral
That article really misrepresents the issue in a serious way.

It confuses what is necessary - taking risk, with what is reviled - extracting profit at the expense of others from the deficiencies of markets.
Why would this be better than Dropbox and emails for commenting? Dropbox does automatic versioning of files, doesn't it?
Thanks for pointing that out - I did a cursory look for obvious industry connections and didn't see it. I should have looked harder!

It's important to be aware of where the money is coming from. That said, the journal is peer reviewed, and this sort of sponsorship is not uncommon for either journals or conferences. One would dismiss a wide swath of research if one concentrated more on funding sources than quality of data. (Not that you were doing that, just sayin'.)
Indeed, and probably why the viewings will be students sans parents.
While you're technically correct, the difference here is that the growth Google sees could easily be sustained. Google can expose more users in a few hours to Chrome(for free via a well placed link on their search homepage) than Mozilla could ever hope to reach in half a year without a massive advertising budget.

Combine that with the positive 'word of mouth' I've encountered so far from non-technical types and it's possible we haven't seen the knee of the curve yet in adoption growth.
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Really? I haven't noticed it to be a resource hog and I find the search to be worlds better than Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious yet find the obscure every time I search.

My mailbox is a pretty good size, but perhaps I haven't reached that threshold yet.
Really. Why is most of this even patentable?
B.S.
What you described was not the 'thaw' scenario, but rather, what credit freeze is supposed to do, by design.

The 'thaw' scenario would kick in if you were to legitimately apply yourself for an auto loan at a Hyundai dealership in Florida, and have that loan not be rejected.
Yandex.com - biggest search engine in Russia/ex-USSR goes international
While we haven't been too open about our business (lack of time!), http://ridewithgps.com qualifies on income and the fact we are bootstrapped. We are generating just under $1k a month in donations from users right now (yeah, just donations as we don't have our paid accounts ready yet), and a small licensing deal puts us over the top of those numbers.

We are working on becoming more transparent with our business, as there is decent appetite for any information in regards to the bootstrapping process. I think I just got motivated enough to write a decent blog post this evening.
There's a few that are just as valuable - autopager, firegestures, swifttabs.
Yeah, I could understand that if Microsoft was a dying company but last time I check they are still making billions record profits. So why? Because salesforce is doing integration with google apps?
Many talented developers are getting paid by Google to solely hack on Chrome - to add new features, to make it blazing fast, and to make sure it is well supported. The fact that it is open source is kind of a nice little bonus - Google-sponsored development is going to dwarf the community development, as long as Google is paying. Not only that, but any major community development runs the risk of being forked off into a less visible product if it doesn't conform to Google's direction. Google, after all, is not going to spend ad money on convincing people to download an offshoot of Chrome.

Mozilla does not pay a vast number of developers to head in one direction on Firefox - it asks the community nicely if it will head in one direction (because of Chrome's performance advantages, 4.0 will heavily emphasize that direction). By nature, this means that the Firefox codebase is going to be more fragmented than Chrome's. Things like comprehensive performance enhancements will be correspondingly tougher to do. The advantage of this is that there is a much less rigid steering committee - community developers on Firefox are free to go do whatever they want. The results are a slower, but more customizable browser.

I suspect that Chrome will probably end up with a bigger market share within 5 years, just because of Google's financial clout, but I doubt that Firefox will disappear completely.
Umm, not according to your docs. http://www.xobni.com/support/?view=192

Recipient extractors are a tad bit important. No doubt its coming soon on your dev roadmap though.
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A few big differences. Newzbin was charging for access to this catalog of NZB files that overwhelmingly pointed to copyrighted material. Newzbin is located in the UK under the jurisdiction of different copyright enforcement laws. My understanding is, in the UK, the standard is simply knowingly profiting from copyright infringement. Newzbin was making over £1 Million/year. Apparently they also failed to act on take down requests. Seems like a pretty clear cut case to me. It appears the operators of the site did basically nothing to protect themselves and mounted a very weak defense when they were caught.
After thinking about this a little more, it seems like the complaint has to be leveled against SF's Development Platform, since many of these techniques are used in very many online services and applications. The language of the complaint also suggests this:

The Defendant has been and/or is directly infringing the ... patent by, among other things, making, using, offering to license or licensing in the United States, offering to sell or selling in the United States, products and/or services, including various web applications and services and the hardware and software running these applications and services, that embody or incorporate, or the operation of which otherwise practices, one or more claims of the ... patent.
Appeals Court Finds Patent On Electronic Catalog Obvious
That was a bug that I believe has been fixed. Connections should never be made automatically.
I'm starting to feel that way about my phone number

buys some socks from the gap

cashier: may I have your number?

me: why on earth do you need that? People actually answer you when you ask them that?
Huh. Actually, that could pay back pretty quickly. I always wanted to go to Siggraph...
I didn't mean to imply autism was caused by economic status. What I meant to say is its probably a fair assumption that families of different means would consume a vast range of different products in many forms. Finding one study linking something as common as vinyl is not a good indicator. I'd bet you'd find the same correlation with upscale automobiles....
The casual game ecosystem is huge and owes its existence to Flash. Casual programmers (i.e. not us on HN) who are more or less graphics designers are not going to be able to grok programming a complex JavaScript html5 app and be able to leverage their graphics skills appropriately. Furthermore, they need their source code and media to be compiled and closed so others don't make quick rip offs of their games and post them as competition on kongregate. Flash is here to stay.
How-to safely use models in your Rails migration
Team readies for 520-day simulated Mars trip
All 600 million outlook users... bit of a stretch eh? Having a few million Xobni installs is pretty good, why not just advertise that?
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the first rule of usenet... don't talk about usenet
We support the most important recipient extractor RecipientEmailExtractor - which gives you all recipients in both the to and cc field.

We don't support RecipientToEmailExtractor and RecipientCCEmailExtractor right now, but we will with tonight's release.
This is a typical outline that assumes that you will ultimately want to work for yourself and don't have much to tie you down to your existing career path:

Figure out a business you want to be in that makes use of web development. "Web development" itself is not a business, unless you want to be an employee or a consultant, and most people ultimately loath that kind of labor just as much as sales. You might want to be an employee for some time to learn from others, but a motivated learner is probably going to extract most of the value from employment after a year or two.

Then save money, downsize your lifestyle, quit the job, and start on the business. Or preferably start on the business before the other things and gradually squeeze it into your time. It doesn't matter too much if there's a competitor(that's proof of worthiness) as long as there isn't a capitalization or path-dependency(aka. "lock-in") problem that will significantly hamper your own efforts.

Then expect to lose money for a year or so, but at incrementally slower rates until you break even.
That's an archive server, where older articles go to get monetized. You can see what it looks like in a normal template here: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0516-ok...
Ah, cool. That'll work.
Yikes dude - you are all over this thread.

the total addressable market of gmail is around 120M mailboxes. Building a gadget won't get you all of those users, you'll still need to convince them to add your gadget.

Same thing goes for Outlook, yet it the market is bigger. There are 600M Outlook users, and over 5M xobni downloads, but you'll still have to convince users to add your gadget. Xobni will just make it super easy for you to take the gadget you made for gmail, and provide the same functionality to your Outlook users. Some of those users will be provided by Xobni. And some of those users will be introduced to Xobni & your gadget by the gadget developer. The point is this provides access to a huge market with very little effort.
Google then is not going to be taking most of it's users from FF but from those swayed most by ads on Google, probably IE users?

At least I'm sure that Google Chrome's increase in market share doesn't necessitate a reduction for FF (though some reduction is almost certain).
I was working for the graduate dean's office at my university, and was helping set up a big presentation for new teaching assistants. One of the talks being given was the importance of security and privacy, with a lot of focus on keeping your SSN secure.

As the talk began, the presenter passed around a sheet and asked everyone to sign in - with their name, school, and social security number.

It made it halfway around the big conference hall, and halfway through the talk, before someone finally raised their hand and asked about the incongruity of being at a talk about the importance of keeping SSN's secret, while being asked to sign in with them.
the second rule of usenet... don't talk about usenet. Thats what killed the big H...
OT excuse to plug the only time something I created ended up on Snopes.com - http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/redsox.asp

Alas, uncredited, but still a tick on my 'Big things to do' list.
Is the title of this post meant to suggest that such is typical of Alabama?
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Google has enough money to pay for lawyers.
What I find so surprising is the low dollar amounts that were racked up.

Sub 10k in fraudulent charges on an SSN that is published? Like this?

According to Wikipedia, Identity theft doesn't result in the high dollar figures I was expecting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft#Spread_and_impac...
How can they not point out the elephant in the room? Not having H.264 support is a deal-killer for some users, and this is going to increase. As a user, this means I either see HTML5 video as broken, or I get noticeably worse quality at the same bit-rate.

This is symbolic of internal forces in the product leading to decisions that no users actually want.
Spent a few weeks building a gadget so I have a few opinions on the matter :-).

The point of the post was to clarify that you guys are enabling people to plug into your plugin. So the addressable market is the few million people who are actively using Xobni. Not all 600 million outlook users.

Now if you guys provided a redistributable that allowed me to package up my Gadget and ACTUALLY sell to all 600million outlook users, that would catch my attention. But one caveat is it would need to allow for the actual Xobni mining stuff (the memory/cpu hog) to be toggled on/off, but still allow for the contextual gadget to show up.

I like what you guys are doing, and will probably participate. However, just had to let out a few gripes first ;-)
If what he says is true, then that means Diaspora will fail, because of the huge amount of funding they got.
Reads like satire, but may be serious -- really can't tell.
Would it be possible for the source for this simulation to be released? To allow others to play with this. Namely, I'd like to see:

* Effect of Microsoft/Netflix policy of periodically laying off the bottom n% of the company

* Effect of churn (which tends to hit both the bottom and top more so than the average).

* Seeding by initial founding engineers. Founders generally have to be strongly competent engineers (95th-98th percentile), but not very many are actually 99.9th percentile "10x" engineers (e.g., Brad Fitzpatrick of Livejournal, Bill Joy of Sun, Max Levchin of Paypal).

* Speaking of "Nx engineers", how about a logarithmic (with log_2) scale of skill rather than a linear?

Of course, there is also the question: an interview shows tests aptitude (and an error rate of the interview process implies error rate in determining aptitude), but more factors play a role in actual measured performance. I wonder if this is factored in to the metrics:

foreach interview_score in range(1,5):
foreach year in range(1,4):
foreach performance_score in range(1,5):
p ( performance_score | interview_score ) at year

A company very likely must (by law) have performance_score data and it should be easy to reconstruct interview score data (unless interviewers are sloppy about writing down their feedback and decisions are made by a hiring manager based on oral input).
Just to wrap my head around Firefox---and please don't take this the wrong way---why are you choosing Firefox over Chrome, if not for the extensions and debuggers?

I use Opera, so don't construe any snarkiness; I just honestly struggle to remember Firefox's redeeming qualities. And the boot time, oh God the boot time.
>Firefox has the same feature; I believe it's called "Keyword Search" and can be accessed through Bookmark Manager. I always found Firefox's separate search box redundant for this reason.

I actually use both. I've about 20 keywords - I use the search box when I think I'll need to search across multiple engines (though I usually copy paste the words, I guess I use them as a short scratch pad) and use keywords when I expect I won't have to re-enter the search elsewhere.
nzbmatrix is excellent.
Would ssh-ing into another machine count?
Not all companies need or can even hide customer counts. In our business, one can easily guess our userbase by looking at how many maps are in our database. We could hide the total number, but a few simple searches would give a person an idea of what it is. As a result, we publish user counts and route counts. I don't think there are great benefits, aside from showing our users we are growing and have some substance, however, I also don't see there being much harm.

I can see a company that provides mockups or time management tools being able to hide this info (it's not intended to be publically consumed), but in our case it's difficult.

I guess creating a sense of complacency in the competition is a good thing. They might be more worried if they were watching huge growth in a competitor, but if the underdog is coming up with big growth anyway, there isn't much the market leader can do to prevent it...
The two most valuable insights I'm getting from the blogs mentioned above are: _context_, and _details_. Incidentally, revenue fits both (especially with patrick, where evolution is trackable).

To get the most value out of business partners, you generally have to put us into a position, where educated guesses can be made about which lever might give you the best ROI, and what you shouldn't pull too much.

You don't need detailed revenue figures to make this happen. But, you are in _business_. Your most important enabler is money. Business discussions relevance to business will be correlating with it's proximate to money.
I interpreted exposure to mean exposure of himself rather than exposure to other things, but grant that your reading makes more sense. Even so, number 1 and 2 are closely related and none of the above ties in directly to money making. Not that this is a bad thing. I have a very similar strategy for life in general. Spread myself over many projects and types of experience, then decide later on what attracts you the most and pursue it more. In that sense, he may fall into a Gabe-esque angel strategy once he has the requisite experience (after a few years of his current method).
I'm pretty sure I disagree with the moral. Does anyone really contribute to Wikipedia for the sense of mastery it gives them? Do you think the NSA releases their Linux kernel patches to increase the agency's autonomy? Do you think that most open source and free culture advocates are altruists motivated by a drive to give their stuff away to other people? No, they do it because it improves the world they live in - for them. Enlightened self-interest is still self-interest.

Also, the dissing on economists just rubs me the wrong way.
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The real improvement will be transferring patient history between hospitals/providers. But it's going to take legislation to make that happen.
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Awesome - We definitely make Xobni redistributable by partners. Email me matt at companyname. We'd love to help make this a success for you.
Maybe he could have used a fake SSN that says "fraud going on" loud and clear. Are honeypot SSNs possible?
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