skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would definitely agree with both posts leading up to this one. If you're looking for a very fast, stable browser, Chrome is great (and so is Opera). If you're looking for something full-featured and with an amazing number of add-ons, Firefox is a good choice. I use all three on the average day.

The existence of different browsers competing by excelling in different areas is, IMO, a very good thing.
That's the second time this shit is posted, and this time from a very old account with only one karma point.

yesterday it was this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369633

Completely different url, but the same text.
People don't go for the pope for medical advice, they go for spiritual advice.
It tells people that (because it's such a huge number) "a little" mass contains "a lot" of energy. The actual number and unit isn't really important to get that point across.
One problem with this book is that much of it does not make sense for companies who are not already like 37Signals, either in terms of success or business model.

For example, the book says meetings are toxic, and that you should avoid having them. But it does not contain any advice on what to do in the many situations where clients insist on a meeting, even when you know that the meeting is a pointless waste of time.

The reason for that is obvious: they are not in a fee-for-service business dictated by a relatively small client roster. They're a mass market company where irritating a single client (or even dozens) only means alienating a minute section of their client base. For many businesspeople, however, this is simply not an option.

That's just one example of several. The bottom-line: if you have a business model where you can dictate virtually every parameter of your business, and you're already super-successful, it becomes easy to act like rock stars.
And what do widely present allergies to pea- and other nuts, peas, carrots, tomatoes, citrus fruit, fish or shellfish (among others) tell us?
The presidents are hardly a random sample of 43 people. They represent some of the best people of their generation, so you would expect them to have more money than the average person.
This is true. Perhaps I initially misread your tone. It has been a bad week.
If we used Plank units, the speed of light is 1, so c² has the slightly less impressive value of... 1.
As of last month: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/124678
Why not target those people with a specific landing page? The language could be something humorous like this:

"..wait, don't click the back button cause i got something to show you.."
or
"..We're so happy that you're a new visitor, here's a coupon just for showing up. click here to redeem your 30day trial.." or something like that
Portal on Mac 5 times more stable then on Windows
> But I haven't yet seen a comment where I felt I was getting bad legal advice or an insincere 'fail early, often' or anything similar.

I've seen more than a few, but truth be told they were usually identified as such.

> Don't worry, if I could do it over again I would skip college. I wish I would have raised 1/5 of the money I had to for college and started a business. I would have learned more, faster and would probably be retired already.

I still have contact with a few of the people from 'the old days', and I wouldn't trade with them for any amount of money, but every now and then I wished I'd gotten the benefits of at least high school calculus.

I tend to spend too much time approaching mathematical problems in a way that I can fudge my basic knowledge, in stead of for instance a direct approach using an analytical method I might code up a brute force search or a hill climbing algorithm (and pray I'm not stuck on a local maximum :) ).

The network would have come in handy as well in the beginning, but I've long ago made up for lack of that.
They did for the Android Dev Phones, but haven't for the Nexus One. (This is the first Nexus One update.)
The biggest advantage Android has in this area is that Google doesn't have to get it "right" for everyone. On Android phones you can just switch to one of the other keyboard implementations if you don't like the default.
Ask HN: Does YC always uses US C-Corp for their funded company?
We are based outside of the US and it doesn't make much sense for us to incorporate in the US because of tax implications it would create.

Is this flexible at all? In our case it would be favorable in regards of taxes for both Y Combinator and us to not have a US C-Corp.

We want to incorporate Singapore instead.
Think of imitation as flattery. It also gives you a chance to think about whether your competitive advantage is easily duplicated. And I mean that in a positive way. Really nice site. =)
Yeah, I've been using "-Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -pedantic" as of late and I clearly need to start thinking about a -std or -ansi.

C is a somewhat weak foundation for static program analysis but that doesn't mean we can't try to make the most out of it.
I just clicked on a link over to a vendor, and didn't see any affiliate tags on the URL. How do you make money on this purchase?

The product was the first one (CNS360 Neoprene)?

Great looking site, and nice idea.
What tool do you use to track search term rankings? Manually or automated?
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It's not quite that simple. You've got to consider the price of the phone on and off the contract, the price of the contract, monthly usage, prepaid value, expected life of the phone, etc.

I bought my £100 phone 2 years ago with £10 credit. Still got about £4 remaining on it (clearly I don't make a lot of calls). If I'd bought it on a contract I would be down double or triple what I paid.
What do you get when you type "dig www.snapframework.com" into Terminal? I get

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.snapframework.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.snapframework.com. 3600 IN CNAME herod.hosts.coptix.com.
herod.hosts.coptix.com. 86400 IN A 64.203.102.17

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
coptix.com. 108393 IN NS a.ns.coptix.com.
coptix.com. 108393 IN NS b.ns.coptix.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.ns.coptix.com. 194793 IN A 217.160.248.220
b.ns.coptix.com. 205469 IN A 64.203.102.2
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..but, are you looking for investments? C-Corp has an advantage that allows you to have unlimited stakeholders. this can vary from individuals to Angels, VC's and institutional investors.

You're basically getting rid of any friction for a potential outside investment.
Agreed, they never do. When my sister got DSL, it involved running a mile of underground cable through a swamp, just for her. This doesn't come cheap. Comparisons to Russia, China, Australia, etc would be of value.

Though that doesn't really explain crappy broadband in NYC or why my ISP, who installed fiber to my home, only lets me pull 6 megabit over it.
Mike Maples Outperforms Venture Firms That Rejected Him
We only make money on some of the cases!
Empire Strikes 30: Ars looks back at an amazing film
IPhone voted one of the world's best inventions (8th out of 100)
I think this definitely needs to be explained.. via initial functionality :) When I go here, it should be LIGHTLY populated with an 'add your feed' button or something.
Does it come with Flash?
Apple Denies Free Political Speech
Do you use EV to run your Perl web apps as free standing applications? Or do you use it for some other purpose?
Monticello, Minnesota attempted to build fiber to provide 50Mbps service to the city, but was sued by the regional telecom for unfair competition. The telecom then built up the infrastructure while the lawsuits went on.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-...
The article is from gizmodo.
I remember Keats and the whole truth is beauty, beauty truth thing. I feel like it's actually, truth is ugly, always. I mean, have you ever found out the truth and not been disappointed?
Not to be rude, but did you read the fking article?

What your are describing is pseudoscience. It is entirely possible to use your random, naive, and quasi-accurate observations to generate a hypothesis. To come to your "simple answer" is the type of overly simplistic thinking that Feynman is criticizing.

"Science: It works, bitches." -- xkcd
You should try issuing "adb lolcat" sometime...
Correction: there was an OTA update for the Nexus One a few months ago to try and resolve some issues regarding EDGE/3G transitions, and a few other htings.
I wasn't crazy about it either. Either you're a feedreader, in which case don't pre-populate it with feeds, instead let me susbscribe to feeds; or you're more of a curated aggregator, in which case don't focus so much on the feeds, just show the content.

In either case, this is going to be a hard market to be in. First case, you compete with googlereader etc, second case, you're just another content aggregator.

The voting can make a difference, but it needs to be better explained.

Also, there's too much navigating. It takes me a few clicks to get any content. Compare with the HN homepage: best content is right there.

Good luck :)
Also, according to Kay's "The Early History of Smalltalk" [1], Smalltalk was very much designed with end users in mind.

[1] http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
There is a flaw in part of the arguments here, people are not just concerned about the stuff they themselves give to facebook, but also about the stuff that others in their 'friends graph' are writing about them, and the tagging of photos without name by third parties.

Looking through the 'friended' pages of people with empty profiles can give a significant amount of information on the people whose profiles are blank.
Simple, look at the feature list for Froyo. All things the iPhone most clearly does not do.

Even discounting flash, these things are among the most requested things that people want their iPhones to do: like tethering, wi-fi hotspots, jit, media sync OTA, media streaming OTA, flash 10.1, web app access to the compass and camera, voice to voice language translation, etc.

It's not necessarily that it's "better" than the iPhone. It's that it squarely does all of the things that Jobs artificially prevents the iPhone from doing that consumers actually want.
Chrome's developer tools are still lacking in some areas.

I'm a backend dev responsible for maintaining an API used primarily by a flash client. When something goes wrong, Firebug's net tab let's me quickly see what calls were made, what was sent and what whas received, which tells me if the problem is in the client or on the server, and gives clues as to what might be wrong. Chrome's dev tools (last I looked) are incapable of monitoring net activity from plugins, rendering it msotly useless for me.
Ask HN: Why do I lose interest in every project after 6 months?
It's like clockwork.

I'll get HYPER-interested in something, to the point that I can't stop talking about it or thinking about it nonstop. I go through 'buildout' if it's a project, 'level up' if it's a game, or even went down the road of DJing and playing in a band.

Each time, after roughly 6 months, I burn out and end up moving on to something new with little desire to pursue my last project.

I'm extremely worried about this as I've been working passionately on a new startup idea with some friends and we're nearing the 2 month mark.

How can I stay enthusiastic?
It's very possible that he has a pre-release N1. I think Arrington got one. And I know Google is pushing out updates to those phones now.
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This can be done with an incorporation in Singapore as well. My concern with a US C-Corp is that it will make the company liable for taxation in the US even if we do not operate from there. There will also be additional tax withholding when dividends are distributed to us (foreign founders).

Singapore has no tax withholding on dividends, so it doesn't change anything for the US investors in that regard.

I'm curious as to what the YC-funded company with foreign founders ended up doing.

We're interested to apply to be funded by YC and other US angels/VCs but incorporating in the US just doesn't feel very appealing in regards of taxation and additional paperwork.
Read the help on making a bootible CD. Put an account directory in /LT/Accts . When calling INstallBoot, give it the name of that account. Burn CD. Presto -- it will boot and run a program. Name it DoItOnce.CPZ or modify Adam 3. Or, work your way backward through the start-up scripts to customizde at whatever point you see fit.

Result: Game in ISO file that will bring it's own operating system so can be booted on any machine.

Pretty-much too difficult to make it mount the hard drive automatically, so cannot save anything.
I always felt participatory design was never worked out or explained as well as customer development.

They were definitely on to something, but the focus seemed wrong (have your customers help you design your product). Customer development's focus is straight on (have a hypothesis, test it with customers and pivot). Much stronger way of thinking about the process.
The consequences of not having an alphabetic script are large.

The probable social consequences are perhaps the most profound. It must distort an education system to have such a large part of the curriculum accessible only by rote learning.
Ask HN: Does my landing page make you want to sign-up?
Dealing with the U in CRUD - full vs delta updates
Great domain name btw.
"the bits about listening to your customers but not necessarily doing what they say are handled with more insight and nuance than most methodologies"

Exactly. Most other methodologies are stuck in "listen to your customers, somewhat". Customer development says: "test your hypothesis and pivot". Resonates more with me too.

Too bad that the language they use is so markety.
Chinese grammar is trivial.

There are entire books devoted to the semantics of the particle "le."
Online ticket touts make 59% average profit (£28k/year on 10 sales/week)
Interesting, the reason of dis-agreeing with something might be influenced by what is the state of mind at that moment. I wonder how many comments and articles are down voted because of this reason.

To avoid such things from happening as part of my business decisions, I usually delay the decision making by a day so that I can "think clearly" before taking any decision.
Fun With Face Tracking: Monster Maker
I see 'ideogram' used in Chinese (printed in Hong-Kong) tutorials dating from late 1980s. Maybe it's less widespread now, but it is by no means antiquated.
I suspect the dictionary situation is quite different from 1991.

The firefox extension peraperakun is damn handy.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349/
A bit of a correction: dark matter isn't "exotic". It's the most common form of matter there is.
All of the time. The universe is pretty incredible. The stories we make up about it don't come close.

Douglas Adams said it better than I can:
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
Charging for incoming calls seemed annoying at first, but it does have the advantage of making you more callable. No problems with cheapskate businesses who insist on having your number but won't accept the one you want to give.

I agree with respect to SMSes, though.
Thank you, but no need to apologize. I wasn't offended in the least.
Same thing happens to me. After about a month it takes discipline to just continue. You start doubting the idea, thinking its stupid or wont work (mostly subconciously) and thats what makes you lose interest. My advice would be to keep searching out things that will make you believe (subconciously) that what you are doing WILL work. I do research, read up, make plans, etc.

If you find that this does'nt work. Maybe your brain is telling you something.......
The best way to understand monads is to stop reading monad tutorials and write some code. There is only one particular trick to learning monads: use the >>= operator rather than do notation until you understand the basics. Then read this explanation of do notation:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/do_Notation

Actually, this is just a special case of a general rule: "The best way to understand {{programming_concept}} is to stop reading {{programming_concept}} tutorials and write some code."
There was one already.
Broadband in the US may not be as awesome as it is elsewhere, but to call it third-world quality? It's a big stretch.
The iPhone a better invention then the compass or the combustion engine?
That's laughable. Merely shows how much thought the voters put into their answers.
You seem to have missed that Android is offering wifi tethering.

The iPhone doesn't have that.
Really informative answers, guys. Thanks!
Clicking colored buttons...

If you've never played something like Rock Band (and it sounds like you haven't), you should really give it a try. The drums are practically identical to the real thing, and the vocal scoring is very good - if you get a high score on one of those instruments, then you are a good drummer or singer. It's only the guitar that's done by clicking buttons.
> Every single android handset I've used has felt like a cheap, disposable piece of junk (G1, Hero, N1) or a giant tank (Droid)

I own an iPhone 3GS as well as a Nexus One. I prefer the N1 and a lot of it comes down to the fact that the iPhone feels like a bar of soap in my hand just waiting to take a flying jump towards the ground. It's a slippery thing.

That single thing was enough for me to use the N1 more, and now I find the iPhone hard to use (in the same way that once I stopped using Nokia years ago I couldn't go back to it).
"I am the only person in the universe, and since I bought an iPhone, any reported sales of Android phones must have been fake."
CERN's bowling ball tracking devices
I'm launching something similar but for twitter.

Clickable Link: http://twitspare.com

Its a very crowded space. I think there's a reason why people haven't really tried doing it for facebook.
I definitely agree with you on the 'doubt' issue. Reading up on things, talking to customers, and other things like this tend to work for a short week or so, but really I've never find something to truly revitalize me on an idea.

The brain could be telling me something, but I would argue that many of the ideas were 'great' and nothing is going to be successful if you only see it through to 6 months :\
Chinese is not hard. For example the most complicated object in the world, human being or people, is written using just 2 strokes 人. Simple.
Could it be a fear of success? Or of stretching outside of your comfort zone? Or of the long stretch of hard work after the bloom is off the rose?

You're better informed about your psyche than I am, but I suggest pacing yourself, staying grounded to the other things in life which matter to you in addition to this startup, and carrying it through to completion.
This is perfectly normal (or, at least, common). Okay, I have no idea if it's either of those things, but I know I get a very similar thing.

A few good ways to keep motivated are:

1. Know why you are doing this. If you have a clear goal in mind, you can motivate yourself towards that goal when the project itself is not motivating/stimulating/interesting (e.g. you've done the fun bits of the coding, and now have to do the non-fun parts that make it work nicely).

2. Have a clear roadmap, with milestones that are achievable every few months (or some other finite period - I think we all have different 'milestone horizons' within which the milestone is motivating). It's hard to motivate yourself with an endless project. It's easier if you know you are working towards a certain feature, a certain number of clients, a certain musical piece played well.

3. Do something else. The initial rush phase is great, and you can get a lot done in that time, but for the long haul you need to give yourself space from certain things. Make sure you're not doing the same thing all day, or spending all your free time doing it.
The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
sorry, my iphone tethers since 3.0 (depends on the carrier :)
the media sync and streaming sound lie an awesome feature.

Considering flash ... I find it sad, that google is actually supporting it. Where is the open standards idea there??

Other than that, I'm happy about the competition. Hopefully makes Apple to include some of this features. Yet, I don't see the UI on Android getting any notable improvements in Froyo :( Maybe I need to play with it, as soon as it's available.
The clear roadmap is something I've never been good at and perhaps this is a root cause.

For example, as a 'product manager' I have tons of big dreams for my product. Generally, it takes 2-3 months to get any solid prototype out there. Add on another 2-3 months of buildout to go from prototype to something people use and... by the time anything I've built in the past has reached 50k+ users, we're at least 6 months out and only touching the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the features that I want.
I don't know if it's fear of success, but I think the stretch of hard work is a good one. Perhaps it's also a result of an unrealistic roadmap?

i.e. I want A, B, and C to happen in X amount of time (hoping i can use that description w/ all the nerds here) and we're barely scratching the surface of A.

I think that accepting that it take 6 months to get anything decent STARTED is a good place to start :)
Don't forget eggs, bananas, peaches (and relatives), onions, carrots, etc. (include most foods, yes I've known people with fantastically, life threatening, sensitive allergies to these foods).

One of my favorites is the genetic differences over perception of the herb coriander. Some percentage of people hate it because it tastes like soap. While the rest don't taste any soapy taste at all and find it to be a pleasant seasoning.

People often make the mistake of conflating "evolved diet=good for you" with "ready availability of foodstuffs". Chimps will also happily eat a pile of steak and a milkshake if you give it to them. Alaskan Salmon are fantastically good for us, but they don't exist at our evolutionary homestead. Some humans have consumed dairy for so long that they have developed lactose tolerance, and some eat such a high protein diet that large amounts of carbohydrates (refined or otherwise) leads to very high percentages of diabetes.

IOW, not every human has the same genetic lineage, Coeliac disease is interesting for some variety of humans, but doesn't exist at all in other populations -- and even in the populations it does exist in, it has a pretty low frequency (generally less than 1% population in any area no matter the genetic predisposition of the population). Egg allergies (one of the cited foods in this thread as "evolution safe" are fantastically more common by comparison. It's the second most common childhood allergy in the U.S.
You find something you're passionate about but ensure that people are counting on you to succeed. Once people depend on your success (family, cofounders, investors, etc) and/or your reputation is on the line, it can do a lot to keep you driving forward.
And its larger brother, dependency hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell