skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All valid points.

But I can't really see myself moving on to other browsers...

Just because of 2 plugins:

1. Mouse gestures, OK - Chrome has them now but now the second one is a gamebreaker.
2. TreeTabs - I just cant browse without it anymore.

I'd really like to move on to Chrome, but without TreeTabs - I'll just suffer the loading times :)
I like to maintain my take on time travel as described by Sheldon in Big Bang theory

"Sheldon: It occurs to me that if I ever did invent a time machine, I will just go into the past and give it to myself. Thus eliminating the need to invent it in first place. That really takes the pressure off".

I would like to hear what you guys think of time travel, after all it has be one of the favourite subject of speculative science fiction.
And let's not forget that Philip's own non-profit enterprises - namely, ArsDigita University and the ArsDigita Foundation - collapsed long before the company did.

Why was that? Probably because Philip ran them like a business, and decided that, when the going gets tough, the tough fire their Executive Directors and half the paid staff.
True, but it's informational not editorial. I think the best they could really do is have a spoiler/non-spoiler view.
Ok, I give up. How do I get the style editor to work like Firebug so I can test/tweak styles on the fly? I'd assume you wouldn't be advocating this if it has a read-only style inspector, so where am I missing a way to modify those?

The live style tweak is by far the most used feature in Firebug for my team.
Firebug definitely has it's ups and downs, but in no way can I believe the IE6 mention is anything other than linkbait (right near the end, he says he's moving to Webkit's debugger).

The most common problem I've run into with Firebug is that Firefox stops loading CSS/JS files. I've never had this happen without Firebug open, but it may be a Firefox problem.
You are aware that both chrome and safari use webkit?

That probably means that if it is jerky, then it's the rendering engine fault.
The best part of the that joke (at least in my mind) is that generally engineers are pretty good, if not the best, at visualising multiple dimensions > 3.
Ask HN: What books will prepare you to "talk the talk" with VCs?
Guys,

I'm an aspiring startup CEO. We have the (beta) product, we have a decent trickle of customers, and we have a few VCs swimming around us and showing some interest.

Problem is, I'm a techie, not a business guy. I have an MBA, but acquired it LOOOOONG ago (think 15 years) and really haven't used it since opting for a career in software development. Now, I'm expected to meet with VCs and be able to talk the talk, and I need help.

I'm looking for a book (or books) that will make me sound like a seasoned startup guy. I consider myself reasonably intelligent and pick up concepts quickly, and I'm sure at some point the MBA courses from the past will start to seep back into my aging brain.

Is there a reading list that will prepare me? Time is short (hopefully!).

Thanks!
Audio Data API Examples - text To Speech (Mozilla only)
Hey, I think it has a new name now, but Paypal Payflow Pro.
> # Using jQuery to log out the elements sometimes shows an array like object (perfect) sometimes shows an object with a length (crap)

The jQuery object is exactly that. An object. With a length. What do you want Firebug to do, build jQuery support in the extension? Yeah, right.

And as to not having random extra plugins, I see at least 3 non-native firebug tabs in the first video...

Not saying firebug is ideal or anything, but some of TFA's criticisms barely make any sense (and that comes from somebody mostly using Safari's dev tools these days)
India long had a caste system. Do you argue that the long-standing violence and discrimination against "untouchables" could not have led to a genocide the way long-standing anti-Semitism in Europe did?
Don't you give Firefox any points for its 'Awesome Bar' introduction?

I'm not interested in Firefox any more myself, but I feel you're being too harsh on its progress.
The whole universe only needs one well maintained time machine.

I like the clause in their roommate agreement - if any of them ever invents a time machine, the first stop will be their meeting on the roommate agreement when they are discussing it.
I see the author's point, but the thesis is linkbait that can't even vaguely be considered true for anyone that is building modern websites with IE6 support. I have lost some time to some of these bugs. However if you compare the amount of time lost to Firebug bugs and vs IE6 support, it's still heavily skewed to IE6. The fact is that not everyone can know every bug in IE6, and though it's not too hard to avoid the big well-known issues, you may end up cutting design and interactive features or write a lot of ugly workarounds to deliver comparatively simple features. Additionally there are many subtle issues which become exponentially difficult to debug and isolate because the environment is so utterly opaque (admittedly I haven't tried Microsoft's commercial tools which I've heard actually have some utility, but I'll be damned before I pay a Microsoft tax just to debug for their hopeless broken software).

Firebug bugs are easier to deal with because there is more information and controls with which to isolate bugs. I admit they can catch you off guard from time to time, but as someone who cut his teeth on javascript in 1995, CSS in the IE4/NS4 era, I can tell you that IE6 is the bigger albatross around your neck. It's disingenuous to claim otherwise.
> The only thing missing is the ability to plug in extensions (like YSlow) but otherwise I never pull up Firefox anymore.

On the fly edition of stuff is also nowhere as good as Firebug's (when it works at all).
51 years and still going strong, with a modern web application framework: http://www.coboloncogs.org/ .
I really didn't find this algorithm to be as good as jQuery Masonry, posted on here a week or so ago:

http://desandro.com/resources/jquery-masonry/

Basically, jQuery Masonry does intelligent layout, but JLayout is just doing things which can be done with ordinary floats or even tables. It might seem archaic to use tables for layouts such as this but they work even if JavaScript is turned off. And clever use of floats and min-width and max-width can achieve the same effect as well.

Why use JavaScript for something simple that can be done using CSS?
It's indeed informative. Now I have to watch it five more times to understand what the wikipedia article says.

From about two or three viewings, I got about a third of it right.
You might want to inquire with your payment processor, as I am sure they have an anti-fraud department/division who (presumably) would deal with this a lot more often than one of us here.
In addition to the standard WebKit developers' tools, there is [SpeedTracer](https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ognampngfcbddbfe...), which is pure awesome.
If you’re working a lot with jQuery and Firebug then I’d recommend Firequery: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12632/
Sounds almost like some sort of attempt at Bing! Cashback fraud.
It's rather simple. They traveled back in time with the complete movie. $7K was what the cost to build the time machine they used.
Wasn't Primer available free to view on Google Video?
Now I just want a way to select what not to sync during the installation process, so it's not starting to download all the files right before I tell it to not download all those files....

But kudos to the Dropbox team. This is the one feature I've been waiting to get before I drop money on a larger plan and start syncing my music and photos.
If your Fx takes 30 seconds to start then you have a broken Fx. Have you tried disabling all your extensions to see if one of them is causing a problem?
Sure, Firebug may in fact have bugs. However, a sometimes buggy program is better than one with fundamental flaws. IE6's rendering errors have cost developers thousands of hours in finding and fixing problems, because everyone runs into them, whereas Firebug has only ever been an aid to developers, running into bugs only occasionally. In all the time I've been using Firebug, I've never encountered a bug. In fact, I've encountered more bugs with Chrome's dev tools, in that it seems to have stopped displaying XHRs in the console.

Firebug may suck compared to an ideal Firebug, but IE6 sucks compared to the standards-compliant browsers that everyone else has moved on to.
I'm frustrated too although we did have attempts at financial reform and at cap and trade in the House and Senate. I don't think Obama's the principle person holding them up -- and yes, they're flawed proposals. But he's trying to do something.

Just curious, do you see oil dependence as a problem too?
Death by Foxconn
Sixth Annual H.264 Video Codecs Comparison
You can also watch it on voddler for free.
Are humans not capable of enlightenment or are we too far gone in the "me too" era to think for ourselves and learn from others?

Being around a better programmer will rub off on you even if you aren't as intelligent. Intelligence isn't a hard metric you can rely upon in my experience. Otherwise intelligent people have made amazingly stupid mistakes on more than one occassion. Intelligence is only useful if you have the intuition to realize just how little you know.
"24/7 internet connectivity will be a certainty in the future. We'll have complete global coverage. You'll be diving and able to tweet. You'll be checking facebook on that space shuttle."

I question that, or, at least, I question that the quality of coverage will be in the same class everywhere. More likely, coverage will be better in wealthy areas, and not so good—and more expensive—in the poorer ones. So will running networked applications be viable in the poorer areas? It depends on the app and how network intensive it is. The optimism about network apps, everywhereallthetime, has optimism about infrastructure catching up implicit in it, and (for reasons beyond the scope of a deeply nested comment) I don't share that optimism.
This has always been Microsoft's excuse: there aren't clear standards, and it's definitely partially true.

But they seem to be the only one of all the other substantial browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera) that just isn't even close. Why don't they just try what Firefox does? Make all our lives a little easier for once...
"with lots of TLAs"

what does TLA stand for? three letter acronyms?
Excellent design/graphics.

I would suggest making the description of what the site does a little longer (not too long though). Example:

"Supplement face-to-face classes with a HootCourse and get to know each other faster." ... add another sentence or two here so I don't have to click around too much to get a little more info on this sentence.

That was my first impression at least.
Freebie Friday – Invoicera Giveaway
Creatives are meant to indulge in creative aspects rather than spend their time chasing outstanding payments. Therefore, Invoicera comes with a complete list of invoicing features and advance functionality.
Or "don't drink and text." It looks like he may have been trying to text a friend instead of tweeting.
I am not a lawyer and, not having read the Musks’ post-nup, I have no opinion about whether or not it is valid.

However, every real-world legal system since the beginning of time has put limits on what kinds of signed agreements between two people can be enforced as contracts under the law, and everyone who has run a multimillion-dollar businesses is aware of this. If the contract that Mrs. Musk signed was unconscionably unfair to her, Mr. Musk probably should not have drafted it in the first place.
The problem is also compounded by the fact that a lot of companies (especially insurance and finance) have corporate intranets that are designed to run on IE6 exclusively. For these people not supporting IE6 is not an option, until the intranets themselves get rewritten.
another significant drawback of JavaScript layout is that it creates very noticeable flash-of-unstyled-content, since the page isn't being laid out incrementally.
Ask HN: How to get users/traffic who are actually interested in this webapp?
Hi HN,

I've launched a web application earlier this week called www.organizemysearch.com

The idea is to let users organize things like used car searches, apartment rental searches, or other types of searches they do online.

For example, if someone is looking for a used car, they will go to several different sites and look at various car ads. This website allows them to save all the ads found on different websites (automatically loading all the data). This way the user can more easily see all the ads he is considering and have everything in one place to sort and compare all his/her options.

The problem is I can't figure out what keywords I should use that would actually represent what the application does accurately, which is "a tool for organizing your online searches" (eg. organize your used car searches, organize your apartment rental searches, organize your search for 'blueberry muffins',etc)

I would like to optimize the site so people who are actually looking for such a tool will find it easier in search engines, but I'm not sure what approach I should take. I don't even know what category this web application falls into?

Most searches about 'organize' on google are things about physically organizing your garage, home, garden or apartment. And anything with 'search' in it gives very generic or non related results in google searches.

Example of some keywords I've tried:

organize search [very generic, most google results are articles about seo and search engines]
organize car search [1 hit on google]
organize appartment rental search [no results]
organize shopping items [tons of articles about how to organize your groceries]

Any ideas on how I can better market this web application, or optimize SEO for this website so I can attract people who are actually looking for such a tool?
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Good vs. Bad VC Due Diligence
That can actually be worked around easily enough by giving the content "display: none" CSS styling and then using the JavaScript code to display the content after it is laid out.

However, if JavaScript is turned off the content will never show, so that is a problem.
Yale’s Endowment Returns: Manager Skill or Risk Exposure?
If my wife got rich and, God forbid, we got a divorce, and I offered to let her keep a lot more than half of the marital assets, and she demanded an even larger share, I might lose my motivation to “keep it friendly”.
How FarmVille Designs for Engagement
Felix Salmon: News consumers, paywalls, and useless tourists
I recall that some people did make a lot of money on record sales. It just depended on your deal. The Beach Boys owned the copyrights to their songs and that probably contributed to their financial success. They seemed to be very wealthy and didn't have a huge succession of number one hits but a few number ones and a lot of successful singles and records.

Most people in that business make no money though from what I've seen. I have to believe that some of the more successful artists and bands that I listen to do alright (e.g. Belle & Sebastian, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno, Neko Case, etc.). Maybe I assume that because I can't imagine them working a job.
I like how this movie has cost $7000 and brought in nearly $500,000.
I agree completely but that shouldn't drive the way a team works.

If the convention says that the code should be as clever as it could be you will have problems. If your tech lead acknowledges some limitations on the team he will have to compromise cleverness for simplicity. And everybody will still learn.

I can't see why my first comment was downmodded, and it's happening for my last comments, confusing or bad grammar? :\
Thank you. I thought the same thing when I saw jquerify, page speed, and page speed activity. Those are extensions to firebug, and may have something to do with the problem. I work in web development with firebug all the time on both macs and pcs, and I've never seen that first issue.

I thought, maybe I'm crazy, so I tried replicating it, and I can't. I just opened up firebug, made a larger console, typed "test", clicked the run button, got the same error and my console is still there, still displaying "test" like it should. Hopped over to my PC (which I use for testing sites in IE6 because it is such a pile of fail) and tried the same thing in that version of firebug, also works as expected.

I'm not sure what this guy is complaining about, isolate your issue before you post link bait.
If it wasn't for this article pointing to the reedit post, I would have never discovered this juicy, delicious, and distasteful video of Stallman eating his foot pickings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

That literally brightened my day. Brilliance is questionable if it means this is the end result!
IBM files a patent that would remotely stop cars at intersections
Another movie similar to this (I think, having not seen the movie, but from reading the discussions) is Momento: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29

IMO it stays with you a long time after you've watched it..
WIRED on iPad: Just like a paper tiger…
Gmail has become unusably slow
Smarting the dumb pipes
Yeah. That's the joke :)
Do you mean like http://www.google.org/ ?
China Rips Off The iPad With The iPed
Slide has 15M monthly users on Facebook (Zynga has 222M).

Slide missed the whole gaming trend, which was a serious mistake. Games seem to be the only sustainable app model on Facebook.
First, India isn't mostly vegetarian (about a 1/3 of the population is vegetarian).

Second, India has had and continues to have horrible acts of violence committed against various social and religious segments of the population. See: Partition of India, Ayodhya, Caste System violence.

Third, I haven't seen any study, nor any evidence that suggests that violence is unique to non-vegetarians.
While OLPC may not be a huge success in its original goal, it has had a huge impact on the computer market.

I owe my netbook to Negroponte and the OLPC folks. Without the pressure, I doubt notebook manufacturers would ever contemplate this segment.
SIP does video. Give asterisk a shot.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+video
I've started to use the WebKit browsers for this sort of work now. The tools in Safari/Chrome are just much nicer to use now.
SpiderOak does this. (I'm a founder.)
no lisper I know would ever try to fuse a database system in at the kernel level. That's one of the ugliest system designs I've ever heard of

I disagree. It's not only elegant but is the way it should be.
Excuse my buzz word but I think the only way you can make it spread is to embed a virus.
One of the things you can do is to enable user to share his search with friends/family over facebook, twitter etc. They could help him adding additional elements to the search (i.e. if they find something on the web that user is looking for they can submit a link), or give other advice.

SEO will not work - as it didn't work for Dropbox. Nobody is waking up one day and start searching for such a tool that you provide.
> I'll be also be old and sick someday, and I think that accepting the fact that you're going to die eventually will make you happier.
> I also have a cynical view on ... increasing the life span of people can only be harmful to anybody.

This reaction is totally rational as long as you believe that aging is both bad and inevitable. It's called the pro-aging trance. If we were hit by a baseball bat on the head every week and there was nothing we could do, over time we would also rationalize why it's good. But if you were to ask someone who had never been hit on the head if he wanted too, he would say no. In the same way, if you asked someone who biologically stayed with the body of a 25 years old if he wanted to get frail, he would say no. As soon as someone proves that the diseases of aging aren't inevitable (say, by making a mouse live in good health for 10x the normal lifespan), the pro-aging transe will be broken. Listen to the part about the pro-aging transe here: http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...

Your body is already repairing most of the damage of aging and replacing most of your cells over time. It's just that there are certain kinds of damage that we haven't evolved to repair, and over time they add up. Past certain thresholds they cause pathologies, and we get frail, suffer and die. But if we can periodically repair that damage (without the need to understand all of metabolism, just the damage), we can avoid ever getting close to these thresholds.

> Again, what makes you so sure it's in our best interest?

Not being killed by an asteroid or a supervolcano is pretty obviously in our best interest, as well as not dying from cancer or alzheimers. If I put a gun to your daughter's or your fiancee's head, you'd feel it. But if I say "all of humanity could die" (which include your daughter and your fiancee), you suffer from scale insensitivity and don't care nearly as much even if it's a much more terrible fate (all the things about which humans care about would be gone).
Maybe he's exaggerating when he says "no-one got paid". The point is though, then and now, that only a very small number of artists really make money from record sales. The smaller artists have always had to support themselves with gigging and touring.

Artists have been kicking up a fuss because maybe they see piracy as a barrier to their big cash in. the reality is, i would suggest, that they wouldn't be cashing in anyway.
Mass isn't conserved. The sun operates by destroying matter, as do atom bombs. Energy, which matter is a form of, is conserved. The violation isn't the turning into a cat, it's the lack of a subsequent mushroom cloud.
If anyone has other thoughts on lessons to learn from FarmVille, let me know!
Except that it's a false economy, and rarely works that way in practice.

Either you have decent technical talent, or the dead sea effect. If your workplace is mediocre, and you're good - you'll leave. The only people who "stick around when things get crappy" are the people who have to - either for life reasons or because they can't find a better job anywhere else.

Your company might win in the short term, but once you've gone too far down that path, you'll start losing and never recover.
Some spoilers, beware.

Honestly, I'm rarely a fan of time travel stories. They tend to be full of plot holes and half-baked logic. Since everything is theoretical, it seems like many writers just pull whatever rules they feel like out of a hat, and use it as a sort of deus ex machina. Very rarely is it used well in my opinion. Primer is one of the rare exceptions because it's well structured and thought out (maddeningly so), but overall I tend to skip such things.

Also, it could be noted that Primer being about time travel could be considered a spoiler. I didn't know what it was about until it was actually revealed in the movie, and I was kind of happy having it that way.
It seems that China has already built the $100 tablet the OLPC wanted to build...
I think "oil dependence" is a hard problem to solve because it is hugely political on both sides of the aisle. Dependence on anything is generally bad. However, a "viable" alternative has to be found as well, which I am sure is hugely political as well.

Sorry about the "I wonder" above...was just being snarky.
'Talk the talk'?

Read Brad Feld's term sheet series so you understand the terminology, read Venture Hacks, read Marc Andreessen's old articles from pmarchive.com, and then just go be you. I figure you're more likely to make a negative impression from being perceived as faking it than you're going to make a positive impression from a last-minute cram.

Seriously, lots of people here have raised money from VCs without sounding anything like MBAs.
> However, if JavaScript is turned off the content will never show, so that is a problem.

You can work around this by using document.write to output the display: none styling.
HTML5: it goes to ELEVEN