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But why is being parochial in an MS world a bad thing?

It's a bad thing because the MS world has traditionally been cut off from the best ideas and even the best mainstream ideas around software. When I snapped out of my dogmatic slumber as an MS dev I was shocked at how much I had been missing and how much better my work got when informed by the computing world as a whole. Although my knowledge, like most people's, is still partial and fragmented, nevertheless this was a real and very valuable state change. So I can't help but respectfully suggest that if you want to grow as a software person, you should probably seek something equivalent in your own path. It's not a question of breadth vs. depth. It's a question of a pond vs. the ocean.
Pakistan to Ban Yahoo, Google, Bing (and 6 other site)
Looks like the only winners in the fair-use wars will be multi-billion dollar corporations.

So will viacom go directly after the uploaders next or does this lawsuit prevent that? Because end-users have been proven to lose most of the time with far less money to defend themselves.
How Startups should care about their User Experience
I'm in the same camp as you--no DRMed books.

However, I just cut up and scan all my dead-tree books to PDFs. Problem solved. A lot cheaper too.

http://sealedabstract.com/lifehacking/the-joy-of-electronic-...
The latest nightlies conform to the latest draft. And Safari 5 supports WebSockets.

But yes, it's an annoyingly volatile standard-in-progress.
General legal question: If you're a judge, you presumably think you're right, and so you'd want your rulings to be upheld. So, if it's harder to appeal after-trial rulings than summary rulings, why not just make up your mind beforehand, but let the trial go through, and then rule afterward, and then it's easier to uphold? It's horrible for everybody else, but you aren't paying the legal fees.

(Not that I think judges should do this, just wondering about the incentives.)
"Hey Entrepreneurs: Skip the MBA" -Sincerely, Stanford MBA
I had no idea. Still, it's great money for two designers who put up a site like that, a bit less for a company funded with millions of dollars like Tumblr. And it's non-recurring (buy it once, and that's it) money, too.
You're a young 'un, I'd bet. Those of us who are of a certain age will remember the Dalkon Shield (and similar IUDs) causing severe infections and the first-generation OB tampon causing toxic shock (since it allowed longer use before replacement than previous tampon types).

Tampons are changed out relatively frequently and are not generally worn every day. Self-applied birth control devices are not generally worn all day, every day -- there is something just a little bit more predictable about opportunities for voluntary sex than there is for sexual assault.
7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars
Of course I did. No way I could go through a gallon of chili before in a reasonable amount of time.
I hope this is just a lip service to quieten the MPAA/RIAA lobbyists. At least to a larger degree it is. Perhaps some changes will be made to the legislation, but nothing as far reaching as "criminalizing p2p development" (whatever it is).
Just thinking out loud here - a judge might not want to burden the innocent party with a lengthy and expensive trial.
WebGeekPH Logos, Posters & Artworks
This has been said already on very old posts, but an API would great. General retrieving/posting/searching capabilities would be great. For authenticated users, being able to list the user's own up votes and down votes. Would make it easier to see what the user enjoyed/hated.
Well, my experience of pitching to major bloggers has been frustrating. For example, I've mailed Mashable thrice and filled the Startup Series application but I never heard back from you. I can read from your post that you get a deluge of emails and it is totally understandable from your perspective. But from the startup perspective, it is frustrating not to hear back. After a few emails, you start wondering if anyone is even reading your email or even opening it. Being a major blog, of course, you cannot write about every startup that emails you but even a small (non-automated) reply saying that a particular startup might not be a good fit goes a long way. In fact, I started wondering if my mail was going to spam box or if something was wrong with my email program. Do you think replying to every mail is impossible? Of course, you don't have to do it personally.

One exception is RWW who replied saying they usually don't cover startups of my type. I liked the fact that they cared enough to atleast reply.

Reference thread: How to get major bloggers write about my bootstrapped startup? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351460
Los Altos, CA (Silicon Valley). Several friends and former colleagues of mine have created a new (and funded) startup -- see http://www.wimm.com for a bit of details and job openings.

Unfortunately their web site is all Flash (just noticed -- I'll talk to them about that) so I can't link to the jobs page. They're looking for Rails developers, Android developers, and others as well. As I said, I know most of the main folks there, and they are quite smart, experienced, and enjoyable to work with/for.
Evernote, RTM, RescueTime and 3 other Web apps for $55
Rethinking 'Crossing The Chasm' [2007]
Ah, I get why I am downvoted. The link was cut on the old version of firefox (1.0) I was using.
Wouldn't it be nice if Hacker news discovered when this happens on its own, possibly preventing the link to be created or auto-linking to old/related posts?
Two minor outages so far (in 4 months) and support has been good for the few tickets I have opened.

If you don't need much hand holding and don't care if your server is unavailable for 20 minutes every few months I would recommend them. Otherwise it's probably better to go for one of the bigger (and more expensive) players.
>This is actually a _very_ complicated issue

No, it really isn't. If Apple really wants to force standard formatting on them, they can do what they did in the browser, and have a "readability"-type button. They've already solved this problem.

As someone else mentioned, they might as well use the browser to begin with.
Thanks for the info. I say she should have stuck with "amorance"!
It's the kind non-nuanced thinking I've come to expect from Biden.
So what would you say are the best ways to measure productivity?
“Hey Entrepreneurs: Skip the MBA” -Sincerely, Stanford MBA
Infochimps cluster chef
> I would have killed/maimed to get a pitch email then, but everyone was waiting until Monday morning to flood my inbox.

Why not just dig through the pile of things that didn't end up getting published on Monday (or, to be more systematic, why not have a "slow news day" queue that less-interesting stories could be shunted into after a first pass)?
True, I meant compatibility with the existing plugins out there though, Maven, Subversion, PDT+debugger, PyDev, etc. Should have been clearer on that point.
now you know where all the liquidity the Fed pumped into the economy went. aren't you glad you're paying for more fun and games?
Yeah, that seems to be what most of the Windows bashing comes down to: taste. Not that there's anything wrong with subjective preference, I just usually see it stated as if it were simply a known fact.

If it's any comfort, I find most Unix/Linux APIs I've looked at to be painful, and long for (most) Windows API functions. :-)

One thing Unixy people seem to hate is "Hungarian" naming of variables. Granted, like most things, it can be taken to a ridiculous extreme, but I've always really liked it.
You're correct that the target phrase isn't particularly high competition and that our Wordpress installation is already fairly SEO optimized, so yeah, I guess it is a little misleading. Good spot.

WRT Boing Boing and Radar, it's really just a case of writing content that appealed to those demographics/authors. We wrote an article that analyzed the changing use of language in UK parliament (all parliament discourse is available in XML files), which BB picked up on. Then we also wrote about potential open source bias in Wikipedia editing, which Radar picked up on (let's not get into that discussion here though!). So no particular secrets, just spending some time doing some research and writing some content off that research.
Tumblr is definitely a more popular service.

http://wappalyzer.com/stats/app/posterous|Tumblr/websites
Ask HN:  Any HNers in SF need a roommate?
I am moving to SF this Saturday. I have temporary housing while I look for a more permanent space. I am trying to get in around the 1st of July, but could hold off a month or so for the right place/people.
Loooking at a site like Justin.tv, and this judgment, even with the kind of blatant infringement visible here: http://www.justin.tv/directory/all

Would you, as their lawyer, feel quite safe that they would win any potentials lawsuits against them?

And given the obviousness of the infringement does the fact that there are money-making ads on the infringing content make it so they're knowingly profiting from infringement, thus invalidating the DMCAs safe harbor?
Just like you can use Linux instead of Windows, you can choose Android instead of iOS.

Did you read my comment at all? I was arguing that if iOS gained a large enough market share, using Android might become a choice with unrealistic costs, like insisting on using OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. You could do it, sure, but you'd alienate all your colleagues and/or limiting your choices of employment.

If people want Apple products they will buy them and if there exists a market that Apple chooses not to sell to, other companies will exploit it.

That's a straw man argument. If making iOS more open would necessarily equate to Apple choosing not to service any market, please show me how.

Best for who? You?

That question is peculiar, considering that it's a direct response to my saying "their own best long-term interests". :p

You, like I, may like the freedom that OSs like Android allow, but the majority of people don't really care at all.

That's actually part of my point about people not necessarily making choices that are in their own best long-term interests. Let's use SUVs as an analogy. SUVs are bad for the environment. What's bad for the environment will in the long run be bad for themselves. People still buy SUVs because they're spacious. In the same way, I would argue that, pleasing as the restricted platforms Apple produces are to consumers right now, the lack of freedom might result in a long term loss for consumers.
It depends on their contracts. If the contracts make them exempt workers (meaning they don't get overtime even if they work >40h, which almost certainly was the case) and also require them to work at least 40 hours a week or have the difference counted as vacation time, then the time cards could be used to ensure that the employees are meeting the 40 hour minimum, but the company wouldn't owe the people anything even though they were now measuring that some of them were working, say, 50 hours a week.
That's a great collection!
Thank you, we had a lot of fun to browse through all the links although there are a couple which don't work
anymore!!!

http://www.baiyokefactory.com
Mobile devs: Google classifies users as "repetitive", "bored", or "urgent"
Is there some overview somewhere what automatic imports tumblr supports? Didn't find it on the page.
What?

Google won because they did nothing illegal, end users loose when the do something illegal.

Money does help in lawsuits, but you really think end users loose due to lack of money? Even when their defense was donated?
Yeah, that seems to be what most of the Windows bashing comes down to: taste.

Yes, while I don't particularly like Win32, GNU make is objectively horrible.
It will break iBooks as people design beautiful standards-compliant ebooks that look great in other readers that support standards.

And yet, the author shows an example of proper behavior using Arial for the book’s body text, and Trebuchet in a garish red to mark up the screenshot. There are many beautiful fonts, but these are not two of them.

Edit: see http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html as to why Arial is so inferior to it’s predecessor, Helvetica.
Yes, they do, it's the "subjunctive":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood

And it's one of those cases where knowing a foreign language can help you think about English a bit more clearly. It's mostly vestigial in English (which is why "if I was rich" is so common), but in a language like Italian, it's much more widely used (I think that ..., I believe that ..., I want ... and similar sentiments all require that you use the subjunctive), and it has obviously different verb forms: "penso che sia" instead of "penso che e`". It appears from that wikipedia article that Spanish is similar.
My work blocks IRC, so jumping on freenode isn't an option

Get yourself a shell account and run irssi under screen.
Hmm I was using this site before: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ which gives you an image of how a site looks like in Internet Explorer. Maybe bounce can do this too. Bounce looks very neat.
Something I’ve considered but never implemented: A "Submit to HN" button that is only visible if the HN frontpage is in the visitor's browser's history. (Yes, this is possible: http://ha.ckers.org/weird/CSS-history-hack.html)

Benefit: Avoids mainstreaming HN.

Drawback: thafman & similarly-minded users would react the same way to the button on blog.fairsoftware.net; that is, it's begging for social media promotion.

Thoughts? (PG?)
I recall reading of a famous amnesiac who after much instruction, developed muscle memory for drawing mirror images (or something, ironically I forget…). Point being, muscle memory is quite a powerful construct.

I wonder how great of a typist Engel was/is?
Ok, thanks. In light of this, I'm gonna have to stick with the "easier for parents to spot those swallowed pfennig on the way out" explanation. This seemed most logical.
Huh? Everyone builds with mingw. We shipped pure win32 desktop and service apps that were compiled with mingw.

The difficulties in porting to Windows are slightly more technical than just the availability of a free C compiler with C99 support, and project management politics.
Good idea, but shit gets buried so, so quickly. I always tried to go over old stuff from the inbox, but it's tough.
The Art Of Serving
This effect is a lot less pronounced in physical labour based jobs, it's harder to portray that your doing things in these jobs. Sure overall your productivity may be down over long hours but the extra time worked makes up for this.

To take this to the extreme I'd say the place you get most value for pushing extra hours is a production line where an employee is repeatedly preforming one simple task.
From the comments:

"I don’t think $9.99 is too expensive. What you’re paying for is the Campfire integration and the judicious removal of features."

Sad but true. This is how they earn money at 37s.
I have learned that when a woman says "All the good men are taken", she is really making a comment about herself. The relevance of this as it regards journalists with a full inbox and dearth of story ideas is left as an exercise for the reader.
Campfire has an API, why not build Draft with Colors that still integrates with Campfire (and other services)?
Anyone have a link to a readable copy? I even tried logging in using my fb account on scribd and there were more hoops to jump through to get a pdf
Hey there!

So, I can see why Mash didn't get back to you and why RWW didn't write about your company.

It's really hard to get regular people who don't own websites interested in stuff like security, optimization, downtime monitoring... anything to do with the backend of the Internet, anything that shows the "man behind the curtain."

And in your case, I'd say you don't even really need coverage on a major blog. The majority of readers of a major blog aren't going to be paying customers.

I'd honestly advise you to go after a niche publication. Sure, it's not as splashy, but I guarantee it'll get the job done a lot better and convert a higher percentage of post-readers.

Make sense?
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You missed the footer.

The problem with natural selection is that there's no one to blame for the design of testicles
Yes, when there are staggering judgments against users, I think something is fishy, and I have to assume poor defense (ie. a million dollars for 30 songs). It's designed to scare the average person into settling for several thousand dollars because they cannot afford a defense at all.
I worked on a project that had a directory named "manuel" and contained 8 C files and a file named "make.sh". I always thought it was some guy's private playground and shouldn't be touched. But once I dug into it I discovered a NIH implementation of Docbook + Doxygen + Markdown + grep + strings, and make.sh did what Makefile would have done, use make. And 'manuel' never existed, the French comments alerted me to guess what it really meant: Manual.
You're right, we are dealing with two different moods. I'd argue that in this case the clause is subjunctive (contrary to fact) rendered with the indicative mood. This is increasingly common, and in many dialects standard. The question then is: do people really mean this in a "subjunctive way" or if the mood has disappeared entirely?
So lots of reports of defective phones that haven't even been released to the general public? Let's wait at least a week for a few tens of thousands of people to have them in hand across the US and can report in.
San Diego 6th Hacker News meetup is this Fri at 7:30pm (free but need RSVP)
Then they really shouldn't have used Flash for the main content of the page rather than HTML (which is better suited than flash for this use case).
Dropbox Forums: New Sharing Model
As the President of the United States, he would have the power to stop this policy from being put in motion. If he had the intellect, he would realize that this is a bad idea and he would stop it. At this rate, he'll doing as much bad as McCain does to the Internet in my opinion.
If you want to know the exact date, look at the link you're suggesting is wrong.
If you actually read the summary of the linked GAO paper[1], you can see that the authors of this attack piece misrepresented it. Some choice quotes that they neglected to include:

"Negative effects on U.S. industry may include lost sales, lost brand value, and reduced incentives to innovate", "The U.S. economy as a whole may grow more slowly because of reduced innovation and loss of trade revenue", "research in specific industries suggest that the problem is sizeable"

Basically, the report says that piracy has some bad and some good effects, but these effects are extremely difficult to quantify due to the illicit nature of piracy. Nonetheless, piracy is probably a significant problem.

As it becomes easier for people to get stuff without paying for it, production of said stuff will drop. It's common sense, people.

[1] http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-423
Finally he could have said it more nicely and clearly: "if you work for me, you're expected to have no family life, no personal life, to be manic crazies who live and breathe for their work only ."
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Tech-minded Medvedev meets with Schwarzenegger
Sequoia Capital Leads $14 Million Round For Sencha’s HTML5 Frameworks
One of things I'm wondering about how Google measure speed is where they measure from.

One of my sites is focused around London, UK, and to ensure that those users get the best possible responsiveness I moved from Linode New Jersey to Linode London.

In doing so my site performance according to Google Webmaster Tools dropped, but in reality the performance of the site by the target market increased significantly.

Is Google not using the geographic preference in GWT as a basis to determine where to measure from?

The site in question is http://www.lfgss.com/ And whilst I know there is still app-shipped YUI and jQuery on there (shortly will be removed and hand-crafted .ja will replace it), I still wonder whether I'm being penalised for not hosting close to a Google crawler datacentre.
The RIAA and MPAA do need to revamp their business model if they want to evolve into the future with the rest of us.

I often wonder why the movie and music industries don't embrace torrent technology. I would definitely pay a reasonable monthly fee to access legitimate and legal trackers that they manage. It's really win-win as far as I can see. Watch what you want when you wants, and the distributions costs drop to next to nothing.
People could still use the old ?resubmit=true tacked on the end to bypass that. But yes, it would be nice.
How do you buy a copy of Windows XP, let alone a computer, from Microsoft?
Many words in the English language have multiple meanings. "Piracy" is one of them.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy
One of my last undergraduate reports as an economics student at the University of Michigan in 2007 was on the "true cost" of watered urinals vs. waterless urinals for the campus. The waterless ones were primarily used in the Dana (Environmental Sciences) building, which even had expensive composting toilets- basically large, windy abysses which you defecated into.

We spent nearly a month doing research on vendors for waterless urinals as well as attempting to model the cost of negative externalities from the water use (sewer system upgrades, water treatment) and the waterless ones (manufacturing and disposal of cartridges, smell and hygiene.)

Whilst I can't locate a PDF of the report anymore, the evidence came out overwhelmingly in favour of the watered urinals. The cost of the waterless filters and hardware, even if all of the waterless urinals were installed new, was still over 2x the cost of running watered urinals at the University, externalities included (I think it was nearly 6x IIRC.)

I can't imagine these being useful for many municipalities – including the more water-scarce ones — unless costs have really dropped.
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Of course it's not big technical issue, but one wonders why the average setting seems to be that much higher. Probably because it saves some cleaning (toilet brushes are also less common here), at the cost of more water wasted.

And as My First American Toilet(tm) was in a hotel, I didn't feel like going all Super Mario on it anyway...
Probably not coincidentally, the end of breakfast and the beginning of dinner are 9 hours apart.
Guardian Blogger's Hilarious Commentary on Isner-Mahut match
Why the sequence? And where can I get the final release? (And where check the build?)
The Eco-Friendly Leaf Lamp by Sofian Tallal « Lighting Universe
Ars reviews the HTC EVO 4G
David Pogue vs. an iPhone 4 hater [video]
Fascinating.

I had a similar experience while backpacking; sometimes I would get up at night to use the bathroom or drink water and I wouldn't remember what city or country I was in. I would have to retrace my journey from the last place I remember, and mentally arrive at where I am. The hardest part is figuring out the position of the light switch in a dark room.
Changed Feature Names on Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7
After the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft changed many features and components in the new edition of Windows (i.e. Vista). Some of the features, technologies, components and services are redesigned or developed. And also OS feature/component names are changed and the functionality of some items has been enhanced and moved or consolidated with other features with a new ones.

Here are the lists of features/components that are changed or modified in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and in Windows 7 etc.
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7
Windows 7 includes many handy keyboard shortcut key combinations that allow you to navigate and manage the Windows workspace more efficiently. Here are few shortcuts for Microsoft Windows 7 that will help you speed up your works.