skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these criticisms are a bit unfair I think.

History and back button support in GWT is very straightforward and trivial to implement. (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingB...)

The default compile cycle is long as GWT is compiling for multiple clients targets (and potentially localisations). You can speed this up a great deal by reducing compile permutations to 1 (http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5/wiki/FAQ...). You should probably also mention that you don't need to recompile in development mode.
I feel the blame is very much misplaced; Google had nothing to do with the viability of "Cadio" name. It was inevitable that people would confuse it with "Cardio", whether Google auto-suggested it or not.

That said, I do sympathy for the difficulty in finding short, easily spelled domain names. It's been downright ridiculous trying to find good names in recent years.
Cross browser testing with Soda and Selenium
Dude, if u need a decent ad server as an alternative to OpenX, I'll suggest. Trafficspaces.

I designed it and it's one of my proudest pieces of work (if I may say so myself) :)

Warning: its a premium service

http://www.trafficspaces.com/tour/
CEO of Redfin: http://www.redfin.com/about/management

In his defense, they have been two good articles so far.
Given that the only feasible mechanism for the respective populations to promptly remove Bush/Hussein from power in 2003 would involve violence, a significant likelihood of failure and a high degree of probability that any regime emerging to fill the power vacuum would be worse, I'm not remotely convinced that their inaction implies accountability for Bush/Hussein's actions.
Acquiesence != acceptance, never mind accountability.

It's actually an interesting reframing of the original problem: allowing a particular regime to remain in power and embark on a very wrong course of action might be the "least worst" option that is practically possible. In all but the worst case regime the rational utilitarians fearing the consequences of violent revolution actually find themselves in agreement with the pacifist absolutists.
> Bill Gates is a man of action and results.

Don't forget the lawsuits.
I dunno what your experience is with the 17", but I found mine to be a delightful, wonderful machine when set up and ultimately unsatisfying to move from place to place, largely due to the weight. The iPad is very, very portable by comparison.
I want to work with partners who want to help me succeed. Groupon seems to have failed that test in this instance.
GO ECO… work less
It's not a bug! There is no search box because you must first select the city. Once selected, you will see the search.
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User based growth, I would say no, the valley doesn't help grow that base is not tech focused. But word of mouth exposure, and the possibility of doing face to faces with potential experienced engineers/managers that you want to join,

If you already have all the pieces for partners, and your user base is dispersed, and you don't need capital for growth, then headquarter somewhere cheaper than the Valley (housing and office space can be half to a third the prices you pay here).

Just look at zappos.com. They moved away from the Valley, partly to be in a customer service hub in Las Vegas, and partly because is was just play cheaper.
Mysterious force holds back Nasa probe in deep space - Telegraph
I don't think you can call Orkut as failure on the same level as Wave. Orkut reached #1 in Brazil and is still successful there.

Wave failed utterly and was indeed poorly thought-out on a number of levels.

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I'm not sure if Google Docs is that much more single purposed than Google Wave - it's just that rich documents are something people already understand.

All that said, I think you have a good point about company culture. It's just that companies do have ability to step out of their culture on occasion.
USB connectors for a printer and external hard drive

iOS 4.2 offers printing over Wi-Fi.
Diaspora Bug #8: Facebook has a majority market share
> My dream is to write a cloud programming language that compiles high level code to a low-level kernel and deploys.

I'm curious as to what you want to gain from that compared to running a custom compiled Linux kernel with your program as init or as the only running process.
Flash's current installed base isn't really the point, though, is it?

What's interesting about this is that it demonstrates momentum away from Flash in a fairly dramatic way. That momentum is important to consider if you're investing in any decently sized project that could depend on Flash.
The merchant should NOT have run the promotion at a LOSS. The promotion should have been at least break even, if not slightly profitable.
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Oddly, my mind went immediately to the 50 yo being larger and, in a flimsy lifeboat, more costly space-wise. In a life-threatening situation, I don't think I would stop to consider the relative benefit of each person to society.
I wrote this Facebook app in Go:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=135488932982

It's running very smoothly.
Your dream idea will work for cpu-bound programs but it seems the majority of applications are bound by factors other than the cpu. The waste frequently comes from waiting for I/O to complete.
I don't think the people at Heroku would much care... except that their name is being sullied by this clone.

Anyone reading this will equate Heroku to a steaming pile because Djangy is being alluded to being one.

Could this topic be renamed to Djangy is horrible instead of "Heroku for Django"?
But this is exactly what a small business is buying from Groupon. If the quality of their lot is worse than other advertising, then more the reason not to partner with them.
Djangy, I was referring to it being a heroku for Django
Opera love unix
Collection of User Interface Guidelines for Desktop and Mobile Applications
What's even more interesting is that prior deciding to produce mobile phones - Nokia's biggest asset was producing rubber boots.
There is no way to select a city in IE7x. After selecting Craigslist all that displays is: the header, the footer, the menu, and a grey 1px box with

http://spotli.com/index.cfm?activity=0&dept_id=1&sto...

link printing "Craigslist" to screen in blue with an underline.

The rest is blank white page.

Edit 1: Also, I am running ZoneAlarm with mobile code off and popups blocked like a lot of people do.

Edit 2. I can see in your code the "<li><a href" coding with the cities that are supposed to print to the screen. But they are not printing.

Edit 3. I shut down ZoneAlarm and it still does not print to screen. So it looks like it is an issue with IE7.0.5730.11 on Win XP SP2.
I still can't figure a use case for me to justify an iPad. That and I refuse to have itunes on my computer at this point.
A duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1696871
The doctor is capable of choosing to sacrifice himself (cough as are you). The baby is not. I don't know whether that argument is outside of the utilitarian sandbox.

Does utilitarianism demand total knowledge? Can't you posit a baby exception wired into your brain (by evolution, $deity, whatever), obey it, and still be an orthodox utilitarian?
I didn't mean in your response to the hypothetical question ('assume each is a model citizen') - I meant in real life: "my impression of the name "Chip" is that he's a worthless individual who contributes nothing to society."
Thanks for sharing this experience, the Cadio->Cardio thing was scaring the heck out of me.
I immediately thought of this quote too. I see this as sort of a honeymoon for Groupon while people figure out how it really benefits (or doesn't benefit) their business. Over time their margins will probably drop considerably, so why shouldn't they take what they can get now? I can see how this sucks for small businesses who get flattened by the runaway train, but is it Groupon's responsibility to sabotage their own business model by performing due dilligence for their customers? From what little I know everything seems clearly above board.
Extreme Netflix? Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies
Glenn also won a "best startup blogger" award in seattle.

He's got some really fabulous posts.
Automotive X-Prize Winners Share $10 Million For 100MPG Car Designs
Is that five billion individual owners? That's pretty impressive! Current estimates put the whole world population at just under 7 billion.

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html has it at about 6.8B, and a Google search on "current world population" turns up similar figures.
Sweet platform for writing iphone/ipad/Andriod apps without knowing CoCo
you don't want things like ACL hitting disk if you can avoid it, however if you're already on rails i don't even know :)

Although the opposite response may be that you definitely want things like ACL to be transactional / persistent which may be a strong reason to specifically not use something like redis and use SQL, to each their own however
so, then, would you think that there is a place for a business similar to groupon but focuses more on trying to cut deals that encourages the growth of repeat business and/or good customers?
justin.tv didn't sign the AT&T TOS.
How can I tell clients that quotes will never be accurate?
I work as a web dev, and I am asked all the time by clients to give them a quote, and expected to stick to it. However, there are a lot of problems with this method, the biggest being that any estimate I can make is always inaccurate.<p>How can I approach my client and explain to them that while I can give a quote, it will never be accurate, because of unanticipated gains (finding a piece of code that knocks 10 hours out) or losses (figuring out that that feature they wanted will take 1.5 times longer than estimated after getting half way through it) during the work?
This is not the place to file bugs; or vent when things are broken. It's brand new, bleeding edge - your feedback is better sent to the developers. Flagged.
Be interesting to see how quickly you get your first lawsuit!
I'm OK with redfin submitting their own post as I found this particular entry to be interesting, and thought provoking.
Looks neat but $99/month for 1M impressions ain't much. Overpriced IMHO.

Assuming $1 CPM, a site will be making $1000 off of that. Your taking a 10% cut.

$100 should get you 50,000,000 impressions, at minimum.
Does the iPad really need a computer? Apple doesn't seem to advertise this anywhere. Seems odd that you can't turn it on and instantly have a web browser.
I feel you bro. It is definitely complicated. I've got a few gray strands to prove it whilst developing Trafficspaces (a SaaS ad manager).

It started as a hobby but once I got into it, I got sucked in by the challenge of simplifying all that complexity.

For most people, the adserver is just the UI. The complex calculations, ad targeting, and scalability issues are just abstracted away into the abyss.
Then there are those heidenbugs that occur at a frequency of 1 in a billion transactions, which can consume your entire weekend! Grrrh!

I kinda feel sorry for OpenX though. Their codebase is probably unmanagable by now. I'm sure their devs wish they could just throw it all away and start afresh.
I own an outsourcing company with a team of 10 in the Philippines. I started in August 2008 out of necessity when the company I was working for needed more work done than we could handle with the few employees we had. Since the company was based in Malibu, CA, it was difficult to find qualified employees who were either nearby or willing to commute for the salary they were offering.

I had been working with a web designer/developer in Cebu for over a year at that point, so I mentioned that to my boss. After a few small paid projects, they were impressed enough to sign a contract for ongoing projects. I asked my guy in Cebu if he knew any more developers, and he found 3 more. I formed an LLC and with one customer, we were in business.

2 months later, I got an email from a former classmate of my boss who heard about our service, and he needed a website updated, and the original web design company was too busy to get it done right away. In the course of doing that project, we had to contact them to get the server login info, and when we told them what our company did, they hired us to do web design for them.

It's been like that for the last few years, just getting more clients through word of mouth. We now have 8 clients, mostly web design companies who outsource projects to us, or clients they refer to us for content creation, data mining, etc. The team is up to 10 now. We still have that first client, though.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that in all this time, we never got around to building our own website or placing ads. We really don't need to since we get as much work as we can handle through word-of-mouth, and it will be difficult to scale while maintaining high quality.
Monetary profit should be our new moral code
If you try to get new customers with price-cutting deals, you will get customers who want & expect price-cutting deals.

If you try to get new customers with quality goods at a fair price, you will get customers who will pay a fair price for quality goods.
I know chess and programming are commonly analogized, but I've always thought it was a terrible analogy. Chess is a very, very closed game; for all the big numbers you can generate by talking about how many permutations there are, it's still a very small game. Programming is a very, very big game, as it routinely invokes the full mathematical chaos you can only get from the realm of the Turing-complete and invokes arbitrary combinations of humanity/politics and other disciplines. (There are many games just as big, but none bigger.) I find analogies that try to cross the chasm from one to the other are inevitably strained; that's an awfully lot to ask of an analogy.
I always over-estimate. That way, when I tell them my estimate was high, they're shocked and impressed, and glad to save some money. Higher satisfaction, and they're likely to return.

Alternatively, you could give them a range. Let them know up front that, pending unforeseen problems, it could cost between $x and $y.
Also ask yourself:

Can spell it out to somebdy over the phone without resorting to phonetic alphabet?

Do you use numbers in the name - worse do you use them to be cute ?

Do you mix words that sound like letters eg. "see" and "c" in the name ?

Does the name contain a joke/pun/double meaning that only makes sense written down or read outloud?
The site scrolled to the end of page when i clicked the down arrow. Bad design!
Redis is persistent, though it doesn't, but can, write every write to disk right away.
I actually thought the problem was with masschallenge.org before reading the article. Added the idea to my domain buying checklist.
I would wager that he might grant some charity to PowerShell, but still hold onto his thesis. AFAIK, you operate on objects in PS, rather than parsing clear text in UNIX. PS is a much more powerful way to do things, but it seems that the UNIX way is much more grounded in human language than the Windows way, whether it be through a GUI or through PS.
We're talking about the baltic sea here. Its average depth is 55m.

Besides, it's already quite contaminated so there is a lot of environmental protection going around it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/BalticSea...

As you can see, there really isn't places for the water to flow back and forth, so it's not a case of "the ocean is going to handle it"

Always consider the context.
I believe they use Facebook's open graph API to scrape data. Facebook has been known to shut down access when you're taking too much information too fast without notifying them (as in the case of Twitter and Ping), but I imagine Greplin will take the time to notify Facebook of their intentions when before this becomes an issue.
How to Market your Product once it's ready?
This article tackles the process of marketing your products once it's ready by providing 5 internet marketing keys, this will help a lot on understanding what you should do right after getting your final product ready!
What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series?
There are alternatives. Google 'em

http://www.google.com/search?client=ms-rim&hl=en&q=s...
If there was sensible infrastructure for commuting by bicycle, there wouldn't be a problem. As it stands you're just asking people to give up a healthier and cheaper means of transportation with fewer negative externalities for little more than the convenience of motorists[1]. That's bad public policy.

[1] I don't buy the safety argument one bit--cars put cyclists in danger far more than cyclists put cars in danger.
I spend most of my time between my desktop (iMac) and iPad. The always-on-ness of my desktop and the instant-on-ness of the iPad make just sitting down and doing things like shopping or checking email so fluid.

Waiting the 10-30 seconds for my (generally good) Windows laptop to wake up feels like forever.
Whitfield Diffie in an undignified pose: http://www.saildart.org/saildart_pix_1974/c/c10.jpg
One thing the article does not mention is "breakage": "Breakage is a term used in accounting to indicate gift cards that have been sold but never redeemed. Revenue from breakage is almost entirely profit, since companies need not provide any goods or services for unredeemed gift cards." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakage

This article (http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2007/nov/accounti...) says that the average breakage is 10-19%. Let's say it's 10% to be conservative. Posie's Cafe said that over 1,000 customers bought the promotion. A 10% breakage implies that at least 100 customers bought but never used their Groupon coupon. Posie's Cafe only gets half of this, but it does give them a free $300. I guess that's not that much, but if breakage is 19%, 190 customers would have given them a free $570.

EDIT: using kareemm's datapoint of 30-40% below, the breakage would be $900-$1,200.
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It's a BETA. You aren't supposed to trust them. You're supposed to play with it and try to break it. Congrats, you broke it twice. File bug reports.
I've been really excited about Go, but I've been stuck in one of those dilemmas where I don't really learn a language until I work on a tangible project with it, and I can't seem to come up with anything I need to write in Go.

I'm sure something will surface eventually, and I hope soon, because everything about Go makes me very excited about programming.
So... Eliminate its differentiating characteristics and turn it into something that resembles the competing netbooks and sub <$500 notebooks whose lunch Apple is devouring, according to Best Buy's figures?
i'd only be willing to use this if it were run by google. sad but true.
Diaspora gets BBC coverage
Yeah, we just ran some tests and...as weird as it sounds...it shows up fine in IE6 and IE8 and all other browsers. But IE7 for some unknown reason does not show the cities.

... so weird.

is there any way you could try it with Firefox or Chrome?
Does anyone have experience using GWT but some language other than Java (e.g., Python, Ruby on Rails) for the server? How did it work out?
Yeah, I'd kill the baby. It's not mine, so what do I care?
The reason I bike to work is that in the traffic here I can do the trip in 20mins vs >1hour in a car.
The bike computer says I averaged just over 30km/h ,max 70km/h (there's a big hill!)

I even beat the neighbors Porsche on the bike - I don't have the STI and the WRX is detuned in this market so it can't beat the Porshce on it's own!
This is determined probabilistically, so as you get more coverage (and links) the term occurs more often on the web, thus making it less likely that it was a misspelling.

I imagine link text might be given more weight over regular text, but I am not sure. Anyone know for sure?
This is just part and parcel with the territory and is the risk you take as an independent contractor or freelancer. It's generally not acceptable (and certainly will not make happy clients) to quote one price and then charge another, you just have to get better at estimating both time and cost.

The two biggest parts of creating an accurate estimate are understanding and defining the scope of the job and, if working with an existing system, understanding that system the best that you can.

If you and your client determine that you will build a simple, 5 page, HTML/CSS website for X dollars in X weeks, then your client decides that he actually needs 15 pages and it should be a wordpress site, it's time to renegotiate your price and timeline.

However, if you just get stuck on something you had already agreed to deliver, there's not a whole lot you can do. You can always try to get more money, etc., but there's no gurantees.

And you should know this happens all the time - to freelancers and big corporations bidding on contracts. Live and learn.
why is it so difficult to just not use it?

when i felt things were "out of control" i trimmed down my friend list by half and stopped contributing needlessly (no status updates, photos, comments, etc.)

i'll login roughly once a day, peek at my newsfeed, comment where i feel it's productive and log out.

deactivating your account because you use it alot is stupid since facebook does provide some usefulness. it's all about moderation, no?
I agree with the second point.

Regarding on-the-fly watermarking, I see the hypothetical use, but current watermarking algorithms are to complex for BD+. An interesting idea though.
Yeah, I didn't see that. Good discussion over there, but I think my summary is more self-explanatory.
Ask HN: How do you get your startup okayed by a very large employer?
I work at a really large company, 100k+. I work on web apps on the side. I've read from several sources (Jason Cohen's blog, twist and startupcompanylawyer) that its not enough just to work on your own time with your own resources. You must also get someone with authority to sign off and acknowledge what you're doing. In such a large organization, getting a C*O isn't possible. Who would have the authority to officially clear your startup?
I agree 100%. 45mph is way too fast; the speed limit should be a more reasonable 15mph, and then everyone is on equal footing. (There are a lot less serious injuries when cars collide at 15mph as opposed to 45mph. So even the car drivers are safer!)

If you want to get to work fast, take the train.
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HR. usually its an ammendment to the exhibits in your employee contract.
I'll buy your answer, but only to a degree. (partly because it'll help get me off the hook for my own guilt)

It might be that a realistic examination reveals that regime change would be too "expensive", or risks failure either because the current regime wins, or because the replacement is no better ("the king is dead; long live the king").

However, given that analysis, it's still immoral to sit idly by and let events run their course. One would still have, at the very least, the obligation to (a) try to precipitate change in the long term; and (b) possibly contrive to minimize ones own contribution (by way of taxes and other support) to the current regime and its projects.

My impression is that the Iraqi people aren't doing a whole lot in either of those approaches (although I haven't studied it extensively, and what I do know is through the lens of the media). So while your claim may be correct in some cases, I don't see that it's applicable here.
I found this pretty quickly with Cursebird.
Most of this stuff is being done over wifi. AirPrint, AirPlay, cloud storage like iDisk, Dropbox, AirSharing, etc. I use an application called Serve-To-Me which does real time video transcoding so I can access my entire video library on the iPad or iPhone. For music I use Subsonic and the Z-Subsonic client. I don't even bother syncing anything locally at this point.
Last stats I saw showed that for W Europe the average user had owned >5 handsets.
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