skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always wanted this for every programming language I had whenever I typed "printf("somelongvariable=%s", some(CTRL-P));"
Firefox 4, chrome 6 and 7 still vulnerable to CSS history hack
Check this out :

http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2010/08/mozillas-css-visited-solution-is-still.html

What are your thoughts about this ?
That is basically right.

However in households with lower socioeconomic status the problem isn't lack of attention from the parents. The parents TRY to help. But they are less likely to succeed, because they lack the academic skills needed.
I wrote this a while ago, maybe it is of help to you:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+get+better+at+estimating+s...

Good luck, it's pretty hard to get it just right.
How Open Data is Used Against the Poor
Firefox 4, chrome 6 and 7 still vulnerable to CSS history hack
Check this out :

http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2010/08/mozillas-css-visited-solution-is-still.html

What do you folks think ? is there any real risk still ?
looks great! really cool. no ncaaf?
This is probably because 100% of people who make up statistics don't have a reference, since they made up the statistic.
I used to be a designer and charged $100/hr and depending on the number of choices/revisions I gave the client it would take from 10-40hrs for a logo, so $1,000-4,000.

However you could probably find a talented freelancer to do one for $500.

Of course the sky's the limit and agencies routinely take huge companies like UPS or Coke for thousands and thousands.
The other way to do this is being part of solid, established social system.

That's what kept employees, husbands and wives together in the US fifty years ago or I'd imagine in Japan twenty years. It's not just that the situation asks you to stay but that everything outside the immediate situation also asks you to stay.

But I'd agree this is what will work in a climate of overwhelming atomization and choice. Makes you really think...
That's why the clause would be, "If you broadcast publicly . . ." Obviously there'd be no way to enforce this if someone else broadcasted your location.
>> How did this growth start? In his book “The Enlightened Economy,” Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University argues that the crucial change happened in people’s minds.

Or you could just say that they invented and started using steam engine that removed the cap on physical work output of any given population. They just needed to dig some coal, so they did. Rest is history.
That's not very similar though. If Apple wanted something like that for Mac OS X, they'd have something almost exactly like Steam, except you wouldn't have to use the app-store program to launch your other programs.

The downloads page is from the olden days of Mac OS X, when there was tons of Mac OS 9 software but almost nothing for Mac OS X and they had to promote everything you could even get for the new OS. Now that Apple survived the transition, they just kept the page up out of inertia.
Hmm,

Actually, I think this kind of thing is more common now than twenty years ago. Not it didn't exist but now the techniques have become more polished.
More allegations against Moustis: Herald News: Local News
clickable http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2010/08/mozillas-css-visited-...
It is complicated. It can take several weeks to understand and evaluate all the options. Beware of payment gateways with easy initial terms, but high fees, and high penalties for quitting.

We use an eCommerce solution that talks to Authorize.net, who relay to Chase, who deposit to our local bank. Authorize.net have good support, and a good Web interface.
It's a good thing it's still under warranty! I just hope his battery was far enough away from the hard drive that he's able to recover his data.
What do the remaining 1% do? Rig a study?
http://www.delicious.com/ramitsethi
Because if you're hired, you're basically allowing the company that hired to you subsidize your continued learning.

One of the projects that I spend my time working on was originally a way for me to teach myself about mysql, the next one was to learn about ajax, the next about CSS etc. This is all fine, but I'm doing this all on my own time, and I don't have the marketing budget to ever see if it can stand up to getting loads and loads of traffic.

Now lets say that I get hired by reddit, or twitter, or posterous, or couchsurfing, or whoever else. The types of technologies that these people use, while similar to what I'm doing with my personal projects, are on an entirely different scale. Getting to work on a database as large as reddit's would be absolutely invaluable to somebody that has an interest in large-scale databases. This is the type of thing that people typically pay thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars to go to school for. Getting the same (I would say better, actually) experience and having them pay you for it is awesome.

I guess my advice is: disregard money, acquire knowledge. If you do this then, hopefully, the money will come naturally.
That does seem to be (from past experience) the microsoft way of doing things... I can't say I'm impressed.
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I worked as a heavy construction laborer as a teenager for a lot less that $6 an hour; I would much rather spend my days writing software for $6 an hour than go back to that.
I agree with this, braintree is by far the best payment solution I've seen out there, apparently used by many of the big web companes (github, 37signals) and it shoulders the majority of the pci compliance work - which can be a big concern as credit card companies are becoming stricter about these requirements and many hosting and ecommerce setups are not even close to pci compliant
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I'm helping my friend's sister setup a website for the new business she's getting into (Vegan Bakery products). I was about to start a post today or tomorrow but I figured I'll piggyback on this post.

The e-commerce section is mostly out of convenience for local customers initially (put in an order, pay for it and pick it up when notified), with plans of delivery down the road.

Is paypal a good option for her to start with or is she better off with a payment processor who's not paypal.
First: completely, totally awesome. Stubhub was the only interface that came close to this, and this is way more powerful than that.

One suggestion: I wanted to check out the 'price forecast' feature, but had to create a site-specific account, where I immediately stopped. Is Twitter OAuth/FBConnect or OpenID on the horizon? It really lowers the barrier to getting an account created.
Firstly, no.

Secondly, most PayPal purchases happen through credit cards. Credit card companies hold onto the payments for up to 60 days, meaning PayPal is holding onto absolutely nothing.
Consider:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
The Step We Skipped While Talking Cloud is Soooo Cool.
You can zoom using the arrow buttons on the top-right of the maps. We definitely have on double-click and mous wheel zooming on the pipeline.
A cognitive issue I had while trying your site was with the seat color coding scheme. In "deal mode", red is "worst" and green is "best". Black is "unknown". This makes sense to me. However, some games don't have "deal mode" (why not?), and so the site moves into a "what's the price" mode.

In this latter mode, the cheapest seats are black, the most expensive are red (this makes me think red==bad). Bright green (which to me signals "go!") is smack in the middle. And the cues based on circle size are also gone. I guess I initially assumed that red and green would be the two ends of the spectrum in pricing mode. I found the color coding scheme actually caused me to prefer the mid-priced seats because of a preference to avoid red and black. So, I would suggest a rethink of the coloring scheme in this mode.

It would also be nice if you could show the math on what makes a deal good or bad, or at least have some sort of blurb about what constitutes a "good deal".
That's specious reasoning
We want Yu!
Oops, yes CPAN is indeed for Perl. I guess I give myself away as a Rubyist...
While trying 80 people and picking the best observation from the distribution is going to help a little, how about shifting the distribution first:

a) Do something measurable. "Rails programming" is not measurable. "Rails programming... where I directly contributed two million dollars of yearly revenue attributable to a 3 week engagement" is measurable.

b) Do it for rich people. (Sam Walton proves there is money to be made on selling stuff to poor people -- like, say, a ramen profitable startup -- but as a service provider, rich people are a much better market.)

They can pay your rates, and a 1% improvement in their income is much more likely to be motivating to them than a 1% improvement for a poor person, startup, etc. Take a look at your friendly neighborhood lawyers, accountants, investment advisors, etc: transactional revenue on a small number of rich people means you command rates most programmers scarcely dream of.

I mean, if a Rails consultant told you he charged what a first year associate lawyer did, many people would scoff at him. "Think you're some kind of hotshot? Sure, 15 years of experience programming, deep domain expertise, wrote book on Rails in X context, whatever. What makes you think that is worth $300 an hour!? RentAResource.com only charges $30 an hour, and I can get top flight Rails consultants for $50."

Oh, bonus points: many rich people do not perceive the difference between $50 and $300 an hour like many people here do.

3) Blog about your demonstrable ability to solve problems like X for firms like Y with results like Oh My Goodness We'd Be A Fool Not To Hire Him.

[Edit: Someone actually uses RentAResource.com? a) I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pick on them specifically but b) that is the most dehumanizing website name I've ever heard of outside of the porn industry.]
I'm currently working for someone else to learn how to manage others. Coming from a purely technical background, I wanted to make my newbie manager mistakes on someone else's dollar.
Well, without getting into any specifics, isn't the fact that craiglist and ebay are direct competitors in an incredibly heated market enough to indicate that some tension was inevitable?

I think it's important to point out that craigslist has spent the past few years steadily eroding ebay's market. Essentially, craigslist has done to ebay what google has done to microsoft on the email and document fronts; craigslist offers a service that does pretty much what ebay does, only it does it for free, and it's often more convenient to boot. As far as I know, ebay has seen the impact of this materially in their profits; the growth of craigslist has been explosive over the past few years.

A parallel example: how would people have reacted if, after the introduction of the iPod in 2001, Microsoft had bought out several controlling members of Apple's board of directors? Would Steve Jobs have reacted combatively? I'm sure he would have; in fact, I would be surprised if he didn't. That's not to say that craigslist isn't guilty of some particular mistakes here, but at least they're understandable mistakes.
I've run a software consultancy for the past few years and wish to reiterate one of his key points: never accept a fixed-bid contract. Such contracts are incompatible with the creative and unpredictable forces of software development.
This guy (http://infographics.byjess.net/) has made a ton of successful social media graphics. Discovered him while researching ideas for an infographic I did recently (http://1bog.org/solar-beats-the-bank/). Apparently he does contract work.
Autodesk wins copyright appeal (licensed software resale)
Think Small Business Is Job Engine? Think Again
How does this compare with https://www.wepay.com/ ?
I checked it up again:

dir c:\windows\winsxs\amd64* accounts for 10829 directories
dir c:\windows\winsxs\x86* accounts for 6163 directories

Total 16gb. So I was wrong, 20GB came from the artist machine I was inspecting the problem. On mine is 16GB

In total here is what I have:

C:\Windows\winsxs>cmd /c dir /s | tail
Directory of C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_wwf-system.workflow.runtime_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6002.18005_none_670656a59d28c52a

06/03/2009 03:34 PM <DIR> .
06/03/2009 03:34 PM <DIR> ..
02/18/2009 11:39 AM 540,672 System.Workflow.Runtime.dll
1 File(s) 540,672 bytes

Total Files Listed:
70492 File(s) 17,392,399,667 bytes
54416 Dir(s) 3,145,158,656 bytes free
This was the point I wanted to bring up; if you have your login form on a non-ssl page, it's possible for a man-in-the-middle attack to replace the "action" on the form and send your login credentials anywhere they want. To prevent this with the drop-down login, you have to make your homepage SSL, which has other drawbacks.
Yeah seems plausible... Why not have a rate limit to how much you can take out of the account at a given time until they provide some kind of authentication that it is indeed you. An analog to that would be the ATM limit of $400/day and you can walk inside to get as much as you want out.(as long as the account does not have a daily limit for cash transactions.)
Also 100% of people who make a error in their joke get corrected by the people on Hacker News.
Devpayments.com rocks. It's an order of magnitude less hassle than any other system I've used. Anybots processes robot sales & billing through them.
To some extent, I find it kind of disheartening that the only reason that you care about over-fishing and the possible extinction of species is how it affects your dinner plate... (i.e. If you didn't like the taste of cod, then you wouldn't care about it at all.)
She generally tries to price in line with the suggestions from the Graphics Artists Guild: http://www.graphicartistsguild.org/handbook/

You can buy the book on Amazon, or glance at an out of date summary of some of the numbers here:
http://news.deviantart.com/article/120160/

But as a very rough ballpark, ignoring size of printing, resolution of detail, research required, assignment of rights, and whether the illustrations selected for the website are representative, my over-the-shoulder impression is that a 3D map of the quality you see in a good travel magazine tends to cost about $1000-$2500.
I switched to Google Reader a couple of years back, and never regretted it.

I was a bit sad at the time, but they kept having uptime problems, and I wasn't willing to put up with it endlessly.
Definitely not "stuff". This pg essay really resonates with me: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

I've found my attitude changing from "can I afford this?" to "do I really want to be burdened by this object"

During my last move I put everything own into a storage unit, and cherry-pick the few things I actually need/want as I need them. Next time I move I'm going to get rid everything left in storage. I figure if it's been in storage for that long I probably won't ever need it.

Incidentally, this is exactly the same strategy I take with my computer. Once or twice a year I'll backup everything, reformat, and only copy back over what I need, as I need it.
No, you don't own it: Court upholds EULAs, threatens digital resale
I am also a satisfied BrainTree customer. They care about developers[1], they get back on support requests really quickly, and are just all around good to work with.

1: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/devblog
1: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/gateway
I recommend that you find an ISO (Independent Sales Organization) [pdf list from visa: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/list-of-registered-in...] their success (commission) is tied to you - so they're motivated to get you a merchant account.

A while back one of the people on this site wrote a pretty decent guide to getting a merchant account: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0006-how-to-get-a-merchant-acc...

Other than that, MAKE SURE YOU NEGOTIATE or you will more than likely get raped.
Then I guess Brooks is wrong. But any way you look at it discussing that "americans are abandoning technical enterprise" without mentioning offshoring is missing the point (if you are being generous) or intentional deception (if you are a bit more realistic).

Regarding the statistics of manufacturing supposedly growing they are misleading. I don't have time to explain why they are misleading but if you dont believe me you can just visit Detroit, or Flynt Michigan, or even Philadelphia.
How do you verify that?
Wikipedia only mentions the French version (apart from the original English version), and says it was launched about a year ago. It seems it's sort of a franchised version--- the Slate parent company only owns 15% of slate.fr.
We currently index events and tickets for Concert, Theater, Professional Sports, and certain collegiate sporting events, as well as things like Nascar and Tennis.
One thing I've always wanted was to be able to 'see' from the seat view, so I have a better idea of what I'm buying. This is even more important for either odd shaped venues (Fenway) or buying those ever-tricky, "Limited view" seats that might be great, or horrid.

A "Seat-View" (like "Google Street View") would change ticket buying forever I think. Main difficulty is in obtaining the photos, but not impossible.
Steady income can be... useful if you are living on ramen.

Working for The Man also helps you do things you could never do on your own, because the company can fund things you could never hope to afford to tinker with.
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You know of good developers who don't?

I mean, as long as he isn't muttering about red staplers or burning the office down, what's the issue?
Do you suppose someone's working on a system that recognizes valuable objects in geo-tagged photos, correlates that with Facebook/4sq checkins to figure out who lives with those objects and when they're not home, and produces a live feed of where the fleet of home burglary vans should go next? Kinda like the FedEx logistics system, but for evil.
Background Jobs & Concurrency/Locking in Ruby
Wow, that's hilarious. Any chance he was taking voice notes to a device?
Right. The decline in manufacturing is a tricky subject. First off, in developed economies the manufacturing employee makes up less than 1/5th of the population. Let's be honest, manufacturing will never come back to developed nations like it was in the early 20th century.

We aren't "declining" in productivity. We've continued to increased productivity at the same historic rate as previous industries. (http://www.bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.htm)

We are accomplishing this productivity gain with less people. Increased productivity allows for companies to increase their output with less people.

As Peter Drucker predicted, if these productivity gains aren't matched in the service and knowledge worker sectors, then we'll see an increase in social tensions and class warfare. No one can deny the social acrimony that continues to surface in the news.

This will be the challenge of the 21st century. What to do with a nation that doesn't require a majority of its workforce employed in moving or making things.
Or, if you try a furtive glance at the real world, you might find the reason is that the rest of the world is full of poor desperate and oppressed people willing to work for very little money and in bad conditions.
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$2.5m for one successful 3 year startup is 833,000 per year. So let's say every year you spend working on a successful startup, you earn $900,000, adding in a salary during those 3 years and rounding up for fun.

But every year you spend working on a failed startup, you might only earn $50,000 (let's assume you can draw a small salary off of investors or revenue). And let's also say there's a 10% chance of success. The EV for spending a year on startup(s) wound be $95,000, which is probably within wiggle room of what you could earn with a salary.

However, that's average. If you're clever and determined, your chance won't be 10%. At 25%, the EV goes up to $262,500 per year. That's a hard salary to get. But few people are sufficiently awesome to have a 25% shot, I suspect. (It's hard to say because there aren't many truly large sample sizes out there yet.)
Tell HN: "Y Combinator: It's such an unfair advantage."
Brian Norgard's recent tweet:

""It's such an unfair advantage." referring to @ycombinator >> what a great time we live in where young people have tools like this."

http://twitter.com/BrianNorgard/status/24136354265

I read this tweet and thought very quickly that no - YCombinator isn't an unfair advantage at all - it's something much, much less totalitarian.

Unfair advantages imply zero-sum games, that somehow the winners and lowers pit against one another in a game of deft and wit.

However, the beautiful thing about what Y-Combinator does and what their startups do is contribute in a way that is nonzero - everyone wins.

These seed-stage startups are of the type that they rarely "compete", in the purest, man-on-man thought of the word. The nature of YCombinator makes this pretty much impossible - such incremental sums of money would make it highly unlikely that they could compete with anything -- other than maybe a milk stand.

Instead, they solve problems and make people's lives better. Sometimes they contribute to zero-sum solutions, getting acquired by other companies, but mostly, their product and service offerings are based on purely zero-sum principles - unique web apps and add-ons that make functioning that much easier - and often, that much more fun.

So, to Brian Norgard and others who believe Y-Combinator to be an "unfair advantage", I say - no. I say, thank you, Y-Combinator, for being the advantage that all of us - not just the start-ups - get to benefit from.
For what should be simple, it's not.

After creating roughly twelve hundred lines of C and hundred or so lines of command language to get OpenSSL working for network connections and to get a CA and signed certs a few weeks back, I can well appreciate the author's frustration with the OpenSSL library.

And at the same time this was being developed, one of the associated OS platforms went through an incompatible-API OpenSSL upgrade; you got to find and rebuild everything that was built against it, or you saw, um, cryptic failures.
Why female technology entrepreneurs are so hard to find
I imagine men are more likely to seem suspicious when talking to a kid, particularly a young girl. No one ever dreams a woman talking to a child could possibly have ill intentions.

I know just the other day I watched a man in his late 30s/early 40s walk out of a supermarket with a 12-14yo girl who was clearly not his biological child (completely different ethnicity) and get into a car. I couldn't help but be just the slightest bit suspicious. I may have been right, I may have been wrong, but if it was a woman with a 12-14yo girl OR boy, not a single eyebrow would raise.
Having not done a merchant account before, I'm willing to pay a (reasonably) little extra for ease of setup and use. BrainTree looks great in that it has the merchant account and gateway all in one solution.

How do their rates compare in your experience? Their website just claims they are "competitive", though they are explicit about all their pricing, which is nice.