skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike the other companies mentioned there is very little alternative to Google. Especially if you target the technical demographic. If CVS does something bad, I can go to Rite Aid. However if Google delists you, your customers most likely won't go to Bing, or DuckDuckGo, you'll be dead. Furthermore, if you're not "relevant" to your search term, then advertising for that term will be prohibitively expensive. So you're screwed two ways.

I'm just saying their current status quo coupled with the power they have is scary. They should, like the banks, communicate with you. Even if it's not that detailed, a little bit of interaction goes a long way. They already have humans reading your reconsideration requests, they should allow them to issue a response, instead of just an automated reply. It shouldn't be this guessing game that we play. It's not OK that something that controls almost all of search is that inaccessible to communication, follow-up, and resolution.
Articles with a negative tone seem to be on the rise lately. Maybe it's just me, but in the past I always got a more positive vibe, more like "If you want to start a startup, don't procrastinate and work hard", rather than "we try not to hire wimps" and "if you procrastinate, don't start a startup". Who is the intended audience? Has there been a recent surge in founders who don't get things done that might be dissuaded by that kind of thing? Is it a feel-good "we're not like that" kind of thing?
"rubbish. I thought maybe it would "quack" whilst searching, but it does nothing (other than find what I'm looking for)."

My wife's reaction to duckduckgo.

Just wanted to get it out there for posterity :)
I use DD-WRT, and like it, but 2 weeks ago my router lost every single setting. Was not happy.
A web site with no bug (I mean, no error) is a web site with no vulnerabilities. Wouldn't that be interesting when your customers trust you with their credit card number?
Editorial: Copy 'protection' only hurts people who actually buy your product
This is meaningless. There are no right or wrong reasons to be anything, no less an entrepreneur. It can be freestyle. Just one of the great things about it. If McClure is trying to lay out traits he seeks in people he invests in, that's a different story.

I see way too much conjecture of this sort around here. Starting a business, especially a software business in this day and age, does not have to be a thought experiment. Getting version 1 out the door should cost almost nothing but a few weekends. Just friggin' do it or stop talking about it. Your biggest successes are apt to be those you didn't anticipate.
To my limited knowledge:

1) Easiest, most bullet-proof solution is to wire a central router to more routers acting as wireless gateways. If the stock firmware doesn't support this, dd-wrt does with ease.

2) The open source solution: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WDS_Linked_router_netwo...

3) The apple solution: http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
I just started using SpringPad (http://www.springpadit.com/) and it's awesome for this kind of thing.
As soon as you start having such a huge market share like Google does, whether you have a right to it is irrelevant. The fact is that they dominate, and have a defacto Monopoly in certain segments of our population. As such, there needs to be some standards and processes to for conflict resolution.

We shouldn't be ok with a company controlling almost all of search and not having any way to check them. There's a reason certain industries are now regulated, and why there are anti-competitive laws. Google and the web in general is still too new to have such regulation, but hopefully we're not too far away from it.

Again, I'd feel much better at night knowing there's a standard procedure with actual follow-up to explain and investigate search related issues, including delistings.
I agree, there doesn't seem to be a degree bias when you compare partners of high-degree vertices to the rest of the population.
Well it would have been clearer if it said: However, this is an unsupported feature and service outside the US may change at any time WITH OUT WARNING.

The reason he is upset is that Twilio didn't give him a warning window.
This is why programmers make horrible customer support people, it doesn't matter if you have nothing to apologize for. You say your sorry because no matter what the circumstances the person is unhappy with your service and your company - saying your sorry and fixing the problem keeps a customer. Sticking to your guns and saying you have nothing to apologize for just loses you a customer.
Tea-party rallies?

Seriously though, Cato, Mises institutes etc might be a good place to start if you don't like these commies infiltrating your precious bodily fluids.
disassemble it. soak it in pure alcohol. (fry's sells big bottles of 99.9% rubbing alcohol for cheaper than what you'd pay at the drug store.)

You aren't going to submerge it while it's plugged in, and you aren't going to submerge the LCD (take it apart, I said, get the keyboard and circuit board submerged) make sure it is completely dry before re-assembly.

I do this periodically with my keyboard... and it's standard procedure when something is spilt on my thinkpad. It won't work 100% of the time, but it does quite often work

Alcohol is, I think, a better solvent than distilled water, but the real reason I prefer it is that it dries faster.
The I Hate Mathematics Book was always a favourite in my family growing up. It's the kind of math they don't teach you in elementary school. I learned about googol, infinity, topology, permutations, parabolas, game theory, and all sorts of fun stuff. It taught me that math is not just the boring arithmetic that you learn in elementary school.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/187-...
Right, so there's one exposure regardless. You don't know who it is I suppose, but you know it's there.
You can bet that if there wasn't Target, A&P, Pathmark, and local grocery stores, etc. Walmart wouldn't just be able to refuse selling your product without some sort of reason.

Google is significantly more dominant than Walmart, they're the only channel to your product for many, which isn't true with Walmart.
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Agreed, the document doesn't say much about the games themselves - the question was more on the mixing between open source and videogaming.

For the description of the main game, you should rather see http://community.hackit.cx/blog/2010/09/12/the-future-of-hac... and http://community.hackit.cx/blog/2010/09/16/ever-heard-of-alt... , you should get a better picture. Interested by your opinion there too btw...

Probably we're not doing a good job conveying this part in the YC application though. It's rather difficult to explain what the experience will be when you are still in the prototyping phase. That's why you usually don't hear much from games until they are at a point where they can actually show gameplay footage (I can say that it's an alternate reality game with a MMO-like leveling structure, but until you experience it yourself, you can't really know what I'm talking about...).
Just because of some novice mistakes, you want to discount the whole post?

Thank you for calling attention to the second comment.
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I think at this stage it's people with apps hosted in the Linode datacenter in Dallas being targeted, i.e. on the same private network as this service.
strspn takes a set of characters to match against and tells you how long to go until you reach a non-matching character. My tokenizer, like strtok, takes a set of delimiter characters. So same thing except with complement sets, I guess.

It's also part of a larger library that consistently uses pointer/length pairs to designate strings as opposed to null termination, which admittedly is quite non-C. No clue whether it's actually a good idea.

EDIT: If anyone's actually curious, I have it on github: http://github.com/philwelch/string
If you say "not a big deal -- move on" -- it's definitely not as exciting read as if you claim potential conspiracy.
Hard to answer. I went through a phase while working for others where I just wasn't coding at home anymore. I did the time at work, but my main interests were elsewhere.

A few things that worked for me:

- Changing to a developer-focused company, where developers aspired to be craftsmen.

- Creating my own app. I can pour my heart into one part of it, no deadlines unless I want them and I learn a million things outside of the code.

- Going to b-school. Lots of ideas/new people, new domains.

- Contracting instead of being full-time. I like the time balance more.

Whatever it was, I rediscovered why I like developing.
There is a huge difference between the various wrt45g models. For example the "L" model has a lot more memory, and will prevent this situation. Firmware can only help a crappy router handle intensive activity like torrenting to a limited degree.
the best advice I can give you is to treat your political life like your sex life, and largely keep it outside of your professional life. I know extremely good people on both sides of the political isle, and I think it's important to go out of your way to be able to work with people who have differing views politically, religiously, and sexually.

I mean, you don't need to hide who you are, but especially on divisive issues, don't rub it in someone else's face. Be conscious of who you insult; It's pretty easy to insult people on the other side of a political debate, or to demean people with different religions or sexual proclivities. You never know when the guy next to you is one of "those people" and really, you are trying to work. It shouldn't matter if the guy next to you is one of "those people."

Ignoring my own advice here, I think the noise about "high-tech workers don't want raises" and "money doesn't matter" is just MBA propaganda. Nothing to do with "right" or "Left" Usually when companies say that what they really mean is "we'll donate to some BS charity run by our golf buddies rather than giving the workers raises; they are too dumb to know the difference." the truth of the matter is that money isn't everything; yeah, we all knew that. But you know? all other things being equal, almost all of us will choose more money over less.
but when consumers can create many or most of the objects they need

I'm not seeing that soon. Many or most of the objects that I need are either:
1) Full of advanced electronics - phone, ebook reader, laptop, netbook etc.

2) Made of metal for strength - e.g. car or bike parts

3) Made from fabric - clothes and bedding

4) Edible

So when do these machines go past being fabs that can churn out plastic trinkets? How many white plastic rabbits does one need anyway?
If there were Zed Shaw fanboys I would be one.
"Why You Shouldn't Be on Facebook" would make for an interesting headline, but this will obviously deter most readers.

Guess it's better than "Facebook Is Dead", though.
Microsoft has a long history of terrible advertising.

Here's ballmer in a tacky suit selling windows 1.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

Windows 386 (second half, bear with it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGO2hVA3P58

Songsmith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

And of course, the absolute worst:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0
Are you saying you can get infected retroactively, when one of your past lovers gets infected? That's harsh.
I'm interested to hear other peoples' thoughts on comet versus polling. I've done polling solutions before and am in the process of setting up a comet based solution.

In my opinion, having fewer requests to the server is better. But if someone can combat me on this, I'd really be interested in hearing another voice.
I'm struggling to see exactly what you're saying beyond "the way things are now suits me fine, and you can't do anything about it, so nyah to you".
Arduinos are pretty simple to program, and with data logging or ethernet shields, you can "control" the device over the network or perform data analysis off-device with a higher level language.
Yup, clearly a self-parody, starting with the self-mocking title. Making a point, or several, I think.
You sound burnt-out. I don't think the problem is the field, I think it's you.

Take a year off. If you can't afford a year without working, find some other job in a completely different field, even if it pays much less. Let technology stop being a daily grind and more of an enjoyable hobby again. You can't force the magic to come back, but if you leave it alone, it will probably do so all by itself.
From what I've seen with the N8 prototypes, it looks, feels better than Symbian 5th and it's faster too. Some people have been using the N8 more than myself and told me that they are happy with them. Still, anything can happen :)

N900 was a cool project, but they didn't take it all the way to a commercial product IMO. It registered poorer sales than Symbian and it's always a bit behind when it comes to services & software support.
A hacker-friendly and truly open source project, but I don't think that they wanted to invest too much in it, they were probably testing the waters for MeeGo.

I'm curious, why do you say that the Ovi store is terrible?
Great story. The ending was quite humorous:

I [still] have the iPhone that was in my left front pocket that basically exploded . . . it's now in about 200 pieces. . . and I have been meaning to send it back to Steve Jobs for a refund.
Big companies don't always copy & win
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I've had almost exactly the same experience.

I had made several attempts at learning how recursive descent parser works, but with little success. Finally I stumbled on this amazing text...

All other resources try to scare you by telling how scientifically mind-blowing subject the compiler construction is... this text simply shows how easy it can be.
A pretty standard process for drying out cell phones that get wet is to drop them in a bag of rice. Rice is a desiccant and will assist in the drying process.

One source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06...
If that was all there was to it then nobody would bother to patent anything now.
Gflags probably refers to this: http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/
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You can get denatured alcohol at nearly any hardware store. Besides drying faster, the advantage with alcohol is that fats, like those in coffee creamer are also soluble in it, but not in water. Sugars, though, are less soluble in alcohol.
If you had money to invest in tech stock, which would you choose?
If you had money to invest in tech stock, which would you choose?
I agree, you pay for what you want, and if you want the additional functionality, you give them a call and its done! No more upgrade hassles
I've always been intrigued by optimizing the keyboard for writing, and this analyser is a really cool idea.

What has always stopped me from using one of these is that I am working at lots of different boxes at work, and there is no way I could get a new layout installed at them all, which I guess would make the switching back and forth very awkward.

So... What is your experience? A hassle well worth it?
20 years? Go back 20 years and look at the software we had then. 20 years is an eternity. Way too long to put up with the chilling effect this would have on new competition in the market. I'm not saying you don't have a point in the long term, but I think there's got to be some sort of middle ground here that can help insure that startups who want to innovate can confidently tell their investors that they aren't going to end up paying all that money just so Google or MS or whomever can copy them.
"many people used to have partners from other schools."

One thing the researchers noted is that they chose a large-ish but relatively isolated community with a single high school that's about an hour from a major city. This means that geography dictates that students are relatively unlikely to date people from other high schools.
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You know Zed - this was a really good read. There's not much I can personally disagree with here, especially your final point (which I won't give away so people will read it).

Very well written; and some great advice. I much prefer this to ranty-zed :)
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Take a close look at these photos. You will notice something interesting.
I think it is a short sighted strategy(scratch off processor upgrades) and just opens the door for a new arena of "piracy"- hacking out the extra performance of your processor without paying...
Your question is conflicted; capitalism is a type of liberalism, while conservatism leads to anti-capitalism.

If you're looking for new capitalist ideas, take a look at seasteading, bitcoin, digital gold currencies, and the like.

The internet by its very nature is liberal. If you're really looking for new conservative ideas, take a look at DRM, national firewalls, paypal data mining, and most of "web 2.0".

(edit: bittorrent is market-based, but not capitalist. there's more market-based technologies than strictly capitalist ones)
> The fact is that they dominate, and have a defacto Monopoly in certain segments of our population.

No, it's not a fact at all. Use Yahoo or Bing, as long as there are functional alternatives you can't claim there's a monopoly. Google dominates search, that's not the same thing as a monopoly. Google does not have a monopoly.

> As such, there needs to be some standards and processes to for conflict resolution.

No, there doesn't, you haven't established that they are a monopoly, or that they're promoting anti-competitive practices, or that search is even a vital service like electricity that should be regulated.

> There's a reason certain industries are now regulated, and why there are anti-competitive laws.

Yes, there are, for good reasons, no such reason exists to regulate search.

> Google and the web in general is still too new to have such regulation, but hopefully we're not too far away from it.

Hopefully we're very far away from it because it's absolutely not necessary and shouldn't happen.

> Again, I'd feel much better at night knowing there's a standard procedure with actual follow-up to explain and investigate search related issues, including delistings.

Then don't use Google, no one is forcing you to, you can get traffic from other places if you put effort into it. The fact is, you use Google because their product is superior and they bring you more traffic; that doesn't mean other options aren't available, just that they don't work as well as Google does. And for having a superior product, you want to punish them with regulation. That's seriously fucked up thinking.
Obligatory:

http://sexchart.org/sexchart.9.15

(This charts the relationships of the informal collection of people from #hack, #phreak, and god knows what other EFNet "underground" channels).

A smart guy we hired wrote a traceroute for this (including an FSM parser for the ASCII art); in an attempt to one-up that, I wrote one that did all-points shortest path and could answer questions like "how many hops am I from X if you take Y out of the picture". We used it to test our routing code at Sonicity; it was handy.
Check out Moonshado SMS on heroku addons for International SMS, it works great for and its so damn cheap.
Web designers won't fade away, but the term will
Amazon carries some Arduino boards and kits, that's where I got mine. Also, though I have seen places to order clones, there is a question about their compatibility, at least of the couple I have seen - which their sites and order forms don't adequately address.
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Basically shit happens, and the poor guy had a really bad day. It's a good thing he can take it all in his stride.
My Mom loves movies and TV, so we always had the TV on. I still learned to read and keep reading. I always figured love grows out of a desire for something not the limiting of something else. When the kids get to an age and place where they get to make the decisions, such restricted items might take over.
Sorry Chomsky, you're ascribing way too grand and malicious an intent than is necessary.

Freelancers are not an organized political group. Nobody has figured out yet how to make freelancer issues sexy enough to yell over on the news. This is not a good thing for the political situation of freelancers, and this is not a bad thing for the political situation of freelancers. No entity representing freelancers is making campaign donations on their behalf. Freelancers are a political nonentity.
I ordered a WakeMate for my wife for her birthday... in January. Hopefully it will ship in time for me to give it to her for her next birthday.
In an efficient market with perfect competition, the price of the product will approach the marginal cost of production. To the extent that Intel are able to do this, it's because they don't have enough competition, or aren't producing enough chips to offset the fixed costs.

People don't see the massive fixed costs involved, so they suspect lack of competition (and thereby gouging).

Of course, if Intel's profits are large and climbing, then there may be more reason to attribute it to lack of competition.
They always seemed pretty halfhearted about symbian I never saw promotion in the same way as their windows phones for instance.
yow. i'd suggest the shower or spray nozzle in your sink before the dishwasher. the dishwasher is going to want to use hot water and high pressures, neither of which are necessary.
I think his "longbeards" actually do quite well on iOS where it says "Do X just SO" and you get a pretty decent design if you just follow the 1-2-3s
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DABANGG is rustic, has loads of action, harps on the age-old mother-son and varied relationships [half-brother,
step-father], eventually turns into a vendetta fare, has a number of songs placed smartly in the narrative [including an item number]... but the packaging is slick and polished. Sure, it's old wine, but packed in a brand new bottle, with a new brand ambassador [Salman Khan] endorsing this masalathon.
I don't know if it's that important as Pascal is pretty straight forward. I was able to follow along[1] and translate Pascal to Ruby on the fly even though I don't really know any Pascal. I certainly understand the resulting Pascal-ish language.

I have a feeling that most people with the will to read a tutorial on compilers, and actually make it through the first chapter, are smart enough and work hard enough to figure it out.

[1] In case anyone's interested: http://github.com/samsonjs/compiler instead of emitting assembly instructions it emits x86 machine code directly.
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Value of "free" customers in a freemium pricing model
In what way are nonpaying customers valuable in a freemium pricing model. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Yes a certain percentage of them will convert to paying customers and they will tell their friends etc I get that. Say someone like Dropbox has x million customers and only a 2% of them are paying. There is a cost associated with the other 98%. How do you adjust the pricing to cover the cost of those free customers? Does anyone have any stories they wish to share about how they approached this problem? Also do big numbers strike an emotional chord when raising successive rounds?
A move for covering his back perhaps. Assange might face serious crime convictions. Quotes like "I tried again and again to push for that, but Julian Assange reacted to any criticism with the allegation that I was disobedient to him and unloyal to the project." make me think that he is trying to refuse any responsibility for what happened.
I was thinking the same thing, "Well reasoned with 75% less hyperbolic rant". Good stuff Zed, keep it up.