skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we only get to promote a certain part of the JS documentation instead of the general JS guide (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide) ?
This site generates a link to a random page of the Mozilla Javascript reference, with various keywords added in title and alt attributes. It would be better if they used text instead of an image as the link anchor.

Here's how this should be done instead:

* Register a new domain, say javascriptdocs.com or javascriptreference.org

* The new domain should be used for hosting the JS reference as well as the link generator. Using an unrelated domain means you are wasting a lot of links from people that want to support the cause.

* The documentation should get a SEO treatment by someone who knows what he's doing. You need good titles, sensible site structure, a small excerpt to be used on top of each page and in the meta descriptions.

* Contact people and websites that link to bad docs, make them aware of the better docs you are offering and get them to switch.

* A reward program for people that put up links, refer visitors from their website, etc. Give them a Mozilla t-shirt or a hat or something.
I can understand why the owner of the website is concerned about competition: being a dick on the internet is a very crowded market.

I wonder if we'll see more of this sort of asocial behaviour as the 4chan generation grows up - or at least gets older - and find themselves in more positions of authority/power?
great story. play html+js version online here:

http://www.oldgames.dk/freeflashgames/arcadegames/playlemmin...
Got one. http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/told-to-eat-its-vegetables...
The segmentation of the venture industry
I stand corrected -- "flashing" used to mean all that. It goes back at least 10 years, when I started trading (and, according to Wikipedia, as far back as 1978). Now it only means what the exchange side does, and what brokers do is called "internalization". But it's the same thing. I know it's being exploited for frontrunning on the broker side, and I see no reason why it wouldn't be possible on the exchange side (even if its just 30ms -- that's more than enough to frontrun the client in the NBBO exchange at the time).
Accountants and bookkeepers weren't really the "biz type" I was talking about (though they are important), I was talking about sales, marketing and finance guy. Granted, a smart techie willing to learn can learn those stuff too. But I think the type of business really determines whether you'll need to find a biz type cofounder early on, which in your case, a marketing/sales person is useless during the startup phase. Something like Groupon for instance, would probably need sales people early on.

Thanks for the discussion, I found it really stimulating. :)
Yep. See also the story about General Sir Mike Jackson, without who the Yugoslav war might have taken a completely different turn.
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I've always thought it was interesting that the impact of an otherwise good article can be completely nullified by a few glaringly obvious grammar or spelling mistakes. Stay in school, kids.
Hey dude, when iPadCaseFinder.com first came out my friend said to me "this guy is so smart, got into the game before everyone else"! Congrats on the success!

I do know some HTML/CSS codes though can't really build a site from scratch. I've been building websites using wordpress then change the stuff in the theme CSS file.

And agree about the importance of networking :)
Never Mind The Bullets: a comic strip with HTML5/CSS
Have any of you ever considered building something on your own, and trying to bring someone on-board with something in hand, instead of joining a co-founder dating site?

This is becoming a repeating theme here on HN and it seems like its another way for the people who aren't doing anything to feel like "entrepreneurs". It also seems like what takes place at a lot of conferences these days and especially on twitter.

If you're serious about building something, build it. If it's any good, even if incomplete, people will want to join you. It doesn't matter what it is. Really. The guys building the traffic/headline grabbing companies today are just farther along in the process. You can't get there without starting somewhere.

Are you a business guy looking for help building your idea? Outsource it. Pay someone to build it for you. Don't try to "convince" someone else to join your vision and build it for you.

This stuff has to be obvious to 95% of the members on this forum.

Sorry for the rant but this nonsense is getting old...
Brilliant. I owe a lot to WordPress :-) and cheers on the compliments from your friend!
You can always try my reader http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nytimes.com...
Anytime you come across a paywall link on NYT's site, just remove the "/glogin?URI=" and query string from the URL, and you can usually brute through it.
People on the main wikipedia site aren't going to tell you to go post your Star Wars article on the Star Wars-specific spinoff wiki site though are they?
The whole reason why this situation happened is that the vetting was not properly done.
The point isn't that their actions are too extreme, only that not only is the method ineffective, but they're using our money to buy and burn these books. If they HAD used a ban, it would not be a total waste of money as this is. Because they are just making people pay attention to this book. Had they not burned these, it most likely would have been passed off as yet another one of dozens of books about 9/11. Now that there has been this reaction, people know that the government is taking it seriously. Therefore, you should take it seriously too.
It's adorable that in this day and age, the DoD still thinks that information can just be gotten rid of. On the other hand, kudos to them for taking a rather civil approach.
if not this one then one practically identical which I learned about here on HN. What others are creating a nearly identical service?
Satellite error... please, it was a game of global thermonuclear war!

Anyone else find it ironic this happened in the same year that wargames the movie came out?
This sounds like it might be a useful (will pay money for) service, but I have to say my first experience here was weird and slightly obnoxious. Why do I need to give you an SSH key when I first sign up? Why are coupon codes masked behind the API? When I first started it said I could request one, then I saw nothing.

I did figure out that I can request through your API via command line, but it seems like a have to use a weird unicode heart (/heart doesn't work). After futzing with that I discover all coupons are gone. Awesome.
The tl;dr might be: sound like a human not a total douche.

I don't feel the credential based pitch can be replaced wholesale. Credentials matter and are effective because they communicate a great deal of information (often by assumption) in few words and also provide some social evidence. E.g. "Carl got his MBA at HBS." That instantly provides you with a (mostly positive) picture of Carl.

Aside: The best part of the article is the first comment.

Q: How do you know someone went to Harvard?
A: They just told you.
Reminds me a lot of http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com/2006/08/yongsan-electroni...
my bet is twitter will figure out monetization. im sure they have something in the works. look at ad.ly for instance - instream advertising. they seem to be doing well.
The Accidental Entrepreneur
That would be an improvement over something some cable tv systems once did in small communities. If a town had one nearby full-power analog tv station, analog signals carried on the same channel on cable would often get interference. Even if the same station was carried, the differing time delays would cause the video to appear in different positions on a scan line causing ghosts. In the later days, the channel would typically carry public service text, community access programs, or guide listings.
But in the early days it'd be things like weather guages next to an aquarium with the camera panning back and forth.

Maybe by 2012 someone can do a video with (Tina Fey) Sara Palin shown secretly hunting down the last bear in Alaska or something... chase a Russian bear on an iceberg and wrestle for oil rights?

BearGate, the Sara Palin conspiracy
I find that w3schools also offers great documentation for JavaScript: http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp .
Or, How To Think Like A Link
Why Groupon hurts businesses and you should be careful
I know this post will be controversial, but I stand by it nonetheless. I think that Groupon and its ilk hurt businesses more than it helps them by devaluing the product or service they are trying to sell. It emphasizes price (aka huge savings) as the determining factor in choosing to make a purchase. Rather than win over customers because you have a superior product or service that is worth the regular price, the Groupon coupon shows to customers how much margin you have to work with and will anchor their future purchases off that initial discounted price.

What this means is that customers, especially new customers, will forever know that the stated price is not the "real" price, but a much lower amount even if it is in reality a loss for your business. For example, if a service is normally priced at $50, and you now offer it at $25, your customers, even the ones who don't go for the deal, will now think the "true" price is closer to the lower price than the previous price.

They will resist buying unless the price is adjusted downward even if in actually you never intended for the price to go that low. Moreover, these deals bring out those customers who prefer deep discounts and have weak loyalties to any one business that isn't giving them bargains.

While Groupon is a startup success, its long-tern proposition is questionable because it may hurt businesses over the long term even if it provides some short term gains.
I wish his reasoning was described better. This way it seems more like luck. Nevertheless, I'm thankful for it :-)
Homo administrans: the biology of business
I used to work at Yodlee and do some Yodlee consulting on the side. I can't speak to the license fees, but to the folks that say "build your own", I don't really recommend that.

Not sure what kind of site you are trying to build, but aggregation is a really Long Tail kind of functionality. I've heard countless times from people that "Yodlee supports 15 of my institutions but they don't support my one bank and that makes the aggregated data useless without it." And Yodlee supports thousands of sites. Even if you built custom support for 80% of the sites, the "all or nothing" mentality of a lot of aggregation users means that does not translate to satisfying 80% of the users.
yeah they do very well. check out http://www.americaisretarded.com/. it is possible to make money without generating much value (like 'the situation' from jersey shore). facebook has a big market cap but imo it doesnt have much value.
>People know that vegetables can improve health

More like: we were cajoled and coerced into eating vegetables by our parents, who were in turn cajoled by their parents, etc.

We then spend the rest of our lives rationalising this uncritical acceptance, which isn't the same thing as knowing something.
This is a common misunderstanding. Yes, if someone purposely tries to release classified information they will face charges. That isn't what happened in this case.

In the defense industry, an author can write a book (or a scientific paper, or really anything else) and s/he gets it the content reviewed for release. The release reviewers are responsible for ensuring there is no classified content in the written work. It is not within the capabilities of any single person to vett a manuscript completely. Inadvertently including information that is classified is understandable. Hell, in some cases individual pieces of information are not classified but the aggregate is. Hence the need for the release review process. This is standard practice in the defense industry.

In this case, the release review was done incorrectly. The people on the hook here are the ones who reviewed his manuscript, not the author himself. Your claim that the author would be facing charges if there was classified information in the book is incorrect.
I've been working with Lift a bit. It is very different from any other web framework I've ever used. That said, there's some real brilliance in it, especially how Comet and Ajax work. Lately, it's gotten a lot easier to work with, as the IDE has gotten into a usable state.

The learning curve is pretty steep though. You have to learn Scala, The Java APIs and the non-traditional approach to web development that Lift takes. That, and it's a young ecosystem. There aren't 101 e-commerce shopping cart systems written in it yet.
I don't understand what you're complaining about.
All i did was register + $ curl -k -u user:password https://api.no.de/heart -X POST and then i had to generate the ssh key.
Changing the 'Referer' HTTP header to http://news.google.com/ or similar punches through many of these registration walls, like NYT, WaPo, FT, etc.

On Firefox, the RefControl extension works well.
Digg ?
It gives you a random part of the guide with the appropriate keywords in the title attribute of the link, so that each part of the guide gets boosted in the search rankings appropriately.

You can refresh if you want to promote a different part of the guide (Arrays, RegExp, etc).
Really? downvoted for that? You know that was funny.
No, another argument for people getting to know their food better. Last year I made curry'd chicken gizzards and hearts. I had trouble finding the parts as most butchers dispose of them. I found some frozen in a small market near our town and prepared and cooked them for the family. Unfortunately, none of the family would join me in my meal so I ate them by myself.

Chewy, a bit cartilaginous, but not bad. I guess if you braise them long enough they become quite tender. I saved the remainder and had them later over the span of a month.

It was a fun experiment but I've not the guts to go after many of the other parts that most people pass over like the lungs and brain.
Thing that bugs me about Lift (last time I looked) is that it only supports sticky sessions. If the server your session is on goes down, you lose your session.

Is there a way around this in Lift yet?
Keeping this on the frontpage will help as well :)

This is a great idea. One of the reasons why JavaScript is frequently misunderstood is because if you search for anything JS related you will find posts explaining how to do some DHTML thing in IE5/6 and Netscape.

It's great that Mozilla considers themselves to be the patron saints of JS, but much of the recent growth in the JS community is due to projects like V8 and node. Why doesn't Joyent or Google get to host the docs on their servers?

Perhaps it's a better idea to establish a Javascript Foundation that runs javascript.org or something. This approach will probably not last and then it'll be a wasted SEO effort.
Oh get a life.
If you are going to do pro bono work, do it for your school or college (or school/college society), your own website/blog, your brother's rock band, your local charity/church/sports club or whatever. Don't do it for a "real" client - i.e. a client who has the money but is a cheapskate. They are the worst clients, the demanding, parasitic bottom feeders you find on the Craigslist ads everyone makes fun of. Do it for someone you know who could do with the help.

After a few of these you have a portfolio. This puts you in a position for paid work. However, your best bet is to first work for a professional web dev company - either as a contractor or full/part-time employee or intern. You'll learn best practices from experienced professionals. It's hard to really learn the trade on your own.

Second, doing freelance web development or design for client s, while good for practice, isn't really scalable - you might get to re-use some designs and code, but most of the time it's doing the same work over and over. Better to build an application that you can resell to many clients. For example, if you do a booking application for a hotel, think of how you can generalize it to sell to lots of hotels.
Fuck, man, take it down a notch.
Why can't I zoom in on that site on an iPad?
I'm not afraid of zucchinis, but I just don't know how to cook them.

This is just sad. So many people are failing at something as basic and fundamental as eating.
The Stonesoup cookbook was featured here in June: http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/06/a-free-e-cookbook/ I've switched almost entirely to that book — 5-ingredient, 10-minute recipes. It is quicker than eating out, and my veggie intake has tripled.
Sorry, the triple-whammy in the first paragraph got me ruffled up. I care about grammar.
Wikileaks claims they have a copy: http://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/25607235096
This is what our assignments looked like back in Glasgow in the 1990s.

Phil Wadler was an inspiring, thoughtful and funny lecturer (as long as you din't turn up late to one of his lectures).

He would also offer to buy the whole theatre (the first x of 400) students a drink at the end of term.

He was my favourite teacher, ever.
I see a problem in the argument the author makes, specifically around the capabilities of users. He describes the method of installing DroidWall as being beyond the grasp of most users. I would go further and say expecting most (non technical) users to pay attention to, let alone understand, all the security permissions is a stretch.

Comparing Android to Windows in terms of it's security vulnerabilities? There are some fair comparisons, but the better comparison is how it is more likely to become a platform littered with unwanted apps from carriers and third parties. I wouldn't be surprised at some point to see Apps the "bundle" other apps.

People don't pay attention to all the words that flash on their screen before an app is installed. They just want the app.

Having a better managed app store would be a big step in the right direction.

As for disabling net access for "free" games that you want to play so that they don't display ads, the current focus on free and $0.99 apps really leaves the developers who put time in little other recourse to make money. (I'm not saying all free/cheap apps are of the same caliber, some are great and some are "not scottish").
I am one who doesn't really understand javascript hype (and have used it in advanced ways), there are few types, objects are automatically converted to strings, few functions support even for the web (urlparse). I am in favor of a VM to the web, supporting more programming languages.
Conformity to Zipf-Mandelbrot law... necessary for "pleasant music"
You lost me in the first 30 seconds in both the video.
The presumption that people need to eat a lot of vegetables is perhaps flawed:

http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-1.html

Population studies haven't really shown a clear benefit from eating a lot of vegetables.
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Zed is a code-review maniac. I have seen his work with a friend's startup. Would highly recommend that man for his insight and eye for quality code.
The thing you need to do if you're paying for code is to find a way to minimize waste. Every change is costly, and your coding competitors won't have to eat those same costs.

Practically, one way to do that is to go sell a product that doesn't exist. And I mean sell it, not just get feedback. Get an actual contract from the customer and their buyin to help you build out the concept.

Build a high ticket item- this probably means a b to b product. You need as much skin in the game from your first customer as you can get and cheap products wont get it done.

Getting this contract is difficult, and the people i know who've taken this route admit that their first contract had hole a mile wide that allowed their customer to walk at any time. But, it sets the scene for collaboration and puts some psychological incentive out there to help keep everyone interested.

Only after you've sold your first customer do you then hire coders. Since your money will be somewhat fictitious at this point, you may have to look for a founderish type of coder, but thats ok. It will be bucket loads easier (and cheaper in terms of equity) to find one with a contract in hand.

I know someone who's done this twice, and both times, he achieved huge exits without outside substantial outside funding. The products were boring, but the businesses were outstanding.
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Most likely time.
Not saying it can't/shouldn't be improved...
...but I think it was unfair to single out Android which does have one of the more secure setups in terms of permissions for apps, for a flaw that exists in every major mobile OS.

Your title should have been "Mobile OS's security models are inadequate- and out line how Android, iOS etc could be improved upon.

The way you wrote it feels FUD-y :)
"We have to make the healthy choice the easy choice," Dr. Foltz said.

That's the ticket. Implementation over theoretical qualities.

I eat a salad pretty much every time I'm in a restaurant with a salad bar, but rarely otherwise.
Treatment in fiction: _The Space Eater_ (David Langford). Only it was 1.8cm in his story.
What happened to the last post about this that was at the top of the front page?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728683
Not to my knowledge. The problem isnt just data that could be serialized between app servers-Its the closures associated with the sessions (eg for submitting forms).
This. I think utility goes waaaaay down without being location-centric.
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This, slightly exaggerated as it may be, poignantly raises the Fermi paradox proposition that most advanced civilizations end up destroying themselves and how narrow the "right" path sometimes is.
Most vegetables are good if you just slice them up, steam them briefly, then sprinkle a little salt on them. If you don't feel like doing anything more ambitious this only takes a few minutes.
I suspect that if people knew how to cook vegetables properly, consumption would increase dramatically. Ask your vegan friends for some recipes.
It's not that I disagree with you; I just thought you could of been a bit less harsh.