skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use Chrome (privacy issues), but for Firefox,

* Flashblock

* Greasemonkey

* Firebug

* It'sAllText (which allows the use of an external editor)

* A few mostly inconsequential ones, like IdentFavicon, etc.

I find that flashblock takes care of most of my ad-blocking needs, and the rest I can do with a local DNS server. The re-emergence of badly behaved Javascript (Remember when all we had to worry about was scrolling/blinking text and alert() boxes? Those were the days.) is what prompted me to install Greasemonkey; I've got a little script that wipes iframes and kills window.XMLHttpRequest, for example
Traffic and parking crimes have victims, they're just not easy to identify. When you make crazy maneuvers on a highway without signalling and trigger a traffic jam that persists for two hours, you have quite a few victims, all affected in minor ways, but it adds up. Parking violations do not always have victims, but clearly you shouldn't be off the hook just because you got lucky that nobody handicapped showed up to find you had taken the spot reserved for people like them.

We don't need any special exceptions in order to keep those violations in the same category as fraud.
Well assuming you consistently do it, then yes it would be civil disobedience.

Just because you're civilly disobeying doesn't make it right.
I use lasttab in Firefox to get LRU tab switching. Until chrome gets it (and don't make me change my ctrl-tab muscle memory) I'm not switching.
I don't know what it is about stories like this that make commenters here start thinking in terms of fault.

It's not about fault. It's about the customer always being right, even when they're wrong.
I couldn't live without Tree Style Tabs, which is one of the main reasons I haven't switched to Chrome either.

I considered switching to Lunascape, which is a browser that will let you use webkit rendering and firefox plugins, but it's Windows only :(
60 mostly short anglo-saxon words and the long sentence, broken into multiple clauses, creates a sense of growing momentum that evokes the fire.

Good piece on this particular subject: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bookclub/2009/08/long-...
That's just like a computer without even having the possibility to reinstall.
Just imagine catching a trojan horse on the phone, stealing your credit card info.
I prefer paying by PIN. The POS Terminal doesn't connect to the internet.
Potential New Drug for Neurodegenerative Disease Identified
Like the article mentions, the ironic part is that if every entrepreneur called it quits when it made sense to, we wouldn't have many of the services we rely on today.

Pre-Google, YouTube was hemorrhaging half a million dollars a month [1].

Twitter got lackluster reviews on TechCrunch (and slammed in the comments) [2].

People laughed at Microsoft and Apple for building personal computers.

Facebook and Google entered into fields that were already pretty heavily dominated.

The list goes on and on.

[1] http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/youtube-show-me-the-money/
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
> I don't use Chrome (privacy issues)

Which one? You do realize it's open source so if you found anything we're not aware of by looking at the code please do tell. Also do you own a mobile phone? Because if you care about privacy, a mobile phone is much worse than chrome.
No one mentioned Xmarks (almost all browsers) to sync bookmarks and tabs between browsers

OneNumber (chrome) which checks for Gmail, GReader, GVoice and wave for updates.

Then I would recommend Boomerang for Gmail (both FF and Chrome) that allows you to postpone an email to send to whenever you want.

Google Dictionary (chrome): double click a word and it shows you the definition - really unobtrusive

Lazarus:Form recovery (chrome) - if you were typing some text in a textArea/field and the browser crashes it can easily put the text back in when you open the page again.

Rapportive for Gmail (chrome, but i thinks it also works in FF) - shows you details about senders, social networking accounts, etc

Stop Autoplay for Youtube (chrome) - great if you like to open many videos in tabs and dont want to hear them play all at the same time
I tried doing something similar a few months ago.

It's surprisingly difficult :D
Kudos on making it work! How did you get around crashing browsers? I tried displaying the full-ish stream API and the browser would soon lag behind the real stream and finally die.
Firefox:
Firebug, Pagespeed for finding slowdowns in my pages.
WebRank toolbar for when I'm too lazy to open Market Samurai.

Chrome:
Eyedropper for stealing a color.
Nofollow eyes to make sure my pages aren't wasting pagerank.
SEOQuake for when I'm too lazy to open firefox/MS.
Ultimate Chrome Flag. I like seeing ips/locations/etc.
Chromed Bird for my twitter accounts that are for business.
This is Your Brain on Food
"...--selling Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, Windows, Office, and AdWords are profitable and lucrative business models, while owning social data is only a potential basis for a future business model."

Indeed,

Has there even been an entity having only "a potential basis for a future business model" that has grown so large it can out to whole other industries?
I didn't say it shouldn't be the norm. Just that I don't think it is.
When was this? Attitudes and customs about video games are rapidly changing. As 'tptacek mentioned, it's now also a huge social disadvantage for a kid to not be playing video games (or be severely limited in their access to them).
On chrome i use:

* Notscript (blocks javascript, not as good as noscript for firefox but imho still good)

* Adblock

* Navigate on paste (load webpage with middle click on linux)

* Type ahead find (just start typing to search)

* android2cloud (send urls from your mobile phone to your browser)

For Firefox:

* TabMixPlus (Multiple rows for tabs)

* NoScript (JavaScript blocker)

* AdBlock Plus

* FoxyProxy (easy managable proxys)

* AutoAuth (automatically submits saved http basic authentication dialogs)

* Locationbar² (easy access to url segments)

* Firebug
It does take some for sure, but it's actually in a fine, long tradition of commercial writing -- it wasn't unusual for pulp mags in the first half of the 20th century to get a big name illustrator and then have a writer develop a story from it. See venerable Wikipedia for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine#Illustrators
I've been an employer in the Austin area both at startups and a very big company. My gut tells me you're right at (or slightly below) the median range and probably right where you should be. Without knowing details, and assuming you're 7 years into your career.

Things you can do to improve your salary:

1. Get a new job.

2. Improve your written communication skills.

Regardless, the cost of living in Houston is below average for large metro areas so you're not doing too bad, IMO. To be frank, however, you're not on a "superstar" path here--if you stay where you're at you will never increase your salary to the top end of the accepted range for your experience level.
Ooh, thanks for mentioning him; for this entire thread I've been thinking about those books, but I couldn't come up with any more of his name than "Dan or Daniel". And I was not looking forward to trying to Google for "juvenile fiction scientist Dan". ;)
I think a lot of that was helped by the shipping cost from anywhere to New Zealand.

All things aside Trade Me has been a great web success story for the local industry.
I was also read Dune aloud as a kid! Though I think I must've been older by then -- 12+. Definitely missed most of the subtext, though... Just like watching Forrest Gump.
They won an injunction against him in 2007, but the decision was reversed a year later by the CA court of appeals, which ruled that prisoner transfer is in fact legal [1]. The state has transferred about 8000 prisoners to other states to relieve overcrowding (or rather, the unconstitutional conditions which result from it) and courts have approved plans to transfer more [2]. However, the issue is due for review by the state Supreme Court [3].

1. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6294791264839700...

2. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/13/local/la-me-prisons1...

3. http://www.rbg-law.com/prison-overcrowding-case-will-be-hear...
Not really. I also cancel my cards once a year. It makes sure you only keep the services you absolutely need.
Ah, how I wish it were that easy. Yes, school assignments and homework could (and should) be made more fun and engaging but the reality is that life is chock full of linear, contextless, boring, repetitive tasks with no-immediate-feedback that must get done. I'm not saying it should be this way, or that homework should be shitty to prepare kids for reality, or that kids should be adults at 11, or that adults shouldn't have fun and eliminate every bit of useless dreck from their lives that they can. I'm not saying any of that. I am saying that sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and get shit done, no matter how unpleasant. That habit seems to often be learned at an early age. The most unproductive people I know still haven't figured it out, and instead go watch TV or play video games. And then wonder why they haven't accomplished much at 40.
Creating a Rails 3 engine
Why should users feel so upset about a free app they downloaded that they would take the time to write a negative review, a review they probably didn't read before downloading themselves?

My guess - because, when a user goes through the process of evaluating a for-pay app and then deciding that they want to pay for it, they're saving face by not critiquing the app if they decide that it's not what they wanted. If they evaluated it, paid for it, and realized that it was a mistake, they're basically saying "Oops. I'm an idiot and I just wasted five bucks."
I do not think my view of the world is either romantic nor naive. I was simply raised with a different mindset. Make no mistake, I have sold software, I have made a premium on some of that software I sold as well. But I did not sell the software to customers with scaled back capabilities and tell them that this is basically a "lite" version of what they could get if they paid "x" amount more dollars. Maybe that makes me a bad capitalist, or just dumb, but that is how I have always operated and it has made me a fairly nice living at a fairly young age. What i have done in other instances however is tell companies that if they would like other features added I could work to add those features at an additional cost. Maybe that is my real rant here. At least if Intel sold these processors at face value telling end users that there were so called "upgradable" processors before they were ever purchased then I would not have as much of an issue. i simply believe in buying and selling products at face value. So perhaps my problem actually lies in the idea that these were sold at face value as one thing and then weeks, months or even just days later they were told, oh but wait, we could also make it do this if you wished, but that will cost you $(insert arbitrary amount here)
It irritates me no end that the Chrome developers refuse to implement this. (And yes, in googling around on the topic, I did come across a blog post by someone involved explaining that this is a design decision on their part and not an oversight.)

As a workaround, I'll open a subset of most active tabs in a second window. Tabs I am actively switching between as I'm doing my work.

Then, I'll end up closing the Windows in the wrong order and have the subset saved for restoration rather than the full set.

Please, Chrome devs, just make MRU tab switching an option, regardless of what you personally think about it. It is a common work occurrence to need to frequently switch between different pairs or small sets of tabs within a larger context of numerous references/tabs.

P.S. Extensions can't substitute the behavior, because a security measure -- so stated -- Chrome no longer allows browser default shortcut keys, e.g. Ctrl Tab, to be hooked and overridden.

P.P.S. I'd welcome suggestions for good substitutes that use a different key combination or another paradigm that's easy to tolerate.
A Mint.com for Social Capital
School is a game, too. I played it religiously, but I have to say, it kind of sucked. The quests are meaningless, the story insipid, the amount of grinding insane, and the devs have their hands too busy with noobs and griefers to change anything. (Plus the devs are ignorant of good game design, and do not have to learn, since everyone has to play their game anyhow.)

I mean, seriously: you get points linearly. There are no achievements, and your account gets forced reset every year. You can't show your points to people on Facebook. There is no "Ding" sound when you level up, which only happens once a year, happens to everyone at once, and happens regardless of your XP so why bother. Oh yeah, supposed to be your primary social outlet but pretends Facebook doesn't exist.
The grim reality thing about questionably ethical business practices like this is the increased profits usually outweigh the drawbacks, as long as they can keep the outrage down to background noise. Seems like nobody checks BBB listings before buying anymore.
Wow, the SCSH manual has the most bitter acknowledgments I've ever seen: http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

Makes you worry about the author!
Ahh, this is why I love Linux and XFCE.... XFCE didn't take a year to write such a dialog box.
Anyone else here remember The Three Investigators? Anyone else here now afraid to go back and look at them again?
The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop
Just come across a cool infographic and given the fact our posts on graphic visualizations by Tiago Veloso are so unbelievably popular I thought some link love would be good – here’s The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop.
it's now also a huge social disadvantage for a kid to not be playing video games

Excuse my language, but give me a fucking break. I was a teenager not that long ago, my siblings are in their teens, and I know other teens who have zero interest in video games. Aside from the fact that I think the claim of impending ostracization for non-gamers is bullshit, if your friends shun you because you don't play 20 hours of video games a week, get some new friends. You could easily make the same arguments for drugs and promiscuous sex, which I understand are popular among some groups of teenagers. I'm sure there's a lot of people that would argue that it's a "huge social disadvantage" to not being into sports, but I've lived in many places were sports seemed to be all most people cared about and I managed to maintain plenty of rich friendships, despite not giving two shits about any professional sports.

Be who you want to be and who you should be, and if your "friends" give you grief, get some new ones.

EDIT: I'm not arguing that video games are negative either, just that this is the dumbest reason ever to let your kids do something.
It's a possible way of terminating SOME services (I wouldn't try it on your cable or cell phone bill). But I think it depends what you mean by "acceptable." It's not very nice. If the best practice for a merchant is to suspend an account when someone doesn't pay, then best practice for a consumer is to cancel a service when you no longer intend to pay for it.
Chromium is open source, Chrome includes Google's special sauce. Now, I don't think Google is abusing this privilege, but I just wanted to point out the difference.

Google is a company that makes money by knowing everything about people, and then presenting ads to them. A browser is a great way to be able to follow a user wherever they go, even after they leave Google's sites. I'm not the op, but I block google analytics for the same reason.
Yes, I have looked at credit reports.

Don't assume that all credit reports are as detailed as the one that you saw.
the live server got hacker'd.
It appears you all are determined to absolutely bury me. Fine, I guess I asked for it.

But, HN used to have a bit better sense of humor and camaraderie, particularly for those who didn't abuse the privilege. I guess things really have changed, here.

Maybe just par for the course, with the community having grown so much -- most people aren't familiar with most other user ID's, anymore.
I use QuickDrag to do this and more:

* Drag images to download them
* Drag text urls to open in new tab
* Drag text to search on google

Highly recommended.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6912/
This is true. As I said in the porn thread, I used to work at a large porn company. One time we had about 3 weeks of significant intermittent downtime, due to a really bad server migration.

I suggested that we send out an email to the subscribers offering a one-month credit if they wanted it, and the management looked at me like I was crazy. When I asked why, they explained that if we sent an email like that out, it would remind the members to cancel their subscriptions.

That was a big part of my inspiration to create the "iTunes Store for porn" application.
Streamie - True realtime web-based Twitter client
The repository structure seems a bit bad in that it takes months for changes to propagate, but how else should a project as big as windows be handled at the source-level?
I cherry-picked the good parts because that's what it was built for. Obviously, misusing it is going to give you a terrible experience, you never answered my question about using another programming language in place of an interactive shell.

Ruby, Python and Perl have even stranger variable behavior (esp. re: scope) and their own mess of ugly sigils (all with entirely different semantics), so I don't know why you're picking on sh variables. True, each different shell has its own intricacies (particularly when you get to arrays), but this matters next to never, when you look across uses of the shell.
If it's not video games it will be TV or movies, if not that then books, if not that than online social media, if not that then something else.

I've argued the point before that video games, TV, movies, books, social media, etc. can all have equal value and merit, but I'm not sure I really believe it. It seems rational, but something about reading books or Hacker News just feels more valuable than anything I've seen on TV. Maybe I'm watching the wrong stuff.
If you stop paying rent, they don't just kick you out, they try to get the missed payments back too.
Interview: Tor's Jacob Appelbaum on Haystack
wow, I had no idea...

I just dug out my old Hardy Boys hardcover books from way at the back of the book shelf (behind the Saberhagen Swords books) and sure enough, mine were all from 1959.

Here's the inscription from inside th cover of book #1 "The Tower Treasure"

(c) Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. 1959
all rights reserved
ISBN: 0-448-08901-7 (Trade edition)
ISBN: 0-448-18901-1 (Library edition)

In this new story, based on the original of
the same title, Mr. Dixon has incorporated
the most up-to-date methods used by police
and private detectives.

Unlike the book referenced in the article, mine begins

Chapter I
The Speed Demon

Frank and Joe Hard clutched the grips of their motorcycles
and stared in horror at the oncoming car. It was careening
from side to side on the narrow road.

"He'll hit us! We'd better climb this hillside -- and
fast" Frank exclaimed, as the boys brought their
motorcycles to a screeching halt and leaped off.

A little later comes what I believe is the scene referenced at the start of the article:

Frank chuckled and sad, "After the help we gave Dad on his
latest case, he ought to set up the firm of Hardy and
Sons."

"Why not?" Joe replied with a broad grin. "Isn't he one
of the most famous private detectives in the country? And
aren't we bright too?" Then, becoming serious, he added,
"I wish we could solve a mystery on our, though."

Now I'll have to try and dig up a couple of the originals just for fun. I loved these books when I was 10~13... practically inhaling them one after another.
This is just one thing to add to the list of stories TechCrunch has completely made up.
Python was there for linkbait purposes and because it represents working on what you want to work on with what you want to work with.
Well, this is how we got stuck with autoconf (of course, then some genius decided m4 was a good idea). Interestingly, sh (at least, the common intersection of all the shells) is a good choice for a language that needs to bootstrap, since pretty much every unix machine has an implementation installed somewhere by default. The way they used it was a little wonky, and if we could go back in time I'd probably suggest generating the configure script from a better language than m4, but it's not the worst of all possible worlds.

That is a cool link, thanks for sharing! Somewhere there's a similar article with OCaml that I never got all the way through, though maybe it was more about systems programming than system administration (so, replacing C, not sh).
I agree this is dumb of ZipCar from a PR standpoint, but that is a ridiculously hyperbolic title.

Using ZipCar won't damage your credit. Canceling ZipCar won't damage your credit. Failing to cancel ZipCar while also failing to pay for ZipCar could indeed damage your credit.
Firefox:
- Firebug (my life wouldn't be same (or sane) without it)
- Remove cookies for site (one click to remove all cookies for current domain, essential when developing cookie based sites)
- FireGestures (lets you go back, reload, close tabs, etc. by preconfigured right click gestures - a feature invented by Opera I believe, I can't browse without it)
- AdBlockPlus (I hate to admit this but a news site I visit frequently is so loaded with flash ads that my machine almost becomes unresponsive upon visiting)

Chrome:
I try to find the same extensions as for Firefox but:
- Firebug lite was missing the "Net" panel last time I checked
- I haven't found a gestures addon that doesn't suck
- I haven't found a remove cookies for site add-on

So migrating to Chrome has been quite hard for me.

PS. Yes, I'm a web developer
From a quick dictionary lookup, "fecious" doesn't seem to be a word. Do you mean "specious?"
I made a similar comment in the thread on the TC article, but Facebook did that last year. My Motorola Droid didn't have Facebook branding, but it was fully integrated with Facebook (even if it lacked a decent way to browse Facebook.)
No, no no no. I was people who found gold and became gold mining millionaires who had the most success.

It was tools and supplies providers who had the biggest chance of success (lowest risk business plan).

[The biggest successes on the App store will be the massively popular hits. The easiest chance of decent money (smaller success) will be contracting work for companies who want their own apps].
And I believe that it was good that the boys are never described much (contrary to Weingarten's disappointment at the discovery of that). It's not a bug but a feature -- it allows the readers to identify with the boys more not less!

I've read a bunch of Perry Mason books as I was very young and I remember that none of the main characters was described much. I believed even then that it's good so. I was able to imagine them as I'd like them to look like.
At the extremes, New York pays $55K per prisoner and Montana just $11K. This is insane.

Population density in Montana is 6.5 people per square mile - it's the 4th largest state, but ranks only 48th in population, with under 1m people. New York has a population density of 408 people/sqm. I imagine the price of land and salary differences account for most of the extra cost.