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Show HN: A toolbar you actually want to use (No download, no registration)
http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/

Dashler Toolbar is a bookmarklet that opens up a toolbar of shortcuts to various webpages, and allows for super easy bookmarking. You can open the toolbar, highlight content, then open up a floating window of the results on any of (currently) dozens of websites, like Wikipedia, IMDb, various dictionaries, translate, etc. Some shortcuts use the URL or Domain of the page you are at. For example, you can jump to Quantcast/Alexa results for the page you're viewing, shorten the URL, or search within the site with Google and ilk. [Advanced: For shortcuts that use a URL, you can drag and drop links onto them to activate that shortcut. While dragging a URL, eligible shortcuts will turn green.]

The toolbar is customizable via drag and drop. You can drag and drop to re-organize the toolbar and/or add shortcuts and tools. Use "Quick Find" to find shortcuts for sites you're interested in, or related to the page you're viewing. For example, there are some neat HN tools (threaded comments, sort by hotness, etc) that I use daily. To add them, search for "HN" in quick find, or open the toolbar at a HN page and click "find related shortcuts". You can create folders / subfolders and organize your toolbar to your hearts content.

Dashler Toolbar also works well for managing bookmarks. You can bookmark the current page from the Main Menu, or you can drag and drop any links on the page you're viewing. Title and tags will automatically be pulled from Delicious, and you can instantly search for anything you've bookmarked by URL, title, or tag.

Finally, it works on all modern browsers. Create an account in seconds (no e-mail required, just username and password), and have a synchronized toolbar across all computers and browsers.

Let me know what you think.
you are right, derivates of OpenJDK are shielded.

Clean-room reimplementation are not though.

Harmony was created to have a non-GPL implementation (and was used by Google for that reason)
Splash page: http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/

How to use it: http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/howto.php

Browse shortcuts, drag and drop them into toolbar: http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/browse/
The term "patent troll" is most commonly used when someone doesn't have a product and sues others for infringement on the patent. If someone was producing a product based on the patent they are using it and not really trolling, just following the intended function of the patent.

I think likening this person's work to a "patent troll" situation is kind of disrespectful. I get the feeling that he just wished Google had done a search and left him alone.
I hate to be the one to break to this to you, but your robotics teacher was off his or her rocker or was trying to make a much larger point with a bad example.

If walking was simply graceful falling, it would imply that once we begin the process of "falling" onto the next foot, we couldn't significantly affect the outcome. However, because I can start walking and then stop with a single leg half way between it's highest point and the ground, this explanation of walking as falling becomes very problematic.
lyrics require a license. you can get that license from one of two places, but it becomes a cost/benefit type of thing. (or you can do it illegally and just wait to get sued)

if you don't make enough $ on ads, you won't be able to afford the licenses. people aren't going to pay for a lyrics service.
The whole point of SAAS is that to the 'customer', it's a black box.
If I recall correctly, GCJ's `compiling to native code' really means `slapping a bytecode interpreter and your bytecode in the same file, and calling it an executable'.
Large study on happiness finds friends, family, altruism and exercise to be key
Try to guess which company is using this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2601554/logo.jpg
Wow. He doesn't hate women, he hates geeks.
I'm not a graphic designer so I can't speak to why this works, but it's pretty neat.

I think in the case of Batman it's mostly just luck/coincidence that it works. The logo isn't designed by professional designers/marketers who are carefully trying to craft a certain response. It's literally just whoever happens to be drawing Batman at the time draws the logo on his chest in whatever way he desires. Kane (who invented Batman in the late 30's) wasn't a designer or marketer in the slightest. He just decided to throw a black bat on Batman's chest.

I suppose in the case of the movies the logo is carefully pondered, but most of these variations came from the comics themselves.
And even that was quite an old version of the language--1.2, I think.
How a
Feisty Fawn is how old? I can never remember the names of the releases. Why can't they just stick to the numbering scheme?
>>Really? Almost half your revenue is $99 off 35 customers?

Not sure how you got that. I'm not taking micropayments via Chargify. I don't think you understood me.
Around 10:00 in, found it interesting when Seth talks of a client that rebuilds their infrastructure with each sprint in their agile development.
What you're saying makes sense to me, but do you have a citation for Plan9 being notably slower than Linux on equivalent hardware? Seems like it'd be trivially true unless there is a fantastic architectural advantage to plan9 somewhere, but I'd love to see some numbers.
How a language with a proprietary reference implementation and library, namely D, could ever be a suitable solution to the Java trap? This is utter nonsense.
But what if you access DDG as usual but access Google on clicking on back button. You know you need to access Google sometimes. That customization is planned.
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He was asking about rates on electrocution. Not asking how electrocution compares to car wrecks.

The latest source that I could find said that 400 people died of electrocution in 200, down from 670 in 1990.

I wasn't able to find any information on the UK. However, being from the US, I'd probably bet your wiring over there is safer.

http://www.cpsc.gov/library/electro.pdf
There are also a few big specific issues that come up in music a lot, like use of music in advertising. Musicians generally either: 1) don't want their music to be used in advertising, seeing it as cheapening it; or 2) want to be paid for it, seeing it as a major revenue stream. A CC-licensed work without an NC clause would allow use in TV ad jingles for free, which a large proportion of musicians don't like the idea of, even if they're otherwise pro-sharing.
I suppose the differentiator is that it's a place where you can promote yourself, however vague that sounds. I should add more tools that narrow down this process.

I also plan to make the contact forms embeddable, so that anyone can have a contact form on their site--that may be a good selling point
Way to miss the point.

Ok, the alarm clock. or the hair dryer (into the bathtub! Yay!) or the wireless access point...
While that is true, sometimes stepping away from the problem will let it coalesce in my head and give clarity to what I wasn't making any headway on earlier. If you aren't getting anything done, working longer is probably not the path to victory. But if you are in the zone, you can sometimes work for hours straight and zip through.
Yeah, I learned my lesson from randomly putting high numbers in there :(
Whatever failings PHP may have its docs are not among them.
http://www.talentsoup.com/forum/topic/1023
I find it hilarious that people have to resort to personal attacks to defend the fact that they were obviously cheating.
Clickable link: http://www.reportaproblem.at/
If the apocalypse comes, deal with it.
> Is that a logo fail or a me fail?

They're pretty consistent with their green robot, so I'd think it's you.
No, the village people drew a logically strong inference from their analysis of the available data. They would be right in the vast majority of cases. By the thinking in your "boy who cried wolf" analogy, it's ad hominem to observe that a clock is broken, because the clock tells the time correctly twice every day. The fact is that when a meter is known to have a strong bias, it is rational to be skeptical when it gives a result in line with that bias.
This shows how you get an idea in your mind, think of it, apply it and stick to making it successful. Then read HN and some entrepreneurial blogs, get the idea of monetizing your audience, launch a better product, charge for it and make good enough not to take a job.

Congrats and good luck!
Unless I'm mistaken this community is about innovation. Making his prototype is a long way along the implementation process and beyond from 'pie in the sky' stage.
How Focused Should Startups be Being Acquired?
I don't think you know what irony means.
Lower Merion [Penn] settles [high school] webcam lawsuits
I just read about it yesterday and can't help thinking that the universe is just messing with our heads
It's about time. I wondered why no one had hooked up a learning AI to Wikipedia/dbpedia and the rest of the Internet. Cyc always semed like a good idea but bad execution to me. Manually feeding in data takes a lot of time and effort. Why not just let something soak up the entire Internet and correct it if it learns the wrong things? Good luck to CMU. Maybe this will become the search engine of the future.
My first impression is that it looks way too obtrusive.
Although NameCheap's website is also horrible. I mean now that I know my way around I can get stuff done, but to say that it's busy/cluttered is an understatement. I've never had any problems with them though, so I'm stickin' with 'em.
Go ahead and stash those MREs, disaster preparation is a good idea anyhow and they do happen.

But look about at the world over the past thousand years and tell me how terrible our track record is again. Our track record is not demonstrated by how many problems we think we have today, but how many problems we've dispatched. How much time are you planning on spending worrying about whether or not you'll be invaded by barbarians today? And I mean really honestly worrying about it, not striking a pose as a social signal about how fashionably pessimistic you are.

There's been a lot of progress; it only feels like it doesn't because as you climb the Maslow hierarchy your wealth allows a net larger number of problems to emerge. But they are, ultimately, lesser problems. A key component of staying sane in the modern world is to remember this.
Isn't there some legal strategy reason why challenging patents is a bad idea? Like, the due process involved is minimal, and having survived a challenge, the facts behind the challenge strengthen the patent in court?

I bring this up because I remember this being one of the big complaints about the current patent system, and "peer-to-patent" would appear to make that even worse.
Understanding Babble as a Key to Child Development
Well, they had issues with using non-commercial CC licensed music in commercial situations. But instead of simply limiting their use to commercial CC licensed music, they discontinued all CC licensed music. It seems like too sweeping of a measure.
That's the whole point I'm making.

You would be doing something that seems safe, that will not trip the breaker but that will cause a problem. Just the fact that you can gang a bunch of stuff that is rated does not mean that there aren't any hidden variables here, and contact resistance is exactly that. Very easy to overlook.

That's why 'three way' connectors were outlawed in many countries (but not in all):

http://www.rapidonline.com/1/1/8248-3-way-mains-adaptor.html

That's the UK version, there are others for different places.

The euro-plug variety of them has been outlawed for so long that I can't even find an image of one.

People would get up to all kinds of creative uses for these, such as 'wonder why I can't plug on three-way in to another', and if that works why not several.

They're also known as 'firestarters', any idea why ;)?
Fun fact: through the years, Royal Dutch Shell's logo has changed quite a bit. It started as a depiction of a mussel shell, the current scallop shell logo came as recent as 1971.

"the pecten symbol currently in use worldwide was
designed in 1971 by loewy. the design and testing process completed by loewy's firm took more than four years. one of the tests involved hanging various prototype pectens on poles where they could be viewed by drivers passing on a nearby british motorway. drivers were later contacted for their opinions on the prototypes."

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/loewy.html
4x-6x sound about right.

Also: "Ask HN: Cost of living across the world" - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1778185
I see sparks regularly. Usually when the vacuum cable gets yanked from the wall while vacuuming (tripping, too short).
As I recall the various law enforcement agencies decided not to do anything which left the civil lawsuits which started the fury. So the end game is that one student gets 175K in trust, another $10K, their lawyers get $425K (why are we surprised it's more than twice what the students are getting?) and of course the taxpayers will be paying the bill.

Ah, well.
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It would probably have been difficult to separate the photos by gender.
well, freedome of speech comes to test here.
At a glance, Dropbox :p

But more seriously, you should put that in your Public folder.
Why do some people have down arrows?
Your right. Sorry it was late at night and I was not thinking right. Just thought it would be fun to share a nerdy laugh. All stay away from these kind of submissions in the future. Please forgive me :)
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The Schuko is definitely one of the better designs.

16A at 240V in a grounded plug that is very easy to protect against tiny fingers and that you'd have to be trying real hard to get your fingers on when inserting it, even in pitch dark.

Forwards compatible socket with the Euro plug. (that's the thin, ungrounded one with just two pins, one live, one neutral).

It will do anything from your phone charger to a light duty welder.
If it's a completely flat rate (my ISP), I do that, but if it's a variable rate (like mobile phone), I like to be able to see what they're trying to charge me before I pay it, so I can catch/dispute any weird charges. Especially so in the past year or two, where fraudulent third-party charges on my mobile bill seem to be getting more common.
OK. Now explain why being an Apple fanboy and an Android troll invalidates the statement that Windows Phone may be a functional mobile platform, more usable than the Android offerings.

While the article praises the iPhone interface and points out several of Android's user interface elements are very similar to solutions also adopted on the iPhone (to be fair, my 128K Palm Pilot arranged apps on a grid, a feature I am almost sure it copied from the Newton, just like about every PDA/smartphone), that's beyond the point. Windows Phone seems very non-iPhone-ish and there is a non trivial possibility Microsoft can actually bring out a decent mobile user experience after more than a decade of miserable failures.

I won't hold my breath, however. I too find it most incredible Microsoft finally hit something.
More Californians reverse course and head to Oklahoma
I initially read this as "I would be pretty tickled if Google (a web search company) stomped on my work." And that made a lot of sense to me.

If I had a really obscure project that I was proud of, and Google came along and made a project with a similar name, and the result was that many thousands of people became aware of my project, I would indeed be tickled.
Yes but what about the Schuko?

> * trip up a cable, and the plug falls out of the wall
> (Pulling a UK plug out required force. It will not pull out)
> Plus the cable exits a plug pointing downward, which
> means it will not pull out via the cable.

This one is a mixed bag (trip up a cable, throw the expensive grandma lamp to the ground).

> * Sparks when you put a plug in or out.

Not at all. Euro plugs earth pin always makes contact first.

> * Bent pins that look like they're about to drop off

Bent pins? UK plugs are only marginally sturdier.

> * No shielding on pins

What use is it?

> * Often no mechanism to stop things being put in sockets
> (All UK sockets only open once an earth pin has gone in

All euro sockets have plastic spring-loaded linked stoppers that prevent accidental insertion of random stuff into the holes, and insertion of anything in only one hole (you need to push both sides together).
This is in Pennsylvania not NJ.
And Russ Cox (http://swtch.com/~rsc/) is the creator of Plan 9 from User Space (http://swtch.com/plan9port/).
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Well, that's what Google thought...after they spend a few million dollars in attorney's fees, we'll see if they were right.
If you do nothing else today, go through this presentation!

I am humbled by the intellectual capacity of (i) these early philosophers/natural scientists/physicists (they meant the same at they time) and (ii) Tao's gift of making things "as simple as possible, but not any simpler".

On a tangential thought: where are the Taos of chemistry, economics, or physics (Feynman was it when he was alive, but I think Tao's explanation powers surpass even him) and, of course, philosophy. Currently, science popularizers seem to either give you a watered down, sweetened, "intelligent layman" version (e.g. Hawking and Mlodinow's The Grand Design) or hard core stuff that only practitioners can understand.
Ryan Singer's talk at Future of Web Apps 2010, London
> Unfortunately, I'm not aware of anything that can be done to fix this.

For logged-in users, Scoop (Kuro5hin's software) keeps track of when you last visited a comments thread, and displays a [new] next to all comments posted since that timestamp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
Well, at least we can all agree that the menu button must die. The long press' iOS analogue is the left-to-right swipe on a list item, and you can use all apps perfectly well without ever discovering that gesture. The problem with Android's gesture is that it forces you to think about whether you should long press or press the menu button, then perhaps choose 'more', and so on.

Contextual knowledge, that's the phrase. With the iPhone, what you see is what you get-for better or worse. In Android, you need to press the menu button to discover the actions you can perform.
> you can view the current fad of virtualized everything and hypervisors as a kind of exokernel.

No I can't, as long as the underlying OS is still a monolithic one, thus selected because it's the fastest and the most convenient to be maintained.
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I love going to my local book stores here in Austin. I feel kinda bad when I buy something for the Kindle app on my iPad instead of the physical books. But having the ability to read a book on the iPad, or my laptop or my T-Mobile MyTouch is a killer feature.
The American plugs are no contest, they're junk. Just optimized for cost with terrible degradation as they get older, the same goes for the wall socket.

I've seen multiple blackened areas around wall sockets in relatively new houses in the US and Canada due to ridiculously high contact resistance.

The fuse in these plugs - assuming there is one - is in series with the consumer, not in series with the pass-through to the next plug, so yes, by ganging them up you're bypassing the fuses.

That's kind of logical too, otherwise you'd have to be matching the plugs in decreasing order of load (which in itself would not be a bad idea).

Fragile because they have moving parts, anybody that has any experience with electrical stuff knows that as soon as there are moving parts involved in something as basic as a connector that you're looking at an increased failure rate.

Dangerous because they allow the users a degree of freedom that has led to lots of trouble in the past, to the point that 'gangable' designs in plugs have been outlawed in lots of countries.
There's very little I can add to this but this is right on the money for London, and indeed as far as I can tell the whole UK. To provide an employer's perspective:

We contacted a 'trustworthy' recruiter through a recommendation, who immediately told me how ethical they were - immediate red flag. Nobody should need to tell you how ethical they are, no matter if the industry is considered one step below estate agent sales.

Someone contacts me saying they heard that there was a job going, tells the recruiter to sling their hook as they already know me. The next day the recruiter calls my colleague to say they have someone but won't mention the name. Cue a game of he said she said, as the recruiter tells us that we owe them the money if we hire them. The recruiter then starts going mental and crazy about integrity and all this stuff after we stop laughing at them. I tell them I've known the guys for years, he told me that he didn't give them permission to send the CV over to us, and that he told them to sling their hook. Recruiter calls back, gives me a load of grief. In the end we don't hire the guy, which is a shame as I've known him for a long time and he's a really good chap, just lives out in the middle of nowhere.

The recruiter didn't have a leg to stand on, had submitted the CV without permission, tried to tell us that we were legally obliged under their T's & C's to pay them when we couldn't see how (as the contract made no sense) and they couldn't point to a specific clause. They wanted a commitment that we'd never ever try and recruit the guy without paying them, so I just told them that it wasn't working out.

We still get the odd e-mail from them.

In respect of that, I've worked with some very good recruiters in the UK as well as some terrible ones, both as employer and employee.
Or they should make the version tags a separate set of tags - they are really different information than the content of the rest of the tags.

Edit: Re-thinking this - maybe version should be mandatory, but again not count against the tag limit, with the ability to add other versions to the question if applicable to future releases.
Boxes still on Win2k won't have much memory, and Chrome is really memory-hungry, so it isn't going to help.
The point is that cell phones used to be a luxury item - if you recall the movie "Wall Street", they were an example of conspicuous consumption by Gordon Gekko. In the sequel (according to the trailer), the the old cell phone is comic relief.

Apart from goods with an artificially high price and limited supply (designer goods), and possibly goods which cannot be manufactured (land), the author is predicting that luxury items of today will be commodities of tomorrow.

I agree with you - this is an extremely good thing.
It seems that the logos with the most mileage (ie. you can bend, squeeze, stretch or distort in many ways before it becoming unrecognisable) are the ones that have a simple silhouette outline or are made up of a few geometric shapes and colours.

* Batman logo

* Windows logo

* Pepsi logo

* Coke curve

* Addidas stripes

Are just a few that come to immediate mind.

[EDIT: Formatting]
As I mentioned in another thread, the actual toolbar seems kind of obtrusive.

But you may want to consider reworking the splash page (or the others too, but definitely the splash page).

http://yobiz.com has a nice splash page. Headline, subhead, video on the left, benefits on the right, all above the fold.

http://icontact.com has a smart layout. The first thing you see is social proof in the form of testimonials + actual, non professional pictures and real benefits for real people on each slide.
> In contrast, Tux seems a bit stuck. It's going to be hard to make him anything but cute and cuddly.

I smell a photoshop contest.