skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misinterpreted what I said: Paypal is saying you can either have the 2.9% & $0.30 rate, or the 5% & $0.05 rate, applied to every transaction in your account. When I say that they should give you the cheaper rate, I mean whichever one costs less for that particular transaction. Right now they force you to choose one.
I agree with you. I almost stopped reading the article at that point, because it will tend to get you clueless zealots rather than competent engineers.
Previously submitted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084700
Second-gen JooJoo tablet will be built on Android
You definitely want customization to be simple.

But even still, you should be careful about the mental model you're imposing on your users, especially if they're forced to literally dismantle that model to rearrange things the way they'd like.

Cognitively, it's almost more than twice as much work, once you factor in the uncertainty of messing with things you're not sure you can/should mess with. (Were they pre-arranged a certain way for a reason? Will things break if I move them?)

Which means that people are even more likely to leave your default categorization in place, so it had better be bulletproof.
I disagree with you here.

As you stated earlier, the amount of funds being protected is usually out of proportion to the amount of effort required to register an organization, obtain an EIN and open a bank account.

For groups that want the additional protection, we encourage them to setup a full fledged bank account. In the future, we are exploring ways to have our accounts in the name of organization tax IDs as well.

For the most part, we are replacing cash and checks in personal bank accounts with a simple & transparent solution. We are a far better solution here, and are not trying to "obfuscate" anything.
What do you recommend for people with weak joints? I can't stand for long periods of time as my ankle gets really sore. I've done some exercises at the gym to work on balance.
Well technically, I was informed of it. I got email alerts and stuff, but I was busy doing other things, so I didn't read them.

Users surely noticed, but Heroku definitely noticed before my users did. They're quietly working on a solution and I can quietly go about my day. If my users start complaining, I'll have time to talk to them; time I wouldn't have if I was neck deep in log spew.

Having run apps on my own servers before, I know what a pain in the ass it is to deal with downtime yourself. I'm not particularly good at it, so I appreciate having experts take care of it for me.
It just occurred to me that you know you've made some pretty serious traction as a startup when HN posts about your company no longer have something like "(YC W08)" appended to the end.
My question to you is, could you do better and how much would it cost? If you didn't use Heroku or another cloud provider you would pay a lot more up front to get your applications running. When things go wrong you would have to fix it, which means paying technical staff to be on call. Since you and your company are likely experts in your domain and not in infrastructure then any infrastructure that you built would likely have more downtime than Heroku. You have to debit the cost of Heroku's downtime from the cost of building your own infrastructure.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Heroku and I don't use their service.
Almost every piece of Windows software tries to add itself to the quick launch too.

It's more about self-promotion than following best practices. "Hey, look at me, I'm here! Use me, tell all your friends"
This would've been a better giveaway if it were open to all web developers, regardless of company. How in the hell is a large company going to be able to keep multiple developers from applying and the device from going to the "wrong" one?
Ew! This looks worse than the spammy popup ads of the web 1.0 era. Now they annoy you with "BUY THIS NOW!!" inside flash games. How can you put relevant product content in flash games when the game itself doesn't have product context to begin with? The majority of the Mertado products remind me of the "as seen on TV" type products... maybe the type of audience that typically buys that stuff are now on games like Farmville.

I think it's great that these founders are willing to take this risk, but I'd hate to be the end user being served up these deals inside of any game. I'll retire from gaming when blizzard starts offering badges for buying products inside Starcraft.
I used to sleep 6 or less hours a night when I was younger, and I was chronically sleep deprived. I had this mentality that there weren't enough hours in the day, and there were so many things I wanted to do that it made no sense to waste another 2-3 hours just lying there. But as I got older (meaning, post-college), increased responsibilities and the need for complex thinking made this impossible. A year or two out of college, and any sort of sleep deprivation sapped my motivation, ability to focus, and ability to think strategically. When I haven't slept enough, all I can accomplish during a whole day is rote tasks. So now, I think of the 9 hours I try to sleep every night as an investment in the other 15 hours I'll have awake. Or to quantify it for you:

Option 1 - 18 hours awake at 50% capacity.
Option 2 - 16 hours awake at 100% capacity.

It seems a no brainer. But don't get the wrong impression; I lack the discipline to sleep 9+ hours every single night. But I try my best!
Personally I browse in Chrome, but the second I start debugging JS/AJAX i'll open Firefox and use that. It's 10x slower, it has Memory leaks up the wazoo, but firebug blows chrome's debugger out of the water.
I just ordered mine
That's true, but are these people likely to have so many programs in the start menu anyway?
I really hope no HN reader misses the reference, but:

-- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
You could have someone else set up a bunch of unit tests that you can plug the candidates solution into.
I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. I don't use Paypal, so I was just reading their site where I missed the key sentence, "Each PayPal account is associated with only one merchant processing rate."

That sucks. I think that makes Amazon a bit more attractive for micropayment processing.
Why Social Closeness Matters
Not only that, but the specific example they gave is even worse.

Ruby vs Python? My only opinion on Ruby vs Python is that I wish one would die so that we don't have two utterly similar languages fragmenting the same niche and causing lots of duplicated effort (e.g., ruby oauth and python-oauth2). Does that make me a bad programmer?
Turn Any Web Browser Into a Phone With JQuery
It's interesting that UI's started out program-oriented, then document-oriented, and now going back to program-oriented.
I find this to be an interesting case study in the failure of .NET and WPF to deliver on their promises. It's a sample size of 1 and all, but it's one of the first examples I have seen where a client was written from scratch in .NET/WPF and then re-written from scratch in C++ in order to overcome performance limitations.
Simple question here, when did I ever say before?

Edit:

In the early universe, before the plank epoch when we had particles of plank length or less, you know, things with a schwarzschild radius? The entire universe made of things that are black holes, nothing but black holes? Those time-ending particles that disappeared in their own hawking radiation? The first early 10^−43 seconds, where time didn't actually exist? Those were the good old days.
Also a bit different, but perhaps even more widespread application of spanning trees is STP family of L2 network bridging protocols.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Spanning_Tree_Protocol
How does one decide how much a given project is worth?
Because humans can only observe the universe from Earth's point of view, our perception is that we are in the middle of the cosmos. Yet we are only in the middle of what we can observe from our point of view at any angle. As you said, we can only observe so far in either direction or any direction as it were.
Support for full Firebug on other browsers, including mobile

This would change my life, much like the first appearance of Firebug. I would happily pay real money for this right now.
I've currently got a few small apps on Heroku and am considering moving some larger ones over. But the "Heroku | Welcome to your new app!" is very worrying.

Custom error pages for these kinds of errors would be very useful.
So from reading a couple of forum posts of people who actually bought this, the device does not have Android Market installed and does not have a setting which allows you to put it in "USB Debug" mode - which is a prerequisite for installing apps you have developed.

In short, hold on to that $99 if you are looking for anything other than a paperweight.
It seems like python people tend to go hg over git maybe the startups in question are python shops?
Having experts be responsible for dealing with problems is not unique to "cloud computing".
FYI you need an account/to register to read this article. . . (might be available to you is you're on a .edu network, which I'm not at the moment)
Ask HN: Forums for ThatHigh.com
I'm thinking of adding a forum to the site. Last I checked (years ago), I would go with vBulletin or phpBB.

Are these still the best options? Is there any mature python-based forum software I should look at?
I do a lot of Omniture and DoubleClick analytics development and I find that Firebug plugins like Omnibug are irreplaceable. Is there an equivalent debugging tool for Chrome?
There are only one or two ways to solve it even remotely efficiently. You can learn both of them.
I may be wrong, but I think that reply would probably qualify you as a good programmer based on the first point.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/in-south-africa-carrier-pigeon...
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Of course, but circumstantial evidence like search history is often used to narrow a field of suspects down to a single candidate for thorough investigation. At that point, they're going to investigate you as exhaustively as it takes to make the case. Without those circumstantial clues to focus the investigation, the authorities are at a significant disadvantage.
Absolutely fantastic and soothing. My thoughts are made of such things, this example helps to sooth my mind.

A technical question: How was relative scale so efficiently kept between all those objects?
Does the new Macbook Air still have overheating issues that cause it to shutdown due to its poor thermal design? Honestly asking:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Issues

Hopefully things have changed.
This is not going to be something you will likely have fun reading, but read on anyway.

Starting a company together means you're in for the good and the bad. I understand you're not feeling good in the current situation, and that there are many factors, including the relationship with your co-founder at the root of this.

But you don't have to sleep with your co-founder, just get the job done and make it in to a working relationship. Try to discuss the problem openly and try to chart a path to where you want to be. Whatever opportunities have come your way will need to take a back-seat to solving your exit in an orderly manner first.

Your question to me is mostly rhetorical, I think you are looking for confirmation that you should leave. I'm not going to tell you whether you should or should not, I feel that once someone gets to the point of posting stuff like this they've made up their mind already and any advice you give to the contrary is likely to be ignored anyway.

I would just moderate the whole thing by suggesting you take your time over this, work out together with your co-founder on how you can transition to someone taking your place without wrecking what you've built up, and without using your newfound opportunities as a motivation to leave in a hurry.

That's the best for everybody involved, including you, you do not want to be known as the guy that will hang around until he finds something better.

best of luck, I hope you guys/girls can work it out without losing what you've put so much energy in.

Jacques
Because the coalition forces in Iraq aren't engaged in ethnic cleansing. If they weren't worried about killing civilians and looking bad on the news, they could probably level most of the country.
I have an app running on Heroku. Interestingly, it caches itself using HTML 5 application cache, so most people won't even notice the site is down. Need to make sure the background network ops are fault tolerant though.
We're actively sending pay per click traffic to our online store and it's very easy to spend hundreds of dollars. When our traffic converts it's great but it pains me to think I could be sending traffic to a Heroku 503 error page and have zero control over it.

So, "could we do better"? I'm not sure. I'm trying to figure that out. It certainly would not be as easy to use as Heroku or easy to deploy. But at a minimum I need to get some other host option set that we can switch over to.
Does Heroku have an SLA? (I could not find it)

At some point they're exposing themselves to serious risk. Rackspace had to pay out ~$3MM (in free service credits) after an outage in 2009:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-rackspace-outag...
> but firebug blows chrome's debugger out of the water.

Could you please describes the ways in which it "blows chrome's debugger" [actually the Webkit Development Tools, it's been much more than a debugger for quite a long time) "out of the water" in your opinion?
Judge shields Amazon customer data from N. Carolina tax agency
As far as I know there is no SLA.

However I really think they ought to consider it.

They're at an unusual juncture for a YC-based company in that companies such as ours are relying on them. When our apps go down, we lose money.

I love the guys at Heroku - they have been incredibly helpful over the past year - but I don't think they get the sense of urgency we feel in our stomachs when we realize our apps are down.
I would love to see a JavaScript debugger that could break to something like an ipython shell. It's the one thing I really miss moving from server side to client side debugging.
I'm slow at anything less than 7. Less than 6 and I can't really focus at work.
But if you take "Paul Graham" out of the article, and say "5 things that are wrong", then its pretty much correct.

So perhaps the point was to debunk "misinterpretations" of these statements. Unfortunately done as a personal commentary.
It took Google App Engine two years to add the option to specify a custom error page for server errors and over quota errors. Hopefully that'll come soon for Heroku as well…
Have you looked at any of the data? IDing someone specific from what wikileaks has made available would be pretty tricky, so I'm not sure it's reckless in that respect. Plus there are arguments that a good many people have been harmed by the concealment of this information too.
I'm afraid I disagree with much of what you've just said:

> I bet you weren't confused by my text.

Actually, I was. It took a number of tries (where the number in question is strictly greater than one) to work out what you meant, and finally I had to read it aloud. I was trying to work out who or what it was that owned the "ironic", and what the ironic was that was owned.

I've just read that capitalization matters, because there's a bug difference between helping Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping Uncle jack off a horse.

> not knowing you live on a planet is ...
> a fundamental ignorance.

I disagree with what I think you're trying to say. For that person it's irrelevant knowledge. Consider - do you know the atomic number of strontium, or the proof of the Banach-Tarski theorem? Not knowing such things is also fundamental ignorance, but you don't care about that because you don't think it's important or relevant. Why should someone else be forced to know that the Earth is a planet, or that the Sun travels around the galaxy at about a million miles a day? Why should they know that as you travel 8km the Earth drops away by 5 meters, or that the distance to the Moon is about 284 megameters? Why should they know that light travels about 1ft/ns, or that sound travels about 1ft/ms? These are things that I consider people ignorant for not knowing, but I accept that they don't need to know them.

I also accept that others will think I'm ignorant. I'll get laughed at for not knowing the characters in a Shakespeare play, or for not know who the latest contestants are in X-Factor, or America's Top Model, or Dancing With the Stars.

I'll help people learn, and I'll explain why I think it's important, but I won't laugh at their lack of knowledge. I'll appreciate that they know things I don't, and while I might not care about those things, I won't condemn them for doing so.

And finally, there are perfectly usable physical models in which the Earth is flat. To say otherwise is to display ignorance of the context in which they are useful, more useful than the more complex spherical model, which in turn is less accurate than the oblate spheroidal model, which in turn is not as accurate as the one I use in other parts of my work.
vBulletin all the way. I've used and administered several pieces, and it was by far the best (of the PHP offerings).
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was of the mind that the 30's were a poor time for a person to speak out against their government, with reprimands handed out in full. Maybe, because that is my impression of today's reality and I am projecting that onto my vision of the 30's.
You didn't. Sorry, my phrasing was poor. You said that time didn't exist at the earliest part of the Big Bang, and I was trying to clarify that time didn't exist "before" the Big Bang but did immediately after.
Is there a service that will switch off adwords campaigns if your site is down or in maintenance mode? If not, there should be.
Making code lazy to improve page performance
Men In Black? (although I guess contact wasn't actually made, unless you count a game of marbles)
Google travel spat causes even more conflict
CirruxCache 0.4.1 is out (CDN on Google Appengine)
Not sure about lunchy, but since it's similar to gnome-do and others - doesn't it search on descriptions or custom aliases too? I never type "thunderbird" for example - it's always "mail" ("ma" actually), or whatever word I associate with the app (this has the added bonus of allowing me to open company's crm via "crap"...)
I'm the exact same. 8.5 is what i need to have a good coding day.
Korea is a special case; the government essentially mandated IE until very recently: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monocultu...
Foreclosuregate: playing with systemic fire?
Wepay is to Paypal what Hackernews is to reddit. It has a small subset of features, but not everything and it's everything that makes Paypal so appealing. Sure Wepay and Hackernews work for some people, but the majority they do not.
It would be consumer positive if Google shows the optimal flights (according to the user's criteria) and the lowest fares. If Google shows suboptimal results, it's likely that people will just take those rather than go to another site that provides better results.
I'm willing to pay much more than $10 per hour, so long as I find someone good. Maybe I'll try posting here, that's an interesting idea.
FunctionKit: a brave new world (functional programming in Objective-C)
Hackers: TechStars Wants YOU
Digg Caught Manipulating It's Own System To Benefit Advertisers
I'm still on the fence about WikiLeaks. Assange gives me a bad vibe - and the handling of the "Collateral Murder" video was hamfisted and strictly unprofessional. As you said, the propagandist air bothers me greatly.

There's leaking the truth, and then there's the deliberate omission of one truth for another in order to advance an agenda (in this case, the complete omission of the after-action report that states without a doubt that the insurgents in the video were armed, and a RPG was present in the group).

The mass leak of Iraq War documents recently is much more balanced (if only by law of large numbers), and has done some to assuage my concerns about WikiLeaks' responsibility as an organization. Nonetheless, I cannot help but shake the feeling that WikiLeaks is acting in its own interest as opposed to ours, and with an egotist like Assange in charge, I'm not sure how responsible we can trust them to be.
If left alone I will sleep 9 hours. That is sufficient. Much less than that (and frequently less is what I have to settle for) and I feel groggy.
Seek geek with expert knowledge in WP3 + Apache2 mod_rewrite
I am seeking a geek with expert knowledge in WordPress 3.0.1 and Apache2 mod_rewrite syntax (.htaccess) to help me get past a roadblock in deploying my web app (with a WordPress front-end).

I have posted my question on stackoverflow.com ( http://bit.ly/9UeChD
) and wordpress.com ( http://bit.ly/aTSo21
), but still no joy.

Hoping someone on HN has what it takes to rewrite "http://site.com/app/alpha/beta" to "http://site.com/app/?a=alpha&b=beta" and then let the Wordpress rules route it through index.php to the "app" page, which can pull the parameters from $_GET.
While I can certainly concede 140M might be low, I think we might also be talking about different things. I'm talking about unique people, not page hits or sessions or cookies, and 140 million was a good enough estimate to make my point: The number of subpoena requests is dwarfed by the immensity of Google's user base.
Not that I know of: the webkit dev tools aren't externally pluggable (if they are I missed how, but since Chrome and Safari have different plugin architectures I don't see how that would work), so third-parties (to both the browser and the tools, but for Webkit browsers they're kind-of merged) can not extend the tools aside from getting patches merged into mainline.
I TOTALLY agree and I've never heard anyone say the same thing. My interviews have all been boiled down to:

(a) can they code and TEST int atoi(char *)?

(b) Are they a good cultural fit (ie they like the startup environment)

(c) Then to be sure, I start giving them some real-world challenges we're having with a product and see if they can help.

But (a) eliminates most candidates before I even have to go any further, and if they can do (a) they're generally a good hire. It's kind of bizarre.
I'm looking for little "d", but with good drawing and coloring. Haven't tried 99designs, that might be a good way to go. Ideally I'd like to have a long term relationship so we can keep going back to the same person as new needs arise.
Any recommendations on a chair for a standing desk?
If you, the non-programmer, can learn it, then surely I, the bad programmer, can learn it.
Firebug is the ONLY reason, why I have Firefox still installed on my work machine.
Years ago we connected with an undergrad, paid him well, and he did fantastic work for us. When he graduated we put in several recommendations for him and he ended up doing well. Would love to get into the same situation, but I haven't had much luck finding another student.
Ubuntu decided to go that way for some reason, but I think that vanilla Gnome tries to continue on the document-oriented path. gnome-shell searches documents by default, includes Beagle (or whatever the native tool was called) and lately the Zeitgeist project. We'll see what they plan to do with Unity...
> Opera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines.

Just tried it. Indeed it does!

So sad it allows for very little customization and has different shortcuts than other browsers, otherwise I would have jumped on it right away. Hopefully, the next version will fix this.
FWIW, there's a bunch of similar Android tablets at DealExtreme. I can't speak to the quality, and I assume its not good, but you can get a 7" tablet with Android 2.1 for $160.

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.android%20tablet...
Haven't tried any crow-sourced sites. I have some sort odd of mental block when it comes to these; I should get over it and give it a try.