skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome gets installed and set as the default browser for all friends and family, if for no other reason, because it has four killer advantages:
* Auto-updates itself -- no prompts for those less tech-savvy or wanting to just use the web RIGHT NOW
* Auto-updates Flash
* Natively supports PDF reading -- I make sure Adobe Reader never gets a chance to take another's life

Oh yeah, it's damn fast at startup, browsing, and shutdown -- is my Firefox STILL closing?

All of the above has the added bonus of nudging other browsers along, which I believe is a big part of Google's intent. I don't think they necessarily care to be the monolith that was IE4-6. Rather, Google has shown they simply want everyone browsing, using ANY browser and ANY connection (Google wants to install fiber in a large metro as a blueprint / demonstration for others to follow), so long as you are browsing as fast as possible. I give a lot of credit to Google for lighting the fire under the FF4 and IE9 (and Safari) teams.
Single page: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_algorithmolympics/a...
If they toned down the technobabble, Star Trek would be nearly watchable.
Disabling an useful feature in order to make coding slightly easier seems a bit backwards.
Lolcode uses YARN. Then again, it's almost the same as BUKKIT OF NUMBAR... No wonder other languages don't use silly names.
Here's the link to the Monet article: http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-color-theory/
Looks like Ubuntu is mostly hiring remote workers http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/
It is! I don't have particularly clever thoughts about it, but I want to say it's amazing. Thanks a lot to the creator!
> but this article is basically a press release

(techcrunch.com)

yep
I think really this should be titled, 'How hard is moving an object in space, in principle'.

For me space travel involves humans in space and that's really difficult. Think about being in a little bubble of air surrounded by hard vacuum that would kill you in seconds. Plus the cold/radiation/general plumbing problems. Space travel is really hard.
So basically what you are saying is that we shouldn't post anything because everything is political?

Open-source movement is political and some would argue has some negative economic and thus political consequences to society.

With regards to good vs. evil.

Please show how your 3 points validates that World Bank is evil.

The very problem even if we could set up metrics (we can't) is exactly in the interpretation of those 3 points in relation to something like the World Bank.
Ah ok. Though I did not find it dreadful, please feel free to dup/kill it if you wish.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the site in any way and the last thing I wish to do is spam.
At Loopt we tried to do this. We made a hybrid app (Loopt Star), using web views for content and native code for tabs, Facebook Connect, modal dialogs, animations, etc. It didn't work. WebViews/Safari basically don't cache anything at all, and javascript performance is awful.

Out of desperation we even tried including a reverse proxy as part of the app to force meaningful image and css caching. Yes, the webviews were serving content from localhost, which was proxied transparently to our real servers and cached aggressively. Even that wasn't enough.

If you want your app to have a first class user experience, you have to go native. Maybe in the future things will improve, but right now users can tell.
Warrants outstanding Jacksonville
Giant Transformer made of ice
I think after some days, WikiLeaks will publish documents using torrents. That way they can avoid (at least) DDoS.
Indeed. But I wish the certificate had 'BankSimple' rather than 'Simple Finance Technology Corp'. Who the hell are they? (rhetorical)
Nearly Every Single Topic On Quora Now Has A Twitter Account
Oracle's Open Source Java for Mac OS X built
Arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for sex crimes
> my illusion of having some say in the governing of my state

You think being lied to is a good thing?

Assange's trick forces governments to pick one of: being called to account, stifling themselves with secrecy, or not being evil. Where evil is roughly defined as: doing things you would rather the voting public didn't know. You seem to be ignoring that third choice, but Assange is not. That's his aim.
Yeah I find it confusing too. It didn't feel like I was scrolling down, just covering the sign in page. It's weird and non-simple.
If for no other reason, the daily deals is quite great, and it alone could keep me coming back for a pageview or two a day. It has my attention as an "upscale" competition to woot.com.
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I can see that Chrome tries to do the same but it doesn't work nearly as well.

It doesn't. And it's so very unfortunate, because it seems like it could: my Chrome installation currently stores 1 GB of data as "History Index 2010-xx". For what? I don't know.
So go to chrome://plugins/ and disable the Java plugin!
Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming/

+1 For MIT open courseware..

my advice is to just dive in you will pick it up.
Sure and "they" believe that "we" the people are that stupid?
Even if he would be guilty the timing is, to say the least, remarkable.
What about speed?

I empathize.

I'm a bookmark junkie, keeping 10,000+ bookmarks in my browser at a given time. Firefox just couldn't handle that (on my admittedly older computer,) taking ~30 seconds to both start up and shut down, and ~5 seconds to navigate to a new URL.

I blame it largely on the switch to SQLite as backing store, but unfortunately I don't have any hard numbers.
Unfortunately, once the big guns of the media and those opportunists in government find out, Amazon will be forced to make a statement one way or another. Do they support this kind of thing or not? I can even imagine calls for a boycott from some sectors - not a great thing for Amazon at this time of year.
how is this different from real life?
No, but getting lower latency javascript with tab-level independent parallelism makes a lot more CPU available.

Firefox simply runs all javascript in one physical thread, so it can only ever use about 100% CPU, while Chrome can use N00% CPU.
What's not practical about it?

GBs of data are pretty easy to handle these days
I don't have special rights or powers here, I'm just a user. My comments are my own opinions.
In defence of Facebook
There is a fundamental difference — PHP is one of the only programming environments for any system in which the minimum viable deployment mechanism is nothing, and for which that approach scales to considerable heights.

Other environments demand a base level of sophistication for even a Hello World app to ever execute in the first place.
But... Let's just suppose that he is indeed guilty - I mean, there isn't anything out there about his person that says he isn't the kind of "bad boy" who in terms of sexual encounters simply takes what he wants with force. What happens with Wikileak's reputation and the political weight of the so-far released documents if he really is guilty?
Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Lands Deal (And Investment) In Japan
...for some definition of magical.

Every time Chrome auto-updates itself, I notice it because it exposes some new "fit and finish" bug.

The update to Chrome 7, for example, broke the Bookmark Manager if you have your font size increased - e.g. due to eyesight issues. The update to 7.0.517.44 (or maybe an earlier version? I have no idea) changed the word boundaries used when selecting text using the keyboard.

It's frustrating.
How do you feel about Firefox 4 beta then?
This is similar to those people who charge $25 to download Firefox. Is it legal? Yes. Is it ethical? That's more dubious.
I'm pretty sure we could come up with all sorts of rationalizations.
Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote?
Not that I have the urge to, but I was just curious how many points are needed to down vote comments these days?

According to this http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=745206 it's 200, but I'm still not blessed...
Who pays you to spend hours cleaning up downloads?
I would say that it wouldn't matter what he has done, even he turns out te be a serial killer. The information in the documents still hold's it value.
The pivotal moment of Apollo 13: http://apollo13.spacelog.org/02:07:55:35/

I found the transcript following the famous phrase chilling, it simply oozes fear.
laughter

edit: although a trivial modification to the rule you suggested would fix this counterexample; gh is only an 'f' sound at the end of a word-stem.
We just filled a L3 spot, but we have 51+ employees working remote. And you can see when we post open positions here:
http://www.site5.com/about/careers/

We mostly over the next 6 months will be hiring L1 and L2 customer service / support reps. Every so often though we need a Ruby on Rails software developer or something higher up such as an L3 system admin. Emailing us your resume if you are interested is a good way so we can contact you when a position comes up.
Just to put this into perspective a bit: I doubt that any of those "awesome" success stories like facebook, twitter or whatnot would have ever been found a "really good business idea" a few years ago; go back 10, 20 years and offering ANYTHING like storage for free on the intarwebs was most definitely not just a bad but a stupid business idea.

Like you said earlier, a lot of it is luck, just like winning the lottery. By not playing/trying at all you will most definitely not win any lottery.

Doing exactly 100% the same that is already existing anyway (facebook,twitter,myspace..) doesn't sound like a great idea but improving on that, well why not?
+1

For me, Chrome has nothing Firefox don't have. Both have almost same set of features now . A year back, Chrome was in fact lagging in features. IMHO, the only difference i find is startup speed is better in chrome. But Firefox 4 nightly builds are rapidly catching up in that area. Load times for me are 5-10 seconds with a big Adblock list pre loading. Without Adblock list, it's a snap.

Both are rapidly catching up with each others features and so I don't find reason for me to switch to Chrome.

Firefox + Sync + Adblock + No Script + Awesome Bar is virtually unbeatable for me even though Chrome has equivalents.
Just to point out - "Please note that in general preference will be given to existing community contributors."
Is AWS allowing custom kernels for users that are neither paid AMI partners nor big prominent customers?
Tabs are on top in FF4 per default: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2010/06/24/why-tabs-are-on-t...
Spot on. This can't be repeated enough: it's not about saving a few bucks, it's about getting your goods in spotless quality, instantly, without hassle. People want ease; instant ease; not a labyrinthal click-fest. Even if you are a seasoned P2Per who does not need many minutes to locate at least one available source of the album in question, it usually takes a while to find a proper AAC or FLAC rip (contra usual MP3 slush), and unless you're into vacuous pop music you're almost always faced with anything but snappy download speeds.

$0.99 for a pristine 256kbps AAC track, with no waiting, is a good deal. The iTunes Store isn't a money-making behemoth for no reason.
How to become matheletes like them ? Any guides ? Books? Where to get started ? You suggest to learn python by it clearly says C,C++ and Pascal. Should I learn C++ as first language ? Help ?
I'm not convinced that any UI which requires the user to move and stretch their arms a lot will ever replace the mouse+keyboard. It might be useful for certain limited use cases like certain types of computer games, but as a general purpose tool, the mouse and keyboard are much more useful.
I understand what you say, but I maintain that most of them cannot understand what is going on. They were educated this way and are no more responsible for their government actions than are North Koreans or Iranians (or Portuguese, Greek and Irish) for theirs. They have been lied to for generations.
Twenty Open Courseware Classes on Web Design Worth Bookmarking
If you are interested in learning about web technology, but don't want to pony up the cash for a degree, then
take a look at these 20 classes on web design; all of them are free!
:-) Someday I must learn more about the history of other places.
What's Next for JRuby? 1.9 Compatibility, Windows Love, and More
That's obvious.
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To be more specific, third parties submit public domain works for distribution as Kindle books. Some people put a $0.00 price, other people specify a non-zero price. Amazon puts it all on there.

A given public-domain text may be represented on the kindle store many times over, submitted by different parties, with different formatting, at different prices.

As a kindle owner, I don't so much mind that there are Gutenberg-sourced public domain texts on there for sale: Maybe a $.99 one is formatted better than the others.

What I mind is that the kindle store is spammed full of such stuff.

The example that bugs me most is the person who took the ten years of Samuel Pepys' diaries, split them up into 120 ebooks each containing one month's worth of diary entries, and put them on the store.

I don't recall if they were charging for them or not, but I was browsing the "history" section of the store, and hit a seemingly never-ending span of one-month Pepys Diaries. Many screens full. On a slow kindle display.
So basically you are trying to say any kind of education and learning process is a waste unless you go and aim straight at multinational multibillion dollar success or what is your point?
Microsoft products are full of annoying features like this. Another example is Outlook and the way it removes arbitrary newlines from plain text emails.

Also:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

Choice quote: Rule of thumb--every time Microsoft use the word "smart," be on the lookout for something dumb
Excellent point. My C:\ partition of Windows 7 is just barely 15GB and Windows takes almost 90% of it. The remaining 10% is almost used by Chrome. Whopping 1.5 GB for 6 months of history!! What the heck it's storing there? Comparatively, my Firefox's 4 years history is stored in a 85MB file.

For anyone who has doubts check your AppData folder in Windows. This is a moot point considering the storage points available nowadays, but still i have no explanation why Chrome is taking so much space. I had to use a portable version of Chrome to make it not install itself into the User directories deep inside the Windows system folders.
First business negotiation.... advice needed
Hi everyone.

An experienced freelancing colleague wants me to work for free in return for a share of revenue from licenses on a new product. The other involved is someone with essential expert domain knowledge. I’d do maybe 50% of the coding but would be the junior partner. The rough figues look promising and he anticipates a finished product in about 3 months.

I’ve not done something like this before. What do you think is a fair distribution of revenue given the differing levels of experience, involvement and knowledge? I was thinking 40% for the senior developer and 30% for the domain expert and myself. When the product is finished is it right to insist that any hours spent on maintenance, additional features, etc are paid at the market rate as corporate expenses prior to dividends? Can anyone give me some general advice for negations of this sort?

We’re UK based by the way.

Please ask if you need any other info.

Yours naively,

David
Understanding the Level 3-Comcast spat (FAQ)
Internet backbone provider Level 3 says that cable giant Comcast is threatening the openness of the Internet and Comcast is accusing Level 3 of trying to get a free ride on its network.
The status of the Self language
Would be neat if there was an RSS feed on http://www.site5.com/about/careers/ so people could be alerted to new postings...
How can you sell apps for phones that don't exist yet? Ovi store and Intel AppUp will allow sales for MeeGo when the time comes.
How to destroy your business with one email
Background story found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/edxyk/submitted_a...
This matches my experience exactly. So many times people, especially technical people, have something to say, some information to convey, and almost arbitrarily many ways to say it. They then, from among those arbitrarily many ways, fail to exercise any judgement as to which is going to achieve secondary goals of improving working relationships, making people feel good, getting people on-side, and generally improving the working atmosphere. Often they think that the information is enough, and how you say it is irrelevant.

Or perhaps, more accurately, they simply don't realise that there really is a choice to make, and it's an important one. How you say something can make the message more impactful, more effective, and additionally, get people working with you to make things better, instead of resenting you and potentially sabotaging your work.

http://www.penzba.co.uk/SoothSayer.html
We are looking to hire remote iOS developers: http://www.fiplab.com/careers.html
Software Outsourcing:Art That Requires More Than Sitting Back and Eating Peanuts
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Search Google for hi rez textures and the results really suck. Sometimes you just want a library of resources that doesn't require slogging through a mountain of unintended search results. Except, like, not really a library, because that comes with late fees and the smell of dust. More, like… a supermarket? Maybe like that. But, like, a supermarket with a membership, where you just pay once, and get all you can eat... Wait, no. Buffet. We're thinking of a buffet. A buffet of design resources!
"an experienced French open sauce project programmer"

This is making fun of the nationality of the developer right?
If anyones interested in starting a cloud-based php website hosting control panel let me know. Language will probably be Python but its up for debate.
"Amazon and WikiLeaks did not return requests for comment."
If Wikileaks is a terrorist, then so too is the New York Times, and any other media outlet that has conveyed the same information Wikileaks released.
From memory, a few weeks ago it was upped to 500, I think. I'll see if I can find the item.

ADDED IN EDIT:

From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

> pg
> I've often thought of it. The reason I had downvotes
> originally was to deter people from saying things that
> were mean or stupid. But maybe the right way to deal
> with that is a separate mechanism from voting, as it
> is with stories. Maybe the right combo for comments is
> an uparrow, plus a flag link, and encourage users to
> flag comments that are mean or stupid.
>
> I'll think about the real solution more after I'm done
> reading applications, but I'll increase the downvote
> threshold to 500 now.
Leaks: China knows less about NKorea than thought
Suspicious timing for sure. It's a common tactic by authorities to use alleged sex crime as a way to attempt to discredit a person. Sex crime allegations seem to attract the [repulsive] "no smoke without fire" sentiment amongst the general public - meaning the accused is never be fully exonerated.

But, in any case, whether he is guilty or not has zero effect on the validity of the leaks.
Please mention if you're willing to hire a remote intern.
The EU issues Regulations, which have immediate effect in member states, and Directives, which member states are required to implement in national law, so it's not too far wrong to talk about EU law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_law

Caveat: IANAL (but my wife is).
Could you cite the post for this?
Formatting an ebook for the Kindle is not something automatic. This is real work. If someone does this for me and then charges me 99 cent for "Pride and Prejudice", I have nothing against it.
I think the point of this is that it allows both types of interactions. Steve Jobs said that multi-touch is not great for laptops because people don't want to stretch their arms like that. One obvious solution, shown here, is to make the horizontal and vertical surfaces just one bendy surface, and thus allow people to switch back and forth between the two without thinking about it.

So for example, you'd have your keyboard on the bottom surface. You might drag a document there to tweak various bits of it, then when you're done tweaking you move it back to the vertical half to look at it and scroll through it. At the same time.

Seems very smart to me. Now they only need to spend the other 99% of the development time to get the thing to be usable, cheap, reliable, and so on.
Hacker "The Jester" Reports Raid By Law Enforcement
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agreed - but my question still stands:
Take SVN for instance - if I managed to hack into a SVN server, can I change the source code (under SVN management) in a way that would be undetectable ?

Repeat the same question for git, mercurial and CVS.
The problem has to do with how much good debt does for people and how much influence the US government has over the organization. It's not unfair to see the bank as an arm of US foreign policy since the US has to agree to everything that happens.

The world bank insists on policies that we would never agree to like water privatization. That has lead to a lot of problems in poorer countries. It just seems like a scheme to transfer what wealth exists in poor countries and transfer it to the banks of the west.

If we really wanted to do good in the world we wouldn't give loans we'd give aid for these projects instead.
From what I've read so far, it boils down to this: the two women in question only accuse him of not using a condom when allegedly they only consented to sex with a condom. There was no "forcing them to sexual actions" involved, as the sex was allegedly consensual. At least, that's what has been reported so far.

"Rape" may technically be the correct term under Swedish law, despite being used all over the world under vastly different meanings.

Alas, similar to, by now, nearly everything having to do with Wikileaks, how people view this is vastly dependant on their personal opinions about Julian Assange and the ethics of what Wikileaks does in general. This has nothing to do with 'criminal justice' anymore, it's just a farce (going both ways).

Edit: Also, this is NOT an international arrest warrant. According to Interpol itself, it is a "red notice", calling for help in identifying and apprehending Mr Assange, not an arrest warrant.
See http://www.interpol.int/Public/Wanted/Default.asp
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)
Please lead with the positions' locations.

And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility!
I'm pretty sure savannah is php, forked from the original *forge code, so not really a fault of the people who wrote ls and gcc.
Ooh, gee, you don't think it could be Hilary directing it do ya? Or maybe the Chinese government. Pissed that they confirmed China is considering dumping Nth Korea? Lol!
But now we know that the more customers who post complaints (with links to your web site) the better - it boosts your Google ranking and that drags in new punters.

Bad customer service (in fact preferably rude and near insane) is good for your business growth - plus you get to keep the excess profits every time you rip someone off.

Google has inadvertently created a new business model.