skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholly agree with the principle here, but I often find myself running up against firefox. For instance, there's this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341067 . You'd think if that many people find a behavior unintuitive or undesirable, the developers might want to consider that there could be something to it. Of course, mom won't ever run into this because she'd have to change a preference to encounter it. It is possible to be too focused on casual users.
As a stopgap measure, access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... and then subscribe to the RSS feed.
Newspaper writer: Microsoft will be dead in 10 years, too
Yeah I was surprised it was so low. 150K a year in the valley isn't much.
Vault.com has a similar service, but you have to pay to access the salary reviews.
Why does Firefox use Google for search? Follow the money
> most of them are probably the "bandwidth hogs" that ISPs hate

No, these are the bandwidth hogs that ISPs love. When they're downloading with NNTP from an ISP's server, they're not incurring a single byte of bandwidth beyond the ISP's perimeter.
This issue is being discussed on the Network Neutrality Squad Mailing List ( http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg01002.html).
Canadians at Y Combinator
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It's a win/win situation for Google regardless of what they do. If they ignore and let the fraud happen they get paid more, if they combat it, they look like the "defender of online advertising" and people love them for it.

They key is to monitor your AdWords every day, it's all in the numbers.
The Best Web Analytics Report
Lunatic Python - two-way bridge between Python & Lua
Green startup in Houston gives you free golf cart rides
"My little cousin could build and maintain this during after-school hours!"

So why didn't he?
"However, the vast majority of people in such startups don't have that problem, because they are young and single - burning a year or two at both ends is a worthwhile risk."

The most common entrepreneur is not someone like Bill Gates. It's a middle-aged white male starting a company in an industry hes been in for years. Young people being the most common start-up founders is actually a myth.

My friend is 25 with a child and a wife without access to capital or time. Sometimes your not in a position to start a company which is fine. But don't blame it on your age.
The article mentioned that the robot can do something humans supposedly can not do, listen to several voices at the same time. I am ready to believe that it is true for men, but maybe not for women.

Maybe you just need to think around some more corners than you usually do...
What’s Next For Bebo’s Founders: Back To Birthday Alarm
Twitter:we made it
If it's a commodity, and it's apparent his skills are, it makes sense to hire the cheapest.
Using jQuery, you could get each option from the Select, and make it a div/span (or more commonly, a UL for drop downs)

for this example include jquery and superfish libraries

//Insert a new node under select id
$("#SelectId").after("<ul id='newUl'></ul>");
$("#SelectId").hide();
$("#SelectId option").each(function(){$("#newUl").append("<li>"+this.html()+"</li>");});

//Now you have made a UL from a Select box, so use something like superfish to make it a dropdown
$("#newUl").superfish();
"<a href="http://evilsite.com#/about">About</a>"

There is absolutely no reason to build links with your own hostname in them in the first place. Why on earth would you make a link like this instead of href="/about"?

edited to add: the spec says that the Location header for a redirect must be an absolute URI, so that's one case where you'd need to know your hostname. But you certainly don't need it to build links.
"or you're paying O2 and Apple a massive wodge of cash for the privilege of owning a 3G iPhone."

How dare they get you to pay money for their product! Funny... Considering all the iPhone does £200 is still dirt cheap.
The first time I came across Markov Chains was a blog post about generating Italian surnames.

http://doubtingtommaso.blogspot.com/2008/03/markov-chains.ht...

Very cool stuff.. it seems quite powerful given how broadly it can be applied.
SEO should never be the reason to ruin a site's navigation. No dentist can bank on being the #1 search for "Dentist" on Google. The dentist's website optimization should concentrate on having accurate information in local directories (online and printed phone books, Citysearch, Yelp, etc.) and encouraging satisfied patients to provide positive online and in-person reviews/referrals. Google Adwords and Yahoo's equivalent would be good investments too, using "<City Name> dentist" as keywords.

One of the commenters made a good point that he had to navigate too much to see the phone number. IMO, the phone number, address, and a link to a map should be on the screen at all times (using CSS fixed positioning).
I signed off and still couldn't find it, but I didn't look for it too much time. Location is very important. It seems that I'm the best paid programmer in Madrid :-) But if I want to keep that smile, I better don't look to other EU countries.

That results are from payscale.com, that I tried before and have to say that: interface is pretty much the same, except that Payscale didn't force me to register and gave me some information, right after submitting the last page.

Glassdoor not only required the registration and later took me to a useless (for me) page, but also told me that I'll be able to see results for a certain time. What results, BTW?
I have both opera and firefox open with default tool bars and opera is the clear winner it wastes less space. You have to turn off FF's book mark tool bar and then its a pixel for pixel tie pretty neat.
This seems a bit analogous to the Chris Rock "Always asking for credit for things you're supposed to do" routine.

Nonetheless, impressive they stayed up so well on Monday, despite the recent issues.
I've been experimenting with adroll.com a bit. Mind mentioning the two international networks you started favoring?
Here is a PDF document comparing web2py to Django, PHP, Pylons, Turbogears, J2EE and Cakephp

http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/web2py_vs_others.p...
"our uptime during the event was 97.3%" ...
"About 4% of requests during this time did return the page that asks folks to wait a few minutes and try again."

Which means that 1 in 15 users got some sort of error. That's a lot.
While I'm not discounting any value that adds, I'd rather pay $200 less and have someone else open it.
It would be easy to put on a lightweight, plastic maybe, engine cover. So do not discard the concept, these details can be fixed.
Have you looked into the IP address? On a Unix command line, do 'whois 0.0.0.0' to find out what network they're on, possibly where they are. Contact abuse@ at that ISP and tell them one of their customers is violating Google's Terms of Service -- most ISP ToSs say it's a violation of their ToS to violate anyone else's ToS.
Dirty Looking Hygiene (what Scheme can learn from Arc)
Lock-Free Multiprocessor Kernel
And the PDF: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~walpole/class/cs510/papers/06.pdf
Quick Factorial Algorithm (naive recursive solution is slow)
Or P=0
PDF: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/factorial.pdf
Bare functionality, constant sightings of the "fail whale," API calls dropped to 20 and then to 10, the archives and replies function shut off, direct messages shut off...

That doesn't sound like "making it" to me. What it SHOULD be doing is staying up with all functionality, like most other well-designed services.

Twitter's definition of success is a far cry from mine.
100 donts from Paul Graham
Rats! - the Parser Generator for Fortress (and Scala for NetBeans)
What is the best possible outcome?
Any sources for the radiation feeding bacteria?
If you really want to know salaries, take a look at the H1-b job databases (they are required to report salaries for particular titles). I don't look because I don't want to know (plausible deniability)
"I think marketers rely on emotion a lot to sell..."

Poor marketers rely on logic to sell.

Good marketers rely on emotion a lot to sell.

Excellent marketers rely solely on emotion to sell. Then they provide logical backup for a decision already made based on emotion. Because they know that buying decisions are made based on emotion and then justified with logic. (Do your really need a 3G iPhone?)
Agreed I tend to think there's some discrepency when it comes to generalizations such as the post above. A good example would be my personal experience. My father has started and sold companies over the years and still runs his main company for almost 18years now. So for a dude like me if my dad could do it. Why can't I?
This subject is a serious hobby (approaching business) of mine so I'll comment.

Warren Buffet is an investor, namely a value investor. And he does very well with his strategies. But there are other more speculative strategies that work and do provide greater annual returns than his company.

The returns for certain strategies, however, diminish when you increase your capital for a certain strategy.

There is a difference between what he does and financial speculation. W.B. actively goes out to seek and create value, whereas speculators are scalpers, not actually creating value but by exploiting market inefficiencies.

There is also a difference between the value of a company and the supply and demand of the stock of that company. W.B. follows the former with the expectation that the latter will follow (it most often does).

His last paragraph is probably the most interesting in this essay. It shows that past returns are certainly not indicative of the future. My guess is that U.S. domestic equities will not have the greatest return as a securities class for a while.

See: http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/2008/06/shrinking-u...
P≠NP
"I take care of my kids!"

"What do you want? A Cookie?!?!"
I was hoping for a bigger more button.

But really...why is it half my screen? :)
The Mall Bathroom Test to Identify Entrepreneurs
Much of firebug's functionality is also available in the Safari developer console. Especially in the newest WebKit releases.
Sweet! Then we'd get major practice in for our Google interview as well. Don't forget puzzles involving sparrows, rowboats, candles, and ropes for those of us who might be elsewhere-bound.
How to Blog directly from any Website
I am always looking for ways to blog more efficiently. If you don't have to leave the webpage you're on to write a post, it's a huge timesaver. This Firefox extension is so much better than BlogDesk which is good for blogging offline, but can't compare to the functionality of Scribefire.
If it took 5 downmods to negate an upmod would that fix the moderation warring problem?
I can't help but agree. There is nothing wrong with an organization earning money through its software, whether or not it is open-source. Perhaps the reason that Firefox has actually been able to become a viable competitor to closed-source browsers is because it actually has a source of income, unlike most open source projects.
No, no, no. That's not RESTful at all. What "thing" does /transactions represent? It's the same URI for every single account in the world?

What you've done is break out of the paradigm in order to solve a particular problem, which is great. But don't call it "REST", because the whole point of this discussion is that doing so confuses people about what REST is supposed to mean.
Maybe they just want you to really NOTICE how big, shiny, and Web 2.0 it is!
Eli was my programming languages professor. It's neat to see these two worlds collide.
Managing "Unproductive" Meetings
It's like "Time of the Gaps" instead of "God of the Gaps". Just sprinkle some fairy time dust on it and anything is possible? You should look into the law of large numbers and gambler's fallacy.
hm... it looks like all criteria were chosen right for web2py. By the way php is not a framework, so comparison is inaccurate here.

However web2py look pretty interesting, I think I will definitely give it a try.
Time, money, etc., surely all play a role, but I'm not convinced that these answers are sufficient either. Probably the real answer is that it varies for everyone.

For me, the biggest hurdle was just realizing it was even possible. I had been implicitly trained for years that what you do is go to school and then get a job. The question of starting companies never even entered my mind. Thankfully, I came across some good resources (e.g., Philip Greenspun) that started to change my thinking.

Now, I do work full-time at a company, but also do my own projects in my free time. I wish I had more time, but frankly, there's a lot you can get done part-time if you just go at it. My current biggest hurdle is neither time nor money nor realization of possibility... but because I do have limited time, I tend to overanalyze project ideas before starting them...
Ugh. I think the first sentence of the last paragraph sums up the article best:

"Maybe this just means that we’re not very good at predicting who will become an entrepreneur."
It might be fun to try to guess the authors of Markov-generated "samples" of famous works.
OP, Markovized (first 100 words):

"Markov chains is chosen based on that is the PageRank formula:
Ther I considered that, but I fed the company is often called a testament to this idea to work with.
Now let's proceed to include amusing bodily functions.
Garfield cartoon strip meets Markov chains. I got back:
One example of a page by making each letter of any illusions about what it this post, make it (a letter of a testament to get to the broad power of increased cheapness, however. You're not be surprised to longer sequences of passing importance. But Markov chain in"
IPhone Developer needed ASAP
If you are experienced in Objective C (Cocoa) and/or are familiar with using the iPhone SDK then we want to hear from you. We have a small project (2-4 week build time) that needs to be started immediately. If you think you have what it takes, shoot an email with your resume to tlombardo@prognetsol.com

We will require that you sign a NDA before viewing the scope of work to place your bid.
LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network
Here we go: http://career.clemson.edu/graduate_students/H1B/2007/
OmniFocus On The iPhone: Think Where, Not When
Not quite, but I'm in Sacramento (ex-Sydney).
Microsoft helps launch Zignals stock-trading site
PeopleAhead takes on Monster.com with qualitative job-matching algorithms
I thought a central Mozilla goal for Firefox 3 was less hugeness.

Oh, wait, nevermind.
IE8 does IE7 redux
Play A Video Game, Contribute to Medical Science (genius mech turk app)
This reminds me of the KDE vs. Gnome debate which led Linus to say this: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00...
It is a stretch to call this an article. I also think the title should be "The Mall Bathroom JOKE for Identifying Entrepreneurs".
I bet it would look like ass after about a week (things sticking to it and being harder to remove than metal; wrinkling; effects of cold/heat)
YC hackers--run in the other direction.
There's a huge financial incentive to solve this problem; it would significantly improve the efficiency of many business processes and it would make it trivial to crack many contemporary forms of encryption. The solution is worth billions, if not trillions. Furthermore, you've only got to find one example where P=NP and you can reduce many other problems to this case. Furthermore, there's a very large number of abstract and practical examples to work on. So why hasn't it been solved?

Has it been solved in secret? Are we not smart enough to solve the problem? Is there little incentive to prove that P!=NP? Do foolhardy attempts produce "good enough" improvements to existing practices?
Yeah. And Safari beats both of them for pure economy. Seriously, that line made me pause. Firefox has so much clutter in its design, it makes me wonder how many designers it actually has looking at things like that.
Yahoo's poison pill
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000089161808000305/f41347a4defa14a.htm

Not only will the poison pill be introduced when Microsoft buys Yahoo, but also when a different board is voted for by the stock holders (eg Icahn) (change of control)

Is this legal pratice? You are basicly taking your stockholders hostage to vote you on the board.
I can relate to the lack of startup culture, specifically founders who, as you've experienced, refuse to give up any equity in return for committed co-founders. Brash independence is an Australian cultural cornerstone, often to a fault. I've encountered it more often than I care to remember, and been guilty of it just as much.

A lack of resources is a major concern, but it's the lack of co-operation which really holds us back. I hold hope that a couple of successful and generous founders will arise, sell out and establish a YC-like venture to foster the kind of thinking and giving that's needed.

(According to Wikipedia, Sir Keith Murdoch left his son Rupert the Adelaide News, from which he started News Corporation).
That's why Twhirl has been telling me 'limit exceeded' even though I'm updating every two minutes (30/hr)

In fact, it's been doing that for the past month and a half...
Yes, they just won't be powered by fossil fuels anymore.

Boy, there's a big wave of doom-and-gloom sweeping the globe these past few months, isn't there? I can't wait 'til it's over.
I'm so torn between FF3 and Safari that I end up running them simultaneously. FF3 for development (firebug ftw) and Safari for speed and OS integration.
The new features they are proposing are great. I don't use Last.fm much but I like to browse the various areas like Events and Artists to find new music. The addition of Podcasts sounds intriguing as right now I mainly use iTunes for them but that's not very portable.
As I watched the video, I was thinking, "How does this apply to hacking?"

I got my answer at the end when he said, "The Gina philosophy, in its short form, it's about being flexible. Thinking flexible. Acting flexible. Context over dogma, that's it".

That reminded me about an recurring discussion that happens here, "What resolution do you design websites for?" most recently here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214393

IMHO, the correct answer: Whatever resolution the browser arrives in.
Frizone: JavaScript development, test and deployment environment (plus gears)
Even without much experience with some of the frameworks on the list, I was blown away by how blatantly biased some of those comparisons were. (No, the disclaimer on the first page warning of "possible" biases doesn't cut it).
But you're not paying $200 less, you're just redistributing your payments over time.
"Ajaxian" has an excellent introduction at http://ajaxian.com/archives/frizone-javascript-dev-test-and-...
Ask HN: Non-cellphone long distance
After my first month as a web entrepreneur, it has become painfully clear that I need to talk on the phone long-distance without cell-phone glitches. I live at the top of Potrero Hill in SF, and the cellphone reception here is horrible (I've gone through two carriers).

I'm moving in two months, so I'm not keen on buying a landline unless I really have to. I've tried Skype on and off for years. Skype is a disaster, far glitchier than cellphones, just not workable for business talk and project talk.

What service do you use for talking long-distance? Or is spending the $$$ on a landline my only real option?
This is a three-year-old blog post. I'm not sure how much still applies to current Firefox, especially the comparisons to other contemporary browsers.

That said, I often find Safari frustrating (cycle tabs with Cmd-Opt-arrows, for example, does not always work), but I have to resign myself to its foibles. To me, hitting the wall of the browser's functionality is what pulls me out of the dream. At least Firefox is getting ongoing extensions and patches.
I don't much like the concept of "Site-Specific browsers" - that's what desktop applications and client-server models are for. But you definitely can't deny the appeal it has to Startup and "web 2.0" developers.
I'm slowly working on it!
Pretty eye opening. Underpaid :(
It's a collection of transactions. What's unRESTful about that? Collections of things are a very common REST pattern.

Naturally you would also want a URI for each account, and it might make sense to have many different collections of transactions. I don't see how that breaks out of the paradigm.

Edit: I'm using "transactions" as in "financial transactions" (as opposed to "database transactions")
Tough crowd!
Can you guess who this is?

"It seems this piece of thing:
Even if you're into that Lee Smolin suggests, though I have little programming experience, but argues a working brain, at least not be of thing:
Even if it's that the viewer:
But many didn't. And the lack of Markov-generated "samples" of research. The main problem is more or Wikipedia) would cover 99% of falsifiable predictions, lack of how the danger from the unjustified (given the even ones.
To summarize: intelligence, motivation, and space is awesome, and Wikipedia (or sites directly accessed through Google and location when they fall sick could provide interesting data"
Firebug + NoScript + Nuke Anything + Web Developer + Tree Style Tab + AwesomeBar is a killer set of features to me. I don't see myself going to anything else in the near future.
You mean 1 in 25?
Ten Reasons Why Steve Ballmer Should Be Fired
Apple prohibiting iPhone apps which compete with own interests
I pretty much stopped using FF3 when I learned that Safari has the equivalent of Firebug built-in (I run the nightly webkit builds, checkout nightshift)
skype.

maybe its just you, but i've not had problems.
No, I don't. 97.3% uptime, minus 4% error pages == 93.3% valid responses.
I love the awesomebar. For instance, I can just type in the bug number of the bugzilla issue I'm working with currently (15592 for example.) And then hit tab-enter and I'm at the right page. The learning algorithm took about a day to stabilize but it works perfectly for me now.

If I'm trying to remember a page I browsed recently I type in a few keywords and the bar will pop up a list of related pages. Usually the page I want to review is the first in the list.

Give the bar a chance. I was leery at first but now I love it.
What A Mission Statement Is
Mine, at the minute, is: To organise science in order to accelerate research.

What's yours?
A couple of weak points--XBoxes overheating is hardly a reason for dismissing the CEO--but a couple of the points are right on the money, AFAIC:

1. Stock price. That's Steve's ONLY job. The only excuse for a dismal stock price during the same period that AAPL and GOOG have enjoyed great success is to claim that anyone else would have made the stock drop and he protected investors from actually losing money on their MSFT holdings.

I'm sorry, but anyone else with the same performance in a Fortune500 company would have been gone a while ago. The only exceptions are companies with family dynasties like Ford and Kraft, or Microsoft where Steve is Bill's long-time friend.

2. Milking the Office and Windows cows while the herd escapes the pasture. The OP turns these into several different points, but they are the same point: Releasing uncompelling upgrades just to keep the money rolling in while allowing competition to take customers away. Steve needed to play better defense, meaning customers should not be walking away from Windows or Office.

3. Yahoo. Yes, the OP is right. The merger--at any price--looked like a way for make things so confusing that Ballmer couldn't be fired until he cleaned up the mess. It's a classic BigCo move: Do a re-org to protect management from being fired. And there's no re-org like a massive merger.

Now that people have stopped criticizing Jerry for turning down the B$44, the spotlight--and axe--should fall on Steve for starting the whole mess. How many people have already resigned or started job-hunting at Microsoft when they heard about the merger and the obvious impending layoffs and confusion?