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For LinkedIn, the most important thing is definitely their very real revenue coming from their huge CPM rates. >$15CPM, I've heard.

Slide's ridiculous valuation comes from their reach and the idea that eventually someone has to figure out how to monetize social networking eyeballs. When (if) that happens, Slide will be in a great position.

Meebo is kind of neat and isn't trying very hard with revenue.
Read the Article on Vermont.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220245
If you watch part 2, the (ex?) cop points out that police specifically are allowed to lie during interrogations.

I think the best thing to do would be to just calmly, firmly and repeatedly ask for a lawyer.
Well, I say we exist in the non-abstract. Or don't exist in the abstract. Or non-abstract. Or whatever. A radically different "view", and yet the implications are the same (non-existent, that is).

This isn't too far removed from arguing about whether the Holy Ghost is indeed the same entity as God the Father.
For everyone complaining about the post, he says lots of times that Hulu doesn't have more videos and doesn't let you share videos. He is looking at it solely from a business perspective.
Fine, I'll ignore the blind market. I'm not trying to be mean but just realistic. I don't operate a government website which needs to be ADA compliant, and if screen reader software isn't where it needs to be, then maybe there is just no solution.
I'd sooner quit using the Internet altogether than scour the main Reddit or Digg page for things to read.
Some states have strong LLCs and some states have weak LLCs. It is fine to be an LLC in your home state as long as LLCs really have all the benefits of a normal corporation. If you're not raising investment you're fine with a home state LLC. I think CA has strong LLCs, but I am definitely not a lawyer.
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Yeah I heard two grocery store employees debating how you get paid when you win the jackpot :(
The behaviors that evolve for gene propagation have unintended effects outside the sphere of the mating game. Evolution is not perfect.
I think the higher income bracket you belong to the less acceptable it is to spend your money on things that are considered "conspicuous". My feeling is that Patek Philippe watch and Italian marble counter tops express the same basic thing to world:

I'm important and successful.

It's just more covert than a diamond studded grill. In fact, it makes the message much more powerful because now only the people you care about, rich people and aspiring rich people, know how important and successful you are.
Freshman philosophy essays don't generally discuss the philosophy of Bayes's theorem. Usually they discuss the kind of philosophy rendered irrelevant by the advances of Chomsky and Wittgenstein.

Here, I suspect the problem is that the essay is telling you something you already know in too many words.
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As far as learning something worthwhile is concerned, I'd recommend sticking to the subset of C++ used in Kernighan's "The Practice of Programming".
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When I say "percentage based scaling", I mean "simply resizing elements to fill the screen". That's what's rudimentary.

A nice scaling toolkit would let you intelligently use all that width. You might be able to change how things flow, change how much content shows in various elements, etc, etc. Making wider columns usually sucks.
Yahoo employs over 13,000 employees. 5 leaving in the span of a couple weeks is not a "mass exodus". And if these 2 are to "join", that means that he's calling 3 a mass exodus.
It's really not absurd.

The problem with these tests is that they can be extremely difficult to interpret, tricky to run correctly, and bad/incorrect results can easily lead to drastic consequences (i.e. expensive follow-up tests and procedures).

These companies are effectively selling medical equipment, but so far, they've side-stepped the usual regulations by selling direct-to-consumer. It was inevitable that this situation would change.
...sometimes. When you put three cells next to each other in a table, you're telling the user agent "this is a row of related data". It's difficult to intelligently choose how to lay those out if there's not space for them to appear side by side.

That CSS layout leaves a bit more up to the user agent. The primary content appears first, if there's not space to position each column next to the primary content, it drops down below.
You are right, especially if you are not conscious of their effect. We have all been victims of the selfish ones, at one time or another...
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Does this do anything better/faster/smarter than Freshbooks and Blinksale?
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'Brain fitness' market booming as Boomers age, but does it work?
"If you don't plan to make your application big, why bother? If you don't plan to do any non-standard things, why bother? If it took five minutes to come up with an immediate and obvious solution, why bother? If you change your frequently ("writing is rewriting"), why bother right now?"

Don't bother.

When one of my programming mentors was explaining unit tests to me, she said "They don't have to be a huge deal. Just enough to let you have confidence in your code." That's the real issue - having confidence that your code does what you think it does and will continue doing so.

I have a pretty simple litmus test for when I need unit tests: if I ever have to say "Well, it should work..." then it's time to write a test and find out if it really does.

But I don't unit test things like Django models or CSS positioning, unless I'm doing something funky or complicated. I do unit test a lot of my JavaScript, since doing anything non-trivial is complicated.
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"Not Hacker News" is hn's equivilent of "First".
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This service will probably be over $100/month; for development purposes a Mac mini would probably be a better option.
I'd feel uneasy agreeing with your motives.

It'd be a mess if not only a lot of people left purely opiniative (?) comments because they don't have time to elaborate but this was also generally deemed good behavior.

If you were about to post insightful commentary later couldn't it wait (in fact it did wait since your in-the-meantime comment was clearly no substitute)? Especially since others have expressed what you would have.

"...also, in the same vein one can ask what your comment accomplishes that a downmod would't have? :)"

I find it surprising that you'd ask that just after clarifying your motives. Would you have posted that answer if I had just downmodded you?...
I'm in mexico city, if you ever visit this city ;) ....... ok not exactly south america but anyways ;)
Similarly, watermelons are totally kicking lemon's asses - they're bigger, so you're more satisfied if you eat a a melon than a lemon. They're also sweeter, so they taste better.

Give me a break. Hulu is doing completely different things from YouTube, just like blip.tv is doing completely different things from both of them. Each one of them does well what they were intended for. The right question to be asking, if any,is which one of them will replace television as we know it, and although it's impossible to know for sure, my best would be against Hulu.
I don't think we're seeing the entire picture - even with the additional data Oren brings to the table in his post. While R&D is important, so are bonuses.

I sure hope all those underpaid engineers at Apple were getting options. On June 16th of 2003, Apple was trading at $9.60. Today it closed over $180... The average stock bonuses reported on Glassdoor are $24+K, on top of the average cash bonuses of nearly $6K. Sure, substantially lower than Google, but much higher than Microsoft. Close enough to make the true compensation a dead heat.

Also, I'd love to see the average education level for the Google engineers versus the Apple, Micrsoft, Yahoo, etc folks. My bet, you'd see a lot more PhD's at Google, a lot more. When you have a PhD - and are actually good (!) - you should get paid more.

I'm just saying there's more than base salary to take into consideration. And for some, they want to work at Apple over other company plane and simple - not surprising that Apple would use that point to pay less ...
Does everything have to be mutually exclusive?!
It is pretty pointless to care about blind users, since they can't use most AJAX based sites anyway.
I'd like to point out that Opera 9.5 alpha had this feature before "Mozilla went out there and tried to change things around."
The chances of it ever getting such a deal were slim; the media companies already hated them for stealing their content before, and would not have wanted to reward that with a deal to do it legally (some did, yes, but it was unlikely that most or all of the content would have made it into Youtube- particularly with profit splitting between Google and the companies).

Yes, Hulu's content is attractive, but it's different from Youtube's content, which is attractive for other reasons. Just because they're both video doesn't mean they're directly competing.
But it's not... it's equity.
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Can anyone recommend shop software for an OS X developer who wants to sell his software online?

The software is freely downloadable but will contain a link to a shop where the software can be registered.

The payment can be made through for example PayPal. Suggestions for PayPal alternatives are also more than welcome.

The shop needs to be able to generate a serial number. Or have hooks to easily add such functionality.

Both hosted and glue-it-together-yourself solutions are welcome.

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I'm not sure if you really meant this as a reply/rebuttal to the grandparent, but contesting a charge with your credit card company rarely ever results in "nastiness in court". In fact, that's pretty much the one virtue of credit cards over other forms of payment - it's easy for you to contest things and then your credit card company will usually just take care of it for you.
I repeat, why is it news that two people who's company was acquired (for cash!) are not staying with the acquirer (pretty sure that's not even a word) for ever and ever? Because some site writes a sensationalist headline about it? Seriously folks, this is really not a big deal.
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The <table> tag may have been designed to be used for table, but this is not what it is used for in practice. Hence screen readers should adapt.
That last comment proved that you didn't read it.
If I think I can interpret them correctly, I should be allowed to get the tests done, regardless of what the government thinks about it. Stick a disclaimer on them if you must, but prohibiting the request of such tests by laypeople is fundamentally illiberal.
CurdBee follows much simpler and straightforward approach than others. Its not overloaded with features, but provides the essentials you need. Also you could easily integrate it with Google Checkout and Paypal.
Definitely. I've been using it for the past month or so and have no idea why everyone is making such a big deal out of this.

At first it was a little messy but I've gotten used to it so it's fine by me.
Make pages out of incoming search terms. Give users what they want.
I found it annoying that you couldn't pay the shop to regenerate your shield. If it was low, you'd have to die before the game went on.
i started watching Family Guy on there but it had ADVERTISING! i don't mind ads around the player, but interrupting the actual content is worse than a popup for me. of course, it's not as much advertising as on TV, but it's something i don't expect on the internet

i'd rather download the torrent, though i guess that's not the sort of thing Hulu is for. it seems more like a replacement for TV
It's not just the interpretation that's important. Medical tests are carefully regulated and tested to ensure that they're accurate. These "tests" are not.

In other words, this argument gets filed in the same bin as those that would suggest that FDA regulation of food and drugs is overbearing, and that we should all be allowed to eat whatever we want. It goes beyond personal choice; it's a matter of public health.
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It's called a table, not a grid. And as information and the internet enlarge (hence the continuous drive for better search), semantics are a very important aspect of the equation. As such, so is using proper markup to define the content of the page.

Your post does not constitute more "maintainable" code at all, and contradicts the years of community contributions to CSSZenGarden. I'd recommend you establish a personal CSS "framework" for tackling common layouts/frustrations.
Eric Schmidt has gone on record saying Google has almost no idea what to do with YouTube. That's not a particularly good thing, and the fact Mark points out about YouTube not being able to monetize the majority of their videos is pretty alarming. It's not a charity.
Any links to his papers?
because he pointed out that Hulu probably already makes as much, if not more, money than YouTube?

At the end of the day, YouTube has to make something its customers (advertisers, not users) want, and so far it has failed to do so.
i know you gotta sell, sell, sell Tipjoy, but to HN?
I'm in Santiago...if you're in town, we can have lunch or something.
OK, so legislate the need for accuracy through licensing, etc -- I don't see how a doctor's order would make the test more accurate.
cuban's point is still valid, while youtube accepts user-generated content like your kid's gymnastics video, they will never be able to sell any ads against it, because no one other than you and your family will want to see that video, no offense.
"+ Personal attention. " In many other countries outside of the US and Western Europe, this is not that expensive.
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I think it is great. Bookmarks on FF always sucked really, really bad. With the ability to search them on the fly, I am almost happy (it is a hard problem, how to organize information).

Maybe it should be possible to disable it, but since I actually like it, I don't care...

You know about the bookmark keywords, right? I have set news.yc to keyword yc (in the properties of the bookmark), so when I type "yc", I go straight to this site. Maybe that feature could alleviate your pain?
I actually like it quite a bit.

There are probably a bunch of people like me who have grown quite accustomed to using the Firefox address bar as a quick way to do a Google i'm feeling lucky search. For me, as an FF2 user, this fits quite perfectly with that pattern of usage, and actually extends it conveniently.

Like you I do get tripped up when I try to type a straight URL in there though. Maybe if they raised the awesomeness level a tad they could do some basic pattern matching to recognize when an explicit URL is being typed there. Until then it's just a "cool" bar in my book.
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You should tell that to the guys over at CSSZenGarden... they'll get a good chuckle.
Been done already. Many times.
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Any idle News.YC'ers in Mountain View? Perhaps a personal visit...

http://maps.google.com/?q=2029+Stierlin+ct,+Mountain+View,+C...
Ha! Don't you dare to try to put Buenos Aires in the same league of São Paulo and Campinas...

What... wrong place for rivalry between Brazil and Argentina? I guess we'll have to wait until the football game tomorrow night.
I have a friend that works as an engineer at Flickr, and he sent out reassurance:

"These two have been away from Flickr for the better part of a year, being on parental leave - now it's just more official. In short, we've been building cool stuff for the last year without these two officially around, the sky is still up where it should be. ;)"
Sometimes there needs to be a hard break to what you're used to if it is simply a better interaction model. Firefox's smart bar is a definite improvement, although it takes adjusting to (like the Office 2007 ribbon, and the Vista start menu)

Not all of us want feature creep, and if we're doing something a crappy way, then I don't mind if I sometimes get dragged kicking and screaming to a better model. I eventually got used to opening my browser windows in tabs instead of new windows. I got used to Gmail compared to Eudora. It's hard to satisfy everyone, and if you can satisfy a lot more people with a hard change that upsets a few people, sometimes it is better.

I don't think the points you made are prerequisites for good UI design.
I wonder what new forms of white collar crime this might make possible...

If you write software that creates virtual corporations that cause harm that profits some other business entity you control can you be held liable?
unless they value the equity they're giving up less than the cash . . .
It looks nice. I'd use it.
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"At an early age, many young people learn the HTML language of Web pages and often branch out into its more powerful sister languages, such as XML ..."

..huh?
Completely agree, I can't stand it. That combined with the fact that (in the Windows theme at least) the drop down on the back button is now in the wrong place are two pretty random changes that are exceedingly irritating.

Without reading up on it, I'd guess the SmartBar is an attempt towards trying to address the fact that "a lot of" [1] people don't distinguish or understand the differences between the address bar, a search box in the chrome, and whatever largish text box is at the top of their home page. That doesn't mean I don't hate it though.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/27/1160055...
It is the case. It's like that pg essay about how everyone recognizes how languages lower level than the one they work in are sooo primitive, but higher-level ones (ie lisp in the essay) just look weird. You just don't see what that would be good for.

It's the same with insanely smart people. They just don't make sense to you, because you can't follow. If you observe their output for a while, you'll see, but from just talking to them, it'll be difficult.
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Yup. (Disclosure: I work for Yahoo).

Consider this more like belated recognition for Kakul rather than Caterina + Stewart's departure. It's really, really sad that they're gone but the talent pool at Flickr is still pretty deep.

And in other Arrington scoops: Aaron Swartz is leaving Reddit.
Because the license for Server permits it, and the license for client does not.
The value is being able to run programs that can only run in Mac OS X. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to do this. You might want to build some custom processing job that relies on something built on top of OS X for example. There are at least two YC companies that have done this.
It's not really a problem, but if you do need to change states later, it's not all that hard. It takes two forms: one telling California you're leaving, and one telling your new state you're arriving.
Can someone actually explain this for me? I just.. don't think I get it. What do you, well.. do?
I couldn't find his PhD thesis - the best I could do was the mitpress site which contains selected chapters:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

Also, he has a list of selected older papers at his homepage:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefPubs.htm
Part 2 is excellent too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE&feature=relat...
Yes but if those articles come to Hacker News so you don't have to go to Reddit, why would you keep using HN?

The best way to know if something is off topic, and indeed the best reason not to post off topic stuff, is if you think the community will spend more time debating whether the article is on or off topic than the article itself.
Paypal does this very easily online.
yeah, but what do you do if, despite cajoling and management emphasis, none of the damn programmers want to use the damn things? they seem to feel the code is self-sufficient.
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I'm not wanting to take any points away, I was just curious how the system worked. I don't like to downmod.
not that many. But at the same time I don't know of any males claiming to be females (on freenode).

You have disrespected them (and potentially males) by claiming that all who claim to be female on IRC are in fact male, and that we should be aware that they are lying. I have no such knowledge that they are... and it simply doesn't matter to me if they are. But I prefer to believe people are honest, and if someone claiming to be a female on IRC is actually a male, it probably won't matter much to me, because I'm not on IRC to date in the first place.

note: the actual male to female ratio is irrelevant.
To be fair, the story does refer to "executives". I don't know how many of those Yahoo has, but it will be a small percentage.
Forms are tabular data -- headers on side, data on the other.

Screen readers should have long adapted to that scenario.
Part of the problem is that these tests aren't for specific diseases, and really can't be made more accurate. Nobody knows what these genetic association studies mean on a clinical level.

For example, if a woman is found to have a SNP marker that is associated with breast cancer, you might conclude that she shouldn't take birth control, since that raises the risk. But what if she also has a marker associated with ovarian cancer? Hormone therapy helps with that. What then? There are dozens of stories like this one, and even doctors are over their heads when it comes to this stuff. There's absolutely no chance that a layperson is going to be able to interpret the data of such a clinically dubious test.

It may not be the best idea to enforce a doctor's order for these things, but there's a legitimate argument to be made, and it goes well beyond a simplistic interpretation of personal liberty. If enough people shell out for these scans, it's going to cause panic, over-medication and over-utilization of the medical system. Again, it's a question of public health.

But don't take my word for it...here's a great editorial with some even better examples of the problems:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004425391_gen...
If it's just a mom and pop type thing then it probably won't make much of a different. The point at which it matters is when you plan on (or at least think it may be a possibility) become a medium to large company with external investors, etc.
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Well, I can't speak for their wishes about the whole MS thing, but your image of them as money-grubbing traitorous "executives" is hilarious. However, I forgive you, since that's what 90% of Valley people with similar job titles would be like.
An great documentary, if you're interested in this kind of thing.
It was more of a rhetorical question than technological.
I don't see your problem: you can still "just type your URL", can't you?
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