skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a counterpoint, here's my anecdote. I'm no Apple fanboy, but I like their hardware enough to buy it for work-related purposes. My trackpad for a recent MBP had lost its "click", obviously this is a rather disturbing thing on a trackpad that is 100% button. It was a few days out from warranty end. I took it to a local store (US), a black shirt takes my name and says it'll be about 15 minutes. My name goes up on the board, I replicate it for the Genius, and he is satisfied with it being a hardware failure. At this point I mentally prepare myself to lose my computer for at least a week, but no! He says not only do they have the replacement part in-store, but they also have a tech certified to do the replacement. Apparently it will take an hour.

I go out into the mall to kill an hour, eat some lunch, and come back. Just like he said, it is all set. I walk out the door with a brand-new feeling MBP--after they service it, they polish it down with some kind of cleaner that leaves everything shiny again. A nice, and appreciated, small touch. I was impressed.
as a ridiculously naive and poor business person, I'd like to say that if webm becomes popular enough that google can serve it and avoid h264 (and paying royalties to MPEG-LA), I'd consider it a step toward my vision of a more open web (royalty-free codec widely available) and a good development for my business (royalty-free codec widely available).

no one is pretending that this will be all rainbows (the post directly acknowledges the current stalemate), so feel free to assume that those of us in favor of this development aren't idiots.
I guess you never tried renaming a file in CVS?
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It's a great idea (from the point of view of virality) but it seems like it would be poisonous to the atmosphere in most teams. Would I want to stay back late to help someone who'd ranked me lower than my coworkers? I'd love to say yes, but probably not.
Summify seems to be doing something like this.
http://summify.com/
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wow thats strange

I occasionally find myself using chrome for browsing because I find it that much more reactive and stable than firefox.

but I couldnt leave firefox for developing, as much as I have tried I just always find the web inspector lacking compared to firebug
This is a game I created with 2 other students for Mozilla's Game On competition. It works best in Chrome or Safari, but is generally playable in Firefox 4. If you sign up for an account, you can make your own levels and share your levels page with anyone!
sounds logical, except what tools is Cisco specifically providing for "oppressive regimes’ censorship and e-terror campaigns"?
Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC
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How Glock Became America's Gun
If you want to be considered a hacker, you have to...hack. That doesn't mean you have to have a github account. It's the new hotness, sure, but you can get by without it.

What do you hack? No one would argue that someone who is a core developer for, say, Emacs isn't a hacker merely because Emacs uses bzr for source control.

Github is a means to an end: simple sharing and collaboration of code. If your hacking doesn't require that, don't get a github account. But if you can't point to what you've done -- this is not necessarily "show me the code"; if you build a website that does something cool, or hack some hardware, that'll count -- you're probably not a hacker.

Worry about your projects, not github.
What do you think Cisco imagines networking equipment sold to oppressive governments is going to be used for?

Edit: Jeeze borism, I mention Cisco because they are the ones with ads playing between Glee episodes. No, I’m sure they aren’t the “only ones.”
Thanks - great link. Certainly much faster than strace!
This is a great introduction on how to navigate inside of a buffer in emacs, but I also have learn a couple of more advance tricks like c-subword-mode, or C-s C-w

I also find useful put my moving keys in the home row.

;;; Arrow keys.
(global-set-key (kbd "s-k") 'next-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-i") 'previous-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-j") 'backward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-l") 'forward-char)

;;; Fast Arrow keys.
(global-set-key (kbd "s-K") 'forward-paragraph)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-I") 'backward-paragraph)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-J") 'backward-word)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-L") 'forward-word)

;;; kill text
(global-set-key (kbd "M-j") 'delete-backward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-J") 'backward-kill-word) ;;; Doesnt work on paraedit.
(global-set-key (kbd "s-w") 'kill-word)

(global-set-key (kbd "s-1") 'shrink-window)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-2") 'enlarge-window)
I'm not certain that's an apples to apples comparison. Entrepreneurship is more about how you do something rather than what you do.

Your second paragraph makes more sense: to use one of your examples one can be a Physics consultant, employee, OR an entrepreneur (while still being a Physicist).
Chrome for browsing. Firefox just when I need plugins like SpeedTest.
They've been saying the same about Vorbis for the last 10 years and yet never sued anyone.

No one uses Vorbis across applications (ie as an interchange format) so it doesn't matter. Its peanuts.

By the way, Vorbis is being used a lot by the billion dollar video games industry.

Yes, but not as an interchange format, which is key. They know that if they ever sued us for using Vorbis we'd go back to any number of proprietary formats that we used before we started using Vorbis. We can do that on-the-fly because we don't use it as an interchange format - there's no legacy, no compatibility issues, nothing. We can just change and then there's no long-term licensing scenario for them. It isn't worth suing. Add to that the razor-thin margins across the games biz and the fact that most studios would just go bankrupt and close up shop if they were sued for this rather than pay-out and...why would they sue us again?

Actually no, MPEG-LA and its users have been sued many times by patent trolls, read up the wikipedia article. H.264 is no safer, the MPEG-LA is just good at spreading FUD.

Yes, probably. I'd like to say that the MPEG-LA with their h.264, having been around longer, is at least a safer, friendlier bunch of crooks. Sadly, not even licensing h.264 from the MPEG-LA will guarantee you'll stay out of court.
> I think the difference lies in if you write 'Enterprise' java, use XML for everything, use patterns, tons of threads etc or if you just write tight, tidy, concise speedy java.

There's a saying, "one of the problems that lawyers have, is that 95% of those in the profession give all the rest a bad name". That's also true for people who view Java.

notch's screencasts show that there is an alternative, and I'll take your word for it that you're in that class as well. But you're part of the 5%; maybe the 1%.
GNU Icecat Beta, so I voted for Other and Firefox.
I'm the opposite - Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development. I havent found anything on Chrome to match the usefulness of Firebug
Chrome for browsing, Firefox for web development.
Hopefully, if I am writing a garbage collector from scratch, it won't be in a context where performance matters. :) I thought the best part of that section was that the garbage collector ran in constant space, which makes sense as a requirement but isn't something I had thought about before.

> Knuth gets accused of being abstruse, but compared to most math books I've read, he's very clear. Moreover, he has a genuine unpretentious fascination with the things about which he's writing, and that enthusiasm comes through in his writing.

I totally agree. I guess the complaints are because where other books just say "see? get it?", TAOCP keeps going, down to measuring the complexity (not the order of complexity, actually counting how many times each instruction gets executed, which I think is why he uses MIX instead of a higher-level language).

. . . Man, now I want to drop Elements of Computing Systems and go back and read volume I again.
Opera on Windows and Webkit on WebOS.
I use uzbl (http://www.uzbl.org/) (tabbed) on my arch linux as primary browser.
Just wanted to point out, in those situation keeping written records of communications like you did can save your ass.
Aperture 2 came out in February 2008, not 2009. Aperture 1 came out in November 2005 and 1.5 (a big update) in September 2006.
Wow, I'm surprised to see Chrome so high!

And maybe even more to see that Safari is catching Firefox.
OmniWeb on Mac, mobile OperaMini, Firefox at work.
I guess I'll just reuse this comment from another thread...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091539
Firefox feels prehistoric in many ways compared to chrome but I won't switch until they copy the awesomebar verbatim. It's perfect.
Seriously. I did not know that the use of a meme is violates site ethics guidelines. I checked the comment guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) I didn't see any guideline referring to the use of memes. If using a meme is such an egregious offense as this comment thread suggests, maybe this violation should be mentioned in the guidelines.

Generally the popularity of a comment is a good enough indicator of how well a comment is received. If I got 100 upvotes on that comment I may get the impression that people like that. Considering I have < 0 on the comment, I can take the hint. I don't need the proper patrol reprimanding me about a non-stipulated rule.
but then any company making networking equipment sold to oppressive regimes should be equally responsible, why did you single out Cisco?

obviously Cisco is the market leader and probably more of their equipment ends up everywhere (I'm not so sure though, for example Alcatel-Lucent equipment might be more welcome by anti-US regimes, than same equipment from US companies. A-L is also known UN sanctions violator).

or do you have any evidence that Cisco is specifically marketing for oppressive regimes?
She countered anecdote with anecdote, I think that's fair. In fact, it could even be a jibe on the part of a clever statistician at the original work.
Out of curiosity, what do you like better about Firebug? I've been using the Chrome web inspector for awhile now and loving it. Maybe there's some feature in Firebug that's useful that I don't know about yet though.
I used Firefox for the same reason, the awesome-bar takes me places so much faster than in Chrome. But Firefox feels so clunky and slow that I had to make the switch to Chrome a few weeks ago. Everything is snappier, no lag.
The paper "Continuous-Time Model of Structural Balance" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/27/1013213108.full...
Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development, IE (mainly 6 and 7) to see how many things I need to redo after my Firefox development is finished.
Android device support really depends on your carrier. Some carriers are MUCH better than others at releasing updates.

If you're willing to go the unsupported route, most popular phones seem to have unofficial ROMs available. You can definitely get Froyo on your G1, and you might even be able to have Gingerbread.

I think that the trick with Android is to get a phone that seems like it will be pretty popular. Don't get a cool but oddball device (I have a Droid Pro, which fits into that category, and a Droid2, which seems to be pretty well supported by the ROM community).
If pg did post analytics like these, I wouldn't have made this poll. But the thing is that he did not for whatever reason, and I felt that a lot of users (including me) would like to see the data ourselves. Unless pg decides to post it, I see this as the only way for HN users to find out.
I agree that the Chrome inspector is missing some things that Firebug has (primarily, it is unable to render the HTML returned in XHR requests - this is a big deal for me, since I use Django which returns debug pages in HTML, and I do a ton of XHR in my applications) but I use it when I can simply because it hangs less, crashes less and is faster overall for me. You should know though that there's a Firebug Lite bookmarklet available for Chrome - that's what I use when I need to examine XHR responses. There's probably a plugin for it too.

Also how recently have you tried the Chrome inspector? It's been getting a lot of attention lately from the dev team.
That is very obviously what the photos appear to be. The discussion here is about whether, as the article claims, there is something else evident/hidden in these photographs.
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Exactly. Removing support for h.264 + the VIDEO tag from Chrome will accomplish nothing more than what Firefox accomplished a year ago when they said that they wouldn't support h.264 in the first place. A year later and no one is serving Theora over the VIDEO tag - instead there are just a lot of Firefox users viewing h.264 in FLV containers in Flash. Chrome's stand against h.264 will convince precisely 0 (ZERO) video websites to double their CPU budget by double-encoding to h.264 AND VP8.

It's what Google does with Youtube that could really change something. If they stop serving h.264 from Youtube, then we'll all be switching to WebM/VP8.
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> I say "so far as anyone knows" because that's what Google is saying by not indemnifying WebM adopters. If you're worried about a theoretical MPEG-LA licensing gotcha, then you have to be equally worried that, if/when WebM adoption is significant, patent trolls won't show up with claims of infringement.

Does MPEG-LA indemnify its customers against patents by others (such as Google)?

Google and MPEG-LA both have a bunch of patents that apply to somewhat similar codecs. The only difference is that everyone knows Google's not going to be a jerk about it. Who knows, other patent trolls might turn up that attack MPEG-LA customers.

> By not indemnifying adopters, Google is essentially picking an open source fight in a crowded bar and then ducking out the side door.

Google's not "ducking out" of anywhere: it will be probably the biggest WebM publisher out there because of YouTube. Of any WebM publisher, they'll have the biggest target on their back. And by pushing WebM so hard, clearly Google thinks this is a battle they can win.
For a browser that dominates the market share, Internet Explorer has a very small presence among HN users. This just goes to show that most of those IE users are simply folks with less of a technical background.
I usually start with some rough pencil drawings and a lot of thinking about the flow of the site, then hack out a prototype. Then I sit in front of it and stare, tweaking a thing at a time, until I'm happy with the result. Then I leave it there for a few hours or a day and stare some more. Whenever I have an idea that would substantially change the look, I usually sketch it again before implementing it.

The pencil and paper thing in my case works as a way to organize my thoughts and define what I'm actually going to do, rather than a formal design process. Usually I have an A4 sheet (or rather several) scribbled with ideas and sketches regarding a single project.
The Beatles Have Already Sold More Than 5 Million Songs on iTunes
This smells fishy. The Digital Economy Act isn't harsh enough, so something even more draconian must be done! Think of the children!

Given that the Digital Economy Act passed in that weird way that didn't get any discussion, and that a variety of other governments have gotten "help" (http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/three-st...) from the USTR about 3-Strikes laws and etc, why do we belive this is actually "software companies", and not the RIAA and MPAA lobbying via US State Department?
>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode everything to WebM.

Here's a question: If it's no biggie to re-encode everything as WebM, can't we wait to see if this threat of unreasonable H.264 licensing terms becomes reality and switch to WebM then?
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Let's rephrase this:

"Except for the fact that as a web site, all of my existing HTML already works in IE6. All of my HTML tools support IE6. Every other device I need to view web content content too including Windows mobile devices, Windows tablets, and Microsoft Web TVs support IE6."

These same arguments have been used before, imagine if they were successful at deterring open, royalty-free innovation --- where would we be now?
Now these would be cool...

http://community.sprint.com/baw/servlet/JiveServlet/showImag...

http://community.sprint.com/baw/servlet/JiveServlet/showImag...
A couple of days later, I found this: How much HTML5 is there in Apple's HTML5 demos? http://blog.marcoos.com/2010/06/09/is-html5-by-apple-really-...
Furthermore, git stores the entire project history locally and compressed in such a way that a live git project (checkout+entire history) often takes LESS space than an equivalent live subversion project (checkout * 2, which subversion does for allowing you to diff without having to go to the server).

Obviously, if you add a 1GB random file then delete it, the git entire history will have 1GB more data than an SVN checkout. but usually, it's smaller.

I've switched to using gitsvn exclusively for svn projects I'm involved with since I noticed that -- I save space and have complete project history locally. What more could you ask for?

(p.s: git svn is a better svn client than svn. really)
Potentially an interesting topic, but it seems more of an advertisement than anything else.
I have thought a lot about this whole email-based service thing and its viability as a business. I'm not sure its something I'd want to go into.

I made something that is uses email for 95% of my interactions with it. It allows me to remove some friction between email and other activities by setting up forwarding addresses that can be configured to do one of three things:

1) Forward a receipt to a unique address that will convert the receipt to a pdf and forward the pdf as an attachment on to our bookkeeper.

2) Forward any email to a unique address and my tool will post the email + attachments to a Campfire room that is associated with the unique address.

3) Forward any email + attachments to a unique address and the email will be converted to PDF, then posted with the attachments to a folder in my Dropbox account that I associated with the address.

It is incredibly useful. It saves me and my people minutes of time every day and I've considered releasing it to the masses.

Here's the rub...I'm not interested in just giving it away since its a set it and "it just works" solution, so advertising is unlikely to cover hosting, let alone support or ongoing development. People may pay for it, but there are too many examples of mostly email-based services going belly up.

I believe these email-type services are just hard to monetize, even if they are useful and in demand. It is hard to keep something going when each new user means more money down the tube.
the point is not whether advertising is effective, what i see here is laying bare the subtext juxtaposed and letting the reader draw their own conclusion.

the picture isn't pretty, unless, that is, Commerce is your middle name.
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Turns out you can't use an exclamation mark in a headline
No problem, I guess I am concerned about names like AW becoming not just acquired but absorbed in such a way that makes me wonder about the future. When I'm interested in a book, one of the things I look at is the publisher - if it is one of the names I respect, then they probably took the time to make sure the book isn't a waste of time.

No doubt staff is drastically reduced in these acquisitions. How does a high-quality name avoid falling apart? Do they start shoveling crap to compete?

The available titles in computing have certainly vastly increased since I started out (for that I am thankful), but for many publishers the quality of editing is very poor.
There were three options.

One was to build in explicit support for h.264 in Firefox and for Mozilla to pay the MPEG-LA ~$5million/year in licensing fees.

Another was to punt to the operating system and let gstreamer/directmedia/quicktime do the decode. Even though it would have been without cost to them, Mozilla chose not to do this as part of their moral stand against h.264. This was why they were so sharply criticized.

The third option was to let the Firefox Flash plugin do the decoding, which is what we have today.
The other thing that bothers me is that people are screaming blue murder as if they had no alternative choice of browser. If you don't like Chrome's decision (or Firefox's, or Opera's), use another browser. You can still choose to use Safari or IE.
This is great. I hope that 2-3 years from now we see large numbers of "designers in residence" at VCs and incubators.

See also Jason Putorti's gig (now over) at Bessemer:

http://www.bvp.com/team/Jason-Putorti.aspx
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Guy Steele had some really great presentations (this one included) over the last years: http://bit.ly/hy5n0S
Does the Mac App Store allow commercial use?
There's also http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings, http://docs.python.org/library/string.html and http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-.... There's a fair bit of duplication in there, yes, but I think it's a pretty good coverage overall.

There are some absolute doozies in the Ruby documentation, particularly around IO and the Socket hierarchy. String is relatively ok.
- hundreds of times simpler (literally, if you count source code lines)
- much easier to use in the sense that if you know the compile command you need to use (or the shell command or whatever), you already know how to use redo.
- strictly a build system (CMake and SCons also do autoconf stuff)
it would be cool, if there was a tree ring like structure detailing the year or generation of the logo or year or something
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Wow, congrats Garry and have fun!
Posterous Cofounder Garry Tan Steps Down, Heads To YC
Have you seen Dalton Caldwell's talk from Startup School 2010?

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pshTi9dk7Bw

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TphryAOyY40

In short: we all think creating a music startup is a fantastic idea, but it really isn't. :)
For what it's worth, it's nigh impossible to see who voted on you. And even if you're losing duels-- it's not necessarily a reflection on you, but rather a reflection on you vs. a particular coworker. In other words, there'd be no shame in losing a duel to someone awesome, right?

However, if you find that you're losing duels against people who you think poorly of consistently, or losing ALL of your duels, that might create ugly feelings I guess!
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I think you can be sure that Google tripple-checked everything before exposing themselves to lawsuits and spending on On2 more than lifetime royalties to MPEG-LA (at current rate).

And there's impressive list of companies that took the risk too: http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/

Another thing is that VP8 is very similar to H.264 without stepping on known H.264 patents. If any unexpected patent surfaces, both Google and MPEG-LA licensees will be screwed (but not MPEG-LA, as they're not giving protection nor guaranteeing that their license covers all required patents).
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