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Gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.

Its nice that you have side projects that are growing and doing well, but realistically, you have to look at the hard reality that they'll probably fade in time. You gotta stick with your main bread winner, and that looks like Forrst.
The IPV4 depletion site, now IPV6 enabled? Did they seriously set up a website warning about the impending doom of IPV4 address allocations initially on IPV4 only?

If that doesn't paint a picture of the sorry state of the IPV6 transition, I don't know what does.
Sanitize both input and output. Make sure everything outputted is encoded. < to &gt; > to &lt;, " to &quote;, etc. As long as all they can write is normal characters then you're safe [1].

[1] Or rather, safer. There are always obscure ways to get around almost everything. So you really have to take care to exactly the situation you're in at the moment.
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I've seen you regularly bring up these stats, but you never mention that while only 20% are working full time or seeking full time work, 35% are children, which make a disproportionate amount of the poor.

That leave 45% for whom it is a matter of leisure, as you say. However, that study doesn't provide information about how much of that 45% is disabled, and how many are elderly, two more groups disproportionately predisposed towards poverty.

If you're being downvoted, it's because you keep bringing up a very straight-forward study and drawing a very extreme social conclusion from it.
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That's kind of neat. There were a bunch of web-based clones of "M-x regexp-builder" out there for a while. This is the first one that actually looks like it does something more interesting.
It's a webpage running full-screen on Chrome in Ubuntu. You can actually see it here: http://marcuscavanaugh.com/dashboard/

I tried using Geckoboard, but it wasn't customizable enough for what I was trying to accomplish.
Evolve III Maestro - The Triple Booting Tablet(Android,Meego & Windows 70
Since last few months we have seen manufacturers producing dual booting tablets (with two operating systems) but Evolve III thinks of creating a space of itself , yesterday only we heard from Netbooknews that Evolve III an Australia company has announced its brand new tablet which is named as Evolve III Maestro, the most interesting fact...
I apologize if my question came off as presumptuous and/or snarky. My question was genuine. I assumed from the up-votes that my question's underlying basis was indeed correct.

Clearly, taking a photograph of an art work does not automatically create a copyright free version of the art. Nor does scanning a book.

Just to clarify: A photograph wherein a copyrighted image appears but is not the focus of the image might likely classify as fair use, I assume?

Modders, please upvote parent and downmod my previous comment.
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The worst ones do half of each -- they tell you that you entered a Visa and didn't press the Visa button and ask you to go back and press the Visa button. Thanks.
I've been doing a lot of scraping in node. I've had much better luck using YUI + jsdom than jquery +jsdom. Many pages would fail using jquery and it also leaked memory like crazy.
Perl puts that ugliness to shame.
New evolving robots crawl before learning to walk
Awards for startups seem silly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg#t=4m27s
You're right, real velociraptors were pretty small. I was talking about the puffed-up version that appears in the movies, which more closely resembles the deinonychus (160lb). A pack of those monsters would weigh more than a pack of wolves or coyotes.
It isn't. Horses champ at their bits when they're anxious to go. Post-rationalizing "chomping at the bit" is simply incorrect.
The point is the type of security scenario being talked about here is wildly different than the one made simpler to exploit by Firesheep. This was not security through obscurity. If your servers are configured correctly, unguessible filenames are just fine from a security perspective, at least as secure as passwords.
To me it looks like an attempt at viral marketing. Their market? Android fans. How do you get Android fans to look at your page? By putting up a controversial page making fun of apple users.

I suspect that the kind of person who owns and iPad AND is offended by this is probably a market they are willing to write off in trade for huge publicity in Android circles - they might just be right.
What exactly does clicking on the star do? Is there any way to get it to show how the merged word would be spelled?
Can I configure my laptop to only speak IPv6 so I can see what happens / how broken things are (or aren't)?
I suspect you are fulfilling exactly what they want out of the page - insulted iOS users foaming at the mouth, expressing their anger and propelling their new site into the headlines with accompanying controversy lasting several days. This will lead to yet more discussion about Flash and the iPad not supporting it which will trickle down to even non-tech users who will slowly absorb the controversy as a simple equation of "the iPad can't do something the Toshiba tablet can".

I think it's a brilliant move.
:) glad you found my post helpful, where I mention it

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129839
Headache-relieving maybe, but also eyesore-inducing.

Some simple, good advice for choosing color combinations is that in terms of HSB, never vary more than two aspects of a color. That is, you can vary hue and saturation, but then don't vary brightness. Or, vary hue and brightness, but leave saturation constant. Or vary saturation and brightness for the same hue. This is simplifying matters a lot but it's a fairly good starting point.

There's also this awesome site: http://colorschemedesigner.com/
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We just got a new block out of ARIN. The first thing we got in response to our net-isp was this:

"Your template indicates a projected need for additional IPv4 addresses in 12 months. The IANA IPv4 free pool is projected to be depleted sometime by January 2011. As a result, ARIN cannot assure you that additional IPv4 addresses will be available at that time. This will not affect your current IPv4 request, but applications and services that require ongoing availability of IP addresses should be migrated to IPv6."
It would be much difficult to write many more complex scrapers just using regexes, which is why methods like the one posted above scale well with complexity.

For example, if you wanted to scrape comments on HN and get a tree-like data structure, regexes would be much more difficult to write and maintain!
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From another perspective, I run NoScript and couldn't see the site either. Between the petty Apple redirect crap I saw here and it being Flash only, I'm never going to see their advertisement. Had they chosen a regular web page, some of their fancy effects may have broke at first, but they could have at least had the chance to show something catchy that would have persuaded me to whitelist them.

As it stands, I'm not even curious what they're trying to do differently than Apple. I'll wait for the next news item telling me how it only sold <10,000 units and how quickly it was scrapped.
Sure, but the simple answer is that nothing will work (unless you've painstakingly set up public v6 already, in which case 0.1% of the internet will work)
Another approach to micropayments: Go on, flattr yourself.
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* Read the summary of changes in Python 3: http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html

* See Guido Rossum's Transitional Development notes here: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549

* Read Mark Pilgrim's excellent chapter from Dive into Python 3: http://diveintopython3.org/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to...

* Use Python 2.7 and turn on deprecation warnings.

EDIT: Found this great guide to forward compatibility:

* http://www.slideshare.net/regebro/python-3-compatibility-pyc...
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It hasn't even launched yet. I'm sure the publicity will die down before they ship a single unit.
Wow, I had the exact same thought: "Hu smiles -- 'yes, and...?'"
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I notice that, once you get through the video, it shows a bunch of bars that you can hover over to see previews. I wonder how their tablet is going to handle that, since the concept of hovering doesn't exist without a mouse.

That bit of snark aside, this looks like a really impressive device. The cameras are a great addition, and if they put together some demos of video chatting, it could help them explain how they're better than an iPad in a way that really resonates with people, more than Flash and ports.
I use Reader daily.

Kind of surprised that people rely on the menu to find it and not the 1990s technology of…a bookmark.
True. However, if you take a moment to look at the actual framework code it's pretty self explanatory. Nowadays my first port of call is the framework source before I Google or search anywhere else.
I guess I'm having a hard time taking this thing that seriously compared to the Xoom. I mean, if Toshiba told me they were releasing full source at launch and include flashing utilities, I'd be ecstatic and would buy in a second. Like I said, I like Android and tinkering. I recognize that I'm a minority and I suspect Toshiba wants to move these puppies.

-1? Really? The hardware looks inferior to the Motorola Xoom. The Toshiba has that awkward chrome and has hardware buttons when Honeycomb is eliminating them or making them redundant. I guess others are just uh super into Toshiba?
Commercial x509 certificates are as cheap as $9.95 and there's several free services. But they are a pain to try to explain to a typical end user on how to configure and install in their browser.
I do a lot of scraping using perl. Web Scraper is an awesome tool: http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Web-Scraper-0.32/lib/Web/Sc...
evilduck has a good point. Apple announces and launches within an intimate timelime. When will we really see the Xoom? How many people know about the Xoom now? How many will remember it when they launch in April. After the iPad 2 has likely been announced, possibly even shipped?

I'm excited about the potential for Android here in tablet form... I suspect the race will be nearly identical to Apple's on the mobile front... Apple has been a full cycle ahead. They're pushing the technology, they're advancing innovations in Tablet UI (though I think Honeycomb represents a better tablet-progressive than iOS does)... they were ahead on phones, they're ahead on tablets. That impression alone sells people.
The ad talks up Android and the HDMI, USB, and mini-USB connectors as features, so it is clearly aimed at techies, and since this is the first and only place I've seen it, I think they're hitting their target market. The folks who see it will be aware of the Apple/Flash drama and the Apple/Android rivalry, and in that context it's just a piece of in-your-face humor. Why would anyone feel insulted? If they feel so sensitive about their Apple devices, then they are unlikely to buy anything except an iPad anyway.
Awards in general are silly.
Well deserved. If it weren't for PG and YC, I wouldn't know half of what I've learned as a result of stumbling onto Hacker News.
The reason for "nnCoection" headers is explained in the replies to this bug report: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=81954
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Toshiba is a major company, and this is a major product launch. I don't think unveiling a single video on their web site is their full advertising plan.
I'm a little confused. It seems like he didn't need to call the sort function in order to call the alert function. Is this correct? He could have built the alert call in the same manner and just call it by itself. I assume the sort function was thrown in there for a larger example?
Should I apply to YC if my site is similar to a previous YC site?
I'm currently working on a neat project. My co-founder and I have started the YC application for this semester. We got to the question about our competitors and mentioned one that we're aware of - it's a recent YC service (MessageParty).

Yes, we're in the exact same market and yes the concepts are very similar. We obviously feel like ours is great and are passionate about it. We like the concept of MessageParty, too, but it's not how we would have done it. It's not how we're doing ours.

Should we still apply to YCombinator? We lost of good amount of steam at this question, and decided to save the application and come back to it tomorrow. We were getting into the "what ifs" and stuff. We concluded with the agreement that we're going to go through with the application and just see how it goes. It's an experience either way - one that I've wanted to do for the past two years.
tl;dr Pundit says Google tablets will outnumber iPads in 2015, Gruber implies that they might not.

This is not news.
I've ran a hackintosh since 10.4 and I've never seen Apple do anything to actively prevent users from doing it or pursue anyone for a non-commercial EULA violation. They stop resellers like Psystar, and they've broken a few things which appeared to be ancillary to moving their own products forward (Atom CPUs), but they could be far more annoying about it every point release if they really felt like it. Early on, they also needlessly released a few fat binary hardware drivers for ethernet, sound, and wifi devices that have never been bundled in a real Intel Mac.

Apple certainly has the means to stop it, but I don't think they mind the fringe hackers running OSX. I've seen a few people converted by it, and I own a few real Macs plus the hackintosh as well, and I suspect most people who hackintosh are Apple customers of some degree. Getting stuffy about it could be pretty damaging to their perceived good will.
I hope everyone knew I was kidding. I'm a bit paranoid sometimes!
I was referring to the "controversy buzz". Unless they keep reiterating it, I don't see it helping enough to be a huge sales strategy.
Subscribed. I'd be curious to find out what you conclude about the experience. Thanks.
"Oh and the name "libreoffice" is REALLY, REALLY not working out in Asia. Even for english speaking ones."

Huh, why in the world not? Is is a problem of limited vocabulary? Your double emphasis on 'really' makes it seem like they know what it means, but are actually opposed to the concept, is that it? This is just kind of a pretty weird comment without some supporting explanation.
I'd schedule 2-3 of the others just in case your all-star doesn't pan out. Or these candidates could confirm that they are an all-star.
Which is exactly the way the Google/Microsoft matchup was always cast. Until Google realized that potential.
How many of them can understand this?
LOL. Thank your very much ;)

We just changed our front page yesterday. Thanks for catching that.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129233
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130073
While this may not be news, HN welcomes submissions of other types as well. Most of us would agree that interpretations or analyses are acceptable. Even if those analyses are only a few words, they are analyses nevertheless.
>"Being awesome is better than merely being good"

Why yes, yes it is.

Like yourself, I like to mention how great BMWs are when a couple people are discussing deals on used cars.
I'm not qualified to comment on the fuzzier elements of psychology here, but rich parents do matter in some pretty practical ways.

Most dramatically:

Rich parents know interesting people. In many cases, wealth is a function of trust combined with ability. You don't (usually) get wealthy by hiding in your basement and never talking to anyone. So along the way, you meet good people and build relationships.

Conversely, the less wealthy a parent is, the less likely they are to form relationships with people who can benefit their children. At the extreme end: if your mom is a fry cook at McDonald's, what benefits are her colleagues able to offer you? How many of those connections can benefit your future?

On the other end, if your mom is Marissa Mayer, you're in much better shape. 14 and want a summer job? I bet she knows someone who could give you some interesting, mind-expanding paid work. 19 and looking for a college gig that can help you get a great job after your graduate? etc.

It's anecdotal, but growing up in a household that wasn't at all wealthy, I can point to this as the greatest disadvantage I faced. I wanted to learn programming, but we didn't know anyone who knew anything about that. I wanted to know anything at all about computers, and I was on my own. Not an insurmountable problem – I taught myself. But I know access to mentorship at an early age could have made a huge impact.
Much as I despise Google's Minority Report style vision for the future where personalised advertising is plastered all over everything, and their evil actions regarding privacy...

... and much as I am allegedly a huge Apple fan ...

I still think it is unfair for people to compare the effectiveness of Eric by comparing Google's performance to Apple's performance.

Google is operating in a mostly saturated market (online search and advertising) in which they have a Microsoft style almost total monopoly. You just don't get spectacular growth numbers in those scenarios. Doesn't mean you can't squeeze the monopoly position to make great profits of course, but those profits aren't going to increase exponentially year after year without cease.

Apple on the other hand has been recently expanding into new markets (okay, some older ones too, and some borrowed and some blue) at an enormous rate. People laughed at them when they said they would enter the phone market. People laughed at them when they said they would enter the tablet market.

In fairly short order, they've totally disrupted and defined those two markets. Now personally I believe that their dominance in those markets will be short lived, but I think they will continue to lead the direction of those industries long after their market share has dropped below 10%.

Google's done what? They have a really nice e-mail service... but apart from that and the search/advertising thing what do they do? Oh, they bought youtube and slapped ads all over it... yeah... great work guys, but not exactly what I'd call innovative. Oh, they have a browser and a smartphone... but again not especially innovative.

I dunno, I just expected more from the 20% time of a bunch of PhDs sitting around?
You said: 'But "emptying your mind" without filling it with the right things can have terrible consequences.'

Can you elaborate?
From the FAQ (http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html)

Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it has not turned out to be a problem, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would do precisely the same thing.
Offering a well intentioned "good kick in the ass" on HN is fraught with
quite a few risks but I believe it is the most helpful thing I can give
to you.

Try to take a step back and look at your situation differently -- If you
boil it down, you are essentially complaining about gaining traction.

Countless entrepreneurs would love to have your problem. Even in your
'fun' projects you have shown a real knack for delivering something
desirable and useful enough to gain traction.

The traction results in an increased support workload. On the
technical side, the traction results in an increased server workload.
Since you are not profiting from the traction, you are unable to scale.

You get the same amount of time in each day as everyone else, so if you
don't plan to scale, the time you have will become impacted with things
you would rather avoid.

Selling off your side projects is an answer but it is not the optimal
answer. A better answer is two fold; (1) find a way to profit from the
traction, and (2) use those funds to hire someone to take care of some
of the added workload.

Every successful entrepreneur learns to manage the constant cycle of
acquiring new responsibilities and then delegating those new
responsibilities to others. Since you can only fit so much food on your
plate, the answer is to keep adding people holding empty plates.
why he needed $=[$=[]] and not just $=[[]]
That doesn't say anything about making a bootable partition. Just that it involves the MBR (rather than EFI, which Mac uses by default), somewhere.
I think two things:

1. The space.invaders team seemed to be good at what they were doing.

2. The "pretty good" people you refer to that also put in the required time to deliver a top bot is perhaps the top 50 (IMHO).
easy. show it to him and ask "in 1 to 5, how does that code look like the code you ship to production currently".

any answer other than "Zero" or "wtf-look", do not hire.
Hmm why would this be?
I found the music very jarring and unsettling. I didn't care for the little spinning wheels/arrows everywhere, I have a really fast connection, I wonder if they could have loaded their flash faster somehow?

I wanted to look for the resolution and it told me 720p, which I then had to go look up what that meant (I mean, I know it's a tv display format, but if someone had said WXGA I'd have needed a translation to pixels for that too).

It didn't make me want to recommend one to someone else or buy one for myself. I don't recall a price. There are a lot of ways this could be improved.

But hey, I thought the Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads were interesting, so what the heck do I know, eh?
Has anybody written any software to allow an iPod/iPhone as a general purpose input device for a mac? (I'm aware of things like using them as controls for specific games e.g. Chopper 2)

Would this be useful or practical?
I don't see Android tablets taking off as quickly as Android SmartPhones did. There are more credible competitors on the horizon. Most of the companies that totally missed the boat on competing with the iPhone are in a much better position today. HP/Palm & RIM of course but also Microsoft who I think has an opportunity to make inroads in the tablet-as-productivity-tool market someday. Any of these companies could stand to capitalize on Google's cat-herding problem or Apple's authoritarian pitfalls. Android/iOS will probably still be the big targets but I don't see the others being such distant competitors this time around.
Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, right, not risk-averse?
As a data point, I remember reading something about there being a link between starting work in a slaughterhouse and increased incidences of domestic violence. I guess it sorta makes sense. If you spend all day killing animals for 8+ hours, it's likely to spill over into your home life.