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It'd be nice if it included info about best release type available, right where is the [HD] icon.
I agree. This place has always been mostly good with a sprinkle of fluff pieces every now and then. The one thing that has changed a bit is the comments. Sadly the comments are being muddled a bit by the new kids on the block. Not that the new kids are doing anything intentionally bad, nor are they really bad comments, but I do remember a time where the people replying to comments were actual domain experts in a certain field or they wrote the application that you use every day, etc.... It's a problem with getting a larger user base. I do think that this site has aged about as gracefully as possible though.
You can always lie and send the code saying it's a swiped transaction without swiping a card. The risk there is losing the ability to ever accept credit cards for the rest of your life. If you violate a policy like that, you're added to the Terminated Merchant File. Not only is the business's information placed in the file, but the names and social security numbers of every principal of the business. MAPs will check the list before approving a new account. None of the business's owners will be able to accept credit cards again, even if they form new companies.
We're plugging away as I type so no page right now apologies. Will follow-up via email.
What's the accountability like? If in delicious case if it is to be shut down, do the execs/managers responsible for it get some kind of penalty or is it business as usual where the blame can be passed to any number of other things for poor performance?
Do you have a link? I have a shelf of O'Reilly books that I'd love to get in PDF form, but I'm having trouble finding that offer on the website.
I think live sports are the only thing that could be actually run on broadcast networks. Since TV series, news, and movies are most easily consumed on demand (i.e. I watch what I want when I want), but live sports are pretty much one off events that occur at a fixed time. Hence making it harder to timeshift.

Now that Google/YouTube is getting into the broadcast business, specifically broadcasting live sport, I have to say that traditional broadcasters are going to be facing an even faster slide into the abyss.
Why? Honest question, I have no idea. I haven't heard of hushmail in over 10 years, but I just encountered a guy I'll be working with that uses one, I honestly thought they shut down.
Contrary to popular belief, sometimes a delay in releasing updates really is a feature.

The article is hilarious on this point. "This just in! OS update kills phones, curdles milk, terrifies children! Also, users might be angry that they're not getting it right away!"

By the way, I shouldn't need to say this, but the plural of a terrifying anecdote is not data. Every upgrade ever pushed breaks something for someone, and the noise from one failure sounds louder than ten thousand successes. We'll see if this dire emergency still looks as bad three days from now when more reports are in.
Honestly I'd love to pay for a Hackernews account if it meant weeding out some rather distasteful people. Not saying that is the be all/end all solution to the problem though.
They do. And NBA TV Canada.

Not to mention they also have League Pass and League Pass Broadband which streams every game.
If you're into this sort of thing, there's also Clamato by Avi Bryant: http://clamato.net/
How about if high karma users were allowed?
It's not what happened when Apple acquired NeXT ...
He guesses VMWare stores credit cards based on them using the last 4 digits to help identify orders. Actually, it is probably Digital River, not VMWare. VMWare uses Digital River to handle actually process orders. (That's why the site he went to for order lookup was findmyorder.com, not vmware.com. Findmyorder.com is a Digital River site).

You can't really infer credit card storage from them keeping the last 4. Merchants need to keep the first 6 and last 4 in order to process chargebacks and refunds. When a customer charges back all the bank tells the merchant is first 6, last 4, and amount of charge back (oh, and the date of the charge back). Furthermore, the amount does not always match an amount the merchant charged. So, the merchant needs to be able to look up orders by first 6/last 4, approximate amount, and date-that-it-must-have-been-before.

PCI allows first 6 and last 4 to be stored unencrypted and kept as part of general customer information. The strict security requirements (encryption, kept off of networks not involved with actually using the card, and so on) only apply to the rest of the digits.
It would also be nice to have environments that were completely gender neutral. Not just for the gender binary.
kickasstorrents.com does the IMDB link which is cool but there's also a greasemonkey script that does it the other way and adds the torrent download links on IMDB (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38484) which is even cooler
Get a programming job at a company that isn't in the software/services business. I've been the sole developer at a few small e-commerce companies and my co-workers were a mix of men and women.

Much larger companies also have other departments (sales, etc), which probably have women.
Why can't HN force categories on every posts? Have the community create and curate the categories, and select their own categories on HN to read. Just a blanket vote up/down button hardly measures how valuable anything is for any particular group if that group is not constant.
That's always a serious concern. It's not surprising that many bloggers either heavily moderate or don't even allow comments on blog posts. It's a difficult issue to solve for sure. Better comments means you need better people offering thoughtful and insightful comments.
In the scope of your story, I have two words that come to mind:

Market. Validation.

Building something revolutionary and brand new is a long, painful path of combatting misunderstanding and selling people on something they don't even know they need yet.

Regardless of who else they see in the market, now you've got something you didn't have before: a known market, and the validation that someone else saw value in that market as well. Let them do the hard work of teaching people why this solution is needed - and then come in with your distinct vision and value to show the people that are now looking that you're an option they should consider.

A quick anecdote from a recent experience I had with the company I recently started working with - we produce http://www.postmarkapp.com.

I've been friends with the founders for a long time and know their vision and capabilities for building a great company very well. But unlike our other product http://www.beanstalkapp.com - Postmark laid in a relatively new marketplace. The challenge wasn't getting people to use our product, it was getting them to realize why they needed our product in the first place. That's a high barrier to climb, and the team was already doing a remarkable job before I joined.

3 weeks into my first month, another little company - you might have heard of them, they're called "Amazon.com" - introduced a "competing" service to Postmark. Now THATs about a monday morning.

Much of the internet, including some folks on HN, predicted our demise. But the more we taked about it, the more excited we got. Amazon just entered the market we were looking to serve. We know that our style of serving our customers fundamentally differs from AWS, so we'd compete on that edge. Markets are big, and diverse. You don't need the entire market to be successful.

And Amazon had just opened the door for many of our potential customers that don't fit their market to discover us instead, without us having to do anything new.

Conversations with customers in the last month have confirmed this. The very things that had us wondering "what does this mean" on day one of the SES launch have helped us hone our focus on how we serve our market.

Great ideas don't make great businesses - great markets make great businesses. Amazon saw what we'd already seen, and validated it.

There's 4 ways to enter a market and win.

1) First
2) Best
3) Cheapest
4) Luckiest

If you can't be one, you've always got the other 3 to try out.
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Personally: games, foobar2000, sharper font rendering, and better hardware support -- Mini's and iMacs are too weak, the latter has a silly integrated monitor I don't want, and Mac Pro's are too over the top. OS X can't even use my keyboards properly without third party keymaps :/

Of course I don't do much real work in Windows - that's reserved for FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian on various real and virtual systems.
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The people who will ultimately make such a service successful haven't heard of either of you yet.

It's not a winner-take-all market — in fact cozy separate spaces could be preferred.

So: full speed ahead. Perhaps keep an eye on each other for novel discoveries of user-pleasing features, perhaps shade your marketing towards users/regions the others haven't yet emphasized (so there remains the chance you find an adoption-gusher first).
That's actually pretty neat.

Though it might be just me, being spoiled by ActiveRecord, but wouldn't it be awesome to just instantiate an object that automatically reads the exported functions in a library and makes them available to Ruby? Like what ActiveRecord does with database tables.

I guess if no one else thinks of it I could do it sometime.
In Australia some businesses can get tax deductions of 140% for R&D time. While subcontracting to a software firm I used to fill them in for this exact reason.
Features Win7 has that OSX doesn't:

- Easily installed on any machine you want.

- Hardware generally has two or more mouse buttons.

- Will run more games and software than OSX.

- Does not come with an app store.
Update: The Omnibox API doesn't allow a single extension to register multiple keywords, so I'm moving ahead by registering "$" and then parsing the input for the shell command.
How'd that work out? (I know in the end Divvyshot got acquired by Facebook. Before that though.)
If they're going to link directly to torrents anyway (and thus discard any shred of legal deniability), could they link more directly to the torrents? If there was a button on/around the movie poster itself that linked directly to whatever they/users considered the "best" version of the torrent, that'd be helpful. Half of my problem with torrent aggregators like ISOHunt is deciding which version is actually going to be closest to my preferences (720p English MP4 with soft-subs/captions.)
Tivo will eventually fall to the scrap heap as well. Why Tivo something when I can just click a link to the archive?
If you are not in need of customer support the answer to this problem is to use Virutalbox

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Its just about as fast, has all the same features (including 3d support) and best of all its free and opensource
I'm sorry, but how is this news worthy?

As far as I can tell, some guy bought a copy of VMWare Fusion with a moderately poor customer experience, can't activate it within the first half hour, writes a blog post to complain and gets his buddies at Fog Creek to upvote.

Why on earth did you think other people would be interested in this?
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If sites want to claim some sort of community and continuity, they're going to have to place newbies into virtual reeducation camps. Want to see the newest links? You have to read through 10 comments from an '07 post first. Posted a link to an internet meme? Back to the virtual reeducation camp with you.
Because the archive isn't guaranteed to be there for ever and always? Look at Hulu; they only show you like what, 2 weeks of back episodes?
Update: I've started coding; anyone who wants to watch can continually reload https://github.com/cfinke/ChroSh. :-)
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I have no idea when the YC founders actually sold their Yahoo stock, but when Viaweb was bought, in an all stock deal, at the beginning of June 1998, YHOO was trading at $7/share. Two years later, around the time they left, it was at $70/share. I presume that both since the stock was skyrocketing and that because they had a vesting schedule that they still had a chunk of it when it hit that price.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive#chart1:s...
I briefly tried this and pyjamas last year and I just don't see the point at all. I guess this is aimed at the type of person who isn't experienced in client-side web technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript). The fact that somebody could code a web application without much knowledge of the front-end web stack really scares me, I don't care how good the abstraction is.
I think the point is users are going to discriminate themselves and choose as from their own preferences. Some people (like myself) hate seeing humongous torrents if movies that don't fit the usual scene requirements. Others only use certain public trackers and not others, etc.
Same here. Although I do find myself going to bars a lot more now.
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How many datapoints are you using? One things that I've done (though in the end, we didn't need it realistically) was use a resolution function to tune the datapoints to fit the canvas width.

If your canvas is only, say, 400 pixels wide, then any time series datapoints more then 400 will get lost -- there's simply not enough pixels to display them accurately. As such, you can use a resolution function to reduce that down to 400.
I would say that Buffy isn't so much evidence that two opposed motifs can exist at the same time in a show, so much as that they can exist in close quarters, alternating in a schizophrenic-but-enjoyable fashion. I don't recall many moments where I was thinking of any of the characters as both teenagers and gothic-fantasy-world occupants (even in, say, The Body, you're just watching a well-plotted drama about a teenager; the vampires, though serving as setting elements, could be traded for mobsters or hospital patients or needy pets in that episode without affecting the theme.)
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This reminds me of some quoted wisdom I heard back in the 80's about management styles and Star Trek: the difference between Picard and Kirk is that when Picard was away or taken over by an alien or what have you, the bridge crew could cope with the situation, while Kirk's absence meant that the Enterprise was utterly helpless.

If your team can't fight Romulans when you're down on the planet, you've failed as a manager, was the moral of the story.
Political and other front-page-news posts with little "hacker" content, blogs by irrelevant magazine columnists, posts about how X product/market/phenomenon is dooooomed, random questions about how the site works because the FAQ is a tiny link in the footer...and lots of posts by people horribly concerned that those damn noobs will stink the place up.

I really haven't noticed HN get any worse in the two years I've been around.
Yes, it definitely sounds like a typical Digital River experience. They're really a mess. Microsoft uses them to fulfill online Microsoft Office orders, and it takes so many steps you want to scream.

If there are no other reasons, this is why I want a solid App Store on Windows that has every app I'd want to buy. Seriously; it's just too much trouble to give companies money sometimes!
Yes, using a less stable and less supported program is somehow better.
Interestingly enough Steve has mentioned before that the iPad came first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--_Z4unLQ0
If the site operators open source the nice UI and their methods of selecting torrents from public trackers (assuming they don't hand pick each and every movie's torrents and other metadata...this is all scriptable/automatable) on Github, that's one way.
If the crowd has cycled so much, I wonder if maybe this isn't the best solution for the desired outcome.

Granted, I haven't been visiting tech-specific boards for more than a few years, but I'd generally agree that the more technical articles are what I'm interested in.

I think I'd be interested in a board that was geared toward programmers/hackers, but didn't use a typical karma/point system. I'd like to see one that perhaps utilized karma, but under a collaborative filtering system. So, in a simple for-instance, if a small subgroup of people tend to upvote articles that I do, those articles would be given more weight, and similarly those who downvote articles I upvote would be, from my perspective, given less downvote weight, while at the same time there might be a different subgroup that was weighted to value their downvote more. Perhaps give people the ability to tweak the tolerances of their collaboration. Give them the ability to say "if this guy has X karma and ignores someone's articles and votes, then I want to ignore them too"

Of course, this might be
1. a completely naive idea,
2. an idea that's already been tried and failed
3. an idea that's already being used
4. something to time-consuming for people with real work to do or
5. an idea that's unworkable and that I'm only having because I just started reading books on, and experimenting with, machine-learning ;)

Though even if it existed, I probably wouldn't use it. I already waste half my day reading the few articles that interest me on hacker-news, heh

it sucks that when you design any system or any set of rules, and humans are going to interact with it, you have to think "how are these shady bastards going to subvert my beautiful creation?"
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If this is all automated as they claim, that's a hell of a good job. Poster, length, rating, credits, synopsis and trailer, everything one could ask for. And then they throw a full-sized screencap as the page background. Brilliant.
Ehh, I haven't seen more geeky hacker stuff references in a movie so while it was given broad appeal at leas they retained a decent amount of the hacker feel to it.
Ladon, that's brilliant. I tip my hat to you, sir!
Count your blessings if it only bricked a handful of phones and forced users to fiddle with their devices to get them working again. At least it didn't install Windows Phone 7 Genuine Advantage.
Yep. I canceled DirecTV last May, and major sports is the only thing I miss.
Groupon Chicago is mostly blond sorority girls.
Dude - 'C'est la Vie'.
Thanks for having the courage to disagree through mods rather than comments.

And thanks again for the continued cowardice.
> So we pay more money then other countries but
> don't get better outcomes?

Yes, exactly.

> Could we save money and get the same outcomes?

That seems like an obvious corollary of the above... But yes, I think we could.

> And since we get worse outcomes then they do

Not necessarily worse; just not better. Measuring and comparing outcomes across different populations is hard enough that it's hard to say more than "our outcomes are not clearly better than theirs".

> could we spend less and still get better outcomes?

This question is based on a premise which doesn't seem to be true, so probably no.

> How do you defined "more health care?"

Number of procedures per capita per year for various procedures is a reasonable measurement (where procedures can be MRIs, surgeries of various sorts, etc, etc). Usually people focus on the expensive end of this, by the way; having more physical checkups won't necessarily blow up your healthcare costs the way that more invasive cancer surgeries will.
No, shut up.
findmyorder.com really looks like your typical phishing site. I don't think I'd be giving them any of my information.
Try advertising or PR agencies.
I guess this http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others makes it clear
I looked it up, and it says heyo.com is hosted on EC2..
http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=174.129.212.2?showDetails=...

Maybe Rackspace is hiding something :)
I pray that's the route SF will take with Heroku
The solution isn't necessarily an App Store on Windows, it's to build better purchasing experiences. You're reasoning is sort of like: "I have serious issues with all GM cars due to shoddy quality, therefore all cars must be manufactured by Toyota because I like them."
Pretty useful. I did some quick mods and went from a 89 to 98 pretty quickly which isnt too bad.

Only complaint is that I had to click to expand out the page speed problems. You might want to add a horizontal triangle or some other visual indicator there is more to look at. Either that or expand them all by default but allow people to close them.

Only issue was that it suggested I could minify my JS and gain a 0% reduction in a few cases.
What is there to disagree with? There's effectively no content to your comment. "Fire them all" is not a solution to any technical problem.
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To satisfy most people, they could probably put one button for the highest-seeded torrent that contains roughly 700MB of content per 90 minutes of film, labelled "CD-quality", another for "DVD-quality" (if it exists), and then the rest of the people can click through. Actually, just filtering out any results that aren't in the Browser's Accept-Language languages would be a great boon to me.
For all the newer people, I encourage everybody to come by the HN secret cabal IRC channel, #startups. I found that the term "secret cabal" really sounds much more exciting than the actual channel ;)I try to go by at least once a week, though. It's fun to be in more of a real-time discussion.

I would also encourage people to look up folks' email and email them with questions and such. Great way to make new friends. Many a time I've tracked somebody down from an HN discussion only to have it continue via email. (It also brings the noise factor down over here, which is always a good thing)

I know a lot of guys follow everybody they can from HN on Twitter. I don't know if I would personally go that far -- Twitter has a hecuva lot of noise and I get easily distracted -- but it works for some.

So yes, there's a lot of out-of-band chat going on, but as far as I know, none of it is exclusive. If you'd like to participate more, the same channels are open for anybody. I know I keep my Twitter, Facebook, and email addresses in my profile for just that very reason.
I wonder why they don't have parallel port support.
I actually ended up using a pirated serial after I'd purchased VMWare because it was easier to get than the legitimate one.
Because every useful tool has the opportunity to establish an audience, make a market, monetize, and become successful. Sounds like a startup to me.
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Google and read a little to see if the syntax was different from what I'm used to. Brute force. Get stuck.

Repeat.

I have found that if I read to much about the language I would greek out and spend more time thinking of what if and not produce.
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When you have two groups that have no reason to not be the same group, the fact that they're separated breeds resentment. When you tell them that there's a criteria they were ranked upon to put them into these groups (in this case, age + karma), they understand. For example, there's no big rivalry between grad students and undergrads; one graduated to become the other.