skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want other people to stake their money on testing this claim.

This is why I believe these rants about WebM are agenda-driven. Who says Google wants people to front the responsibility? This is your claim. I don't think Google bought WebM for the purpose of screwing the implementors. That doesn't mean I think we're all safe, it just means we need more information before jumping to conclusions. It also does not mean we should use WebM without discretion.

By that argument, any discussion of individual Google products would be "agenda driven". That's absurd.

It's absurd to disregard that out of all the possible Google technologies (maps, android, API), WebM is considered most harmful. Especially since most who share this vision are Apple users (again, so am I). I can't ignore the obvious, stitched together, lop-sided point of view.
I completely agree. Part of the reason I wrote this was as a cautionary tale to other entrepreneurs. Thanks for the detailed advice.
"He makes it look easy" -- How?
Yes all my arguments apply to my hypothetical codec. Where did I imply otherwise?

If you want your codec to be adopted despite lack of hardware/software support, you really need to offer something worth the hassle. Notably reduced buffering wait times for consumers, and lower bandwidth costs and ease of distribution (encoder/decoder) for pirates would be such needs worth the hassle. WebM is worse in all these cases. Very few people care about royalties, so it's simply not enough to ask everyone to swap out all the hardware and other infrastructure for mostly ideological fluff.

You actually need to make a better codec. And so far there is nothing out there (H265 and VP9 don't have a usable encoder/decoder).
Well, they want a site to actually be there. In that aspect, it should certainly be at launch or shortly thereafter. I don't believe there's a further waiting time involved.
I thought this was silly until I read the article - as pointed out, the maximize function isn't being removed at all. Only the maximize button, which is an arguably terrible UI for the action, is being dropped in favor of dragging windows to the top of the screen.

Minimize, however, is being dropped because there's just nowhere to minimize too. I rarely use minimize and this wouldn't be a big deal for me.
If you aren't attending events regularly, following the people you need to know from these events in advance on twitter and getting to know them and what they're about then you should be.
I've been using MsysGit (Windows) for about 18 months as a "local vcs" wrapper around a sucky vcs (Accurev). Until the most recent MsysGit release, I used the "git bash" shell exclusively: for each Accurev workspace, I had a CMD shell where I ran builds in the w/s, and a git bash shell where I operate git for that w/s. This was mostly satisfactory (being able to write true bash scripts to automate git a tiny bit was cool), but when working with sometimes a dozen or more workspaces, it can get a little time consuming to locate the respective shell's mate. Anyway, MsysGit has mostly worked quite nicely for my limited purposes. However I am now evaluating hg as a possible replacement for Accurev (I'm running a quasi-import over the weekend). I'm also running a git import in parallel (mostly to compare repo size growth over time), and to do that (in lockstep) I'm running git from a CMD shell; so far I've not had any problems using git in CMD (wait, git's interpretation of the %EDITOR% environment variable in CMD is broken). Why hg, after all my experience with git? As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion: MsysGit (git for Windows) is like a "second class citizen"; it's pretty clear that the git creators have a negative religious attitude about Windows, thus expecting equal functionality and support on Windows is folly. The MsysGit discussion threads reflect a shoestring operation, with overwhelmed developers solely scratching their own itch (fair enough as far as it goes). Whereas hg treats Windows as a first class platform (presumably because it was designed and built with that in mind). I still like git's branching feature (which is why I chose it initially over hg), but between hg and git, hg is IMHO the only pragmatic choice for a "Windows shop".
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If you gain traction, you should gain SEO. If you aren't an SEO expert, it may be tough to gain a foothold in tough keywords. However, if you are an SEO expert, I'd assume SEO would be quite a good strategy for you.
This looks insanely cool, but it won't render for me. I'm running the newest version of Chrome on Snow Leopard which is supposed to support WebGL, other examples work fine, but I'm just getting a checkered background.
I don't necessarily disagree for many startups, but his example is poor. The TripAdvisor site is a better result for the reason Google featured it in the SERP--user reviews. Oyster's page is a review by one person versus TripAdvisor's 171 reviews. TripAdvisor's page is also much older, dating back to at least October 2003 when the first review was posted. Oyster was started in June 2009, which is pretty recent in the scheme of things. I'd say they are doing pretty well to rank where they do considering.

FWIW the top results are also all Four Season's actual site, which is what it should be.

SEO is tough in the web app market, but if you're a content based website, SEO was and still is a very viable strategy. Look at Stack Overflow for an example.
You might want to try out one of the other WMs, whether thats KDE or something less well known like xfce or openbox. I've myself been using gnome just about continuously since early 2.x and I may end up switching to something else as well. A nice thing with Linux is there's always a million alternatives, giving you a good chance of finding a close approximation to what you're looking for.

Also, something I've found extremely useful at both work and home is the compiz "Grid" plugin, which allows you to set up easy keyboard shortcuts for window placement. I think it can be found in "compiz-fusion-plugins-extra" on bunters. A video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHMKhiZmlV0
Not sure why people downvote posts like the parent. It’s a legitimate concern, given Fox’s well-documented, even engineered and policy-based, science-negative and ratings-over-truth slant.

Would the comment be downvoted if it said “The Sun” instead of Fox News? Fox is hardly a tabloid but it’s certainly not Nature.
Regarding resetting: hg up -C <some ref> will give you a clean checkout of that ref, discarding any local changes.
Just an FYI, only 4 black coaches have ever coach in the superbowl. Maybe you're watching reruns?
They are crap. I benchmarked RockYou and Lifestreet Media on my Facebook app against Adsense. AdSense earned 10x the "approved" ad providers
Its a niche market. You have specifics. Sorry, I kind of like your idea. After a zillion "its like teh facebook of x" or "its kind of a social-ad-media-blogging deal", that's really refreshing.

I'm not going to be able to shoot down an idea this specific, Content Newsletters are. Find a few. If they think its a good idea, see if they'll pay you something, or even trial some stuff for you. You should be able to quickly determine if there's anything here worth pursuing.
Thanks, I signed up at your website.
"The problem is, I'm pretty sure, both genetic and systemic." The problem is genetic? What are you suggesting?
The App Wall
How Github has changed the open source world
I said "users" for a reason. It's just about choosing the patches that you want to apply, or if something you're running breaks, backing out of the particular patch that screwed it up. It really increases the value of a Red Hat license in my eyes.
For you and me, it's a good thing. But, for the same reasons that the government never gives it's support to encrypting all web traffic, it's bad for when they want to pin charges on you. My ideal storage has some sort of wipe-from-a-jail-cell-when-drive-is-unplugged functionality. I'm not a criminal, I just don't like to think of my life being open for perusal by any prosecutor/judge/jury.
I tried elance. They have a convoluted point system where you can bid on ~10 projects a month. I put in the lowest bid for a bunch of simple <500$ projects, but had no responses. They are lots of indian and russian contracting firms on there spamming every job.
It's our 3rd Afghan war - you would think we would have either got the hang of it or learned our lesson by now
Cool man. I hope we can be fully operational soon enough to help you out. In the meantime, I do wish you the best of luck.
I'm not sure I'm really qualified here :). I've beentrying to limit intake of processed substances as much as possible. For most of my life, they were the norm, and I'm slowly phasing them out. This took the form of not going out for lunch, trying to snack on fruit, drinking water in lieu of soda/coffee/juice as much as possible, and eating more veggies.

I'm still happy to eat out with friends, mind you.So I suppose you could say I became more aware of what I was eating, rather than remaining apathetic about it.
Indeed. When I started a new job that required me to use MooTools, I went looking for the philosophical differences between it and jQuery (which I was familiar with). I found this wonderfully-written overview: http://jqueryvsmootools.com/ .
Has life been found in a meteorite?
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I've been considering moving some interactivity over to Buzz -- a few interesting people I know are fairly active on it, and the (their, at least) conversations seem more interesting and detailed. However, I have no clue at this point whether Buzz is going to "make it", or whether I should Wave it good bye.

(I was pretty pissed with the way Google launched Buzz, but they seem to have at least somewhat learned that lesson, and I don't want to see them disappear from the space altogether.)

I guess I should just fire it up, and save locally any threads I find particularly useful.
Killer captca: These guys really don't like spam
This is just the Financial Times article series which is actually called "Lunch with the FT". The idea is to have an interview while having lunch with various people and it is included in their weekend edition.

As a regular FT reader I actually enjoy them, including the descriptions about lunch.
This is hard to make sense of without knowing how the redesigned Gnome 3 desktop looks and works. You can get an idea on their website:

http://www.gnome3.org/

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/
I don't know what the point of your comment was -- I'm not a mind reader. Words like "get over it" and saying that he was the zillionth person to say that sure sound judgmental to me. Plus, as you discovered after my comment, you hadn't even taken the time to notice that it was from 2006 and wouldn't have written it if you did.

And yet you still got voted up. Why do you think that is?
As said by someone below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2292910), it's the format for the piece.

While I don't particularly care what they had for lunch, I felt that a lot of the conversations around what they were eating actually acted as rather a good insight into Parker's personality, so it wasn't a complete waste of text.
What was the startup? Did you write code for that? Is there a website? How did you manage to spend 6 years with nothing to show for it?
I think I'm going to get the shader source for one of the more pretty fractals and max out the details and then run it on that ec2 server instance with the very powerful gpu. New wallpaper.
I've done a lot of SEO and my experience is that you can get great amounts of traffic if you think creatively and approach things the right way. If you want to gain traffic by ranking well for "music downloads," good luck! If you, however, research the music niche and find 5 keywords with low competition and 20,000 monthly searches, you could easily build good traffic.

One example - I have a health site, and realized that I could write an article on medications when they were officially named - as until then, the name was a closely kept trade secret. This type of trick could lead to gaining traffic over established players like WebMD who were less nimble.

Ultimately, you need SEO, you need great content, you need everything if you want to succeed. But SEO still works very well and still offers plenty of room for people to outmaneuver and perform the big names.
I'm in the boston area and I have a similar experience I seeming to be outside the job market. While I don't have comp sci degree I have lots of work experience as well as a small web business that demonstrates lots of solid code. Just some people don't have the connections or the luck maybe?
> it is generally considered "broken" in Mac OS X anyway.

It was broken since... System 6, at least

> Now, a minimise button I do use

It's useful if you have stuff on the desktop (like I do). If the desktop is nothing but wallpaper space, then minimizing windows make little sense - just get your windows on the front (which is hard to do without a dock)

I like the drag to snap option. I only hope Gnome folks don't accidentally step on a patent land mine laid by those free-software lovers at Microsoft.
Elance is a bit harder - since they charge for premium placements to appear in search. Have you tried Odesk, Rentacoder (and a few more sites). Or even Fiverr seriously. The key is not to give up - getting the first job is the hardest, after which you end up usually getting a client, and establishing a profile/trackrecord. I know, we have been on both sides of this (as a contractor/hiring people on our own projects).
Have you heard of Heroku? They were YC's largest exit to date largely due to solving exactly that problem! It doesn't get any easier than Heroku.
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"Hardy didn't "work" for a living, to him mathematics was an obsessive hobby."

That applies to a good number of Silicon Valley programmers. Do they not need to "work" for a living, simply because they can get paid for their obsessive hobbies?
A lot of that is packaging issues. While they might never be able to get it down to a one click install, one installer script could probably take care of most of those steps at some point.

I haven't looked at diaspora in 3-4 months, but based on where it was then I find it hard to believe that anyone should be downloading and running it right now that isn't a developer/SA type and expecting a fair degree of pain. In that way the install process is a bit of a gatekeeper. If they made it super ultra easy to install and run but code quality / feature completion was still in the toilet what would they have gained? No reason for them to work on the installer right now.

I'm not too sure diaspora is going to end up all wine and roses, but they only claim to be in "alpha" release for now, give the kids a break.

THIS IS PRE-ALPHA SOFTWARE AND SHOULD BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY. PLEASE, DO NOT RUN IN PRODUCTION. IT IS FUN TO GET RUNNING, BUT EXPECT THINGS TO BE BROKEN.
I'd suggest having a look at XFCE. It's similar enough to Gnome that you probably won't struggle to get used to it.

It's also been more stable for me than recent versions of Gnome and as a bonus it's much lighter on system resources.
No but I can speak english and mandarin.
> I'm glad to see innovation in linux gui

I am glad we are seeing some change. We have been stuck with the same windows on a desktop metaphor since the Lisa. I understand this, at least, means someone is trying something new.
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They don't appear to have an API unfortunately, so you'll probably have to emulate a full web browser user, establishing http connection, logging in, taking account of the security tokens you get, etc.
When I first graduated from college, I took an R&D position doing financial modeling. Multiple times a day, I would walk into my boss's office to tell him I had no idea how to implement the next part. He would start to explain and then use a term like "Gaussian distribution" and I'd have to stop him. Down the rabbit hole we went, filling up the white board with graphs and formula. Once we reached the point where I was adept enough to proceed ("oh, ok, so you just add them all.") we would begin to pop things back off the stack until we were back at the original problem.

It was a painful process for me. I'm sure it was even more painful for my boss. After a couple of months, I reached a point where I didn't really need help deciphering statistics.

A few months later, I read through the code of a co-worker who had been there much longer. I noticed some deficiencies in a statistical search method. When I asked my boss why my co-worker implemented all his models using such a poor technique, he told me, "Because he doesn't come into my office and say he has no idea what he's doing."
So, Facebook groups?
Not to worry, Apple will be selling post-tablet devices by then.
General Magic and Telescript went down that direction. I wonder who owns their IP / Patents?
I didn't realize that Java now comes with MySQL and a Redis server bundled.
Thanks, we aren't sure if they want to see some measurable traffic or not first.
You are better off going through craigslist. I've been able to find tons of projects on craigslist in the last couple of years. Many companies are looking for a reliable freelancer/contractor and if you can prove that you are, will go to you for future projects.
As an iPad owner who just ordered a kindle, pre-config'd w/ my amazon account, I wish Apple would fix the must-sync-w/-iTunes problem

1. Allow selection of Mac or Win file-system type during iDevice ordering, default to FAT32 otherwise (3rd party sales, etc.)
2. Configure iDevice w/ ordering account before shipping, or as on-site set-up @ brick & mortar
3. Customers purchase content without syncing their iDevice on PC
4. Profit $$$
Maybe someone should tell Stackoverflow the SEO is dead.
I'm fully booked, but I am quite interested in the customer development steps you've taken to validate your hypotheses. Also interested in the changes you've made from you original idea based on what you've learned.
I find it interesting that the Wiki page on Suzhou make little mention of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou#Industry

The whole page almost seems like a piece of PR.
Out of curiosity, how did you support yourself without employment in SF for 6 years?
2009 was basically the low-water mark for the GOP brand in modern history, so I'm not sure that those numbers are all that accurate now

Isn't it somewhat odd to assert that 2009 data may not be all that accurate now, after providing 2003 data?

Anyways, my point was that teachers probably lean left, although probably not dramatically so. It doesn't sound like you dispute this claim.
Is it spam if I don't understand it?
Why is the assumption that Oyster is more useful than TripAdvisor just because it has less ads and is "cleaner"?
(Sorry about the accidental downvote. Arrows + phone got me again.)
Each person has their own aspects and (AFAIK) the list is private. So you can separate the different parts of your life without them all having to be in a group. For instance, your college friends are likely to all belong to the same group, but your work friends aren't. If you have a work aspect, you can post things only they can see.

Interestingly enough, it probably eliminates employers looking on Facebook for information about candidates before hiring them.
The right is against workers having the power to quit their job and find a better one? I was completely unaware of this.

As am I.
25 steps? The conversion on this funnel must be < 0.00000001%
I think there's a typo in the submission--this looks like installation instructions, as opposed to just "join & use" instructions.
Windows (may even be the USB specification itself) will not deliver more than X mA to a device unless a driver is installed to request > X mA

OS X obviously is aware of iDevices so it charges without you knowing any wiser. Windows needs the driver.
All the people I've ever met seem whom I'd consider in the genius category seem to share this trait. They see ordinary things that everyone else overlooks and wonder about them in a playful and curious way. Plates wobbling, apples falling from trees, or even as PG so eloquently put it, "looking at Maxwell's equations and saying, what the hell is going on here?"

Its like driving a wedge into a tiny crack in the unknown and splitting it open to reveal all of the cool stuff.
Apple wouldn't want people not living close to one of its stores buying its products, after all.
I downvoted it because coming through Fox News or The Sun has no impact on its credibility, since Fox News is not the primary source. Fox News is just parroting and simplifying something scientific-sounding, like they would do for any similar scientific-sounding thing. The findings do not seem particularly credible, but it has nothing to do with Fox.
Heroku's great, but the cheapest plan they have is $36 a month. There are shared hosts out there that cost $1.99.
Interesting article; a search engines' strength is in linking keywords to text based content, but they do a very poor job directing customers to modern web applications. Easy example: search for the term "social network", and try to locate Facebook. I gave up after five pages.

The point is that if your site is an application, rather than a repository of written content, SEO is going to mean writing keyword laced content, and then building inbound links. Obviously this is a sub-optimal way to market if you're a startup; it's far better to grow as Facebook did, by word of mouth and strong network effects.
So, posting is limited to friends? Friends of friends? Friends of friends of friends? Search? Public?
Minimize is also not being removed,you can do it via short cuts or right click menu.
Actually, their cheapest plan is $0 and it works great.
"Fox News is just parroting and simplifying something scientific-sounding, like they would do for any similar scientific-sounding thing."

umm.. this is EXACTLY my point
The Life of Pi
Living in SF I spend less than $15,000 per year on rent and food (I cook). It isn't as expensive as many people think, especially if you limit your entertainment and activities to free things on the internet.
It took me awhile to find this:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10935892/detail.html

It's not particularly relevant, just an interesting case involving stalking and cops, and not in the usual way.

Edit: better link. Also, looks like the charges were dropped (can't find a more reputable source):
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-255618.html
Doing something that you're good at and that you enjoy is great, but it's not necessarily enough if you want to get paid. You also have to do something that other people want enough to pay you! Fortunately, humans are conceptual beings, and everyone is capable of doing at least some variety of things.

There is no right of stagnation. No one should be forced by law to pay anyone against their will, or to pay more than they agree to privately.
Interesting -- that's an improvement from iPad v1 -- my wife bought one of those and was annoyed that she had to plug it in to her Mac and sync it to make it work. (And she's the Apple fangrrrl in the household.)
Because it's Friday: 20 years of updating Windows
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