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The comment attributed to Zuckerberg, really shocked me. It has the ring of a pronouncement made by a despot, or an out of touch royal detached from the real world. It scares me that this guy and those around him, are able to try to shape world according to such twisted world views.

Even if this really was a question of integrity, why does he feel the need to enforce it on our behalf?

This for me is a pronouncement that is fit for a dictator.
Two possible negative things :

1. It could be the Microsoft scenario : Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

2. This tool could be used to spread FUD : "Look this is my project converted into html5, it looked much better in Flash"
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100 years of International women's day is a landmark. But this is a coupon, not a news story. I know, I make a post like this every month, as if they owed me something. But this is where Yahoo was when I first discovered Google in ~1998. It's just news, not Google in general. But I care about the news and find the inability to customize my feed to any meaningful degree increasingly frustrating.
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Have a look at this video - its an interview with Entrepreneurs and the issues many of them encounter in the US. Its called 'Starting Up In America' http://bit.ly/f1tqlX
Right, because package management build systems have obsoleted the need to package managers to be actual people that keep track of the packages that they manage...
NoScript to the rescue, it can block all kinds of embedded content, even custom fonts.
The ad networks and such will just track you through browser/device fingerprinting instead of cookies. Except for extremely tightly controlled, homogenous systems in corporations, it doesn't take much info beyond your IP and user agent to uniquely identify a PC. Your history/cache, fonts, plugins, screen/viewport size, etc. are all discoverable from the browser.
This sub thread might make you rest a little easier, hopefully it is accurate with regards to the bill as it currently stands:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288824

edit: changed link to relevant comment
Facebook already has friend lists that allow you to accomplish some of this. Unfortunately you can't control the privacy settings of others in whose photos you are tagged.
That's interesting. We're trying to solve the same problem with BetterInbox, and I know how hard it is to find co-founders. (still searching)

Best wishes to you guys. I'm actually trying to relocate to Silicon Valley, otherwise, would have loved to meet you.
This could really easily happen, and I take your points on board.

Hopefully they are only doing the first 2 e's of point 1 and they can prove to be a notable addition to html5.

Maybe I am being overly optimistic.
'New' is a part of many other common terms: 'New Yorkers', 'new generation', 'new law' etc. So there are more stories about 'new' than ones about 'york'.

Adding smarter natural language processing is in my plans for next versions.
I've showed some of these sites to a client as we have a Web app in the wild and I want to avoid the inevitable IE6 support calls. He is reluctant to use anything I've shown him so far since the language in the copy is always a little too pointed. He's afraid that users will get scared off, and he's probably right.

I think the default wording should use kid gloves, something like "To fully take advantage of this website, please upgrade your browser". Or maybe "This website uses advanced features that your browser does not support because it is out-of-date".

Has anyone done any A/B testing?
Energy wise it can also be unhealthy lifestyle: not enough vitamins, Not enough exercise, ... You don't feel it when you are young but getting older you can't get that easily away with abusing your body.
My alarm was set off by the graph purporting to show laws specifically targeting teens. There's no attempt to put that in the context either of growth in legislation in general, laws targeting adults that ceased to apply to [some] teens.
Nor is there any discussion of whether teens would feel "restricted" or see their cognitive development impaired by laws preventing them from being sent down a coal mine 12 hours a day by their parents.
I don't use IE6, and haven't for a long time, so this is an assumption based on trying to get into the mindset of someone who 1) is still using IE6 and 2) has control over the update (ie, ignoring those in large corporates who can't update themselves).

If I'm using IE6, do I even know what a "browser" is? Let along an "outdated one"? And what, exactly, are the five colourful round things on the bottom of the page? Ah, wait, one of them says I need to be using the 'e' with the orange swoosh - quick check of my internet, and yes, I am using the 'e' with the swoosh. Problem solved.

So the message needs to be clearer, given the self-selecting audience it's targeting: Even "Your internet experience is slow and will attract more viruses. Upgrade your speed and protection for free." sounds nice, but also sounds like I'm the 1,000,000th visitor and I've won a free iPod.

Criticsm has been leveled that MSFT are pushing solely the upgrade to IE8, just delaying the problem. And I'd love to see more of the world using Firefox or Chrome. But if I am still using IE6 it's not because I understand my browser options, or even what a browser is. It's because it works, and it's familiar - pushing IE8 helps overcome the familiarity hurdle. And after all, it's used for "exploring" the "internet" - I already visit Google, I don't want to look at Operas or a Safari, and what the hell is a Mozilla?

Maybe "The Orange swoosh is better than the Blue swoosh. The latest version of Internet Explorer is now available at no cost." It's not a long term solution, but it is based in reality.

I'm now going to have a shower to cleanse me of my pro-Microsoft argument.
No browser is standards compliant. That's impossible; the "standards", at least pre-HTML5, contain ambiguities and self-conflicts. It's all a matter of degree. And I can't agree with your assessment, Microsoft has shown interest in improving their standards support repeatedly. Each browser was closer to the mark than the last.
Looking at it in Chrome (no love in FF3, but I suspect FF4 willchnage that) I'm actually impressed. That's a reasonable 1.0 effort.
It sounds like you're looking for a first employee rather than a cofounder?

A person who comes in after the idea has already been defined and the plans have been drawn up isn't really a cofounder. At the moment the business is structured around your and Katrin's idea, and your common skills. Are you willing to change it substantially to accomodate the skills of the third person? If not, then he/she is not a cofounder, imho.

PS: Btw, that may explain why "they're not lining up". Cofounders are paid founder equity (lots of it... in this case, I'd expect 30%). Employees are paid cash and options. My guess is you're not paying a decent wage and you're not giving enough shares for a cofounder.
Did you actually look at the converted HTML?
Pretty interesting.

I've played with this idea as well, to make a lexicon of image tiles, and then puzzle them together to achieve compression/recognition of large sets of images and video data.

I wonder, though, how well does this work in practice, for photos and illustrations? Deduplication works great for the specific application of screenshots, but there is almost a zero chance that the tiles from two different photos match exactly.

You'd need some kind of fuzzy matching, which will greatly increase the computational cost of the algorithm.
This. All this.
The article is disappointingly short of empirical findings (and there are interesting empirical claims that others have made about changes in the onset of puberty over the last century etc.)

Ultimately I find the suggestion that lack of discussion of adolescence in other societies is an indicator of their adolescents' brain development being different absurd in the absence of any supporting evidence actually related to the brain. I doubt many pre-industrial societies have a word for "feminism", yet would be amazed if someone were to advance the argument that a female perspective on the world only became significant and distinct enough to warrant discussion in the early 1900s - even more so if they were to use it to buttress an argument on female cognitive development.

Consider the alternate hypothesis: little attempt is made to describe and analyse adolescence in non-Western societies because:
(i)those cultures are much less inclined to offer teens freedom of choice and expression
(ii) those cultures have little interest in understanding the psychological development of teens.
Juvenile crime is not a distinct phenomenon if juveniles are subject to (and deterred by) the same draconian sanctions as adults. Teenage resistance to education is not an issue if teenagers are expected to work to eat. Teenage sexuality is not an issue if society treats sex simply a means to procreation and allows the genders to mingle only in the interests of arranging parentally sanctioned heterosexual marriage.

Even if these differences do have a noticeable effect on brain chemistry, I'll happily accept the angst of my teenage years as the price of living in a post-industrial society.
People understand the Moore's-law-kind-of-"old" better than you think, if you give them the right analogy.

"Remember what Playstation 1 games looked like? A few scant polygons and textures were all the hardware could manage. Your browser is as old as a PS1.† Websites have gotten better, stronger, faster, and more technologic since 2001, but you can't see any of that—because you're trying to view them in a browser built on the expectation that the most complicated thing the Internet had in store for it was shopping carts. Get a new browser, and see what the last 10 years of progress have let us create."

† At the tail-end of its lifespan—but still.
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French humorist Pierre Desproges originally made that comment ("On peut rire de tout, mais pas avec tout le monde").
Or entire websites!

(Thanks for the javascript ball of mud, Gawker.)
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You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly... Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

This sounds awfully like:

Mr. Anderson, it seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
This was posted yesterday, and it has already been deleted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296960
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I can't understand it either! but I have seen thing like that alot! do you remember orkut? why do you think facebook is so popular while that time orkut was way better!!
I didn't hear about this case. I can understand the parents of the kids featured in the video being upset, but charging him with child pornography I think is way too much. Even this part is ludicrous, "While out on bond, he is restricted from having contact with children or performing music."

I don't understand why a judge would grant those conditions. "You edited a video to make it look like you were singing an adult song to children. From now on you are forbidden to contact children or sing any more songs."

Definitely a knee jerk reaction. I hope for his sake he can raise some money to mount a case against this. I think the courts need to decide stuff like this...about time they got with this thing called the "Internet".
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Thats not a very user-friendly site, lots of text, download links are not clear. Keep in mind who your target audience are...
I agree, though to be fair, facebook isn't the only site where third parties have tried to fix privacy issues.

I read once that you know you've really made it when an eco-system grows around your product or service. The same can be said here: you know your product or service sucks if unpaid developers feel compelled to try and fix it.
Unfollowing is not as rare as you think. Out of all follows/unfollows SocialGrapple has tracked so far (for detailed accounts), 35% are unfollows of the subject account (63% unfollows from the subject account).

I did check the API, Twitter doesn't give you historical relationship data like that. This is something that SocialGrapple was built to solve.

Scraping is something I haven't considered, though being a tertiary source of data is something I'd like to avoid (I already have nightmares of Twitter shutting me down for no reason). I'm not even sure how accurate TwitterCounter's data is, at least I can account for my own and Twitter's mistakes. I'll give it some more thought nonetheless.
I'd have to agree with iqster in that it doesn't seem to be burn-out as much as doing something new. He doesn't seem to talk much about the symptoms listed at http://jacquesmattheij.com/Are+you+suffering+from+burn-out although he said he has them (even "if [he] didn't know" it?). Not that I doubt his story or anything, but he seemed motivated enough to build new things and not sulk in depression (symptom #10).

"When you're burned out change, do something that is as far away from what you were doing when you were burned out."

I guess this means he defines being burned out as tired of what you are currently doing, and not burning out on doing something productive altogether. In that case, he's probably right in saying that you should change when you're burned out.
The symptoms (http://jacquesmattheij.com/Are+you+suffering+from+burn-out) are stated to be, sort of, phases.

Anyone speaking from experience: can a burnout be avoided by identifying early symptoms? If so, how?
Go to popular bar or night-club and you might be surprised how many burn-outs work there. I know because I was one of them. In addition to your typical starving artists, college student, and part-time model that work in the bar. I worked alongside the worldtraveller who wanted to make some coin before moving onto the next city, burnt-out programmer from Wallstreet. Programmer from SF that was working while his girlfriend was in school, thought it was a good excuse to get out of SF. Post-doc comp. sci who just doesn't want to be around computers for now.

The manager made it point to only higher beautiful people, according to him. But he also enjoyed the company of smart people (less likely to be on drugs) so went out of his way to hire college students and backpackers.

After a few weeks of carrying cases and kegs up and down from the cellar, and partying all night, I was in the best shape of my life.
They may be slow today, but they may get a lot faster tomorrow. Also I would be interested to see this in action in a real world app, rather than just 'let's see how many get/set we can perform'.
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I think that's the plan. New frameworks are usually private before they become public, right? There's a positive way to look at this.
Replace "fighting in armies" with "working in the fields".
I must point out that these types of non-predictive analysis can be misleading. One can always point out different merits of a very successful product, but we cannot prove or disprove that these merits has actually led to the success. It could be any point that is missing from the list, and no one can prove or disprove that without extensive comparison analysis. So, please do take caution.
But wouldn't it also remove Facebook commenting system from the page? Because that's usually what I don't want.
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Right, and Ghostery detects and blocks FB connect, as well as Google Analytics, AdSense and many other services. Very useful extension. Could be more intuitive though, it took me a few minutes to get the blocking right.
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"It's not a lack of integrity - what people say and how people act is always based on the context it's in. There are things you'd say to your friends that you wouldn't say to your family or even other friends."

Exactly. Some people say "Google does not get social", but this Google UX researcher, at least, got it:

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... (discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867807)
What if you charged to delete an account? (only half joking).
From the same author (@byoogle) there is also a more generic Disconnect, that blocks Google,Twitter,Digg,Yahoo! too.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla...

A bit aggressive imho, with the google block enabled you can't even login to google.
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Then what is the best format you suggest?
Yes, agree. Real enhancement comes when the IE is not in the list. :)
If the datum mattered, we'd declare victory already. Aviation GPS units use latitude and longitude, the maps use UTM, and the pilots have no way to convert. D'oh!
Good point. I'm working on a new copy. Will update it soon!
Agreed. It works fine for Wikis, which allow you to revert trivially to previous versions.

But a vandal could easily just delete the contents of this and save it, leaving no trace.
When you sign-in with Linked-in and go to your profile page you should see a "Edit" link to update your details. Please let me know if this is not working.
Old idea (Google had some presentation on this), but it quickly encounters problems such as UI complexity. Single identity is simple to manage and control, but multiple identities aren't. And when the worst thing possible happens - the identities start to partially overlap (and they really do!) - it becomes a nightmare.
How did you obtain these gms values?
fyi: even receiving voice mail once a SIM is registered in a foreign network generally incurs a cost with EU carriers and is charged like a passive call in roaming, even when the phone is subsequently turned off. the only way to reset this is for your SIM to register again with your home network.

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Perhaps you could modify your offering to be either "Self-serve" with transparent pricing but no demos or "Hands on" with Webex demo, dedicated support etc. In my experience customers that insist on Webex demos make up for the pain in price insensitivity once convinced, but you need to be able to exploit that somehow.
Your point? Only good bosses have learnt leadership skills, bad bosses generally don't have the experience or training to be charismatic about it. I've seen far more bad bosses than good bosses.

The point you're making applies as much to a 40 year old boss as it does to a 16 year old boss. Leadership is an acquired skill without an age restriction, but people here on HN seem to want to instate an arbitrary age restriction on how they determine "too young" to be a boss. I really don't get why this would be when software and other tech industries are generally youth orientated and seen as ageist.
There's a lot going on to block Facebook these days. I'm not happy with it either, but can somebody please give me an insight why so many people are pissed of it right now?
Even though the idea is already there, we are still looking for an equal co-founder... no pay, no options, just equity in the same way we get it... which should build up to roughly 30% or so.
Perhaps, in a few years time, this book will be known as "the Hobo book".
Ask HN: Community Strategy
I created this strategy for a start-up I’m launching soon, so I can get a better picture of who is using my product and how my product can be optimized for them.

I really want to know what you guys think of it so we can improve it.
Perhaps if you have some more examples for how to achieve this, I will gladly add them to the strategy so others can also benefit from it.

I want this to become something really helpful that everyone who wishes to build a community around a product can easily use.

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17l_q2qeseDuPE9XQK7z4HspfAI1kXV7NNngGhpygHVg
Submission of the original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2251171

Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2070056

Further, from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

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reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

This is just link-spam or blog-spam.
Anyone know of these kind of extensions for Safari?
I'd say 28 year old entrepreneurs have very different risk profiles than 40 year olds, and therefore think very differently.
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