skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Bermanoid... We understand all of these dynamics and we know that we have to prove we're not going to go down that route. What you're describing would be very short-sighted of us. Look at it this way, what we're proposing is very much like Google Adwords. You wouldn't put an irrelevant product next to a keyword for the money because nobody will click on it. To enforce the right incentives on us, we're making 30 seconds the "click" for our artists. If someone skips your music within the first 30 seconds, you don't pay, and we lose money. Further, if we do what you're describing, we kill our audience. We're in this for the long haul. We understand there will be skepticism. We look forward to proving ourselves and I think if you check out our credentials, you'll see that this isn't our first rodeo.
I think one of the biggest obstacles to the formation of a "Google mafia" on par with the PayPal mafia is that by-and-large, Googlers don't want to leave. Many of the key figures in the development of the search engine are still working on search, in high-up leadership positions. Googlers generally have a fair bit of latitude to pick their projects, so if they don't like what they're doing, they can do something else within the company instead of leaving and taking on the risk of founding a company.

Contrast that to PayPal, where the whole company was bought by a big, established competitor, one that they'd roundly trounced in the marketplace beforehand. Of course a lot of the employees will leave - the culture of a place usually completely changes after an acquisition.
There is some great discussion and excellent examples of using indexedDB in both Chrome and Firefox in this blog post from Mike West, Google evangelist:

http://mikewest.org/2010/12/intro-to-indexeddb
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I've been using Rubber for the past few weeks and I'm a huge fan of it. Completely configurable, helpful developers and discussion forum and the best part is you have all of your server administration scripts right inside with your app. Took me a bit of time to cater it to my needs but I don't think I'll be moving away from it anytime soon.
Ha! Thanks. Always prefer to do it in software if I can. I guess my computer has a hardware control, somewhere, but I never use it.
Let's not confuse schooling with education.

> I say, work our kids harder! Damn punks...

Perhaps schooling is what needs to be worked out.
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One reason I suspect Daring Fireball posts get upvoted so much on Hacker News: You can comment on them here; not so on his site.
You got me wrong. I wasn't trying to make joke out of it. I was just admiring his writing style.
On a side note, I have never used an iPad and probably never will.
Theoretically that may be, but this time Chrome won only because the contestant didn't show up.

"The third browser to be tested was scheduled to be Chrome. However, the contestant registered to attempt the attack did not show up, so the browser remains unbeaten."
Please run your post through a spell checker.
I think right now Apple (and Google) can polarize individuals. I can love each one minute and hate each the next -- they're both capable of delighting and infuriating in equal measure, even within a single product. (Love Chrome, hate the anti-h264 move. Love iOS, hate the App Store approval process and the kludgy mess of certificates.)

And both are getting scary powerful.
A sort of Apple Prime?
I want Gruber to, just once, say something bad about Apple without immediately giving 10 reasons why the poor move was actually brilliant. He's a good writer, but I mean, come on.
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I ran into a few limitations when using Stylish (didn't try Greasemonkey).

This extension uses a JavaScript to re-align some elements, change classes etc. It's not only aesthetic changes, at least won't be in the next few updates.
> The term "bubble" is reserved for really extreme cases.

Maybe so, but it doesn't tend to get tossed around until cases start to get extreme. There are a lot of rumblings that there's a bubble building here. Can you think of any examples in recent history when the rumblings of a bubble turned out to be hogwash?

That said, recent history also suggest that the rumblings of bubbliciousness tend to precede the ultimate burst by a good couple of years and the lead up to the burst has been where the most frantic run up takes place, so when bubble rumblings start, that might actually be the best time to get into a market... :-)
This was in 2007, so it was a bit of a different market at that time as well...
> I apologize for being unclear. You are correct on the clock starting, but the clock can also be adjusted by the PTO if your patent is delayed in approval if I am understanding what is below correctly.

It's only adjusted if delayed "as compared with a standard for such actions". I'll bet that the vast majority of patents get no such adjustment because the office actions were within standard, even if their issue takes 5 years.
sorry man, i don't know anything in web development. I'm a system programmer works on C\C++ and hardly know internal details of browsers. But IE9 is very cool(compared to ie8), i liked it. Thanks for making me aware of how newer versions affects everyone.
I've been resisting the urge to market my startup as a PayPal alternative, because we're really focused on payments for in-person retail sales (largely to avoid competing with PayPal), but this is probably the fifth or sixth PayPal-froze-my-account posting I've seen on Hacker News and they all seem to garner enormous amounts of sympathy from readers. We've also built all of the infrastructure you'd need to do internet payments. As an aside, my non-profit's account was frozen once but I got it unfrozen in fairly short order, and at worst it was a minor annoyance. I gather that people have had much worse experiences, however. So that leads me to wonder:

- Would people really consider signing up for a payment startup's services they'd never heard of? Everyone complains about PayPal, and I'd argue rightly so, but at the same time everyone is also quick to say that they don't trust a company they don't know with their information.

- What's the most important service that PayPal offers that people are looking for? Just plain, vanilla, pay-me-through-my-web-site? Something else?

- Are these accounts that are routinely frozen related to international transactions somehow? Because we can't do business internationally and most payment startups can't. The regulatory and risk barriers are serious.

If there's a market for U.S.-based services that we can offer, maybe it's time to think more seriously about starting to compete.
That's exactly how I used Chrome until just recently.
With 'fox's wider adoption (at the time) and my attachment to it, it took a while to switch.
Therapist-free therapy: Cognitive-bias modification via computer sessions
Thanks for writing, I knew about the 8 hours in the cockpit, didn't realize there were an extra 8 outside.
Pretty wild that apple came up with a case that truly would be the tipping point for some (maybe even myself) iPad 1 owners to make the switch. Try pitching that in your next product concept or product marketing meeting.
More importantly: polarization tends to fuel good discussion. The Gruber pieces that tend to get picked up here involve big Apple stories: new hardware, OS X, and developer policies. And on those, everyone has an opinion.
You should prefix the title with "Ask HN: "
i wouldn't quite say it's the point...
I'm surprised it took this long for Apple to start giving Gruber review hardware and event invitations.
He doesn't even mention the camera quality, which are getting panned in other reviews.
Gruber pieces once had great discussions. Now they are just awful. Writing “Gruber is a shill” is not the start of a productive discussion.
It seems like you're definitely going to get a good experience if you go with this lab. I'm currently enrolled in a grad program myself - this may bias my perspective.

The great part about where you're coming from is that you might already have a great sense about how the 'real world' works. I'm sure you've done some form of research before - however, the process of getting through a PhD program makes you work harder to understand what you think you know - and hones your ability to create new academic value.

Although a Master's in stats does prove useful, you're generally rehashing the same old techniques. You seem like you wanted more creativity in your job. I feel like value begets value - the academic value you create because you're curious can, if leveraged properly, become a company for you.

I'm sure you already knew all this - but regardless if you're thinking of doing a program, why not consider doing the PhD program? Just make sure to get the Master's on the way, and you haven't lost any time - you were going to do the Master's, anyways. In that time, you'll get a lot of research done and find more opportunities. Furthermore, you'll probably find it easier to be paid - most schools are better funded for PhD candidates than Master's candidates. Why not take a 'free' degree, then, if you're going to put in the time?

Quite honestly - the stuff you're doing is specialized, to some extent, but you can also link it to other imaging modalities. I presume you're correlating 'what am I thinking' to 'what do we see on fMRI?' - it's a classic multidimensional problem with a ton of potential solutions and a crazy number of permutations to handle. That's already some pretty useful stuff - you can take it, rinse, and reuse in another format - say, EEG, or applying new diagnostic fusion modalities to diagnosing various diseases automagically. Things appear different every time in different people - essentially a similar problem.

In addition, you've got a huge area for HCI (human computer interaction). Jobs already has a ton of people contemplating moving to the tablet for everyday usage. What if we end up going a step further to wearable computing - how will we have interfaces? Turn your stuff slick and sexy, and you've got a huge potential market.

You're landing a great research job in a great university. You're on Hacker News - wouldn't you consider starting your own company with all the crazy stuff you've discovered?
Beyond Dropbox:  Searching and browsing everyone's local data.
The studies referenced in the article suggest a handful of short sessions, with a computer program designed to combat things like anxiety or addiction, can have lasting psychological effect.

While unremarked about in the article, I think this suggests the question: How about all our much-longer interactions – games, browsing, communication – with computers? It seems unavoidable that even without conscious design, they too could have lingering effects.

How much does repeated interaction with Farmville (or Twitter or Reddit) alter later behavior?
After viewing this video I logged into Khan academy to check out the practice tracking features highlighted in the video. Mainly I wanted to see the categorical branching of subjects that they showed.

Its a pretty amazing idea and execution. From one basic subject, addition, they expand and branch out all the way down to basic calculus. It would be really amazing if they continued expanding this out to the point where all subjects where mapped out, even the less mathematical ones. Just to see the path from addition to trigonometry is a pretty good refresher of what the mechanics of the trig functions actually entail. Imagine seeing the path from addition to linear algebra.

More to the point, imagine a world in which a student uses this system throughout their educational career. I can't even fathom the difference that that level of tracking and relational mapping between ideas would have on a students understanding of material and motivation to tackle new subjects.
He does in an earlier post: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/08/ipad-2-camera
Try any benchmark other than SunSpider.
The piano could really use more notes, and lag is a bit of an issue. But cool project!
I think the world is moving towards micropayments. Not 10 cents an article, that's too low to overcome psychological barriers at the moment, but a few dollars for an app or a tune, or maybe a short subscription.

Hardware sales will still be important (a $1100 computer with 30% margins every 3 years brings in $100 a year), but it won't be long before the content is making more than the hardware.
> PayPal doesn’t want their cut of tens of millions of dollars of revenue we project in the next two years. Any idea of who does?

Get a real merchant account and a payment gateway. I recommend Authorize.NET. Get it from one of the re-sellers, it's cheaper than getting it directly from them. There are no shortcuts: you have to compare different vendors, do your research on what all the fees mean and who offers the best value. You CAN negotiate.
There are definitely grants & loans for startups to get started, but I often hiring is a major issue, shortage of quality programmers.
The most important service: instant money transfer (mostly) irrespective of physical location.

I had one use-case this week where paypal would not work. I needed to withdraw the amount I was to be paid by my client and paypal has a $400/day ATM limit. So I asked the client to see if he can pay directly to my bank.

The obvious solution is wire. Of course, my client happens to be in a state that didn't have his business bank so wire was a no go. You have to visit a bank to wire.

In order for him to send me money he had to write a check from his business account to his personal BOA account, then withdraw from his BOA account and then run to a Wachovia and deposit into my wachovia account--all before 2pm cuz' after that the funds wouldn't be available until the next day for me.

After I got the money, I was to deposit it into a friend's account. I couldn't do it online through my bank's interface even though we share the same bank. I ran few blocks to Wells Fargo to withdraw cash I just received from my client and transfer to my buddy.

My story is probably one of the extreme cases in terms of urgency but it does point out all the hoops you have to jump to do a simple bank-to-bank money transfer just within the US.
I think this looks pretty good! Thanks!
I know there are plenty of legitimate PayPal horror stories, but this I’m not sure this quite qualifies. The first parts of the story are vanilla PayPal evil, sure.

But at the end, PayPal accuses them of offering an aggregation service. They say they are building a “a global marketplace” that “enables a brand new community of merchants and transactions”. There is not a lot of detail, but it sounds like they are taking money from customers and paying it to sellers, which sounds like an aggregation service to me.

They compare themselves to Etsy. But Etsy doesn’t accept PayPal payments themselves. You pay to the seller’s PayPal account.

There may be something I’m missing—it’s not entirely clear, so maybe they do in fact operate more like Etsy—but from the account provided it seems like PayPal has a case.
We're soon launching an alternate reality role playing game to inspire players to make positive changes in their lives and help create a better world. http://childrenofthestars.com
Our goal is helping the unemployed and the underemployed make ends meet with jobs ranging from full-time to just a few hours. I'm also designing for users to interact directly, creating local and truly small scale jobs. Lots more to it, but the primary theme is helping people find work of all kinds, not just Monster/freelancer-type stuff.

Of course as a non-technical founder I've been relying on a few project manager friends for input but will soon need to hire someone well versed in back-end architecture and site flow/design to consult during the hacker hiring phase as we get underway. I know what I need (I've wireframed most of the site already) but not what skills are needed to actually code it. Sigh.

On a "making the world a better place for our team" level, we're setting up shop down in Venice Beach. Yay quality of life.
I worked with Sal when we were both at Oracle. one thing i think is that what he's doing with khan academy ties directly to his strengths.

he was very good at explaining and teaching, and liked analyzing data.
Have you two seen the new project window in vim? It's far less cluttered.
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My iPad is totally a toy; it is almost entirely unused unless I have a long flight to take, or I want to watch a movie in bed - in which case I'll probably still use a laptop owing to the PITA getting content on the iPad over the air is, and its limited repertoire of format support.
He polarizes HN in a bad way, leading to discussions of the worst kind.
Startups in the Seattle area? 
What are some startups that are launching in the next 2 months in the Seattle area?
Great idea, like giving a community powered twist to the car-share companies out there. This could be especially great for people who lost jobs & no longer need to commute... why not generate income from the otherwise idle car?

Best of luck!
Awesome speech. What's wrong with the YouTube video quality, though?
What's wrong with anti-h.264? Firefox was never going to support it, nor was Opera, so as a web developer you would have had to implement something else anyway, likely flash. Now you implement WebM instead of h.264, and you still have to implement flash because 20% of the people out there are still using ie6 and 7/8 aren't a whole lot better on this front.

Basically, you're replacing a closed codec with an open one. MS and Apple will put WebM in IE and Safari if there's sufficient adoption, as it doesn't cost them anything to do so.

You may not care about open codecs that aren't laden with patents, but I can't see how this makes things worse. All of the kvetching about this move extending Flash's lifetime is pointless given the fact it wasn't going anywhere anyway.
I did not make any statements about the UI of Xcode, I merely pointed out that the comparison was unfair.
Looking forward to the book exchange!

Redditgifts ftw!
I see; I'm glad I gave you the benefit of the doubt then. It's so hard to get tone with online comments.

FWIW, I think the idea of it not being a departure is significant. He's saying that they are sticking to the core themes that motivated the iPad. Sure, it's getting improved, but he's saying they got the kernel right.

Look at the Apple TV by comparison. There was a significant departure from the approach of the first version to the current version. You can very easily make the argument that the main theme/motivation of the Apple TV still hasn't quite gelled. The fact that Apple doesn't put their full weight behind pushing it means they probably know they haven't gotten it nailed down quite yet. … and getting it nailed down is a business problem more than a technical one.
Each day the rules get looser making the compromise easier. I can't find the 2011 rules easily but here they are from 2009:

Day 1: Default install no additional plugins. User goes to link.
Day 2: flash, java, .net, quicktime. User goes to link.
Day 3: popular apps such as acrobat reader ... User goes to link

iirc it's only the last year or two that most of them have been falling on day 1
The idea that there is some golden era when gas hits 5-6$ a gallon and electric gets a large chunk of the market just seems absurd.

I'm sure there's a price per gallon where it makes sense to replace a working and fully paid vehicle with an expensive new vehicle which costs less per mile in fuel costs alone, but it's certainly not $4 per gallon.
To be fair, Chrome gets updated around every two weeks. That it happened to get pushed out the day before CanSecWest may just be a coincidence. Firefox tends to release a new version every month or so as well Though Mozilla did push 3.6.15 four days after 3.6.14, so it may very well play into your point.
I'm almost falling of my chair laughing (I do feel bad about this), but we've had so many similar issues with PayPal it is just crazy to think they once were the small guys fighting the establishment.

What you are trying to do is indeed very likely against their TOS, but the whole process is just appalling. I highly recommend looking at WePay. They might be a much better fit for you anyway (not just credit card payments, but also very low cost bank transfers).

Try to get a regular merchant account, but if I understand your business model you'll likely be rejected, or face unrealistic high fees. Maybe when you can show them some transaction history you'll have more luck.
For some reason I can't reply to "ugh" again. There's no reply link.

I thought it was obvious that my comment is a joke...
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Hah! Actually DID do that. Unfortunately, when I copied the title from the header and put it into the text box, I left out the "s".

Oh the irony!
You make a good point, I'd agree that this would seem to align with what PayPal is alleging in their letter.

However, it does also seem that Airbnb, which they mention as a comparison, is doing the same thing -- Airbnb is serving as an aggregator for its individual lodging vendors, and THEY offer PayPal as an option ...

Any Airbnb folks still here on HN who could explain if they've gotten around this particular hurdle with PayPal?
You may remember that Microsoft wanted to move to an annual subscription model for Windows. I distinctly remember Balmer rubbing his hands together and cackling with glee about how they were going to make much more money that way (as he pushed another couple of nosy kids into the oven of his gingerbread house).

As it turned out, this made an enormous amount of people unhappy. I think they abandoned it.

Apple does have an annual subscription service, MobileMe (or whatever they are calling it this week). As far as I can tell it has had a very low rate of adoption, despite coming free (for a limited time) with new Macs. Heck, I have a hard enough time convincing random (Mac using) strangers to buy a damn external drive and turn on Time Machine. Don't underestimate user inertia.
Could you quote where in the review he is doing that? His review sound very, very similar to all the other reviews out there.