skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great idea in general. Not so much in a corporate environment where there may be a piece of older software that is still in use but that no longer requires active development.

In that case, you want to lock the version - you don't want it to suddenly break because of a browser update and don't want to devote additional dev time to a finished product that was working just fine.

It'd be nice if browsers automatically updated but could also be forced to run as a specific version (e.g. IE8's Developer Tools lets you run as IE7). Like version control for software (when loading website X, run as browser v2).
"Lifespans were short, so there were basically no old people."

I don't have a citation for this, but I've heard that the reason that the average lifespan in ancient times was so short was mostly due to the high rate of infant mortality.

Those people who did manage to survive infancy actually lived much longer than you'd expect. And the maximum human lifetime back then was not much different than the maximum human lifetime today.
As someone who fits this skillset and aspires to fill this kind of role at a web startup, can someone tell me what the qualifications are to actually be this person?

I think the article makes valid points, but it seems to me that if anyone ever proposed to fill this kind of role, they'd be roundly ridiculed as the stereotypical "ideas" douchebag who has no real skills to offer (as is often the case on HN).

How do you legitimately lay claim to this skillset and set of responsibilities?
Today, it seems like there is a plague of (fake) "libertarian" arguments for protecting essentially government-sponsored enterprises from ... the government.

No this is old big co. lobbying, nothing new under the sun.

Their arguments are particularly libertarian, or particularly anything, they are not intended to convince anyone, that's what the lobbying is for, and it is not aimed at the general public.
Since Google is so keen on improving the speed of the internet (and good for them for that) I'm looking forward to the day when they'll only use one cookie for all their tracking (if that's even possible). GA is, by Google's standards, a speed hog right now, and Page speed always complains about it ...
My personal schedule is like this these days.

Weekdays: Wake up. Quick run. 4 to 5 hours of WFH (work from home). Office from 11 to 6. Gym. Dinner. Unwind. 1-2 hours catch up on work. Read something non work related for 30 minutes in bed. Sleep. Rinse Repeat.

Weekends: 4 hours of work catchup each day on Saturday and Sunday.
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Or maybe most students in Business don't really expect to do any real work when they get out. The persistent image presented of the successful businessperson is one who shoots from the hip and doesn't stop to take names, because they're just so damn good they can rule the world without actually trying. They don't need no stinkin education, that's for suckers and the nerds who will all be reporting to them in a few years anyway.

I have no doubt that there are all sorts of interesting things to study in business, but given how the rewards currently work in the business world, the only thing the matters is who you know and how much money you can squeeze from a company by killing all of their actual innovation.
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I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer.

Then it would have become a feature of Windows 7 instead of just another browser. It would have also given them the chance to try some new things without feeling like they had to keep any kind of IE legacy.

Yes, they would have had to support 2 different browsers for a time, but they have the resources to do that.

They could have taken the opportunity to compete more aggressively with a lighter weight browser. Microsoft is full of brilliant people, if they were given a mission that said "Make an HTML5 browser, give it the fastest, most rock-solid JS interpreter you can, and oh yeah, include the DLR by default" that they could probably deliver something pretty interesting without having to deal with the IE legacy.
What middleman is taking 80%?
Rich people need ways to show off. Probably get to sleep with the prince or something...?
You know there are many cheaper and free ssh clients for iOS, right?
Oh, the irony!

Ghostery reports 3 tracker javascript frameworks in the link refered by this post: Lotame, Comscore Beacon and (guess what?) Google Analytics.

For those interested in privacy I'd recommend: http://www.ghostery.com/. It has protection for a lot of trackers in most web-browsers.
A couple years when I moved back to freelancing, and working on my web apps, I instituted a pretty strict rule of ending at a normal time, and no working on weekends. It works most of the time :-) but has definitely kept me sane, and made the people around me calmer. It also forces me to take time to think, which I wasn't doing when I was just working all the time.
I'm in. Now we better be getting our money's worth! Now that I think about it. 1 day for a country for 70k is fine. Means we can throw one fucking helluva party!
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Considering the differences between some versions of IE, they effectively end up supporting more than two different browsers at a time anyway.
Well for starters when this guy tries to sell me securities in the future, I can turn him down. I'm sure the names are in the report, just found it curious that they would be anonymized when reported in the news.
Who needs a median or mode when you have a pretty map, though?
It seems one of Portland's standing economic 'problems' is that it is apparently very nice out there.

Which is to say: wages do tend to be lower than you'd expect given the cost of living, due solely the number of skilled and educated workers who will accept comparatively lower wages, just so they can live in/around Portland.

As they say: Portland is where young people go to retire. And as long as that's true, I'd imagine Portland salaries will continue to lag 'expectations' and almost certainly trail the Valley.
Sadly, that still shows that open will not win out in the market. Your friends jailbreak, sure, but they're still buying the most proprietary locked down device out there. Ask any of those iPhone owners if they'd give up their iPhone if it was no longer ever possible to jailbreak it.
I totally understand why the karma is kept hidden, to avoid herding votes, but I also really miss the access to the HN community barometer. I placed great value in the information contained in those vote tallies, and it hurts to have that taken away completely.

A compromise would be for voting to be disabled on all threads after x days, with vote tallies being displayed at that point.

If you guys want to fancy it up, you could have a button at the bottom of the page that says, "OK, I'm done voting now, please show me the tallies", and the voting buttons would disappear, and tallies would appear in their place; and you'd only have to keep track of x days worth of user thread status flags before you can purge the data.

Also, the vote tally could be displayed for a post once you've voted on it.
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What happens when the latest version is not the greatest? With automatic updates you don't get to decide when to upgrade and you usually have no way back.

See the latest version of Skype.
Google chrome also had a few less-than-perfect versions (for OS X, at least).
Sorry, I meant a /22
Consider replacing C-a in screen with C-z by putting this in your .screenrc:

escape ^Zz

C-a interferes with command line editing and Emacs. C-z makes it a pain to background a process in screen, but if you're like me, you probably never do that, anyway.
Yeah, you're totally right.

I probably should have said that they would have to maintain two separate teams working on browsers; but I imagine they do that as well given the number of people that work on browser teams.
Hacker Monthly is a great success story and should be more widely emulated. You don't have to start the next Google, Facebook, or recently acquired Company X to have success as an entrepreneur.
10% is a healthy cut 30% when they are not subsidizing the platform is a slap in the face. 30% and they get to restrict what you do with other platforms AND control your price structure is insane.

Under these terms you any developer that uses Amazon marketplace is stupid. They might make slightly more money in the sort term but you are giving up huge long term gains.

PS: I am seriously considering boycotting Amazon over this.
Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?
I've been using Windows and Linux side-by-side for different things since 1996. Some things have just been more trouble to set up in Linux than I wanted to bother with, with Windows available and easy to use. But Vista annoyed me enough that I am gradually switching more of my work to Linux, hopefully by the time this Vista box dies, I will just switch everything over to Linux.
You have to consider several things that probably went into this decision:

1. Small and declining user base for Vista means it becomes less important for Microsoft to target those users. In fact Windows 7 already has twice the market share that Vista does and it's still growing rapidly.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201003-201103

2. If you project what some likely release window for IE10 and the next version of Windows will be (Win8) Microsoft is positioning itself to only have to support two operating systems. The cost of investment into a 3rd OS, especially one with small and declining market share (relative to it's other OSs), could just be too costly.
Valve creates very cool, ridiculously baroque puzzle in advance of Portal 2
It's a false positive because the error shows up in game when the game thinks you've pirated a copy, it's not just used to "out" pirates on the forum. If you read the post, the user in question was apparently unable to setup a server to play with his friends due to the error.
Page up moves the view one page up. Home moves the view to the top. Similar for page down and end. Seems right to me.

You can split windows vertically. Not horizontally.

Could you not use osascript to launch a window group from the command line?

iTerm was crashy for me. This is not acceptable, no matter the other features. I cannot recall ever crashing Terminal.app.
One useful piece of advice I read about HAML on HN was that it's for structure rather than for content. It gets annoying when you're trying to style words within a paragraph with italic or bold, or when you try to insert a link followed by a period. In those cases, I just use HTML, and the annoyance is gone. Otherwise, I find HAML very useful for reducing visual clutter.
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Isn't Genghis Khan thought to have left a rather significant mark on the genetics of a region?
That would leave app makers susceptible to a major player with large amounts of capital that can sell at a loss until all other players are driven from the market and then raise its prices once it has gained pricing power.

Book publishers appear to have wizened to Amazon's game here and have refused to allow Amazon to use discounts to drive other sellers out of business. Many publishers have moved to an agency model where Amazon takes 30% and the publishers set the retail price of the books.
Ask HN: Where are the Facebook Horror Stories?
I read and found value in this story a couple weeks ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408806 , whereas it was a wonderful tale and 'how-to' on how to make Facebook work for your start up.

I'm looking for the opposite. I remember reading some lengthy articles from folks about how FB had terrible ROI, CTR, and was generally a waste of money.

Does anyone know where any of these horror stories are?

Many thanks!
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Ask HN: Most effective time management strategies?
There are times when I find the mountain of information in the world overwhelming. Usually it's at a time when I am interested in a wide array of topics and want to pursue them all at once. However as you all probably know spreading yourself too thin usually results in information overload and not really learning very much.

How do you all manage your time? There are so many things that have to be done in a week and usually within a single day. Work, family, interests, learning, reading, practice, not to mention sleep!

At the moment I'm juggling 2-3 books, a few papers, working in and out of the office, trying to make it to the gym, get more than 6 hours of sleep a night and making my best effort to practically code too. I wont include the time spent reading what is posted on HN.

I hope you all will take the time to respond as I think those that are capable of managing their time efficiently get more done and accumulate more knowledge. Zed Shaw really comes to mind.
> The purpose of Free Software is to escape from the monopolies created by proprietary software

Which is effectively impossible if the device running the software is locked down! Android, as Free Software, could be made effectively meaningless if I'm not able to tinker with that very software installed on my device. The FSF agrees, hence the GPL3. Telling me to make my own hardware, exactly what you said, doesn't help me at all.
I bet the people who spent good money on a Windows Vista license are feeling really good about Microsoft right now.
I'll take automatic updates IF there is an option to prompt before update.

I get daily builds of Chrome (under Ubuntu) and 1 day there was an update that caused Chrome not to start up. After that day I don't blindly do updates if I really need the browser to work.
It would help a lot if you had described in your original comment why you thought the other article was relevant, as you did to some extent here.
Maybe the arguments aren't new but their, uh, quantity is.

Their arguments are [not] particularly libertarian, or particularly anything, they are not intended to convince anyone, that's what the lobbying is for, and it is not aimed at the general public.

Mostly... but I think you today there are perhaps more people who can get up-in-arms ready to embrace these arguments none-the-less. I don't want to name any particular political movements (cough, cough...).

You could say the arguments on the regulation side aren't real liberal arguments any more and the arguments on the "no regulation" side aren't real conservative arguments.
Is Lisp a tool or a religion?
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Here is a nice chart showing YOY price index changes in various categories.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/what-is-really-inflatio...
What kind of lawyer do you want?
For those who are starting up a new business or operating a small one, what kind of lawyer do you want? Do you want a lawyer who is fun and relaxed (in the way that VCs try to be) or do you prefer to work with someone more buttoned up?
In which Mac-centric guy writes about all the things he wants from a free calendaring solution after complaining that free solutions are bad and without noticing that Google calendar does many of these advanced kinds of things like setting times when invites can be automatically rejected, shared event setting on one calendar etc.
Working for a German company in 2009 really taught me a lot about vacations. They gave me something like 6 weeks of vacation and I used about 5 weeks of it...
Are you affiliated with that link you posted in any way? Just curious.
Help me out, I'm not seeing the irony.
Are there differences between the "Do Not Track" implementations?
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I was a founder in the 2nd batch and I second everything mentioned so far. What most impressed me were the mentors. They are incredible in terms of experience, networking and make themselves available 24/7.
From TFA:

Mozilla made the first step in building broad browser support for "Do Not Track" in Firefox 4. Instead of the cookie-based mechanism suggested by the FTC, however, Firefox sends a specially formatted HTTP header to Web servers noting that the user does not want to be tracked. Microsoft added support for the headers in the recently released IE9, and now Apple appears set to add it to Safari once Lion is released.
And here's the pic:

http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/images/picture_70_bw_lg.jp...
You forgot one step:

0a) Legit user is not able to play the game properly and wastes precious lifetime and falls victim to angry comments by fellow users in search for help.

0b) User is actually a pirate, but I really don't care about those.

Thats what makes false positives so bad.
From the article: "But with the advent of IE10, Firefox is the only web browser who haven’t reached a two-digit version..."

Safari, anyone?
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I first had a C64 and then an Amiga 500 ... those were some of my best memories as a child/teenager. My experiences with these machines undoubtedly led me to being a Computer Scientist as an adult. There will always be a place in my heart for Commodore.
CTR is important, but it isn't the whole story.. I'd love to have more details about how it impacted your whole funnel (even if it is just a simple statement like "ratios after clicking through were the same before and after the change, so we also tripled activations" or similar.)
What I'd like is an implementation which simply allows each browser window/tab to be absolutely segregated from each other one + a "clear all cookies" button/menu-option.

What's so hard about that?
I certainly agree in principle, but maybe we don't judge the sides the same way. ... I saw one study claiming the majority of PCs (59%) are pwned by malware.

How many of those attacks came through Javascript, though? It would be interesting if there were a public resource that keeps track of attack vectors, so we could accurately assess the risks.
collect 700 people using groupon like site and then it is just $100/night.This is an idea for a site if there are more deals like this
The user interface for FF4 sucks, I had to uninstall it and re-download FF3.6. Most of the differences were merely irritating - like the right click menu changing the places of Open in New Tab and Open in New Window, which was totally stupid, but I could have gotten used to that. The one change I could not do without and could find no way to restore was their eliminating the Recent Pages button - some sites take forever to click back through with the Back button alone.
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Bitlaw opines that the Supreme Court's Bilski didn't clear things up. I'd be interested in seeing a concise analysis stating otherwise.

http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/bilski-and-software-pa...
"Asking a CL advocate whether Scheme is a Lisp is like asking a plantation owner whether his slaves are human beings."

That is a horribly inept analogy. My guess is that most CL guys would say 'yes, it is.'

"It is my reasoned opinion that only a mentally disabled person would today design a LISP-2."

A brilliant and insightful analysis. Butter side up or butter side down?

Clojure is nice, but so far I haven't found a way in which it 'wipes the floor' with CL.
Same here. This whole single-session obsession needs to be broken, there are loads of uses for multiple sessions side-by-side. Mostly for developers / power-users, but they're the only ones who understand what running multiple sessions would mean in the first place. Running one page normally and the other in private-mode isn't a real solution, and doesn't scale - all private windows use the same session in all browsers I'm aware of.

The only exception I've found from my admittedly-fairly-minimal searching a while back is Stainless for OSX: http://www.stainlessapp.com/
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I won't answer for Thomas, but:

No, I definitely wouldn't say angelPad is less hacker-oriented. It just means their 'market niche' is more about experienced individuals, with some work experience at startups, etc. Of course, our class (I was in W11) had both experienced people who were on the scale of Product Manager at Youtube to just great coders. AngelPad is like an older, wiser YC that seemed to seek to build companies with slightly bigger ideas than YC, focused on more hands-on mentorship.
That would imply that common lisp is not a lisp, and scheme definitely is a lisp.
I don't recall Google ever sitting in white space - there were search engines and internet ads were seen as a significant source of revenue for portals before it came along. What made it successful were incremental improvements over existing competitors products, e.g. no banner ads and page rank v. gopheresque curation
To be clear, I wasn't really suggesting that one should game the system, hence the scare quotes. But a competent lawyer should, in my view, respect the fact that judges are human and respond just like other humans. That means paying attention to little details like dress, demeanor, font, grammar, and all the other elements of presentation that every marketer knows but few lawyers understand.

On a deeper level there are tactics like angling your argument to the judge's world view. (This makes judicial panels all the more important.)
Why does microsoft still spend money building a web browser? I understood this in the 1990s because it locked people to windows, it was a feature, and hopefully it sold MSN subscriptions.

But it's not the 1990s anymore.

Let google spend their money on this, or let mozilla spend their money on this.

Is there any reason microsoft doesn't bundle firefox with their operating system, and just EOL Internet Explorer?

/admitting ignorance here
I think the compatibility with older browsers has always been a cheap excuse. It shouldn't be too difficult to have a setting that forces certain URLs to run as a specific browser version as you mentioned.
Didn't Opera team up with IBM for some voice work a while back? - http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2004/03/23/
Looks like MS is pushing hard for "upgrade to our latest os or DIE"... It's ok, their office will support windows 2k if it has to because its the big money maker. And people will leave IE behind soon enough.
Having had worked on browser-based enterprise applications I can only say that there's deadlock situation.

As a vendor you need to provide compatibility with old outdated browsers because enteprise doesn't want to upgrade because that would break a number of other applications they use. The functional gap between something like IE6 (which is still an enteprise standard in a lot of places) and a modern browser is so wide that you almost end up creating two separate versions of the frontend. And eventually some vendors figure that it's not even worth supporting the modern browsers, so they don't. And so it goes...

I now honestly believe that web browser is a bad platform for entererise apps.
True, but as I understand it, the Scheme standard isn’t as complicated as that of Common Lisp. Implementations are partially standardized through SRFIs as well, which I think is a more active process.
agree also many of the 'enhancements' he likes would be profoundly annoying, for example bugging you about creating multiple events in locations where it isn't feasible to travel between them according to his assumptions about the nature of the meeting, transportation options, etc.
There are still mountains of money available on the web.

Since Microsoft controls the OS, they can ship a browser with defaults set to sites under their control, like msn.com and bing.

My assumption is that they consider those properties as revenue (or potential revenue) sources.
So... why ~are~ creative people eccentric? Eccentrically, I have decided to not pay for this article. Creatively, I am still interested in whatever insights the article may contain.
Try ESC-@, which runs mark-word -- once you have the mark set, you can expand/contract the region as normal by moving point.