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Ask HC, If you knew the outcome of Net-Neutrality-
-would you be doing anything different regarding what you are building today?

I will be shocked if AT&T does NOT get the tiered system they covet, but maybe I'm just being fatalistic. If you are a programmer, designer or CEO/founder, I am wondering if you knew the outcome- would you be doing anything differently?
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There is another reason movie theaters don't use the basic strategy of raising prices: they can just increase the number of rooms for a movie. This pretty much takes care of any demand pressure (unless everyone in the country decides to see the same movie in the same day).

With old music, in CD format, someone could say that there is a physical media that needed to be sold, so prices could fluctuate. With digital music, however there is a theoretically infinite number of copies that can be sold, so there is not reasonable explanation for raising prices.

In other words: the price of selling the latest J.Lo album is exactly the same price of selling any other crap you can think of.
Can/do windows users move to mac?
I have been a windows user for the last seven years.I have used Ubuntu but not mac.
Do windows users ever feel a need to move to mac?
is it beneficial?

I am currently doing my undergrad cs studies,and so program in c/c++ ,vb ,matlab etc
Sure, the existence of chrome will increase web developers testing workload...

I doubt it. Chrome doesn't have to displace too many IE users before it becomes a net win. If it accelerates the obsolescence of IE by a single fortnight, I'll gain fourteen days of happiness.

I have a site that I'm working on that uses a bunch of Javascript. I just made the mistake of loading it in IE7 first thing in the morning, which has pretty much ensured that the rest of my day will be stressful and miserable. There's a page on there that loads in a couple of seconds in Safari, and a couple of seconds in Firefox (provided you keep Firebug off) but which takes -- I kid you not -- twenty seconds in IE7, for god knows what reason. You can practically hear the hamsters spinning around in their rusty little wheels.

Your post inspired me to install Chrome. In Chrome, the JS initializes faster than I can see. It brings tears to my eyes.

I am still going to spend orders of magnitude more time testing sites in IE than in Chrome. That's partly because I will literally spend an order of magnitude more time waiting for my JS to initialize. Then, when I look for bloat and bugs in IE, I will always find them, and they take forever to work around, and that work has to be done by a coder.
You know who also thought a web browser could become a replacement for the OS?

Microsoft.

So much so they freaked out and ruined netscape, tried to ruin Real Media, and tried to extend and extinquish Javascript and Java, and almost got their company broken up by the government they were so worried about it. And now its back, and looking like more of a threat than ever.
You have to understand - the preferred shares of both companies are held widely by regional banks in the States as part of the min capital requirements. If the shares are totally wiped out, it will trigger widespread failures of these banks.
Agreed. But the Google Charts API will be hard to beat.
I can't recall if it was already proven that bovine CJD came from feeding them scrapie sheep? Or was it scrapie sheep that were not heated high enough to save money.

In any case, prions are scary fascinating.
Feel free to post the relevant maths :-)
Congrats, Jeff!

On a slightly related note, your choice of headline reminded me of this little anecdote: http://www.utdallas.edu/~asimpson/misc/funny/child.process
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285766

Interestingly enough, the same story was submitted earlier, is now [dead], and has been replaced by a lookalike.
Thank you again, I should check strong definition of "idea" in use but anyway I see the point there.
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AdRocket appears to be a more automated version of (the not amazingly successful) Amigo (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/05/carson-systems-launches...).

Has anyone used any of these in-email text advertising networks? If so, what scenarios did/didn't they work well in?
Massive congratulations to Drew and Arash
It is now clearer than ever that there is no such thing as a truly safe single investment — not a big savings account at IndyMac, not the auction-rate securities that have caused so many problems for scores of investors and not supposed blue-chip stocks like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac that you might buy on your own, outside of a mutual fund.

So, who is more likely to have owned some FNM and FRE: someone with 100 different investments, who must thus spend less than 1% of their time investigating any given holding (perhaps far less, if their research ever causes them to reject a potential investment); or someone with five or six investments, who thus spends a lot of time thinking about each one, and about what sorts of minor problems or unusual events could make those companies worth a lot less?
I know of a lib for Python but it only produces xls.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator

If you are using ASP.NET why can't you install Office on the server?
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On the contrary, I think people are more likely to read it because of the "lol they said CRAP!" reaction. I guess that was why the term was 'invented', as opposed to PRAC or RAPC or another less-silly combination.

FYI this was where I first heard the acronym:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Will...
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I love hitting the bargain bins at video game stores. There are many many games which don't merit spending $40-$60, but have some redeeming quality at $1-$5. I've found some of my favorite games that way, and the junkers are easy to trade back in for credit. The great ones generally were just obscure and deserved better market attention than they actually got.
I have to disagree with you on this particular story because:

1. The particular incident described is a sufficiently egregious violation of established norms to qualify as a new phenomenon.

2. Warrantless searches; trumped up charges and the willful violation of civil rights speaks directly to the suitability of the US business environment.

I'm sorry but if this is the sort of behavior we can expect from law enforcement should the republican party retain power then no business is safe in this country.

Your promising startup could be nuked because your main competitor is the nephew of the local capo of Homeland Security. And money is no protection; look to the experiences of the Jews in Europe.
I think that Apple's growing market share would indicate that at least SOME Windows users see the benefit in switching to Mac. I also wouldn't be shocked to find that some Mac users have switched to Windows for whatever reason.

"Beneficial" is a matter of personal taste and requirements from your OS.
If one spends some time reading various international rankings, they'll quickly notice that Nordic countries dominate pretty much everything out there - business friendliness, tech preparedness, quality of life, democracy, government transparency, happiness etc.

And its probably a bit more complicated than Adam Smith's little recommendation. Far more than any other countries, they seem to have a dedication to finding things that work - regardless if they are "socialist" (ie, their relatively high personal taxes and great social programs) or "capitalist" (ie, the business friendliness cited by the article).
Will get it changed; great point!

Thank you.

Suggestion to get the answers you want: post a blog post along the lines of "Fitness for geeks?" and submit that to this site, you'll get more attention this way.

Alternatively, if it's really feedback you're looking for, try posting it as a question, as an "Ask HN". Try to make your question specific, controversial and interesting to HN.

General thoughts on your offering: I'd be interested if you could provide a good variety of workouts that don't need a gym, since I'm about to cancel my membership.

Also, I hate to say this, but the pictures on the front page create a very "homo erotica" feel... I probably wouldn't browse this site in an open plan office.

Good luck!
You've got to troll better than that. These waters have been fished out.

I'm sure Google can lead you to a couple hundred thousand examples. Try searchyc.com as well. Try "paul graham mac". Find some mac developer blogs.
that lying uncle!
Please explain what Icharts does. "Youtube for interactive charts"?

So you share charts like you share powerpoints on Slideshare?

How's this different from Wikinvest's interactive charts?
Have you looked at the Apache POI project? Not sure if it can do XLSX yet, though.
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http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/830/820/1024/IMG_0381.jpg

That's a bit outdated, but it gets the idea across. Though, currently the desk is covered in mail which needs to be sorted and filed.
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Maybe I'm in a part of the lisp echo chamber, but I have to wonder why on lisp hasn't been reprinted. pg any comments?
Terrible article. Dvorak is a page view merchant, though he does occasionally stumble across something good.

I'm totally of the opinion that Chrome is there to make IE8 look bad, and hopefully chivvy Microsoft towards a more standards embracing outcome.

We should all remember that Bill Gates strongly drove proprietary standards to ensure that most generated content was best supported and viewed by MS applications.
Animals representation for human mistakes.. has become a tradition ;-)
I haven't had a look at that...looks promising. Right now I'd be looking for something I can use with C#.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Definitely too wordy.

And I find the statement about running on a single 386 unbelievable. You'll need at least 2.
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XLSX is zipped XMLs, so you might try reverse-engineering. Also consider having a static XLS which imports data from a web-based CSV.
How has he not participated?
The latest (licensed) version of Office we have is 2003. As far as we know using Office 2003 for server side Excel generation is not recommended.

Thanks for the link to the Python framework though.
You haven't said what you're trying to put into that Excel spreadsheet. If it's just rows of text, numbers, and formulas, then it's dead simple.

- change your response mime-type to application/excel

- supply a filename ending with .xls

- output comma-separated text.

done.

(it only gets difficult if you need to start embedding charts and specifying fonts)
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Except it costs money to make recordings. Lavish recording, small market: explanation for higher price.

Of course, this kind of reasoning is irrelevant if a recording is essentially just advertising for a tour, movie, fashion-label or whatever.
(it only gets difficult if you need to start embedding charts and specifying fonts)

We do need to do some of this
Practical Common Lisp is free online. Just give them a link.
I clicked the link and got the "Get back to work" page. I dutifully clicked the "ignore" link and succeeded in putting off work for another 60 minutes.
I think recently desktop apps started to look much more like web apps. I believe that's the right direction, as web apps are "usually" more focused on the one thing they do best and appear less cluttered. Under the hood you might be right though - see Gears, which enables web apps to do a lot of those desktop things.
I thought so too, then I checked who the author was, and realized I had already read a book of his: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

When I read the book, his personality some times bothered me, but the book had enough insight that it was worth my time. I felt the same with this essay.
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OK, looks like kraemate is the overwhelming winner, though I have to give an honorable mention to byrneseyeview. Post (or email if you don't want it made public) your mailing address and I'll send them out today.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator... HN discussions regarding ie6
Good question, sorry I wasn't clearer. I opted to leave the cord exposed across the floor from the wall plate to the lamp, since the plate was close to where I wanted the lamp anyway. I was also on a carpeted floor, so where there was any horizontal run I believe I was able to stuff the cord between the carpet and the wood trim -- somewhat unsightly but the best I was willing to do in my rented space.
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He's definitely a participant, both in terms of software (off the top of my head: fetchmail, several contributions to Linux, Emacs, and Nethack) and tech books (The Art of Unix Programming, some of Learning GNU Emacs, others).

If anything, the problem with ESR is that he considers himself an expert on explaining hacker culture to outsiders, yet tends to excessively project his own values, politics, etc. on it when doing so.
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True, in an ideal environment the floor is best. But someone lives in the apartment below. I imagine they appreciate my imperfect but - at normal volumes - acoustically sound hack of incorporating rubber stabilizers in the subwoofer base and glass shelving.
I've used 2 methods:

1: SpreadsheetML: You can output XML which is understood by excel, here is an introduction: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226687(office.11).aspx

2: Insert values into an existing template.xls which is accessed with sql using an Oledbconnection. The template can have existing charts which will get updated with the new values.
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Is there anything simpler? I often wonder what if all the activists, Reddit/Digg readers etc, focused on a single issue at a time, collectively phoned and wrote 1000's of elected officials every day. Would that effect some change?

Is there any way to channel of the internet peoples' energy into a single goal?
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Large scale satellite video recording of the major parts of Iraq?

So lets say a car bomb blows up at somewhere, you can then rewind and track the driver of said car bomb over the past couple of months.
How did you make this?
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Honestly, I'm not even sure why Grockit is in the list, they've just raise $8M series B, its series B, I repeat. Would the 50K matter?

I guess my point is why isn't the chance given to another startup that really needed the exposure and money.
I'm a life-long PC user who has toyed with Mac briefly from time to time and been somewhat impressed. The price points have always kept me away however.

Back in March I picked up a MacBook from MacMall (recommended) for my fiancee and after using OS X a bit more regularly I can safely say that as soon as I have a reason to pick up a new computer it will be a Mac.

I'm not a coder so I can't comment on using either OS for that purpose. What I can say from my perspective is that it just works. Her MacBook doesn't freeze or bog like every PC I've ever owned has on an almost daily basis. The layout is smart and functions are user-friendly. Everything makes sense to her (relative novice). As a result, she asks far fewer questions of me than she did when she was using XP.

Of course everything is a matter of personal preference. I would suggest that you take a good hour (at least) in an Apple Store and play with whichever model caught your eye. My guess; you'll end up liking it.
By reading out and parsing the XML plist served by apple?
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Yes - COM Automation stuff is generally not recommended for non-interactive usage. Although I think many people do get away with it.
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Hallelujah! Markets are great because they are a decentralized method for regulating resources that can adjust for changing conditions. One wants them in situations where there are too many factors and actors to be regulated by something as large and slow moving as a government. Markets aren't to be worshiped. They are a tool.

Governments and laws are good for certain things too. I would like murder and violence to be illegal. I want human rights to be a given. Democracies aren't perfect, but they do embody a mechanism for ensuring the above. Unfortunately, they also allow their constituents to turn them into non-democracies. Democracies require constant maintenance.
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When I was at Bank of America I worked on an internal Project Management tool that used a ton of Excel spreadsheets. If you can start with some kind of template it becomes dead simple. Excel spreadsheets can be used as datasources without Excel being installed on the server (iirc). Our app just connected to the XLS and dumped the data into the existing columns. If you have charts based on those columns then you're good to go.

Of course if you can't start with a template or need to add columns on the fly...it might be a little more challenging.
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Ask YC: Convertible Note (legal and finance)
We are raising some seed funding from friends and family for our startup. The dollar amounts are fairly small, inline with typical YCom seed money $10,000-20,000.

Convertible Note's seem to be a good way of setting up these smaller funding transactions to keep things simple, and avoid valuations and costly legal expenses. I was reading a post on YC a few months back that linked to a bunch of legal docs, one was a Convertible Note template that seemed pretty good. But in the comments Jessica Livingston expressed some concerns on the usefulness/quality of the templates.

If anyone has done a convertible note to raise funds and has any referrals to quality templates or legal advice for this specific format it would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the link to the template found on Docstoc, and the article that referenced it:http://www.jasonnazar.com/2008/07/10/10-incredibly-awesome-documents-to-help-you-start-a-company/
Who has committed more murders and violence in the past century? Random individuals/groups, or Governments? If you support nonviolence, why support an organization that threatens violence if you do not follow rules have no moral basis (ie, not "don't murder" and "don't steal") that you never agreed to follow?
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We can only hope it is not space-based, as China, Russia, and the US are already dangerously close to a new arms race into orbit.
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Again - invaluable insight. My genuine thanks!
Do you honestly believe that random individuals organized in some other fashion than government - say a corporation - are not just as able to murder and pillage on the same level as governments past?

If you think that governments are some sort of special organization, and that the same problems would not occur with any other power, you sir are a fool.
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Ask YC: Feedback on my Mac Leopard App
About 4 months ago, I quit my full time coding job and started freelancing while working on this task management app:

http://gearsquare.com/actiongear/

I wanted to make the app stay in the background, only showing itself when the user hits a hotkey combination like Quicksilver. This works really well when I'm "in the zone", because ActionGear just pops up over TextMate/XCode/Firefox when I need it and then goes away when I'm done.

It's in early beta right now (and free) because I believe in the "release early/release often route".

I'd really appreciate any feedback you guys have on the application, website, screencast, or even the business.

And if you guys have any questions for me, feel free to ask here =].

Thanks!
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And you are tarring every person who blocks adverts under the same brush - as a leecher.

You are assuming that those who block adverts by default don't contribute to websites in ways that more than makes up for the blocking of adverts - they're "stealing", don't forget.

I've been using the Internet for approximately 8 years. I have never seen a 'nice and useful' advertisement (and yes, I'm including the time before I started using ad-block plugins).
Link:

http://gearsquare.com/actiongear/

http://gearsquare.com/media/vid/actiongear.mp4 <-- this is just a 73 sec video demo I put together in iMovie, it's a 6.4MB download
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I'm willing to bet this version will still be the slowest piece of software to ever run on the Win32 platform.

How about they fix that instead?
Like I said, by that logic anyone who chooses not to click adverts are also stealing.

Do you click every advert you see just to make sure you're compensating for 'stolen' bandwidth, processing power, storage, electricity?

FYI: I redistribute scripts under GPL licensing. I don't ask for donations, nor do I litter my pages with advertising. I consider that pretty "giving" - and no, I don't have problems with people 'stealing' my bandwidth, processing power, storage or electricity.
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Link to the original source would be nice, too. http://kevinrose.com
They did - it's called Mac OS X.
Is that a rhetorical question?

Of course the one with 100 different investments is more likely to have own FNM and/or FRE. But, he only had 1% of his investments on that. On the other hand, if you only had 5 investments then you may have had 20% of your investments in FME or FRE.
Voted up, but almost didn't with the reference to corporations being as evil as governments.

Haven't seen that yet, mostly due to free market influences. (There is a good reason why your neighborhood store owner is not also a flagrant lawbreaker -- it's bad for business)

But substitute "armed gangs", "the mob", "terrorist organizations", etc -- works great.
It's more for the exposure than the prize money.

Mint got lots of exposure after being the winner. I don't think they care much for the prize money.

"why isn't the chance given to another startup that really needed the exposure and money."

Why should they? It should be based on merit. If Grockit's product is great, they deserve their place there