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I had never considered upon which continent New Zealand is considered to reside before reading your comment. After consulting Wikipedia, I've discovered that the answer is a lot less straight-forward than I had originally thought.

Before doing my (minimal) research, I would have assumed they were part of Asia, if for no other reason than that I considered Australia the continent and Australia the country to be essentially one and the same (i.e. a continent consisting of just one country), but that doesn't seem to be the case.

According to Wikipedia's article on the continent of Australia [1], "New Zealand is not on the same continental shelf and so is not part of the continent of Australia but is part of the submerged continent Zealandia. Zealandia and Australia together are part of the wider region known as Oceania or Australasia."

Similarly, Wikipedia's "list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent" page [2], does not use "Australia" as a continental group, and instead uses "Oceania" to encapsulate states in that region.

So I guess New Zealanders don't really have any right to complain about not being able to call themselves Australian, since they're not even technically part of the Australian continent. They could refer to themselves as Oceanians, Australasians, or even Polynesians [3], but not as Australians.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_%28continent%29

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de...

[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oceanias_Regions.png
You should definitely check out Rework by 37signals. Although not in-depth, it definitely makes you think about the value of some of the more traditional notions.
I heard that it is actually written using GL to draw the character glyphs. Hilarious.
I agree with this too. HN community has value. Points = harnessing that value.
Very useful.

Some suggestions:

1. Can we have a password protected mockup?
2. Should you consider giving a <title> to your site's HTML?
No self-respecting Canadian would refer to himself as an American, for obvious reasons.
I would suggest starting the "idea" with data about paying customers. There's a lot of data out there. Find a market, figure out what they need/want and build a POC. Figure out if your market will pay for it and garner feedback. You might just find that your market will reveal the elusive "idea" for you.
Even though these aren't really obscure, but they're worth mentioning as some of the best unix "tools" I've seen:

Irssi - irc client
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These are mentioned mostly because he included the newsbeuter rss client (which is amazing, I highly recommend it).
In my opinion, not really, not if they have reasonable suspicion. I mean, it'd be a complete waste of their time and yours due to the low value of the object in question, but I don't know that low value should mean they shouldn't be able to.

That is, of course, just my opinion. I do not claim that reflects local laws.
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I create kids sites for a living and having spent too many hours locked up in rooms with lawyers I can tell you that COPPA isn't a bogus excuse. You'd need to have parents give permission to facebook to collect marketing data — as if that weren't enough of an uphill struggle keep in mind the number of lawsuits against Facebook dealing with issues like bulling and other scary issues like online predators.

Unless Facebook were to invent a special account (or a special domain like Facebook Jr.) it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. Also kids get very tired of social networks — as it is there are many under-13 kids with fake accounts who abandon them within a few months because the site no longer seems cool.
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The funny thing is that IE6 was considered standard compliant back in 2001. AFAIK MS claimed it was CSS1 compliant based on the CSS1 test suite (and AFAIK they weren't the only ones praising it as standard-compliant). But the test suite was incomplete, as pointed out by Hixie, and in any case CSS1 is old now (which is why WordPress say current web standards).
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Actually the default frontend theme (twentyten) has already dropped ie6 support for the dropdown navigation (can be solved installing a plugin for those who need to support it)
Or a printer?
In terms of that stuff I actually like to listen to entrepreneurs talk about what they're doing — my favorite podcasts are mixergy and TWIST.
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I'd say the problem is how different parties conceive of the word "bank". When you're a consumer, the word "bank" means the entity that you interact with to do your banking. At the same time, the legal definition of "bank" is something entirely different, requiring compliance with many more laws than what BankSimple is doing. So, as far as I can see from the point of view of a customer of BankSimple, they will be "my bank" because you interact with them and not with the banks that are actually responsible for the safekeeping of your money while it's in your account.
Reading this reminded me of some words from Henry David Thoreau:

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone."
I have worked corporate government web development for over a decade (sigh). I helped bring in use of open source and php there and in a way it has always operated as a startup with constant staff/tech changes.

But going it alone in the real world has been a teacher of many new lessons. I am struggling everyday to balance working towards a goal while maintaining the present reality. I am not alone in my current startup (http://infostripe.com) but it's pretty much down to me right now to finance, develop, market, and support it. Developing and managing growth are tasks I actually crave to do and my goal right now is to build an idea slowly, work hard, refine and iterate the results until it begins to take on a life of its own and we can afford specialists and consider investment.

I would say for sure that until you do reach the point of stability in your code and business model that you are living a particular lifestyle. Any time you can find to get closer to profitability is your life. I've watched many small business owners go through the same startup cycles. Some make it and some don't. It just really comes down to the fact that if the thing you are going after is something that you Love to do it will ultimately get easier if it is a decent idea. The something whether code or knitting is the thing that you want to do so figuring out the rest just enables your passion.

I believe ultimately that being able to think up, program and execute technical and/or products and craft ideas for making coin online is an ever growing small business of the now and future.
You can put it in your about in Hacker News.
Thanks for this extension.

A suggestion- I understand what you're trying to convey with the point range, but for usability I'd prefer always seeing one number there. I don't mind a best guess and marking the score as an approximate number. Having to mentally parse ranges and less than symbols adds a slight speed bump.
It is amazing what you can accomplish with bit twiddling.

I've been working on a Protocol Buffer decoder, and I was looking for ways to optimize varint decoding. On a Google-internal list I asked how you'd transform the 64-bit integer:

0aaa aaaa 0bbb bbbb 0ccc cccc 0ddd dddd 0eee eeee 0fff ffff 0ggg gggg 0hhh hhhh

into:

0000 0000 aaaa aaab bbbb bbcc cccc cddd dddd eeee eeef ffff ffgg gggg ghhh hhhh

Not two hours later I had several impressive transformations that I never would have come up with on my own. The two most effective:

b = ((b & 0x7f007f007f007f00) >> 1) | (b & 0x007f007f007f007f);
b = ((b & 0xffff0000ffff0000) >> 2) | (b & 0x0000ffff0000ffff);
b = ((b & 0xffffffff00000000) >> 4) | (b & 0x00000000ffffffff);

and:

b += b & 0x007f007f007f007fULL;
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I don't know how these guys come up with this stuff.
Might still be useful for some embedded applications.
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As someone who lived in coastal ecuador for 6 months, and also visited Costa Rica for 2 months, I'd like to confirm the unbelievable absence of the "seven deadly sins". Most of the people in the rural areas live with the sole purpose of bettering the future of their children and community, and the concept of exploiting others for personal gain is completely alien to them. I feel that the subtitles do not do Severo's character justice both when he is talking about why his family lives in La Paz and also when he sees his family for the first time in a month.

Also, tourists may ride these cables in Costa Rica, where they are referred to as ziplines.
In which case, specify a currency in the poll.

The initial question is currency-neutral, commenters can specify their own $/£/€/whatever, but you can't do that while answering a poll. Not that I've any idea what level exchange rates are at these days.
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Since we do not own eBooks from Amazon, Apple and the like, maybe a Netflix-like service for eBooks needs to be created. I read 6-10 books a month, and if I could pay $10/month to read them like I do with movies at Netflix, it would be nice. Instead, Amazon and the like charge users to license each copy at $10/each and up, usually, which is such a ripoff. Amazon can sell virtual goods to us, but we can't resell them after we finish using them? Such a ripoff. At the most, Amazon should charge a small rental fee for their eBooks.
This essay is moving, but its subject is hard to really grasp. It's filled with things that seem like platitudes, but are not. They seem like platitudes because we think we already get them, but we don't. We live by convention, by others' opinions, and solitude in the sense the author means - finding one's own way, whether or not others approve - is frightening. The technological distractions he decries are not what's causing our fervent avoidance of ourselves, they just facilitate it.
Nah. In the future people won't think that lending books is "nasty and wrong." They'll think it's silly. They'll ask "why would I do that, when I can just give him a copy?"
Fast parsing from any language (even slow languages like Ruby) without having to compile and link generated C code for every grammar into the interpreter.

With this approach, you could have a C extension that could load any grammar at runtime and parse it extremely fast.

C/Assembly code is orders of magnitude faster at parsing than generating eg. Ruby that does the parsing.
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Could you please explain what you mean with 'linkporn'? WikiPedia doesn't know the term and Google gives only links to porn (which is probably not what you mean).

I can speculate, but I might be wrong. Maybe you mean something like 'liberally littering articles with links' or even 'linking to one's own blog, even when the link is irrelevant'?
Believe it or not, there are still programs that require blazingly fast bit operations. I used like ten different bit hacks for a game engine I wrote which uses bitboards[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard
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One caveat: until the mythical PHP 6 comes out, if you're using unicode at all you should be using the multibyte string functions. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php Python has had unicode support for a while and generally does the right thing, something that might be missed with blind PHP replication.
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I had no idea there was a patented way to compute the absolute value of an integer. Insane.
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The new Twenty Eleven theme [1] doesn't fully support IE6 (there's comments on that bug) but I believe it works OK in it. As WordPress is completely themeable, there will probably be themes that support IE6 for years to come.

More interesting (for me at least) is that WordPress 3.2 will require PHP5.2 [2]. WordPress had lots of legacy code for PHP4 that made coding plugins for it a pain.

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Google's Dutch auction IPO pricing looks even more appealing after seeing this. Too bad it took a recession for them to get the bargaining power to demand a Dutch auction.
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The first one. I hoped the comma and "fantastic" would make it clearer. ;)
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The autocompletion can easily be turned off.

Anyhow, what is typed on the URL bar is only a small subset of sites visited.
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Break out the Adam Smith?

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public"
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I like Henry (Joe...not so much), but they are being idiots. Pricing an IPO is not quite that easy. And a 100% pop is not the end of the world for the company. In fact it is pretty neat.

Henry's analogy is asinine. Better is the owner of a 10 unit building renting to a tenant for $1000 who turns around and rents for $2000. The owner, without doing anything, has just increased the value of his building by 90%.
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Goodness and badness is subjective. Up/down voting should exist only for the purpose of recommending articles to each individual user. This is far different from the typical use of up/down which is to recommend articles to the collective, which is not robust against influxes from other communities, e.g. reddit, digg etc.

In other words, when I log in, I should see my own personal HN list of stories, that have been submitted by people I respect (i.e. people I've previously upvoted), or people that they respect etc.

I call this idea PeopleRank.
Seems like a great topic for a NYTimes business-section infographic:

Which underwriters price IPOs most accurately and which ones leave huge amounts of their clients' money on the table?
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Too much endurance exercise, like marathoning, can cause myocardial damage. Some discussion here: http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-403371.html.

If you want to run, do sprints.
The underwriters also have a responsibility to all involved not to over price the ipo to take advantage of transient demand. If they do, and the stock ends up under water within a few days to months they run a serious risk of pissing off both their investing clients and the newly public company. Opening down or trading below what the stock priced at in the short term has a strong stigma attached to it and can make retail and institutional investors think there is something systemically wrong with the company regardless of the fundamentals.

There was an editorial in the WSJ on friday that strongly suggested the price action in LNKD has to do with the current easy credit environment driving money into riskier assets. I agree this seems likely. Certainly it seems difficult to justify the valuation on any traditional metric. If when pricing the ipo Morgan also felt that any frothy demand was based more on the easing environment than real interest in LNKD as a company, perhaps they were right to hold the pricing a bit more conservative than the market was suggesting.

After all, they already had increased it by almost 33%, and the current QE program is scheduled to shut down in June. Many smart people appear to be betting on interest rates climbing after the program ends, that may take enough money out of the market to cause someone like LNKD to correct.

Another thing to keep in mind is that LNKD offered a relatively small amount of stock as compared to many offerings. This kept supply low and could have contributed to the large pop, but also means that they probably have plenty available for a potential secondary offering, which could allow them to profit from these very price moves down the line,
Here's a post from the Chromium blog [1], which has more details. It also states how Google is already using it in Gmail, Picasa and instant search previews.

Google is in a great position as they can write a spec, release a browser implementing the spec and update their sites (which account for a substantial portion of the web) in such a short time. In essence, there is no "chicken and the egg" problem of who goes first.

This also happened with SPDY [2], which Chrome already supports and most Google sites now use instead of HTTPS (for Chrome, at least).

I think we can expect Google to do everything they can to make the web faster.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2011/05/webp-in-chrome-picasa-gmail...

[2] http://www.chromium.org/spdy
Making money in banking is trivially easy. The big banks need to assess all sorts of fees to sustain their humongous and humongously unnecessary cost structures.
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You are in a very small minority (credit union customers).
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A sufficiently custom web server does have the means to estimate protocol level overhead (TCP and IP headers, retransmissions). The only reason it couldn't track would some kind of a system that splits TCP connections (e.g. a proxy) located somewhere between the billing system and the web server. But most forced proxies only run on port 80, and could easily be circumvented.

The measurement would not be totally accurate as the sender couldn't know at which point packet loss happened. A packet lost somewhere after the billing system and retransmitted should count, a packet lost before the billing system should not. But it would at least give an upper bound. If the bottleneck in the system is the RAN rather than the internet links that upper bound could actually be quite close to the real figure.

Of course some technical competence would have been required for this experiment, probably more than these clowns have. And it would likely have shown about 5-10% protocol overhead, which would not have done their case any good.
I think BankSimple is going to struggle to find customers with its current proposition. The fact is that people are not as unhappy with their banks' fees, customer support or websites as BankSimple thinks (or at least suggests). People like branches and brands. The one thing people do like is products which is how ING broke into the business but an approach that BankSimple appears not to be pursuing.