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It's not just tidiness. There's also a valid privacy concern.

These parameters have nothing to do with serving the content the user wants and are only there to track users and behavior and are metadata about the real url that's attached like a parasite. I understand the value for content providers, but I think stripping them off for archival purposes is appropriate.
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The big thing for the ChromeBook for me is the price. It shouldn't cost more than a more fully-featured notebook. $250 - I'd be all over one. $500? No thanks.
Did you see the Rapportive sidebar to the right of a conversation? It should show you useful context about the people you're communicating with.

If not, do you perhaps have any conflicting Gmail extensions? (e.g. Better Gmail can conflict.)
I'd start off by assuring people that you're not just an idea/business guy looking for code monkey to do all the technical work for 1% of the company.
you're welcome! I did want to make this simple and bulletproof, avoiding dangerous or clever things on the critical path. Particularly wrt the upstream socket. I'm happy you approve.

And we definitely have your number in the Rolodex for some crazy things we might try soon when we need some sanity checks that we haven't gotten in over our heads.
A company with a limited operating history that can quickly change their business model. Often, but not required to be, tech oriented with the potential for high growth.
I do too! It's absolutely the right behaviour for a service like pinboard, and it's even the right behaviour from Google's perspective, since any clicks on that link will be from pinboard, and not whatever the original source was listed in the UTM parameters.
Welp, now I know another service not to use. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Hmm, I was in the beta and I thought this would be a good buy at say $150. $500? they must be mad.
Ah, well I stand corrected, Mr. Hamming :)
Mostly style and idioms. One bug related to inefficiency but not necessarily incorrect behavior. An optimization or two.
What he's saying is that, because url shorteners hide the Urchin crap, it has allowed it to become more pervasive, since most people don't see the Urchin crap until it's hidden far to the right in the browser.
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The exam was probably mostly about the algorithms involved in managing FIFO data. Whether you extend an array list or create a custom class wrapping a buffer does not change the algorithm. Hence the blank look from the teacher.
There is a middle-ground, which is good and wholesome. site.com/category/page-name.html gives good context for users (those few of us who understand URLs, anyway ;) that site.com/index.php?id=x doesn't without bloating things for SEO purposes.
Not sic. I believe he was referring to model helicopters, not a specific model of helicopter.
I think the problem is also with the lack of US style Universities. Most of the good quality successes from the US come from Stanford, Harvard and the likes. It is this entrepreneurial and enlightened culture that YC taps into to get quality of startup it has along with the exits. YC is only the finishing school for such startups considering their strict selection norms.

The problem is also proportional to how many new technologies are coming out of India. How many companies / hackers are hosting open source projects on Github, Google Code etc.

I think the problem is not with the market. Its that the culture is not sufficiently mature. When you build products for India, you tap the whole developing world market - Asia (other than Japan / China), Africa and South America. English is a barrier but so is the lack of good solutions.
My compilers professor gave this to our class on the first day. Love this article.
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Not ignoring your question, btw, but I'm not at liberty to elaborate.
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Sow Ink, not such a good name for a dating site.
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detecting duplicate urls? seomoz's api will do that for you...

url cruft is much more an aesthic thing. see http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/clean-up-extra-url-parameters-...
"Fraud" is far too strong, to me. Many people are naturally interested in astronomy (when was the last time you saw a HN article about condensed matter physics, or epidemiology?), and popular articles like this provide a short-term return on their investment.

As to the sexing up/over-selling, competition for scarce resources is the very definition of an incentive. The grant funding system has plenty of flaws, but the fact that research is funded through competition a) increases its quality and b) doesn't remove the intrinsic value of its results.
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> that translates into a monetary value of more than $133 million, estimates RescueTime.

That number is as meaningless as the RIAA's claims of gargantuan losses from piracy. It rests upon the completely unfounded assumption that time spent playing with the "doodle" could and would have otherwise been spent doing productive work. That's a nice wet dream for HR but doesn't line up anything like reality from my experience.
Why is physical scarring bad? Why is infection bad?

Humans dislike infection for the same reason they dislike cold showers. Pain is bad. Avoiding pain is good.
Linus takes the stage at about 8:40 in the video.
Better link: http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

But yes, awesome book. :)
If you look at the Compete graph, traffic has not exactly exploded in the past year or so...
Thing is, share dilution is not much different from giving an employee or vendor a huge pile of money in exchange for labor that turns out not to generate much revenue. It is bad for business (and will be reflected in a share value drop), but how can you prove it is fraud?
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"They create needless URL bloat" - You just said you don't like short URL's. You can't have it both ways.

"erode user privacy" - The data gathered is aggregated and doesn't identify individuals.

"make it more difficult to identify duplicate content" - You're already stripping them because you don't like them, so just ignore them when de-duping. Again, you can't have it both ways.

"and benefit ad publishers at the expense of everyone else." - You're out to screw the guys who pay for all those wonderful free services you use, like GMail for example:

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Is Jeltsin the same as Yeltsin? Was he in the same league as the other two? He seemed OK from the news I read, not much worse than, say, Reagan, in terms of leadership and mental stability.
Awesome, awesome response, thanks! I've tried to understand the ad ecosystem many times before, but never got it until reading this now.
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As a 5th generation Indian ex-pat, I can say that that when I first landed in India, I was _appalled_ . There are so many factors holding this country back, it's not even funny. A lot of it has to do with mentality, corruption, illiteracy and a general sense of lethargy which pervades existence here.

Once I went into the city (Pune) and was informed that nothing (given, in a certain area) would be open until 11am. Every day. How can you expect markets to grow in such an environment? India really needs to catch a wake up and start implementing viable infrastructure and services. Until that happens, I don't see how people would have a use for technology (X) when they don't have access to the basics.
I really find it difficult to believe RescueTime's numbers, any number of millions of hours requires a whole lot of people on the left and a whole lot of minutes on the right - a big, big chunk of Google's enormous traffic would not have cared, not have cared for more than seconds, or just not seen it at all if they used their address or search bars instead of going to the home page.

Although that's still going to easily be millions of people that did interact a lot (probably most) wouldn't have found it very engaging... and even if they all did 5.3m hours is a lot of time for mere millions of people to spend, we track ~10m people that only manage to clock ~2.5m hours daily playing casual games.
It cuts both ways. Google smothered Urchin and pissed off customers, but they brought GA to a much wider audience and integrated with the rest of Google system. Similar for Writely and Grand Central and many more I would bet.

It would be really wonderful if companies could use open standards and honest dealing, so that firms could interoperate effectively with out merging&acquiring.

Our tax system punishes that, though, so it is much more cost-effective to buy a small company than to buy their product and pay sales tax.
The data gathered absolutely does pose a threat to user privacy.
Whenever I read something like this I am uncomfortably reminded of how pathetically inadequate my tiny little human brain is for comprehending the vast infinity of the natural world, both on and off our planet.

Just yesterday I was reading an article intended to emphasise us puny humans' puniness by saying, basically, "One AU is 1cm. Now try to imagine ... 30km!!". OK, mind crashed, capacity exceeded, out of range exception. I can kinda sorta hold the first assumption in my brain. I can't hold the second.

Same with this spider and evolution. Hey, evolution, that's like when the roofs on the town buildings turned black with soot, and the white birds were more visible to predators and so darker birds were selected and after a few generations all the birds were black. Hey, I can understand that! Evolution! Yeah!

Now try to imagine ... a spider who - through some utterly incomprehensible series of inputs, forces, mutations, generations, selections, and no doubt thousands upon thousands of years - has managed to somehow end up instinctually constructing a working aqualung, which it then uses to live underwater 24/7. Crash! Stack limit exceeded, out of working space, buy a new computer please.

If only I could ..
I know it was before jony, I just meant it was very different from their modern look.
The problem is that new features and improvements are not forthcoming, and when software is closed source it is impossible to take business elsewhere if the copyright holder loses interest.
Wow, there are people out there still using CVS?
Ask HN: What is the next thing I have to do?
Hi HN Readers,
I am a full time software engineer in India. I want to ask what is the next thing I can do which can be challenging. I am 21yrs old and working with a reputed software organization now. My work and all are good but there is discontent some where. I need your suggestion on what to do, I have did some home work and came up with diverse set of ideas.
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Please feel free to drop any suggestions/critics, because I really want to figure out what to do.

Thank you
> >Or don't, because you clearly already made your mind up about the product before even laying a finger on it.

> Huh, he did lay a finger on it, he used it. Did we read the same article?

What I believe the grandparent meant was that the author had already made his decision before using it, and that having made his decision of how to view it he then proceeded to view it in that way. This is as opposed to the ideal of reviews, in which the reviewer forms opinions on the usability and quality of a product solely through interaction with a product.
You want to talk about baseball, we score that in runs. That's all.
meh. I would argue that the title is editorializing ("bomb" appears nowhere in the blog post), but I suppose it's the original author submitting. Maybe add a "BREAKING!!" next time to really get the votes?

I've only gotten to use a CR48, but I thought it was fine, if a little underpowered. Engadget liked the new samsung pretty well[1], just thought it was somewhat underpowered, and Gizmodo liked it alright but also thought it was underpowered[2]. Both talked about missing the features that weren't there yet (like offline support), but that are coming.

To the author: if you have to include phrases like "What amazes me most is the number of reviews I’ve seen today that overlook the fatal flaws", yes, it could be that they're all suffering from groupthink, or they're too forgiving, or they're bad at their jobs.

On the other hand, this machine could just not be for you. Honestly, why did you even think it was? You're bitching about having to wait on the network to load a document...I think you could have figured out you were going to have to do that without even getting a chromebook. People are pointing out your statement about working at Microsoft (and google has done a little baiting there, so I understand), but I think the real crux is right here: "I’m also a computer scientist from the days of old with a fetish for hardware". Yeah...there a lot better ways to spend your money.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/10/samsung-chromebook-series...
[2] http://gizmodo.com/5810831/samsung-series-5-chromebook-built...
click-to-flash. but I don't see why anyone would still think flash support is a good differentiator.
I have been through 6 in three years, and the protip is to not use the hinges when transporting the adaptor. just loop it up in a large loop so that there is no strain in the cord

my last cord has now lasted 9+ months since I started doing this (I move it daily)
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Ask HN: What are the economics of making mobile apps?
Let's say you're a company like Mint.com, or even Facebook for instance. You develop an app for the iPhone and Android. Chances are you're not gonna recoup the costs of producing the app (paying programmers, man hours, etc) from the app revenue.. I don't use many mobile apps, but I assume the Facebook app is free??

So why do companies make mobile apps? is it to protect their "moat"(their actual website where the ads are displayed) so to speak? To appease their users so they won't use a competitor?
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Speaking as someone who has also wished at times to make a more immediate, tangible impact on the world around me, I'm glad you're liking your new job. That said, even "ephemeral" things have value. Individuals will buy poetry books, for instance!

You seem to be saying that, since one can't persuade the average person on the street to pay you to write a research paper[1], the research that gets done is "over-sold" through "advertising." In other words, the work is funded not on its own merits, but as a popularity contest. I'd argue, though, even within astrophysics alone, some research is more important than others: maybe it answers more fundamental questions, or could enable a unifying explanatory framework for a broader class of phenomena, or is actually of near-term importance to us on Earth (asteroid location, space weather).

Science is a human endeavor. Yes, there is often hype and trends as people advocate for funding for their next big thing--but there's a lot of that here on Hacker News, too.
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Granted, I am conflating Northern and Southern Italy and most of my knowledge of both is from Italian expatriates who have deliberately left Italy to work in other countries due to dissatisfaction with the conditions there.

As for "They don't feel the fact that they enjoy a good quality of life impedes their ability to develop a strong economy," they could simply be wrong. Certain aspects of traditional cultures (e.g. long meal times and afternoon nap times) may simply be incompatible with increased productivity. You may want to have both, but this may be impossible.

"Nobility" may not be the best word to use, but certainly there is something laudable about valuing the family highly, etc. I would, however, posit that aspects of what this means in the present world indicate that you can't have all of the aspects of a traditional world (e.g long meal times, living with your grandparents) and expect economic improvement.
In a way I find Apple to have something akin to brutal ingeniousness. I hate them for basically using their developers like sheep but love them for creating such a great product and ecosystem.
The issue with Indian tech startups is the they are mostly knock offs of already successful US based companies. i.e yelp knockoffs, ebay knockoffs etc.

Indians are more focused on making the quick buck, rather than working on a product for the long haul, and actually developing something new, unique and innovative. Unless this mentality changes, there will not be a market for YC type shops in India.

Disclaimer: Born and raised in Calcutta, but in the valley now.
Shouldn't the title be , 'Why The Y Combinator Model Will Not Work in India'?
The market is not limited to India. The market is global. There is no reason why Indian startups cannot have global clients and be acquired by a non-Indian company. Sure the legal costs will be slightly higher during the exit, but thats not a deterrent.

The problem of why ycombinator model has not worked in India is the same as why other ycombinator copycats in other parts of the world have failed too. (Besides TechStars, I can't think of very many successful ycombinators in other parts of the world - including Canada and Europe and Australia.)

The reason is: these copy cats have not cracked the code of attracting and accepting awesome startups. The success of ycombinator is mainly based on the success of its startup selection.

You need someone like Paul Graham to attract a lot of startups. You then need to be good at filtering out and select only the startups that show promise. And you then need to help these startups with huge demo days.

Who else has managed to crack this? No one. If you see the Indian and other ycombinator copy cats, you will still see such a high degree of crappy startup acceptance rate. Fix that, and you will have a successful ycombinator copy cat.

Because the market is global.
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"Firefox may hang if left open for long periods of time. To fix the issue, restart Firefox." Oh my God...
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Not exactly. See, for example, Tacitus (c. 98 CE):

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Good post. When you are faced with performance issues one of the #1 things you can do is look at what you can cache.

Can you cache requests? Page renders? Database objects? How about function calls?

Caching isn't a panacea but it is certainly one of tools in your set of optimization tactics.

Other stuff I generally look for when trying to optimize include:

- Connection times and connecting pooling
- Memory constraints
- Duplication of data
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This was a really interesting article to read.
The interesting part is that the attitude of everyone is generally - leave the Government out of it.
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- Douglas Adams -

YC is an evolved system. It's probably better suited for Silicon Valley in 2011 than New York 1997 or Curitiba in 2025. That shouldn't be a surprise.

That doesn't mean that Curitiba in 2025 is or is not a good place and time for a YC-like creature to exist. Certain types of people, investors, exits, consumers... make it a good place for certain types of founders abc to receive xyz in exchange for 123. India is very different and obviously the local version at its best would need some adaptations. Who knows what those are.

India's opportunities are lots of programmers. Talent available at very low costs. BTW, a local hirer would be able to get much better work for his $25 per hour than a New Yorker can get via elance. A 10 person team could potentially have a burn rate under that of a two person team in California. They have under-served markets. Ballooning markets and they are potentially better placed to understand under-served ballooning markets elsewhere.

Anyway, the two conditions that supposedly don't exist in India either do or don't actually need to exist in India depending on how you interpret them. I'm nowhere near an expert and they seem silly to me. (1)Big exits are international. Maybe Facebook would be more open to buying promising small team for $2.5m locally but once you get to $250m you're not going to be off the radar anywhere. (2) Why does the market need to be able to support 2-3 large players in every market. That's not a requisite. It needs to be able to support players in some markets. Luckily some (many) markets are international and can be accessed from anywhere. And India is a large market for plenty of things.
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