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reddit is becoming abysmally boring in certain ways.

For example, a great majority of posts these days are simply links to imgur, of pictures that already exist elsewhere. Linking to the source would have provided greater access to a wider scope of content. You could probably get much of the "reddit experience" just going to imgur and browsing recent uploads.
Same here. I failed big in the 2001 recession and it took me a couple of years to really believe it. I almost have the back taxes paid off now. The IRS really doesn't do the criminal conviction thing unless there's no other choice. It's expensive and doesn't really fix the problem - that they don't have their money. They'd much, much rather set up a payment plan.

Also, for anybody in that situation - talk to them. I've never had a bad experience talking to the IRS. Sure, it's scary admitting there's that much debt hanging over your head, but the earlier you get on it, the better. Way better.
"Looking for co-founder" is another way of saying "I have no money to pay for a technical team so I'm offering you a stake in a potentially successful venture". Makes sense to me.
Absolute useless gimmick. I clicked without reading and still got 5 out of 5 on the "test".

When they make that test actually difficult to answer, then it will be a good privacy policy.
I can't even read this. It radiates tawdriness.
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I didn't say it was the same, what I'm saying is that by going out in public there is a reasonable risk that you will be photographed and it will appear in public on the internet and it will probably be of enough quality to personally identify you. I don't see why this should be illegal. Is the guy a jackass? For sake of argument, lets say he is.

The author has stated that he will remove any photos that you don't want, so if you don't want them up then just go ask him to take them down.

I'm not sure what you wanted me to back up, could you be specific?
Did you also discard the data from before it was random?
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I mainly use iTerm2 because, unlike Terminal.app, it has gpm support. Being able to use a mouse while editing files over an SSH connection, without having to think about it, is a big win.
The "ni' night" imagery doesn't really work if the official pronunciation is "NIN-ite", not "NI-nite".

I had assumed the name was "NINE-ite" until I read the Ninite blog:

http://blog.ninite.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-named-b...
It's interesting to watch but I wonder if it's a healthy practice. I don't see many high-performers quickly reacting to competitor's advances.

It signals a greater focus on what others are doing than what the customers need. HP added bling to their laptops, Apple did nothing.

Reading about the "Lockdowns" at Facebook in response to perceived emergencies in the market makes me feel like there's some knee-jerk reactions happening. Or at least this is how it looks from a distance, I am nowhere close to any of the players in the thick of it.

In the end someone who serves a need not currently being filled will win and they'll keep winning if they keep up with how the needs of the market are changing. That's what Facebook did to MySpace and that's what ACME CO will do to Facebook when they stop filling the needs of the market.

Call me crazy but this seems like a very good time to get into the fight.
No, it is a valid point. To lose sight of that is to forget they're a business.

You don't pay them directly. Yes, they get paid based on your repeat usage, but they get paid by advertisers.
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This looks great. Two questions:

- How does one change the background color for the panes that don't have focus? The black vs charcoal distinction is a bit too subtle for me.

- Is it possible to map command-` to cycle between panes? If so, how?
Yeah, I did the same.
Why not start talking to a few companies in the destination area before deciding anything re: company A? e.g. line up a few phone interviews.
You could consider stopping at "Description of deliverables", then pay the prospective development team to help refine the deliverables spec/scope and on that basis create the additional items. You might also consider including a couple of iterative cycles to further refine the deliverables as the project develops and adjust the timeline payment schedules accordingly. In my limited experience, it is rare to be able to clearly define deliverables before you get into the project development.

Taking this approach might help you decide if you want to work with the chosen team and take your project forward another step.
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Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
We often find ourselves in a situation where we notice that things just aren't right. For instance, we believe that CAPTCHAs should not exist on the Web. HTML Newsletters are nasty and ugly, but at the moment we just have to work with them because of the popular email clients out there. What would you change on the Web if you could make a difference?

What would it be and how would you change it?
In the case of individual countries, it's often construed as a constitutional right. But in the case of the EU, you're right, it's a human right. Thanks for the correction.
Maybe some cheeky bitcoin user could trademark Magellan Capital Advisors in France, Italy, Spain, Japan and China.
May this article give the attorneys at Lewis Rice many headaches. If I'm general counsel with a relationship to Lewis Rice I think I'd be looking for outside counsel that wasn't going to sell me out when I'm a little inconvenient.
Title changed to whatever page's title is and I can't edit. Here is the original title: "Facebook bans video calling app, steals their url" and the link points to a specific comment on the page.
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The article's comments says the problem was that the (implicit) character encoding of the HTML page:

"The problem was not the encoding on our data feed, but the HTML document was sent with ISO-8859-1. The second we inserted the twitter text into the DOM, the browsers interpreted the UTF-8 string as ISO-8859-1."
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Only thing that was keeping me from really using Google Tasks was no great interface for just tasks. I only saw it tied to mail or calendar. This might make it a viable solution for me now.
Perhaps 'Window Cill' will soon lose their vanity URL too, if the vibes reference in Facebook video calling reference is true!
http://www.facebook.com/vibes
Hover secures passwords with bcrypt and adds ID verification
Is this new or just new to me?
Make all buttons, particularly "next" buttons in photo albums or forums, much much bigger. Every forum, photo album, multi-page news article, and website has a habit of making tiny links/buttons to get to the next page. This makes it incredibly difficult to click on anything but a mouse. Trackpads aren't accurate and trying to press these tiny buttons on a touchscreen is futile.

To UI Designers: MAKE YOUR BUTTONS BIGGER!
I'd actually disagree - I think the fullscreen support is really good. What didn't you like about it?
I would kill all mailto: links. In the age of gmail, how many people does this actually apply to? I always accidentally click these links, and it opens up some default email program that came with my OS that I've never touched before.
I'd make data with a meaning like on listered.com, structured data,searchable and sortable not static text
You might want to grow a slightly thicker skin. The company makes facebook applet games for bored secretaries and 13 year old girls.

Sure, millions and millions in that segment, but still. It's a game company, not a law firm.
Most likely. Even Kevin Celebi can lose it too. https://www.facebook.com/musicvibes
Great article, but why on earth do you use American Carrier-names on the phones? It makes no sense for ... the rest of the world. I'd be a very happy chap if every article about mobile phones would use the manufacture name!
Depending on what browser you're using, extensions are available to make those mailto links work with Gmail.

Some instructions to get you started here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10966
This is cool. I wish the text was a bit bigger and the lists were shareable (multi-user).

The mini task list within Gmail was not working out for me, so I wrote a simple to-do app (weekly planner) for my own use (now has a new thousand users): http://weekis.com
I don't really disagree, but in any other circumstance $24k in back taxes won't see the inside of a courtroom let alone lead to jail time. The IRS will typically just send a bill with some penalties and interest tacked on. The US Attorney realized he got pulled into the middle of a clusterfuck a little late and Elbring paid the price for pissing off well-connected people.
Is there a way to get to this through gmail's navigation?
Artists Island - Bought on Craigslist
This seems like a pretty brilliant idea. A couple of artists bought up an Island on Craigslist - and are now converting it into a sustatainable artist residency.
Even though I prefer mercurial to git, Bitbucket could get a lot of converts if they started supporting git. Bitbucket is not the serious competition that I'd like to see Github get. For developers that prefer Hg to Git, Bitbucket has to compete with Google Code, Codeplex, and others...

April Fools:

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2009/04/01/announcing-git-support/
Quick question - is it possible to underline links a let them be opened by single click?
No more JavaScript. I don't think some transparent bytecode would ever make it, but a simple lisp- or stack-based programming language would be sufficient for a lot of normal tasks and a better target for more advanced systems to compile to.

(That's the "one thing" approach. In an ideal world, I'd replace the whole arcane HTML/CSS/JS/SVG/etc shebang with an improved version/variation of DPS)
Not sure, I got this link from a G+ post by +PaulIrish
This makes Stylus look even more sexy.

@include position(absolute, 10px 5px 0 0);

vs

relative: top 10px right 5px

or

relative: top right

etc
The short form is that we pulled our plans ahead based on all the great feedback we received this week and implemented exactly what we should have done months ago. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt. We used bcrypt.

The more complex piece is the identity verification tools we implemented. We previously used passwords as a crutch to determine with some certainty if the person on the other end of the phone was really the account holder. In retrospect that was just dumb, and my fault and my team has reminded me of that many times in the past 48 hours since the issue was initially raised here.

So again, thanks for all the feedback and holding us to a high standard so that we could get the the place where we should have been all along.
For many use cases, padrino frequently looks more and more like the "just right" solution. Great work and look forward to the 1.0 release! Prioritized routes are a very useful addition.
I didn't even not file because of scary debt; I didn't file because I didn't give a s---. And they didn't either. Something else is going on in this story.
Have you tried trying to get something from there? You'll need to have the Amazon App Store App on your phone. It's pretty much impossible to accidentally buy Android apps from that store without an Android phone.
Nice. How can you access it for your google apps account though?
Facebook launches new feedback metrics for apps, changes enforcement process
It's a matter of algorithms and processing power and data points at this point. With the number of people working on it, we're close. Computer systems have come leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, and computational linguistics is not an easy problem.
Likewise, the first companies that made telephone directories available in the Web didn’t try to OCR the phone books; it was cheaper to hire people in China to transcribe the listings.
I wouldn't call the right single quotation mark "completely ordinary string data." As far as I know, the only way it would ever get into a tweet is through some "smart correcting" client, or purposeful manual entry.
my favorite way is using it through the chrome extension. Still love the new web interface.

chrome extension : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dmglolhoplikcoamfg...
>I can't imagine removing his program from a dozen macs would exceed $5,000,

if to use Randal Schwartz's $68K restitution (in mid-90s prices) to Intel for copying a file between hosts as a precedent ...
You're right. As long as the security guard said is was okay.

I mean, it is a public space, paid for by our tax dollars, owned and run by the local government.
I'm used to either Visor or iTerm providing "instant" full-screen terminal access, but taking apps full-screen in Lion seems to involve a nearly tedious animation.

Granted, now that I think about it, I have seen a bug that makes Spaces-switching slow, so it's possible I'm just seeing the same thing in the full-screen animation.

To put it another way, the result is fine, I just don't like the transition.
Your 3 months was my 3 years. Our biggest problem was that we were funded by our founder to the tune of several million dollars. It took us 2 years to launch our product. The mix of having cash but no outside investors to report to (we did in the end but by then it was too late to matter) meant there was no urgency. We were insanely inefficient and slow moving. We lived in a bubble for 2 years drinking our own koolaid. The founders were first time entrepreneurs and all the staff were too young to know better. Though I learned a ton (mostly about what not to do), it's a difficult to explain black mark on my resume. Beware first time founders with inside $$.
Actually, I think the main point - and the most important take away from the entire article is that working at a startup as an employee - whether its a small struggling one, or a superstart that was born with 100k in seed funding, is a better idea than being a minion at a large corporation - if what you want to do in the longer run is be an entrepreneur.

Also regarding failure - the "its okay if you screw up" attitude is not universal, maybe in Silicon Valley, maybe even in the United States in gneneral - but in most of the rest of the world, people unfortunately tend to not let go of failure very easily!
given the pictures provided-- it's totally the Peter Coutts hill.

I wonder if Mark and the interviewees know how many Paly/Gunn high schoolers get drunk and stoned on that hill all the time?
Downvoted, understandably perhaps, but nearly every time I see this sort of bug it's because someone has copy/pasted something from MS Word instead of using whatever native client input method was provided (usually a textarea or input field). Yes, blame the rendering script for not encoding properly, but I suspect this was Boehner's team copy/pasting from some internal MS Word doc. Cheap shot - they also likely copy/paste screenshots in to Word and mail those around too, instead of just mailing the actual graphic file. :)
This needs the bar at the top so I can easily navigate between gmail, calendar, and tasks.
I envision a world where all browsers have the same CSS capabilities.
When will the YC funded 'Scanner Darkly' suits become available?
Where did the founder get millions to fund you for two years?
I don't get why this is downvoted because it's pretty much true. I definitely learned to identify the kind of unproductive enthusiast teams without the talent required to get anything done the blog post lays out from all the "let's make this awesome game" forum endeavors of my youth.
Good work folks! Nice choice on bcrypt :)
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I think that its more of a generational gap. People from previous generations were raised with the "measure twice, cut once" mentality, because when you're cutting things or drilling things, mistakes are irreversible. It's very hard for these people to get used to a "Control Z" mentality. In contrast, people from 1990+ generation have grown up with the trial and error mentality.
With your consent, I'm going to swipe that and post at the coffee machine at work.
now, I agree completely with your second paragraph. However, as for the first? the problem is that the more 'connections' you have on social networking sites, the more likely you just click 'accept' to all requests. A huge number of my customers, for example, request to be a contact. I mean, I guess that's somewhat legitimate, but if you pointed me at one of those random people without access to my customer database? I wouldn't be able to tell you who they were. I mean, I've had about 4000 customers (I mean, I don't currently have that many, but over the last five years or so, I've had about 4000.) So, I think < 100 contacts is fine, if the person is one of those folks who limits contacts to people they actually know and remember.
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/627/
Google Blogger updated interface ready for testers
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https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig is the one I use for ages (it is the url of the iframe embed in gmail pages) - but this one is a whole new thing.

However, I last week I got asana invite, and currently using it to keep up with 4 on going projects.

I guess I would not use this one at the moment.
I watch it when it's posted on Revision3, but there must be enough subscribers for him to keep filming it.
I wouldn't want to be in workflowy's shoes ;(
How about a realistic one that developers could actually do? Take the Google approach and remind/nag everyone to upgrade their browser if it's more than 2 versions old.
Marks are classified as generic, descriptive, suggestive, arbitrary, or fanciful.

Is there anything to classifying marks with regard to location? Does that fall into one of the classifications you mentioned above?

Here is some more trademark info, too:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm
It is possible to have legal content be usable without resorting to gimmicks.

I randomly read MOG's ToS and found it incredibly scannible as it injects entertaining plain-speak header for each section. For example, one section is entitled: "MOG doesn't play well with countries who are on a shitlist".

More companies should do this.

http://mog.com/terms_of_use
Not any more: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740887
The first battle SourceForge lost was against Google Code hosting. Google offered a nicer interface and had some features SourceForge hasn't, the most important one, subversion.

SourceForge, like other sites managed by VA Linux/SF/Geeknet, has a terrible record of user friendliness. How many Slashcode-based sites are still running?
At least they are consistent. I level up on Empires and Allies by just randomly clicking as well.
Was emailing involved? We've been getting so much support questions regarding encodings of HTML emails (we're a programmatic email service: http://mailgun.net) that we actually decided to become the first MTA to enforce utf-8 transcoding on the entire traffic: randomness in -> clean utf8 out and everyone is suddenly quiet&happy.

Something like this could be done as nginx/apache module: which detects encodings of the data and transcodes the HTML output into utf8 - could be useful for some cases.
There would be a (mostly) standard keyboard scheme to efficiently navigate and use all sites.
I think it's a brilliant way to reinvent something nobody would ever read because it's typically too boring. Reading the HN comments it's easy to see the difference between pure engineers and creative people. The engineers don't see how cool this is to introduce change into the world to actually help people. Remember Zynga didn't have to go to the trouble to build this, yes they exploit your personal info for financial gain but then agsin who doesn't?
GE gave me 500 for getting an application approved for filing and another 500 when/if it gets approved. Also a sweet trophy for every year that i filed something.

Getting things approved to be filed was fairly trivial. In fact we would occasionally (about 2 times per year) have meetings in my team where we would spend an entire morning just brainstorming. Then we would take the 'best' ideas and write them up (this included a minimal amount prior art research and about 4 pages of prose and diagrams if you wanted). We would discuss the ideas with patent attorneys who would advise us on whether an idea was worth pursuing. It was a very well supported process.
Isn't it a bit misleading to put the MRL and the GPL in the same league? I agree with the "If you don't like the license, don't use the software" attitude, but the terms of the MRL are quite restrictive.
It's working to show me the tasks I've got in my Google apps account.
Sourceforge seems unable to evolve because its business model is stuck in Web 1.0: bring as many visitors as you can and throw as many intrusive ads as possible in front of them before they can get what they wanted in the first place and leave.
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Is there a way to collaborate on tasks with others yet?
There's more to fear from all the security cameras that blanket our cities than from an artist trying to make a point (or non-point).
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I have taken back my card and walked away forgetting to take my cash on two occasions when using such systems. The stupiditity of users knows no bounds.

There's a definite trade-off here: on the one hand, people are less likely to forget to take their cash; on the other hand, people who find a forgotten card in an ATM are unlikely to abuse it, but if they find cash, they'll probably just pocket it.
100% Agree. I have 5 different GitHub accounts to cover all of my repositories, and I'm constantly having to shuffle active projects in and out of GitHub. I've emailed them asking for different pricing, and "they don't support that".

It's the only thing that has me looking for alternatives.
Might have been better to link directly to their blog entry:
http://www.samuday.in/blog/2011/04/discontinuation_video_cal...

or the discussion on Facebook Developer's Forum:
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=95475
I disagree.

I do not believe the purpose of trademark law is to protect consumers from confusion.