skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As crazy as it sounds, ideas like this might be necessary to save America from completely trashing its own economy and position in the world.

If putting innovators on boats 24 miles of the coast is what it takes to maintain America's innovation edge, so be it.

Regular Americans have no understanding of how wealth is created and how once dominant empires can lose the very things that originally put them on top. They somehow imagine that, even in the face of imminent systemic collapse, America will always remain on top and always be somewhere that immigrants will clamor to get into.

American life is MASSIVELY subsidized by the fact that the dollar is the world's de facto reserve currency, but that will only remain the case if American continues to lead economically and China is already playing a far longer, far smarter game.

American industry is MASSIVELY subsidized by the fact that, for now, the U.S. is where the investment dollars gravitate to - but that can change overnight.

American power in the world is ultimately dependent upon economic power but, ironically, cripplingly expensive and completely unnecessary militarily adventures over the past decade have hastened the day when China becomes the world's preeminent economic power by approximately two decades.

America has become wholly dependent upon the manifold privileges and advantages of being Number One. That means that there can be no graceful decline; once an unknown tipping point is reached and it becomes clear that this is no longer the case, the advantages currently supporting everything that Americans take for granted will slip away in rapid succession.

So, yes, today, it is possible to treat foreign innovators and highly-skilled workers with disdain, to force them to jump through hoops and subject them to bizarre, dehumanizing visa processes, Hell, you can even force them to sit in boats off the coast of San Francisco ... but it is already true that the best and brightest are at least looking at what is available elsewhere, that countries like Singapore and Chile are waking up to the possibilities and I wonder how many more economic crises it will take before the proposition of dedicating your hard work and talent to a people that clearly hate you begins to look less attractive.

So, embrace this seemingly crazy notion and any other idea that routes around self-destructive tendencies of the American voter, do all you can to put tomorrow's breakthroughs as close as possible to American soil but, just remember ... we're going to need a bigger boat.
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Pretty much nobody supports IE6 anymore. I know how to IE6, like most devs a little older than the author. I just choose not to. Because I can.
Developers need to start keeping exceedingly careful track of exactly how much time they spend fighting with IE6 so they can go to the person footing the bill and say "this is how much money you've wasted on a completely obsolete technology".
"make it sure that it works on ie6" is the worst line you can hear at work. especially if you're developing a web app. even global websites like fb don't support ie6 anymore.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp - IE6 has 2.6%, I don't really see a point in spending hours optimizing stuff for it.
How much of the revenue comes from IE6 browsers? If it's more than the cost support it/ less drop it... My guess, it's less revenue then cost and that by this time next year we can say the same for IE7.
I believe they were mentioned in the article. These people are buying tickets under companies, not individuals.
I hate web articles that don't have a publish date. This one would seem like a year and a half old.
America’s typical tech entrepreneurs are in their 20s.

It seems to me that media is absolutely in love with this notion. The scrappy, brilliant kid who's going to change your world (e.g. Diaspora). Why is that?
The guys are from the Seasteading Institute team. Patri is essentially resigning from operations and getting ready to focus on related commercial ventures (start-ups). You can get the full story in the latest newsletter: http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2011/07/31/the-seasteading...

There are several companies that allow people to live on cruise ships for >3 months (like the "Semester at Sea" offerings). And, there is at least one cruise ship that sells cabins as condos and is essentially a permanent residence.

Keep in mind that you can spend a good amount of time on US soil and still avoid paying income tax or needing a resident/work Visa. I expect the ship will speed a good amount of time at port in California if they're able to get funding and execute.

I think this is a great alternative to say opening an office in London or Dublin to deal with immigration problems for EU people. Leasing and operating such a cruise ship probably (I'm just guessing here) wouldn't cost much more than leasing and operating an office in London. This has the added benefits that country of origin doesn't matter (it's not just EU), that the people would be in the same time zone, and that it is so close by that travel to SFBA would be relatively inexpensive (compared to travel from London).
I figure we will either:

A: Be eliminated by our robot masters

B: Be kept around by our robot masters/colleagues because we are useful/equal

C: Have already integrated the machines into ourselves, or integrated ourselves into the machines

D: Laze about doing nothing of consequence, because robots do everything for us, and aren't self-aware enough to care

I'm rooting for C, with B as my fallback.
plz send mail to support @ codeeval with any questions/support issues about the platform. thx...
Well who knows what keys they might still have? Everyone i know has lots of keys and doesn't get all of them changed immediately.
govWorks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GovWorks

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TH2UC4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
"One might think that the recent drama over the debt ceiling involved one side wanting to increase or maintain spending with the other side wanting to drastically cut spending, but that is far from the truth. In spite of the rhetoric being thrown around, the real debate is over how much government spending will increase. No plan under serious consideration cuts spending in the way you and I think about it. Instead, the cuts being discussed are illusory and are not cuts from current amounts being spent, but cuts in prospective spending increases. This is akin to a family saving $100,000 in expenses by deciding not to buy a Lamborghini and instead getting a fully loaded Mercedes when really their budget dictates that they need to stick with their perfectly serviceable Honda."

Quote from http://www.ronpaul.com/2011-07-31/ron-paul-freeze-the-budget...
For the record, Airbnb has raised 3 rounds of funding, so YC's percentage is probably closer to 2% than 6% (0.06 * 0.7^3). Other than that I don't see how your point is relevant. Sure, I get that YC's share of Airbnb is valuable. But it's dwarfed by others who have more power both formally and informally.
Model M or related mechanical. Worth drilling down a bit into what type of keyswitches you want.

MS Natural or related split keyboard can also be nice.
One of the VPs at my employer only has a standing desk in his office.

Several other folks have them as well, and I occasionally move to a location where I can stand while I work.
http://www.ie6countdown.com/ <-- 10% of the world still uses IE6. I would imagine most obsolescence conversations go like this:

"We should stop supporting IE6"

"What percentage of people use IE6?"

"10%"

"Hmm, 10% sounds like a lot of people ... let's support it!"
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A typo immortalized?
defaults read

EDIT: Hmm, that shows all of the defaults that are currently in the system, but I guess doesn't show you what extra settings you could set. E.g. that setting in the grandparent doesn't show up in my defaults.
Mining is questionable. The cost is sunk, sure, but as a server (i.e. no gfx card) it will probably make less than $2 per week.
Same here. Theres something about Firefox and Mozilla in general that feels more inviting to me, but its just seems dumb to use FF over Chrome these days, especially on my Mac. Hoping they turn things around in the next year, we'll see.
I am not convinced that kids will nag their parents enough to make them pay to upgrade - I suspect most parents will just be happy to let their kid play with the free version.
Unbridled optimism and naiveté? I certainly have much less of it now that I'm in my late 30s.
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My landlady saw a crackhead in our yard but since SF is filled with zorched looking lurkers she didn't think much of it and just told him to leave. I came home from work, and noticed my apartment was a real mess and my TV was missing. Went to the closet and noticed everything was dumped out and an old laptop was missing. I actually found the laptop in a garbage can next to the house. The thieves did a few weird things like steal my pillows and dump out items from the fridge. I went down to the cop shop and they said there was a string of burglaries where the thieves were using dudes from the park to act as lookouts and then take the blame later. My landlady and I actually went down to the park and found the crackhead guy riding around on a kid's BMX bike. He said he didn't do it but that he did know where my TV was.
How did you go about convincing your doctor to prescribe you the valacyclovir? I'm going to speak to my doctor about it but I don't think its going to be an easy sell. I've found one paper http://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/21/5/707.full.pdf - are you aware of any others?

Thanks.

BTW I couldn't see an email address in your profile.
News Corp. properties are really grasping to prop up confidence in the Murdochs' leadership.
This attitude is why "borrow and spend" is still a popular political tool. From the linked article:

"To preserve the credit rating, it's going to take $3
trillion to $4 trillion in cuts—and that's going to be a
big drag on economic growth," says Mr. Smith, who manages
more than $900 million in client assets. "It's not the end
of the world to lose our triple-A rating. The bigger issue
is: What's going to pump the economy up?"

Hint: economic 'growth' funded by taxpayer dollars spent by Government is not real growth, it's simply (inefficient) wealth redistribution.

I worry that no political solution to the credit issue is possible so long as the majority of people think like the chap quoted above.
"In Times of Crisis Mentally Ill Leaders Can See What Others Don't"

This should be Sarah Palin's campaign slogan.
The media in general loves to fit stories into archetypal stories that are easily digested by audiences. The 20 year old scrappy kid fits right into the "David vs. Goliath" archetype, people love to hear stories about someone winning against all odds.
I gladly offer to support IE6 to my clients, but i tell them it costs £50,000 in order to do it. Of those clients that initially asked me to support it none of them have taken up on the offer so far. :P
I really like Mission Control, specially two of it's features. First, creating spaces on the fly. Second, dragging an app icon and dropping in another space moves all of it's windows to that space. It's like Apple read my mind! Sweet.

Another thing is UI update as a whole. Aqua has been outdated for quite a while. Now all objects look and feel more real.
Also I'm enjoying the new windows' subtle lighting and texture, they look like anodized aluminum.

But the top feature on my list are the new APIs, of course.
NativeClient supports ARM (http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-s-Native-Clien...).

You would have to compile multiple versions to support multiple architectures, but the implication that NaCl is fundamentally tied to x86 is incorrect.

NativeClient's use of segmentation on x86 is just an implementation detail of how the sandbox is implemented on that architecture, AFAIK. NaCl doesn't fundamentally require that any target architecture support segmentation.
Ask HN: Favorite iPad, iPhone UIs/landing pages?
Monstercoloringbook.com is mine right now :)
It's a cheapie treadmill that seems to have been discontinued. The model is Proform Crosswalk 400E.

Based on my experience, I'm guessing any kind of treadmill would work as long as it has a regular sized belt. You want to have enough space behind the "desk", otherwise your feel will be falling off the back of the treadmill when you walk.
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Hmmm... Let us look a little closer at that map. 2% of the US uses IE6. The numbers in Europe are pretty low too. This doesn't make sense..oh wait... China and South Korea are skewing the numbers. They're not important for our site, it's ok to drop IE6 support.
A good proportion of that 10% is in China however. So it's likely that you could easily cut that percentage in half, which is easier to digest.
Link to service: http://chartbeat.com/newsbeat/ - real time analytics for news sites. Looks interesting, is a bit price-y compared to charbeat. It starts at $199/mo.
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Could be because of the width constraint (could be self imposed)
I would love to stop supporting ie6 but I develop for customers in China and on the last count from our logs over 60% accessed the service with ie6. ( which, surprisingly, is about double of what is shown on your link )
2% of the US uses IE6. Explain that to your boss and ask if it's still necessary to support it.

[Update]
For Google Apps, Google no longer supports IE7. YouTube support for IE6 was dropped a year ago, and they make a lot of ad money from YouTube now.
Yes it can happen and people deal with it differently. Though I would assume in your case that you didn't hand over the keys of your house to the burglars.
Well, 10% of the world also uses Macs, but people don't seem to support that as much. Why not? Because it depends on the target demographic. IE6 usage is probably a lot higher in the corporate environments and thus matters to websites targeted at the corporate world, just like how if you're not targeting hip 20somethings, Mac support is unnecessary.
Nobody knows how to IE6, that's the point.

Welcome to the club.
Beautiful design, lovely idea, I will be downloading this tonight. Do you have any plans for localizing it to other languages ? ( I think it would be a successful app in Japan )
Only problem. Who would insure a data file of unknown value?
I never unsubscribe from lists. Any time I get an email from some new list I've apparently been subscribed to, I add a new filter to automatically delete any mail coming from that domain. I don't think my email is physically able to receive any mail at all from facebook, google, yahoo, and most of the other big domains out there, and I don't miss it at all.
10% of the population of the world use IE6, but that is heavily weighted by countries such as China (34%) and South Korea (22%)

If your target audience is English-speaking or European countries, the relevant proportion is 2% to 3% or less.

That's a pretty good level to start to consider whether supporting that small percentage is actually making you more money than you would if you didn't support their browser.
I'm not sure that when people say "you're born with it," they mean literally that it's genetic. I think they mean that it's innate, in whatever makes up a person's personality by the time they might be starting a business. Thinking that business acumen can't be taught isn't disproven by analyzing family history.

That said, I think most of what matters can be taught!
Great idea!

If only searching on your site brought up exactly the same themes as searching on Themeforest (eg: searching for "Landing Page" on Themeforest returns 150 results while doing the same on TheThemeList brings up just 6).
Thank you, we are definitely thinking about localizing.
Show HN: Liberate – Painlessly add user editable content to static HTML webpages
Over the weekend I created a web app to scratch my own itch, called Liberate, which lets you embed user editable sections to static HTML webpages.

http://liberateapp.com

I have initial thoughts how this might be useful some folks:

1. Webmasters - plug these user editable sections into existing webpages and let your users update content themselves, without involving you.

2. Website owners – if you don't know HTML or FTP, you can get your webmaster/designer to do a one time setup and henceforth, you can update the content without involving them, saving time and money.

3. Designers – since the basic user-updatable blocks are essentially DIVs, you wouldn't be constrained by a CMS or blogging engine's template layouts – your imagination is the limit.

Really looking forward to hearing what you brilliant folks think!
JSIL is awesome. It's exactly in the direction we want. .NET client-side code.

We are hoping Kevin & the JSIL community follow the Knockout JS approach, with HTML5 databinding to ViewModels written in C#, compiled to Javascript.

Just think - C# ViewModels calling a WCF service, from Javascript. Pretty awesome direction.

Ryan
A bit? I don't run alpha/betas anyway.
Brian Cardarella does a great job organizing these. I've been to one in Vermont and it was a great way to get to know more of my fellow Rubyists as well as, obviously, hack!
We worry about this as well, actually. In fact it's been interesting to get the comments pushing back on IAP, because our concern to date has been that we gave away too much content for free. What's interesting about that Flurry article I linked to is that it's a fraction of the market that's driving the majority of the IAP revenue...so even if most parents don't go for the in-app purchase option, the ones that do should (we hope!) help us keep our lights on.
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Her case was a bit different. During the stay, she developed a relationship with the guest, exchanging e-mail messages while her home was carefully vandalized and her valuables stolen. I can see it could be a very traumatic experience.

I once was robbed at gunpoint and it took me weeks to get back to nomal. I am still very careful when I have my notebook in my backpack.
I knew who Len Sassaman was. I did not know how the blockchain worked, or how Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed added this tribute to it.
clickable: http://www.monstercoloringbook.com
IE6 may be awful but if you're in a space with a high % of IE6 users you support it.

This isn't a developer decision, it's a a business decision.

If you don't support it someone else will.
Then they have the keys to a set of locks that have since been changed.
I think this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819560

will shed some light on his response.
It really depends on the domain. That two percent can be the difference between wildly profitable and failing.

After all, Google still happily sells clicks to IE 6 users. If you're business relies on external ads and optimizing conversion rates, IE 6 remains a priority.
In addition to what polyfractal mentioned, I would also look at these:

- Adobe Reader

- Netflix

- GoVoice (Google Voice client)

- Speed Searcher

- ShopSavvy

- Tasks (by Telerik)

- Shazam (Once Mango is out, this won't be necessary)

- Project Emporia

- LiveStrong's Calorie Tracker (Normally $2.99 but free until end of August)

Games - AlphaJax, Wordament, Orb, Unity
As with anything, it's a cost/benefit analysis. If you ran a company that sells a billon dollars of products online per year, would you ask your web developer to spend hours ensuring the site looks and functions decently in IE6 if that means an extra $26 million? I sure as heck would.

On the flip side, if you're short on resources and that time would be better spent adding functionality which would result in > 2.6% return, then by all means ignore IE6.
Does anyone know why Asia has such a high level of IE6 usage? I don't think it has to do with the computers being old, because IE6 usage is relatively high even in developed places like Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Yeah it was different, but my home in SF was ransacked and guys on drugs were involved, so it was also "similar."

I have been robbed at gunpoint in Emeryville too, that was a worse experience.
I'm sick of hearing about deficit reduction. We need actual debt reduction instead.
That link expired long before I read your comment. Expiring links and URL shorteners are kind of a no-no here.
This was a highly motivational read for me, as I have my own suite of neurological disorders (not unlike the following people): http://rejectiontherapy.com/youre-never-too-weird-to-change-...
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In terms of percentage that's pretty small, but that doesn't mean it isn't important. If you estimate the number of US internet users to be ~240 million, 2% is 4.8 million people.

Sure, a small chunk of the pie, but still a large chunk of people. And, in a hypothetical situation where your % of revenue generating visitors is exactly the same as for the overall population, not many companies would want to lose 2% of their revenue, or profit.
I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results
The first guy looks like the guy who gets killed in Die Hard: http://johnnyvengeance.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/1ellis...
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My understanding is that it is very common in China because people mostly use a browser supplied by their ISP which is a rebranded IE6.
Believe it or not, it's even harder to go bankrupt without regulation... Bankruptcy refers to the legal status of an entity!

This thread has just about reached the point of absurdity.
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It opened in a mobile-optimized view on my phone, and at the bottom it says, "2 hours ago." It's also listed under August 2011 on the Archive page. But I do agree that most blog posts are generally enhanced by the inclusion of the post date for context.
After reading EJ's story and now this, I think it's safe to say that although what's taken place is unfortunate, it's really up to the person renting out their place to protect themselves. If Airbnb absolves themselves in their policy docs, then there's not much they have to do if something bad happens. On the contrary, however, they obviously need to have a serious overhaul of how they portray security to customers, as well as the vetting process for renters. Also, developing some sort of insurance program will help to skirt some major issues. I'm glad this is happening now, though, before someone gets hurt. Hopefully Airbnb will look at these events as warnings and take the necessary steps to refine how they protect themselves and their customers.
I'd imagine any spammer worth their salt removes the +whatever from Gmail accounts.
I imagine there are a large number of pirated windows xp copies in china
Timout is amazing. Dramatically improved my daytime energy levels and in the evening I feel much more clear and awake so I have much more productive time overall. Donate!
This is veering off the original topic, but isn't the ability to embed arbitrary text into the blockchain a bit problematic? Suppose a nefarious actor embedded text under current copyright (that s/he did not own) into the chain?

(or other data, though presumably text is the only medium where a possibly significant violation seems likely given the size limitations).
What Computer Science program would leave you buried in CSS for 2.5 years? If he meant he spent 2.5 years working with CSS on the side, why didn't he ever think "maybe I should learn legacy support"?
What is the "usable notepad" that comes on OS X? Are you referring to TextEdit? I guess I've never learned to use it properly because it just saves code as .rtf and blows it all up.

As far as I see it Windows requires getting Notepad++ and Mac requires getting something like Text Wrangler.
http://blog.colbyrabideau.com/archive -- August 2011

Edit: OP is the poster of the blog also