skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The backlash for ending support for Windows XP early and getting everyone to upgrade to Vista was huge. Microsoft bowed to all the corporate customer pressure and extended support for XP. Given all the web apps that are made for older browsers, I can imagine a similar backlash easily, though I don't know whether it would be on the same scale. But I can definitely imagine it being enough for Microsoft to back off from such a decision. No harm, no foul is the safest route for Microsoft to go.
Yes, but only if you're transacting any sort of business in the US. Under US law:

"whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent"

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxl_35...
I think his point is not so much that you should do things the wrong way. It's more that you should stretch yourself and go to your limits. You will inevitably do things the wrong way from time to time when you test your limits, but you will also learn much more than if you just stayed in your comfort zone.

So doing things the wrong way is a symptom of testing your limits, which is a good thing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes, you do things the wrong way out of plain stupidity, so the implication doesn't go both ways.
Obviously this doesn't make you a _bad_ web developer, as such, but I'd question your rationalisation here.

What capability and resources do you need that you haven't already adopted for cross browser support elsewhere?
Editorial: 'Is Marketing Dead in Silicon Valley?'
After the media influence on Vietnam, I do believe the DOD pays very close attention to all forms of media. Plus, looking at social media's use in revolutions, I would expect the DOD and CIA to be very interested. I would actually find it scary if the DOD wasn't interested in social media.
> the pain of editing Unix files on Windows (the only reason why Wordpad exists)

An FYI for anyone who might have this problem, Notepad2 is a drop-in replacement for notepad and can handle Unix/Windows line-ending conversions (plus a few other nice features for a small binary).
I'm sure he appreciates it, but I'm fairly certain his primary interest is with the Market-Making Pre-Market Product Marketing team.
Thanks! I'll be on the lookout.
His blog also has a great road map for learning to code/build your first web app if you're a non-CS major. Helped me out quite a bit.
Tale of Eternity (Pt.2): Private server finances, and first launch
Sir Ken Robinson's legendary talk on creativity. [video]
Manufacturers: MacBook Air Could Trump Intel’s Ultrabook | The Mac Observer
IE Users Threaten To Sue Over Being Called Dumb
You're missing the part where they said basically the same thing here a year ago, and haven't delivered on most of it.
Agreed, there is a pretty good discussion over on the portland pattern repository that echoes your take: "Elegance" really just means "has a lot of nice properties". So, when someone claims 'elegance', you should stop them and ask for clarification on the precise properties or features they are examining.

source: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ArgumentByElegance
Outrageous - IE IQ Story is a hoax
I can't imagine triaging 200 tabs on any kind of regular basis. Just thinking about closing that many tabs feels really good. Do it man, get rid of them! Free yourself! Bookmark things or send to Instapaper/Read it later and archive things you haven't read in a week. Don't let it pile up. Don't feel obligated to read or otherwise handle each page.

Maybe you don't feel bogged down but I feel bogged down for you :)
Marquee Media Centers:  Cut the Cord and Have it All
It's a similar challenge to that of getting out from under the FDA. (See:

http://www.opencures.org

). So you might look at the medical tourism industry for pointers as to how to organize and grow markets and communities aimed at accomplishing this goal.
25% to develop the app for the MEDL incubator? Is the other 75% for just coming up with the idea, or also for launching, getting users, promoting, etc?

EDIT: Apparently they handle everything and you get 25% just for the idea. Not bad.
It's a perfectly fair comparison; both eBay and AirBnB are marketplace businesses that facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers and do not vouch for the trustworthiness of either.

It seems possible that AirBnB will be able to enhance the trust features of its site over time, for a certain subset of its users. I don't think that day has arrived yet, and this piece addresses that in a way that's fair (he does point out "the two horror stories we know about are clearly outliers"). There's very little chance that it's going to disrupt the hotel industry for the kinds of travelers who use hotels frequently (particularly business travelers and families).
Any volunteer opportunities ?
Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers
Virtualization makes a lot of sense as the basis for an OS - instead of organizing projects into files and directories and trying to manage those with a master OS - just run a new instance of the OS for each project and access just the relevant resources - most of the stuff on a typical user's desktop machine is often irrelevant to the task at at hand. A new VM for a specific project allows the user to save state - work on the draft of the TPS report for an hour, then shut down that virtual machine; come back a week later and everything is just as you left it - same open files, same running programs, everything just the way you want it.

In some ways it's the equivalent of tabbed browsing or application windowing - virtualization of the OS creates efficiency by dealing with multiple divergent contexts at the same time.
Hah, wow... I read both of your comments first and still didn't know what to expect in the article.

Yes, she literally just Googled "how do you make an app?", saw that it was hard, and is now reporting this to us.
If you haven't seen the movie Wordplay, do yourself a favor and watch it. Will Shortz is a central figure in it and seems like a true word hacker.

Also a shameless plug, I run a crossword puzzle database that maps the relationships between answers and clues (I wanted to see what clues pointed to what answers and vice versa). It may be of interest here:

http://crosswordtracker.com/
Has Facebook gone into lockdown mode in response to Google+?
"Here’s my question. Who cares if it’s safe? It’s disturbingly unnatural to have wood pulp in your cheese or cotton in your salad dressing."

Regardless if the article is informative, alarming, or anything else, it's pretty silly to cite how "natural" something is as a reason to not consume it. What makes adding wood pulp to food less natural than consuming dairy in the first place? It's completely arbitrary. If you had to follow the letter of the "natural" argument, you'd be living in a hut in the African wilderness. You wouldn't be using a computer.
One big one is enterprise portals/software that seem to always be IE-only. It's common at my workplace to use IE + Chrome/Firefox.
$10 logos. Proceeds going to Indian orphanage—great for MVP or proof of concept
An HTTP header.
I didn't know that there is a specific time limit to launching? I must have missed something in startup school.

Determining if something is a scam is not possible until you actually have the facts and aren't just guessing.

<oversimplification of the situation>And it's a really weird argumentation going on as well. "This is a scam - it is totally possible to do". Normally you say that something is a scam if you think it's not possible to do.</>
Revealed: African rat weaponises plant toxin
Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic JavaScript
It seems to me like he is replacing money with "status." Building something on your own, and wanting to tell a room full of people about building something are completely different.
What is IB & PE?
Will operating systems move  towards micro kernel based architecture?
Processor are cramming more and more cores and on the contrary clock speeds is approaching saturation. Isn’t this a call for operating system designer to reconsider monolithic design and go back to micro kernel or exo-kernel based operating.

What is your opinion ?
Doing the opposite now. Spent the last year in a very early stage startup. Finally got fed up with the low pay ("but we're giving you equity...") and the lack of direction. It seemed like every other week we had a new direction. And the latest new direction was so bizarre that I'm tempted to make a mockumentary about the whole thing.

Finally had enough of the startup scene; I'm going to go to work for a very large semiconductor company getting paid 2.5x what I was making at the startup. Feels like I'm getting a real adult job again.

tl;dr: I learned that not every statup idea is worthwhile.
Clojure seems to be gunning for the "whole-stack" crown with ClojureScript.
I'll do similar.

Tree-mode tabs help a lot (I'm still looking for a good Chrome plugin for this), "Tree Style Tabs" for FF5. Since trees group related tabs (I've got a subtree open for HN right now), and collapse, it helps to manage them.

As with grandparent poster, I'll have several windows, across several desktops, task-oriented. News, mail, site monitoring, research, reference(s) for languages / tools, etc.

200 tabs is probably a high count, but well over 100 is very doable.
Pretty motivational stuff! Props!!

1) As an aside, he says his job was Private Equity Investor. Does that mean we worked for a hedge fund?

2) How does one get hired as a PEI right out of college? I'm just curious what skill set is required. What do they do exactly?
However, "contained in" is transitive. It must know that the Nile is in Egypt, which is in Africa. I suppose the question is whether Mathematica knows about that transitivity; my bet is that it should; after all it is mathematical software.
I recommend a vertical tab addon (I use Tree Style Tabs) else you'll wear out your scroll wheel on the tab bar :)

Thats exactly the extension I use! I'm really happy with it, it gave me the ah-ha moment that working with multiple tabs doesn't have to be prohibitivly painful. Thanks to it I decided to change my taskbar to be vertical too and haven't looked back. It makes for more wasted space if you're not busy, but is worth it, as UI wisdom tells us scanning horizontally is a lot harder for the user than vertically (and thats when everything fits on the screen).
Android’s next market: wrist computing with WIMM
Barcamp Kathmandu 2011 [video]
To be more accurate, the Care Records Service component of NPfIT is recommended for cancellation, but there are other parts of NPfIT that are delivering well (eg PACS)
Investment Banking and Private Equity
Ashton Kutcher vs. Kevin Rose
There's TabSense, which can give you a tree visualization, but the main tablist is still horizontal across the top of the screen. Weak.
You don't have to store your password in plain text just because it gives you the opportunity to do so - I use mutt without a stored password for IMAP. It means that I have to enter my password between one and three times per day, but that's a minor inconvenience to me.
Dear Notch,

I don't think that people have issue with your factual analysis of the Euclideon system. We more have an issue with your use of the word scam. Every time I watch american television, I am inundated with ads for various medical products that claim that they have been scientifically PROVEN to do x, y or z. I know for a fact that science does not give proof, it only provides evidence. This is why we call it the theory of evolution or the theory of gravity.

Now, does that make these medical products a scam? Not really. At worst that makes it false advertising.

I think the evidence you have gathered indicates strongly that there is a flip side to their advertisement, that there is still a lot of work they have to do and that their claims are probably only barely true, or are subject to strong interpretation.

But a scam? I think not. What they are doing is still pretty cool, and I am looking forward to whatever product they release.
I agree with you on coffee shops, they are too distracting. I found my refuge at the local library, it is 5 minutes drive from home, the environment is very respectable, no distractions, openvpn and ssl works perfectly.
We don't "multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time" whatever that means. Just like you can have many apps running but maybe only one or two windows visible at any time, you can have many tabs open and only focus on one or two at a time.

For those of us who write software being able to discretely switch to a certain doc with ctrl-tab or ctrl/cmd-# is much quicker and efficient than navigating N times throughout the day just to reduce the # of tabs.

If I'm working on a Twilio web app I might refer to the Twilio docs, Ruby docs, twilio-ruby source, and some web related docs all throughout the day (HTML/JavaScript/CSS). Oh yeah, don't forget the JavaScript library docs. Why look them up each time you need them? Open them at the beginning, close when you're done work and that's that.

Your tab related OCD shouldn't enter into our workflow ;-)
Fantastic Graphic Design by Kzy
Fantastic graphic design by Chetan Claudiu aka Kzy, a romanian web developer and designer.
I hope companies read that, that still think Linux user aren't willing to pay for software since "they're not used to it" -.-
You sound just like someone from 2001. No matter how much we try to rationalize and/or avoid it, the industry keeps going through the same cycles.
I do this the Slashdot way; I don't read the articles at all. =P

(More accurately, I always read the comments here first on any title that looks interesting. If there's a good, heady discussion going, I'll go back and read the article after reading all the comments. If there's < 5 comments, I won't read the article at all.)
The cynic in me says that this is just hype that'll go the way of Longhorn/WinFS by the time they ship.
Protecting the CAM table. Security +1
I think Notch's point of the memory requirements are critical as well. For non-repetitive detail, at the levels they are talking at, it would require google size data centers to just store the data for a single 1 km x 1 km game level.
I've had a few ideas that I'd gladly give up 75% of to have someone else do them... If they do them properly.
Like everything the awesomebar has done since 1.5, at first that feature seemed kind of annoying to me, but now it has become super handy.
The post isn't addressing third parties, but an individual's own self-perception. From an employer perspective, past performance is probably a good shorthand for expected performance in the future, but when looking to improve one's self, this is a dangerous assumption because it can cause you to quit before you even start (e.g. "I'm just not good at math").
He reminds me of Stephen Colbert.
Food Innovators Using Google+ in Interesting Ways?
Are you a food innovator using Google+ in interesting ways? I am doing an article for Forbes.com and would love to feature how you are using the service.

This past Sunday I got to join Mike Lee of Studiofeast for his first Google+ Hangout Cooking Class. My experience with Studiofeast got me thinking about the wide-ranging applications for Google+ and Hangouts in particular (http://blogs.forbes.com/daniellegould/2011/08/03/google-hangouts-initial-impressions-from-studiofeasts-cooking-class-hangout/)

I started a Google+ thread to learn about some of the innovative ways the food world is using Google+ and thought I would reach out to the Y Combinator community to see if any of you are using Google+ in innovative ways.

Check out the fascinating discussion we have going on G+: https://plus.google.com/116630250399135648657/posts/5SbQ79HKxf2
Couple of good places to discuss Chrome OS and Chromebooks here:
http://www.chromeosforums.net/
http://www.thechromebookforum.com/
Part 2

http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/03/the-xbox-story-part-2-gunnin...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841521
Oh great - so non-deterministic behaviour adopted by the browser from instructions elsewhere. That's not good. Bring on the exploits!

Good job I've got a low IQ and use IE9 :)
From what I know of Vin, this isn't the ethos of his thinking at all.
It isn't so much that I don't care to read the articles, it is that there is just so much that I ignore most of it as to not be overwhelmed.
I'm English, in the UK and it's running red lights.
True, although I dont think buzz metrics is what we are talking about in this case.
It's called context / state.

The more state I can leave up on my desktop, the better.

If there were better management within the browser -- non-visible tabs were eventually unloaded, with any page-state (forms data, etc.) saved -- then you wouldn't have the memory bloat problems that occur.

The thing is that it's a very large virtual workspace to spread things out over. So long as it's organized, it's really useful.

Look to movies especially of researchers in the 1970s or 1980s who'd spread clippings and papers over all horizontal surfaces in an office, tape/pin them to a wall, etc. You want to be able to scan quickly through the space at eye-speed, not have to dig into files / organizers / storage / regenerate the information every time you want to look at it.

It's why you'd rather have a large monitor -- you can strew windows over it and see more, rather than have to manage windows and go through them repeatedly.
Precious Metals in Skin Care
Ah! At last! I was starting to wonder if there would be any more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841681

EDIT: Woohoo! Another one!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841922 (cnn.com)
Oh, I get it. This is Craigslist's fault, just like EJ's situation is AirBnB's fault. Here are a few reasons that this isn't a good parallel:

* Craigslist is a general classified ad listing service. The expectation of a person posting a classified listing is completely different than a person using a very focused product like AirBnB.

* Craigslist doesn't stand in the way of you contacting and vetting the person you're about to meet.

* Craigslist has two prominently located links that contain very explicit (and maybe "scary") warnings about protecting yourself while using the site; AirBnB only recently shored up this effort.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams

http://www.craigslist.org/about/safety

* A large part of the criticism isn't necessarily centered around the actual crime that occurred, but AirBnB's response. For example, asking her to release a new post with a "positive" twist is pretty off color to a lot of people.
Keynes v Hayek: Two economic giants go head to head
Handling "git pull" Automatic Merges
"Weebly powers around 2% of sites on the web" – wow, really? I did some quick Googling, but couldn't find the survey. Someone got it handy?
Same story, much discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840626

Documenting the re-submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840900
Neb. mine find to challenge China’s dominance of vital rare minerals
People are definitely reconsidering OS design for multicore (cf. K42, Barrelfish, fos), but it's fairly orthogonal to microkernels.
Interesting, the link to your blog in your profile goes to a parked domain (just FYI).

I hear these sorts of tales occasionally and I recognize a manager who is out of their league when comes to keeping someone with your skill set engaged. If crawling the big local news sites was something useful for the company, moving your application to a hosted machine where it had access to more bandwidth would have been a start, of course a demonstration is just that, a demonstration. The next step which is a bit harder might be to crunch the data into some sort of data structure for later analysis.

If this is the kind of problem you enjoy working on and are in the SF Bay area we should talk :-)
If only this could be played on a big screen in the House or Senate. Just make everyone watch the 30 seconds...
Same here. I'm already using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbiekjoijknlhijdjb...
They already have a lightweight core running, they've reduced usage for idle machines, and they've had vx in server versions for ages.

Hopefully it will stay, at least in the higher end consumer packages at least. Definitely looking forward to Windows 8.
It is worth keeping in mind that pithy little catch phrases like this typically ignore the fact that failure can come with some life-altering consequences. It seems like nobody wants to talk about filing for bankruptcy after running up a quarter of a mil in combined school loans and credit card debt.
The case for dating older men
It obviosuly depends: if it's really interesting to me I read it in full. If it's interesting, but not really so much, then I read the first paragraphs and then skip over the rest. It also depends how the articles are written.

I've read EJs blog posts in full for example.
No, a non-programmer cannot create an iPhone app in 2 weeks, even a really bad one. You've been programming too long.
Write and build Android and iOS apps on the cloud
This poll should have so many more options.

Every day it changes. Some days I'll read only 3 articles all day, but in full.

Tomorrow, I'll read about 20% of 5 articles.

Last week, maybe I read about 50% of 30 articles.

It's based on the content, the timing, the quality of the article, the source, the bias, the topic, etc.
This appears to have dropped off of the queue completely, so sadly I don't think we'll get to have the discussion I had hoped when I wrote this (it also focuses on the biking part of the story wayy too much, so I might rewrite it and submit it tomorrow).

The moral of the story, something that I spent way, way too long getting to, had to do with some of my friends who don't ever publish their projects. They're so intimidated by the idea of ending up on coders from hell, or whatever other blogs exist to make fun of people, that they end up doing nothing.

And they end up learning nothing.

Or maybe they learn a few things out of the books that they have, but they never actually get to see those things applied anywhere.

Some of the things that have made me grow most as a coder have been when stuff I've written gets submitted to reddit or HN. I've watched my server melt-down more than a couple of times, and every time it happens I learn a little bit more about how to prevent it from happening the next time.

As far as the cycling story goes: I think it's more about managing the risks. Was I ever really in that much danger? Hmmmm...kindof. I certainly screwed up pretty bad, but even if I had ended up camping on the trail, it wouldn't have killed me. It wasn't like I was 1000 miles away from the closest water source or something insane like that.

The other part of it is that I think a lot of people understand the "burn the ship" concept, but they proverbially "burn the ship" while it's still in the dock.

It's also partially a confidence thing. When you screw up really bad, there is nowhere to go but up. It's liberating.
Matt,

Thanks for the feedback.

The first comment, it was actually a bug that I noticed last night and fixed it. The reason it did that was because I put in a .blur() event on the input and when you try to click the Next/Prev, the focus being lost would cause it to hide. I think it should be fine now after fixing it.

Yes the "wait" cursor was deliberate although it's easily controlled by changing the .gldp-XXX-noday style to not have cursor:wait (where XXX is whatever you name your style)
Yeah, I don't know anyone a few years out of college making that money in finance, even if you add in bonuses.
Sensationalist title here. It's not wood pulp. It's cellulose derived from wood pulp.

(I do hate the texture it gives shredded cheese though.)