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No one can downvote after 24 hours I don't think...

"4 August 2007: Protection against karma bombing

A few days ago a user methodically downmodded several other users' old comments to kill their karma. To prevent this happening in future, the downarrow now disappears off comments more than a day old. Also the karmas and story/comment scores affected have been restored to whatever they would have been without those downvotes."
Our solution to that problem is time-honored: don't hire mini-people.
Regulation should be about transparency, not outcomes
Yeah, its impossible to stop Twitter's t.co. The strangest part is that it only gets applied some of the time.
Debteye (YC S11) Wants To Be Your (Much Cheaper) Credit Counselor
Why Software Takes a Long Time
I view it similarly to any other varied hobby. If you like to cook you can either choose to cook American food all the time or you can branch out and try different styles.

Although, the difference is that hunger and food are pretty constant in relation to each other where as there are just masses of video games. But I think the principle is close enough :)
I think social hacking is far harder than trying to find vulnerabilities in a public server. It requires a whole different set of skills -- and I don't view it as being a "soft skill".
But are agreements binding?

If you want a game that thrives on negotiation, try Diplomacy.
Really? Isn't it useful to always buy all the properties anyway? In an auction they usually go for more than the listed price.
That's fun! It runs pretty fast, though. You might want to have it start a bit slower.

You should also use requestAnimationFrame instead of setInterval.

http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
As awesome as this is, I'm quite bothered with the payment options. As it stands, I can't pay even if I wanted. I don't have a CC and all of Paypal, Amazon and Google are utter no-gos for me. It makes me a sad panda that options like PaySafeCard aren't as widespread as I would like them to be.
The Return of the Internet IPO
no wonder they can't find it. What they describe is pretty much the concept of "aether".
There are some. Bespin is now merged into ace and cloud9 is the actual full-featured (has someplace to save without further integeration) implementation. And cloud9 is sadly not free for non open source projects. I find that they aren't satisfactory for my everyday use.
Well, that at least can be considered a term...
Chronology: Chrome came out in early September 2008. Mozilla's TraceMonkey was under development from April of that year. True, we started on a JIT customized for JavaScript (i.e., not Tamarin) later than we should have, but we did not start because Chrome with V8 was known publicly and already in the market.

I believe Apple's SquirrelFishExtreme work was also going on in the summer of 2008, on a webkit.org svn branch.

Your general point is good: healthy competition helps the web evolve. We got the world we wanted in launching Firefox in 2004. The battle's far from over, what with all the lock-in on mobile devices and in social network sites.
The thing is, Wikipedia's search is pretty straightforward: type keyword, arrive on article page.

Anything you'd add to that would detract from the search experience, not improve it. Seems to me the reason why people use Google to search wikipedia is because it saves them a step, not because wikipedia's search is inherently broken.

In any case I'd like to take part in the contest, but so far I can't really think of a way to improve wikipedia's search…
You are underestimating the number of better board games.
I rarely complain about design, but the drastic color changes between the sections and the large capital letters actually gave me a slight headache.
You have to be careful with that word, though. I know it sets off my bullshit detector. When I see a Solutions section on a company's website I think, "oh no, they're not going to tell me what they're selling, instead they're going to hand wave and try to tell me about myself."
Thieves versus robbers, sounds like.
That's a good point! If they're not going to make any money, there's no sense in even taking it. Though, it might be illegal to sell something and then not accept payment. (Fraud? Money laundering? I don't know, but it seems potentially sketchy.)
Writing a book is probably not going to increase the high-end demand for Patrick's work, which is where his money is at. He is already turning down work from clueful Patrick-hour investors.
That makes more sense to me.
Are you tired of underpriced games from small indie dev shops without spyware or DRM?
Cool story, but what is a data atom bomb? I might be blind or something, but I don't see any mention of atom bombs in the article...
Holy s*. That is exactly how we played when we were kids, including rounding rents. The game goes much, much faster when you memorize all the rents as well.

If anyone is interested, there's a book called The Monopoly Companion that has all of the rules. It pretty much boils down to 'more money, less fun'. The game should be about 50% luck when played correctly.
I've looked at Febrl before
http://sourceforge.net/projects/febrl/
but in the end found it easiest to write my own.
Check out their startup: http://browserling.com/

It allows you to not just get a screenshot of the site you are working on in a variety of browsers, but you can actually navigate the site, click on links, enter text, etc. Impressive!

For designers/developers who need big coverage on browsers, I suspect they are going to do strong business.

I think the $20 pricing might be a bit high, but the 5 minutes free should help a bunch of folks.
Why are Paypal, Amazon and Google all no goes for you? I've heard a lot of negativity about Paypal for example but that is entirely from the merchants position.
I was under the impression that Apple was discontinuing their XServe product line after Jan 31st 2011. If this is the case, what hardware are people running OS X Server on?
http://www.macworld.com/article/155483/2010/11/xserve_discon...
Ex-Googlers Get More Funding For Their Startups Than Other Big Company Refugees
I hope I made it clear enough in my first reply that while your post was the one I chose to thread off of, I do believe that you weren't griping just for the sake of it and I take your interest in the Mozilla mission and frustration with the memory issue as sincere.

I believe there are lots of reasons that different people run into a memory issue, and I believe that while the Firefox devs have tackled some of them, there are plenty of other opportunities. I hear what you are saying about the difficulty in communication, although I would hedge that just a bit by saying that a lot of the abrasive communication isn't from true "leadership", and even the leadership people can get on edge from having to deal with too many people complaining and not contributing when they see the corp of volunteers working as hard as they can. :)

I'll reiterate, given my specialization in metrics, I love the new about:memory feature and also the Telemetry project. These two projects will give us useful tools to be able to accurately measure memory consumption on a variety of platforms for users who feel the memory problems as well as those who don't.

If you have some time, try out a nightly or aurora. If nightly, then opting in to Telemetry will submit the data to us. If aurora, then you can visit about:memory and either submit a bug or feedback with what you find. I and the firefox devs would greatly appreciate it.
Festo's SmartBird Robot Flies Like A Real Bird
I'm not speaking of price discrimination at all. That would be Valve releasing a game at full price and then a week later putting it on sale for 25% off. This doesn't qualify as price discrimination because they're games that have been around. The value for buying earlier is that you've owned it and had the chance to use it reasonably longer than everyone who is getting it now.

I'm speaking of the specific market of fence-sitters who may have pirated the games but in this case are willing to throw a couple bucks at the games. Those people who who you never would have gotten money from otherwise.
Is that a snake at the top of the refrigerator in pic 7?
Browser support is hit and miss. I'm gambling that it will be much better supported in browsers 6 months from now. The advantage is that it allows the smoothing of all the rough edges normally found in editors. Quick zooming to arbitrary levels, completely smooth scrolling... things that aren't traditionally necessary but make for something that is so much more pleasant to use.
$4 UNMETERED BANDWIDTH VPS
Great Lakes Angels Vet Deals, Try Not To Be A--holes
Miss for YC, big win for the Hackers and Founders incubator. Browserling was the start up I was most excited about on Not-a-Demo Day, in part because all of their business cards were hand drawn and ripped from sheets of paper and their browser logo cutouts were made from cereal boxes.
Not really. If you're really short on cash, in the early game, it might e.g. be beneficial to skip buying Park Avenue.

Remember, you're trading off buying a piece of low-income real estate against the ability to build property and make your existing RE high-income.

There's also the point that once you auction, you have a chance to get it at a lower price, so it might be a calculated gamble.

NOT buying that piece of property might also force others into a bidding war. There's all sorts of strategies you can build on auctions.

If properties always go for more than the listed price, the other players haven't discovered that yet :) Try playing Monopoly with auctions and make strategic decisions about what you buy, not just "buy all" and see if it doesn't make a difference for you.
Anyone have a link to the video they were referring to in the clip?
A nasty solution, which assumes and abuses IEEE floating point format and demonstrates a couple of things.

int isPowerOfTwo (unsigned int x)
{
int exponent;
union { unsigned int u; float f; } tmp;
tmp.f = x;
exponent = (tmp.u >> 23) - 127;

return x == (1 << exponent);
}

One can also cast to a double without losing precision, mask out the exponent and then compare to 1.0. That solution is even nastier, and needs #define's to deal with endianness.

Obviously the above solution is not a good idea! Amongst the several problems, casting to floats is really slow. Sometimes I store my integers in doubles throughout my code because it saves conversions, and can be more convenient. (Matlab users routinely store integers as doubles.)

What I found interesting/disconcerting was that the above function doesn't compile reliably. When using 'gcc -Wall' I get isPowerOfTwo(0)==0, whereas with 'gcc -Wall -O2' I get isPowerOfTwo(0)==1. clang has the same change in behaviour with optimization levels.
> Mobile devices are simply too underpowered at the moment to run huge amounts of interpreted code without struggling.

I don't really think that's established yet -- Android's default browser doesn't have the same engine that chrome does. It's obviously going to be slower than desktop, but it might still be improved to the point of being fast enough.

Also, see this post about code generation on ARM: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2805825
I do not understand your point. How is a pure web application going to implement device APIs for Camera, Mic, GyroCompass, Accelerometer, USB, NFC, the list goes on?

These must be provided by the OS. But various OSes do these differently, some only for native apps. We propose to make every one of these a web-app-facing API, and standardize or use extant standards -- and include security up front and all along, not "add it later".

No one has done this, and saying that you don't have to build an OS does not address how web apps might come to have such device APIs.
WSJ: AirBnB Latest Startup To Join Billion Dollar Club
This was my thinking, too. We had a Lt in the air force that was fond of saying "if you have any concerns, come to me. my door is always open." The problem was that if you did that, your concerns were either blown off or interpreted as personal criticism.

The points made in the OP are good, but saying that is easy. It's when the deadlines start blowing by that the real test comes as to whether he can actually live up to it and not start backsliding.
illinois has something like this along its toll roads:

http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/page?_dad=portal&_...
Video: Microsoft's Data Center Evolution
As a Web Developer I've been doing HTML5 for a few months now. I just use JS libs to fix old browsers. I've produced 20 or so websites already all using HTML5 and none have had "ZOMG YOU AREN'T SUPPORTING MY BROWSER" complaints. (Daily traffic to these 20 is about 3-5k uniques each, it's not a massive test base so take it as you will.)
There are a lot of things that "the consumer" doesn't care about. Some of those are things that Mozilla feels are very important and we spend time trying to show people why.

Mozilla doesn't make a browser to maximize their profits by taking as much from "the consumer" as they can get away with. If we try to compete with the other vendors on those terms, I agree we will fail.

I hope that there continue to be enough people whose goals align with Mozilla, and that together we can work on improving not only Firefox but the web. As we do that, then we will be able to help more of those uncaring consumers.
Yeah, the browsers run on Windowses and we stream the desktop to the browser!

$20 also gets you tunnels, so you can tunnel localhost or local network to Browserling. Not available in the free plans!
Interesting. Thanks. I really should read Levy's book one of these days... I've only got three copies of it.
This is a minor detail that can easily be addressed after the product has traction.

Brand it on its own with no obvious links to your company. You should have nothing to be concerned about other than maybe the customer sees your company name on their credit card statement.

Later, if you really want to deal with the paperwork hassles of setting up a new company, you can do so and simply sell the 'product assets' to the new entity for $100 (or whatever mundane price you want to set - just for bookkeeping purposes).
Great story and best of luck to you guys going forward. This is a very useful tool. I find myself using it more and more lately when I need a quick test spin in the explorers.
Please excuse my ignorance. I thought I knew something, and I was apparently mistaken. Several aspects taken from the wikipedia entry[1] stuck out for me:

The Federal Reserve System's structure is composed of the presidentially appointed Board of Governors (or Federal Reserve Board), the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation, numerous privately owned U.S. member banks and various advisory councils.[

The Federal Reserve System has both private and public components, and was designed to serve the interests of both the general public and private bankers.

It is also unusual in that an entity outside of the central bank, namely the United States Department of the Treasury, creates the currency used.

However, its authority is derived from the U.S. Congress and is subject to congressional oversight. Additionally, the members of the Board of Governors, including its chairman and vice-chairman, are chosen by the President and confirmed by Congress. The government also exercises some control over the Federal Reserve by appointing and setting the salaries of the system's highest-level employees. Thus the Federal Reserve has both private and public aspects.

Various statutory changes, including the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, have been proposed to broaden the scope of the audits. Bloomberg L.P. News brought a lawsuit against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to force the Board to reveal the identities of firms for which it has provided guarantees.[140] Bloomberg, L.P. won at the trial court level,[141] and as of early September 2010 the case is on appeal at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
Might also be nice to have a 'Start Game' button--I clicked the link and then got a dialog about losing. Blocks on the edges are also a little hard to get at. Nice job! Fun too. :)
This website is broken. If I input $1,000,000 as my annual income I am apparently 107,565 richest person in the world. However, if I change that number to 5x, 10x, 20x (you get the point...) that amount I am still the 107,565th richest person in the world.
SubStack is the best hacker I know.
What relevance does iOS's HTML 5 support have when comparing to flash? (Or did I miss flash arriving on the iPhone?)

On android, you can use alternate browsers. If google doesn't improve the built-in browser, something like Firefox can displace it.
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Apple Customers Can Get Away With Anything
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HTML5's answer is still in unimplemented draft form: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-media-capture-20100928/
It's possible in Safari. Mozilla and Opera have said they'll support it in the future. Here's an example in Safari:

http://videojs.com/
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I like ChromeOS too -- it is "webbier" and more truly open source than Android.

But why must there be only one? Monoculture is a problem. Mozilla's mission obligates us to fight it. Friends such as Dave Hyatt at Apple have told me that they want Gecko to keep evolving and competing with WebKit, to keep standards better interop-tested by two (or more) independent open source implementations.

WebKit monoculture (on mobile, modulo numerous version and vendor bugs that make developers pull their hair out) is already becoming a problem. We've seen startups support WebKit-only browsers simply due to the startup's HTML and CSS requiring WebKit-only quirks. Shades of sites that worked only in IE in the early 2000s.
For Paypal (and partially for Amazon):

You might have heard of the shit they pulled with Wikileaks (freezing accounts, withholding money, kicking them out of the service for no reason etc). And that wasn't the first time they did something like this, at least for Paypal. I refuse to fund such - in my opinion - criminal activities.

And for Google:

Call me paranoid, call me stubborn, but I'm one of those people who avoid Google like the plague and are extremely critical of them in general (I'm not a hater, though, there are quite some good things which Google does, I just refuse to use their services).
Here's a better search, I've mapped it as a keyword w
http://google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%20%s&...

thus you can type 'w india china war' and it returns: Sino-Indian_War
Awesome that you like it!
This reminds me of anicechat.net but it looks like it uses sound?
I am very interested in an open source web based ide, I would probably take note from bespin moving from canvas to dom is that reimplementing a whole bunch of stuff from scratch that you get for free with dom is a hard thing

I have looked at cloud9 and its an awesome project, but I feel uncomfortable developing against it because it doesnt feel "open source", can anyone expand on their experiences with it? I sent in one patch was ignored and it seems all / most development is aimed towards their commercial offering.

I would probably feel more comfortable if there was a completely open source community edition which cloud9 was downstream from, somewhat like chromium / chrome
Browserling is some seriously impressive work. Congrats and thank you for all the Node.JS open-source work too!
Thanks for the tip! I really wish I'd known about the approved hardware thing beforehand.
Making Mobile Web Apps Native with PhoneGap
Perhaps someone would like to paste some job listings from other fields, like realestate or nursing, so everyone can see how they compare with CS?
Apple sells versions of the Mac mini and Mac Pro as servers.

They're also selling Lion Server as an add-on in the Mac App Store for other systems.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795743

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796906
I think HIB did due diligence by offering CC, PayPal, Amazon, and Google. I honestly think you're an extreme outlier and would fall into a fraction of a percent of their users. I'm not saying that it's OK to marginalize you, but if I were them, with complete honesty I would have thought that those four options would cover everybody, and then doing something like Bitcoin would be going an extra mile. I've never heard of PaySafeCard (not to say that it can't be cool if I haven't heard of it, because it is), so I think it may have a long way to go before it's widely accepted.

Edit: You elucidated why you aren't using these services here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809572, but really you've painted yourself into a box. It's not that you can't use those services, it's that you won't. I understand why you don't want to (really, I feel you, I'm an idealist too), but at a certain point I just have to bite the bullet and if I want something bad enough and I can only pay for it in certain ways, then I'm going to do it.
IIRC, it was called the Motorola Milestone in Europe. Exactly the same phone, though.
Comprehension fail?

>The remaining mass range for the Higgs is the expected one, and, as expected, this is the hardest place to separate the Higgs from the background. If it’s really there, the data collected during the rest of this year should be enough to give a statistically significant signal.
Fair enough... I just think a programming language and a framework are - by design - made for creating new things, things that didn't exist before. And I equate hacking largely with that sense of exploring what's possible, in terms of "what can I create?"

That's why I find most - but not all - coding to be hacking... if your coding and creating something new, that's enough to meet my personal bar of "hacking." I will admit that it's a fuzzy and subjective bar though...
I wonder if they're planning to write it in Rust? It would be interesting to see how an OS written in a more modern language than C would turn out - especially since other attempts like Microsoft's Singularity seem to have gone quiet.
The problem is when your search doesn't bring you immediately to the right article -- if it's not a simple search term like "Bermuda Triangle" -- and you end up looking at a page of results like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=wireless+router+f...

Those are actually pretty good results, but their presentation is lacking. The snippets of article text are too short to give a proper idea of what the article is about and how it relates to the query terms. The formatting is straightforward but not particularly good or bad. The article metadata in green is nigh-useless to the vast majority of people; do you want text like "11 KB (1,170 words) - 12:19, 10 July 2011" cluttering up each search result? The section headings, like "Content Pages" and "Multimedia" are simple links, and it's not visually obvious under what circumstances you might want to click them, or what will happen if you do.

That's just off the top of my head, and I'm not a designer; just someone who cares about usability. I imagine a good designer could make something quite a lot nicer than Wikipedia's default search pages.
I agree.

I think paid sabbaticals have positive ROI too. Number crunchers don't think in those terms though.
Very Useful videos http://ontwik.com/category/startup/
A Java Resurgence
I think it's odd that the NPR story didn't touch upon the fact that IV is backed by some of the biggest players, like Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Google, to name a few.
There's a pretty massive software ecosystem surrounding Flash. Tons and tons of mature libraries for Flash. Not so much for HTML5 (though that will change with mass adoption and time).