skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
37Signals will begin phasing out support for IE 6 today as it happens (http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/basecamp-phasin....). I note that even they had originally planned to phase out support for IE 6 in August this year, but extended the deadline.

I think this is a decision that you really need to make after analysing your particular market. If you have a lot of government/corporate clients who may be slow to move to new technology, then possibly the extra effort to get things sorted for IE 6 may be worth it.

But if like 37Signals, your market is more made up of small/medium business and tech savvy users who move relatively quickly to new technology, then possibly the time to say goodbye to IE 6 is now.

Only you know for sure.
There's a related thread here that might help:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186133
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I'm really awful about letting metaphorical dishes soak (actual dishes, not so much). I can put off tedious tasks, cringe-worthy phone calls, and physical labor forever, using various combinations of the "too little time," "too little energy," and "haven't thought of how yet" excuses.

But it is a double-edged sword. Sometimes you can spend hours banging your head against a problem, only to take a short break for food or rest, and come back to quickly find an obvious solution.

But I think the head-banging is as important as taking the break in this situation.
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WeatherMan is a Ruby gem that provides current weather plus forecasts.
With modern browsers supporting decent (now getting very fast) JS, HTML5, CSS3/4, Canvas and SVG, you can write pretty much anything.

The appearance of Objective-J and Cappucino opens up new possibilities, too. (Wouldn't have thought it efficient enough, but the 280 folks have proven that wrong. And that's with current-generation JS implementations; more modern JS VM's are getting 10X and more over current.)
Also see Gruber's take-- http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/adobe_speaks_of_flash_play... -- which nails it.
Companies usually need a newsroom or a way to display press information without buying expensive software. It's pretty damn useful I'd say.
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Oh sure, I understand that. It is a complex issue that is a great example of the tension between philosophical or moral ideals and the more atavistic parts of human nature. I feel it would be hypocritical for me to say I am against it, since I benefit from the security and prosperity (and technological development) that military developments provide (and I'm writing this on a Mac). It's hard to fly on an airliner that wasn't built by an arms manufacturer too, and there are plenty of other examples.

What I mean is - you would think that the kind of people who write shrill blog posts about the iPhone SDK would be at least as incensed by these two points, and it's interesting that they have not emerged as anti-Apple memes in general, regardless of their validity.

I'd have expected to see more 'OMG steve jobs makes the brains for cruise missiles and steals our culture with copyright extensions' stuff around. Surely those caused Apple to become 'finally evil' to these people?
"With WebKit 3.0, will/does SVG have a drawing API as powerful as that of Flash? If not now, when?"

No it doesn't. The point you might be missing is that a huge portion of apps/sites that currently use Flash in fact don't need to. I'm not saying Flash/Flex/AIR have no place on the webscape. I'm saying that an awful lot of stuff that could only be done via Flash in the past, don't have to use it any longer. And that's an upward trend.
Silicon Valley is statistically irrelevant. The guy who owns three car washes in your metro region is the representative multi-millionaire.
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I thought this one was pretty interesting:

osama bin laden - excerpt from the first hit:

Bin Laden has vowed to wage a jihad or holy war against U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia because of U.S. support for Israel. He broadened his threat to include all Americans, military and civilian, in the Middle East.

and

The terrorist said, "We predict a black day for America."
Actually that link helps a lot. Thanks.
Might I recommend http://nonhackernews.com ?
It's NonHackerNews.com.
Wow, I was ungoogleable back then.
I'm not sure how much that's growth vs. shifting from one place to another. But even still, you'd have to expect a pretty large explosion in the near term, and assume that it was highly-monetizeable for that alone to make them a growth company.
I think the term startup describes an unproven business.

You can have all the funding in the world, or have been operating for 10+ years, and it still may not be clear that you've got a viable business.

I do think it's important to distinguish between startups and growth companies. Facebook is no longer a startup, it clearly (to me at least -- though I'm sure this will be contentious) is a viable business, all that extra VC is about fueling mega-growth.
As I'm far too lazy to find my last comment re: IE6 let me dazzle you with stats for this month.

For a classifieds site with broad appeal:

UBs: 4,828,839

IE6%: 24.82%

As a point of interest -

FF%: 17.17%

Safari: 3.97%

Chrome: 0.70%

Unless you are catering to a predominantly tech audience, you've got some pretty hard decisions to make in not explicitly supporting IE6.

If you're working towards your first release I'd be inclined to trade IE6 compatibility for velocity.
The point you might be missing is that a huge portion of apps/sites that currently use Flash in fact don't need to.

No argument here. It's definitely an over-prescribed technology. Maybe the alternatives could use better marketing. "JavaScript and SVG" just doesn't sound as whiz-bang or easy as "Flash".
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> The problem here isn't "more government"

The problem is government -- period. This whole situation is the result of government manipulation of credit and a long running policy to deliberately inflate the housing market.

How could anyone be so naive as to think the current problem is lack of government involvement? The housing inflation was deliberate policy. Also, it's a deliberate policy that has blown up before!

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00238.htm

Read that link and tell me it's remotely possibly to expect the federal government to affect better outcomes in markets. It's about how exactly the same shit that's going down now in the lower end of the housing markets ran in the 80s, because of criminal government enterprises.
The irony? AFAIK TechCrunch hasn't taken any cash, and is profitable.

By this measure, TC is not well-suited to survive the downturn.
Tax every single share of stock that is bought and sold 10 cents per transaction. One dime.

That's a lot. Arbitrage and market-making would become much less profitable, and liquidity would dry up, aggravating the mess.
Ah, well I stand corrected then. My argument of semantics was perhaps not warranted, I was just frustrated by this and another recent article. I'm not sure which is more annoying, political submissions or articles that are on-topic but simply idiotic (see: TC article @ #8.)

At least HN remains the best alternative.
This is a lame summary.

All the cool kids have woken up long ago to the unavoidable fact that involvement in the national political process is a waste of time. It's an exercise designed to distract you from enterprises that might actually help people and/or yourself.

The cool kids aren't voting anymore. You want to be cool, right?
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There's over 10x the amount of mobile devices vs. the amount of PCs/Macs worldwide.

Essentially, 5-15 years from now, everyone's going to be on the "new PC" all the time, anywhere they go. That's why Google is so invested in Android...they want to control your browser, your cell, your email and your operating system, which lead to controlling your search.

If and when GOOG dips below $350, I'm going to start buying. A ~20 P/E for what in my eyes is a growth company, is ridiculous. This isn't just limited to GOOG either; there's going to be a ton of bargains (by historical standards).
I find that your argument against Flash on the iPhone misses the point. I don't want to create iPhone-specific apps with Flash (yet!). A similar argument could be provided for any web technology:

"HTML doesn't support multi-touch, iPhone runs on it...hence, iPhone should not support HTML"...?

All multi-touch does in Safari is zoom! Flash could support the very same functionality. I think you're focusing on the limitations of the technology instead of focusing on the limitations inherent to the iPhone today.

My reasoning goes something like this: the Internet contains information that I want to access. Often, that information is embedded in Flash widgets, Flex RIAs, iPapers, etc. As an end-user, I could care less that the information, the video, the whatever is in Flash, HTML, or sign language - I just want to be able to see it. Continuing with my previous example: I don't care that I can't use two fingers to control stormpulse, my only requirement is that I can access the existing information! I want to be able to see the content in the links my friends send me, to see the videos embedded in the pages I'm looking at. That alone should be a large enough requirement to make Flash on the iPhone useful. You can argue for days about the best technology to build something in, but the fact is that when I can't see a video I want to see on the iPhone, I'm frustrated.
You wouldn't need to nationalise them. You'd just need the equivalent of antitrust legislation.
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Ok here's a tip/hack:

For optimal SEO results, use common superlatives like "best ever", "most XXX", "top 10" in your HTML title
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If you want to start playing shady you can buy paid links at forums.digitalpoint.com
That's the idea (I think). Adding friction to discourage zero sum games (day trading), which create volatility. The higher the stock price & longer you investment period, the lower the tax. If you are making $10 a trade on stock (a minimal amount for muulti-year investments in largish companies) it's insignificant.
Facebook co-founder runs his web op:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html?_...

Gotta say, that's pretty cool. From dunce of the ranch to black technocrat...
No you shouldn't.

You should invest them.

If you are conservative, you can go for Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)
Just noticed this in Safari 4 Beta. Really good. If it only had a better logger for activity (including network activity) it would rock.
He cites 538 a few times. That's good enough for me. Some of the best "objective" analyses, based on evolving algorithms of poll data, are being done there. 1000 simulations/day across each of the 50 states. Watch how accurate they end up being.
They'd certainly be on most people's list of the top five restaurants in NYC.

I'd be interested to see if it would work at the Waverly Inn, whose hype is based more than anything else, and more than any other restaurant in the city, around its exclusivity. They try very hard to cultivate an aura of unattainability (e.g. no phone reservations—only walk-ins or people who reserve through personal connections).

After reading this piece, though, it seems the better question is where wouldn't it work.
I thought the common wisdom was that Women will need to come from elsewhere.
Search for iPod gives this as 1st result:
" Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System"
http://www.aperta.co.uk/ipod.htm

But the 3rd result is interesting...Page title - 'iPod' !!
http://www.vrex.com/apps/html/ipod.html (page cannot be found..anyone knows what is this iPod?)
With modern browsers supporting decent (now getting very fast) JS, HTML5, CSS3/4, Canvas and SVG, you can write pretty much anything.

How would you implement justin.tv, using these technologies?
Yeah, some basic SEO can go a long way. I always say–decide what your highest valued search phrase is and start your browser title with that phrase.

It would help to know more about what industry you're targeting.
Just a 20?
Except they don't really explain how to "try everything". Common advice is that you can't change pricing too much or too often or people will get wise/angry.
Haha, I hadn't even considered that! Something tells me they will prove their own "omg only tons of money will save you" thesis wrong... to the continued detriment of us all.
It's per depositor per bank. If you have 10 accounts each with $100,000 at one bank, you are only covered for $100,000.

(That may be what you said with "each bank's accounts," but the article is definitely mistaken).
Briefly in 2004, the Wayback Machine provided a search engine for its entire archive, back to about 1997. This is now gone. Probably Amazon didn't like it (Amazon owns Alexa and thus controls the WM caching).
Did you see the network pane in the blog post? It's better than what was in the beta.
How so? the inspector in the nightlies is vastly improved over the dev preview, but if there's anything missing you should file a feature request at http://bugs.webkit.org
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Republicans in the House of Representatives have been the most Conservative caucus in any branch of government for at least the past few decades.
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The Myth (Well Not Completely, But Sorta) of Search Engine Optimization
Old News From Goog 2001 Idx: Sen. McCain Announce Plan to Introduce Encryption Bill 4/1/99
>Interestingly, a huge percentage of Americans (even a few who understand what's going on) don't want a bailout, at all.

Base populism has accidentally arrived on what I think is the correct side, for once.
How to deal with startup stress..
Still a pretty decent chunk, unfortunately. For their sake, I have adopted using a separate stylesheet for IE6 in most of my designs.

Best of luck!
Anthropologist Timothy Ingold said once that humans have an amazing ability to write themselves out of their own history. This post kinda shows that.
Done, good luck!
Ask HN: Advice on dealing with criticism
I'm developing a social news site for Chicago (digg-style link voting alongside original reporting and commentary). I've got about 8 people giving advice and tips along the way, but I'm a solo founder. About half of the people in my feedback loop are generally positive about the project. About half aren't. And now and then people surface to say they like what I'm doing while others surface to say they don't.

How do you guys approach criticism? I know you're supposed to make sure you get a real, accurate assessment of how things are going, but sometimes exposing myself to so much criticism is a real downer.
google! - "yahoo!" wanna-be? :)
> or code samples

That's exactly my point. No one here (at least in my experience) focuses on open source contributions per se. The end goal generally is to look at some code that a candidate have written, not necessarily the open source one.

Of course there are exceptions. For certain positions you will get a big bonus for any contributions to a specific high-profile open source project. But this has less to do with a code you wrote and more with domain knowledge you picked up along the way.
Wow, it's like they've skipped Open Courseware all together-- way to kick some MIT ass. Sadly, don't think this is going to match YouTube edutainment favorite: Drunk History (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_DsL1x1uY)
Vdash: A wiki of formalized mathematics, eventually hoping to state all known mathematics
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smart guy. love hearing him speak.
Learning from the Swedish banking crisis
If anything, it should be a lower resolution system. If you measure a distance by crudely pacing it off, you don't say it is "134.581234 yards". You say it is about 130 yards.

Consider the following questions in thinking about how many significant digits should be expressed in a grade:

* Go back through every homework and test for your entire college career, and have them re-graded by the professors involved. Or consider doing that for a sample of 50 or 100 students. By how much does the GPA change ?

* Go back through every homework and test for an entire college career, and have it re-graded by a commitee of 10 experts in the field, who must all agree on every problem's grade after consulation with each other. By how much does the GPA change ?

* Does the average grade given out by a professor or other grader change if they are in their first semester of grading / teaching, versus following semesters ? If they grade late at night versus early in the morning ? If the name on the paper being graded is that of a good or poor student ? ( Presuming it is the same paper for both students -- this study was done by two students I know, who agreed to copy each other's papers for a couple of grades and then confronted the biased teacher and were punished for it.)

Now, if you are putting so many significant digits on those GPA's that non-student related stuff such as which professor they were randomly assigned to comes into play, then you are just fooling yourself. And that's only considering how good grades are at predicting THEMSELVES.

And, if you want to consider how good grades are at predicting anything else, except maybe "will I get into medical school" and other explicitly grade-related questions, I think you end up ignoring them all together. I would only care about whether or not they graduated high school, which college to a very loose degree, and whether or not they finished college. The presence or absense of a master's degree does not seem to predict anything (except maybe good grades as an undergrad).

If you assign a number to anything, some people will become fascinated by it. If you made a video arcade game, where you pressed a button once and it gave you a random score between one and a million, some people would stand there feeding in quarters until they were at the top of the high scorers list.

If you think that the grading system is low-resolution, then you aren't trying to use grades to predict anything useful about people, you are just fascinated by a very expensive and time consuming video game.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'm sorry, this is an instance of snark gone wrong. I don't disagree with your "NonHackerNews" assessment. I just think it's funny that it applies to Peter Norvig too.
meanwhile:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010415022831/cwn.uchicago.edu/2...
These videos are great - with one caveat: in the programming and math related videos, it is nearly impossible to see the code on the projector or the math on the chalkboard. The downloadable iTunes versions of the videos share the same problem.
What I mean is if the holder only employed such accounting. I can see how such figures are normally useful, but the abstraction can break down when you aren't paid (and in this case, did so catastrophically). If your investment bank wants to survive downturns, it should be factoring this possibility into its decisions.
I think a lot of these are true in general - rather than being specific to startups...

However, aiming for zero stress or "dealing" with stress is probably unrealistic and counterproductive.

Most people need to maintain a level that keeps you productive and engaged. I use the metaphor of your heart-rate during exercise. If you're doing a run you want it high, but in a range that you can sustain.
The languages section from Google trends for the query "programming"
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2.	English
3.	Russian
Actually, if you check the link, Michael Greenberger previously directed a division at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission so he does have some experience in finance.

Also, if you listen to the podcasts, he mentions that he teaches a class to law students which covers financial instruments beyond typical stocks and bonds.
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Slashdot's complaints about "M$" have always been "evil" though..
"However, this should not continue into the institutions that hold the savings of the people who didn't want to play economic make-believe."

How are these savings going to provide any interest if they are not redistributed as loans? The whole point of a bank is to allow your money to work for you while also providing loan capital to those who have a good use for it. It's impossible to have a non-negative (due to administrative costs) savings account without loaning the money to someone.

Or am I completely missing your point?
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Well, then it fits as well as any of PG's essays that don't explicitly discuss 'hacking' and those never get this complaint.
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Not everyone wants to own a house for investment reasons. House ownership appeals to a lot of people who want to have their own place in the world. My dad is a "builder" -- he barely finished high school and he's never had a non-labor job, but he is very good at designing and building all manner of things. In the 12 or so years he's lived in his current home, he has completely redone the kitchen (a couple times), took an open-area second floor and made three bedrooms and a bathroom out of it, added an addition (an indoor/outdoor backporch area) on the back, converted the old bathroom and backporch downstairs into a beautiful, much larger bathroom, and so on. And that's just in the house, not to mention other changes he's made on the property (fences, a new dog kennel, redone garage, landscaping, etc.).

Some people just like to tinker, and when you don't own something, that's not really a possibility. After renting at my current residence for over a year, there are some things here that annoy me: we have no porch to speak of, we have a huge kitchen that is laid out horribly (not even a dishwasher), there is a nice basement that is just begging to be finished, and all the walls everywhere are white. It sure would be nice to have a place of my own where I could fix these "problems", both adding to the value and increasing my happiness, all without having to move.

And there is just something satisfying about owning something, about working towards a common goal with someone you love, in building something together. When the area you live in is pliable to your wants and needs, happiness is just a little bit of hard work away.
It froze my computer when I was using Rososo - ouch.
Safari 4 beta? How d'you get that?
There were hundreds of mortgage lenders 18 months ago - not exactly a consolidated industry. The problem occurred when they all went under.
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"[There's] a group of consumers that are willing to pay just about any reasonable price for the product, and a group of consumers that won’t ever pay a penny."

Thank you for pointing that out.
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More like the former than the latter.
True. Useful advice would have told us how to test. (limited time specials, starting multiple price categories, selling under different brand names, etc.)
Another point I forgot to mention is that, IIRC, every single Congress since the start of the nation has introduced and entertained a bill looking to replace the Electoral System with a popular vote system, and not once has it gotten anywhere.