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I've learned a lot already in creating this list. Definitely going to avoid NBC and HBO shows from now on. Also, knowing how many are targeted, I didn't realize how unsafe torrenting is. Going to look for alternatives.
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Given this, the App Engine price increase, and the G+ nymwars stance I sense a real march towards monetization with Larry Page as CEO.
I created the site, and I'm not a DMCA lawyer or whatever.
I'm not sure I understand your comment.
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I do agree with you, but have you checked the Unicode tables recently? We already had "black queen" and "snowman", but Unicode 6.0 brought us, among others, "Smiling face with horns", "Cat face with tears of joy", and "Hear-no-evil monkey".

Apparently, the world thinks the distinction between text and icon is not that large. Yes, that is mostly for pragmatic reasons, as SMS only does text, and people want to send this stuff using SMS, but it is there, and we cannot deny that.

Given that, I do not think we cannot object loudly against the use of application-specific iconic characters.
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Really? I'm fairly technical and I've never had a wow moment looking at a web browser except maybe two instances -- an early look at ShockWave (or something in that family) and Mosaic.

Literally everything else has been, OK, evolutionary.

What did you show them in Chrome that made them say "Wow!"?
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This is how it's been since software first existed. Shareware.

When the Internet came along it was free software with a Buy Now button that took you to the website where you would purchase the full version or a license key.

I thought this was the "norm" for selling software, and it always has been.

Free to try, then you must buy.
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Assuming your hands aren't too tied by legal agreements, I'd cut my losses and quit. Life is too short to put up with a bad workplace.

Also try to show as much loyalty as you can to the person that you hired, as they're apparently someone competent who was caught in the crossfire. Perhaps you can fit them in if you happen to start something new soon. Heck, maybe even that person would be a better co-founder for a new venture.
It must be an extension, especially given the recent release of Firefox 7 and its vastly improved long-term memory usage situation.

Anecdotally, I routinely have around 100 tabs open and Firefox runs for days on end, if not weeks. It only gets closed for OS updates requiring a restart.
It's only the desktop browser. The only place I've seen stat companies adding the desktop one with the mobile one is for Safari actually, and skewing the results in favor of Safari.

And no, Chrome doesn't include Safari numbers either, just because it has Safari name in its user agent.
wow, that was utterly useless. amazing.
I understand your sentiment, as I have to make sure the apps I make work on IE6. But don't ever forget that it's your browser that's broken (and possibly your company's IT policies), rather than the web (in most cases).
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Can someone please explain to me how 2checkout couldn't do this? For example they claimed to be pushed by the card companies to become a "reseller", resulting in the fact that their checkout pages cannot be customized. What gives?
ElasticSearch/Lucene is pretty cool

http://www.elasticsearch.org/

"Lucene supports fuzzy searches based on the Levenshtein Distance, or Edit Distance algorithm. To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Single word."

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html#F...
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Two forces that may play against this: there are a growing number of people browsing from non-Windows devices (OSX, iOS, Android) on which there is no IE option, and for businesses that choose to save money by using Google Apps, it's probably preferable to put their users on Chrome to ensure the best possible compatibility and performance. Yes, IE has tremendous inertia in its favor, but most of the trends seem to be washing the other way.
This is great business, right now I have a lot of confidence in you guys.
Agreed. Took the words off my keyboard.

Barring a shareware style demo, I rarely make a leap of faith into a new software product. However, stellar reviews and/or at least a video example can make up for that. Maybe one exception would be updates to products I currently use.

[edited for clarity]
That depends on the feature in question.

Some features, like SPDY, can be implemented even though not all the browsers support it -- which means that those that don't will find that their users think their browser is slow.

Some features can be emulated with things like long-polling.

And some (WebGL) can't.

I doubt you will be right about those features that can be replaced or emulated but you are properly right about those that can't.

Then again every day we choose to exclude some customers (you only speak Japanese? Well sorry then).
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My only concern is that Stripe will be such a hit that they'll be bought out by someone like Paypal. Which would suck since the point was to move away from Paypal to Stripe.
You don't know what a monopoly is. It isn't what you think it is, the currently biggest player in a market.
Yes, by clicking Cancel when you see this kind of dialog: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/authentication/

Or by changing the default privacy setting where it says "This activity will be visible to:".
I would LOVE to have something like that in Brazil...
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You don't have to go that far, often times the comments can be helpful and insightful. I use Youtube Comment Snob[1] to weed out the most likely low-quality comments based on text patterns like lots of !!! and ??? in them, or lack of capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, excessive fucking profanity, COMMENTS IN ALL CAPS, and other customizables. Check it out, there exist addons for both Firefox and Chromium.

edit: I forgot to link the more general Comment Snob[2], also by the talented Chris Finke which is the same idea but for the general web as well as Youtube. Amongst the sites it features by default are HN and Reddit. It's really easy to write new site rules to add to it with the example he provides in the link. Only for Chromium though.

[1] http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/

[2] http://www.chrisfinke.com/comment-snob/
Amusing: Their webpage is not in the top ten Google hits for "Iowa SEO".
Have you tried Google Chrome Frame? You're exactly who they made it for.
Couldn't you use the chrome inside IE6? Or a virtual environment with a real browser? (To be honest, I'm not sure if I'd just prefer going with links instead of ie6..)
I'm an avid Firefox user, too, but I'm glad to see this happen. The competition has made Firefox better, faster.
It's a little bit alarming that Sauce Labs even considered any strategy other than pristine VMs for everyone. The dangers outlined in their article should be immediately obvious to everyone.

Maybe it was immediately obvious to Sauce, but they thought it was worth an article anyway, just for the PR value.
I'm impressed with all your math and algorithm knowledge.

One comment; the guy responsible for scheme read posted in a comment on philg's site acknowledging that read was too slow for the described task.

As to the size of the task, interesting math. I'd bet on you being correct as to the size of the file implying more numbers.
It's definitely enough to get started.
my point is that unequal distribution of food in case of a natural disaster is not an absolute factor, it's only one of the possible scenarios that affect the preservation of a system.
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> I like FF and sad to see FF user base going down.

I like HN and am sad to see HN user base going down because the comments are getting dumber and dumber. Sorry you just won the dumbest-comment-of-the-week award.
I am. Only since the recent release of admin-less chrome frame. Can't say I've noticed much difference, unfortunately.
Thank you. Can you recommend any books I should be reading on Python? I'm more inclined to just read the Beginner's Guide on the Python Wiki, but just in case I'd be missing out on a key resource, please let me know.
I'm using Chrome frame, but it doesn't work that well. Don't have virtual machine access.
Succinctness is definitely not the sole measure of programming language's power. If it was then APL would have become mainstream. In that case it actually worked against adoption of the language even though it was very capable otherwise.
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Oh, I have no illusions about what's broken. That's why it's bittersweet. I'm sad that I can't view a web site, but I'm happy that IE6 compatibility is going away.
You know what's sad about this? My bet is that there's nobody left who cares anymore.

Back in the day Digg was a Slashdot killer and I loved that site more than anything else. Then over time they seemed to forget that it was their community that was the "social" in social news.

Then slowly fame ruined the Digg management team, that or they just were uninterested. The first blow was that they removed shouts -- but the users hung in there. And then slowly web 2.0 came into bloom and some of the stars of the system migrated first to Twitter and later to places like Reddit.

I still love that site with all my heart, and keep rooting for them like the last loyal fan of a baseball team that has no hope of getting to the playoffs this season -- or ever. Digg at this point reminds me of the Amiga in the 90s: The fans loved the platform but what they loved was what was in the past.
I would say Tripadvisor.
Check the culture paragraph here
http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/27/tripadvisor-archit...
I don't use any of this software, I'm just responding to parent's question. But hopefully some GNOME developers are listening.
Not switching that fast. The few advantages are size/load time as well as switching effortlessly color. But at the price of
... compatibility, accessibility, rendering (white on black background issue with fonts), single color icons, delayed loading(sometimes fonts load after the page)?

If you want fast loading use css+single image robust method as in:
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo86.png
and
http://images.apple.com/global/nav/images/globalnav.png
what's up with the horizontal "scrolling" I see in every other PM-related app lately? Did I miss a usability study?
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There's actually a really good thread here about this exact topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2267861
Thanks for the feedback. We'll work on clearer examples.
Wow, Google just got all up in Adobe/Omniture's face with this. Keeping in mind the total cost of an Omniture installation including licensing + professional services (since the product is tedious to use).

The disruption in the analytics space is really nice to see lately.
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Question for boucher: Can stripe be used for affiliate payments, perhaps by issuing credits?
I don't have anything to contribute other than a thank you to the folks behind Stripe for trying to fix this seriously broken system.
As others have said, spending a lot gets it. However, you should find an adwords manager ASAP as you would then have a point of contact if something goes wrong tomorrow.
Well done lads! Just on their customer service - really great. I'm a novice developer hacking together my first webapp and the people I dealt with at stripe were excellent, very patient and helpful. Best of luck with it.
Pretty. But I would love just a long single page version of it, particularly when it gets to definitions. The page already loads all the content and assets at the start.
Agreed.. I restart FF maybe once a week and most of the time it's sitting open with 10-15 tabs. If you're having stability issues with FF it's a plugin IMO.
This seems entirely possible. One of the big problems at large companies is that political clout is often tied to how much revenue your division bring in. That makes sense, except that whatever group is making the "new/next thing" is almost always much smaller revenue than the current mature business. So they lose those kinds of arguments.
Have you looked into incorporating in the UK? It's probably quite a bit of hassle up-front but should solve this type of problem. Unlike in many (most?) European countries, incorporating a limited company in the UK is pretty cheap and straightforward in itself.
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Yup, dealing with risk is a hard problem that we're giving a lot and thought and effort to. We rely a lot on online info to verify identity, which gives us some advantages. But yes, we're working hard on mitigating the risks involved with fraud.
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Nobody in my social/family circles use it.
Probably best to send an email to support@stripe.com to figure out specific cases like this.
Is this real? Am I dreaming? This sounds too good to be true. Someone pinch me, please. (Is there an app for that?)
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Thanks for the update. I did have one other question and wasn't sure where to post it here. What's your timeline for a Perl API binding?
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Don't websites have to state in the meta tags that chrome frame is to be utilised for it? I don't think it generally applies for all sites.
And if your user visits more than one page on your site, you've successfully killed asset caching. More data for your server to send _and_ a slower experience for the user, losses all round
> Maybe if you're charging millions of dollars, you should use a regular merchant account.

You should probably still use Stripe in this case. (Some people already are.) We scale up pretty well. Everything that you get with a merchant account (correct statement text, money held in your name), you get with Stripe.

Additionally, there are some advantages for large businesses that would make Stripe more attractive than a merchant account: transfer reporting and detailed reconciliation tools make a big difference to people doing high throughput.
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.search.lucene.html

Lucene port in php.
Problem is people have to enable it on their sites, and probably dont. You can use gcf: to force it though.
the day its possible to use your service in europe/austria, i sign up.

payment is a real pain in the neck and a rip-off in europe.
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Josh, you might want to look at the Tokbox API to get the MVP out: http://www.tokbox.com/opentok/api
You're most welcome! I hope I didn't come off too harsh - I understand it's an early preview as most things are. I look forward to seeing it flourish.
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This is extremely confusing. Thought it was just a test account. Left depressed because I couldn't sign up.
Good point! I wonder if there's a way to play an mp3 in sync with page turns. I know there's TTS that turns the page for you, and also independent mp3 play but both...not sure.
This is why it's best to really, really, get to know your co-founder(s) over a period of time. I'd say 3-6 months, minimum, for the discussion phase.

Hang out with them in a social setting. Hire them to do some minor work for you. Do whatever you have to, to find out what they're REALLY like before you make it official.

Now that you know it's a bad fit, figure out how to move on.
in what way is it unfair? if you owned a popular website, wouldn't you use it to promote your products?
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Most people switched to Chrome because it's faster than the competitors, but interestingly enough, it's now the slowest: http://lifehacker.com/5844150/browser-speed-tests-firefox-7-...

We all win, because even if Chrome is the slowest, it's not slow.
Personally I really enjoyed the short slide by slide format a lot. Perhaps it's a short attention span brought on by years in front of a computer, but I struggle with massive walls of text occasionally. At the very least I found it to be a nice changed on top of being an interesting subject.
Yes of course there are lots of other factors, and history itself is a series of accidents. The point of this paper is that, all else being equal, a stratification in the distribution of food seems to improve the resilience of agricultural societies.

The reason this may be important, in my view, is that it offers a model for what may have happened in the Ubaid period, when previously egalitarian agricultural societies became gradually more stratified, and finally transitioned into the beginnings of our civilization.

The traditional, Marxist explanation is that agriculture generated a production surplus, which was illegitimately seized by upstart elites. This paper's alternative model indicates incipiently hierarchical societies might actually have had a survival advantage, under the conditions of the period.
Agreed. I figured out that setting my username and password and clicking saved seemed to work. Even if I'm not going to add all my info now, I like creating my account to come back to. It felt like I could do everything but that.
As is the view that Symbian is not a smartphone OS...
my experience has been the exact opposite. almost everybody i've encouraged to switch has been turned off by a UI that doesn't look identical to IE. they need the buttons to be where they are used to seeing them. hopefully the IE9 transition helps these people get used to a new UI, but i suppose most of them will just not upgrade to that either.
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It's been mentioned on reddit before but it's come full circle. Compare the frontpages of reddit and digg. Granted, digg get their content from publishers mostly.
This thing is ass-awful.

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> (1..999999­9).each {|i| a << i}
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First, I wish the folks from Stripe all the best, and the only thing I hoped was International companies support.

But as anyone tried Saasy (http://saasy.com/) ? They are the subscription service of Fastspring. They don't require a merchant account and support international vendors. While I haven't tried them yet, when I used non-subscription payments they were the best (www.fastpring.com). They are also very well regarded by indie developers so their subscription service may be quite good.
I'm a college student, and pay cash for nearly everything, so I have very little credit history. After trying 3 or 4 merchants earlier this year, I still couldn't find one that would accept me, even with my father co-signing. Stripe is good news for young businesses.
https://stripe.com/pricing

There is a $15 chargeback fee.
It's WebKit, but so is Chrome. "Safari" is merely in the user-agent string for mobile website compatibility. Nothing about it is really Safari related.

Chrome will be coming to Android soon as per the notes made by the Chrome team in the last month.
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I assure you, ruby is not actually that slow. It's also a dynamic interpreter...not like running your own ruby (which would be waayyyy faster)
> This set of potential spanning trees is called a spanning forest.

A spanning forest is a graph, not a set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_forest
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Chartbeat clone, but they can't afford to give it away for free.
That's actually a brilliant way of putting things. Personally, what matters to me most is that the UI very rarely if ever hangs. I don't really mind how long it takes to do things, so long as it doesn't occasionally take 3 seconds to respond to a click (even on a top-spec MBP, I'm looking at you FF & especially Safari). The perfectly streamlined design helps too :-)
I like the visualizations for the maze generation a lot.

I actually used (yet another) maze generation algorithm for an xbox360 game I worked on as a school project. The constraints were slightly different because we wanted cycles and no dead ends.

You put all the cells in a list and take them out at random. If there are 3 or more walls, tear down walls until there are less than 3. When you are done you cannot have any dead ends because a dead end must have three walls. Of course you can have unconnected loops, so you have to go through and tear down walls to connect unconnected segments when you are done.

I don't know what my point is.

Mazes are neat.
Interesting idea to use something like a subreddit as a place to communally filter ("post-publication peer-review") published papers. The problem is, you wouldn't want one-man-one-vote. You'd want established professionals in the field to have a greater upvote/downvote weight than J. Random Ligger. You could imagine a sort of pagerankish scheme where people whose own publications have been upvoted get more more voting power as a result.
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Yikes, this was the original version of my post above (I love to re-edit) and now it's too late to delete it. HN was having some problems when I was posting it, which must be why it's not on my threads page. If an editor can delete it, that'd be appreciated.

But so that this comment isn't content-free, let me tell you where I first saw a project in the "cycle of despair" I mentioned in a reply above. It's Daikatana. I worked on the legendarily-late PC game in late 1999 as a contract programmer.

It was basically this kind of syndrome, trickling down through the development team. John Romero was and has always been extremely ambitious and enthusiastic. He promised way more than the team he could round up was able to deliver. And that's understandable simply because he had a standard of technological feasibility that was based on John Carmack. That'll skew anybody's perspective.

Okay, it was also ludicrous to base the game in four entirely distinct environments.

But I think the basic problem was this cycle of overambition leading to overpromising leading to overcommitment leading to overstressed developers.
Good to see an alternative to paypal, but instead of paying 3% to a transaction central, I'll still offer a 5% discount to anyone who pays me through bitcoin.