skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Google came on the scene, it wasn't competing with Yahoo, since Yahoo wasn't a search engine but rather just a structured collection of links.

Google's main competitor was Altavista. I don't know why everyone else switched from Altavista to Google, but I can tell you that for me it wasn't because of Google's much-vaunted "page rank" algorithm (I certainly didn't notice any improvement in the search results over Altavista). I had two reasons for switching:

1 - Google had no ads, versus tons of ads on Altavista.

2 - Google was very fast.

These two factors made choosing Google over Altavista a no-brainer for me. I'm convinced that if Altavista had restrained themselves from serving up ads along with their search results, Google would have been dead in the water.
Yeah they turn it off on the weekend to encourage conversation, but if you ask real nice sometimes you can get 'em to turn it on.
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I'd be concerned about how a whole lot of people doing this, keeping an SSH connection open to Github at all times, would affect Github itself.
"miked" ass --> About 769,000 results.

What is the point of this, exactly?
That would be a neat trick, since RSS was created at Netscape a full year before Winer got involved.

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-history

Over time, the number of Internet technologies Dave Winer didn't invent approaches zero.
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Actually I read the press as Groupon is having a hard time selling seats on the train. Not that I know anything of course. The analysis that the small float is an attempt to keep the per-share price high(er) and the valuation somewhere up from their last round, is spot on.

If I were a betting person I'd give them 50/50 odds that they can't get the offering fully subscribed even with Goldman's using its deep pockets to cover unsold shares.
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I always see a bunch of people w/ laptops at the Bar at Cocoa bar: http://www.yelp.com/biz/cocoa-bar-new-york

Also there's usually a couple laptops out at Coyi Cafe up the streeet on Ave B.

Though I do agree that there's a shortage of good spots to hang out w/ a laptop for a few hours during the week daytime.

(not that this has any effect in my mind as to whether NY is better than SF for startups, but whatever)
For one, GHC gives you M:N threads with the runtime handling the async IO under the hood, making it possible to write code in a simple blocking style while still getting use of all your cores and having fast IO. This is also true for Erlang, Go, and a few others, though, and it's not terribly relevant for lots of simple web code, but it is a practical advantage.
This solution seems rather less "free" to me. I can't update the firmware? Because it makes you feel dirty to allow me to?
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Yes, I was being sarcastic in the first instance. I'm Irish, without sarcasm I'd have nothing.
It's not just that. Haskell has exceptionally strong typing and containment of mutable computations, making it much easier to write correct programs. When a module compiles, it's usually pretty bug-free.
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I'm gonna go with Gimme coffe. But stumptown is decent as well. La Colombe is a little too bitter for my taste ;)
Yes, I use an asus router for my wireless, with Tomato running, and that includes a DLNA server. I added a 2Tb harddrive connected via USB to the router, so my videos stay online all the time. Pretty awesome.
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This appears to be an improvement over the hq4x algorithm used in emulators

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

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/...

mouse over "hq4x" and then "ours" - but look at the "control panel" icon example - Microsoft results are inferior (clock hands etc) - the keyboard though is very "artistic"
You must be referring to the European Union rather than the European continent. As of 2011, EU is now more than 500 million people.
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Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, William Faulkner, Van Gogh, JD Salinger, Denzel Washington. I've heard these guys are all massive assholes. Fortunately, I can still derive massive entertainment value and/or some form of personal or professional amelioration from their creativity. Same with Stallman. I use emacs every day, and GCC and GLIBC is the heart of just about every serious developer's toolkit.

The man's life is his affair; look to his work. I didn't like Hitler's work or its underlying philosophy, let alone the man.
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John Gruber is even more guilty of this.

Parrot / breakfast point and laugh:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/26/rms

Linking to a site set up purely to mock Stallman:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/27/stallman-dialogu...

The latest episode of his podcast, about Stallman, is called "They Had to Burn the Sheets" (I haven't listened to it, but going by the title I think it's a safe assumption that it continues the theme):

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/27/the-talk-show-64
Ask HN: Do You Know Any Free or Non-Commercial Dyslexia Typefaces?
I am currently making an open-source (GitHub-hosted) project with no direct income give and take referrals, and I am struggling to find a free typeface for people with dyslexia to include in it.

I myself do not have dyslexia, but I would imagine that the user experience is fairly horrid, if I have to enforce a dyslexia typeface on all websites visited (conflating monospace with spaced), and I wonder why no other online services known to me have a setting for enabling [dyslexia-friendly typefaces][1][2].

Now, it may very well be that the user experience for people with dyslexia works fine using a(n OS-agnostic) system outside or inside the respective browser (although this would still suck when using a device that is not your own), so people with more knowledge on this are most welcome to educate me. I just wonder why it seems to hard to come by a typefaces freely available to everyone with dyslexia; I hear that a lot of people use Comic Sans, because it is very dyslexia-friendly. (I guess this is because characters like d, b, and p look different when rotated and superimposed over each other?)

Can someone explain the state of browsing with dyslexia in 2011, and what I can do to make the experience as frictionless as possible? The thought of alienating someone from reading and using the web is frightful to me.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/j277w/i_created_a_font_for_dyslexics/

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/j277w/i_created_a_font_for_dyslexics/c28kv3r

[3]: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/06/30/dyslexie-a-typeface-for-dyslexics/
In a world of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Open Source, I wonder if FSM is actually successful. Sure it's had successes, but success-ful, I would hesitate to call it.

Also, I'm pretty sure the original commenter was implying that RMS is a bad spokesman because he is so polarizing/unattractive (idealogically).
I think you can blame the GNU `--date` option. It supports many, many possible input formats (http://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils/manual/html_node/Date-input-f...) and the implementation has to be quite complex.
You are stubborn as a mule.

I have done ABX. Like i said 1000 times, it wasn't subtle. I don't need 'a representative sample', i wasn't arguing 'all' or 'most', but 'not uncommon'.
Linkfied:

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/j277w/i_created_a_fo...

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/j277w/i_created_a_fo...

[3]: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/06/30/dyslexie-a-typef...
I agree, but in a slightly different context. I have a friend who is in his 50's. He is very computer literate, but not 'tech-savvy'.

Several months ago he commented how cool the Bing daily images were, and how he learned something new daily just from the hotspots (my word, not his).

This was enough to make him switch his default search engine from Google on all of his PCs.

I was shocked something so simple would cause someone to make the change.
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That wasn't Swartz. The late[1] Mark Pilgrim wrote the Winer Watcher software.

1: Late as in dead from the Internet since 10/4/2011, not dead as in life.
Again it's a choice, you decide. They don't have to be mutually exclusive if you don't want them to be.
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I'm not sure I agree with all of these. I would never have guessed that a paper plane could represent sending an e-mail.

Similarly, I would never associate an underlined, blue L with a link. Maybe I'm too far into the web development rabbit hole, but I thought most people these days associated a chain link with an internet hyperlink.
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When I read "crazy and amazing", that "crazy" reads like "wild, man". Not "idiotic".
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This is what you're likely to get if you do not drop out, and go to a good school. Lots of smart people tend to get together in academia.
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You mean on behalf of all of Australia's not quite 22 million people? I think it would have been hard to illustrate the growth with liquid, given how few Australians there are.
I'm the guy who did the redesign. Let me preempt some criticism by saying that I'm fully conscious that a redesign done over the week-end cannot magically improve a site like Quora.

There are a lot of factors to consider in a real redesign that I obviously didn't address here (usability testing, stats, business model, etc.). So please consider this like a fun experiment and nothing more.
Yes, people are good at managing physical things. The issue I'm guessing you'll run up against is the implementation. You have to convince every developer to adopt a new mechanism for authentication. I don't think passwords will be displaced very soon; they are just too easy to implement.
Any physical key that is easily copied is too easily compromised to be a serious alternative to passwords. Just think of the last time you left your phone on a desk or something while going to the bathroom.
How much did it cost you to learn to program? Before Free Software, it would have been a lot. Now you can learn and create amazing software without spending any money. And there is a culture of sharing that's made software one of the most successful fields to date.
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You can have free apps in the App Store as far as I'm aware. The only restriction that I'm seeing is that you can't put a GPL on it. But you could just slap on any other license for purposes of the App Store, and allow access to the source code from your website.

However, if you rely on other GPL'ed code then I can see that it would be impossible to do that, as then it break the licenses of that other software. In which case it seems that the strong copy-left is what's screwing things up.
Any quoting is going to be selective. What is he going to do, quote the whole thing? Also, Kottke's whole deal is curating unusual, interesting stuff on the web, and I would say this rider is definitely both unusual and interesting. This is just what Kottke does, he points to stuff and says "hey, look at this." Maybe you have a problem with that entire enterprise, in which case fair enough, but he's not doing anything with respect to the rider that he doesn't do for whatever else is on the web that day.

I agree that "crazy" is not exactly high praise, but it's a very overloaded term these days. I don't think it's meant to be as mean as Winer and everyone else is taking it.
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To clarify, I don't have a dog in this hunt. I was just responding to the original comment about "who is this Dave Winer guy?"
USB keys aka dedicated devices are dead. Noone wants to carry around yet another gadget. Reuse a phone instead. Much more pervasive.
I remember there being some discussion around the Humble Bundle brand getting "diluted" by the Frozenbyte bundle last time, and I have to wonder if that's becoming the case.
Ask HN: What are the applications of a see-through display screen?
In many Sci-Fi movies such as minority report, real steel etc, computer screen is see-through. Some vendors already have prototype of see-through LCD. Beside being "futuristic" looking, what are the advantages and applications of such panel?
Kottke was trying to start a reasoned debate about parrot husbandry, was he?

That's an awfully generous reading.

Though I can believe that Kottke didn't mean to instigate a mob (it is so easy to do by accident), there's no sense in pretending the mob isn't there, now. I'm not about to fuel the fire by linking to multiple people, many with large audiences, who have been poking fun at RMS's personal habits while pretending – not very convincingly – that they're doing so out of principle, but such links aren't hard to find at the moment.

And, yes, we can all tell the difference between disagreeing with (or even joking about) RMS's very strong and sometimes very offbeat technical, legal, and political ideas... and making fun of his socks. The first is fine – it is something he invites – but the second is just rude.
A cheapy crappy Android tablet for around $200 can display a webpage like that. Personally, I run my dashboard on a Logitech Revue (Google TV, $99 retail, but mine was free) and my lowest power spare monitor using an HDMI->DVI adapter.

The Logitech box uses ~12 watts of power, which is more than my TonidoPlug (3-7 watts) but is more convenient to connect to a display.
Isn't this submission a little redundant?
NYC and SF are places that attract people from all over the world. The local talent pool is dwarfed by the worldwide talent pool. They even draw talent from each other.

So really it's a question of whether finance is drawing people away from entrepreneurship in general. Given that finance is the most reliable road to riches these days, I'd say certainly it is, but entrepreneurship offers far more in the way of creative rewards and the opportunity to "change the world".

NYC's competitiveness with the valley probably doesn't have much to do with how much money or respect is in finance. Rather it's about the quality of the ecosystem for entrepreneurship. NYC could easily become competitive with SV without Wall Street having to take any hit at all. If the absolute opportunity for entrepreneurship were better in NYC then it would be just as attractive to potential entrepreneurs, except for the few who want to be "big fish", but that type of attitude is not conducive to success as an entrepreneur anyway.
Other than how it affects your chance of success, this seems a little silly. #1 #2 .. who cares? Why get all tribal about your city? There are tons of industries here in NYC, so if you are targeting your offering to larger businesses, then there are worse places than NYC to be close to your customers. If not, and you are doing 'Social Toilet' or whatever, then it might make sense to go elsewhere.
I would say either we all demand parrots for our business trip in tge future or Schopenhauer lost a lot of credibility here.
Our USB key cannot be easily, if at all, copied. It's based on smartcard technology used by banks and governments around the world. It's not a memory stick.
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http://www.quora.com/What-coffee-houses-in-SF-are-open-after...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-good-public-places-to-laptop+w...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ad+Hominem+Tu+Quoque

[edit] This relates to your point because you are literally one click away from knowing the definition of such phrases. It is no great burden to ask that you occasionally Google phrases that people use, especially when there is not better way of saying it.
What are the risks of a password attack?

* Someone can watch you type in the password
* Someone can receive/sniff/keylog you typing in the password
* Someone can find the password database and crack it
* You might tell the wrong person the password
* If you wrote the password down, someone might find it
* More i'm not thinking of (probably)

There is some kind of attack that will work to get your password, I guarantee it. So stop obsessing over it. Just make one difficult password, keep it for a long time (as suggested in the article) and make use of a second authentication factor.

Use a keyfob from PayPal or Verisign combined with OpenID ($5-$40; there are other cheap keyfobs out there too). Soft keyfobs are free and (while not impenetrable) present a new mandatory additional attack vector that increases complexity. It's less secure, but you can also use an SMS-based system for another free and cross-platform alternative.
If you think the maintainability of a one-off script that's probably already been deleted because its job is done is that crucial, you're simply nuts. If it needs to be maintained, then by definition it is not a one-off.
There's an error in slide 7, where it lists "other names to know": the Yelp equivalent in china is dianping.com, not diandian (a tumblr clone). Unlike others on the list, dianpian is not a copycat, it's started a year earlier than Yelp.
Straw man.

Edit: I'm not saying that the original argument is correct, as it really isn't, but your response was a straw man.
the future needs free software, open source software and the incredibly innovative licenses stallman pioneered to create. http://www.augmentedmadness.com/we-from-the-future-also-stan...
I think we've gotten to the point where we are submitting, upvoting and discussing content solely because it has to do with Steve Jobs.

This (out of context) quote benefits me in absolutely no way. It might, if there was elaboration or example.

Anyway, in my opinion this is a low quality submission and I'm irked by it.
Icons should be iconic, a paperplane is not iconic of email. Icons take time to establish, you can't just create an icon, something becomes an icon as it becomes recognizable through repeated use.

As for the "Home" icon example I can clearly see the Home icon from OS X. The home icon from OSX is a better icon because more people are familiar with it.

Should the Save icon in Google docs be a floppy disk or a cloud? The floppy makes no sense when you think about it, but it's a better icon because for 20 years people have been clicking that to save their files. I'd even argue the same thing for the link icon, it's on enough interfaces that people who want to link things know to click that button.

You should only really create new icons when there isn't something existing. Buy an icon pack and be done with it. People will be more familiar with them because they are used around the web.

edit: My bad, there is no save icon in Google Docs, but if there was...
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True; I just wish they'd refrained from saying "And here is the rest of the world" while showing five out of six inhabited continents.

Or they could have just drawn us on "Asia" and relabelled it "Asia-Pacific".
Someone with Stallman's level of clout is not the victim of bullying. He has been very well recognized for his work, including a MacArthur "Genius" grant. He's a big enough deal that he can have really specific requirements in his rider and can walk away from speaking engagements when the organizers don't meet them.

This is getting a little paternalistic. Stallman is not a child, and speaking of others' bullying him strikes me as somewhat diminutive, particularly when the example Raganwald compared Stallman to was his son.
And if you disagree, have the self-respect to express it with dignity.

Someone should tell that to Stallman who often proclaims people who disagree with him are evil.
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This stuff is always difficult to figure out with any certainty, because the "what if" world will always remain hypothetical.

For instance, the FSF is fairly successful, but in an alternate universe, with, say, David Hasselhof (or, KITT, for that matter), as their spokesperson, maybe they would have been vastly more successful.

With regards to the availability of free software, who knows how much is due to them, how much is due to BSD type sharing, and how much is simply due to the economics of free software making a lot of sense for some kinds of programs.
The article you link to clearly says that RSS used some of Winer's scriptingNews syndication format.
Yeah it seems like they're crowdsourcing game development now:

> Get Voxatron's future content and gameplay updates.
For math, you don't even need to own a computer.
What if, instead of moving the software to a binary blob, they went a bit nuts and moved it to an ASIC that did the same job in random logic? That is, what if they re-implemented the software in pure hardware?
We all carry keys. I use a key to get into my house, my car, my business. Keys aren't dead. A memory stick is certainly not secure, but one with the right smart card is relatively secure.
It reflects the cultural value of the environment.
Thank you for your feedback. You may find the following interesting:

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I used the expression specifically because it has been much discussed here on Hacker News. Another of historical interest is:

А у вас негров линчуют

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
Ernie Chan's book, "Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business ", is a good starting point. It's a nice blend of theory and pragmatic practice. Chan provides example implementations in Matlab to help readers get started.

http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic...

Chan's blog is informative as well,

http://epchan.blogspot.com/
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We currently support OpenID, so any site/service supporting OpenID works with the Mepin keys. Sadly there are a lot of shaky OpenID implementations out there, so yes the implementation is a challenge. And I do also agree that we will never get rid of all the passwords.
The race problem is certainly not unique to SV. You can just as easily state that there are not enough blacks in ___x___ field.

I think it is great that it is being talked about more. There is a huge social stigma to even talking about issues like this.
I was disappointed in Kottke with the fact that he didn't know why Van Halen had requested brown free bowl of M&Ms in his contract. (It was so he would know if the stage crew read the contract which contained safety info on their equipment, to help ensure that no one was harmed during the show, as they had some of the most complicated and dangerous stage equipment at the time)
Ah... that's a good catch wensheng, I had the two mixed up. I'll correct this later tonight. Thanks!
Great tips on call-to-action page design.
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> My parents bought me this book when I was in elementary school.

I wish everyone had parents like yours.
Agreed - at this point it's nothing more than a every so often flash sale with a name your own price system. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing - but I have far less interest in donating larger amounts "to support the community" when it's becoming a deal site - instead I am starting to get the mentality to get everything at the greatest deal I possibly can.