skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree with this since Mozilla is an organization that defends users' rights on the web. Firefox is just as fast or faster than Chrome in certain testing so try it out without heavy addons (like firebug) and try it with a fresh profile.

In any case competition is good. I don't think we'd benefit from a purely trident or webkit or gecko world.
If you want to convince people who don't already agree with you, you might consider explaining why you consider "deflationary" a bad thing. Personally, I think it falls squarely in the "we could do worse, and we do" category.
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Medical Justice Capitulates by "Retiring" Its Anti-Patient Review Contracts
You didn't try routing it through Twilio's voice mail transcription?

(Mostly kidding...)
Well, it's not exactly what you describe (which does sound kind of intriguing), but Linux does offer the signalfd(2) syscall, which allows you to read signals from a file descriptor. Doesn't do much for the sender of said signals, however.
http://127.0.0.1/~craig/
http://127.0.0.1/~craig/

http://127.0.0.1/~craig/*
Yellow Chair Stories
arggg... they removed telnet in windows 7.
Yes its here: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

I still think the idea is great. This guys should work together instead of making yet another competing project.
Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign
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I wonder Patrick how you view the Fukushima disaster with regards to how it impacts Japan, and also yourself personally.
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For anyone wondering: http://acme.cat-v.org

Fun fact: Acme was Dennis Ritchie's editor of choice.
Here's my six-year-old rant about how crufty terminal technology is. It's not a visionary re-imagining of terminals like this article is, but personally I think that one of the biggest barriers to innovation in terminal technology is that the current stack is so incredibly baroque and difficult to program or extend elegantly.

http://www.advogato.org/person/habes/diary/6.html
I don't think such a dismissive attitude is positive. Looking at individual people with an open and objective mind is appropriate when doing important business with anyone.

I'm sure there are lots of "ideas guys" who offer nothing but fuzzy and poorly reasoned concepts. There are also "ideas guys" who have expertise in concepts and customers who will think of things you've never thought of. A previous commentator mentioned that if you're looking to start an web analytics company, you might find someone with expertise in that area. Not only will they help you make customers, they'll give you a much better understanding of the market and what white spaces and other opportunities may exist in the market.

In the end, you simply need to understand the value of any founder you bring in. If a non-technical founder can provide better value than a technical co-founder, being afraid of hiring an "ideas guy" is not ideal. You simply need to find the right one.

There are lots of outstanding founders/CEO's who either come from no technical background, or a technical background that pales in comparison to a really great engineer.
How is this any better than using SSH tunneling?
I've always just used SSH for this.
While I like the option for transcripted podcasts, I actually find that I listen to podcasts more than I would go through and read the transcripts (except for research / review later on).

Perhaps it's just a factor of having a long commute, but I love being able to load up my ipod with podcasts and just listening to them like I would the radio.
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In my experience this is completely true of large organizations, "Most operations departments are inflexible and inefficient because they rely on specialized engineers glued together with manual processes and a large IT bureaucracy – all fundamentally at odds with the fast-moving, application-centric world of cloud computing."

This is a cycle. If the management of the Operations organization is measured based on reducing downtime they control what they can, Release & Change Management. This kills frequent small releases, so development teams have to build big releases. If management in development organizations are measured mostly by delivering on schedule they cut scope. You end up w/ development organizations delivering the minimum to ensure they meet the project mostly artificial timelines for huge releases. Suggesting small frequent releases sounds good to development (assuming they can reduce the operational paperwork associated w/ releasing), but jeopardizes Operation's control of stability so Operation's resists it. Suggesting that more get delivered in each huge release jeopardizes Development's ability to meet project deadlines because there is so much unknown and the commitment is expected up front, a quarter or more (I've seen 18 months) in advance.

There are reasons for all of this; it's not bad people, just a consequence of large organizations. Reducing downtime reduces costs because you can cut support staff. Delivering on time increases productivity because code that isn't being used is useless code.
Funny, how two by far the most numerous categories are dismissively described as "Rest of ...".
What is it about the main site that makes it look like it was done by an amateur?
The article talks about average federal pay versus average private sector pay, but that makes no sense. The government doesn't have a lot of customer-facing retail positions and the like, and does have a lot of professional positions (lawyers, economists, scientists, accountants, engineers, etc).

Also, within many (but not all, obviously) occupations, the government tends to hire more qualified people than average because they deal with complex work. Federal accountants aren't handling the work of some 50-person small business, they're auditing the tax returns of multi-billion dollar international corporations. Federal lawyers aren't handling some old guy's will, they're overseeing multi-billion dollar transactions.
Web usage-based billing on its way
As outlined in another comment, marketing/seo is often the reason. That is, bots will spam links. Either they want direct clicks or at least some SEO bonus.
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While I support allowing homosexuals to donate, I don't think your comparison is fair.

Having 100 random sexual encounters with randomly sampled women leaves you approximately a 50% chance of having unprotected sex with someone who has HIV. Not to mention, HIV may not even be transmitted even if you have an encounter.

On the other hand, after 100 random homosexual MSM encounters, your chances of having had unprotected sex with someone carrying HIV is 99.99997344%.

MSM puts you at a much higher risk for HIV. That's fact.
It's not about less management, it's about trusting your employees and their judgement. Accepting that failures happen and learn from the mistakes.
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>> 10% off-cycle raise.

That return on investment for the time spend negotiating was huge. That percentage increase will probably carry forward for the duration of your job. In addition, they may try to allocate a little more of their raise pool to you on the next round.
Ex-Twitter engineer joins Kleiner Perkins
It seems quite clear in multiple locations that Dwolla does in fact have a credit union as an investor, what is your source that it doesn't?

http://www.chubbybrain.com/companies/dwolla/investors-fundin...

https://www.veridiancu.org/

http://kb.veridiancu.org/veridiancu/consumer/kbdetail.asp?kb...
I'm not feeling immediately enlightened. The existence of a program doesn't inconvenience anyone. No-one has to use it if they don't want to. That wizard needs to chill out and not get so upset about people kicking ideas around.
You are correct. I actually typed something similar up, but after reading it it came across too much like, "I don't trust her."
The prevalence rate for MSM (about 20,000 / 100,000)[1] is much higher than for black women (1,122 per 100,000)[2] or black men (2,388 per 100,000), though you are correct that all three groups have very high concentrations of HIV positive persons.

[1]http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/26/study-20-of-homosexual...
[2]http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/factshe...
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It occurs to me we're starting to go around in circles. The author suggests...

"To make it work in both Chrome and Firefox, we had to use sink.js, to abstract the differences between the audio APIs."

But isn't that exactly what Flash is? Yes sink.js would be an open solution but it would be an open solution based on proprietary APIs built into the browser (which themselves are open source but which can't be changed without approval of their governing bodies making them not that much different than Flash and its product teams)

So really we've traded Flash's native audio processing for a JavaScript solution using a Web API which in turn uses native APIs.

It seems like it would be more productive to force the browsers to develop one common API
It's still the case now, but see gcp's point above for why it's not important.
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Tried registering - the 20 chars limit on their password field is not mentioned. For a company that should be aware about security implications, an upper limit should not be there.

Also, I connected my Facebook account from the start, so Dwolla should know my country of origin before my attempt to register. However, only when I got prompted for my address info (third screen) I saw the message "U.S. only...for now", but hey, my city name got filled in.

And before that I tried looking around, going to their Help section, searching - I found no mention of this US-only thing.
Just a comment about the ie6 usage that I mentioned in the podcast( http://www.ie6countdown.com/ )

I was speaking from old data from ie6countdown from last year.
Apparently Japan has made great strides since then. (Currently at 6.5%)

Good be be corrected.
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Google rips Senate's online piracy bill: 'This is what is wrong with Washington'
The primary use of online polls, these days, appears to be for news websites to generate hooks for articles, leading to all sorts of spurious conclusions and misleading headlines.

Oh wait...
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Would you mind emailing me with a bit of info on how you go about doing that? I assume you're not a US citizen? I'd really appreciate some pointers. davedx@gmail.com :)
[Show HN] Elliot, a little Python script to generate fake phonecalls
I wrote Elliot for fun, and I thought other people might get a kick out of it. It uses the excellent fakecall.net service, and isn't very elegant about errors.

https://github.com/peterhajas/Elliot
Google+ Now Lets You Conference People Into Hangouts With Free Voice Calls
This issue of why you couldn't do this before is that you don't have a shell account on AppFog/PHPFog machines.
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Seoul, South Korea. Any other HNer?
This is good stuff. I don't need an office but good energy is a must. I'm stopping by next week!
Feel free to PM me then.
Czech, too, closer to Brno, though.
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Of course, at ofmlabs we all want sink.js to be made unnecessary as soon as possible! It's just a pragmatic solution when you want to make an audio demo and cannot wait 3 years for the browser implementors to reconcile :)

In the long term, we have been participating in the W3C Audio WG, and discussing with various folks at Google and Mozilla, to try and understand where the debate is going. Robert O'Callahan's MediaStream API seems the most promising so far.

We are not advocating the use of sink.js as a long term solution!
As rplnt says it's often for SEO reasons. This is misguided advice at best and is rampant in the SEO world. It's a bad practise that a lot of people are misinformed on and are willing to do at the cost of honest webmasters.
SSH tunneling is not possible in PaaS environments.
I'd like it if India and other Asian countries had a 'start-up visa'. Currently its usually too difficult to start-up a company using business or tourist visas for most Asian countries, let alone the police registration issues for even short-term residency and the actual legal registration of a local business (which can take longer than the longest available visas), if that's pursued at all.

I have tried start-ups in several Asian countries, and have assisted friends with other attempts, so have faced these issues repeatedly.
I believe that the merchant accounts require merchants to charge the same price.

It seems like it's mostly a tax on those who pay in cash.
Absolutely. His blog is sparse but excellent, which seems to be one of the main characteristics of excellent blogs.
Turing died because he had a head full of military secrets and consorted with gay prostitutes, and was therefore considered a security (blackmail) risk.

Obviously it was more complicated than that, but I consider this to be the primary reason.
No one has to use it, but someone has to decide not to use it. A major concern with newcomers to many, many systems in a wide variety of markets is what option to pick. Most go with the default, which reinforces that default but doesn't necessarily fit their needs. They do this because the choice is overwhelming.
The more and more I work in Agile the more I realize that the way many companies use it it is just an excuse to do micromanagement and attempt to treat everyone as an interchangeable resource/cog. Now this doesn't mean agile is bad, it just means for whatever reason management in many of my experiences has twisted it into a tool that seemingly leads to the following:

- Change direction every sprint to the point where an application has been morphed so many times into something new that it makes it a heroic task to actually engineer something that ends up performant without needing a complete rewrite
- Takes the pressure of the business/management folks to project, plan or foresee anything because they believe they can change direction at any point in time
- Cut down projects into such fine grained tasks that it takes the fun out of the work

Im sure in those cases agile was done wrong for whatever reason or another but consequently as a result of my experiences I've stopped putting up with it when I can. I'm definitely ignorant about project management but Ive found within a small team just talking and coordinating like normal human beings about how your going to work together and what your going to do works pretty well. I guess I'd call my approach the "no project manager" technique.