skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firebug is gradually being phased out in favor of built-in developer tools (which is nice, because Firebug is one of the things making Firefox slow). There's been lots of blogging about those lately, just check out a Nightly/Aurora Firefox build.
I'm not a technical guy and I see a lot of other non technical guys out there trying to sell their ideas. I like the angle to look for a guy who is really good at something. I would go even further to say find a business guy who knows your market, industry and potential customers. This may not always be easy but time and time again in and out of tech startups are successful because the people running them understood the industry, market and people they were targeting
So the instructions are like that:

1)Go to www.google.com
2)Open chrome developer tools or firebug on Firefox and go to console tab.
3)paste this code into console:
document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com";window.location.reload();

4) Get the new design
Every Business Owner Should Get An Answering Service
>I’m really unsure why Path are trying to create a whole new network, when there’s so many great networks out there already.

Bigger potential upside?

Their features are in the core focus of Facebook, so building on Facebook could be tricky, strategically.

This quotation from Dune always comes to mind, thinking about platforms: 'The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.'

If they depend on a platform with which they are in competition, their product won't be nearly as valuable as it will be if they succeed in building a new network.

Maybe they'd be more likely to get traction, trying to build a complimentary product on an existing network, but owning the network is very valuable in the long run.
Google has also dropped support for IE7 as of August this year (for apps at least): http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-plans-to-support-m...
Announcing Debugging with GDB, 10th Edition for Version 7.3.1
Why? I thought some companies do not do branching? They have their own processes?

Some went nuts with the whole turn "on/off" features (so no branching).

I thought some team within Google also don't do branching? Always HEAD?
This is amazing. I've never heard of this before. I can think of millions of potential applications; make car tires stick to the road when cornering, replace seatbelts with a electric car seat, glasses that stick to your face, a phone that sticks to your ear, shoes without laces.

I'm sure I could come up with a lot more ideas too.
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Like Derek said, lots of good support and interest in the SG community. The government also (from my newbie eye) seems to be genuinely interested in promoting startups and creating a startup community.

On the flip side, unless your startup's market is geographically agnostic, I think you'll have to constantly remind yourself to look outside the SG market if you'll want any kind of real success, since the SG market is kinda small.

As for everything else (like talent pool), I'm not really sure yet as I've only been here for a few months :)
I think there should be a log softener applied to submission karma.
Mobile payments with a… wristwatch
Coroutines are available in Node via the fibers package (https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers). For benchmarks comparing performance to purely asynchronous webapps, check out the README to my Common Node project (https://github.com/olegp/common-node), which implements a number of synchronous CommonJS proposals on Node using fibers.
I find one fact quite interesting.

All 8 Israelis have added Israel separately rather than voting up, commenting under existing one.

I wonder what doe this say about us.
Is there any evidence that the Iraq War was anything but intentional by the President? Secrecy was used to mislead the public, but the entire Administration was hired based on their commitment to finish GHW Bush's war.
I avoided saying "unlocked" because it would imply it was locked at some point. What should I call them?
Sorry but your comment is just hand waving. Can you give a specific example of those ad related sites Google "phones" whenever you go to any site on a vanilla Chrome installation?
I think the journal element is the right track for them. I've found Path more interesting without the social element. When I was alone in path, I could mark and post things with no regard for anyone else's opinion. Since I've added friends, it began to look more like Facebook, and substantially less interesting. I think Path is a great journal, but like a journal best made only with yourself.

It's the beauty of the app that much of the joy springs from. I made a short relevant post on that on my blog http://mchrishawkins.tumblr.com/.
How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 2
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Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations
For stationary setups, this is for the first time a real win for touchscreens in comparison to a conventional screen plus a pointing device (mouse, trackball, you name it). I'm really curious what they'll make out of this.
Now for something completely different. #musicisthevirus
I just bought an Uno Makershed kit last weekend. I am still somewhere just past hello world in my understanding of the interface, to be sure, because my hardware experience is limited to having used LEGO-LOGO back in the 80s as a kid.

But then again this seems a lot easier to get my head around than I imagined it would. I might go so far as to call Arduino a LEGO-LOGO that grew up, moved out of its parent's house, and got a job.
In Singapore as well, originally from Malaysia.
> Putting aside the layman for the moment, has anyone else found Chrome particularly annoying to use as a power user?

As a power user I don't know (I don't even consider it), but as a developer I see my colleagues struggling with Chrome's over-aggressive cache every day, and it truly boggle's my mind that Google's developers, with their roots in the web, still provide no way for chrome to be sane cache-wise. The bloody thing caches more aggressively than Internet Explorer, getting it to release cached files is an exercise in frustration and you can not trust that it's done so without checking the actual code it's downloaded in the devtools.
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Elveos, a crowdfunding website dedicated to free software
that sounds odd. details?
Tyranny of the Tools
Bermuda represent!
That's not secrecy to protect national security, that's secrecy to protect corruption and oppress citizens.
Awesome...is there a feed I can subscribe to?
Firefox has always been the hobbyist/technical person's browser. Chrome is a slick experience aimed at the end-user.

I'm not sure. I think it's the opposite. Most end-users won't really know or care what browser they are using, but they do care what their hobbyist/technical friends/colleagues/kids use, because those are "the experts" so they know what's best.

Chrome had very significant uptake among those, and one of the reasons for the very steep growth in its market-share is that this "trickles down" to lesser experienced users. It's also the biggest problem for Firefox, because it gained its market-share in exactly the same manner.

And for the users that were impervious to this, bundling deals like with Skype and Flash are also obvious big wins over IE and Firefox.

I'd be curious what features of Chrome make you believe its a more slick experience for the end user as compared to Firefox.
its mainly funded by the startup homepage in fact which goes to firefox customized google search
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LoveFilm and Silverlight
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Part of it is pattern-matching. Lots of people getting excited about startups reminds journalists and VCs of the late 1990s, therefore it's a bubble.

I think people/organizations that have something to lose are also more likely to criticize. Levchin complains about "too much competition for talent" -- it would be a lot easier and cheaper if developers worked for him instead of striking out on their own.
First of all, I think the Path team did a great job with the recent changes and ads.

However, scaling a platform like Path is always a trade-off. And in a certain way, that's also similar to what Posterous is facing the next months.

You make it super attractive through channeling different opportunities in one platform or you make it superfluous as it serves as an coexistence to Facebook, g+ or instagram etc. If you manage to maintain traffic: Great. If not: You remain in history as a great platform that already existed. A great city with great attractions but no one living there.

Not to forget that the cross-service or let´s sets holistic-platform approach prepares good opportunities for an exit as you can basically transfer a lot of that information to other platforms. That´s worth something.
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I would imagine that the Washington DC Metro area (DC, Northern Virginia, Maryland) has a reasonably sized proportion of that "(Rest of the) United States" total. The startup scene, and tech scene in general (largely thanks to defense contractors), are quite active here.
Did I mention bumpmaps? These turned out to be really really good. There's an extra level of quality here, and I'm frequently walking up to objects, walking around them, looking at them from different angles, trying to figure if they're actual real geometry or just bumpmapped. The original didn't survive this kind of close inspection.

That's not the kind of thing that you can communicate in a screenshot.
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The whoishiring script broke today
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

From the profile:
This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring? (Month YYYY Edition)' post at 8 AM Eastern time on the 1st of every month.

According to the submissions page
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

...it looks like there hasn't been a submission for today Thur, Dec 1 2011 as of 10:30AM EST.
I was born in SJC :D my parents still live there.
Path(v2) fly out menu already recreated and open sourced.
Google survey: Frequency of top tablet activities by top secondary activities
Feelings are mutual :-)

Actually there's no startup movement in Pakistan so visiting HN in Pakistan is quite unusual, atleast for me.
Facebook, Farmville, and other viral apps are "socially contagious" as well. Someone call the CDC!
"We're still wondering why Google would reject Carrier IQ from its flagship devices but allow phones with the software to pass the various Android compatibility tests required to license its apps like Gmail, Google Maps, and Android Market."
Kind of scary to think that if the developer had just copy pasted that code block again (to cover the name field) you might not have spotted the awful awful code.
Here's the code for easy copy paste:

eb 04 af c2 bf a3 81 ec 00 01 00 00 31 c9 88 0c
0c fe c1 75 f9 31 c0 ba ef be ad de 02 04 0c 00
d0 c1 ca 08 8a 1c 0c 8a 3c 04 88 1c 04 88 3c 0c
fe c1 75 e8 e9 5c 00 00 00 89 e3 81 c3 04 00 00
00 5c 58 3d 41 41 41 41 75 43 58 3d 42 42 42 42
75 3b 5a 89 d1 89 e6 89 df 29 cf f3 a4 89 de 89
d1 89 df 29 cf 31 c0 31 db 31 d2 fe c0 02 1c 06
8a 14 06 8a 34 1e 88 34 06 88 14 1e 00 f2 30 f6
8a 1c 16 8a 17 30 da 88 17 47 49 75 de 31 db 89
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The company rep has stated that data leaves the phone. Evidence enough?
IPhone 4S deemed best iPhone yet by owners
Having read this, I appreciate much more why Dispatch is the way it is. As a newcomer to Scala, I wish this wasn't the standard recommendation then. I was almost put off entirely when after 2 solid days I still couldn't issue an HTTP request. Fortunately I'm on the JVM and had other options, which I ultimately went with, but I was trying hard to embrace the Scala way and just coming up totally frustrated. If a simpler library were the starting point and Dispatch used for more advanced cases (again, as community recommendations), I posit there'd be a lot less vitriol.
And I remember back then when firefox was not even 1.0, and was replacing the horrible browsing experience on Linux on Konqueror, with a delightful one (with tabs!).

I am glad to see how far we've come.
Thank you, great overview.
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uhmm...this sound more and more like a Carnivore reloaded
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Mostly the lack of options, and the way the updates don't get in your way.

Firefox gives you a lot more power, but everything you can do in it beyond the basics gives you the possibility of things going wrong.

So you can install Tabmix Plus, but that gives you a wall of tab options that can leave you wondering how to find things. You can install NoScript, and be left wondering why half of your web pages don't work any more.

When it comes to "plain Firefox with nothing installed" and "plain Chrome, with nothing installed" I suspect they're about as easy to use.
Any Journey Starts with a Single Step
ShowHN: TwinkleTrail - Find and view holiday lights
Interdependency
Ql.io: A project by eBay
Mediere conflicte
TinyCC does this (was supposedly similar slowdown) <http://bellard.org/tcc/tcc-doc.html#SEC21>; - but it's C only. Still, one of the coolest projects around.
I just put " http://www.kalzumeus.com/feed/atom/ " into iTunes and it worked. YMMV. I'm not sure what the option is called in English and don't know if other clients will play well with Wordpress' atom feed.
https://github.com/raganwald/JQuery-Combinators
Loadtimer: a mobile test harness
I don't get it either. African-American women are one of the fastest rising HIV+ groups in the US, yet they aren't banned. Yes, anyone can transmit HIV.

The policy is ignorant and based upon the idea that all men who have sex with other men are unsafe, promiscuous, and an hiv test won't be effective as they may have had a recent exposure that is essentially untestable. Its a holdover from the 80's when people were afraid of catching the 'gay disease'.

In my view, unless there is some test for being gay (there isn't) then just go ahead and register. If you're a match, then make sure you're hiv negative and haven't had any risky behavior in the past few months and you should be good to go.
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True, and yet, I would argue that people asked for screenshots that show the difference, not screenshots that show how they're almost entirely the same.
Great IMAP, POP3, and SMTP troublshooting guide.
15 Awesome Design Resources From November 2011 | BOCO Creative Blog
Which disingenuous press release?
"Some of the nastiest nerds become lambs when they meet in person. ... If you see people often enough, and know that you’ll see them again pretty soon, calling them a retard on some forum becomes decidedly less gratifying."

Ha! I thought this was one of the most poignant statements in the post. Community engagement might be the solution to all the Scala backlash that seems to distract from making the language better and establishing best practices.
In Australia the retailers generally call it a 'handset only' purchase
Science, Technology and Humanity at Singularity Summit 2011
Spent a bunch of years in SF and DC.

The fundamental core competencies are quite different. In DC, the primary startup mode is to 1. Suck money out of a gov't agency, by 2. Having a contact willing to sign the checks.

Gov't funding has made that area quite fat. (5 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the US are in greater DC.)
What's lacking in Chrome's dev tools compared to Firefox? Are we talking native dev tools, or including Firebug and etc in the Firefox camp. Its been my experience that all these valuable extensions get performance hits more and more as Firefox has begun to frown lately, further adding to the decline in quality UX.

The fact that Chrome developer tools are built-in and seamlessly integrated is what makes it my primary.
What does it feel like to have schizophrenia?
The policy still doesn't add up. They really should just ask anyone if they've had unsafe sex outside of a monogamous and std tested relationship in 3/12 months.

I could very well have had sex with 100 women in the past 3 months (as a man) and been unsafe with all of them. Yet, they don't seem to be the least bit worried about that scenario.
Are you defending CarrierIQ?
So That's What Wavii is Up To: "Making Facebook out of Google"
How effective is the Google Apps support ecosystem? The customers speak
I still can't understand how this gets missed in every one of these posts; a great business cofounder can be someone with an insane level of domain expertise either selling something like the thing you're making, or selling to the exact same people you want to sell to.

If you're making, say, web analytics software for online retailers, your best business cofounder would be a guy who had just spent a year convincing online retailers to buy his company's Magento extension (or whatever). This guy will make your product better, will know what to say to customers, and will probably even dial up all the people he already sold to so he can also sell your new product. A second best fit might be someone from an ad agency, for example, who had pitched and won the business of a few online retailers.

Don't buy this visionary, motivator, fundraising, connector bull. If you need a life coach, hire a life coach. There's only two critical functions to your startup: Make the thing, Sell the thing. You can fake the rest if you do the big two.
halo, from Jakarta
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"..people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone! Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone. So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t."

-- Mick Jagger (ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8681410.stm)
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Carrier IQ: Which phones/carriers are affected, and how to remove it
Sounds cool but why should small businesses should get in the cloud?
Yeah, I used Chrome for a while and have switched back to Firefox. The latest versions of Firefox are much faster, Chrome seems to have lost the speed advantage it had for a bit. Chrome didn't seem to have any better memory usage either. Given that Firefox is much more customizable and has more extensions it's clearly the best browsing experience for me now.
Isn't this called "Google Voice?"
XJST - Extensible JavaScript Transformations: simple, rapid, expressive
Isn't this accomplished by Google Voice?
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New OpenVMS Vulnerability
Alright, I was just hanging out in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) with my friends discussing about gurls, escapades, new fan signs for our blog and suddenly my friend (his name is scr3w) told me about a new vulnerability which has been identified and reported by Christer Oberg (a well-known bug hunter) for HP OpenVMS TCP/IP Services running SMTP server. The potential security vulnerability could result in a remote Denial of Service (DoS). I was so interested on the said exploit that I told him to send me an email about the said vulnerability.
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Worked for me too. On a Mac:

iTunes > Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast
Yes, thank you!

I thought I was the only one.

Patrick, I love almost everything you write, both here and on your blog, but the idea of listening to anything for more than 5 minutes drives me nuts. Maybe it's my OCD, or my need to focus deeply on my work, or maybe it's just that the podcast form does not deliver the data densely enough. I will probably read your 79 minute podcast transcription in under 10 minutes, without losing focus, and being eternally grateful.

Andrew Warner of mixergy did this sporadically at one time, but never enough. Andrew, if you're reading this, please do what Patrick has done, every time. I'll never miss another show of yours!
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Originally the PS3 was advertised as being able to run LINUX on so you can create a spreadsheet on a PS3 and email it to your boss. HDMI = 1920 x 1080 resolution screen + USB keyboard and Mouse + 60GB HDD and it's better then many office computers of that time period. They also advertised some people that built a cheap super computer, and others used them for blue ray players so they where not targeting just the gaming market.
Sure I don't think that local meets are a bad idea, but I like the idea of centralizing it and allowing users to swap via distance and credit as well. Also the meets would be a good place for games to bring in their items for bulk credit without having to ship them. I think you are on to a good idea just need to refine and define it.
Yup I do agree with you that the FAQs should come across as though they will do their absolute best to protect your financial data and restrict who can see it.
I'm morally flexible here. Its a silly policy based on ignorance and fear. If someone gay knows they are safe, why should they feel bad about lying, when a straight person who hasn't been tested and has had unprotected sex recently could walk in and have no issue donating?

Also, it would seem that hiv is honestly less bad than dying of having no match for acute leukemia, but I'm not doctor can't say for sure.
You have to read the "Indian Translator & The 3 Authorities" story. This will make your day.
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Doesn't the order of operations matter here? If I sign the paper and then get hired, does my new job suddenly invalidate my contract with the lawyer?
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How does this compare to lipsync in terms of binary files?

https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync
It's on all iPhones, they all run the same software. However, it does check your carrier and will exit or upload at different times depending on what carrier is in use — for example, 3G uploads appear to only be enabled for US carriers.
First. Learn to use Ctrl+F :)
If you click the gear in the bottom right corner of web inspector, there's an option to disable the cache.
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OK. Can I ask what you use for bookmarking and what type of urls you bookmark?

I have a few thousand bookmarks in Delicious, but I've nearly stopped bookmarking altogether. I noticed that I almost never look up bookmarks later, so I've started keeping really important urls in org-mode and discarding everything else. Google is good enough for most recall. For everything else, org-mode reminds me that the bookmarks exist which I tended to forget with Delicious.
Do my _users_ need to be in the USofA to enjoy Dwolla?[0]

> Currently yes. We are exploring which market to enter next :)

Not a criticism, just a heads up for developers not targeting solely USA clients...

[0] http://getsatisfaction.com/dwolla/topics/do_my_users_need_to...