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2. Participate!

I often participate, but when I don't it's usually for a simple reason: downvotes sting. This is so important that I would add it as a corollary to "9. Be nice":

9a. Use downvotes sparingly.

I and my poor primate brain will thank you.
I'm generally happy lurking, and I can lurk with the best of them (see 4 years / 35 karma :-)) To be honest I just don't have the time to comment often and karma (in a HN sense) means nothing to me.

My way of giving back to the community happens more in real life (aka meatspace, though I hate that term),more recently it's the connections I've made through HN and iOS meetups here in Tokyo that are the most valuable to me. I'm genuinely interested in what people are working on and people seem to find my work situation a lot more interesting than I had thought they would (I actually thought that when I introduced myself at my first HN meetup everyone would groan "Oh not another iOS dev").

Anyway my 2 cents for the year.
TOS mean as much as your small claims court judge decides it means.

They had a professional appraisal on the violin that said it was authentic. Paypal has its TOS saying they can call anything counterfeit and their TOS says they can't be held liable for it.

Sorry it's a judges job to say if you can or can't be held liable for your business terms and practices.
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I have no idea how the Xbox fits into this discussion, but I'll bite:

Windows Mobile has had a decade of shitty products that have ruined its reputation. A full ten years, during which their competitors were essentially jump-starting the modern smartphone market. They've now got what people say is a quality product, but they'll have to work twice as hard to win back iPhone and Android converts.

The Xbox, on the other hand, was (1) a first entry for Microsoft into a new market and (2) not associated with ANY existing Microsoft brand. The Xbox line won support based on its merit and quality (even considering ridiculous shit like the Red Ring of Death issues) from day one.
Can you clarify what you mean by any of that with examples? Because I've enjoyed the Metro UI every time I've used it, and so has every reviewer I've seen. I guess we are all weird?
Why even acknowledge the number of signups for a service like this? Because Codeacademy is a startup, and startups generally like releasing impressive numbers and getting coverage on tc.
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"During the 60 days, the PageRank of www.google.com/chrome will also be lowered to reflect the fact that we also won’t trust outgoing links from that page."

That was the strangest part, for me.
Google clearly can trust outgoing links from www.google.com/chrome.

Its clear they had no intention of gaming their own system with this campaign. But they obviously feel the need to act in a 'beyond reproach' way, to avoid the accusation of conflicts-of-interest.

In one way its good that they are being held to high standards; on the other hand, this is resulting in less relevant search responses, for no real benefit to anyone (including those whom antitrust law, which they might be thinking about, is there to protect).

Hard to say what what the right thing to do is.
Sometimes, it looks like its a tough job to maintain the 'dont be evil' image.
Uh... the code in question is retrieving those passwords and emailing them over unencrypted SMTP. How is that design improved by the use of key rotation or "hardware security modules"?
It seems to be, that most of PayPal's PR blunders result from heavily regulation of stupid employees.

Funny, but heavily regulation of stupid employees seems to be the source of many complaints about the TSA, government agencies in general, traffic enforcement, customer service reps, etc...
That much is clear, and I think the differences are probably the interesting part. :) I'll try to set aside some time to look at the implementation details of the two libraries.

My favorite blog post (not mine) discussing this is:

http://thinkrevoactevo.blogspot.com/2011/11/sql-in-clojure.h...

but it also does not address the fact that relational algebra and SQL selects are very closely related things. I think that there is a very nice theoretical issue hiding here realting to composable sql fragments. If I come to any interesting conclusions I'll message you. Part of my day job is writing a new type of query compiler, so this is an interesting topic to me.
Go through the new submissions instead of the front page. It gets a lot of spam.
"Let me take you back to 2006. ...iTunes was horribly slow..."

We've come so far since then!
I imagine the FTC and FCC are an incentive to do something to ameliorate the situation.
I think the real estate prices here are more a side effect of the mining boom rather than the drivers of the cost of living here. We recently got a quote of $5000 for paving ~30m^2 out the back of our house. It's a joke. Trades people are in such high demand here that they can charge more than surgeons.

I worry about the effect that this is going to have on the education level of the local populace. What's the incentive to stay in school to Yr 12 when you can drop out at 15, get an apprenticeship and be earning a motza by the time you're 18?
I'm sure trying to decide which snarky remark best conveys your condescending attitude towards a company's attempt to maintain its integrity and good standing is such a terrible dilemma.
> And no, the signals are rarely converted to YCbCr 4:2:2 internally but for the absolute cheapest and crappiest of processors.

Tell that to Sony, Samsung, LG, etc. who all do it by default (outside of game/PC modes) across most (all?) of their lineup nowadays.

Or are you implying that my HX909 uses the absolute cheapest and crappiest of processors?
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Ha, I haven't used it since I got a Zune, so I was uncomfortable making assumptions :)
Create a WiFi network on one Mac, join it with another Mac. No DHCP server is running, but thanks to the self-assigned IP fallback, the two Macs can still communicate with each other. This can be tremendously useful.
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I like how there's a link to an article pointing out that Chrome no longer ranks on the first page for searches of "browser". I confirmed the same for "web browser" and "new browser", however in every case, an ad for Chrome was at the top, while an ad for IE9 was at the very bottom of the page (below the bottom of most screens, and out of view). In other words, Chrome is still the first search result.
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Do you currently need a good remote Node.js/MongoDB developer? (That's my current preference. I do everything except Ruby/Perl/.NET. Sizable experience with AWS, App Engine, Linux admin, SQL, you name it.)
Really like the transparency and applying the same rules, but at the same time when I search for "Google Chrome" the single ad in a yellow box above all of the results is for http://www.google.com/chrome. I guess I wonder if this page rank demotion will really make a difference since Google still controls that ad spot.
It's only lousy if digital->analog->digital conversion itself is lousy -- and from everything I've read it's nearly impossible to see any difference.

My original intention was to connect the computer via a DVI-to-HDMI cable but with only HD resolutions available with no 1-to-1 pixel mapping this is a no-go.
Yeah, you still get 10 DRM-free downloads per month. If that's still not something you're comfortable with, I have heard of other ways to... "fix" the Zune DRM.
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Yep. It both never occurred to me that my email was private, nor that someone on Hacker News would want to contact me.
That's a great point, and don't worry, the irony of the whole thing wasn't lost on me. I kind of thought that the original post was amusing for exactly the same reason, but it was a start. For what it's worth, I'm sitting here now writing some code and specs for something that I hope to release later on in the year. Regards, M@
Well the iPhone market is certainly larger than the handful of people who bought a Mac :)
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Will this really get picked up outside of tech press? While this will generate lots of chatter, it seems most of it will be visible only to people who already know about Chrome.

I think most of the reactions so far are overly cynical - it really seems like Google is trying to do the right thing here.
If anyone wants to see an alternative implementation, this one came to mind:

http://alexw.me/ipad2/
So cant we just support SEED in more modern browsers, look ma its a real specification it even has an RFC and everything :P

Heck NSS supports it so Firefox and Chrome must be good for SEED (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478839)
This is a serious question. I'm not a front-end guy. Instead of downvoting, can someone enlighten me?
Thanks for the input jiggity!
Great ideas, especially the UI screenshots.
I do wonder how many sites are launching each day. Or for that matter, apps, site relaunches, new features, etc.

It's more fun to code then to dig into that research so we'll see where this takes us first.
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The two best things that let me learn Django (and some more-than-basic Python) were The Django Book and IRC.

IRC is a really, really, really good resource to learn something technical, and it is better in that it provides real-time help. It is the closest you can probably get to having someone guide you live short of having a friend to help you.
That's only true in the US; in the EU, Paypal is actually a bank, registered in Luxembourg.
Yep, i also see a bug in here.
How do I compare cities? (e.g. Axxx with Zxxx)
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You're right, but what's the answer? Should Google not be allowed to use AdWords for its own products?
Appealing to Zune owners doesn't sound like a winning strategy to me...
So what method do I have of verifying your genuine real-world identity?
Can someone explain how they got into this situation? I can't find any backstory.
Why thank you, that was a nice thing to say.
Is he going to release the material? The class (which includes the course notes) cost each student $1000.

I hope he does!
Noone who hears about this does not already know all about Chrome, unless it reaches the mainstream press due to the extremity of the self-punishment.
>The devices are mostly rehashes from Android models, and even those that aren't don't differentiate themselves from other medium-tier phones.

This is a problem that Android has created for the mobile phone market. Android has undeniably the worst performance of the three, and to compensate for that the handheld makers have started a spec race. Only when you get to superphone levels does Android really shine.

On the other hand, properly designed and controlled systems like iOS and WP7 don't require massive processing power to run smoothly. 1Ghz is perfectly fine, but I hear the complaint all the time that WP7 doesn't interest people because it's not dual core 1.5Ghz chips inside. It doesn't have it because it doesn't need it. Any other feature you'd like (slide out speaker, kickstand, keyboard, massive 5" screen, etc), it's got it. If you get out of the mindset that faster chips means more performance, WP7 has hardware out there that suits any need.
Are there any provisions to this policy to ensure that it's not abused? It would be trivially easy to create "sponsored" links on behalf of your competitor in order to get them penalized.
> Unlike in the car market, we'll likely only see a handful of major players able to participate profitably as the market settles a bit.

I'm genuinely curious as to why you think that. Do you feel the purchased apps lock-in will be significant in the long term?
Humour that highlights a new point of view often gets upvoted.

If it's just funny, and not elucidating, gentle humour that does not rely on the sudden glory of the reader often gets upvoted.
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The JS-based Hashtable library[1] used in this project is interesting and useful:

[1] http://www.timdown.co.uk/jshashtable/
Okay, learning Rails with years of programming experience under your belt is in no way comparable to learning how to program (hate "code" as a verb) from scratch. Even if all you ever did was write device drivers in MIPS assembly, you're at a huge advantage over someone who has to wrap their head around what the heck a while loop or an assignment statement is.
Yeah, dunno. I've seen the reviews and so on, but having played with metro on some devices, admittedly just in a store for maybe 10 minutes a few times, I just don't like it. The large text that just kind of runs off the side of the screen, and content hanging off just at the right edge to scroll to feels sloppy somehow. Also, I find the up transition jarring (kind of a page flip thing). The live tiles are sort of neat, but overall I don't care for the design aesthetic.

This is totally subjective, and probably just inertia w.r.t. what I'm already used to, but I just don't care for it, no matter how well reviewed it is.
100% accurate. XBOX is a horrible example. Console makers live and die by their current generation. Only Nintendo has the brand to survive failures (and I'd say even they have to start being careful now).

The history of Sega and Sony alone are very telling.

I will admit that I'm surprised that Xbox's branding easily survived the ring-of-death disaster. Part of that is how much money they threw at the problem and part of that is the state of the market [for hard-core console gamers].

Also, remember that the division is billions of dollars in the red. It'll likely take them 2 more iterations (or 10+ years) to break even assuming they can keep their current momentum (which history tells us will be hard).
Hard to understand the down voting.

Are people actually that stupid that they believe the story is true?
Ask HN:  What taxation software do you normally use for ecomm?
At my job we are currently starting up a new ecomm project and I am really curious what taxation software you guys normal use. We need to be able to look up various tax rates for products and services by zip code.

We are a rails shop and I would love to find something like braintree for taxation but that doesn't appear to be out there. We have looked at billsoft and vertex, but they don't seem to promote a nice api.

Strikeiron and taxcloud appear to be options, but I question how scalable they are. Has anyone used them?

Finally, thanks in advance for your great advice.
AdWords trumps PageRank, but understand that Google is (or rather, should be) technically outbidding the market to show that ad.

Though in many ways for them it's like taking money from their left pocket and putting it into their right pocket, so I suspect they will be able to outbid others until infinity.
Somehow I think people will be able to find Chrome.

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/chrome-on...
How did organized crime attempt to ransack PayPal in the early years?
So, taking the advice of @gerggerg above, I asked myself this: what was the best bit of "epic shit" that someone created in 2011?

For me, Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/) was one of the most amazing, world-changing things that I saw across the entire technology industry in 2011. In particular, the stuff on Cosmology and Astronomy (http://www.khanacademy.org/#cosmology-and-astronomy) is just fantastic.

What blew you away in 2011?
The more people learn the better. We should also encourage programming to younger generations.

I came across the Fedora Sugar on a Stick distro and fell in love with it.

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/

I've been making copies and handing them out to all my cousins and relatives. The Python coding sections are impressive.
It would also explain Bing.
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You and the article seem to be talking about two different things. The article is talking about how things are bad by default. You seem to be saying (e.g. with talk about the EDID gadget) that things can be made to work if enough effort is applied. That is scant comfort to someone who writes drivers to interface with televisions, as the author of the blog post seems to.

> I have yet to run into any real issues.

Possibly because of hacks like the one this guy pointed to in Linux?
I believe the ad was there already. Prior to this event, the first two links were to google.com/chrome if you counted ads, now one.
By using a HSM you store the encryption key on a separate hardware device. I am already assuming that if you want to implement something like this you will encrypt the passwords. Thus the problem is knowing where to put the keys.
Out of curiosity, how do you destroy a coin?
I have an android and an iPhone. I was recommended task killer for android by the guy in the verizon store. The next guy in the verizon store when I went back and mentioned battery life while I was buying a car charger. My friends with android phones. Teh Internet.

I have purchased 8 iOS devices and I know more people with iPhones than android. This was the first I've heard of it.

It was not my intention to suggest that I am the authority on iPhone tips. I was merely expressing my surprise that after hearing a similar suggestion practically every damn conversation I have about my Droid, that I had not heard such a thing about iPhone.
> You're not a furniture mover.

No, I'm a professional, and I expect to be compensated appropriately for my time and effort, just like the lawyers and accountants and other professionals I pay in turn.

I don't understand your unwillingness to accept this way of working. You seem to assume that it will result in a lower total income. I have encountered no evidence that this is how real life works. Maybe it's how the game is played in your particular field and/or your particular location, but it's certainly not universal.

Also, like some others posting here, I do value the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously. I don't want to commit an entire week of work to a single client on a single project, if that is neither interesting for me nor providing good value to the client.

Also also, I like not being expected to stick around free of charge for another two hours after an 8-hour meeting 100 miles from home because my client wants a quick chat. Indeed, if my clients need me to attend a meeting 100 miles from home, I'll be happy to do so, but they're paying my full consulting rate for the travel time as well. When you're working on a day rate, particularly a relatively high one, it's funny how often your days start to become more like two of my days.
We seriously need a viable competitor to the paypal/ebay system yesterday.

That may be, and I make extremely little use of PayPal (only as a processor of credit card payments for merchants I trust on other grounds, and never as a seller of goods). But any new viable competitor to PayPal will have to solve all over all the cases of fraud and abuse that were responded to over the years by PayPal's current policies. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (1881), page 1.
A great deal depends on what kind of representations the seller made to potential buyers. I think it's significant that the story does not include a link to the original auction/for-sale listing, or copies of the correspondence between buyer and seller. There's no mention of seller offering to refund buyer's purchase price or what kind of dealings they had, leading me to suspect (though not conclude) that the two parties to the transaction had fallen into dispute. It's possible that the buyer just got cold feet and unilaterally invoked his/her option to get a refund, but that would seem rather unusual. I've had a few eBay transactions over the years that were mildly scary (large sum paid out, radio silence from the other side for more than a day), but they're almost always just normal communication problems that are quickly resolved.
Thank you very much for taking the time to write such an elaborate response, comments like these are some of what makes the HN community great!

>In my experience, nobody (most) talked to anyone unless they knew someone ahead of time. It was a funny feeling at first, people would be sitting directly across from each other (6 feet/2 meters) - totally ignoring each others' existence.

This is a norwegian city in a nutshell, so I'm really used to that. I don't really have a problem with it, until I travel to places where the locals are much more open and friendly than I am used to.

>I enjoy snowboarding so that's one of my main reasons for not wanting to live there.

I'm an avid skier as well, and this is probably the main reason holding me back so far. In this regard, another city which I like very much, Vancouver, BC, is obviously more suited for living. How is the tech industry there anyway?

>The Bronx, Harlem, some parts of Brooklyn and Queens have bad reputations.

The concierge at my hotel kept saying that we shouldn't go to some of these places unguided, but much of it seemed unfounded. Obviously I understand that there are neighborhoods that you shouldn't walk around in alone after nightfall, but to be honest Harlem, Bronx and Brooklyn where the places I felt most like home when I was there. Manhattan seems more foreign for someone coming from a city with the tallest building being 320 feet and that is a cathedral with a spire I guess.

>I'm not sure how grocery stores in Norway work but NYC is nothing like I ever knew. It was tough getting to them and even then, it was often public market or corner store food. It is somewhat expensive. Wholesale stores typically have better deals, if you can find one (BJs, Costco, Sam's Club, etc).

I LOVED the grocery stores in NYC to be totally honest; dirt cheap in comparison to Norway and fantastic food on the whole. I would love to see what you pass as great grocery stores :)

>That's it for now; if you have any questions feel free to ask me. Good luck in your travels.

Thank you again for taking the time, and good luck to you too!
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So to keep perspective...

Myspace = the gehto social network

Facebook = the normal people social network

Google+ = elitist social network

I'm pretty sure facebook's pretty happy if this direction holds.
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Poor google results creeping higher since the panda update.