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Multiple incompatible branches of WebKit is still better than the current situation.
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"Microsoft could easily produce a standard complaint browser"

So why don't they? Is it to hold back the web so that they milk their desktop applications like Office a little bit more?
People seem to have forgotten that the Federal Government has pumped $billions into green energy research over the past decades, with little to show. I haven't heard ahy good arguments for why Obama will have more success.
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From your asset list, the last three (High search engine rankings - Good domain name - Industry leader) are true, the first two (RSS/newsletter) don't really apply.
It's a one man show at the moment, and I only need 10 minutes a day for administration. There is programming involved, but the app has a lot of features and is bug free, just sometimes I will add an extra feature or two when I'm bored.
Thanks, thats a good resource, though it seems more set on how to do the transaction rather than offering advice on a valuation.
Yes, and it's about 2 years old.
Although this was a start up, I think it has past that stage.
Agree. The main problem of Yahoo is, that they do not own any substantial technology where they would have competitive edge. Google has search, MS has windows and office, but what Y! has? None of their web products are essential. Well..ok, I use flickr and delicious, but those are not big money makers.
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Worth watching if only to see Steve Jobs wearing a suit!
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I think the appalling state of government data security and this article are separate issues.

I was actually pleasantly surprised that there was a fairly forward thinking web-based initiative being sponsored by the government. The data in the article is exactly the sort of information that should be freely available for "mashing up"*

* That phrase sounds a bit too Nathan Barley-esque to me.
Well you're in luck, they're bringing the IE6 engine to Windows Mobile:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10039152-56.html
Don't sell it.

If you have income coming in with little work, and it's growing, WHY would you ever want to sell it?

If you do have a good reason to sell, figure out you minimum (say, 250,000$), and ask for triple that.

Also remember you'll be paying lots of taxes on whatever you get.

So again, if it's really that easy to run, and it makes that money, just keep it. You can retire then, not even 1,000,000$ can compete with that.
Slashdot has gone way downhill in recent years but it's still far and away the funniest group of nerds on the web. I used to have my settings only view +5 funny comments. Guaranteed out loud laughter every day.
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Now that is just cool. Grim Fandango was absolutely awesome. I'd love to see the same thing for Day of the Tentacle though!

Now I've got to go find my old copy and play through again...
Oh, and also: do NOT give them a price. Ask them: what are you willing to pay (after you figure out your price in your own head). NEVER give them a price.

Once they say: "We'll pay 100,000" (let's say your minimum is 200,000), just play it hard and say no. And then argue your case.
Yeah, a Day of the Tentacle equivalent would be amazing! I think there's just something really special about seeing history in the making like this - seeing some such great games were made
Are you sure? A 5% bank interest on a million dollars would be the same as the 50k it's making right now.
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I think I was feeling too negative yesterday, but yes, that's what I meant, it's not about having fun anymore but about giving something for free.

And we sure like to help people out, but the issue is, do we still consider it a game then? And is it still as fun as it was before it was just 'for the sake of it'?

I think our reactions might be different (sure I wan't to do it / uff, no I don't feel like it), but the view of the game changes for everybody, and for some it's not a game at all anymore. What I wonder is if there's a way to remove that feeling completely.

Gah it's hard to express things like this in a different language, I hope I explained myself well enough :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353182

Everyone got IN wrong. MO was almost 50/50, but Nate had it going to McCain and the markets had it going to Obama. Right now, pre-recount, McCain won MO by 0.2%.

On the morning of the election the markets flipped IN and gave it to Obama.
Election night viral videos - interesting statistical analysis
I know it's a popular opinion nowadays, but here's what keeps me from adopting this view (huge amounts of data over algorithms) wholesale: Humans make smart decisions on very little data. How many faces does a child have to "process" in order to learn to recognise faces? Not many. How much does a person have to read in order to learn correct spelling? Not the entire google index I suppose.

Humans work neither on simple deterministic rules nor on huge amounts of data. It's something else. Some very smart "algorithm" that we haven't found yet (Bayes nets don't get there either but they look promising).

If there's a way for humans to be smart without much data there must be a way for machines to do the same. That is unless you believe in some kind of spirit/soul/god cult and I don't.
The article is nicely written, good work, but I think the conclusion is obvious: it is profitable to be affiliate marketer in dating business, if you work hard on it.
SCII is legendary! One of my all-time favourites too.
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How fast can a SproutCore app load?
Hypercard (actually SuperCard) was my first introduction to "programming". Ahh the memories.
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Yeah, I'm fully aware of that, but p-a-semi conductor is for mobile chips. I don't discount that Apple will be making chips for it's mobile iPhone platform to replace the ARM processors but stating that Apple is going to break away from Intel on it's larger machines is ludicrous. Apple is still supporting G4's and G5's and the move to Intel is still fairly new.

Nothing is impossible, but saying that Apple will be moving from Intel in it's desktop/laptops is ludicrous. That would be a long term play of 10+ years, and I don't think Robert Enderle ever thinks that far ahead.
I'm not sure how it works, but I assumed the polls in Alaska closed quite a bit later than the other states?

Perhaps seeing the coverage caused some voters to change their behaviour (ie. not vote)?

(Nate muses on the same possible explanation in his post).
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> I don't discount that Apple will be making chips for it's mobile iPhone platform to replace the ARM processors..

I'd say this is unlikely too. ARM is a pretty decent platform and not too expensive to license. There is a whole toolchain/support/knowledge around ARM that is pretty extensive.

Unless you were doing something pretty far-out there isn't really a compelling reason to jump... And Apple is hardly a Transmeta type. The most I'd expect is licensing the design and then combine/customise in a specialised way (e.g. adding some of the baseband pieces in?).
And I forgot to mention, for those who don't know already, you can get the game for free for a modern computer as The Ur-Quan Masters ( http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ ), due to the open-sourcing of the original game's code. It runs natively on Windows and Linux (and I assume OS X), and comes complete with all the audio of the 3DO version, too.
I don't think so. They successfully predicted quite a few elections on Tuesday. I think it's a statistics error to group them into a single datum simply because they were all held on the same day.
Not sure - suspect it's because up until recently there wasn't much to compel them to.... Probably that combined with a lot of legacy to support.
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Nope. Let's say that it does need a full-time programmer. You pau $200,000 for this site assuming it will pay for itself in 4 years. But, since it requires a full-time programmer, you have to quit your job. Now you're just in debt. So, for the first 4 years, you have no income as you pay off $50,000 of that $200,000 each year. Well, that won't work. In fact, the government is going to want some of that in taxes, so it will probably be 6 years where your income is $0.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that a decade is a long time for a site to stay relevant and in a good position. As such, if 80% of the money from the site goes to paying off the site, it isn't worth much. If it requires you to work on the site full-time, it's worth nothing since you'd be loosing the income you could get at another job.

Whether you're doing the work or someone else is doing the work, if you have to quit your job, then the site must be able to satisfy your income PLUS profits that make the investment worthwhile. You've said that the income is a reward. So, would you pay me $200,000 and work for me full-time for 10 years for me to give you $50,000 per year for those 10 years? No! You could get a job paying $50,000 without paying someone $200,000. Now, let's say that you only had to work 3-4 hours a week. That's a VERY different story.

Do you see where I'm going there? A site like the one described is a good investment if it can be a little site project that doesn't take much time. If it requires you to work full-time on it, $50,000 will cut it IF you don't have to buy it in the first place. If you have to pay $200,000, you might as well just get a traditional job paying $50,000 and not have to pay the $200,000.
Motorola and Sun on the ropes
DOMAssistant blows out of the water other frameworks
Companies and social networks - Losing face
I think this is a mistake for Microsoft. I think they should have offered $18/share and seen Yahoo's response. At this point, with a down economy and no Google revenues to prop them up, Yahoo might simply spend them selves into bankruptcy before they can turn it around.

And, of course, $18/share is about half of what Microsoft offered less than a year ago. Was Yahoo not a good company to acquire 6 months ago? Saying that you won't buy Yahoo for half the price is admitting that your previous plans were simply wrong.

Has Microsoft decided that Yahoo bankrupt is as good as Yahoo bought? Does Microsoft think they'll be able to buy them even cheaper if they rebuff and wait?
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I don't share your "obvious" optimism... there are plenty of ways that the Federal Gov't mandates behavior that would not otherwise occur.
Maybe I missed out on that, because I read a borrowed copy in German translation.

I found it amusing that De Vinci Code manages to attract so many fans, by using the simplest, oldest puzzles ever. I mean making those old puzzles appear cutting edge was an achievement.
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That is the worst idea ever, IE6 is such a piece of junk.
Ask HN: programming languages written in JavaScript?
I think it would be a good idea if web sites started embedding Greasemonkey into their sites, that is, to allow users to customize their site (or host user's scripts). The problem is that if one just uses JavaScript, one can't limit the access options. Therefore I think another language is needed that is being interpreted by Javascript.

For that new language, the host would habe better control on the kinds of API to allow. For example, rather than allowing general HTTP requests to the site, only certain parts of the site's API could be exposed.

So I wonder what languages there already are that run on top of JavaScript.
I bought Robokill and beat it in the same afternoon. It was magical.
Look into Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ it lets you safely imbed third party JavaScript into your pages.
Or an information-theoretic error: At the very least, we have one bit of information per state, and one per Senate race. You could probably eke out some more by comparing win percentages, although that's problematic without knowledge of his algorithm.
I'm not really sure but maybe ... processing.js ?
http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

I think it can serve as an example.
The race between 538 and intrade was basically too close to call. See:

http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/06/in...

and

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2008/11/05/...
> FiveThirtyEight got Indiana right on Oct 1

from http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/06/in...

(OTOH, intrade got NC when 538 didn't)
But you can't assume that these events are independent of each other, can you?
Group Think
Jerry Yang was right. I have not seen anyone point out yet that there might be some merit in an independent entity called "Yahoo." I haven't seen anyone, yet, mention that there is a little thing called "PR." So I have to ask: Is it possible that maximizing shareholder equity is not on the tablets? Maybe Microsoft was innocent of the power of group think in its earlier battles against Netscape and the DOJ. Is it possible that they have finally learned how to use media, including this forum, including me, to its advantage? I'm just saying...
Objective-J is a Objective-C-like language interpreted by JS from a YC startup:

http://cappuccino.org/learn/

No idea if it's possible to do what you're hoping for though, just glanced at the API a while back.
"The user interface on search hasn't changed for six years. You still get the same dull, boring ten blue links for God's sake. Can't we do any better than that?"

No, this is the perfect UI for search. What results are found could be better sometimes, but how they're presented is pretty close to optimal, IMO.
Sigh. As usual they forgot to distinguish which is the cause and which the effect.

How do they know that the poor linguistic function is not the cause of the poverty, rather then (as they assume) the effect?
That's a really sad state of affairs though. Just because you have the most market share, it should not mean you stop innovating - It does seem like this is exactly what happened with IE6 though, and why IE is the total mess that it is.

If Microsoft had actually embraced the internet as a new exciting medium, instead of just releasing IE to kill off mozilla, perhaps they would have been one of the ones leading new development, instead of trailing hopelessly behind all the time.

I don't know what the answer is for IE, I can't see them giving up any control, they'll most likely muddle along with their own quirks and bugs while there's a slow but steady shift in users onto the new crop of browsers.
into such a simple representation that conveys so much information in such a succinct way.

Techniques such as the puzzle flow diagram is an incredibly useful tool

I hope he knows that all game designers have to "convey so much information in a succinct way". He can commend Schafer for his craftsmanship, but the format of the game design document is hardly Schafer's own genius invention.

To his merit, though, we mere mortals hardly ever get to see this sort of internal documentation, even decades after a game is released. The gaming industry is unfortunately one of the more secretive industries in the tech world. Carmack and others have open-sourced their code, so it's nice to see the designers stepping up and offering their work as well.
Hehe, yeah so did Bush, but I'm sure you didn't mean it the same way.
I've always wondered this too. Sure, he's vitriolic but he says right on his blog that it's just an act. He's also contributed a lot to open source so that alone puts him in a totally different class than other writers with a similar style but nothing in the way of added value.

The fact that he took some much of his time and effort to do this shows that he's someone who cares about others.

I just wish he'd care for my eyes a little more and make his site a easier to read.
Lets not use euphemisms, especially oxymoronic ones like "compulsory volunteerism." It's forced labor. We should not call it anything but what it is.
Quite the contrary; black market companies usually are very profitable (if you're able to deal with the risk).
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I agree, but you're unfamiliar with how the upper class works aren't you?
It's a mix of EE, MovableType, with a dash of Blue State Digital's interal code.

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/hey-the-president-elect-...
($4,000 / 100 hours == $40 / hour) tax credit for college students for community service != bad news
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Everyone these days can install Linux. The boot process improvements are good, but what I care about most is the ability to do my work.

How easy can I get and install apps on Fedora? Are Fedora's repositories filled with updated, good quality apps?
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If you were starting out in the web industry again, what advice would you give yourself?

Or if you're just getting started, what would you like to know?
I'm sorry I can't give specific dates, but in some of 538s most recent models (say, the last week of October), Silver was projecting NC as being a very light carolina blue. :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, it's a ErlangWeb tutorial.

It's like posting a link to a rails tutorial and saying it's about ruby.
I'd have given myself three tips:

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* Build things. Apply what you've learnt and constantly build things. Either at work or as personal projects. Don't worry if the things you built are crap or pointless or un-monetizable.
* Share. Constantly share what you've learnt and built. Help others. Join the community and participate. You could be the best developer ever but it won't matter if nobody knows about you and your work.
Don't you find him to be a bit narcissistic? In any case, I usually read his writing, but I've found his tendency towards autobiography and self-promotion alarming at times.
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Tests should not be created by the creators of one of the subjects of the test.
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There was a whole discussion about this on HN yesterday. Well, more specifically it was about John Doerr's suggestion that Obama choose Bill Joy as national CTO. Anyway, can we give the political stuff a rest? Take it over to Reddit or Digg.
As a website user what's the benefit to me? Why would I invest time and effort in learning a new language just so I can play with the emaciated relative of javascript?

I can envision situations where additional functionality could be created by site developers but it would be as accessible to greasemonkey scripts as it would be to a language built on top of javascript.

What specific situations do you think this would be useful?
Download IE8 beta 2.
I think it is a joke, and a funny one.
That depends whether you're the one getting paid, or the one paying for it.
Probably. Bottom line is that we can't judge an individual based on something as trivial as a blog, but quite a few people seem to take blogs and such very seriously.
Sweet! Does that mean that instead of quitting my job I can just go on permanent strike from it? That way, I know I can always get the job back if I decide to return.

Kinda unfair to my boss, who won't ever be able to replace me, but hey! One of the small costs of creating a worker's paradise, right?
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...from which they received 0% of their revenue. A smart move.
School is already mandatory, why wouldn't community service be? They're both considered "learning"
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It also makes it easier to lie to the workers about exactly what the "card" is for.

The UAW keeps trying to unionize postdocs at the University of California. They do this by coming around to their offices, one-on-one, pulling them out to the corridor, and pressuring them to sign a card which they say is "to get more information" or something. Many people (and remember, an awful lot of postdocs can barely speak English) just sign the card to get them to go away, without realizing that they've just officially voted for unionization.
Meta news.yc comment: when 538 called it for obama, the thread was killed:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354128

That was a mistake. People paying attention knew 538 was right, and consistently better than the major news outlets.

Also, I feel the geek behind 538 deserved to be the top story, not some play-it-safe news outlet.
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Serious question: Other than this is written by a programmer, does this story have any relevance to Hacker News?
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That's where there's a dispute between the union and company A, so the union not only pulls company A's workers out on strike, but also company B and C's.

It's a tactic most often used just to be assholes.
Looks very smart. What is it?
I thought it was killed for being politics.

Unfortunately the later winner-of-the-election thread stayed up.
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1 or 2 weeks off from high school isn't really an option, if you're the type that cares about grades. A friend of mine got stuck in India after a vacation (passport troubles) for nearly 2 weeks, and had a rather difficult time afterwards.

However, I'm one of the lucky few here. :) I'll manage to get the community service hours by being a sysop for my school, i.e. managing the Ubuntu server that runs a significant part of the school technology infrastructure.
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