skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already an option in the Firefox options/preferences UI.

In the "General" preferences in Firefox 13, if you have "Show my tabs from last time" selected, there's a checkbox for "Don't load tabs until selected".

In Firefox 15 and later, the checkbox is in the "Tabs" pane so it's always accessible: http://zpao.com/posts/making-restore-on-demand-accessible/
What not to name your spaceship
Nobody forced you to live where you live man. There are plenty of other neighborhoods without the "locals" you dislike. Maybe you'd need to pony up the extra dough, but then complaining that you don't have enough money to live where you want to live is silly too. Especially because it's more than affordable in portola/sunset/outer mission/excelsior/parkmerced/ingleside and even daly city/san bruno/pacifica etc... the rents haven't risen nearly as high there as they have in other neighborhoods... but then again, they aren't as "cool" either...

This whole idea that you are somehow entitled to live where you want to live on your own terms is ridiculous. I'm not saying that you should be scared of where you live, but it's buyer beware man, and you get what you pay for.

Also, I doubt those googlers live close to their workplace (no, shuttle doesn't count), which makes it even more ridiculous.
FB is still going to be worth $40B?. Its not $100B+, but there are plenty of people that are going to make a lot of money if they sell.

Also check out Fred Wilsons response (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/06/some-perspective.html). He makes some good points about the returns still being pretty damn good.
Of course eating isn't a one-off option, but it's highly unlikely that anyone will be using income from this to make ends meet. Mirroring the tip analogy offline, I don't go into my favourite restaurant and tip the service staff there every week, even if I haven't eaten; it only happens if I eat there. It seems to me that one-off tips will be a heavily requested thing at least.

Great idea, I hope it really takes off.
The advantage of the PC is the ease of writing and publishing a game for the PC. With the exception of screen resolution graphics haven't really mattered for the last five years. It's creativity, good writing, and good gameplay. It's cheaper to take risks and innovate on the PC since it requires so little capital to make a game vs consoles. Only mobile is competitive on this front.
AS HN: How do I build a sales team with little-to-no funding?
Some background: I founded upgradeindustries.com, which sells my creation known as BoardX. BoardX, in a nutshell, is a boutique circuitboard for hobbyists and tinkerers that want something Arduino compatible but not quite as...gimpy.

I had a successful, but small, Kickstarter campaign that funded initial production. The money has been burned through with lots of exta items in stock left over.

So to the question: Every company needs a sales team, right? Or at least guy that's dedicated to spreading the word, making contacts, and staying on top of the blogs/social networks.

I've tried using friends, offering to kick them back some money from sales they generate, partial ownership, you name it, but nobody seems to stick. I know tons of engineers, but it's like nobody has the itch to spend time outside of their day jobs on something that won't pay off immediately.

My question is, how do I attract one of those types to my start up that's up and running, but is only barely self sustaining at this point? I don't see myself being able to quit my day job for a long time at this pace. Since I'm the sole technical founder, I really don't have ability to be lead designer and lead cheer leader without stopping one for the benefit of the other.

If anybody has experience in this arena, I'd sure love to hear from them.
The entire value in Chatroulette is the anonymity.

You're absolutely right that Chatroulette is done wrong, the product sucks in so many ways, but what Airtime have done is take one of the parts that doesn't suck and "fix" it.
Excellent piece, well thought through. Thanks for the contribution!
Well, okay. But then what was your household income?
Windows Live ID?
The Original Cookie Experiment: sharing 5 cookies among 3 people
Let me guess, demographically, Airtime just like Chatroulette and all the other dating sites, will have 99.5% of one gender and 0.5% of the other. This will be another sausage fest (no pun intended)
Why does Slate magazine hate me so much that they made every possible attempt to move my eye away from the article I was trying to read?
I disagree with the reward loop you perceive, as #1 Finding loot that you sell doesn't directly increase your avatar strength. Case in point? Find an axe, equip it and now you're plowing through enemies with greater ease. Feels good. Find an axe, POST it on the AH and walk away. The loop doesn't include detached events.

Someone's mentioned 12 years old or 12 years older now several times. I'm sorry but this simply does not apply. Diablo 2 is so incredibly popular NOT because people played it back then and are returning now, but because of the SHEER mass of people that continued to play it for 5+ years. So even by the norm of sales you're looking at people merely 5-6 years away, not including that some of the most vocal people STILL PLAY IT.

I was playing through the last two ladder resets, one of them just a few weeks prior to D3 launch.

The biggest problems aren't caught by people who have nostalgia goggles on, they're caught by the people who still played it regularly (off and on over the years.
That wouldn't hurt me :) I could even imagine it being useful to be able to automatically load the surrounding context (say N pages left and right). Or load all adjacent pages on the same domain as the active tab, which would be quite useful if one often browses manuals.
Thanks.

BrowserID is well on our list (Personally I like its approach).

Added a vote for OpenId, and dedicated account.
Not all tastes change the same amount between childhood and adulthood.
i think why charroulette succeeded was definitely because of the anonymity
I wonder how this would shake out in a consulting company?
We will someday, just not today. For the initial user population, it's a better user experience to prepopulate your profile, video library, and friends list with data from fb.
Seems relatively useless to me. Suffers from the same problem as Chatroulete. Everyone just nexts you. No lasting conversations. It seems like you should gentle introduce ppl rather than just showing them a video feed of each other.
Why not something like:

If *n* tabs >= x

Load tabs on demand

Else

Load tabs in background

x can be set by default at some arbitrary number and also be changed.
Here's what Paul Graham has to say in How to Make Wealth: Millions, Not Billions (http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html):

> If $3 million a year seems high to some people, it will seem low to others. Three million? How do I get to be a billionaire, like Bill Gates?

> So let's get Bill Gates out of the way right now. It's not a good idea to use famous rich people as examples, because the press only write about the very richest, and these tend to be outliers. Bill Gates is a smart, determined, and hardworking man, but you need more than that to make as much money as he has. You also need to be very lucky.

> There is a large random factor in the success of any company. So the guys you end up reading about in the papers are the ones who are very smart, totally dedicated, and win the lottery. Certainly Bill is smart and dedicated, but Microsoft also happens to have been the beneficiary of one of the most spectacular blunders in the history of business: the licensing deal for DOS. No doubt Bill did everything he could to steer IBM into making that blunder, and he has done an excellent job of exploiting it, but if there had been one person with a brain on IBM's side, Microsoft's future would have been very different. Microsoft at that stage had little leverage over IBM. They were effectively a component supplier. If IBM had required an exclusive license, as they should have, Microsoft would still have signed the deal. It would still have meant a lot of money for them, and IBM could easily have gotten an operating system elsewhere.

> Instead IBM ended up using all its power in the market to give Microsoft control of the PC standard. From that point, all Microsoft had to do was execute. They never had to bet the company on a bold decision. All they had to do was play hardball with licensees and copy more innovative products reasonably promptly.

> If IBM hadn't made this mistake, Microsoft would still have been a successful company, but it could not have grown so big so fast. Bill Gates would be rich, but he'd be somewhere near the bottom of the Forbes 400 with the other guys his age.

So "luck" largely took Bill Gates from millions to billions, a 100x to 1000x multiplier.
Using symlinks is the way Capistrano does it and has the benefit of being both atomic and easy/quick to revert if something goes wrong.

There's no way git checkout can be atomic.
I really wish someone would start to make enterprise software well documented.
Most of the stuff I have to deal with has a truckload of marketing bullcrap and very little sane technical documentation with a total lack of community. Also most of the stuff is very unflexible, outdated and slower than a snail.
I can go on all day, there is no end to the weirdness of "enterprise" software. It's really bad.
And your objection to the OEM model?
This is boilerplate. The important part is having the freedom to keep the site absolutely safe.
Where are the people in your intern's circle of friends going? I'm honestly curious.

The people in my facebook feed are the usual set of people who post. Nothing has seemed to change of late.
I know, which is why FF is my main browser. I'm just arguing the importance of the option for my personal usage patterns.
A comment by Tei from Rock Paper Shotgun forums:

Diablo3 is not PvE or PvP, it is PvAH.

It's funny. Laugh.
While I think you're getting there, I think there's a better explanation: variable reward schedules (eg. slot machines).

More of Schultz's work looks at this [1]. Basically, a reward of 50% of the time is far more addictive for Julio and his pals than 100% (eg. the Staff of Beatings only drops 50% from The Butcher). Diablo 2 uses a traditional variable reward schedule for its loot system, as seen in most other RPGs. Diablo 3 uses gold (stick with me). You need gold to get the items the game requires you to have from the AH, and you're mostly burning the loot you find in-game for gold on the AH or other mats. This means that you're working on a small, 100% drip feed, which you eventually cash out in a predictable fashion. Not as addictive!

I don't agree with your assertion of a frustration loop being different. Diablo 2 could be just as frustrating if loot you needed didn't drop in time. One thing I think Blizzard has done very poorly is that AH transactions do not provide instant gratification, but take up to 48 hours to process(!). This means if you are in a rut, you'll have two days stuck in it, and perhaps just break the habit and leave altogether.

[1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/299/5614/1898.full
Finding drops for the AH isn't as powerful a reward loop (at least pre-inferno) because whether you get a reward or not is at the whim of other players, and because your reward (or failure) is delayed by up to 48 hours. This may be different in the end-game (I didn't get addicted enough to get there) but during levelling it is quite weak.

I think there's definitely something to your second point though. Are we less prone to addiction, or more likely to recognise it and choose to break the loop?
"Fair enough. But this doesn't explain why he returned for the 2006 sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties".
off topic: i hope you meant 'disassemble' :).

'dissemble' means "to put on a false appearance : conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense" according to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissemble.
They likely did this on Android because it's the easiest platform to developer such a product. On iOS and WP, background apps are severely limited so it makes sense why Android is only platform that gets this.
"I disagree with the reward loop you perceive, as #1 Finding loot that you sell doesn't directly increase your avatar strength"

Not to mention most of the items you find (even rare items) are vendor trash not worth selling on the AH. And crafting is just terrible in this game.
When you are connected to someone you aren't friends with, your profile is flipped to anonymous mode. So your identity is protected and you have the social freedom anonymity provides; but you are still held accountable for your actions for user safety.
I'm pretty sure Chatroulette solved the dick problem to, using image recognition. If you get your dick out you get sent to permanent dick purgatory with all the other dick wranglers. It seems to work. Dick hit rate has gone down from 1 in 3 to 1 in about 50.
This is as good a place as any to get your "whom" out.
How to run a successful Kickstarter campaign
And fairly easy to extend with C# to boot.
20 Fun Things To Ask Siri
Ask HN: Please Review Project GrepCourse
Me and my partner just launched GrepCourse trying to make it easy for students to enroll in whatever categories they wish to.

http://grepcourse.com (Prototype, very closed beta)

We want your feedback which should help us get more local businesses and elearning partners signup and show their courses.

We are trying to get providers (local business, universities... ) promote their courses and also get users signup and enroll. Do you think we should focus on getting as many courses as possible listed and then focus on getting the users ?

Also we are focusing on Enterprise courses where it is extremely difficult to search and look out for particular class.

Really appreciate your time and candid feedback!

Pramod
Good timing on the pre-release promotion. Now keep us updated in a weekly basic and you will sell a lot of copies here.

I'm glad you are writing the book. It seems like a worthy addition to my bookshelf. Will you be blogging about specifics mentioned in the book?
Will "Do Not Track" kill off innovation along with targeted advertising?
From what I gather, it's supposed to feel more intimate and personal than the generic feel you have when using an SMS/MMS client.
Toronto City Council as Game of Thrones Characters.
Daily Active Users / Monthly Active Users
Facebook could do everything. Don't forget.
We would most certainly not do anything like that intentionally. The normal user flow is the standard facebook app authentication dialog that clearly lists all the permissions required for the site to work.
No, color was more about app + location based browsing of photos, while this is web video chat
Upgraded last night. Using it today it feels slightly lighter to use, it is noticeably faster in general and has some nice UI polish that has been needed for a while. Still my browser of choice. The new tab page got disabled right away though, don't like it in other browsers and don't like it in Fx. Thank god for about:config :)
Thanks, good convincing point. :)
"Agile Project Manager"? That's a no-op. A non sequitur.

"Agile", in my opinion, is really about the following things (tactically, not philosophically, cuz we all know "people over processes" etc.):

* Don't churn requirements
* Ship quality software

One could probably argue that the first probably is a necessity of the second (how can you ship anything of quality if the requirements are shifting under your feet?) but let's keep them separate.

"Don't churn requirements" -> keep tasks small. don't change your mind 1000 times a week. keep tactical horizons short (e.g. don't estimate long-range).

"Ship quality software" -> automated tests. code reviews/pair programming. just-in-time lightweight specs. integrated business users, design, ux, qa with development. retrospectives/kaizen.
For many intents and purposes UDP will be possible soon.
Isn't HTML5 the effort of making web apps comparable to native apps?
+1 for a chapter list (even a rough one)
Do you think this applies equally to B2C and B2B startups?
Yeah...i had to look at the distinction between "gifts" and "tips" a bit on the IRS site. I am sure a tax accountant can clarify, but (in my mind) the name "gittip" had put it informally in the tip category. A little digging made it seem like that was a restaurant-related thing. Does simply earmarking money as a "gift" make it so? Is it a special rule in restaurants (in US) that prevent you from giving a "gift" instead of a "tip"? But I digress.

Perhaps it is just a potential FAQ situation: "If I get some 'gittips' what are my tax responsibilities?"
Blizzard could've made it easier to replay if you didn't have to go through the same dialog (story) again and again.

I got half way through Nightmare and was like "I am not wadding through this crap dialog again". And put the game down.

The "story" was lackluster at best. Easy to predict. And absolutely no surprises. And to make me run though it again, at each difficulty level is just mean.
We really need a Visual Studio for interactive web apps.
Could be, probably why the video turned out so entertaining.
Yeah, you're probably right.

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5
Firefox has had support for raw sockets in web applications since its inception. Unfortunately, it's platform specific, it's ugly as hell and, from what I can tell, a pain to give it permissions.
Typing out class and function declarations, if-then-else constructs, and recompiling on a regular basis is tediously repetitive to most people. It doesn't necessarily mean you're repeating the same program. Likewise, most techno music sounds repetitive to the disinterested listener, notwithstanding the large relative variations that occur within the music.
What about when a manufacturer sells something they haven't manufactured yet under a contract to deliver a few days into the future based on a reasonable expectation that the inputs into the manufacturing process are widely available at reasonable prices and they have the technology etc necessary to manufacture what they are selling? Is just in time manufacturing fraudulent?
I usually bash these posts, because being a developer who has previously built a number of apps using solely Facebook login I can understand why they don't provide another means of signup. For the apps I have built people who don't have a Facebook account aren't the intended target audience, and I believe it could be easily argued Airtime fits this category. The amount Facebook gives for free (friends, chat, payments, a verified email address, demographics) is really hard to replicate via other means.

In this case though I think they ask for too much before giving anything or even saying what it is about, firstly access to my Facebook account, then requires enhanced permissions (which are meant to be optional, however the app barfs if you don't allow them), then requires you to allow Flash to access my webcam. It's more of a UX thing, but at least tell me what I am signing up to and show me what I can get out of it by allowing access to all of this.
I don't think FDI is a very good indication for the challenges that a consumer payment processing company might encounter in India, especially in relation to their product.
People really need to be told this stuff?

How is "think of a goal, then stuff you can do to reach the goal, then do it" not common sense? Is it non-obvious if you just throw in a bunch of buzzwords like 'execute', 'iterate' and 'freemium'?
User enjo could probably tell you.

Although I know nothing of how OpenOffice (or Google Docs) is written, I doubt it. I have been involved with the Word Viewer & Editor component in SharePoint. The requirements of a UI-driven desktop application don't tend to mesh well with a web-based editor.

Maybe they did make it work, but wouldn't Google need to publish those changes?
Faster and easier DOM manipulation with jQuery++
Thanks for the rundown and explanation.
And I'm glad that you're planning to make FB optional.
were you able to sign into it? When I try clicking 'Launch Airtime' it does nothing.
I PERSONALLY was hacked TWICE with the authenticator in place (via android phone).

I have proof, my tickets were deleted from Battle.net support and my 3 posts were deleted from Battle.Net forums.

The person who hacked me was EVEN on my recently played list (I only play solo and with friends.)
Score one for mediocrity. Microsoft's Speed + Mobility version of Spdy has some good improvements, but I guess Google will just declare their version to be the standard.

Also Spdy only had 23% faster page load times than non-pipelined HTTP (in other words, enabling networking.http.pipelining is just as good).
NASA isn't a product of the free market, except in the sense that that "socialites" who work in the free market pay their taxes so Dr Temple can sneer at them from her ivory tower.
It’s certainly a cool language, but this presentation doesn’t really convey it very well. When you want to show me how a language is useful, I absolutely want to hear the boring details, examples of how to manipulate census data, how to serve a web page, and all that. But when you want to show me how a language is cool, I really just want to see gimmicks: neat tricks you can do with the array operations, ways of composing things that are easy in APL that wouldn’t even occur to you in another language, that sort of thing.

I actually got the impression, from the way that Morten put it, that APL is not a terribly good environment for collaboration. It seems best suited to a single person having a “conversation”, if you will, with the APL environment—not necessarily with other developers. I’ve never written anything in APL, let alone in a team, so I could be way off. But then again, if it’s so productive, I’m not sure how much it actually matters if only one guy is working on the software at a time.

Maybe software is only built collaboratively because the tools aren’t powerful enough to let a single developer manage all the complexity. If you have better tools, perhaps you simply don’t need to work in a team.
You effectively need 2 sets of gear for inferno: one for farming gold in Hell mode (particularly if you have access to Whimsyshire) and another for actually defeating the obstacles in inferno mode.
The same thing happened to me. Chrome 19 on Lion. Just visited the site and within seconds I had an email from you guys saying I had created an account, even though I didn't click anything. You should fix this ASAP.
Where is your front located that you have so many kids walking by? My hackerspace is located in the back of a high-end furniture store so we don't get that many kids that walk by unfortunately.
The way I see it is this: Would I invite Mark Zuckerberg to be permanently and pervasively privy to my friends, my conversations with them, and all of my pictures?

Seriously - Facebook is Zucker's brain-child in that it face-scans, categorizes, and picks apart your words and photos. Its like inviting Zucker himself into your photo-album, allowing him to think and learn more about you while you are away.

Facebook is fucking creepy. I want a place I can go to have conversations with my friends privately, not a place I can put all of my friends conversations and hope that it doesn't get disclosed somehow later.
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You have a valid argument. My only excuse is that this is the first (publicly available) post-mortem I've written.

The answers to the questions you bring up have enough material for a blog post of their own, so I'll most likely end up doing a follow-up to this blog post where I address them.

Thanks for the feedback!