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I wonder if ycombinator could see a correlative increase in the value of their portfolios through the simple process of shutting down news.yc for 3-4 hours a day?
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_never_ really?

step 1 - download dev version of chrome into a separate folder

step 2 - enable webrtc in flags://

step 3 - put a shortcut on your Desktop that points to this and says "Skype-NG" or something like that.

How is that different now than going and clicking on Skype from running and launching point of view. Bonus points, can also browse the web if you want.

Skype also might break or might go away anytime too. Or, rather, more likely will interrupt your video stream every 5 minutes to show you adds about dating sites and Nigerian scams.
I would bet it was from some of the direct links on Reddit?

The Ubisoft backdoor was linked on reddit front page for awhile today.
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Psh - it's my only "n" site. CMD + T, n, Enter.
As far as I could tell, the theme of the airplane ad is "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Forty years ago, you'd have to call a guy in a blue suit for help with your computer problem. Now you have to call a guy in a blue T-shirt.

Kind of depressing, actually.
I find that American style ad's have an underlining fakeness to them, its hard to put my finger on it. I'm assuming its just a cultural difference being from New Zealand but some ad's from the States just grate me the wrong way. These Apple ad's are particularly bad in this respect.
So the iPhone is a derivate of Sony's design philosophy and the Galaxy S is still a derivative of the iPhone, not Sony or 2001.
I think I might start throttling my bandwidth to 56kbs over HTTP/HTTPS.
> They don’t show the product. This is a product ad, not a brand ad or a perception ad. And Apple has always impressed me (blah blah blah...)

Does not bode well for the rest of these bullet points when the first one is demonstrably wrong. How the hell is apple support not a product?

Probably shouldn't have bothered reading that far through such linkbait in the first place...
What website is more important/frequently visited and starts with n? I always type n<enter> unless I was very recently browsing the new york times
At least for me, it's <ctrl-t>n<enter>. Three keystrokes, and probably under half a second.
Netflix chaos monkey is released into the wild, HN goes down soon after. Coincidence, I think not!
I'm curious to see if it had something to do with hitting the front page of Reddit. The Facebook Bot Clicks post received over 1,700 upvotes and perhaps Reddit "performed the most friendly DDoS"
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This really takes the cake for one of the dumbest posts I've seen for a while.

What exactly are you expecting Facebook to do: hide content and just show ads ? And how is this anyway different from Google's Search page or almost every website with advertising for that matter.
I have my webcam set up to go to HN when I blink.
Fortunately, Tim Cook was I think chosen by Steve Jobs this time.
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Nah, you're a real addict if it's an app tab and you never have to type it.
I think that why has made us numb to developer quirkiness :)
I usually love Peter's articles, but the thing that stood out to me in this review is his instance on spending a whole page complaining that the desktop buttons were too hard to hit with a touchscreen. This is why I say he doesn't seem to know the difference. Windows 8, especially the desktop, begs for a mouse and keyboard. Windows 8 desktop is essentially Windows 7, which wasn't good with touch either.

By complaining that it's bad for touch, he's asking Microsoft to make it better for touch. They did! It's called Windows RT. Windows RT is the Windows desktop but designed for touch. It's like complaining that Apple doesn't make a phone based off Mac software but designed for a small form factor and with a touch screen. They do! You're just looking for it in the wrong place.
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Ironically, for me typing n is indeed HN, but the next one is nbcolympics.com, (and we all know how useful the latter is if you don't have cable subscription...) so I assume I don't need to check my self into a HN addict clinic just yet
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Maybe PG has a script that automatically enables noprocrast on all the YC entrepreneur accounts.
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1. download some 1MB binary. No depends or 3rd lib runtime or shit.

2. BAM! Voice and video group chat. S2S federated with all other XMPPs.
Compare it to google's problem filtering out automatically generated splogs, though - it took them years to make progress against that.

Real human social activity is a lot more random than real informational content in blogs - so fb's problem seems harder.

Also, facebook banning accounts is a much stronger action than google just lowering the pagerank of suspected splogs.

So overall I think fb's problem is harder than a currently google-unsolved problem.
Spent a solid year fighting that reality and now I completely agree.

My company has recently decided to ditch support for IE6-8 when we roll out a new front-end design (and a handful of features). Any time our CEO and designer would dream up something new, they would come to me about, and would leave with an asterisk slapped on it which read "except in older IE". It prompted us to really dig into how much of our user base was even using IE6-8, and it was shockingly low. Shocking when you consider that many of our users are restaurants, who often just have a machine in the back running Windows WhoCaresHowOld Edition.
And good luck getting Akamai to call you back if you don't have significant amounts of traffic.

Look, I realize this notion sounds right and fits with the common dogma about Akamai, but it is actually a lie: I have personally had long conversations with Akamai negotiating deals where I would have had no minimum commitment (although there were other totally reasonable non-monetary concessions involved), and their prices still beat the ones on your website (albeit only by a sliver).

(By the way, I am going to explicitly point out that if you had stopped after your first paragraph about how your API is different, I would now have just apologized and been interested to learn more about why people needed that, but this obvious and totally incorrect FUD about peoples' abilities to negotiate workable deals with Akamai is really bothering me. I wasn't actually "anti-fastly" before: I just found it expensive and confusing... but now?)
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And looks like it's back to 30. Probably had to do with the downtime.
If this theory is true, I particularly hope Elon Musk takes care of his health well and avoids helicopters, motorcycles, and other high risk activities.
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I added an edit just for you.
Seriously who types all that?

It's 'h' + down + enter, and here I am.
Except in practice it usually does mean exactly that, as explained in the article.
Jon Ive?
They also appear to have won the Google battle - the first result for "code academy" (with or without quotes) is Codecademy.
Nope, this takes the cake for just n but sometimes, out of habit, I start typing really fast and I get the first few letters in.
I've often wondered about this phenomenon, people empowered by the web and their new found audience, struggling to find the balance between the solo soapbox and tapping into a collective sentiment as authority and sage.

I'm not trying to assert any of this as being the case for the author, but when I was in my teens during the early days of the web, entranced by that heady feeling of being on the vanguard of something truly special, with a little fiefdom at my fingertips simply by being there, I too felt an emboldening, a sense of purpose and grandeur and the emotional vitality and certitude to make sweeping statements, to talk of The Community and be a bold spokesperson. To be figuring out the world, positing ideas and learning about where they take you and how to communicate and convince and argue and wax and eulogize, these are valuable things to learn at any age. Let Apple and Samsung tremble before a critique written with passion and determination long before any such fire is quenched, we are always free to be our own filters for taste.
While this may be against NDA, iOS 6 Beta is actually quite nice. If they can get real buy in from non-Apple iOS developers for iCloud, it will be a big win, but IMO it all comes down to iCloud (and probably the long term premium for the Apple ecosystem depends primarily on iCloud).

The security features in ML were critically necessary to keep OSX viable for business and professional use. 10.7 is vastly less secure than a well managed corporate Win 7 machine, and maybe even worse out of the box. (Linux probably covers the whole range of less or more secure based on exact distribution and features, but isn't terribly relevant for desktops). Which made the Google no-windows policy from a few years ago pretty funny. ML is now at parity with Win 7 out of the box, but still probably weaker in an enterprise setting due to lack of management tools.
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Is anyone else out there proud to have a healthy relationship with hacker news?
Great minds think alike :-)
https://twitter.com/andykelk/status/230131954975133696
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You can 'connect' with anyone at all on LinkedIn. I don't see what the news is here, or why you need a hack.

I just did a company search for Register.com, opened their page, click to see employees and every single one of them has a 'Connect' button.

What's the hack?
I don't think it's a problem, the OP that I'm replying to thinks this is all a problem.
There may be no explicit quid pro quo, but he definitely functions as a shill would. He may be objective and contrarian in his own mind, and yet desire to please the powerful like any other human. He gets a ton of money for speaking to corporations, which he would not if he spoke against them.
I haven't and that is great to know. I guess that was part of my question: How does Codecademy attack the balance that hiring companies want to see when it comes to technical knowledge and experience building real things.
Still investigating. The site was slow all day. We got an immense spike in unique IPs. Typically we get a bit over 150k/day. Today we got 220k. Not sure if the downtime was related.

I was travelling today and didn't have proper access to the server, or I would have been on it sooner.
Unfortunately it is only compatible with ruby 1.8
Especially compared to Blackberry, iOS has never had a good alarm system. Kind of a shame, as that would be a fairly tractable feature for a single employee to own. Third party alarm apps have obvious problems, too.
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I was fortunate enough to spend a couple days with these guys when I was first getting my feet wet a few months back. Although my chops weren't built enough yet for what they needed, I enjoyed doing a little problem solving with them and getting to see my first glimpse of startup life. They were super nice and they really had a passion and dedication for Mashape. It's cool to seen them finally launch.
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A bunch of us at Robots & Dinosaurs (a HackerSpace in Sydney) have been playing with the TP Link WR-703N wireless routers* reflashing them with OpenWRT - they're available from Deal Extreme or eBay for under $25 - it's got no video, but it includes ethernet and onboard wifi. One of the guys has a stackable "daugherboard" which breaks-out/adds a USB hub, FTDI/GPIO/JTAG and two serial ports: http://www.kean.com.au/oshw/WR703N/

It's not as high powered as a RaspberryPi though, only a 400MHz cpu and 32M ram (+4M flash) - they're useful little machines, but the onboard video on the Pi kinda puts them in a different class. On the other hand, a Pi with ethernet/wifi/powersupply costs several times what a TP-W703N costs...

* http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n
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IQ is strongly correlated with job performance, so yeah, providing evidence that you're in the top 2% by IQ is a really valuable indicator.

My Dad was in Mensa, and reading their national magazine as a kid I was not exactly ever inclined to join, but as a quantifiable, generally useful piece of evidence about a candidate it's pretty hard to beat.
That's how I feel when I see ads from other countries other than the US. These ads reminds me a little bit of them.
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It's because they're actors with pearl-perfect teeth, perfectly styled hair, perfect professional makeup and they are in a Hollywood perfect world where everything is spotless and organized 'just so'.

It kind of makes things feel like a dream.

The reality of life in the US is a hilarious smack in the face compared to the Hollywood advertised US we see on TV/Movies
For UX's sake, you should make the time big and put it somewhere obvious rather than on the right in little letters in a darker font. Otherwise, cool project. :)
There's a good post from late 2011, in the context of 12-factor deployment on Heroku, where the author muses about just using a pure Python server behind a CDN to serve static content:

...and yeah, I think I should bloody use this server as a backend to serve my in production.

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"One particularly relevant example: From October 1965 to May 1975, at least 456,365 cluster bombs were dropped on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, according to the records analyzed. Cluster munitions, designed to release small bomblets, often did not explode on impact and still pose a hazard to villagers."

Apparently Laos is the most bombed country in the world:

"During the Vietnam War, Laos was the target of the heaviest US bombing campaign since World War II, making Laos the most bombed country in history."[1]

I believe the story is that US B52 bombers would take off out of Thailand to drop their load on Vietnam targets. However, if they bypassed their target they were not allowed to dispose of their load on Vietnam terriroty. Since the bombers can't land with their load on board it has to be disposed of before landing. Apparently Laos was the place of choice. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_Harvest

[2] http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bombies-the-secret-war/
Next time I want to play an Ubisoft game I'm just going to pirate it.

http://xkcd.com/488/
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That would be my guess as well. Although I am really pleased Codecademy has Python now.

edit: removed the 'A'
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In Safari, CMD + 1 works if you have it as a top-level bookmark. Or rather, in the case of your workflow, CMD + T then CMD + 1.

There has to be a more efficient way of doing this!
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I dropped out of community college and I have no problem getting offers in the valley for six figures.

It's what and who you know, not where you studied.
Curious if this is for personal or a website/service
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The commercials make geniuses seem analogous to crapware.

Buying a sleek computer without one who acts in the way depicted in the commercials might be seen as a feature.
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No, actually I'm not. I've never had to embellish my CV and every interview I've done has resulted in a job offer.

I'm actually attacking the notion of "character" itself. Yes, there is a set of habits and probabilities of certain responses to various scenarios, but I contend that the mental model of "character" (as it is normally understood in Western culture) is a poor predictor because it groups together certain situational responses with labels that have no necessary underlying correlation to validate them.

My own judgement when interviewing job candidates mostly comes down to technical depth. I'm primarily interested in competence and demonstrated ability to deal with and get results in a complex technological system. I'm not really interested at all in CV buzzwords - and that's what most of those bullet lists end up being, tags to try and get through HR filters. But my experience is also coloured by working in relatively large companies, and being a technical guy, not a manager making the hire decision.
The core checkin functionality is "fun", but not useless, and has a really awesome side effect: Foursquare explore. Seeing where my friends have checked in is a better way to find new restaurants and other businesses than anything else right now. Yelp should be useful for this, but for a variety of reasons, is not.
I like the new genius-centered ads, such as the ones with a genius helping a plane passenger or an expectant father.

They're gently absurd situations. The genius is helpful above-and-beyond what would be reasonable, emphasizing an important Apple advantage. And, specific product benefits get worked into the dialogue.

I always thought the 'genius bar' naming was a bit pretentious, but clearly it's worked as a brand differentiator for Apple for years. And while I've got nothing against Justin Long, the Mac-vs-PC ads featuring him were far more elitist/patronizing/snooty. In these ads, the genius is more amiable.

Let's not forget the generation of 'Switcher' ads that had Ellen "beep, beep, beep" Feiss. Apple ads have varied in tone and focus from year-to-year: you can't feature archetypes against a white background forever, as any look will get dated over time.

(Maybe some of the future genius-helping-outside-the-store ads can feature cameos of previous ad actors... Feiss, Hodgeman, Dreyfuss getting direct genius help?)
make it open-source and I'll do that for you. You can then update the app with the new design if you'd like.
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What is 9GAG doing that other blogging companies like Cheezburger (failblog, knowyourmeme, etc.) aren't already?

The site doesn't seem like anything more than a wordpress template. What value do they add to the reddit content that people are posting on there?
I think so as well. Oddly enough that post on TC rose to the front page of reddit at the same time HN was down.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xel55/startup_cl...

It's been sitting on the front page for the past few hours. I suspect several sources led to the TC article and then through to the post on HN.
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Wow. Maybe they're actually realizing that people lately don't care about +1 (because it was both ambitious and horribly implemented in G+.)
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Some people have commented that it's still too soon after Jobs' departure to expect signs of any decline at Apple to be externally visible. But there is a precedent, albeit in the opposite direction. Jobs retook control of Apple in July 1997 and unveiled the iMac in May 1998. That was not very long.
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I disagree. Gladwell's long standing self-disclosure is a serious analysis on his own motivations and corporate relationships. http://www.gladwell.com/disclosure.html . Claiming that he is a corporate shill seems unfair. Despite his "igonvalues" issues, I haven't seen any serious corporate bias in his works. Are you sure your own remarks aren't due to some bias that you may have?
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The 'Mayday' ad ends with "21f is working on a keynote".

To the target audience (and especially those who do laptop work on planes), that means 'keynote' as in "prestigious headlining speech at a conference", not "Apple Keynote presentation software".
At last some sanity sets in. That button really made no sense at all. In a typical scenario, I will decide whether I like or not only after visiting the page. And to visit the page, I have to leave the Google search results page.
I've got a few friends who are affected by this who haven't tweeted in months. All posts come from the web interface. Can't find any news or security sites with more info.
This was also submitted earlier today to /r/technology:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xdwqk/ubisoft_up...
Much appreciated... I thought my comment was in the spirit of the relentless pursuit of factual accuracy for which we come to HN - regardless of the trivialness of the fact... :)
Facebook has total control of the users very action since joining Facebook. Much easier than coming across a random HTMl page and deciding on if it's real (whatever real means, YouTube comments are real but are very low signal but a database that runs itself could provide lots of signal).
There's just something disturbing about someone saying "we're in trouble" because a corporation they are a fan of produced a slightly less than stellar advertisement.

Not much weirder than the number of people who referred to "Steve" as if Jobs were a personal friend.
The first few times I saw one of these ads I thought they were an ad for the Apple section of Best Buy. I couldn't believe that Apple was making a commercial that was so... average.
If you build lots of custom UI and animation, it's pretty hard to do it only with IB. E.g. with a custom component, you see a gray rect instead of how things are laid out, and you'd still need to write the custom bits in code anyway. Now you have the mess in 2 places.

There's also other reasons like version control, being able to copy-n-paste, using constants, etc.
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