skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the official icons for all the browsers have licenses that allow them to be used anywhere, as long as they are only used to refer only to their official product (i.e. you can use the firefox logo anywhere you want, as long as you only use it to mean firefox and not some other product)

IANAL, but i believe that creative reproductions like the ones you are using violate the trademark of the actual icon owner, and they certainly violate the branding guidelines of all the browsers in question.

Just use the official icons: it's clearer for your users, and it is what the browser vendors want you to do.
Reid Hoffman: Y Combinator Is “Definitely Seeing Some Stress Signs From Size”
The Patriot Act alone is a decent case that Bush and Obama (by passing and reauthorizing, respectively) have been worse than their predecessors. And Obama has taken many transgressions farther than Bush, both in direct actions and in attempts to hide information about actions, including government immunity for surveillance violations [1], citing exceptions to open record laws [2], ignoring FOIA requests [3], prosecuting whistleblowers [4], use of national security letters, saying that they can't tell us how many Americans they've spied on[5], etc, etc. The TSA seems to gotten more annoying, too.

[1] http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bu...

[2] http://www.sunjournal.com/node/815552

[3] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73606.html

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/a-high-tech-...

[5] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/nsa-spied/
Here is the photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jolieodell/4525127286/in/photos...

The link from the article links directly to that, and yet they heavily manipulated it and call it journalism.
The monitor looks to have a completely industry standard bezel width and corner shape that you can find on any number of monitors and TVs. And lacks the huge white 4 inch strip at the bottom.

The stand seems to be a different size and shape.

The OS, the most important part of that device, is completely different.

Now if that's what you call an iMac, then you must also call every PC made a Dell and every truck a Ford.
Why you can’t read 9to5Mac on Instapaper
One-Handed Condom is a snap to open
Why GoDaddy Downtime Emphasizes Need for Solid Web Hosting
Surely the set of all .co.uk domains is a proper subset of all .uk domains.
Thanks, very kind.

We're going to try and utilise the fact you can 'create' a tshirt with just a link, i.e. http://helvetitee.com/tee/foo-bar. It's so quick to react to trends and happenings, or suggest a tee to someone based on their actions, that we feel the product can benefit from virality and p2p sharing. Plus a healthy mix of the usual Google ads etc.
Marco Arment's Instapaper Controversy
Marco's claim is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how anyone but one of the most rabid Apple fanbois could even make such a claim, or expect from them to mention that other products look similar to Apple's products in every story. Should they mention it when they are 100% clones? When it's 90% similar? 70%? 50%? What would make Marco happy? Maybe he'd like to send the same kind of criticism to sites covering new TV's or fridges.

As for Gruber's claim, that might not be 100% false. I've noticed that after being heavily criticized by a minority of their readers who are very active and Microsoft fans, about "being too hard on Microsoft/Nokia", TheVerge usually tries to "make up for it", by compensating with other positives or writing more stories about Microsoft/Nokia/WP. They even seem to have one full time writer that only writes about these sort of stories lately (Tom Warren).

Whether these moves are good or bad, that's for anyone to judge. I just think they are a little too reactionary, and I'm not particularly fond of it. I think they'd be better off if they did what they thought it's best, although listening to some feedback I guess can't hurt.

And all that being said, I think TheVerge is one of the more "objective" and impartial tech news sites around, and I think they generally do their best to keep it that way, which is something I like about them.
I first read this principle in some Java coding guidelines published by Sun, and I think it's great advice. Anything public probably deserves a longer name, keeping local variables short promotes readability.
That looks like a weak version of "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think", http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/ . You don't have to dive completely into Lion Kimbro's system to find parts of it very useful. Especially the use of speeds for quick jottings and the binders for organizing things so you can find them again. No matter how much of his actual system you might end up using though, reading his book about it will open your eyes.

My initial system is similar to his, but I found transcribing everything into computer better, mainly because of easier searching, and because it made sharing information that applied to multiple projects easier.
GoDaddy Got You Down? Here Are 5 Alternatives
That's true! Even just spending a few hours with a particular subject expert could enable you to ask questions, check possibilities or even find there's a much simpler way to implement an idea.

Yet, having an idea doesn't necessarily mean you know what components, technology or skillset is applicable, sometimes it's tough to write the spec!

The way a spec is written can make or break a project - I've actually tested this theory on Elance, 2 specs, same requirements but different words resulted in project bids that range from low hundreds on one to several thousands on the other.

Sometimes just engaging in a short conversation (skype, email etc) can clarify a lot of things and help people to learn too! (That's why I'm interested - I don't want people to do stuff for me, I want to know about what goes into it)
YMMV; I've used Zim for a few years, and I find it useful to track things to do and some work-related stuff; however I don't feel it comparable to the "spark file". I must try this one.
That's a long one! Ok, I'll try my best.

Expectations

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Our previous "GymFu" apps were moderately successful and we surveyed hundreds of our existing users to spec FitFu. Good customer development, right? Well, maybe. But what we should have looked at was route-to-market and better validated the UVP.
The big problem was that we thought there was an opportunity creating a fitness app for more casual users. There probably is, but a couple of problems quickly emerge:

1) To make serious money, you have to have epic margins (e.g. WiiFit) which you can use for customer acquisition.
2) People in the casual space are less responsive to the idea of subscriptions.

Our theory was that the casual users would assist in spreading the app virally to attract the serious ones. In retrospect this was really dumb.

We really really should have figured out the route-to-market thing earlier.
It does the same thing for me - i'm browsing on my primary monitor, but it reports the resolution of my leftmost monitor. I'm guessing there isn't much that can be done other than file a bug report with whoever makes your browser.
BezelColor + BezelShape: the shape is similar but without the lower white area.

Metallic Logo: Nope. Appears to be a back-lit logo which is white in color [1]

Logo Positioning: Is similar but not the same. Apple's logo is not in the black frame region. They both are centered though, I give you that.

Aspect Ratio: iMac seems to be 8:5. This is 16:9

Foot Design: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/hp-imac/ Check the last image.

Choice of Material/Choice Of Finishing: Someone pointed out on the thread that HP is using plastic and not brushed aluminum.

Keyboard Design: There aren't many side shots of the smaller keyboard from Apple but [2] looks different from Spectre One.

Key Coloring: White on White vs White on Aluminium Grey.

Key Layout: Is Also different. Have a look.

Keyboard LED: Cannot deduct from image, so I will give you that.

Trackpad Design: Yes similar from top

Trackpad Footing: Check the side shots, they are different

keyboard battery chamber and trackpad battery chamber: Sorry cannot see from the shots.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-spectre-one/
[2] http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page...

Edit: iMac has 16:9 screens as well. So adding that here.
iirc that command doesn't work anymore on most *nix boxes. Not that I test this fact very often.
Half of Americans Think Bad Weather Can Affect Cloud Computing (Infographic)
That strikes me as an oversimplification. According to the NYT article [1], Xerox filed an "unfair competition" lawsuit, which was correctly dismissed (as Apple never tried to mislead consumers about whether they were buying an Apple computer or a Xerox computer, among other things).

The only reference to age I found is, according to a lawyer quoted in that article, "Xerox had waited too long to file a copyright infringement case and had to resort to a weaker charge of unfair competition". It looks like the statue of limitations on copyright infringement was (at the time) 3 years [2].

It's not clear to me if this is true or not. According to the case itself, "Xerox argues that an infringement action would not afford the relief it desires". (Is that lawyer-speak for "oops we forgot to file the right charges in time"?) Either way, I can find no record of a copyright infringement case brought by Xerox against Apple.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/24/business/most-of-xerox-s-s...
[2]: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#507
In our universe, maybe it's easier to create similar simulations. In fact, it's easier to create simpler versions. Maybe the outer universe physics are more complicated. Maybe they're making stuff up for lulz. Maybe they think exotic physics are fun. Maybe their reasons are utterly incomprehensible[0]. And while you may assume that all intelligent beings are fundamentally the same, and might even be right in our layer, you don't have any evidence at all about our simulators.

[0] I'm tempted to say this is most likely, but I don't think we even know enough to assign meaningful probabilities. We don't have any idea what the space of possibilities is.
YMMV I guess.

IMO, Silicon Valley's "early days" starts with the founding of HP.

In any case, I don't think 1986 can be considered "Early days" by any stretch of the imagination. Even if you're just focused on the modern era of the Valley, I don't think you can reasonably make a case for anything earlier than the mid-1970s. To put the dates in some perspective (not for you but those who think 1986 are the "early days"), Jobs had already been pushed out of Apple by 1986.
That may be what you did, but it's not what I did.
I'm sorry you were personally insulted. Were you one of the people involved in that incident?
"Essentially, since functions (not objects) are the top-level constructs in Clojure, you can redefine functions at any time while your program is running, and everything will "magically" start using the new definition. "

This isn't exactly correct. It's not because clojure has first class functions that you get this behavior, but because clojure has late binding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_binding
Did Braun Products Inspire Apple's Design?
Reading this, I wonder if pg & co. have done an experiment where they do two sets of interviews for applicants: One to assess anything at all about their business, and another which is more or less a normal technical (or marketing) interview _without informing the interviewer about the applicant's potential business idea_.

This would basically be a test of the notion that "ideas don't matter", and it would allow you to correlate how even knowing a founder's idea might bias you towards believing they might succeed.
I heard Taleb actually run a portfolio called 'the Black Swan fund.' I didn't really think of it before but that pretty much what YC is.
Oops didn't see that he had already posted that.
This is a good point - for web based companies, your domain registrar will always be your single point of failure. So it makes sense to keep it separate, with the most trustworthy company you can find.

Even in nasty scenario (like GoDaddy's DNS service going down), you can still point your domain somewhere else, even temporarily. But the worst case, your domain registrar going down, leaves you with no alternatives.
That's true, actual tools need all those criteria that you described.

If you believe that functional languages don't meet those criteria, can you provide evidence for that? For example, from what I've gathered Clojure certainly has high quality libraries, an emphasis on speed when needed (performance is frequently superior to Python's), has debugging facilities, is easy to learn for someone with functional experience (just as Python or Java are relatively easy to learn for those with imperative experience) and can still be picked up with a little extra work otherwise, and has been used in production in large projects. I don't know about its hardware support so I won't comment on that.
I don't understand the "make test" thing. If you're temporarily hosting pages for testing then doesn't that mean you have to also get something to pull those pages to validate them? If that's the case then why can't you just output stdout and validate the pages that way, with just some simple mechanism to pass post/cookie information as a parameter (much like how you would do it with wget).
Whether two term or one term, if the party can install a lobbyist-friendly puppet they maintain their ability to sell access to government. That's what modern democracy is all about: leveraging public money/power for special interests.
Sure, but the keyboard-down-display-up workspace dates back to the typewriter.
http://www.isup.me/downforeveryoneorjustme.com
The problem with "vote against incumbents", particularly in the era of Citizens United, is that you'll have just greased the revolving door and destroyed any incentive to not sell off everything that isn't nailed down.

The corporate sponsors of our government, the true problems in our system, would love to be able to stand up a new placeholder every cycle, to decry the excesses of the last, run on reform and have absolutely no illusions about gathering power for themselves, or see no benefit in doing right by the people casting the votes.
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You're right, it should be window size. Fixed it accordingly.
Hey HN, help two Latin American entrepreneurs attend to Startup Weekend NYC
Recently Quotidian Ventures announced the sponsorship of ten tickets for the startup weekend NYC (http://bit.ly/RyuNSj). And guess what? We both apply and got selected, though we still need some money to make it from Colombia to NYC.
> Is there any way to solve the problem of having to create a new connection as company_X_user for every single request?

Yes you can accomplish that with Veil, but I agree, it would be nice if it was built in, but an add-on is ok too.
GoDaddy's service is non-exceptional, their Web UI is clearly focused more on up-sales than on helping customers get work done, their [advertisements are sexist][1], their [attempts to police the Internet][2] are an affront to free speech, they [lobbied for the horrible SOPA until it appeared likely that continuing to do so would hurt their bottom line][3], and their [founder/former-CEO][4] is a hyperaggressive douchebag who [kills elephants for fun][5].

References:

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy.com#Marketing (Wikipedia: GoDaddy.com: Marketing)
[2]: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/01/godaddy_defends/ ("GoDaddy Defends SecLists Takedown," Kevin Poulsen, January 25, 2007, Threat Level)
[3]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349913-281/godaddy-bows-... ("GoDaddy bows to boycott, now 'opposes' SOPA copyright bill," Declan McCullagh, December 29, 2011, CNET News)
[4]: http://www.bobparsons.me (Bob Parsons)
[5]: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/daddy-ceo-bob-parsons-africa-... ("Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons: Africa Elephant Hunt Video 'Nothing to Be Ashamed Of'," Susanna Kim and Michael S. James, April 2, 2011, ABC News)
Great article but that server's DEBUG is left on and some forms don't have the CSRF tag...
I've seen prosthetic pussies in porn too (most notably in a movie where a man purportedly inserts nearly his entire head in a woman; the plastic prosthetic female sex bits were glaringly obvious).
The pitch of which is determined in large part by the tire tread pattern, so the sound could not easily be compared / transferred between the bad guys' vehicle and the good guys' unless they knew what kinds of tires the bad guys had.
I use gratisdns.dk, excellent free DNS service that I've used to years with high reliability. Helps to be able to read danish.
Free and reliable alternative from another big ISP:
https://dns.he.net/
Copying can be good and bad. I think most people would say that a copy that beats the original would be good. A knock-off or plagiarism would be bad.

It's bad for the original creator, but long term it's probably bad for the copy-cat as well. How are you going to keep and foster top notch design talent if their assignment is to copy the competition instead of working on making something better?

And if you don't have good designers, you're at a disadvantage if the market starts to appreciate good design (as they seem to be doing more and more).

I think many people are surprisingly untechnical. Samsung had many tablet returns from customers who thought they had bought an iPad. I wouldn't be surprised if many companies would buy this computer because it "looks about the same" as the more expensive iMac.
Coworking Applications And Sites To Aid In The Search
Thanks for your recommendations. I'll do just that. It was my first job out of school, and it's difficult to understand that a little over 8 months ago they paid a head hunter to find me and about 4 months ago kept me on board.
How does the Patriot Act hold up to the HUAC or interment of citizens during WWII?

The Patriot Act is bad. But it's not unprecedented. And, personally, I don't find it notably worse than the war on drugs.
An in-depth Nexus 7 review
I'm using Brunch[1] for a current project, and have used Backbone Boilerplate[2] in the past. Brunch is pretty great, though bbb is better hooked up with requirejs out of the box, if you're into that kind of thing.

I really want Yeoman to take off, in particular because I really want one of these tools to become the breakout hit. I'd rather everyone be focusing on improving one tool instead of all this effort going diffuse across a bunch of different solutions. I'm a python dev, and I thank the stars that pip became so standard. (Not that this is a direct analog to pip, but pip provides a subset of this functionality when it comes to packaging.)

One note: the Ember init is waaaay basic. I know that these are going to be community maintained, but I would have hoped that the Ember generator bundled with this initial release would have included at least commonjs or requirejs integration.

[1]http://www.brunch.io
[2]https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate
There's nothing that suggests this material has to be derived from wood pulp, or from trees. There are plenty of other organisms that produce the type of cellulose they're working with. As mentioned elsewhere, it could be more efficient plants such as bamboo, or even sugarcane grasses, or hemp, for that matter.
Magnificent. Simply wonderful. This feels like a prototype for the future of forums. It's got its little UI flaws here and there but I understand why and almost all of them can be fixed easily. Very nice work. So much potential.

- There's no reason to have the scroll bar of the thread list on the left. Hiding it unless you hover directly over it is also not a good idea. It should appear when the mouse hovers anywhere over the entire thread list.

- I strongly hate non-browser-native scrolling (scroll by javascript in an effort to style the scroll bar using css and javascript). It never feels right, or fluid. There IS a way to hide the scrollbars until the mouse hovers over the element that requires scrolling. Example: http://www.repcmods.com (abandoned prototype) (hover over the horizontal galleries) It's all done using css :hover and no javascript. The element with the scrollbar is set to overflow:hidden and on :hover it's set to overflow-y:auto; It may or may not work for you. Fix everything else first before coming back to this one.

- It's missing some white space toward the bottom making it feel really cluttered down there. Give the #left_panel and #mid_panel elements a padding-top:12px; and give .xpadbox a margin of margin:0 24px 5px;

- Also give the element #mid a padding-top:9px; so its lined up correctly. You'll have to also move up the links on in the top right of the mid panel to match as well.

- When posting a reply, the "preview" and "post" links should really be buttons not just text and they should be on the left and the text "sign up to bump, Online: 1002 users, etc..." should be on the right.

- When I open up the setting tab in the threads list it needs to stay red so the user knows they need to click it again to close the settings.

- Get rid of the dashed border bottom between threads and posts. It's too visually intrusive. Change it from dashed to dotted, instead.

- Hiding controls under the whole "to top/toggle functions" bar is completely unnecessary. As a young designer I used to hide a lot of elements thinking it would look nice and minimal and clean. Later on I find out it's one of the worst things you can do to your users. Your design is already minimal, it's already clean, don't over do it. Just keep the elements there, don't hide them.

There's a lot of confusing UI here but that's the end of my free consultation.
SAN FRANCISCO FASHION WEEK 2012
At least Australia and the UK correctly ( ;P ) use "two hundred and three".

There's a wealth of differences between British and American english: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Bri... (Of particular relevance here is the numbers section.)
Challenges

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I can't be transparent about all of these, but I'd say they were split into a few sections: personal challenges; user acquisition; crappy market/model choice; code/complexity.

On the personal challenges front, both Benjie and I were pounded by one major unfortunate event after another (deaths, illness and so forth) right from the start of YC through to this year. It's hard not to get drained by that, especially when you need to grind hard on a startup.

From a user acquisition perspective, as I've mentioned elsewhere we didn't really allow ourselves enough margin to do this well. We tried everything from ads (we managed to hustle a free ad placement with millions of page views) to buying users on TapJoy (as it used to be) to social/viral to GameCenter to App Store SEO. Nothing worked well enough to be long-term sustainable and profitable. You could argue we had poor product-market fit, but that's hard to say.

Market choice. P90X, WiiFit, exercise DVDs - those become $1b markets. CrossFit is a $1b company. Fitness apps... not so much. We should have chosen a market that was easier to reach and monetize but that's not where our passion was at the time.

Code. Man was this app complex. Absolute nightmare to test and maintain. You know what works better than this app? The NHS "Couch to 5k" podcasts. Low tech with good marketing utterly trounces fancy high tech stuff.