skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verisign is the only realistic choice if you want your website to work with older mobile browsers and low-end mobile browsers. Many phones from as recently as two years ago only have the Verisign root cert installed in them.

If Verisign is too pricey, and you are willing to lock out older and low-end devices, but not all devices, then GeoTrust QuickSSL is the only alternative. QuickSSL is cheap enough that there isn't any reason to try to find something cheaper.

All other certificates being sold have one or more of the following problems: the root cert is in few devices or only in recent devices, the root cert is present in devices but will expire in the next 2-3 years, the certificate is a chained one which won't work in some devices, the root certificate uses relatively weak crypto (1024-bit key or MD5 signature), or there is some other problem which I cannot remember off the top of my head.
Stake Your Claim? Technorati Opens Goldrush-Inspired Tag Directory
In defense of the corporate jet
On The Eve Of Its Fifth Birthday, A Facebook Design Retrospective
I've used GoDaddy SSL certs without any problem.

Considering they are 1/2 the price of instantssl.com, I'd say they're a fine option–especially if you're bootstrapping.
I don't get anything ajaxy on google.com

Even if I go directly to http://www.google.com/#q=test it redirects me to http://www.google.com/search?q=test&cad=h
Learning from Failure, Styudying your Successes... its two sides of the same coin as far as I'm concerned.

It's all about trying to improve your performance in whatever you do, arguing semantics is pointless.
Do check out at the bottom in the "Dotbot Spider Statistics" table:

# of Tubes Found Clogged 7188420
Wow - not allowing tables for tabular data - this just shows how much kool-aid some people have drunk
I also think it's funny that the simple 3-column example that took you 30 minutes to put together has exactly the same shortcomings that are discussed in the original article (for instance, try setting the background color of one of the sidebars or swapping their order in the markup without changing the CSS).

It's true that you can order the markup however you want and write the CSS to make it look right, but the key point is recognizing that (unless you position everything absolutely) there is still no true separation between the markup and the CSS (at least where layout is concerned). If they were truly independent, then it wouldn't matter what order the elements appeared in the markup... the CSS would lead them to render the same way on the screen every time.

It's worth pointing out that there is true independence between the markup and CSS where styling is concerned (and this is where CSS shines). If you style the background, font, opacity, whatever of a particular element and then move that element to a different location within the markup, the element will still look exactly the same (unless the new position in the DOM subjects it to other CSS rules that override the old ones).

I'm rambling a bit here, but all I'm really trying to say is that CSS has its place in the web development toolbox, but old-school tables often have the edge when looking for a layout that just works.
I feel that the benefit in letting webmasters know what their users are looking for outweighs any privacy gains to be had. If people are that concerned about their privacy they could always set their browser to not send the referrer. I doubt that this move has anything to do with concern over user privacy.
The site itself: http://singularity-university.org
It seems 37signals is running out of things to be contrarian about. It is easy to "invert" a saying like "learn from your failures" and make it seem profound but that doesn't make it any more valuable or useful. It is easy to learn from success as it generally carries momentum and begets even more success. Learning from failure is hard because it tends to cause people to give up altogether, requiring those who have experienced it to either stay optimistic and cull important lessons from it, or to simply go home defeated.
Comodo's default InstantSSL root is not present in many devices (Nokia Series 40 and Windows Mobile in particular, IIRC). If you file a support ticket they will issue you a certificate chained to a different root. But, that root certificate is going to expire relatively quickly, and it is hit-or-miss whether Comodo will charge you extra for it (since it effectively makes your cert. an EnterpriseSSL cert.).

Comodo is also on the verge of getting its trust taken away from them, due to negligent behavior that was widely reported a month or two ago. If any more negligent behavior is discovered (not unlikely), I think browser makers will be forced to remove Comodo's root, making all their certs worthless. (They are already worthless to me.)
The Verizon fios phone service also dies if the electricity goes out.

Only if the power is out for > 8 hours or so. If you're without electricity that long, phone service might not be the biggest thing to consider (food that may go bad, for example is more important)
> The first post I quoted did exactly that.

Not exactly; he took a "canonical" example of such a layout from an authority on the matter and showed that even with such an idealized example from such an ideal source, changing the order of the content breaks the output.

Also, your counterexample uses different CSS for the "in order" and "out of order" proofs-of-concept, which defeats the purpose - the point is that the CSS needs to stay exactly the same with the presentation not changing upon changes in markup order.

> Please do not assume that because I chose the side of CSS on this occasion to demonstrate its capabilities, that I do not 'get' what the css vs. table / developing for IE arguments are about.

I never said you didn't get it. I said you didn't address the relevant argument in your article. Your article is correct and well thought-out, but it doesn't address the argument that is dividing the HN community, pitting brother against brother.
I think the idea is to create 30 more Ray Kurzweils, so that Ray can then be 31 times as effective. Or something like that: http://singularity-university.org/overview

Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.

http://singularity-university.org/about/faq/#student

3. We are looking for proven leaders and entrepreneurs. We are looking for the next generation of CEO’s, University Deans/Presidents and Government leaders.

Oxford has been doing essentially the same thing for hundreds of years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford#History

The list of distinguished scholars at the University of Oxford is long and includes many who have made major contributions to British politics, the sciences, medicine, and literature. More than forty Nobel laureates and more than fifty world leaders have been affiliated with the University of Oxford.
Seems to me that browsers ought to start including the fragment (the part after the #) in the referrer, now that different fragments can refer to entirely different pages. I can't see any security issues, as the previous poster was wondering.
I apologize. While I understand the point you are making in the article, I disagree with this statement:

"You can order your content how your like. You are restricted only by your knowledge of CSS and not its ability as a styling language to render your documents. "

I will retract what I've said if you can demonstrate a fluid 3 column layout using only those 3 divs (left, right, center) where the center column expands with the browser, the sides remain constant width, and the order is preserved. This is trivial using tables.

Css tends to show its rough edges when you use it outside of a fixed width or absolutely positioned environment.
Bright young businessman starts up, achieves success, starts expanding, coup happens and he is forced to leave country.

There are a lot of reasons you could point to why Africa is still Africa, but the depressing regularity of "and then there was a war" has to go near the top. They will never be rich without capital and they will never have capital until it can doesnt regularly get stolen, burnt, or shot.
Saying things are overrated is overrated.
Google could easily fix this by redirecting through some sort of shim script. But will they?
We've had great success with GoDaddy SSL too. Just because they have a terrible sign up process and UI doesn't mean that their products are terrible.
Provide a mid-peninsula community center (bay area) for hackers and thinkers
I thought this was relatively newsworthy because there are so few coworking facilities in the south bay area (Palo Alto / Mountain View) compared to San Francisco proper. The Bay Area startup scene needs a hacking / coworking facility of our own. David Weekly of SuperHappyDevHouse fame is trying to put a coworking / community center together for us south bay residents, if you are interested in contributing or joining, please post to the wiki!
Self-knowledge: Good for entrepreneurship, excellent for info overload.
You don't have a Wikipedia-thong problem
You want to beware of what you're buying, chained certificates are OK if it's for something where you have a small number of users (say site admins) but you will look like an incompetent nitwit if your clients customers are getting browser security errors because they don't have the intermediate certificate installed in their browser.

My recommendation for ease of use and fast turnaround is Geotrust or one of their resellers.
I thought this was relatively newsworthy because there are so few coworking facilities in the south bay area (Palo Alto / Mountain View) compared to San Francisco proper. The Bay Area startup scene needs a hacking / coworking facility of our own. David Weekly of SuperHappyDevHouse fame is trying to put a coworking / community center together for us south bay residents, if you are interested in contributing or joining, please post to the wiki!
public exposure / abandonment

Break out the back of the envelope and calculate how much it would cost you to break all contacts with anuses. Is it worth it? Make sure people find out how you were treated.

A guy I respect much for his technical skills wanted to go in with me a very interesting and technically challenging project in vison / imaging. Even though I have always been on friendly terms with this person with good rapport, and actually enjoy talking tech stuff with him - I refused just because of the way I have seen him treat other people. There was lots of vindictiveness, a tendency toward feuding. I didn't want to risk being involved with that no matter how interesting the work.

if you must deal with aholes or if you are unsure if a person is an ahole keep the stakes low. don't be an ahole yourself, and of course, most people aren't aholes.
FYI, if you buy a wildcard cert covering .example.com, example.com itself does not match -- only subdomains do.
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." Alan Perlis, "Epigrams in Programming" (#101) http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
My wife got duped by an ad on Facebook (they also advertise on MySpace, which is worse IMO).

This particular ad links to one of several duplicate/fake blogs touting a dietary supplement and then linking to a free-trial. If you don't cancel before the end of the 14-day trial (by phone), you are charged $89 (for a supplement that costs $7 at a health food store). Of course, no one answers the phone number you must call to cancel. It took a lot of paperwork with my bank to get the charges refunded–quite a pain.

It's a well-known scam and my wife takes much of the blame for not doing the proper due-diligence ... however, I think FB and MySpace would be wise to screen their advertisers better.

We did submit the info to FB and were told they would "look into it"
Compared to the other national consulting agencies, IBM typically bids low, making up the difference with rigid project management and aggressive outsourcing.
I paid $14.99 for a GoDaddy certificate and I was up and going within a few minutes. The certificate creation process was pretty simple. You have to search "SSL Certificate" in Google to get the reduced price, otherwise they charge about $10 more.
Is there ever really a "too late"? Shouldn't Google push for dominance as far as it possibly can? Isn't it some other entity's role to stop them?
Agreed.

I should also mention that they have the lowest wildcard certificate I can find.

A few of my SaaS apps require this because they're subdomain-based. $200 is still a lot for a wildcard cert, but less than $379
I did look at the API. And government generated "factual information" still should be verified -- thankfully this information is verifiable (in the scientific sense). My observation was not about any party in particular, it was an observation about politics in general. Really, a party of a single branch of government providing its own status and historical information would seem to be less (however slightly) trustworthy than if the Library of Congress provided an API to the data they already collect, or if the Executive branch provided a check on the other branches through providing a service to the people like this.

I mean, election recounts seem to have more cross party and cross branch involvement and checks than the day to day operations of the government.

It is part of the civic duty of every citizen to question the motives and actions of their government, no matter which party is involved.
An alternate solution to the Table/CSS layout argument: an introduction to blueprint.css
If no one worked for/hired them, it would raise the cost. Of course, you would have to tell them why you made the decision you did. I think a lot of assholes don't know that they are one. Jeez... I hope I'm not an asshole.
There would be security issues if any existing website has put confidential user data after the #, expecting that no other website would see this in the referers. This doesn't seem typical, but still I'm sure some websites would have security issues if this was changed.

Also, practically speaking, even if all browser developers agree this was a good thing, it takes quite a long time for people to upgrade their browsers.
Here is an amazing video which shows some of the famous people who failed. If you have never failed, you have never lived. Life = Risk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hz_s2XIAU
You can use the "-e" option of screen to change ctrl-a to something else. My usual invocation of screen looks something like:

screen -e '^Oo' -S mysession

Disclosure: I use vi.
I think the point of the negative votes was to try to get the point across that sarcasm, snarkiness, whatever, adds nothing to the conversation. A better tactic would be to add a negative vote, or simply post something thoughtful that adds to the conversation that began with the posted link, or both, or nothing at all. In my opinion, those are all more worthwhile options than adding to the meaningless comments.
I still generally code in tables, but I agree with this. The flexibility of design, and the design possibilities available to the guys in my office who use CSS, are far beyond what I can accomplish with a table or mixed table/CSS design, unless I seriously hack the shit out of my page, which makes the coders go bananas.

It's definitely a transition to go from the table mentality of basically stretching the page out like a weird balloon from the top left corner or top center of the page, to the CSS mentality of having to sort of "press in from the outside" to keep things from blowing up all over the page and each other, but the more I learn about how web stylesheets work, the more I respect them.

CSS fans often cite the fact that the code looks cleaner or that the data is more modular, etc. I don't really think that's the case, at least not when compared to a table driven site which also just has a lot of class and ID tags for background images, text colors, which in practice is just as flexible. CSS shines though where it allows you to create things in sizes and configurations just not possible in tables without a lot of shitting all over yourself (the biggest one being having two elements overlap, which is useful for drop down menus, confirmation boxes, etc, etc.)
It's under the "Compensation" header:
"Competitive salary, healthcare, bonus, 401k and equity"
Markov chains FTW!
http://codeismightier.com/2008/10/generating-domain-names/ - how-to
http://suggestly.com - ajaxy implementation of the above (which is down right now)
Any web designer who is worried that "regular Joe Sixpack can now go and create a decent looking webpage" which looks or functions better than something they would be willing to accept payment for, should probably not be trying to make it as a professional designer.
I think the ones from GoDaddy work fine in most browsers. Or no?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23k...
educating 30 people for $25k a piece? It really seems like there is an opportunity here to include masses of world changers instead of only targeting corporate executives

They are not merely targeting corporate executives, and they are planning on graduating more than 30 students per year: http://singularity-university.org/about/faq/#gsp

Program Track # students freq/year grad/year

Graduate Studies 30-120 1 30-120
Mid-Level Mgmt 40 8 320
C-Level Mgmt 20 8 160

Total/year: 410-500

Only the Graduate Studies Program is limited to 30 students, and then only in the first year. "[...] subsequent years will have a program size of ~120."
Agreed. But, for those who might be looking to this thread for advice on how to detect assholes as early as possible, know the difference between prudence and cynicism. Be cautious, but don't start out assuming that someone's good impression is just a facade, otherwise the entire rest of that relationship will be tainted by that.

It also doesn't hurt to go back later and try to understand why you had the gut feeling that the person is an asshole. Knowing what sort of cognitive biases you may have, either from instinct or socialization, will likely help the false positive rate. And the more you are considerate about things, the less you might be likely to come off as a prejudicial asshole to someone else.
It's funny that this issue will only come up with someone who doesn't have to code designs for living or at least regularly. No offense, but if you actually got out of your little shell people and worked on some real designs, created by great designers, you would understand why CSS is superior.

This isn't even an argument.
Don't Use Smart Technologies to Do Dumb Things
Wait, those are the peelers we're talking about? I thought it was some fancy device that's super-exclusive or something. I'm from Asia and those things are a dime a dozen (sometimes literally) there...
My problem with "nationalization" is that people treat it as some sort of atomic, unique thing, where we either "nationalize" or we don't.

In reality, it's way, way, way more complicated, and the debate borders on the useless, because how and what is nationalized, and how the nationalized assets are managed matters a lot, and nobody ever discusses those.

Right now, I see no great reason to believe that the government is staffed by people particularly likely to even try to use their brains to decide what to nationalize or how to run it, let alone succeed. Right now what I see are a bunch of politicians running rampant with no regard for reality... which always has the last word.

That's my problem with the bailouts. Putting politicians in charge of our companies to solve problem the politicians credibly created in the first place (without admitting it, and I fear they actually believe they are blameless, not just putting up a front) doesn't seem like a recipe for success.
Everyone's New Favorite Question About Twitter
Taking a Look at the GOP Anywhere API
Sorry but problem not solved.

It's nice that your site lists CowardlyAct.com, MountyBounty.com and SecuritySituation.com as available - but that's completely useless to me who's looking for a name that somehow makes sense in conjunction with my business model.

Furthermore a good name is supposed to be short and distinctive. Most names listed on your and similar services meet neither criteria. They consist of more or less randomly combined dictionary words which leads to generic 10+ letter domains like, well, SecuritySituation.
Smaller is Better
FB banned diet related scams from their ad programs a few weeks ago,

Do you have any links on this? I'm seeing more and more info about the scams ... just wondering if FB has issued an official statement.
> Daily stand-ups are an attempt to get people doing this. But it's like pulling teeth.

A lot of my friends' companies have drunk the corporate Kool-aid and adopted Scrum (e.g. sending project managers to Scrum Master training, forming Scrum teams out of organizational chaos). Scrum isn't that bad - it's not perfect - there are aspects I dislike. It's not as bad as teeth pulling, somewhere between gum cleaning and flossing. Daily burndown updates are always painful. It's better than nothing. But being forced to throw out a number for a task is sometimes lunacy. The whole point of Scrum in my opinion is to micro-manage programmers and hold them accountable.
Waiting? But it's already got Vi on it... ;)
Be sure not to miss "Learning from mistakes" from 37signals. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/60-learning-from-mistakes...
I downmodded you because it seemed that you were really just playing on semantics with regards to the definition of "hero", and that you objected to the title based merely on the opinion that he is not your hero, as opposed to some objective measure of heroism.

I don't kneejerk-downmod. I have been known to kneejerk-upmod, but never the other way around.
The great thing about APIs is if you don't like them you can wait two weeks and somebody will put them in a wrapper for you.

gem install acts_as_government anybody?
In the situation of the financial sector's bailout, some had speculated it would have been better to have not done anything. It would leave us more money to allocate and loan (not give) the companies which employee the average American worker who doesn't live bonus to bonus.

As for nationalization, it should start at the Federal Reserve which is as much Federal as Federal Express. What a screwed up system we have where our government is forever in debt while we use The Federal Reserve Note as our currency.
Thank you for the citation.
Strictly speaking, AppJet already supports Comet, but the full support that's used in EtherPad is part of the next major version of the AppJet platform. From the sound of the ITConversations interview linked above, the new platform won't be out until a bit after Enterprise EtherPad.
Generally speaking, it's better for new web apps to be paranoid that no one will care about your app, vs paranoid too many will be.
This thread on WickedFire mentions the post on HN and predicts Grants offers with soon be banned too:

http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/50846-get-your...

It was on the same forum I read about diet offers getting banned. I don't think there was any official statement by Facebook on the matter.
Some crazy comments getting left there...

Are these people for real? How did they see the post? Is it getting attention anywhere besides Hacker News?
Best translation service for a web app?
I seem to remember a discussion fairly recently here about services that will translate your web app, but I can't seem to find it by searching through the archives.

Can you recommend a hacker friendly service? I'm specifically looking for English -> Spanish, but I expect I will need other languages soon as well.