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It's quite clear that the unabomber did not consider human beings, or nature generally, to be a form of technology. His manifesto is all about the opposition of technology and nature. He says that technology destroys nature, and therefore we must destroy technological society.

And are human beings technology? I can't find any dictionary support for that use of the word. Technology implies either something created by the application of science, or the complete set of material implements manufactured by a society. Human beings clearly don't count.
Great idea, but I figured that if adsense can scale to millions of dollars of revenue a year (Markus of POF), there's really no reason to worry about alternatives.
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invest in my startup http://rivals4ever.com ;)
The overseas category was very popular at the time of this post, but it's been de-emphasized a little bit now.
If you don't need to read and act on a list like this I suspect you're probably not being honest with yourself.
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A falling market is not the textbook definition of the right time to buy, it is the right time to hold off on buying.

No, I literally mean unsellable because the market in that area has dried up. I know the difference between 'priced too high' and 'unsellable'. It doesn't bother me much because I'm well-off enough that I don't actually need to sell, if the right buyer comes along it will move, until then it is no skin of my back.

Keep in mind that you are giving somebody else advice on what to do with their money here, if you want to spend your own cash on real estate then of course you are free to do so. Real estate agents are going out of business for the first time in years, these are not normal market conditions.

GM, Ford and Chrysler stock is down too, that does not mean you have to go out and rush to buy in because it is sure to rise again.

This recession thingy could be long, it could be short. Right now most of the smart money says it's going to be fairly long, and that we probably have not reached the bottom yet.

Anybody that claims otherwise is probably trying to sell you some stock they bought or a property they need to get rid of.

When there has been a good solid month or two without any mass lay-offs, talk of rescue packages and major businesses folding that would be a good time to start thinking about this, right now it is much too early.

Those who try to get in at the bottom invariably find that it wasn't the bottom yet. You could easily lose your shirt with an investment strategy like that.
HN has completely dominated all other forums I used to read frequently, even the one I pay for membership at and have been hanging around for a decade. Thank you. (I think it's a good addiction).

So, what are your plans for the next year at HN and how can we help with them?
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The study you're thinking of is probably "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own
Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments" - it's completely fascinating and slightly worrying.

http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf

If you're not feeling humble about your skills after reading it, well...
It troubles me greatly to hear that people see me as an expert or an authority, and not a fellow amateur.

I can't believe this from someone who set out to create a widely-read blog.
What would you label them instead?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#The_CIE_xy...
New attacks on IE7 go wild; info-stealing software
A local transparent proxy could add that for you then your custom stylesheet could do what you want. Good OLD Proxomitron comes to mind :) for win boxes.
If your users get to your https login page by following a link from your http front page, I think he can rewrite the link in the front page to be http, and the attack can still happen.

As you say in your other comment, we need more details.
Avoiding the point, you assume that every problem can be solved by one person.
At least the third demo has better visual quality in FF3 than in Chrome though.
The user also has to navigate with careful intent to the proper HTTPS entry point. (Counting on the site's redirect mechanism to bounce you from any plain-HTTP URL to the HTTPS login page is just as vulnerable as a plain-HTTP login form.)
Absolutely. I'd like to add that the killer feature for me (well, aside from the good quality links and discussion) is "noprocrast" and that I'm particularly grateful for the relatively recent removal of the "ignore" link. It's all very much appreciated.
I'd seen this before. This time I took notes. Most the things that hold me back appear within his 8 "secrets" (and their sub-secrets):

1.	Passion

2.	Work

3.	Focus

4.	Practice

5.	Push yourself

6.	Serve

7.	Ideas [ Listen, observe, be curious, ask questions, problem solve, make connections ]

8.	Persist [ Through Failure & Crap (Criticism, Rejection, Ashholes, Pressure)]

No one item is enough. It does taking attacking your project/life on all eight fronts. Thanks, RSJ.
The surprising thing is that people read TechCrunch.
Congrat's! this is a great resource for all of us
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Congratulations axod! Mibbit is easy to use, and I rely on it when I'm out and about with no irc client. It's a credit to you - keep up the great work :)
Because ranking is very important in my startup idea. In real time games like "snake", players' performance depends too much on their network connections.

The idea game (javascript code) would be able to be downloaded via players' browser, and when the game is over the browser send final scores to the server, of course I will do the something to ensure they can't trick the server by hacking on the client side. Javascript tetris can work like this, but as I mentioned the it's just a little too ubiquitous.
How much will one of the apps cost in the store?
That sucks. This URL will even be a top level domain for me for other reasons. Your point may still apply because when someone enters the domain name without typing "https", that's also a redirect (albeit a 301 redirect, I have no idea if that would make a difference).

This is such a nasty prospect in general because such a tiny fraction of users would take time to type in URLs...
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> real time games like "snake", players' performance depends too much on their network connections.

That sounds like a challenge to me ! Solve that one and you've got it made, I think some kind of pipelining of game state changes should be possible. Remember, the only requirement for a real time multi player networked game is that it should make sense to whoever is looking at this screen, if you put two screens side-by-side then you are allowed to have differences. As long as it all works out again by game-over.
Not everyone wants a phone just like an iPhone. That's one of the things I hope drives Android's success - the fact that it's possible to retarget it for different sectors/niches/whatever...
Thank you - nice to see some of the technical details of this subject. My post was from memory, and I'm pleased it was as accurate as it was.
I'm all for the 'parallel tracks' method of choosing what to do.

Start any number of projects, make it ones that you feel good about but you are not sure which one is the 'best', or even if there is a winner amongst them. Then try them out in front of real people, on the web. The ones that gain traction fastest are the ones that you should put more time and effort in.

In the unlikely case that you have multiple 'winners' you can always divest the runner up and use the proceeds to boost your real winner.
There's a very accessible paper by sigfpe on both the topic in general, and an implementation using operator-overloading in C++:
http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/paper.pdf (Automatic Differentiation, C++ Templates and Photogrammetry)

I see now that it's linked from the wikipedia page, but I still think it's worth pointing out. That was my introduction to it anyway.
Why you should not do spec-work:
http://www.zeldman.com/2007/08/14/dont-design-on-spec/
Just more proof that anyone can sue for anything at any time and the victory will usually go to the richer. The pretexts have even become boring. (Trademark!? Really!?)

Lets just slap each other with fish and shout "I challenge thee to a duuu-ahh-elll."

It would at least provide a visual clue to how much respect people like this deserve. It would be much harder to put on a suit and pretend that you are contributing to society if you had to walk around slugging people with salmon and yelling nonsense.
Congratulations! Invest a little in yourself:

1. Get a good doctor and dentist; commit to yearly full check-ups.

2. Develop a life-long exercise habit that you can perform anywhere. No weights, minimum props. Get help from (i.e. pay) army/special-forces trainer initially.

Now is probably a good time to do this, if you haven't already.
US gooses economy with IT billions
To me "Start-up" always indicated a business (which not all projects are; some are (or remain) hobbies).

My Oxford dictionary show start-up as referring to the process of setting (anything) in motion. It goes on to list "a newly established business" as a separate, specific meaning.

I think YCombinator is interested in business start-ups. But among hackers like those you'll find in HN... you never know when hobby start-up projects are going to burst out with commercial potential. I suspect that pg et al. appreciate that cross-pollination of "hobby" ideas here has real value for seeding business start-ups.
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A great way to attract people to your site/business is by becoming visible. Let people see you, let people at least hear your voice once in a while. The world needs to know that you are a real person.
Idea: a campaign to mobilize people to use Google's new reordering/removal feature to punish evil sites/businesses. I suppose these changes are somehow reflected in the ordering other users see (?).
Targets:

1. Experts Exchange

2. Yelp

3. ...

I already delete experts exchange links from my Google results.
Seriously? My gf of 6 years and I do all of those things. Instinctively I guess.
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This is the first attempt I've seen at a break-out of what portion of the stimulus might go for IT. If they're right, it should bode well for IT jobs... to a degree.

Only time will tell how much actually promotes innovation in IT (even in support of green technologies), and how much (e.g., in schools) just moves systems from XP to Vista :/
Well,
I make kind of entire excution flow in my head... and devide it into small steps/points. I write the points down on a paper...

Usually I can start with any step or point... I don't have to start from a specific point, so usually I start with the smallest one - the easier to code.

I keep a paper with me to write down any enhancements I want to add.
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Happy Birthday to the HN crew. Heres hoping for many many more!
Yup - As an example I sometimes find myself so absorbed in resolving an issue (coding, architechture) I stay up into the small hours of the morning, way after my wife has gone to bed.
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I started relying on YUI, because it is very complete and very well documented. Yes, I know jQuery is cool and all the cool kids use jQuery -- but you can't really compare the two, they have different focus and different scope.
What? No cake?

Congrats on a fun site so far, Paul. Hope it continues.
I recommend seeing someone at a bank about setting up a trust. If you are concerned with making sure that the corpus of the trust remains intact, explicitly tell the bank that as there are investment opportunities that are completely appropriate for that. The benefits of a trust are numerous. When I worked as a trust analyst I saw many people who set up a trust solely to protect their money from themselves. It's something you might want to look into if you are concerned with blowing through the money.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
I found this app which you can use to find out which of your local fonts support a given symbol:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/fontlist.htm?te...

On my Vista system, the 0x267a (recycling) symbol is supported by "Malgun Gothic", "Meiryo", "Microsoft JhengHei", "Microsoft YaHei", and "Segoe UI".

Not sure which of these are always available.
> To use the word start-up for every tiny little project that gets started devaluates the amount of risk taken and dedication given to 'real' start-ups.

I'm not sure this matters much. What matters the most to a startup is the product and the product's users. I don't think users care much about the actual company, but rather the company's product (unless the company is some sort of outlier, one that invests publicly in bad things, or something).

Who cares if you call your project a startup? If it gains users and makes money, who cares what you call it?
Interesting! Unfortunately I've borrowed my mac to someone so I can't see that right now...
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That may be true of neural net research, but I think there are still tons of places where automatic derivative calculation can be a big win. In protein simulation/design, for example, people spend a lot of time and effort coming up with derivatives for functions that do things like calculating the change in potential/kinetic energy of a protein side-chain atom, given a perturbation in one of the backbone angles. It's not always trivial to come up with efficient methods for derivatives in these problems.

The one real limitation here seems to be that you have to know that your function is differentiable (over the domain of interest) to use autodiff software. That can be difficult to determine. However, some of these packages say that they're able to detect non-differentiability, so even that point may be moot, if they can do it reliably, in advance.
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That's the second time in a week that I thought I'd landed on the 'cosmo' homepage by accident ;)
Or might find couple of controversial issues, read gold mines for the lawyer as he/she is anyway a lawyer.
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this is pure speculation, but since we're down that road anyway: The Pirate Bay has hosting in quite a few places, but many of them are in Europe where you pay a good premium for bandwidth. Yes, they have some good advertising contracts but I'd be very surprised if it didn't eat up just about what it makes.

The reason for this is that I think their user demographics are shifted towards people that do not really want to pay for content ;)
Maybe there are ways to stretch the gains over several years by clever investment?
Happy birthday HN and thanks to the HNers; you are wonderful.
nobody asks you to like the people on that thread or to sit down and have coffee with them. Likewise, the pirate bay is not guilty because of such associations.

In most jurisdictions file sharing is legal, it depends on what you share that decides whether it is illegal or legal, and even the file sharing of copyrighted works is legal in some jurisdictions.

Pointing to illegal files is illegal in some places (for instance in the Netherlands), though the legal grounds of this decision are very shaky.

The copyright backed media industry is fighting a rearguard action here, they know they are losing, they just want to milk the cow a little longer.

With storage costs fast approaching zero and transport cost per bit fast approaching zero it is really only a matter of time before you can carry any content you'd ever want to consume in your whole lifetime in your inside pocket.
The usual meaning ("usual"?! Well...) of "grue" is cleverer than that. Or sillier. Or both. Something is "grue" if it's green before (say) midnight at the start of January 1, 2010, and blue after that. You've observed an object many times and it's looked green. It isn't 2010 yet, so you would equally say that it's looked grue. So how come everyone agrees that it's sensible to say "it's green" and expect it to look green in 2010, but not to say "it's grue" and expect it to look blue in 2010? It turns out that lots of simple easy natural answers to this don't stand up well to philosophical nitpicking, and giving a really convincing answer is tricky. Which may or may not tell us something about what it is we're doing when we make generalizations from what we see.

This, of course, is why philosophers get paid the big bucks.

(What about something that looks blue first, and then green? "Bleen", of course. Hence one person's email signature: "It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue, you are likely to be eaten by a bleen." Nelson Goodman's original paper used 2000 rather than 2010 as the cutoff date.)
I think this is a good topic for HN (maintaining relationships is an important skill). But this article, lacking evidence and rigor, is not HN-quality. From what I've read on the topic, conflict resolution is a factor of happy relationships that is so important as to render most of the suggestions in this article (e.g. hand-holding) nearly irrelevant.

Instead, I recommend this article on conflict resolution and interaction antipatterns based on the research of Dr John Gottman:
http://www.helpstartshere.org/Default.aspx?PageID=1113

I also like the concepts of Non-Violent Communication (though the book's tone is somewhat leaden in parts).

There is certainly a place for improving relationships beyond conflict resolution, but its relative importance should be emphasized. By merely mentioning an aspect of conflict resolution in point 4 in this 10-point list, the article sends the wrong message.
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This anti-expert bias seems strangely familiar. Almost as if... The last eight years... Were a bad dream...

He goes on to say he really has an anti-self-proclaimed-expert bias. A safe target, nobody likes a smug know-it-all. But sometimes the self-proclaimed expert is an expert. How do we know if we admit to being amateurs? We don't know, of course, but the odds are we should listen to people who demonstrate expertise and not dismiss them because they come off as smug or claim to have expertise.

Imagine, for a moment, Jeff was talking about Linus Torvalds. Or perhaps Paul Graham. How would you take this post?

This comes off as being worthy of the last administration: Pandering to people's prejudices and distrust of anyone who comes across as smart.

p.s. Does anybody else think this is just a continuation of his bashing people like Kent Beck and Robert Martin for daring to try to systematize agile software development with anything m,ore complex than Jeff's four rules?
I realise we're all pedantic hackers here (hell, I consider a good dose of pedantry to be a quality - language should be exact where possible) - but this is hardly worthy of special discussion. Yes, of course people have this feeling, but there's nothing to talk about.

People will continue to misuse the English language whether or not you use up one of the 25 front page slots with this moan. Get used to it, that's the way the world goes.

Move along. Nothing to see here.
Seems like a good strategy. There is also a big difference in .com .org .net trust. Anyone want to share knowledge?
I think I found a secret link on HN to the best stories of recent time (can't find a link to it from anywhere)
So, just to see how hard it is to make the longest span between article and comment :)

Congratulations on your second birthday YC, and thanks to Paul Graham for writing this forum. I had a really good look at the good a few days ago and I was quite impressed with how elegant the whole thing is put together.

Lisp would not be my language of choice for a website like this, and yet, after seeing how concise it was I'm tempted to play around with lisp in a web environment.
it's amusing that someone called 'msie' would ignore standards ;)
There is good-quality information on this kind of thing. I like the work of Dr John Gottman. From this interview, you can see his intelligence and honest approach (e.g. changing his mind about the usefulness of teaching active listening):
http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/John_Gottman
dna is a rad place and i have utmost respect for the people who run it (i'm actually 50yds from it right now), but jwz's comments don't prove anything. for one thing, night club reviews notoriously suck ass on yelp or any other review site, and therefore shouldn't be taken as the standard. anyone with half a brain can parse through the stupid reviews if they really care that much about a venue, but most of the time if you're going to a club you're going for a specific night or event and you'll judge for yourself. yelp's sweet spot is really restaurants, particularly restaurants in major cities.

also, speaking to his specific claims of "extortion", i don't believe they hold water. paying a fee to put your favorite review on top or putting sponsored links on the site (like google) seems pretty legit to me. deleting negative reviews etc is shady, but i think the jury is out whether that is true or not.

i know i've personally found yelp invaluable moving around to new cities over the past few years. being someone who loves food, i find the vast majority of the time the reviews of restaurants are completely on point, especially if you know how to parse through the comments. does anyone remember the days when the only thing that existed was citysearch? what a piece of junk. i've found so many amazing places on yelp that i wouldn't have found otherwise.

in my experience most small businesses (mostly restaurants) i ask about yelp love it. i ran into a restaurant owner who's friends with a friend of mine in berkeley a few months ago. he was ecstatic about yelp because that night 20 of his seats were filled by yelp alone.

i'm all for exposing shady practices of yelp or any other company for that matter, but most of this stuff is baseless.
Cool! Now who want's to write a HN fuzzer? Bonus points if you write it in Arc...
Nice... good find.

It appears to go back a week and a half or so.

I'm not sure how useful it is, but still a nice find :-)
It looks like it is only sorting the last week's stories by karma, not every story in HN history. Which begs the question: is there a way to see every story by karma?
Most people want to have some sort of permanent address. If you can afford to buy a home outright, it's cheaper than paying the bank interest, or paying someone else to live in their property.

So I'm not sure why you'd object to this. Everyone needs shelter, and if you can afford to buy it, you save money.
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Keep in mind that $2M will generate over $100,000 a year in interest. So it is definitely possible to retire forever on this amount of money.
see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/active

check the source for more goodies, but keep in mind that the performance impact of some of these may not be all that nice, which may be why they are not linked from the menu bar.
It troubles me greatly to hear that people see me as an expert or an authority, and not a fellow amateur.

Don't worry, Jeff! No one here thinks you're an expert.
I would say that the killer feature is the users :-)