skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poll: What browser do you use?
This article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504610) just got posted, and it made me wonder what browsers people here at HN are using. I'm less interested in what version, due to the mere fact that I assume everyone here will be keeping up-to-date with whatever browser they've actually chosen.

Please choose what browser you use the most, IE over 90% of the time.
Will Furloughs Change America's Workaholic Culture?
Hmm...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7909627.stm

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/japan...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4839546...

And finally...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4512962.stm
The Future Of Google, Future Of Search
This is in response to the submission "The good news is reality exists...". Read the whole article, the conclusion is towards the end. I don't understand how these teams can make such generic conclusions and then immediately contradict each other on such level. One team says "we are certain, reality doesn't exists", the other says "nope, it does exists". Either the articles interpreting the teams' results are exaggerating the claims, or quantum mechanics is mocking both teams making contradictory results possible.
More to the point, they're starting to erode their reputation in the game console world, too.

Check here:
http://consumerist.com/5160187/identifying-yourself-as-a-les...

and here:
http://consumerist.com/5161145/microsofts-policy-regarding-i...
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A FAP Turbo review with the good and the bad about forex trading software.
whether they want to display ads on parked domains, isn't it?

When I first noticed that I was getting a ton of worthless traffic, and paying several hundred bucks a week for it, I dug into the AdWords UI, and found only one option to disable, "Content Network". Soon after that, they added the ability to place ads on specific sites...but not the ability to say, "anything except spam sites, including Google's own spam domain hosting service". Of course, Google doesn't talk about their own spam domain hosting service much. But, it's clearly Google being evil. (Apparently most Googlers aren't even aware of this "service" from Google, so I guess it's kept quiet internally, as well.)
I think I'd just refund the dollar and refuse to give up the trailer. At least make the buyer sue you for it.
Is Craigslist the world's biggest bordello?
As much as I like Google, their customer service sucks when you're trying to get in touch with someone. What other customer facing company could get away with something like that? If it was a bank, I'd be speaking to customer service managers. If it was a store, I'd be able to speak with a manager and try to get the issue resolved, or at least be told why my account was canceled.

Whether or not he violated his terms of service or not, doesn't mean that they had a right to swallow his $700.
I like the idea of a stand-alone stomp box i/o port. This might make an interesting practice amp, too. Much like the Line-6 GuitarPort. I think the idea would be get the software started then license it to a Line6 or M-Audio.

I wonder what the iPhone's mic preamp sounds like.
Fears about IP address exhaustion are overblown. X-day is the day that IP address scarcity begins to become a problem, not the day that the intertubes burst and flood everyone's basement. We appear to be headed for an IP shortage because IP addresses are presently distributed by a central authority, "to each according to his need". IANA allocation policies undercut the fair market value of IP addresses, so the free market that could exist for them currently doesn't. But once IANA stops handing them out, there's nothing keeping it from forming.
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GNOME too, at least back in the day

http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject

KDE too, apparently: http://usability.kde.org/
How many computers does the world need?
Why to Switch Your Enterprise's Email to Gmail
I don't want to pimp my own stuff here but search Google, Youtube or Vimeo for pedal feedback loops or pedal noise. It's usually abstract drone or noise so not to a lot of people's tastes. There are a few businesses that have sprung up from making or selling products to these artists though.
My past addiction to Pi, and how to hire amazing geeks.
Here's the same thing from 6 months ago.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=295735

And another from long before that with some real stats.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61691
Thoughts on configuration files and databases
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/staff/herkia/kava/Seminnarit/MI_...

That paper has a (simplified) model for the economics of free and proprietary software in the same marketplace. It basically shows that the best programmers have incentives to work on free software. It also shows that the price that the proprietary software maker places on the product directly affects the number of programmers working on the free alternative. Very cool paper that I reviewed for an economics course.
Deconstructing the Missing Weeks of a Teacher’s Life
My (very low) opinion of your claims is not based on any Register article, but your own written account of your dealings with Zuckerberg, on p. 294 and up of your book Authoritas, a section I read when you had it online. I commented with my unvarnished opinion long before your Facebook lawsuit [1].

Congratulations on your small-claims win against an unprepared Google paralegal; Google should be held to account for cryptic and arbitrary policies that retract credited balances from users' accounts.

However, in your own writings and lawsuits, you give me the impression that you are a legal gadfly rather than an entrepreneur. That can be a fine niche in life, and the press loves it, but you shouldn't expect a warm reception from aspiring entrepreneurs. Successful businesspeople often have to waste precious time and money defending against, and sometimes even paying off, legal gadflies -- even when the claims are meritless.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294
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or perhaps when it starts doing business in the USA...

oh, wait.
Okay, gimme your Paypal link :D
From Advising Venture Capitalists to NYT's Modular Innovations
Vimperator, Vim mod + Firefox. Though I would happily move if someone created a webkit based browser with Vimperator keybindings.
If it were new, it would be a $60K trailer. They expected to get $5K - $10K for the used trailer.
I really love how JQuery UI gets better with every release. I was working from some of the latest subversion releases for a while, and the code and the quality of how its packed and delivered keeps getting better.
It cost the school $14,000 to transport and setup originally.

$1 might be the true market value of the trailer right now. Maybe the buyer was doing the school a favor by taking it off their hands and saving them additional transportation costs.

I sold a junk car to a junkyard for $20 one time and was happy with the deal. I wasn't set up to sell the car's parts but the junkyard was. I got rid of the car, and the junkyard probably did pretty well selling the parts.
You horribly misread the article if you think he did this to get his $761 back.
>this prevents the otherwise unprosecuted patents from becoming unenforceable at a later time because they were neglected or not tended.

You're thinking of trademarks. Patents can't become unenforceable thru neglect... trademarks, though, can...
Dear Aaron,

You seem to be someone who enjoys ligitating, so in an effort not to get MY ass sued, I will take a leaf out of the book of Penn Jilette.

You, sir, are a fucker, a shit-stain and a crotch weasel. You're an asshole, a jerk and I probably wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

Fuck you and the boat you sailed in on.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20080701...

That graph shows that ie6 usage dips on weekends (while firefox usage peaks). This seems to suggest that most of the people using ie6 are using it at their workplace and many of them tend to use firefox at home.
please seriul number plz internet download manager
eBay is full of sellers charging money for Open Source software. They generally use misleading tactics, and use the name of the better known commercial alternative in the title ("Better than Microsoft Office!" for OpenOffice, for example.)

I don't think anyone is making a killing on that model, but I could be wrong.
I don't know about your ISP situation, but mine is rather unfriendly towards making my home-based servers visible to the outside world without paying a sharply more expensive "business" plan.

Further, I'd like to get my friends using a more sophisticated system of coding than emailing (or sneakernetting) zip files when they "remember" to. Some of the projects they need help on are contracting projects for companies, so public-facing anyone-can-access code is neither allowed nor acceptable.

A hosted arrangement means that it will also get backed up, and be more available.
This headline is misleading and poorly chosen by the original author. Isn't it a convention that headlines that start with an entity followed by a colon, then a statement are meant to convey that the entity is making the statement that follows (e.g. "Microsoft: Windows 7 to Cure Cancer")? In this case, the author is making a statement to MS instead of this being an MS statement.
Have you used them before?
Second that. It's a miracle if the recruiter has actually read the entire resume (beyond searching for keywords)
I am wanting a private repository
lutorm should have said "federal and state non-discrimination laws", not "constitutional rights", but the result is the same.

This is the same reason private business in the South are no longer allowed to be Whites-only.
The Lean Entrepreneur
JavaScript is a good language for game development, provided you have a decent underlying media layer. The browser is not a good media layer. HTML Canvas, timing, input, and audio are all miserably inconsistent and hackish across browsers. Just use Flash.
Why New H-1B Restrictions Will LOWER (Some) American Tech Wages
Back and forth between Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
And you can buy Ubuntu on Amazon: their 79th best selling software. http://www.amazon.com/Canonical-890655001213-Ubuntu-8-10/dp/...
Gordon,

Not that I expect to convince of anything, but your interpretation of my writing is awfully skewed. You claim I "dawdled...while Zuckerberg executed." I launched my Universal Face Book, which I coded myself, on September 19, 2003. thefacebook.com launched on February 4, 2004. Throughout those intermediate months I wrote thousands of lines of code, tried to get others interested in maintaining and growing the site, and secured partnerships. That Mark secured funding after using, speaking with me about, and then copying my work does not negate any of my actions.

The "fritter[ing] around with committees" is a phrase you used, not me. The "committee" you speak of was a few of my friends in college who were in the same club.

I didn't sit around "kvetch about media unfairness." I walked into The Crimson and waited until a reporter would talk to me so that I could show them the site.

The "redundant academic make-work" you refer to was a version control system for CS91r, a Harvard class that both Mark and I were in, and had nothing to do with any of your previous points.

Aaron
In general, I use a combination of IE and Firefox. We have a couple customers for a hosted version of one of our web apps, so we have to also use Safari and some older Netscapes for compatability.
Maybe the scope was too vague or the goal was too monolithic if he was implementing patches he didn't need. It is easier to declare tight little tools as "done." Plugability/modularity helps this as well, because it lets those things that need to vary and evolve over time do so without threatening the health of the core.
Put the relevant pages of Authoritas back up, and let readers decide.
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Not sure if anyone clicked through to this, but there is a rather amusing and insightful thread between Linus and Bram Cohen (bittorrent guy) during git's development about some of the crazy ideas and innovations git has. At the time things like diffing at the object level (versus the file level) were considered insane/very hard. These are the types of advances that git made mostly on its own.

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2153.html

(It was two links away from the article. First the 'faster than cp -a' link then, a link on that page.)

As a side note: I'm really surprised to see Bram Cohen in the capacity of naysayer on this!

"I'd like to reiterate that _nothing_ out there supports moving lines between files, and further predict, with total confidence, that if git tries to support such functionality it will simply fail"

Of course, Linus is pushing buttons as always.
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We do both. Our company builds 90+% Open Source software, and a small chunk of proprietary code that sits on top.

Our Open Source products have millions of users.

Our proprietary software has thousands of users (well, actually one thousand and some hundreds...I don't think we've crossed the 2000 licenses sold mark, yet, but it's getting really close).

So, in one sense (raw numbers), we can't compete with Open Source. Even with our own software. But, when I look at the percentage of paying customers we have that we wouldn't have without the Open Source products, the math begins to look less depressing. Maybe we just have a really high marketing budget made up of lots of development hours spread over the past 11 years...and over time we'll convert more and more of those Open Source users into paying customers.

That said, it's definitely possible to convince people to pay for software. Just make it better, easier, better supported, and more predictable over time (make upgrades that work, for example; almost nobody gets upgrades right, including most Open Source software...so if you do, people will remember it and won't be nearly as tempted to try a new product every time a major upgrade or new system is needed).

Also, it matters who you target. We have some Open Source users who want our commercial products to be even cheaper, insisting that we would sell huge numbers if it just cost half as much. But, I know the reality is that the difference between free and $69 is almost as big as the difference between free and $138, in terms of how many people will make the leap. So, targeting the low end of the market for a product that has Open Source competition is insane. Target the high end, luxury end, or enterprise end. Power users, Apple users, professionals who make a lot of money by using your software, etc. We actually decide what goes into our Open Source vs. our proprietary product based on whether it helps someone make money. That's pretty much our only determining factor: Does it make money for the customer? If yes, it's proprietary software. If no, and there are lots of cool non-commercial uses for the feature, then it goes into the GPL version. That won't work for everyone...but it works for us, since our market is one that has a pretty clear divide in who uses the software and for what.
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I do everything in my bedroom when I get a chance, it's easily one of the more comfortable, cool (temperature-wise) and quieter rooms in the house.

Even though I technically have a more "appropriate" workspace available, I just don't like it. I piled a lot of my hardware in one corner of the bedroom, the bed in another, occasionally use a display to watch a movie in bed with the boyfriend. Surprisingly the noise has not yet been a problem, but the hardware in question is usually two laptops and a mac mini and a drobo, all typically pretty quiet. I have a monster of a tower for gaming, but that's usually not left on while we're sleeping.

It's all a matter of preference.
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Writing Systems Software in a Functional Language (pdf)
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Thanks for that info -- definitely a helpful bit of ammo.

Would still love to see some stats from a general pool, though, if anyone knows where to find them. You could argue that just because MS stopped supporting the versions doesn't mean there aren't people who just can't figure out how to upgrade or don't know they need to out there. Knowing that that number is some trivial percent would be very helpful.

Barring that, maybe the argument can be strengthened if Google and Yahoo have also dropped support. Will check it out.
but you may use it for your current website
You might be willing to say this to his face (thus not contravening the HN guidelines), but it's still not the right mode of speech on this forum.
More info:

The article is an introduction to Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP's). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_problem

A very rudimentary demonstration of this:
http://aispace.org/constraint/sample2.html

Norvig implemented a quick and dirty version of this for his sudoku solver: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html.

Note, while you eventually end up just telling a CSP what you want, there's a plethora of algorithms to solve these constraints.
Maybe so, but I fully expect the next thing to hear about will be him suing Twitter for shutting down his viagra spam empire.
Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds
Really this result is consistent with the Everett - Wheeler 1958 thesis that the wave function never collapses. This I have held to be the case personally for a long while, and in light of that, this new result is not surprising.

When you get right down to it, it is basically saying the wave functions of the entangled photons do not decay since they are never directly observed. Extrapolating from this one can say that in fact Wheeler and Everett were right, and the wave function never decays at all. Which of course leads to the "branching universe" idea, which to me will one day be seen as no more surprising than the "many galaxies" idea. Remember, the idea of other galaxies before the discoveries of Hubble and so on used to be only speculation, not universally held. Now we know there are at least 10^10 galaxies. Similarly the fact that the wave function never collapses, as Everett and Wheeler proposed will be held to be just as prosaic as the fact that there are other galaxies.
Mine is a subtle humor.
Fair enough, I misspoke. I'm not sold on the urgency of 4-to-6. I guess I don't have much a problem with IPv6 itself.
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3rd time in one week: please add the one line of HTML to that page that you'll need to support IE as well.

You're mistaken that IECanvas will make your game slower in IE than it is in Firefox. Test it out, and you'll be surprised. IE has a much better rendering engine than FF, and even with the added overhead of converting all canvas calls to their SVG equivalent, it's still noticeably faster.

So yeah, please fix your thing. It's one line of HTML fer cryin out loud!

(nice effort, by the way)
I think that one of the major architectural failings of the IETF over the past N years is the belief that we should be building on and extending the core Internet protocols, when what we should be doing is moving more and more logic into the application layer.

So for instance, if you want to be able to address billions of people, the scheme that you use to do that should look more like email addresses (which are effectively unbounded) and less like a globally synchronized database of integers.

A lot of problems that are basically intractable at the router/switch layer are much easier to solve with relay servers. Multicast is another great example; IP multicast was a failure, but multicast delivery semantics with (say) 80% of the performance improvements of IP multicast are achievable with relays.

This isn't a crackpot idea; Frans Kaashoek and rtm at MIT had a project investigating it, called Reliable Overlay Networks. I did a startup in the late '90s based on overlays. The technology worked great.

The pain involved in NAT and 1918 addresses would be mitigated if our applications were less tightly coupled to IP (gethostbyname -> sockaddr_in -> connect), and if we could just pick a NAT traversal / NAT rendesvouz technology and run with it.

So my answer to your question is, you shouldn't worry about the alternative. Just keep building normal socket applications.
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Couple things.

First, the "push towards DNSSEC" is largely just a superficial trend story. There are operational problems with DNSSEC that will probably severely retard DNSSEC adoption. I'm not going to pretend DNSSEC isn't more likely to happen after the last few months, but none of the problem with DNSSEC that almost left it DOA before have changed.

Second, there's no real relationship between DNSSEC and IPv6. DNSSEC signs arbitrary records, including A.
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Given a free market for IP numbers, I think we'd also discover that they're not all that valuable for most entities.
Yes. I was at my desk a few weeks ago and felt something. Couldn't tell if it was my neighbor or a quake, so I searched twitter. Got the answer instantly.

I also got stuck in crazy traffic on the 405 recently. I searched twitter and learned which side streets to take. Google's map program doesn't seem to cover side streets.

It doesn't replace Google for me, but it does replace it for certain searches.
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I think Microsoft's reputational problems in the enterprise have been ~60-70% reversed over the last 6 years.

Their reputation as a credible competitor to Google may be shot, but that wasn't where they were making their money in the first place.
The URL in the title has some garbage at the end of it, delete it to read the story, or use this link:
http://www.mytestbox.com/news/how-bluehostcom-web-hosting-co...

The owners of that site REALLY need to do some better research on webhosting. From the article, the site is now with GoDaddy...
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My rule is this: it must validate unless you have a good reason for it not to.

When I develop I use a firefox addon http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ that automatically tells me how many validation errors I have (it runs the validation locally).

So as much as possible my code validates, but sometimes it doesn't - but each time, there is a reason for it, and it's not just an accidental mistake.
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Hey thinkcomp, are you going to sue E*Trade too?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504950
There was definitely an element of that, too. Most of the patches were reasonable changes: bug fixes, or minor feature additions that improved the usability for some large segment of the user base. There were a few that snuck in that I later regretted, but I got better at saying "no" as time went on.

However, ultimately, if every project said "no" to every feature the developer did not personally need, there really wouldn't be very many widely-adopted projects. They key is balancing patches that you don't personally need against your vision for the product: and I did have a vision for Capistrano. It just wasn't really clearly defined, especially early on, which is why I regret some of those patches.

It was definitely a learning experience all around.
How about (secure?) OO version (with no error handling)?

$c=new ReflectionClass('co');$m=$c->getMethod($_GET['m']);if($m && $m->isPublic()){$i = $c->newInstance();$m->invoke($i);}

Example usage:

<?php
// "Framework"
$c=new ReflectionClass('co');$m=$c->getMethod($_GET['m']);if($m && $m->isPublic()){$i = $c->newInstance();$m->invoke($i);}

// Controller
class co
{
public function index()
{
echo "index!";
}

public function test()
{
echo "yes, it's test.";
}
}

?>

Call:

example.com/?m=index
example.com/?m=test