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Like many, I also switched to Chrome when it came out, after many years of Firefox.

Are there reviews/benchmarks that substantiate the article's claims ?
Thanks for this tip! :)
Creating Innovative Gameplay: How Typing of the Dead inspired Letter Rush
There are so many new tools coming out, but here's the thing:

_You don't really need to abandon ship every time something shiny comes along._

Really, you don't. Use the tools that help you get the job done quickly and efficiently. I jumped ship from .NET (asp.net mvc) to Ruby on Rails because of three very distinct features:

1. Cheaper hosting.

2. A better baked-in ORM.

3. Ruby made me more productive.

It wasn't because some random guy in Germany wrote a blog post and called it the Next Coming of Christ - it was because I tried it out for a small project, and loved how it made my life easier. Less time in front of the computer, and more time with my family.

Just make sure you jump on the next big thing for the right reasons.
Honestly there's so many different scams online that people taking shortcuts in the SEO world is fairly minor. The problem is that Google searches are so crucial to so many people. Back before they were around, if you wanted to start a business you needed startup cash for marketing, ads, etc. You needed to become a well known brand. Now everyone and their dog are told they can start an online business, pay $100 for an SEO package and call it a day. But just like developers basing their code on Facebook, shops basing their traffic on Google rankings are always at risk.
Google Play Movies and TV is going VP8? Interesting.
Usage of Flash on websites fell to 20%, down from 25.3% one year ago.
Docco 0.6.0 Released. New design and Literate (any language) support
divides, multiple, real

I have nothing to add.
>That is patent nonsense. The web grew because Windows users were able to browse it with IE in the days before Netscape and when the second choice was going with *nix and Mosaic.

There were no IE days before Netscape. Netscape came first, and IE was originally just a defensive response. That's not to deny that there was a period where IE was arguably a superior browser, but IE simply would not have have been created were it not for Netscape becoming the first mainstream browser.
A Better Way to Handle Multi Sign In
When multi sign in came out for Google accounts I was really excited. But after using it the Google way I decided it sucked. So I found a way to fix it for my use.
> So what went wrong? The short answer is: a lot more people logged on than we expected. More people played and played in ways we never saw in the beta.

How can the play style of people have such an impact on the servers?

Sure there could have been people spamming buildings in order to produce high traffic. But that's sounds like an unlikely exceptional case.
I remember picking up "Salmon in Doubt" at the bookstore and reading the cover notes which referenced Adams's passing. I thought it was all meant to be a satire because I hadn't heard that Adams had actually died and he seemed too young. Even 61 is too young
HeadTexter: Using the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK
I don't know about US, but in Europe we have modern woodstoves like this maker: http://www.hase.eu/

Well installed, they burn almost everything, leaving only mineral parts of the wood. That means more energy-efficient burning, and less smoke. In addition since they're completely close all the smoke goes through the chimney, nothing gets in the house.

Correctly used, you get almost no smoke (because everything burns). The only reason a recent woodstove would produce a visible amount of smoke is if you burn stuff you're not supposed to burn (some people use their chimney/woodstove as a garbage bin) or if you burn wet wood.

So even when other energies are available, it's a pretty good way to heat your house: cheap, efficient, nice warm feeling, limited pollution.
It could be but I have a swimming pool, kitchen knives, and stairs also so it isn't a high priority.

Oh, and my bath mat. I'm very worried about my bath mat.
I live in Prague. Rent for a family of 5 including all bills is $1100 (ok, we live somewhat modestly, although we live near the center of the city, near the metro and tram stops, and 10 minutes walk from a castle!)

It makes me sick that people in Silicon Valley think you have to live there to get investment and run a start up.
From the article:

If your telling the client your doing high quality link
building, then buying the cheapest package you can from a
link seller, that’s fraud and in todays world, you can
cause serious damage.

The mom and pop store that got hit... It is a shame. But: This mom and pop store certainly has their own responsibility. Especially if they rely on Google to keep their business afloat. They are webmasters, and as such should take note of the webmaster guidelines [1]. If they want to outsource being a webmaster, the webmaster they hire should do the SEO hiring and guideline compliance. Having an online business is more than just putting up a website.

The webmaster guidelines are fairly clear on these matters:

Any links intended to manipulate a site's ranking in
Google search results may be considered part of a link
scheme.

Ultimately, you are responsible for the actions of any
companies you hire, so it's best to be sure you know
exactly how they intend to "help" you.

Yes, to me, this means every "high quality" link building program is suspect from the very start. Getting a high quality backlink from CNN or from 100 low-quality blog sites doesn't change the manipulative nature of these (bought) links. This makes the difference between low-quality and high-quality link building moot.

(Google) search is not a black box most make it out to be. SEO is not magic. Make a site accessible and search bots have no problem crawling and indexing your site. Create quality content. Read the webmaster guidelines. Google wants your content to rank on its own merits. Align yourself: simply stop buying link schemes, start writing quality content, and EARN those links. Optimize websites for users (of which searchbots are just a subset). Try inbound marketing and website optimization.

[1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

P.S. I am sick of SEO scumbags too. I am also sick of the blind SEO hate on a start-up site (start-ups often need SEO, yet a lot lack it). Didn't patio11 used to give actionable, and much appreciated advice on these matters? Do we really want to eat the sour grapes from someone banned by Adwords or Google ("Because Google targetted them, because their competitor set them up, because they got hit by those bloody quality updates, because they are not social enough, because they don't buy Adwords, because they don't use blackhat SEO, $insert_other_excuse_for_why_Google_is_required_to_rank_them").

P.P.S: The good SEO's I know often have their own sites they work on, or join an agency to work on big traffic sites. They are not using a cold-call phone team to get their clients, or stay busy optimizing mom and pop stores. This may skew the experiences you have with SEO's in general.
I've been writing minor tools in it for work and it's been a pleasure (the golang version of one of these tools offered an immediate 8x speedup on an hours-long task, compared to prior PHP versions, with minimal additional thought). I have yet to organize a large project around it, however.
Yeah, well, good luck convincing, say, chinese farmers not to give tons of antibiotics to their livestock. Nobody is interested reducing pharmaceuticals' revenue either.
On a side note, take into account we didn't have antibiotics centuries ago, and people just lived. Endure whatever comes, just live. And don't look so shocked, we have democracy and we're surrounded by morons, the shocking thing is that there's still any prosperity at all.
If you care about self defense, learn Krav Maga or another martial art that will condition you to actually increase your odds of survival... After years of rigorous training.

So a thief or a potential rapist /murderer is in my living room at 4am. I should approach him without knowing his ultimate intention or what weapons he has, and try to some martial arts moves against him? Should I ask if he likes a cup of coffee first?

How about unmistakeable shotgun click from a safer distance?
I wouldn't say a good escape route from a particular stack is to just jump into learning another one, you're just picking another small area of specialization. If you have a good understanding of the fundamentals, the data structures and algorithms under the hood, you're much more employable than someone who's memorized the idiosyncrasies of a few web stacks.
That looks correct to me.

Actually, at first I thought it was incorrect because you used De Morgan's law, which I mistakenly thought was invalid in intuitionistic logic. However, I looked it up and apparently only ~(p & q) |- ~p v ~q is invalid in IL.
I've always heard that bandaids are the way to go - electrical tape can gunk up your webcam when you actually want to use it.
Stupidity isn't about the individual developers -- it's about the incompetent decisions that Microsoft made about the browser. They decided that IE would be released only in-sync with new Windows releases. Vista troubles meant IE was effectively on hiatus between 2001 (IE6) and 2006 (IE7). Corporate interests were definitely keeping IE development back, but not as an intentional defensive move to sabotage the Web. Lack of competition in browsers during that period served as a pretty good demotivator, too.
Inspiration is procrastination’s cousin
Nothing they have done or said strikes me as an honest admission of guilt, sorrow or concern.
Courts tend to focus on intent.

Further reading: [What Colour are your bits?](http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)/entry/23
Solution: let silicon valley build more housing.
Funny that these numbers are touted as being bad. In Vancouver the median price of a home is around $900k, we have high taxes, high fees for everything (cellphones etc.), rents are around $900-$1000 per bedroom.

And the kicker of it all is that the average family salary is a laughable $70k.
Billionaire Chinese blogger Wants to buy America’s most Expensive Building
I've had the same problem with Chrome on ML, reinstall the browser and the bug will disappear (you'll need to erase it from your Applications and from ~/Library/Caches).
That's what I do, although not for the reasons in the article; I just get bored quickly (gen Y lol) and learning radically different languages and paradigms is just so much fun :) It also seems to help in my main language (C#), after learning Haskell my C# 3.0 programs have gotten way easier to read and understand.
I don't get it, isn't it doing a basic find/replace that is available in any reasonable editor?
"we elevate apologizing for bad things kids do (because we don't have the stomach to properly discipline them) to an art form."

Conversely, the US seems fond of trying kids as adults when they cross some or other threshold of crime. As an outside observer it seems an odd contradiction.
Report On LTE Networks Across US: Uses 725,000 data samples across 77 US markets
When you're sick of being sick, you're beginning to get well
Because the city have more of everything you want. The reason why everything cost more is a demand and supply issue.
Simple. There are certain characteristics to business that require real in person relationships. In fact many of the businesses that exist that you never hear of on HN are exactly like like this.

SV is great for 3 things:

1. Insane amount of capital to growth (and to exit big)

2. Access to $120k/yr+ salaried Stanford/MIT grads (among others)

3. Tech-savvy early evangelists

If your company doesn't need these things to survive, stay far away from SV. It's not worth it. There are however other areas that possibly have all 3, but not to the extent of SV. The ones I've personally identified are Austin (US), London (UK), Stockholm (SE), and Berlin (DE). What you get in return is cheaper cost of living (London and Stockholm, you just need to live further outside the city) and therefore cheaper wages.
"...the internet is certainly the web" sounds like religion to me.

A highway is a type of road. As are streets, byways, lanes, courts etc... URLs need not be protocol specific, but having a standard makes inter-protocol communication that much simpler. In fact the post was primarily about how we label things (nouns, verbs etc...). I'd say most things fit the model of giving, taking and changing things, no?
This is one reason I don't live in The Valley, and I am by no means poor.

I'm not an economist, but it really seems like there's a very perverse economic distortion that takes hold when the relative wealth of a region exceeds a certain level. The problem is emergent from two facts:

(1) We almost always finance real estate on credit.

(2) We use real estate as both a store of long-term savings and an investment whose value is heavily leveraged and is dependent upon the value of neighboring real estate.

As a result, real estate acts like a sponge. When a region accumulates wealth beyond a certain point, it results in runaway real estate hyperinflation. This in turn forces people to put more and more wealth into real estate, as well as tempting people to engage in real estate speculation. This in turn feeds the cycle, and drives up rents for non-owners.

This does several bad things. It prices out the not-already-rich and destroys the engine of class mobility that often created the wealth in the first place, prices out artists and others who contribute to culture in a less financially-centric way, and soaks up wealth that could have been used more productively. Instead of founding the next startup, a significant chunk of money ends up sitting in real estate to prop up the leverage bubble.

Edit: I thought of what might be a more economically-correct way of saying that. Real estate is a liquidity trap.

Finally, it's a ticking time-bomb. If the region's fortunes ever falter, everyone ends up massively underwater. Bay Area residents be warned: Detroit once had the highest average wages in the USA. It was the Silicon Valley of its time. Detroit had other problems the Bay Area isn't likely to have, but some significant fraction of its woes can be tied to the collapse of its real estate market and all the perverse follow-on effects this has. When real estate starts to go south in a big and long-term way, it really ruins a region's finances.

P.S. I can't help but shake the feeling that the only winners from the above arrangement are banks.
If there is some group of N companies competing for some keyword, starting from the same 'lower quality' web sites, and they all do the same 'good' SEO stuff, then they'll all be right where they started again in terms of rankings, very likely. It's an arms race.

Competing for a ranking is pretty much a zero-sum game because no matter how much money you sink into it, only one can come out on top.

Compare and contrast with actually building stuff that makes people's lives better: there's still some competition, and winners and losers, but it's usually not a zero-sum game at all.
The Internet was 100% government funded at it's start. Private companies where involved in it's creation but only as what amounted to paid contractors. And yes they had a clear goal of increasing infrastructure to aid collaboration. Or if you really hate the idea that any private funding was involved at any point, just look at GPS.

More to the point, the vast majority of recent particle Physic's, Astronomy, and basic Medical findings where government funded.

PS: There are literally thousands of counter examples but I think I destroyed your point as it stands.
I also find it counter to the whole "lean startup" philosophy everyone espouses. You would think being lean would apply to their cost of living as well.
Agreed. Too many choices make it really difficult to choose.
"Fill your github with work in that language."

I love this advice. I think that I want to tackle building a Node application as my next "weekend project." I dabbled in the very beginning, but today, Node is very mature and the barrier to entry is extremely low.
I agree with you there - having built out even small to medium sized Backbone apps, you find yourself wondering what the "Backbone way" to do things is, only to find there is no "Backbone way." Something I've found which does a great job of filling in those gaps is MarionetteJS (https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette). Definitely worth checking out.
> Totally orthogonal issues.

They're really not. Many add-ons would function without issues with sandboxing (once updated), but there are many cases where requiring IPC between tabs/windows would be prohibitive (particularly for individualized add-ons).
It's funny how everyone has solutions for our eating up the planet. But it's never the obvious: stop having children like there's no tomorrow. If you think you have the right to have 90 children if you feel so inclined, then you'll have to acknowledge the planet must turn into a massive farm.
I have been experiencing something similar recently. Please follow up if you find any references to the problem.
Agreed. I usually use the version of Hanlon's Razor that substitutes "incompetence" for "stupidity." Not that they didn't understand what was at stake, but made a series of bad decisions.
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Philips hue API
The article was written in 2004, but even today, a lot of advertisements, name cards, and other types of printed material still contain URLs that begin with http and www. As a result, some people still type in all those characters when they want to look up a web site. In fact, this practice might be more common among non-tech-savvy people (such as the wife in this story) than among HNers (who know which parts of a URL are optional).
Growth makes all problems go away, or more like delaying it until it starts to hurt.
It's as honorable as "pulling strings" to get your start-up reviewed by shady sites like Techcrunch. Both serve the same purpose
Yeah no... I think they're using the term to refer to the people, not their computers.
I find it interesting that no one commenting here actually lives in the Valley at the moment (probably due to the time difference, its around 7am.

If you are into tech, the Valley is the best place in the world to live right now, the price is being driven up by demand for a reason.
Seriously, this. It's one thing for Hong Kong or Manhattan to have high housing prices. It's something else for a fucking suburb to have high housing prices.
All the FIFA Ultimate Team releases the last three years has also been filled with trouble during launch and high peak times. Release problems is not a new thing for this company.
Also how many people are using each pool (and indeed using each gun)?
The comments here are a little over the top "antibiotic resistance is worse than terrorism!" Drug resistance is a problem, but check a reasonable source: http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html and don't gravitate toward panic and fear. Fear is the path to the dark side.
Does the university have an established policy for email retention and access to that data? It seems unlikely that they wouldn't, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere. It's never a good idea to rely on goodwill to prevent access to sensitive data - if it's there, a need arises and it's not illegal, it's eventually going to happen.
What I wonder is: by pricing out the not-already-rich, does real estate hyperinflation actually destroy the engine of youthful ambition that created the success in the first place? I mean, $3000/month rent for a one-room apartment makes it very hard to take the risk of founding a startup at 22.
I too am very curious about GO. I might pick it up sooner or later.
Whats amazing about this is you can see the lightning going out at the beginning looking for a route to discharge(idk what these are called scientifically), and the first one that hits the ground(or an object connected to the ground presumably) is the one that it follows.

This secondary part of the video is what we usually associate with lighting, or in the least it is the part that we see/recognize as lightning.
> Also the UI freezes when running heavy HTML5 pages.

Any examples? I've never seen this (other than blatantly broken JS), and would be interested in seeing what would cause it.
Great idea - any chance of getting our HR web app http://www.staffsquared.com listed with you guys?
How Good Groupon Leads to Bad Yelp
I try not to tell less tech-savvy people any more that IE opens their computer to viruses, because afaik it's not really true any more. Back in the day many exploits targeted IE/ActiveX specifically, but nowadays it's Flash and Java that make holes in any browser. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong and IE is still significantly more vulnerable)

But you can't convince people to drop Java if they as much have one site/app depending on it. I'd love to install an alternative non-Oracle Java (not because they're significantly more secure, but to diversify the ecosystem a bit, and to stick it to Oracle for bundling that Ask toolbar), but I haven't figured out how to install them in Win7 yet. (that's not for other people btw, but for the computers at the kids centre I teach)

Still, what I wanted to say, the reason I do give them Chrome (or Firefox, or Opera), is because I'm absolutely unfamiliar with IE, no idea how to enable the proper security settings (or if there are any) and I do want to help many people with an AdBlocker (which also can do wonders for one's Internet security, btw).
The book illustrates the different techniques bunnie used to hack the xbox. Great read if you're into hardware hacking. Many of the techniques can be applied to other systems. No Xbox required!
I take issue with #2. Lots of people don't want to live in SF/SV… especially given the way the cost of living eats up those "piddling" $120k/yr salaries. Living elsewhere and working on your ability to hire/manage a remote team would be a way to serve an underserved market -- great tech talent that values community & family ties, and economical use of their money.
Except the critical mass is something like 3 people. So, yes people help but having 1,000 or 1,000,000 innovators around you makes little difference.
Roasting, grilling and baking regularly creates carcinogens and substances that are likely carcinogens in the food we eat. Currently the link between something like eating bread and actual cancer risk is tenuous, but research is ongoing:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cooked-mea...

http://sciencenordic.com/renewed-worries-over-carcinogens-fo...
Thanks, that was the part I felt uncertain about, funny how this seems completely elementary on one hand and on the other it is so easy to make a mistake.
In Europe, I can be your ABM to Rocket Internet
OK, perhaps, the analogy is a bit far fetched. But I really want to seek a co-founder or join a startup, and there is not much else I can bring to the table. So, the best I probably could do is help you market your app here in Europe before RI gets a chance to clone you. Specifically, I am based in German-speaking Switzerland. So, the market I could help you address is the entire DACH region. Frankly, I have no prior experience in marketing either, but I would do my best to make your product a success over here. Of course, I would also love to help out with the technical side of the business, but my programming skills are nothing to be proud of. At the very least, though, I will understand any technical lingo.

Well, it is a long shot, but I have been wanting to start a business for as long as I can remember. I just thought I would give this a try. If you are interested, please let me know. We can then take it from there.
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