skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone else can probably do much better:
0,128,0,0,32,0,0,512,0,0,16384,0,0,2048,0,0
Visual Web Developer is free, you only need a .net passport account to get the registration key.

Here's my config to debug IE insanities:

Debian with VirtualBox

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21E...

And Visual Web Developer Express.
AmberBit: Ruby FLV pseudostreaming implemented using Sinatra and Rack::Evil
Curious... From the end of the article:

Hastings is even considering hiring cinephiles to watch all 100,000 movies in the Netflix library and write up, by hand, pages of adjectives describing each movie, a cloud of tags that would offer a subjective view of what makes films similar or dissimilar. It might imbue Cinematch with more unpredictable, humanlike intelligence.

This appears to describe what the linked search engine is doing.
You get fired. And beaten up in the parking lot.

The real trick is to be more charismatic. Charisma can be learned. Your image can be polished. Its a question of time, drive, and priorities. Every "I've fucked 500 women, be more like me" guy on the planet states that their skills are teachable.

So learn the skills. The smarmy, stuck-up, get-away-with-the-most-inconsiderate-things part is just something that you learn you can get away with AFTER you've learned to be charismatic.
This is exactly it. I am certainly technical enough to run Linux (and have in the past) but there's no real good compelling reason for me to use it. I don't get malware on Windows and, believe it or not, things hardly ever crash. And you know what? I actually like using Windows. I can run basically whatever I want and use basically any hardware I want. I'd rather get work or play done on my machine instead of tinkering with every little config file and stupid little problems that always occur in Linux. Win7's UI is fantastic as well.
There is a 37signals lesson in here somewhere about expanding sales... the guy predicted the recession, so now is the time to preach doomsday on that record.

I'm sure Oprah's secret followers will lap it up.
Shouldn't this be discussed on Twitter?
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You can ask for Phorm not to index your servers by following the instructions at http://www2.bt.com/static/i/btretail/webwise/help.html#how-d...

Apparently the webwise spider identifies itself as google and yahoo so adding a robots.txt wont help.
Seriously I was just thinking about writing an app for quick sharing like DoingText. Nice UI - simple and easy to use. The only thing it does not do is synchronize between browsers (e.g. change from one client does not reflect on the other client until the page is being refreshed).
Yes but that's one example. I suppose the opposite could easily be true for other examples. My question is how is twitter better then google in the general case?
Simple...let them use it for a week
They forgot #1: IBM's failure to keep DOS proprietary.

Imagine a world with no Microsoft and IBM having a 70% share instead of being just another consultancy.
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Europe was left without a power and so was the world.

Europe yes, but power for the world as you suggest moved east, and remained in the Muslim world for most of the middle ages.

While people in London were dying in plagues, the folks in Constantinople were enjoying their new found success.
Choosing different providers is embedded deeply and transparently. The default commands can be disabled individually, and new commands are subscribed to (similarly to RSS) from any website that wants to post them. Try watching video #5 on that page. I currently have several commands subscribed from a couple sources other than the default Mozilla feeds, and they work identically.
Edit: direct link to demo: http://vimeo.com/1561578
Do Citizen Journalists Run Afoul Of Labor Laws?
Is it OK for news oriented websites to ask users to work as volunteers? Maybe not.
New Mishmash of a Mobile Search Engine, Getfugu Prepares to Launch
$600 dollars for visual studio, yah Microsoft loves devs.

Free for personal use, I'm going to keep suggesting it until I turn blue in the face.
For people interested in controlling Firefox super efficiently from the keyboard, check out Vimperator.

http://vimperator.org

It's a FF extension that gives FF a Vim-like interface. I very highly recommend it.
Well, isn't there also the "greenhouse gas" factor when using oil. By using wind and solar power, that factor disappears.
I have no interest in regular updates on what my friends are doing (I'm quite content with them telling me the interesting things when I actually see them). I also have no interest in giving anyone regular updates on what I'm doing (again, I'd rather just tell them if it's interesting enough).

Some of the thoughts you have are worth communicating quickly and cheaply, but not really worth carrying in your head for days until you meet the right person to discuss them with. Twitter allows you to broadcast these thoughts quickly and effortlessly, and get some feedback on them.

I could use it for asking questions, but why would anyone see or answer them? Wouldn't I get a better response by actually directly emailing people or lists where someone might know (or even asking people face to face, as low tech as that may be).

It really depends on the question... in some cases, you'll get a much quicker, better answer via Twitter. In others, you won't.
Thanks, I actually did fix it when I originally installed FF3, but I was referring to the behavior that everyone else sees by default. If it was a checkbox in the normal Firefox settings, that would be one thing, but its buried in a collection of keys and values with little documentation...

That brings me to another thing, the oh-so-cutesy "This might void your warranty" warning for about:config. I know they think they're being funny, but what would be a lot more useful is to actually explain whats going on, rather than scare users. I adjusted something for a less technical friend once, on their request, and they were slightly upset by the idea that Firefox could void the warranty on their computer. Seems rather immature, coming from the "Mozilla Corporation" with their flagship software...
But they still won't work on water. Unless you've got power...
It's not. I never suggested that it is, either. Google is great for some kinds of searches. Twitter is great for some other kinds of searches.
The most amazing way to find better online applications
High risk of social blanding as networks go mainstream?
I was actually talking about developer rather than machine overhead.
That begs with my analysis. MyHosting.com hosted my blog when it got posted to reddit and /. back in Aug. 2005, and I got something like 40,000 hits the first day, with over 18+K uniques, last time I checked.

Then again, how much traffic I really received I'll never know. If you're doing more than 50 connections/sec, they shut down your account so their other clients "don't suffer".

I promptly moved. And I don't recommend them.
ComScore: Facebook is conquering Europe
I don't disagree. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were up to no good. Netflix does have some necessary security concerns, and the article was an interesting look at how they're implemented.

No security is perfect though, and if you lock something down so tight that people can't get what they want from it, they'll find a way to break it. I think Netflix largely succeeds because it makes legitimate uses easy (sitting down and watching a movie) and only impedes the illegitimate uses (burning it to a DVD and selling it on the street).

Music DRM failed largely because its security impeded legitimate uses, e.g. copying your files to a new computer or a new MP3 player.
It gives you value, but to your followers it's just confusing. We see your question about what luggage to get, followed by a bunch of '@someone: Ah thanks, that's a great idea!'. It's often like that on Twitter - I miss the other half of the conversation.
Of course - if the prices were pseudorandom, you could execute a middleman-in-the-middle attack.
Like any non-mathematical word, "startup" isn't precisely defined, but common usage requires the company to be more scalable than most dudes selling stuff on eBay.

If you want to see what the degree of clustering is, the way to do it is to set some threshold and draw dots on a map for everyone over it. Tech IPOs are one such threshold; founders in the Forbes 400 is another; if you draw these maps and you find the dots are evenly scattered, you've got a counterexample.
In small quantities the best bet is sheet metal. You can take a design down to your local shop and they can cut and bend it. Ask them what colors they'll be powder coating that week and if you could slip your batch in with it (much cheaper than shutting down the line for your small volume)

It helps, of course, to know how to make the 3D drawings. But if you find the right shop, and make friends with them, you might get away with sketching it or paying a small fee for them to design it in CAD.

This is much more cost effective for small quantities compared to dealing with plastic. It also gives you more flexibility in your design since you don't have an expensive mold to change or re-machine when you want to make a change. And, at the end of it's use, it can be melted down and reused more efficiently than plastic.

If money is tight I'll get an extruded aluminum chassis and just make custom end caps for it.
I've got everything on one line, like this:

File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help [Y|http://news.ycombinator.com/ *|v] [G|v| Google ]

Just drag the address bar and search to the top.
Studying Twitter and the Moldovan protests
In terms of political control and cultural influence on the largest number of people over the longest span of time, I think China has a better claim to be the long-term world superpower than does the West.
Looks very similar to what the OS X people have had in the form of Quicksilver and the Windows people in Launchy but moved into the browser.

Color me underwhelmed.
Posted earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563190
whilst I dont want to join in the swombat bashing ;) I do also tend to unfollow over the top tweeters. I stopped following Kawasaki and plan to stop following R. Scoble. Whilst thye do tweet useful stuff it is lost in a mountain of rubbish.

The real value of twitter is in the 10 - 30 posts a day tweeters who only post valuable content (or rants or w/e).
What, a Pittsburgh Steelers AFC North Division Champion sweatshirt? Why not a Super Bowl Champion t-shirt? You got 6 to choose from. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Would you have predicted in 1975 that by 1995 there'd be no Soviet Union?

I know a man who is now a United States diplomat who predicted to me (when he was still a student of Chinese) in 1984 that the Soviet Union would be around well into the twenty-first century. Sometimes empires that have little press freedom are especially hard to make predictions about.
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Exactly, this is a totally different beast which requires the website author to put the VideoEgg content on their site explicitly.

The article on TechCrunch seems to be written with little understanding of the toolbar or how it actually works.
I think that's where we differ. I don't want to broadcast my thoughts like that, they'd be undeveloped and uninteresting. I'd far rather keep them in my head until they grow into something I think worth sharing. And when that happens twitter doesn't seem like the place I'd want to share them.

I'm still trying to keep an open mind here though, maybe there's something about twitter that I just don't get.
The Samaritan's a bit of an odd character. Who knows? I'm still not entirely convinced the whole thing's not an incredibly elaborate fraud, but my reporter stands by the story.
I like pg's reply above that a start-up is a SCALABLE small business. I'm still learning how to run a start-up. I've been running a small business for most of my working life.
For example, I would had a stored procedure for validating the data. Or I would have made the smartest decision of using Postgres and live happily there after.

How does using a decent DB remove the usefulness of stored procedures?
Agreed. Technical solutions are important to enforce security, but "the human factor" is essential too.
Yes he did. He said:

> “Developers and users alike are going to be very surprised and pleased at how great these applications look and work on iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Our innovative approach, using Web 2.0-based standards, lets developers create amazing new applications while keeping the iPhone secure and reliable.”

And the rest of the press release said:

> “Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, [...]”

> “Web 2.0-based applications are being embraced by leading developers because they are far more interactive and responsive than traditional web applications, and can be easily distributed over the Internet and painlessly updated by simply changing the code on the developers’ own servers. The modern web standards also provide secure data access and transactions, like those used with Amazon.com or online banking.”
Once I've piled up some context, I tend to hover around 40 file buffers open. Tabs just won't do that well even on the sidebar.
It depends what you mean by "flop" — yes, I know they mean commercial flop — but several of these have had great effects, even though money for the original companies wasn't among them:

Xerox Alto: I don't think I need to mention all the stuff developed in PARC that is now utterly ubiquitous.

Apple Lisa: A big influence on her more famous brother, the Macintosh.

Sinclair QL: Helped Linus Torvalds to decide to target Linux initially at the x86.

NeXT: Spawned OS X ; kept Steve Jobs in the computer industry until his return to Apple.
Laconica, the Twitter clone software, is one step closer to the version 1.0
Highly recommend "Tab Mix Plus" for FF3; I set the minimum width to be about the size of the favicon plus 1-2 title characters, and let tabs stack in rows rather than scroll off the sides.
Human ear could be next biometric system
British scientists are researching whether otoacoustic emissions (OAE), the ear-generated sounds that emanate from within the spiral-shaped cochlea in the inner ear, can be used as a viable biometric technology like fingerprints and IRIS recognition.
According to one ancient belief system, the 8 levels of charity:

8. When donations are given grudgingly.

7. When one gives less than he should, but does so cheerfully.

6. When one gives directly to the poor upon being asked.

5. When one gives directly to the poor without being asked.

4. When the recipient is aware of the donor's identity, but the donor does not know the identity of the recipient.

3. When the donor is aware of the recipient's identity, but the recipient is unaware of the source.

2. When the donor and recipient are unknown to each other.

1. The highest form of charity is to help sustain a person before they become impoverished by offering a substantial gift in a dignified manner, or by extending a suitable loan, or by helping them find employment or establish themselves in business so as to make it unnecessary for them to become dependent on others.

Sounds like this guy has made it to #3. Good for him. I've made it to #6, got a ways to go.

I have a feeling a lot of people here aspire to #1.
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the interesting thing is to look at countries that had dominant social networks already, like Germany:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=www.studivz.net%2Cfacebo...

It looks like fb is going to be able to dominate in the long term. My guess is people have enough friends that are in different countries. At least this is true in Europe where having all people in Spain and France is valuable to Germans.

China on the other hand may not have this dynamic and could be a lost cause for facebook at this point:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=www.xiaonei.com%2Cfacebo...
The problem is when you use CSS for interface elements (such as dialog boxes, UI controls, etc), a broken IE6 implementation may mean those users can't use the site at all.

How relevant this is to your income, of course, depends on the site. For a blog, it may not matter at all, but there's a good reason why Facebook is notifying IE6 users of a degraded experience. They use a ton of CSS/Javascript for their UI, and I'm sure the cost of supporting IE6 is very measurable and very high. But they probably can't just tell IE6 users to go away entirely.
>The example here would be that the British Empire, instead of fighting to the death stepped aside for the USA.

Uhh, no. There will always be a premiere power and the British Empire was it, but they weren't head and shoulders above everybody else the way the US is now, or Rome was in its day. Neither was any other power ever an undisputed champion between Rome and the post Cold War US.

Edit: not in Western Europe, anyway. The Mongol Empire and the Caliphate were supreme at certain times and places.

>After the Roman Empire was defeated by the Hunnic Empire

WTF? That never happened. The Romans defeated the Huns at Chalons and were then conquered by Goths a few decades later.
Yet she uses it: http://twitter.com/KathySierra
Totally agree. Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account is basically a pile of spam. I never understood why people were interesting in Scoble in the first place.

I do tend to stick within the 10-30 limit.
Those metrics do not represent startups in general, only extremely successful ones. That's like saying that soccer is a local phenomenon to Europe because that's where the most successful players are (at least financially).
If IBM had retained DOS, I don't think it would have a 70% share. There were other PC operating systems that were somewhat portable, such as CP/M and whatever Digital Research was doing at the time.

My bet is that if there was no MS-DOS, one of the others would have risen in its place.
I'm not convinced. Those links don't seem all that useful, to me at least.

On the other hand googling for "packing for long term travel" (minus the quotes) gave me:

http://www.vagabondish.com/practical-guide-long-term-travel-...
http://eurosatemydollars.com/trip-planning/packing-and-gear/
http://travelindependent.info/whattopack.htm

Those links seem more comprehensive to me.
Well, as I suggested in my OP, give it a try for 2 weeks... follow at least 20-30 people that you find interesting (and who don't have billions of followers, so they'll follow you back), and try tweeting once or twice a day. Do that for a couple of weeks, then make up your mind about it.
> Consider that example of the mail-order wine business. Do you know how hard it was to start such a business in the days before FDR? There was a lot of "regulatory interference", personified by guys like "Eliot Ness".

Prohibition was passed in 1919 (under Wilson) and "repealed" in 1934. (The repeal amendment federalized some restrictions that hadn't existed before 1919.)
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If you would have hit the frontpage regurarly then they will come regurarly...otherwise the number will fall. It's like a commercial: you need to push it more than once to have an effect.
> Why is it bad that in order to automatically generate binding legal documents

One question is why so many things require generating legal documents.
People can search based on keywords as well. I managed to get a couple of cool followers based on that. Helped one guy get his Wii WiFi hooked up. Just search on #lost this evening (4/15)

With search, your overall reach is far more than your direct followers, and it's "real time" as well.

Bots and shameless marketers (I'm looking at you, @guykawasaki) are easily blocked or avoided altogether. It's like a community spam filter.
Is this any better than Google Docs which has real time multi-user text collaboration?
and I thought it would be about supercomputers and teraflops
I may have been watching this movie as you typed this message. That was one of my favorite scenes.
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Is war good for the economy?
This guy is kind of an over-the-top doomsayer, but I would note that he's also a Jewish pied noir (French people born in Algeria) born during WWII, probably regaled with stories about relatives back at the mainland who ended up in concentration camps from an early age, and who would have been ethnically cleansed out of Algiera as a young man if he hadn't left already. If you could go back to the time of his birth (or a little before) and tell people what actually happened, they'd probably think you were over the top too. I'm sure this has influenced his way of thinking.
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Ask YC: Negotiating a job offer
Recently, a friend and I both applied for the same entry level position at a fairly large company. We were both offered the same job with the same benefits package, but the salary I'm being offered is about 65% of what my friend was offered. I was pretty astonished by this, and I'm now looking to negotiate a better offer.

Some background: We're both graduating from the same school, with the same set of degrees. We have almost identical previous job experience. On paper, we're very similar looking candidates.

What gives? How should I approach my recruiter about the discrepancy in our paychecks? Have you ever been able to negotiate a better offer?
Pleased to say this company has got back in touch with me. They've had a busy few months so radio silence was understandable. (I just wasn't aware of how busy they are!)
What do you mean by "alternate sources" and what kind of hardware? Electrical? Electronic? Cases & Enclosures? Chassis for motorized machinery?

I'd be more than happy to point you in the right direction, but I'm not sure just what you mean!
I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like it'll automatically 'convert' your existing instances into reserved? IE, I don't need to start new instances to take advantage?
Right, I should have said this. My point was not a browser that replaces Safari, but something that is more of a app where you could find a list of website specifically targeted to the platform.
I have discovered the reason. TARP requires that until it is paid back, all sorts of other optional uses of cash are ruled out, such as pre-paying off other debt.

R:
Twitter More Than Doubles Unique Visitors To 9.3 Million In March
In small quantities, your best bet is either to get the tools to make your own sheetmetal parts or make your design fit into an off the shelf enclosure. Just getting a single panel of aluminum with a few holes punched in it can run you $100 in set up costs at a sheet metal shop.

The same $100 will buy a few square feet of aluminum and tools to make holes yourself.

I'd find one of the online hobby machinist forums and ask someone there to make you what you need. As long as you're intelligent about it (learn to make your own drawings or to clearly explain what you need), you'll find plenty of hobbyists with the proper tools who don't mind helping you out at much less than professional shop rates.
That's a perfect reply. You're absolutely right, but I know a lot of companies who've made a fortune doing "Ebay for Switzerland", etc. Businesses will step in to fill that gap to a certain extent but the applications themselves reflect the hub culture. Excellent point.
It's not straightforward but the idea is understood, so it can be done by a large organization.