skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on whather's previous submission, it looks like their previous startup is Meetcast which seems similar to TeamApart.

"Meetcast.com makes real-time online collaboration easy. There are no downloads, everything is completely in the browser and conferences can be created and joined with a single click."
O2 to lose iPhone deal as its network crashes
I think multi-CN is pretty rare. It's Subject Alt Names to look out for!

https://owa.central1.com/ for example.
Could be interesting to combine this with the 3d scanner from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=696368

Now instead of sintered parts (weak) you could have actual fully working parts.
You HN folks are full of it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sharkfish

I used what is marginally a "swear word" and was modded into oblivion and subsequently banned from HN for that infraction.

Some of you hate being reminded you are hypocrites. I have another account I use where I game you guys and get points. So this one is throwaway as well.
Canonical Will Own Your Search: New mandatory Ubuntu plugin takes over Firefox
Took the headline from the article, however note that as far as I can tell the real story is that a (reputable?) blog claims to have seen documentation stating that the original deal is up for review in October, not that exclusivity is definitely lost.

Interesting that T-Mobile has already started offering iPhones to select customers though: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/03/t_mobile_i_phone/
That's for special relativity. I've read claims that if Einstein hadn't developed general relativity, we'd probably still be waiting for it.
O'Reilly's Statistics In a Nutshell is quite good as both a textbook and a reference. I'm (slowly) working through it on my own.
Erdős. He quit for a month on a bet, but complained that mathematics had been set back a month.
My monitor is broken and will only cope with "low pixel" modes so I'm using it from the console (on another comp). I've been using links2 for a couple of weeks now - it's amazingly good for a text browser, a few annoyances (no tabs, have to use a second console; no way to cut and paste text and links (mouse not working either!)) but on the whole quite usable. Particular I like the way it gets PNG absolutely right whilst IE hasn't even managed that in IE8 (strictly they did it by the book just they implemented it differently to the other browsers, very MS).
"self hosted" means that the IP or Whois lookup matched the second level domain - a high degree of confidence that the service is self hosted.

"other/self hosted" is basically a catch all. Originally just labeled "other", I added "self hosted" later since that is often (but not always) the case.
Their UI is horrendously busy for YC founders, but as everybody else is saying, "the price is right."
A little tact, dude. May be effektz is pregnant.
s/surprising/depressing/

GoDaddy's "used car lot" salesmanship makes me loathe the company. I'm in process of transferring all my domains elsewhere.
I figured that price was the main reason why people buy SSL certificates from GoDaddy. (Speaking of which, it's worth checking retailmenot.com for GoDaddy discount codes: I recently bought several wildcard certificates from them and was able to get discount codes for 10-30% off.)
Apple is doing the filtering in the app store. People do the filtering on the browser. That is an important difference.
Codified process help to increase efficiency by remembering the best way you solved the same problem before. This is extremely useful when you are repeating problems, but it stands in the way when you keep doing new things. The real question is not process and group productivity vs individual productivity, but how fluid your problems are.

When a random customer calls the help desk ask "Is it plugged in?" aka say "Please unplug it wait 5 seconds and then plug it back in."

When the head of R&D calls ask "How can I be of assistance?"
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Likewise. Have a fairly budget-price but not-so-shady registrar in mind?

[edit] WTF guys, why am I being modded up? I asked a question without providing additional insight - this doesn't deserve +points.
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oh noes, you made a pie chart - the most useless chart type of all!
The product is the same.
This is an awesome personal account. Thanks so much for sharing it here.
I think this is because marketing feels kind of sleazy to technical types (does to me, and to my friends).
Everybody complains about the UI -- but it's domain registration! How often do you really use the UI? A couple times a year, maybe?

GoDaddy is super cheap and reliable (for domains). Until somebody makes something better (and equally cheap), I'm staying.
I don't think they massively changed their idea. They demoed a few months back with a nearly identical product.
Ask HN: RSS Reader Specifically for Comment Feeds?
It'd be nice if there was a reader that auto-unsubscribed you from feeds after a certain time. I like to subscribe to comment feeds of discussions I'm involved in, but after a while they die/I don't care, and it'd be nice not have to manually unsubscribe.

Anybody know of such a beast?

Thanks.
This is a great analysis, and spot on. Having a business that can run without you, and thus sell 24 hours a day, is very different than taking on project work where you are paid by the hour or by the project. Repeatable == scalable when you are talking about a product. You want to be able to ramp production, and, better yet, enable others to sell for you.
Is anyone really suggesting going back to the days of blocking on sniffed UA? I don't think so.

When people say "not supporting IE6" I think they mean no longer doing browser specific bug fixing - that's what I mean. Provided the majority of textual content is viewable I consider IE6 done (ditto links2 my only currently tested text browser). If text is not viewable (as in an MS site I visited recently with IE6!) then the client has to pay a little extra if they want to up the support.

Graceful degradation is surely the lowest level of support any designer will accept, no?

So I'm targeting XHTML1-trans and CSS2.1 with enhancements for JavaScript and CSS3 capabilities.
It is more interesting to see them use human things. We can use them, so we know what they are doing.

It's also a lot harder. We already have machines which make food and are optimized for it.

It's just not cool in the same way.
What are you going to do with only a pasta strainer? You're going to need a whole kitchen's worth of attachments and the cost could quickly become large, especially if the appliances and fixtures need to be modified. Afterward the kitchen will be less useful for humans and the robot will still be useless for anything but kitchen tasks.
How long did it take?

The usual story I hear about Ritalin is, "Wow! I took one pill, and in an hour or so, I was in a different world: totally focused, getting my art history homework done, and even caring about it."

What kind of "first experience" are the college kids who buy it illegally having?
Can't someone perform an A/B test to see what IE6 users are like?

A quick peek on a webapplication ive got google analytics for shows that they spend 8 minutes per visit on the site but the average is 10 minutes.

A peek at another static site that mainly make money on adsense show that IE6 users click on less ads. However, going by this measure I shouldnt care about FF at all since eCPM is terrible there.
Who knew that when Apple released its 1984 ad that it wanted to be the guy on the huge screen. All this time we thought they were meant to be the lady who threw the hammer.
That's why there will have to be corroborating evidence that you are a terrorist - like brown skin.

There used to be a similar problem in the old days, the police test for explosive also showed positive if you had handled playing cards. So there had to be corroborating evidence - being Irish.
Email should include outgoing. Tipjoy uses http://authsmtp.com

Google hosted email for outbound kinda stinks
From the article it appears that the ID card is using the ICAO eMRTD standard: http://www.hasbrouck.org/documents/ICAO9303-pt3.pdf

Field 15 of the card is reserved for PKI. Specifically, this field can be used to sign the rest of the data on the card. There's really no reason why the state can't sign the data on the card using a private key and make a public key available for verification.
It only seems ridiculous if you assume the end goal was to have a robot be a chef or a baseball player. It was not. Those tasks are applications designed to answer the question: can we build robotic appendages that have the precision and dexterity of human hands?

In research, you see if you can get the simplest thing working first. Then you start adding complexity. In this case, the simplest thing is have a robot that does things human hands normally do.
I have been happy with http://www.name.com (so far).

$9 .com's with free private WHOIS and they don't mess with you at all. Actually, I called them today to check on a transfer and the customer service was good too.
Wow, nothing on Google App Engine or Azure?
We have a similar policy where I work. There are certainly people who work harder, or who take less vacation than they would like. But from what I've seen, most of these people are either workaholics, or underperformers who probably shouldn't be working here anyway. I suspect most of these people would be working long hours regardless of the work hours or vacation policy.

For the rest of us, the freedom is tremendously valuable, and we have fantastic work-life balance.
Could somebody please explain why you would use a DNS provider that is not your web host?

I've always just used the host's DNS servers for my domains, but I'm curious as to the decision making of others... are there real concerns that would lead you to separate these services?
Nice! I'd also be interested in the techology decisions (languages, frameworks..).
It's common for people to vote up a question they would also like to have answered.
I'm about to buy some certs for my new company, and we love saving money. Thanks!
JFGI: "firefox MSI".

And before you say but it has to have proper support, yadda-yadda. They're an MS Certified Partner and an established company based in Pennsylvania - if the MSI is messed up you should be able to sue them for losses or pay them for support.

I've never used nor do I have connection with this company - caveat emptor.
You're very welcome!

I think repeatable doesn't inherently signify scalable; the key is that it's repeatable at a low marginal cost. Consulting projects are repeatable too, in the sense that you can - theoretically, if two clients wanted it - do the same thing over from scratch.

But if your first project let you build scripts and infrastructure and training and process so as to let the second one happen in 1/3rd of the time, that's the kind of repeatable that's scalable. Of course, if you only get to reuse the infrastructure once, that doesn't do much for scalability either, but if it allows you to lower the price it may work out better. It just depends on what it is.

Having a business that can run without you in a literal sense is a pipe dream, except perhaps in a rather large, mature company. Even I could afford to develop an actual product and hire people to sell, deploy and support it, I'd still have my grubby mitts all over the process, and it's got less to do with the fact that I'm a control freak and more with the fact that it's just a specialised area of endeavour, and I'm unlikely to be able to afford to hire someone with more perspective and experience in the exact same interdisciplinary nexus as I.

But I'm not too concerned about that; the goal isn't to avoid work, but simply to get higher returns on one's time by replicating at a lower cost.
I have had good experiences with 1and1.com as a registrar. $8.99 domains, free private whois, and a decent domain management dashboard, YMMV.
For a while at Loopt we considered becoming a Tucows reseller and only holding our domains, but it wasn't worth the effort.

Whoever bought our first domain used GoDaddy we just stuck with it. We've seen no pressing reason to switch.
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The "Under No Circumstances" is part of the construct for the titles of the essays for the book. The book is meant to be a collection of situations that went wrong, and hopefully how to avoid them. I decided to release the essays in early for for all to read on the web site, and will have the final versions online for free as well. Communities like Hacker News are giving me great feedback about how to make modifications.
It gives AT&T less control, and increases the decoupling of a phone number from their service. You're correct that your number is transferable when you change contracts, but you have to change contracts. That is, the number is decoupled at the granularity of a contract. With GV, your number is decoupled from your AT&T phone even when you still have a contract. When someone tries to contact you, it's possible to decrease the likelihood that they will actually call your AT&T phone.

These are also the same reasons why I think it's a great idea.
Among other reasons, using a 3rd party DNS provider allows you to deal with reliability issues that your web host might have. (For example, if your web host goes down and you have low TTLs, you could put your site on a different provider or show visitors a "down for maintenance" page.)
"Functional" as in...?
Backwards comparability? Windows is a platform. If Microsoft revamped the whole thing, it would turn into a whole new platform.

And as a side note, Gnome has gconf. That's an awful lot like the registry, just with XML and directories.
I got tired of GoDaddy a while ago and moved all of my domains to NameCheap. They've been great, although private registrations cost a couple dollars after the first year.

Edit: http://www.namecheap.com
I ran into the same issue. Not a fan of godaddy, but you're going to pay considerably more for a wildcard certificate elsewhere. The 2 year + coupon is a great deal.
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that's really pretty code!

minor nitpick (and that's from someone that doesn't have as much js under his belt as you do, so please feel free to ignore)

Your bracketing style has one risk, if you should ever drop a complete line before a code block it will still be valid. That has bitten me once. Nowadays with version control such mistakes are a lot easier to spot though. Old habits die hard :)

Pretty code, really I'm going to have a good look at it later because this is roughly the kind of thing I had in mind while I was searching for a tree visualizer.
It's png sprites:

http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/650/walls.png
http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/650/lamp.png
http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/650/tablechairs.png
http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/650/guard.png

You use the piece you want then scale it. For distance, make it smaller, for viewing something that is on the side you shrink it in width while leaving the height alone, this gives the illusion that it is slanted.

It would not be possible to do true 3d with this because you would need to scale something into a trapezoid which HTML can not do.

The guard png implies that you can shoot (and get shot), but I could not get that to work. By the name of the URL looks like there should be a step 6.
Some people can't choose, and some people don't care. A great example that was given to me was cars. Does your car have a stock radio? Why? Why not upgrade it?

Most people don't want to bother with updating a browser, or changing a stereo, etc.
John Hughes has died of a heart attack.
Door hangers printing
Apple did this, with OS X. Microsoft could easily do this, and write the compatibility layer to allow 'legacy' applications to continue running for the next N years.

They don't have the balls to take the risk, though.
Actually, you could do this with Netscape Navigator, sorry to burst your bubble.

It's just images in a row scaled to different sizes. The effect is amazing, but the idea is simple.
seriously...hard to believe that 12 years ago I thought my MIDI jukebox was as cool as javascript was going to get :)
It was meant to be a pun.
Glad to hear. I bought a SSL cert from NameCheap last night and was pretty happy with the experience (no bullshit, no rampant cross-selling and tons of "uncheck to prevent getting screwed" stuff on forms.

Good to hear they're also good for domains. I think I'll be going with them.
Were they checking the authenticity of the registration info? If so, that's them enforcing ICANN rules. They usually don't do that though unless somebody requested it.
No possibility of getting a "hackernews3"?

Some of us are timezone-impaired :)
From one of the commenters:

"This new extension is installed by stealth, hijacks the search functions of the browser by masquerading itself as plain Google search but funnels those searches to your own custom Google search, and some data those searches done by unknowing users is being collected by someone at Canonical."

I don't like what Canonical is doing here, or the way they answered people's concerns on that thread. I really hope this "feature" goes away by the time Karmic ships.
* The ID scheme will likely be scrapped
* It was planned to be voluntary anyway
* This is hacker news, not the Daily Mail. Lets keep it that way.
You must be a light user; I'm on godaddy at least once a week doing something. The checkout process is obnoxious; I just want to buy something, not be upsold a billion times. I understand why they do this so godaddy probably isn't ideal for me. I just deal with it because of the price.

On the other hand, I'd love to see some enterprising company (even godaddy; all it "GoDaddy Pro" or something) come up with a no-frills domain reservation/management service inspired by http://domai.nr/ and http://manage.slicehost.com/ (Slicehost has an awesome, simple management interface).
wow these are going fast.
Here's what I think they really did. From this;

"Each one of these files is supposed to be protected with a special digital key, so that if anyone attempts to change it, the card would be identifiable as a fake to any official with a digital chip reader."

The information (name, address, etc) is stored as plaintext, then signed with a private key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature) to prove it's a real government card.

What the reporter and his friend did was read the plaintext (which is exactly what is intended), then choose some new data and sign it with their own private key, claiming they had 're-locked' the card. But of course they haven't -- the digital signatures will be different. When the cards are used (validated against the corresponding public key) you'd find that the signature was invalid.

I think what they've proved is that plaintext is readable, and that if they had a government private key, they could add a digital signature. And that it's easy to produce cards with new data, so long as no-one verifies the digital signature.
You might want to look at PowerShell.
Yeah, I'm less worried about the feature than I am about the attitude that put it there, though. Microsoft did a similar thing during updates a while ago. You couldn't uninstall it without editing the registry, you could only disable it, and you were never notified of it.

They way they've done it is just sneaky, and not like them at all. Not a good sign - but I've always wandered if Ubuntu might become too commercial. Maybe it's time I investigate another Distro just in case.
That's not a bad idea. I've saved the threads where this has come up so I can contact you guys when the time is right. It's probably a bit out of context for an ask HN post :-)

EDIT: If you want to be on the mini-mailing list and help out with what you want/don't want to hear about shoot me a mail. It's in my profile.
I love how nasty people get about this stuff: "For the last time: Who is the mastermind behind Multisearch and who is
requiring its implementation?"

Don't they realize that Ubuntu is a commercial OS that's given away for free? If you want Freedom, use Debian!
Ask HN:  Should high school gifted programs be banned?
Have you gone through such a program? Do you regret it?

Sure it's nice to have smart peers, but putting a huge amount of effort into such a program is a huge waste of time that is better spent on startups.

Moreover, such programs increase the probability that you would pursue a career in academia, which generally leads to failure for the vast majority of people.

Even picking a university major is an issue when certain fields such as mathematics are considered more respectable than others such as CS in such programs.

Finally, the possibility of not even going to university is certainly not encouraged in such programs.
I'm willing to bet that the cost and effort of upgrading a stereo have a lot to do with it too.
The information on the card should be digitally signed; the information on the card should be verifiably untampered. I'm convinced the article itself fails to take account of how digital signing works.

The benefit of keeping signed data on the card is to avoid network lookups; a reader should be able to, for example, decode a jpeg photo of you held on the card and allow a policeman with a hand-held reader to tell that you are who you say you are.
I personally use dynadot.com and am very happy. I've also heard great things about moniker.com
But I love Linux. I want some distro, any distro to gain large market share. The linux world is too shattered, too splintered to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and it needs a large, popular distro like Ubuntu to create focus. Adding this sneaky extension breaks user trust and splinters the linux user base.
I very much doubt they did. What they did is read information from the card, which is it's very purpose. Then they wrote a card with their own information, and signed it with an invalid key. I am not, as yet, terrified.
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Many places you lease a server from do not typically provide DNS servers. Also, you get the advantage of always-speedy, geographically diverse name lookup.

When I leased my own server, I had a painful experiment with hosting my own DNS on the same box. After I gave up on that, I admit I snooped on the provider YC used and have never had a problem.
I use Google Reader and on my to-do list is to hack together Perl script using WebService::Google::Reader [1] which is based on the "unofficial Google Reader API" [2]

It would look at my subscriptions tagged with "discussion" and where the difference between now and the "published" date was over a certain period it would automatically unsubscribe.

You could probably do some neat stuff with using different tags to specify the length of time you wanted to subscribe for, etc.

I’ll update here if I ever get around to it, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. If anybody else takes the idea and runs with it I’d love to see some code.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/WebService-Google-Reader/lib/Web...
[2] http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
I wonder why Google App Engine doesn't show up even once. I thought it was a pretty viable and flexible option.
If terrorists have already taken down the network, what's the point of an ID card or any of the billions spent on increasing our "safety"....?

On that subject, has anyone done the numbers on the number of people that would be saved by putting the same money spent on anti-terror bullshit into the NHS vs the number of people saved from terrorism?