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Yeah, yeah... In the past everything was better. The trees where more green, the summers where more sunny. Even the women looked better in the 90s. I am sure you had more hair in the 90s (or from personally guessing your age, maybe you have more hair now. Congratulations!)

What I want to say? Every generation wants a "new thing". And if the "new thing" from 20 years ago would be the "new thing" from today, it would not be the ->new<- thing, right? Be assured, that the new generations can have the same happy time you had, but with their own "new thing" and because it is theirs.
Well, technically it's the goal of the Wikimedia Foundation in general, rather than the Wikipedia project in particular.

See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home which states:

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
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August, 1981---IBM releases the first IBM PC, legitimizing home computers and killing of a ton of quirky home computers over the next few years. The Homebrew Computer Club was pretty much over at this point in time anyway.

January, 1990---Operation Sun Devil goes down, where the Secret Service arrest a bunch of teenagers who have illegally accessed computers and charged with disseminating internal AT&T documents describing how 911 works. The era of the 80s "hackers" ended.

March 2000---the tech stock market crases. The Internet craze pretty much tanked at this point.

None of this is anything I consider "arcane inside references" but hey, I'm into computer history.
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I guess that's a matter of opinion - I see a LOT of tat on SM.
I think this _can_ become an awesome product. not just for testing web apps, also for java applets and other cross-mobile-platform apps :)
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Isn't there a car forum somewhere with car specialists for exactly this sort of question ?
I wouldn't worry too much about the future of hacking. As an example, HAR 2009 is going on right now. Take a look at the program:

https://har2009.org/program/events.en.html

I've been to the previous edition and let me tell you, there's plenty of tinkering and subverting going on in there.

Here's a selection:
"Eyeborg project", "Protheses for $50 instead of $250.000",
"Electrical enginering with free/libre open source software", "DNS Security In The Broadest Sense",
"A workshop on the ethics of piracy"
It's a bit of a "feel good" thing, but I don't see it becoming useful. It needs to get really big in order to work, and I never liked whitelists anyways.
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This is obviously a stupid idea. Email is free, shouldn't cost even a cent.
You just commented on a site that is essentially a ranked / voted list of retweets.
But isn't the fun in starting with a magic carpet, moulding it into a pyramid and then figuring out how you turn it into something you can actually build? Sometimes I shudder at the scale of our current project, but it's the immensity that makes it exciting and challenging.
This is indeed a good idea! Congrats.

You may like to improve the copy on your web page. The first thing that's not immediately obvious is what links are displayed. It might be better to write "it uses their individual search queries to display _additional matches from your site_."

And you may like to change the image on the front page. Nothing wrong with stock photos but this guy looks as if bouncing makes fun. I don't think that's the impression you want to create.
I trust the HN community more, and want to know of tricks / optimizations others have used.
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Hm, I meant more that he'd instituted a culture of design obsession at Apple, not that he personally designed each and every product. I think the culture of perfectionism and extreme attention to detail at Apple is largely due to his efforts.

Thanks for the reminder, though.
> Which is a big win when a user level process (e.g. firefox) gets hosed (which can happen quite easily to things like browsers).

Run Firefox under a different user account, with limited access to the system. Problem solved.
I really think this is a great idea and wish I had one for the office!
There are two components to this offer: one is a $5 donation to charity. The other is a spam-fighting scheme. Analyze them separately.

The spam fighting scheme is not a workable idea. Sorry.

If the person doing the verifying is a human, they don't need the stamp -- they can (and will) judge the mail in an instant based on their own arbitrary and capricious criteria, such as "Mail from Mom is not spam" or "Mail from the merchant whose double opt-in list I just signed up for is spam if I don't know how to delete in Gmail yet". If the user doing verifying is a machine... well, in point of fact, there are no servers on the Internet who support your own one-off anti-spam measure. (If you're just wrapping a slightly-more-well-known measure in attractive mapping, you win marketing points and still lose on deliverability.) You have no buyin from Gmail, Microsoft, et al who have the email accounts that people actually want to deliver to.

Your plan fills no business need for anyone. If I want to pay $0.01 to make sure my email gets delivered, I have an option for that: MailChimp. (It works fairly well for me, incidentally.) They do it by keeping in good graces with the major mail providers, kicking off clients, staying away from banned lists, and aggressive list scrubbing. CentMail will have to do all these things better than the commercial providers to make sense as a commercial offering.

The $5 to charity is not improved by the included bundling of the spam fighting scheme. If you want to donate $5 to charity, you can do that right now.

P.S. I used to work in anti-spam research at my previous day job. I have a lot of natural sympathy... for approaches which work.
Unfortunately not much money to gain from it.
I was mainly trying to point out the strength (and resources) of the angels in Cambridge.

I agree that Cambridge VCs tend not to be interested in the less hard-tech investments that are usually found in Seedcamp and similar programs.
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OK - but where in the world are you - such advice needs to be localised to some degree?
Okay, it's not a business. The important part of the question is whether it's viable, which is equally valid to ask of a nonprofit.
Ask HN: what about a mailing list for HN community?
Mailing list may have a cleaner interface than web, every email address subscribed to the mailing list is associated with a handle on HN web site, which can be ensured by some way. What do you think about this?
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/taskwatch (note the release date).
I have serious doubts about that being true. What about people submitting their own content? Stuff from RSS? Irc? Forwards at work? Random discovery? Only links I have ever seen on twitter is to Wil Weathon's blog posts. Not a single link I have posted on HN/reddit has ever come from twitter.

Guess my friends are more interested in posting original stuff than plugging content, and I'm pretty happy about that. If it's on their site, my RSS reader checks the internet 400x more times a day than I check twitter myself.

I think some twitter "power users" are oblivious to the fact that to everyone else it doesn't have to be the end all be all new everything communication platform it is to them. Me at least, I'm fully open about my ignorance about other uses :)
I want to be able to "pitch" an idea to a group of people and have some of them accept to implement it for equity, or choose to fund it for investment.

I feel like I latched on the first successful idea, mainly because it was 'ramen profitable' from the first instant, but I have done the market research for plenty of Plan Bs and Cs and would love to see some of them come to fruition NOW, and not wait for me til I have the time. The good part is that my Plan A is 'advertising', and it can carry all others on its back free of charge. Everything piggybacks on everything else.

Or maybe I should just hunker down and get this one rolling then come back for the others one at a time.

Too many bright minds and too much time is being wasted on "web 2.0" utilities and single-serving crap. Corporate intranet software is where "we" need to be at.
Ok, well, for what it's worth it sounds like a second hand toyota or something to that effect would be your ticket, they're reasonably cheap and about as reliable as it gets.

Other than that... you'd have to provide a whole pile of information on what your budget is (cheap is not the same for everybody), where you are and how much you expect to drive annually.

The way I do it is I set a budget, research the hell out of what is available on the local car sites within that budget, then pick a car make & model.

Then for the next month or so, every day I log in to all those sites and scan the listings for one that does not match the price/model year/mileage bracket.

The ones that are far below the average are worth looking in to and then you can probably still get a deal 20% better than what is listed. It's a buyers market at the moment.

I just bought a car listed at 11950 euros everywhere for 7000, (a c5 diesel), I expect to drive it for years.

EDIT: regarding the 'trust' factor, if I'm going to code up some stuff and I need advice I'd go to HN, not to my 'mechanic buddies' because I trust them more. Trust is not just personal relationships, it is also expertise.
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Really? The VA? Did you miss all the scandals about the Walter Reed medical base in DC, where soldiers were mistreated, ignored and neglected, and even one killed himself in his room and no one noticed for 2 days? The hospital had no idea until his parents called and forced them to look for their missing son. This was a guy who was evacuated due to a semi-suicide attempt, and they didn't even bother to monitor him. Shameful.

Not to mention the older vets, especially from Vietnam. They are screwed at every turn and the previous administration cut their benefits even more.
The usual candidates: selenium, watir, HtmlUnit, HttpUnit;

Watir and selenium: plenty of examples of usage:

http://delicious.com/tag/watir

You can look at iMacros and testGen4web, here's a staggeringly large list;

http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html#FUNC
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Yes. If you follow the links on the Japanese page linked by keyist, you can change the URL to get his salted and hashed password. The salt is shown as well.
Anyway I'd like to see a book of other 'Cooking Patterns' laid out like this.

That would truly be a "hacker's" cookbook. I'd like to see that too!
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For the young programmer 12 years ago it was still easier to get absorbed in a "hacking" culture - or so it was for me. At that time I thought linux, assembly and writing a virus in Pascal were very cool things, and I didn't have a problem getting my friends to agree. It seemed very natural then.

I admit I don't know many high-schoolers now, but my feeling is they really are less hacking-inclined, at least around here (Eastern Europe). I'd guess the main difference is access to information. Then it was very rationed - I remember learning assembly from a reference manual. Now Internet offers a lot less obstacles, so I don't really see a point for "subversiveness", at least in mainstream programming.
Nice idea and the implementation seems good. I am tempted to use this on some of my sites.

Some questions:

a) How does it work? Lets say I have a recipe site and a visitor arrives from Google having searched for "steak". How do you find related articles on my site?

b) What if my site isn't indexed? (e.g. new, blocked etc)

c) The widget has 8 actions (links/buttons etc). 2 of them point to my site and 6 to yours! I would prefer something like 7 to mine and 1 to yours :)

d) Certainly add some options. The "Looking for more on", "Or try a new search" and the 3 related keywords should be optional.

e) The 480px is very limiting. I can't put that in a sidebar it has to go to the main area

f) The site copy needs a redo. I could not easily grasp what it does, how it works etc.

Great work overall - I hope my suggestions are well taken!
That's because the notion of insurance is wrong. People need healthcare coverage, not insurance.

We are all connected in this stupid country - if the family down the street can't afford preventative care, and the wife gets sick, and can't take care of the kids, and the husband misses work and gets fired from his job, and then they can't afford good nutritious food for their kids, so the kids go to school hungry and don't learn as well and don't test as well, the ripples can last for generations.

Here's the thing. People act as if healthcare is something that has to be earned, and deserved, and not only is this viewpoint inhumane (in the Greatest Nation in the World!), but it's economically indefensible.

If people don't get early medical care, their lifetime economic output can be greatly reduced. And their children are affected. If children aren't taken care of with nutrition and care, their mental abilities, abilities to stay in school, are affected -- and their lifetime economic output is reduced. And targeted poverty (as opposed to where everyone's poor) breeds crime. Which creates greater loss of human economic potential AND greater costs for the government.

The country benefits from more, healthier workers, who can think straight, and don't spend significant portions of their time figuring out how to scrape by. These people can then spend money. Middle- and lower-middle-class people spend far more of their income than higher income brackets, if only they have the money to spend.

Net effect: The benefits to the entire country outweigh the costs, in a system where costs aren't an arms race between health insurance providers, malpractice insurers, and other for-profit companies.

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And also microwave-thaws quite well, if you get the technique down.

Preferably, use the thawing program of the owen - if there isn't one, use a quite low setting.

Run the thaw-program for about half the amount of meat you have. This should soften the meat enough that you can chop it in 2-3 cm cubes with a big knife. Run the cubes (with plenty of air around) in the owen again, on the same program. You'll probably need to experiment a bit, but the idea is that you'd rather have nice and raw on the outside and semi-frozen in the middle, than cooked on the outside and raw in the middle.

The semi-frozen bits of meat will cook just fine, if the object is to get small chuck of meat, e.g. for a taco (if you need patties, slow-thawing is the only solution). Just remember not to over-fill the pan, if there's too much on the pan, if will boil, not sear, and you'll miss out on the tasty goodness of the malliard process.
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A well-reasoned piece, although I understand that using BMI without considering muscle mass can be misleading.
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Thanks for the feedback!

a) I use the Yahoo BOSS index of your site to find other pages that would fit the search query well.

b) If the site isn't indexed then SearchEkko just doesn't display the widget at all.

c) Haha well it certainly tries to give the site owner front and center real-estate. It also displays up to 4 results, if they're available (not shown in the demo).

d) Excellent points. It's early -- I just wanted to see if there was any demand for the product before I spent too much more time on it.

e) I don't think that it really works very well in a sidebar. It would be hard to display the other hits attractively, and I don't think it as noticeable to the visitor. I played around with it, and 480px seemed as short as I could reasonably go.

f) Good to know. It's something I've been working on, and I'll try to clarify it.

Thanks again!
The best equity split is: everyone in your startup is happy. And, I don't think that there is any formula out there you can use.
Thanks for the specific suggestion on the copy editing. I'll definitely try to make it clearer.

Also a good point on the photo. It's about the only "bounce" stock photo I could find... I'll poke around and see if anything else might work, though.

Thanks for your suggestions!
That has the unfortunate effect of silencing minority constituencies that may have a substantive and HN spirit-compatible reason for thinking that an article is important to get out there and discuss, but whose thoughts do not mirror the prevailing trend of the groupthink.
What are you talking about? I was suggesting a mailing list for Hacker News community to hang out.
For a while it seemed that Facebook had killed Parakey, except for the redesign that made Facebook look more operating system like. I think the browser war is still relatively wide open assuming the eventual crash of Microsoft. Whatever these guys make is going to be interesting.
You have an audience like this and all you wanna do is "hang out"? I wanna put their time and mine to better uses.
They are very vague about what they say it is, there are basically no real details in the article.
It's my understanding that they are considered co-founders in title only, not in equity or role or responsibility.
Thanks. I spent 5 minutes staring at that title trying to make sense of it. I'm quite hung over.
While I agree with you to an extent, Neal Stephenson also gets panned for writing long-winded stuff, like Anathem or the Baroque Trilogy. I just view it as dense brain-food, but some people get turned off.
You're making the somewhat curious assumption that systematic neglect of "preventive" care (i.e. routine checkups) results directly in the "downside": large-scale, high-cost catastrophic events.

It certainly can, but from the point of view of statistics in human pathology, a complete non sequitur. For every person that neglects a checkup and misses early detection of a highly surreptitious, life-threatening disease, there will be ten for whom it either has no impact or results in low-grade, unremarkable chronic conditions that require occasional office visits and prescriptions.

Having to directly bear the cost of going to the doctor also provides a considerable incentive for leading a healthier life and staying away from bad habits with adverse medical consequences, in the same way that people are disincentivised to do avoidable things that hurt their financial standing in other areas.
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> If the person doing the verifying is a human, they don't need the stamp

That was my thought too. Can it be improved? If there is an API to create a unique key based on the contents of the message (and the headers) that the client can then verify with centmail (or w/e).

Sure it wont do anything for mail NOT covered with centmail. BUT you can dump anything with a faked key (likely spam) and let in those with a real key. Then anything else goes to the spam filter as usual.

Kinda like a more worldly version of PGP signing.

Obviously that kind of scheme would require much more support from email vendors.
That would just fork a bunch of threads from HN onto the mailing list, without the benefits that the site offers.

HN is currently 'pull', a mailing list would make it 'push'. I think one of the great things about the website is that you get to choose when you go there, a mailing list (especially a busy one) gets in the way of work pretty quickly.
Dumb hollywood stuff that, funny enough, seems to be praised when it comes in dead tree format (eg. Neuromancer).

Thing is, cyberpunk is not hacking. Buffer overflows are not hacking. It never was, actually. Hacking is about building and learning, not about showing off your skills (which in most cases aren't really there).
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When I say "hang out", I mean people can talk about anything (not just startup ideas) that HN community have interests, like what happens on HN web site, only in a mailing list interface. It has to be mailing list because a lot of people prefer to be able to use their favorite email client (gnus, mutt, etc.) to read and write.
"a very large share of the people who were visiting the site were merely browsing to read headlines rather than using the aggregation page to decide what they wanted to read in detail."

It's exactly the way I use a newsstand. I mostly browse the headlines and unless I find something every interesting I don't buy a newspaper or magazine.
There is a chatterous group - which you can recieve/send updates from/to via email (or web, Gtalk etc).

http://www.chatterous.com/hnyc/
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The Wall Street Journal articles quotes the founders to deny that it is a Facebook browser. The thing that makes the most sense is a browser that like Google chrome has a lot of HTMl5 hooks so it can do normal operating system activities like File Management.
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