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How could this have come about?

Was it that you guys didn't do the design at all and someone else lifted it in your name?

Or did you guys go ahead and think "we'll wait till we're called out, and in all likelihood we'd be famous enough then to afford a replacement"?
But that's not what you were complaining about. You said that sockets were an additional layer over Comet. It's not. The fact that Comet is easy to use if you slather on another couple of layers of code doesn't change that.

Furthermore, you will find, eventually, that WebSockets perform better, both on the client and the server, and there is no amount of jQuery magic that can change that, because the suckiness is fundamental to the nature of Comet. Which again emphasizes the point that it is Comet that is the layer of crap, not web sockets. There's also a lot less that can go wrong since there's a lot less code, and again, slathering on more code on top of Comet can't fix that.
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I disagree. Nearly every Canadian traveler I met wandering around the world has a Canadian flag on their bag.
I personally have adblock disabled on Google itself, I want those ads. I still block adsense though.

On one hand, I'm blocking some of their potential impressions for their lower margin, add-on, commodity product. On the other hand I'm making supply of their higher margin main product more scarce, more valuable. I'm not sure th net effect is too worrying.

Of course this is anecdote but maybe I'm not the only one.
That is exactly what we do. http://gridspy.co.nz/
It's really nice to see a blog post with a simple, clear headline. Some other bloggers would have chosen something like:

"10 things I hate about tabs", or
"Why I'm quitting Chrome", or
"The death of browser usability"

Kudos to the author for having the seemingly rare gift if common sense.
iMovie '09 is very powerful for doing the sort of "standard" sorts of videos you're talking about. I have iMovie and FC, and I prefer iMovie for 95% of what I do (which is fairly simple in the grand scheme of things). It's generally intuitive, has lots of options, and is pretty damn cheap.

Also, while you're in the market for stuff along these lines... Check out the Samson C01U USB mic. I got the "podcaster" kit on Amazon for something like $140 (mic, stand, case, etc.). This is the mic you'd use for recording voiceovers or narrations, not what you'd hook to the camera for recording audio with the video.
The boxes with all the pants, shirts, etc scroll very far, but only seem to have 15 or so items. After those items, I can keep scrolling, but there are no additional items.

Safari 4 on Leopard.
Not that I condone copying, but if you can't beat them, then join them (unless they have a copyright or patent).
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the biggest problem with flash sockets is the insane security policy file business.
To be fair, if they wanted to be hostile towards ads blocking extensions in general they would have made it really hard or impossible to develop them in the first place; or wouldn't even allow them to be hosted on Google extensions website.

To my last count they currently have 5 ad blocking extensions on Google extensions gallery. One of the is the second most downloaded Chrome Extension.

Generally speaking Google has done so much with Chrome browser in such a short time, I don't mind giving them the benefit of doubt that they didn't get around fixing or implementing the said bug/feature.
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China has been buying the U.S.'s debt since the mid 90's, when they pegged their currency to the dollar, in order to maintain their peg and keep the yuan from appreciating. From 2005-2008 they abandoned their peg for a managed float and let their currency appreciate about 21% due to pressures from the U.S. because their currency was artificially undervalued which negatively affects the global trade balance and the global economy. In 2008, however, they went back to the peg to protect their export sector and to stabilize their economy and have remained with the peg since.

China has actually dug themselves into a large hole with their monetary policy. The yuan is grossly undervalued and needs to appreciate, however, if they let it appreciate, their U.S. denominated holdings, mostly U.S. Treasury Securities, currently valued at $2.4 trillion, will lose value. It is also in their interest to keep buying our debt because it allows us to keep interest rates down and consume more, and the U.S. is China's largest export market. But on the other hand, if China tries to sell their securities, this will lead to increased supply in the market which will drive down the price of the securities, which will in turn decrease the value of their holdings.

The financial crisis has led to the depreciation of the dollar, and the yuan along with it since it's pegged, compared to most other currencies. This has greatly impacted the emerging and developed countries' economies that rely on exports for growth because they simply cannot compete with China's artificially low export prices.

This is an interesting issue and it will be interesting to see how it plays out. To get a great summary of the current situation, this is a great, quick read that sums it up nicely: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS21625.pdf
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I'm still not sold on Github being the actual solution here -I think that it happens to be where a great deal of functional communities have formed, but I've also seen a ton of projects that are a total disaster. When an "upstream" owner doesn't take patches, the usual result is that there's complete chaos and mutually incompatible forks with the same name and version information spring up.

Functional communities can and do exist without Github. In fact, I find patch review on maillists to still be a lot easier than on most of the new DVCS-centric hosting sites.

Also, perhaps the best thing is to be less shy about offering patches? I've had pretty good luck with just spamming someone with my patches and saying "here you go, thought you might like this." Some don't ever provide feedback or take the patch, but those are far and away the exception to the rule.
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I saw a lot of back-packers through Europe with a Canadian flag on their bag. Many of them told me that it was to not be confused with Americans, to get a slightly better treatment abroad. Some of them were even actually Americans sporting the Canadian flag because of past bad experiences.
This virtual machine approach works great for Parsing Expression Grammars, because of restricted backtracking:

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf
First time I tried 280slides it was quite sluggish.
I've just completed implementing WebSocket support into our Mibbit webserver.

The interesting part is this:

Currently, we use XHR long polling, keep alive. Basically a raw socket with some HTTP header spam mixed in.

On the plus side, we can deflate/gzip the contents (unfortunately not across messages, but still does well). But on the negative, the HTTP headers are often about the same size or larger than the contents.

So, webSocket will improve the situation, in that there won't be HTTP header spam. Also we'll be able to use a single connection instead of two (One for sends, one for recvs). On the downside, there also won't be any deflate/gzip (Unless implemented in js etc).

The other big bonus with WebSocket is you can connect to a different port. Something that's not possible (For some idiotic reason) with XHR.

It'll be interesting to see which one wins :)

Pretty cool to see this in Chrome, I thought Firefox would be first to implement it.
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I don't think that's correct. The text at the top refers to "Holders of Treasury Securities" and the legend on the side says each $ equals 10m of Treasury Securities. I.e. debt.

In addition the graphic seems totally screwy. There are 32 rows of 35 dollar signs (total of 1120) which means that $11.2 billion are represented. Which bears no resemblance to either the number at the top nor the one at the bottom.

In addition, the number at the top ($3.4 billion) seems quite small in relation to the one at the bottom.

Seems screwed up.
http://www.42u.com/images/power-tower-xl-ptxlv016.jpg

Lots of datacenter grade stuff does. It's really convenient.
I was just using searchyc to see if anybody had asked this question, because I am frustrated with my editor.

I use UltraEdit32, and the damn thing is always locking up on my when I go to open an sftp directory. At least two or three times a day, I have to shut it down, and restart it, to get it to open the remote directory. You don't have this issue?
Like the Kill-A-Watt?

http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-...
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I recommend the Asus VW266H 25.5" 1920x1200 and about 300 dollars. Plenty of space for code.
You are willing to give money to Google but not the site-owners who produced the content you consume? I don't blame you though; great majority of the sites don't have monetizable content, no inventory for them.
Nice. $750 on Amazon though...
Because it does the right thing.
I'd actually be inclined to get C++/C#/Java off the list entirely due to not showcasing any one perspective particularly well, to be honest. Smalltalk or Ruby would better illustrate OOP, and between them the OOP language and the assembly should cover the basic procedural approach well enough, I think. Also, plain old C could possibly stand in for the assembly, especially if you were mostly using it "portable assembly" style instead of relying mostly on libraries.

For what it's worth the list I had mind originally was something like:

* C, for low-level procedural and machine-awareness
* Ruby, for high-level procedural and OOP (plus scripty perl-isms)
* Scheme, for distilled lisp-iness without distracting details
* Haskell, for HM static typing and functional purity
* Two empty slots to cover languages I'm less familiar with

After seeing your list, I realized I'd carelessly underestimated the number of empty slots necessary...
Flock handling it well.
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What's your twitter listed ratio?
My entire Facebook profile has been public for a while now. I've known for a while that this is the direction FB was going in, and I find it's much easier to answer the question "Am I okay with the whole world seeing this?" than weighing the probability that someone I didn't intend to see something will see something against the content of what I want to say.

Everything you put on the internet is public. If you're uncomfortable with some people seeing something you said or did, then don't put it online.
#6 is the main reason I haven't switched to Chrome. I have a set of bookmarks I like to read daily and a set I read weekly. In Safari cmd-click opens them all, I haven't yet figured out how to do it in Chrome.
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6) Ctrl+open (open being mouse-click, enter-key, or similar) or middle mouseclick
7) Same as (6), including Shift
I have been really disappointed with the Chrome team's approach to flexibility. While I can't stand up for Gecko when compared to Webkit, the fact that Mozilla is a toolkit for building apps rather than an application itself means it's far better for hackers who like things like Conkeror and Vimperator. Chrome is great for people who lack the imagination to come up with a better UI than what you get out of the box.

"Write some C++ code and spend two hours recompiling" is not a reasonable answer to "how do you modify the browser's UI?", especially for tasks that can be done in seconds without restarting in Mozilla.
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I bet you don't swear at people who cook your food or at future employers do you? If not it is kind of a big deal as it still represents disrespect and doesn't belong in context where courtesy is required. Just in normal context swearing might be acceptable (as is here in America such as talking with friends, coworkers, etc).
... or maybe an accurate one? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Estimated...
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Exactly. And the UK is not "the rest of the world". They'd probably stop swearing too if they started carrying handguns.
So, you're saying that by extending Opera in some way you can get it to do this? Because it definitely doesn't do that by default. I don't think my Opera install could get any defaultier, and I'm not seeing it.
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All those pixels and all you have is that craptacular keyboard? ;)
Second on the TN type panels. Buy a panel type, not a manufacturer. Some shoddy ones like "AOC" or even Visio may use different (whatevers cheaper) panels over time and sell them as the same model number. I've got 2 AOC's I bought about 6 months apart. Both exactly the same model, one is great, one terrible.

Here's some good info:
http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/lcd-panel-types.php
This is the comment I was replying to:

Do you have any idea how many women from Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. etc. etc. are DESPERATE to get into China? SOLELY for the purpose of latching onto a man?

North Korea is essentially a closed country. Of the few North Koreans that manage to escape, how many of them do you think are escaping primarily to find a husband?

I'd say none of them.

I probably should have specified South Korea originally. But the specification isn't really needed due to the closed nature of the north.

As for South Koreans, my original comment still stands. South Koreans look down on Chinese.
Fair enough; I know what situation you're talking about. While we were pursuing the story before other media orgs got to the story, I'm sorry that we hurt the YC community while doing it.

It will be kept in mind in the future - we love the YC community and the help it brings to entrepreneurs.

- Ben
I don't care about giving money to sites or to Google. I use Google ads (click on them) and they don't bother me when I don't use them. I don't use most other ads and often they bother me. Purely selfish.

I use Google a lot & I know that I want the ads. For everything else, it's easiest to blanket opt out. Many sites (particularly Israeli news sites which I read sometimes) have ads that bother me a lot.
Bill Gates has said something like "Your unhappiest customers are your best sources of learning."
All you have to do is select the "old settings" option for everything and it keeps it all the same. I don't know what is so hard to understand.
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In case my other comment gets buried, there are many panel types. I'd suggest an IPS type panel from the following list for coding or graphics work.

http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/s-ips-lcd-list.php
I don't think there's a pirate book community out there yet. Is there?
I'm in Australia & if this isn't "the rest of the world" I don't know what is. I have a client that swears on his answering machine and he sells b2b.
That is not the case, as explained here: http://dotrights.org/what-does-facebooks-privacy-transition-...

The discussion on that blog mirrors my experience with the tool, I had to reset most of my things to "Only Friends" after going through the tool.
You're telling me, stuff I put on the internet back in 1998 is still public. My family had quite the laugh one time at a reunion when some of the old stuff came to light...

To your point, being transparent on Twitter and Facebook helped us secure the investor that we did. I think we would have had a harder time if it wasn't for these "tools". I use to view Facebook more privately when I was in college, but now there's Fb Connect + more interest in my career over sharing personal life tidbits.

There's a relative level of privacy that I never have to question when I keep personal stuff, personal...
What's frustrating about this is that, in a world where people are increasingly less willing to pay for media, S&S found customers who 1) still want to read books, and 2) are willing to pay for those books.

And now that they found that prized audience what they're doing is telling them "Go away! Come back when we're ready for you."
Just check the torrents...

Also, people will often do translations of popular books (c.f Harry Potter) before the publisher gets around to it.
> Chrome is great for people who lack the imagination to come up with a better UI than what you get out of the box.

Huh? So... If I like Chrome the way it is and don't want to turn my browser into Emacs, I 'lack the imagination to come up with a better UI?'
Some of us are not spoiled children.

If I want to buy your book, and you don't want to sell me your book, that's fine -- I'll buy someone else's book. I've chewed through about 40 novels on my Kindle already, but its not like I'm in imminent danger of running out if I can't buy yours. (The only people I see this working out for are "event" book such as, e.g., the Harry Potters of the world.)
It would be more interesting to have a sensor on the electric meter, then a few other units that you can put between appliances and the wall outlets so you can measure specific devices and tweak usage based on that data.
There are a lot of broken bodies on the micropayment road. Millicent & Peppercoin come to mind to start. Maybe the world has changed since then, but if you were doing a company on micropayments and came to me, I'd want a clear answer as to what you would do that everyone else did not.
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At this rate, Google will eventually surpass Apple in design.
True, although when one part of the state prints money to "lend" to another part of the state, I'm not sure how useful it is to include that as part of a total "debt" figure. It's just an artefact of the way the US chooses to implement its monetary policy.

Any economists feel like weighing in on this?
Yeah, that's basically true. One minor point: it's actually DRM-restricted apps that are disabled on the Android Dev Phone. (Android apps can be paid and non-DRM, or free and DRM-restricted.)
This is a particularly acute problem for booksellers because, against everyone's expectations, their core audiences are taking to the Kindle in droves. This leads to the ultimate nightmare for the market segmenter -- they're cannibalizing their best customers. It would be like if an enterprise software company convinced their Fortune 500 clients to all sign up for their self-service $9 a month SAAS plan.
Until recently it was very difficult to get the data from the sensors to a useful place. Wireless networks and common always on internet connections have changed that.
I'm pretty in love with my Gateway FHD2401 24" laptop. It's 1920x1200, and so bright I don't bother with the screen on my MBP anymore. It's specs came in comparable with >$500 monitors, and it had quite a number of good marks in the various sites that reviewed it. I think I paid $360 with shipping.
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Yet another clothing site where people who don't fit into model-sized garments are SOL? Yippy.
Other posters have mentioned how this fails also - but more egregiously, when I went through the wizard several key options were by default not "old settings". Anyone breezing through the tool would have gotten caught.
Interestingly there is a similar concept called "work to rule" used by organized labor in order to purposely slow production down.
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You can still make it work that way if you want. The about:config option is browser.tabs.closeButtons, and the value you want for a single close button for all tabs is '3'.
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio...

"The following lists some types of extensions that we'd like to eventually support:"

[...]

* "Content filtering: Adblock, Flashblock, Privacy control, Parental control"
If you cannot imagine a better UI then you lack the imagination to come up with a better UI. That holds as a statement without being insulting, doesn't it? Though it could be argued to be begging the question (properly, I hope).

Instead, I suggest the weak bits of the claim are the omission - Chrome is also great for other people too - and the unjustified implication that being unable to come up with a better UI is a problem (it applies to most of us).
Hmm I wonder if there is a "Backdraft Development" that occurs where someone purposely starts a fire so they can then come in and save the day.
Nice to see that everyone cooperated and ended up reaching an agreement, even when the big players could have easily done without the smaller players. If Intel, for example, said "fuck the standards" and only built wireless cards to their spec, they would do fine. Anyone buying a modern laptop would pretty much be stuck with that, which means any routers using the alternate standard would be useless. But they stuck around anyway, and in the future, we can be sure that 802.11n devices will work together. Nice!

(The only problem is that the draft version was called "Wireless N" popularly. They should have called it M or something, then when the real thing came out, people would not wonder "why doesn't my wireless M device work 100% with my wireless N router". Since both variants are now called N, there is bound to be confusion.)
Douglas Crockford keeps making so many new friends that when he loops on CROCKFORD.friends.length, he creates an infinite loop.
I'm not sure begging the question is the term you were looking for. Perhaps tautological.
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Could someone post some meaningful numbers of the percentage of users that browse the web with extensions like AdBlock and/or NoScript?

I know a lot of people that run AdBlock, but outside the hardcore techie crowd I know very few who run NoScript.

Anecdotal observation doesn't mean much, so numbers would be appreciated.

Also, NoScript requires a lot (relatively speaking, of course) of interactively applied knowledge about web technologies. I'm fairly certain the people who use it make up a very small segment of Google's target audience.
The Fed is a private institution, though a small stake is owned by the US government. So it's not really one part of the state lending it to another part of the state.
To be fair, if you ignored the wizard then your privacy settings went unchanged.
Perhaps it's just a completely fucked graphic then? If it takes this many HNers to try to decipher its meaning, I doubt there's any hope for the average population.
Empty fluff piece.
My entire Facebook profile has been public for a while now.

Isn't part of the change that until yesterday no one's friend list was public in quite that way? (Yeah, I mean besides the "app gap" that continues to annoy the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.) I was amazed at how much more I could find out about random people who are recommended to me as friends today than I could the day before yesterday. It seems to me that this opens up big space in the market for a Facebook competitor that can get privacy right.
Facebook should go in the opposite direction.
They should make their information public but forget about getting down to the individual level. They still have to figure out how to monetize what they have.
Do themes and summary levels to start with and market that, protecting the user's privacy.
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