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Re:Lessons of life from an uneducated man
on Thursday January 21, 2010 @05:53AM (#1067034)
I enjoyed this article. The part about helping other people reminded me of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture and what he said about enabling the dreams of others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Re:MagicJack's Next Act: Disappearing Cell Phone Fees
on Saturday January 09, 2010 @10:55AM (#1041563)
Does it make a call to every cellphone in range?
That would be a cool way to spam.
Re:The Physical Impossibility of The Future by Someone Trapped In Chicago
on Sunday December 27, 2009 @09:15AM (#1017060)
First of all, what does "physical impossibility of the future" mean? I find this an absurd title, not that I expect anything better from TC.
My favourite quote (about wifi):
Sure, it’s destroyed lunch conversation and pub trivia but,
in common with anyone who hit their 20s or 30s in the 2000s,
I’d happily swap either of those for the ability to book a
flight from the back of a cab, or to consult Wikipedia from
the toilet.
Re:4.3.2.1 -- Another google DNS ip
on Friday December 04, 2009 @04:22AM (#976045)
Way too many geeks use that for 4 digit codes.
Detecting web app versions makes for better malware
Re:Poll: Do you have an OpenID?
on Saturday November 28, 2009 @02:24AM (#964911)
You last point is exactly why I avoid OpenID authentication.
Re:Ask HN: Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name?
on Friday November 13, 2009 @06:10AM (#939774)
Buying typo domains is good if:
1. You have a lot of money.
2. You might be a phishing target.
3. There's an affiliate program on the non-typo domain.
It's a good idea to try to buy the most popular typos, you can get an idea if you check the search query frequency for each typo (try the Adwords Keywords tool) or you can "kite" a bunch of typo domains and delete non-performing ones before you have to pay for them.
Re:Ask HN: Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name?
on Friday November 13, 2009 @05:59AM (#939763)
Smart guys make typos too.
There are no rules in business.
Re:How (and why) Sillicon Alley Insider uses MongoDB
on Saturday November 07, 2009 @06:55AM (#927772)
"But overall, MongoDB is probably well-suited for a lot of web applications -- maybe as many as 50%."
Found this at the end of the article, made me chuckle.
Re:The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools
on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @12:59AM (#918717)
My favourite part of the article:
"Dreamweaver was attempting to be helpful, but the moment it reformatted my code, I threw a fit. YOU TOUCHED MY CODE."
Marketplace for short-term office rental
Multi-channel messaging services
Re:Ask HN: How can we make better, more readable privacy policies?
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @02:38PM (#915442)
You mean http://lexpubli.ca/
Re:Ask HN: How can we make better, more readable privacy policies?
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @02:16PM (#915403)
One thing that bugs me in privacy policies is the "we may change this policy at any time and without warning" clause.
RSS could be one way to make sure users can receive warnings and notification of changes. However, subscribing to RSS feeds for each site would be too tedious.
A browser plugin (or rather built-in feature) that popups a warning in an overlay bar at the top of the window (like the password remember feature in Firefox), would be better. It could receive data from a centralized service, privacy policy RSS feeds, or just by screen-scraping the policy at a specified interval and checking for changes.
Re:Ask HN: How can we make better, more readable privacy policies?
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @12:51PM (#915308)
At their current state, privacy policies are indeed not useful.
But maybe we can change that.
Re:Ask HN: How can we make better, more readable privacy policies?
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @12:22PM (#915259)
A related link from Aza's post's comments:
Clickable links from my comment:
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/making-privacy-policies-not-...
http://aza.etherpad.com/privacy
Related projects:
Privacy policy generators:
http://www.dmaresponsibility.org/PPG/
http://www.oecd.org/document/39/0,2340,en_2649_34255_2886327...
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-privacy-policy/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/terms-of-use-2/
http://www.professionalprivacypolicy.com/ (free trial)
http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/privacy-standard.php (free trial)
Ask HN: How can we make better, more readable privacy policies?
I was thinking about privacy policies the other day and today I came upon this post:http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/making-privacy-policies-not-suck/I had the same idea as Aza, a CreativeCommons-like approach to privacy policies. I also put "make an HN thread about privacy policies" on my to-do list, so here we are.How do you think we can improve the current state of privacy policies?(Some...
Re:Dustin Curtis's new web app
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @11:28AM (#915187)
Related thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=915000
Re:Ask HN: Are single-letter domain names valuable?
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @07:43AM (#915003)
ICANN fortunately does not control all of the top-level domains.
Web to snail mail services
Re:Living in an RV as an Internet Nomad- 3G, solar, cost savings, and ...
on Friday October 30, 2009 @03:05AM (#911655)
His list of other technomads is also noteworthy:
Outsourced organic gardens with a web interface
Re:Lithium - another (new) PHP framework
on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @11:22AM (#907946)
No thanks.
Re:Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?
on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:31PM (#905684)
A related point: whoever first owns the data from all link aggregators (digg, reddit, mixx, etc) and all URL shorteners (bit.ly, tinyurl, ad nauseum), and weighs those results more heavily is going to have an awesome search engine... albeit better for entertainment than productivity.
Except I'd never find the obscure stuff that Google helps me find every day. I don't think a lot of links to manuals,mailing lists, etc show up on any of the sources you mention.
Re:Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?
on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:28PM (#905675)
Agreed.
Until they implement it, you can use the CustomizeGoogle add-on for Firefox that lets you filter results out on your side.
Re:Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?
on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:14PM (#905643)
SEO: When you cut through all the BS, the entire goal here is to make a less good match come first.
That is not the entire purpose of SEO. There's good sites out there that don't provide their content in a way that can be indexed by spiders. SEO often solves that. There certainly are plenty of people making bad websites and trying to make them rank, it's Google's job to weed out the useless information.
People still collect links (shameless self promotion: http://internetmindmap.com ), they still have huge blogrolls, there are human powered search engines, a vast amount of directories for every imaginable niche...
Google doesn't need the perfect page of 100 links and I doubt it ever did.
Your mashed potatos example does not make sense. Google gave you generic info for your generic search query. How is that bad?
Now the fact that certain sites dominate a very wide range of search queries, is an interesting point. Personally, I would just add a sidebar or something similar, to be occupied by the "staple" sites, such as wikipedia, about.com etc.
Re:Dedicated to software that sucks less
on Monday October 26, 2009 @06:24AM (#902914)
I think we should stop measuring in lines of code. You can have less lines with more code. You can have a lot of lines with less code.
The amount of code matters.
Less code is usually better.
Re:Paper: The Grand Unified Theory of Superman's Powers [pdf]
on Saturday October 24, 2009 @02:34AM (#900198)
Any amusing situations you'd like to share?