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In Virginia, I've used the website for the Office of the Clerk to look up the number of shares in a particular private company. I assume that companies in all states have to register the total number of shares, and that this information is public if you know who to ask. For CA, you might try something like http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/list.html . That said, if they really won't tell you the total number outstanding, you might want to be concerned :)

Search-done-right and the list of attachments sent between myself and a contact have removed a perpetual source of frustration in my workday. Maybe your situation is different.

I really liked the book "Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer" (http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Ajax-Web-2-0-Primer/dp/09766...)

It provides an overview of the more popular frameworks, and explains the ideas behind rich web interaction (and Google Maps in particular).

I just noticed that this classic piece of advice has never been directly posted to HN.

I think that giving "things" a name is one of the hard problems that programmers tackle every day. Normally our success or failure at choosing good names is kept hidden, and can only be seen by those who look at our code. Websites are one of the rare places where the world at large has to deal with our mistakes.

I agree that it's not very useful for normal typing, but I'd love to have had it when I played World of Warcraft!

You could try Amazon FPS < http://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Payments-Service-AWS/b?ie=UTF... >. I'm not sure, but I think you might even be able to use them to bill less than 1 cent.

Here's an idea to reward high quality posts in a way robust to karma inflation: You could change the criteria for a follow/nofollow decision to use the time a link spends on the front page (e.g. the top 30). High scoring posts stay there for a while, while low scoring posts will drop off quickly.

A similar approach could be used to dynamically set the karma barrier, if you don't want to track the rank of individual posts.

I've found that Test Driven Development is particularly beneficial when tired. The test suite reduces the size of the program that I need to keep in short term memory, and the quick test-solve-refactor cycle keeps me focused. Later, when more awake, I review what I did by quickly scanning the test suite and looking for any obvious omissions.

The above isn't necessary an argument for TDD, but I think you might find it useful to try to view building a test suite and building your codebase as complementary activities rather than exclusive ones. If you use them together, the entire process becomes less difficult, and code in your test suite is just as valuable as anywhere else.

Good point. In the case I described, someone could gain status in the community by consistently voting up good articles and voting down bad ones. This would add to the other two methods of becoming known to the community (commenting and submitting). Perhaps people who are respected would not want to risk tarnishing their image by supporting a bad article, and the support of people who would be willing to sell their 'vote' would be worthless?

As an aside, I wonder if each of article submissions, comments, and voting could be thought to respectively show that a person is interesting, intelligent, and has good judgment?

Currently, each person is left to give their own 'meaning' to a vote. I think that this approach would help define that meaning: A 'vote' is public support for the quality of an article, such that you are willing to associate yourself with it.

I've been using DynDNS ( http://dyndns.com ). They have slightly higher prices than registrars such as GoDaddy, but I trust their brand more and haven't encountered any behavior that looks suspicious. Also, I used to host my websites from home via a cable modem, and their free dynamic IP address services worked very well.

To be honest, I haven't ever considered switching; Has anyone switched to or from DynDNS and have an anecdote about their experience to share?

I found it weird to put comments ON the video...but after the first one, it's addictive.

Great point. Your comment reminds me of a story we had here about a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136087

TradeWars is still alive and kicking if you're interested. Now you just need a telnet client and a server. I assume you have the former, so here are some links to the latter: http://oregonsouth.com/ice9/ and http://www.thestardock.com/

I suggest monitoring Arts and Letters Daily http://aldaily.com to get the best bang for your buck (where the currency you're spending here is time). Every day the site lists three of the best articles covering subjects of import from anywhere on the web. Often the articles have a theme, and cover an issue from multiple angles.

This article had a strong positive impression on my development team. If you like it, I recommend the other article it mentions at the beginning.

I don't have a position on whether they SHOULD be for-profit, but here's a list of many which are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_for-profit_colleges_and...

I'm addicted to this, but I've also considered using it as a source of content for some interview problems.