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http://www.simures.com does a lot of the things being requested -- input boxes for resizing, url passed as part of the url for easy access, doesn't resize your actual browser, etc. http://www.simures.com/800x600/news.ycombinator.com is a good example.

It's really difficult to make general statements about the wisdom of buying versus renting across an entire country with extremely diverse local real estate markets. We made an up-to-date heat map of US rent ratios here: http://hotpads.com/search/rent-ratio-heat-maps that demonstrates how some markets, even at the state level, are still tilted toward the buyer while others favor renters.

San Francisco, CA - HotPads.com has full time and internship openings for software engineers and web developers. We're a small team looking for driven individuals who want make a big impact on the way people search for housing: http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

Follow the instructions on the page or email me at dpeters@hotpads.com

That's a great collection of books, but when I see a list of link-shortened URLs to what context dictates are book web pages, I automatically assume they are affiliate links. Please just use the real URLs so people know what they're getting into.

For the record the shortened URLs are not affiliate links, and I'm not trying to make any statement about affiliate links. Here are the original URLs:

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

[3] http://dragonbook.stanford.edu/

[4] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

[5] http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

[6] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

[7] http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/

[8] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262032937/

Data visualizations have progressed in almost all craigslist competitors (and mashups), but visualizations won't be the death of craigslist. The battleground is content. Sure there's plenty of spam and scams, but people love craiglist listings because there is so much unique content.

One major contributor to craiglist becoming so successful as a website is essentially the ease of posting content. That lead to lots of content and not coincidentally lots of traffic, but it also means that much of the data is unstructured. Creating more intelligent ways to interact with data requires some structure, but the easiest way to structure data is to complicate the listing creation process. When someone figures out a great balance and has enough search traffic to keep listers coming back, craigslist will have a real competitor.

Has Twitter been acquired?

edit: This must be misunderstood. My intent was to illustrate that Twitter is not a good example of a company that has been acquired without a solid business model. Obviously the news says they've had offers, but just as obviously no offers have turned into acquisitions. The many intelligent people who work there and have invested in the company think Twitter has at least the promise of a solid business.

What if Apple started demanding 30% of all sales transacted on every device they produce? What makes an iPhone so different from a MacBook?

Finally got the page to load, pressed submit and... "Thanks for your interest in Google I/O, but registration for this event is now sold out."

That particular spot in the ocean off the coast of Africa, south of Ghana and west of Gabon, is latitude 0, longitude 0.

HotPads has most of the listings that are in Google Maps real estate and isn't using the Google Base API to get them.

The stats were aggregated from every rental listed on hotpads during 2010. At any given time there are half a million rentals listed, some of which have multiple vacancies (large buildings), thus the million prices.

original: http://hotpads.com/pages/housing-report-2011-01.htm

Counterfeiting is on the wrong side of the line between naughty and evil.

I made this site today as an easy way to share resolution-restricted pages with regular people (who don't have/understand browser plugins that let them resize to x by y). I often need to show someone what a particular page looks like at 1024x768 or 320x480, and sending a link that simulates that resolution seemed like a good solution.

Try http://www.simures.com/320x480/news.ycombinator.com

Current limitations:

-it's on app engine, so it needs a www.

-doesn't handle iframe busters yet

What's to stop people from editing Wikipedia articles to shorten their click paths?

Privacy zuckering is my main concern and why I deactivated my account. Every feature Facebook adds requires a visit to the privacy settings to specifically opt out. It doesn't matter that your preferences were set to yesterday's version of lockdown -- you never told Facebook it couldn't let Yelp see who you are, so you need to revisit your privacy settings to opt out of that.

Facebook forces feature adoption by ignoring ethical privacy practices.

I had never heard of that, so I looked it up and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract#Formalities_and_writin... and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds

If I'm reading it correctly, many jurisdictions require contracts to be written when they exceed certain amounts of money. In the US that amount is $5000.

A simple way to quickly compare buying vs renting for entire areas is the "rent ratio", which is calculated by dividing an area's median house price by its annual rent. Obviously it just paints a geographical picture and each property should be evaluated individually before making any sort of specific buy vs. rent decision. We turned the rent ratios for the US into a heat map a few years ago (but keep it up to date): http://hotpads.com/search/rent-ratio-heat-maps

If you need it and it isn't free, buy it. If you can't afford it you either don't actually need it or should find a free alternative.

Hey, you left your door unlocked so I painted this sign on it to let everyone know.

Also, the <title> is "Home Page" You should instead include the name of your company and a short description of what exactly you do.

Please stop doing that. It's bad for the world.

To my knowledge, using S3 and/or cloudfront accomplishes this as well. Can anyone confirm or disprove that?

Please read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

F8 is a conference, right? Doesn't this probably just mean he wrote some demo code, not real product code?

Assassinate a world leader and you're a criminal in his home country but a hero to his enemies.

Start by reading books by people who write things your are interested in and are also well read, Oliver Sacks and Haruki Murakami work for me for example. While reading keep a list of the authors, books and music they mention, then read and listen to them. Iterate.

Fowler's book is about simplifying mainentance and testability, not (necessarily) simplifying the actual code. He doesn't even claim his techniques are the best way to start programs, hence the "Refactoring to" portion of the title. Also, it's specifically about object oriented design patterns so the examples aren't intended to apply to other paradigms.

Does anyone know of any research on the effectiveness of tshirt branding for non-clothing brands? My gut tells me that tshirts with company names market more to their wearers than those who see them worn.

Yep - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791285

I would be very interested to know the breakdown for HN users.