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These are 'bookmarklets' and can be accessed through the normal bookmarks window (or bookmarks pane) as well.

Yeah, suggestion, instead of pussyfooting around (whether you mean to or not), use concrete language about privacy. Yeah, yeah, I don't 'plan' to sell any of my user data either, but nobody (especially the law) cares about my wishy-washy 'plans'.

Tell me in no uncertain terms that you won't ever manually view the urls, won't ever manually view the page snapshots, and won't ever publish that individual data without having all parties involved agree to the same terms.

How are you finding these?

Wikipedia provides full database dumps, if you seriously want to check as many trails as possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

see also: expr

Maybe the ideal solution would involve specifying all times in two timezones (local and GMT), side-by-side? Practically, I'm now interested in adding something like a <time> HTML tag that would let users decide how they want to see it, and see it in their own localtime automatically. JQuery plugin anyone?

Really, why is there no download? Isn't that the whole idea? A flash-based viewer thingy is nice, but absolutely no replacement for actually downloading the entirety.

(Yes, they do provide some scaled downloads that appear to be designed for using as a desktop background. The highest resolution is only 3000x5000 though)

This database is fairly interesting. 73727 people in it.

The ratio of females to males is about 1.6

Average age is 27

Top ten email address domains:

    yahoo.com (24269 addresses)
    gmail.com (17805 addresses)
    hotmail.com (7518 addresses)
    aol.com (7129 addresses)
    comcast.net (1639 addresses)
    live.com (1177 addresses)
    msn.com (1079 addresses)
    sbcglobal.net (992 addresses)
    ymail.com (781 addresses)
    aim.com (698 addresses)

There's a lot more I want to graph and look at though. I especially want to see how different demographics pick different email providers. That and getting a map for zip-codes and making a heatmap of the applicants' locations then subtracting that from a population density map.

Sorry for my ignorance, but could somebody point me to a more mature well-tested C++ webserver, as mentioned?

I remember reading in the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (a document that defines consistency standards for gnome (linux gui) applications) that countries should always be alphabetically ordered as to not appear to favor any of them. Interestingly, it doesn't appear to be in the guidelines anymore though.

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

I'm really interested to see if bitcoin will survive the law. I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that creating an alternate currency is strictly illegal. Maybe this is the first indication of the end of bitcoin?

(Edit: This is incorrect. See comments.)

I can certainly understand not wanting to abandon a project simply because somebody was lax on responding, but with something like this (large amounts of customer money involved (60,858 BTC), legal issues), he really put a lot at risk here.

Guy doesn't know what he is talking about.

See http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the... and http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Why not the direct link to http://www.patternify.com/? I realize you are a part of talentopoly.com (if not the sole founder), but it adds utterly nothing to the content.

Meta discussion aside, I think the base64 export is a really cool feature in a webapp that otherwise is simply MS Paint.

Link to the actual post: http://taxisurfer.com/blog/2011/04/from-pitch-to-lawsuit-in-...

That script you make is copyrighted, if they take it without paying you for it (if that is the deal), then they just broke the law.

You might be interested in Google's Summer of Code.

Also check http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs, and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396027.

No, read my paragraph, I'm aware of the registry and it is lacking.

Package management is nowhere near 'only necessary if apps share dependencies'. Compare:

1) Search google for software. 2) Search software website for download link. 3) Download. 4) Go to folder it was downloaded to. 5) Run installer. 6) Click next five times.

The same situation, but with package management: 1) Type in a single command and watch it install exactly what you want, quickly. eg: `pacman -S firefox`

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but targeting Americans and American culture without being familiar with it yourself is certainly going to be challenging. You may be able to get around this though by employing Americans, but I'm not so sure that would work out, either. I know there are many Indian startups with various degrees of success that are based entirely in India, so it may work out keeping your business in Chili. No matter what you decide though, be careful when writing anything that is client facing, in fact you may wish to hire someone similar to a publicist or a writer. (Not to be rude, but your writing has grammatical errors and the judgments native Americans will make against you for this will be detrimental to your business.)

Is there a specific reason why your startup cannot work in the Chilean (or Italian? Are you in Italy?) market?

I don't expect any of these to actually be implemented by Microsoft as they are all major design changes, but, to name a couple:

Central standard system for software configuration.

This would be similar to the Windows registry but with larger scope. Every setting of any software would be configurable here by users. No nonstandard config files. No trying to find config files everywhere, etc. The Windows registry is only used by some programs, and in my opinion, is not at all user friendly.

This would apply to the control panel and internal settings as well. The current control panel has many different inconsistent styles for dialogs and configuration screens and can be tough to learn and tough to know where to find some things intuitively (eg: to restart your network you have to go through a 'network adapters' page).

Package Management

Windows has made strides with Windows Update, Add and Remove Programs, and standard installers, but there is a long way it could go to entirely streamlining this.

Huh, they changed it back a few seconds ago. (I suspect foul play maybe?)

If you didn't catch it, it was a redirect to http://rubyonrails.org/download

Note that Microsoft also considers it worthwhile: http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.5.2.js

You're correct, but I think the article's statement is misleading.

Yes, HN has lots of trouble figuring out how to set their desktop background and their browser homepage.

Good to know, but why would they do this? Is it really worth hiding valuable error information from your users just to what, promote your search engine and have a somewhat more consistent UI?

I've got 1000 blank lines. Not entirely blank though, 6 spaces per line (and a \n). That's 7kb for this little trick, when your bandwidth limit has supposedly been exceeded..

"No freaking way."

"Does the server note when the same user makes a second request (in firefox, at least, 'view source' makes another http request, even if you have already loaded the page) and then only provide half the page?"

"Wait. Why is my scroll-bar so long..."

It's depressing how quickly the the rumour spread with nothing backing it up except for a single guy's poorly tested claims.

It's just you.