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Where in Kenya? I live there and unless your friend was doing drugs, his story sounds highly implausible.

I thought the title of the article should read "How I cracked Digg". Go away cracker!

Do you take adderal because you suffer from ADHD or you take it get focused?

I give up. My eyes are hurting from reading white on a black background.

This is not Reddit!

That was an incredibly lucky pilot!

Emacs 22 on Fedora 8 & SciTE on Windows

I doubt whether this "censorship to increase productivity" would apply to places like Iraq and Afghanistan where soldiers cannot provide their own Internet.IMHO that is where the military would want to really want to clamp down on posting of "sensitive" information.

Even in ordinary companies I doubt whether restricting internet access leads to improved productivity. A worker intent on wasting time will find a new way of doing it if you restrict his internet.

Dup see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123946

Try

Introduction to 80X86 Assembly Language and Computer Architecture http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763717738

The Art of Assembly Language http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1886411972

Essentials of 80x86 Assembly Language http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076373621X

You can use the online book "PC Assembly Language" by Dr.Paul A. Carter url http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm

This book however covers protected mode(80386 and later) and not real mode(8086).

Difficult but not impossible. This is from the YC funding application page

"The ideal company would have two or three founders. We'll consider those with four or five. We're reluctant to accept one-person companies, though we have funded a couple."

Run Paul Run!

Numb3rs

Mwaka mpya wenye furaha.(Kiswahili)

PG where is your "plan for spam" for Hacker News???

You can pull this off if your day job contract has no IP restrictions and there are no competitors coding full time as you divide your time between the start-up and your day job.

Can the moron who posted this translate it for those of us who do not understand Italian.

The profile of the guy who posted this was created an hour ago and matches the domain of the post. This looks like blatant but unintelligible self promotion.

Seconded. I predict this will degenerate into a flame war. I hate censorship but I doubt if we need political posts on YC news.

Such a service is good for things that can be forecast like tornados, storms,fires(like the recent one in San Diego), tsunamis etc.

It is however of doubtful value for earthquakes. Last time I checked no one had the ability to know when the Earth beneath them will shake.

Too bad for you!

Good design but I have to keep scrolling to see everything on my poor man's 800*600 res.

Try Turbocash (www.turbocash.net). It is open source and done in Delphi 7 but quite stable. I am doing one in python and wxpython but I am not done yet.

O'Reilly's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide 5th Edition" by David Flanagan teaches Javascript really well including Ajax and DOM.

The first half of the book is a Javascript tutorial while the rest is a language reference. Good book.

He has consistently denied that he will run but you never know. After all he is a politician!

Why Equatorial Guinea?

Great story.

The fact that Norman was a great-grandchild of Norwegian immigrants to the US makes one wonder how many talented people are going to waste given the current almost epidemic prevalence of xenophobia in the US and in Europe.

It is remarkable that someone who went on to become an accomplished scientist failed his University entrance exam!

Was immediately put off by the awful design of the website. Why does someone put irrelevant links on the left half of a web page forcing a visitor to scroll to the right? Very annoying.

The reason why PG's essays rock is not just that they are insightful but also that the content is well placed to the left of the page with minimal and unobtrusive links on the left border.

The title of this article should read "How not to design a website"