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There are hundreds of millions of people in the Western world who are not 'threatened by hunger', and yet the vast majority of those people still go to work every day, still use banks, still want to earn more money than they could ever need for food. You seem to imagine that if everyone had enough food then our economy would grind to a halt; that there would be no commerce anymore. I think this is unrealistic because people will still want 'things'. I might want a larger house to live in, I might dream of owning a Ferrari, you might want to learn to fly a helicopter, someone else might want a new refrigerator. The point is that there are luxuries, as well as necessities, which people will want; it's possible that in this magical hunger-free world people will produce these things and give them away for free, but it seems a lot more likely to me that these things will be available to buy, and that if you want to buy them you will have to go and do some work, to earn some money, to pay for them. And so yes, bankers, really. In a world where you have to pay for things, even if those things are not food, people will want a way to maintain the value of their money, at the very least so that when they're old they'll be able to heat their homes, repair their homes, buy new clothes to wear, afford transport and afford medical treatments.

I don't understand your disappointment with this thread, you're taking a line of argument which I find completely fanciful, and which I'm sure at least some others do, where you remove one factor from the world (hunger/the need to eat) and extrapolate to all the ills of the world being cured, with no logic in between.
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You must remember that the people doing the hiring will not be the same in 10 years, either. Admittedly, the transition period to an "internet-understanding" management-age workforce is probably still 15-20 years off.
Clever :-)

The about page suggests that this is a viral marketing scheme for http://www.thoughtfarmer.com/ -- looks interesting.
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Link to the actual source: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...
I'm with you 100%. Before publishing my changes I always rebase -i origin/master and edit the history, keeping in mind consistency, usefulness in the history, and the poor guy who has to review my changes before they hit mainline. (we use gerrit) Thinking of it in terms of code review is actually very helpful; I find it leads to very clear, self-contained commits with good comments.
Also, Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers) have had GPU-accelerated SVG rendering since 2006.
Sorry guys, I really meant "grid of icons" in the iPhone touch screen sense. Basically since the iPhone it has been the only way to display apps. I don't think saying that is "patently ridiculous"

If you think of the grid design, what it basically says, visually is that all apps are of equal importance. Which is weird, when you think about it. Surely on a phone, ringing someone is a more important task than , say , Settings, yet the grid style (whether Apples or indeed a Symbian KHTML based) says they're of equal importance
I'm glad a person can have an own opinion here =)
Wrong problem. The issue here is not the sending of the message, but the storage of the message.

You need your ISP to store the emails encrypted even if they were received in the clear.
even some phone (called iPhone iirc) has hw accelerated CSS transforms and animation…
The classic philosopher's version of this is the Chinese Room: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

My naive understanding is that the intelligence is not in the room or the book, but in the person who wrote the book.
Garmin Connect team asked to relocate - this is how they declined
You can still use the old ones. They just don't go out of their way to advertise them, so to speak.
Microsoft learned? If so, then why is Copy and Paste going to be absent from the Windows Phone 7 Series???

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wo...
Agreed, deaf people are often forced to have later social developments. I believe I received my defining social development at around 15 (note: graduation is much younger in the UK where I'm from) when I was reaching graduation and the shit was about to hit the proverbial fan. I realised that there's a time and place for friends, and certain people are just not friend material (this lesson is still helping me).

Deaf people are often stranded until their mid-twenties or even later to reach these developmental milestones in social relationships. Landing a job in a deaf-friendly workplace would place the deaf person in an ideal situation to develop many of these social milestones long before they ordinarily would.

We're an auditory species by nature, so I can only imagine the isolation one must feel being surrounded by audiophiles when you're forced to be a visuaphile(?).
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I don't think you need to be sorry at all. You have a very valid question.
These are CSS properties, not HTML elements. There is no need to sniff; you just provide multiple properties.

p.wibble { -moz-blink: slowly; -webkit-blink: 10%; -ie9-blink: "Microsoft.XML.Autocompositor(alpha=99,blinkrate=14692,emulate-old-ie-versions=false,true,true,false)#ie9" }

or whatever. (In practice everyone who provides these properties does so in a very similar manner, so it's easier than the above pseudosnippet suggests.)
A couple of years ago (? -- how time flies), I followed someone's suggestion to use Adblock to block a specific .js file from the NYT that implemented this "clicky/do-y" feature. This was shortly after the new NYT site behavior appeared. The suggestion worked great and continues to do so.

(As for Adblock, I don't mind some non-invasive adverstising, but moving graphics and the like completely distract me. The only way I can use a site is to get such out of view.)

P.S. Adblock Plus, actually.

P.P.S. I'd been removing distracting items from page views on a case by case basis (attempt to use page; remove anything thereupon overly distracting me, on a one time basis using another Firefox extension). I no longer recall for certain, but it may have been the NYT's new behavior that finally tipped the balance and brought me to try Adblock Plus. As I think back on it, an interesting, if anecdotal, reflection on the perhaps unexpected incentive effects of site design.
I've actually used scheme quite heavily in the past. (professionally). Simplicity + power = win!

Could you give me some examples of what you mean?
Are you talking about something like perl's cpan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism_treadmill

lame → crippled → handicapped → disabled → physically challenged → differently abled

No matter what word you use, you can't change the reality. So that reality eventually "infects" the word. So people pick a different one to try to ignore it.

It only works for a short while, because changing the word does not change the reality. And no matter what word you use people can still use it as an insult.
"The iPad turns hardware into a subscription business."
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The WSJ article can be found here: http://bit.ly/aQ4DhP
I'd say they definitely followed here but to say they created an inferior product is harsh. The Zune UI is actually better than the iPod imho. That's why they took it for Windows Phone Series 7. The Zune software is FAR better than iTunes...I won't even add imho to that one.
I agree with your statement "GREAT ideas usually come from some form of execution and iteration". Yes, sitting down and trying to implement something inevitably shows its weaknesses and, if you're smart, helps you improve it.

Regarding "Ideas matter, but not that much" : If they don't matter that much, why don't VCs and YC omit that part and just ask you who you are and what your track record is? If execution is the most important thing, they should not even ask what the idea behind the startup is, since if you have a great team with great execution track record, then surely you will find something to implement and execute on, right? The fact is, the ideas behind startups are asked about, because just having some brilliant executioners sitting around trying to find something to execute brilliantly doesn't make sense. Ideas do matter.
But you can't extrapolate. A lot of people heard about chatroulette and heard that it's filled with perverts. The average person is a mixture of intrigued and scared by this, but an exhibitionist will definitely want to give it a try. So there's a huge selection bias.
A lot of luck and marketing took place to make The Da Vinci Code a success.

If it hadn't made money, and sat on the shelves today, would it still have been a great idea? We can really only tell looking backwards.
Even so, canvas is useful and I'd really like to have it available.
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Ask HN: What technologies still impress you most today?
I had a moment of amazement the other day while I was putting in my contacts - these flimsy plastic disks allow me to see, and we can manufacture them with quite amazing precision.

A lot of technology we use every day is really quite amazing, if you stop to think about it. What technology has amazed you recently, and why?
No they don't. Core Graphics still works mainly on the CPU. Only compositing is GPU-accelerated by default. (CG actually has an option to put window backing stores in video memory, called QuartzGL, but even though it's been there since 10.4 it's still not the default - pretty much only Preview uses it.)
They learnt that having every last feature ready from the beginning is not so important. Not having Copy and Paste from the beginning didn’t slow down the iPhone.
This seemed pretty interesting in that I could not recall another example of an entire development team leaving at once. Not to mention their way of putting themselves back on the market is interesting and humorous to say the least.

Does anyone else have any examples of entire development teams leaving at once and offering themselves for hire? Seems like a great way for the competition to snap up talent.
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PG said something like "good ideas are evidence of how smart you are". VCs want smart people, and great ideas combined with great founders make for a great combination - on paper. VCs are in it to make money, so they have to play their percentages. Seeing good ideas helps validate the founders.

Ideas also change over time. Sometimes overnight. If one day you think you've got a great idea, and a few months later you've evolved into something else, then really, how great was the original idea?
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> I'm had no idea what IExplorer 9 is about

It's all about buzzword compliance and preventing IE from being so broken Windows users would migrate away from it while keeping it broken enough as to prevent as many people as possible from moving to web-only applications.
Check signature, do a whois, do a search on the persons name, take image of matching name from Facebook.

Not that hard but pretty tasteless to post it.

On HN you might as well wear your identity out front, most people here have graduated in the 'basic internet tool use', unless you make a real effort at staying incognito it is very hard to not drop little bits of information, the best way to stay anonymous is to be very quiet.
Thanks PE.

Yes, we know our agent isn't up to scratch but we are struggling for alternatives. I'll drop you an email.
"less than 1% of chats feature a female pervert."

This is really disappointing news for most hackers.
I fully agree with the sentiment that inspires your statement.

However, this thread highlights a fundamental property of a networked life: privacy is dead, there is only identity management.

You only need whois and google/facebook to find the data in this case. Both are instances of seemingly disconnected and "local" data points (as in nobody without a real interest would ever look for these things), which, chained, intersected, etc. can reveal a ton of information about a person, all of which was volunteered by the person in question.

The NYT had a piece on "human-flesh search" recently, and 4chan raids have been well-known for a while. The point being, that once you release something in the wild, it's there, and accessible. Ethically, is it fair game to mine it (like people search engines, for example, do)?

It should give us collective pause to think - why do we get all those web services like facebook, gmail, twitter, etc. for free? Without even noticing it we are whoring out our privacy and intimate patterns. Google has two customer groups: users and advertisers - and advertisers bring in the money, users are there to maximize advertiser and google ROI - e.g. Google allows pure-ad parked pages, they give tips on "blending" ads to increase CTRs etc.

If harnessed properly, these things can be useful, but it requires a mindset and workflow not entirely dissimilar to those of spies or high-end criminals - controlling information by selective disclosure, identity segmentation, disinformation, anonymization, etc. - not for sinister purposes, mind you, but simply to guard what we traditionally call privacy.

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And now there are updated numbers in the graphs (labeled "gunicorn-3w") for gunicorn, based on running it the way it's meant to be run (on a socket with more than one worker). The results:

* Concurrent requests more than doubled

* Response times dropped 75%

* Error rate dropped 75%

It's amazing what a difference it makes to actually run something the way it was designed to run...
No native code development on Windows Phone 7 – so what about Flash?
it's disgusting. The whole restaurant is a gimmick and none of the dishes I tried were any good. Picture a big garlic themed gift shop with an adjoining dining room that serves standard tourist destination (no repeat customers necessary) fare loaded with garlic.

I love garlic and cook with it extensively, so I was really hoping the stinking rose would be a real restaurant.
"I can't remember a Microsoft product that was genuinely pioneering something."

Surface and Natal comes to my mind. But then again, I've seen both only in videos.
Maybe it was. A lot of people like the place but judging by the dishes I tried and the ambiance I can't figure out why. There seem to be a lot of restaurants in SF that have a big reputation and nothing to back it up.
Why would it make sense? Would any Mac user use IE? How many Windows users use Safari? Not many I'd wager.
>>>Let's take "The Da Vinci Code" as an example. How many people had the idea behind that book? Not that many.

There was a big plagiarism suit in England about this, so it's not the best example. Besides which, you will learn on your own that ideas are less important than realizing them. It's a hard lesson to learn and it took me many, many years to see it, You will too.
I couldn't give a damn about supporting unfinalised standards the ACID3 tests
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HTML4

Saying HTML4 is important in reply to a comment about unfinalized standards is a bit of a non sequitar, no?

Personally, no, I don't give a damn about SVG, but I'd be pretty upset if my browser didn't support iframes. Does the Acid3 test weight its tests appropriately?
Feels very unprofessional to me, really the sort of people you want to hire? Nothing wrong with not wanting to relocate but Garmin clearly didn't want to relocate just to annoy them, there were obviously organisational, cost or other business reasons to.
I liked Scomas when I lived there -- went by a few times.

Touristy, but good eats.
The tools and tricks of marketing are well known. They can be applied to any book. But they cannot help every book become a runaway hit. The content of the book matters too. (Yes, great books without good marketing will fail, but that just shows that both ingredients are necessary)

The same is with startups. The tools and tricks of marketing and execution are well known. They can be applied to any startup. But they cannot help every startup become a runaway hit. The idea behind the startup matters too.
For what it's worth, Tartine is also highly overrated. The desserts are beautiful but taste waxy and artificial. The coffee is also subpar.
I love their own use of Garamond in the ad.
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I'd say that Apple's grid style does place a higher importance on essential apps: The phone, mail, Safari and iPod icons are not only in a special highlighted region at the bottom, but never scroll away no matter what page of apps you're navigating to.
Am I the only one who was more excited to see the link to Tron Legacy?
Would be interested to know how they calculate the traffic data because there seels to be a bias. Facebook.com is often used worldwide vs. Google has different domain names by key geographical areas (e.g. google.fr, google.be, etc)
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Can someone confirm that I can swap the sim between my iPhone and a Nexus One? I've been doing some Android development and I need some hardware.
I've had some delicious food there and also a few duds. But I still recommend it to people if they want good food around fisherman's wharf.
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I think it's also only recently that the interactive part has been big at all. Not entirely sure, but it feels like 2007 or 2008 was the first year it was one of those big all-the-cool-kids-in-SF-must-fly-to-Austin deals. Certainly the late-90s SXSWs didn't have anyone flying there for the tech content (though plenty were flying there for the music and films).
Let me try another tack. You're out with a friend and your friend remarks on a great service.product he/she just bought that's brand new. Yet you had the idea for that product too. You tell your friend this. Do you really expect your friend's honest reaction to be anything other than, "So what?" See, your idea never got anywhere -- while it was in your hands. The idea became great when someone brought it to market.
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Great job Facebook.

However, I don't see Facebook replacing Google as the primary advertising medium on the Internet--ever. Google's power is that its ads can be placed anywhere with no action on the user's end to be targeted appropriately. Adsense is totally plug-and-play.

To compete with Google, Facebook needs to find a better way to syndicate its ads across the Internet. Unfortunately for them, however, all their advertising power is stuck inside their network. You need to log into Facebook to get targeted ads, which is a huge barrier for Facebook to overcome.

We'll see how it plays out, but IMHO Facebook needs to rethink its advertising strategy to even begin competing with the likes of Google.
A lot of this is about definitions.

An idea is useless.

A piece of execution is useless.

Execution means taking an idea, any idea, trying it out and then coming up with new ideas at the same or lower level and trying them out.

A good high-level idea by itself? Totally worthless. A team that can take a bad high-level idea, morph it into a mediocre one, then, through trial and error pound out the thousands of little ideas that make a business hum? Awesome.
6.828 gets down to the bare metal. Or close to it.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2009/
You also may want to check out http://brandstack.com I haven't used it (I have a friend who has), but apparently you can buy pre-made logos and domains. Might find something you like.
“(…) Facebook may be a bigger success than Google long term (…)”

To extend on that: Facebook won’t replace Google. Facebook and Google get so many visits because of different things. Demand for search won’t falter because social networks increase in popularity. I, at least, cannot see how that would be possible.

But – just so there are no misunderstandings – Google and Facebook are nevertheless clearly competitors. There is a finite amount of money that will be spent on advertising and Google and Facebook will both be fighting for a large piece that cake. And at some point in the future online advertising will have grown up so that there won’t be always more and more money coming into the system.
Natal is not a product yet. It has been demoed in controlled scenarios and it has been announced that it will hit the market by the end of this year. Wanna bet it won't?

Surface appears heavily inspired by Jeff Han's TED presentation or a Reactable (I am sure both came first). Calling it a shipping product is somewhat of a stretch. It's more like a tech demonstrator you can buy, if they are willing to sell you one and you are willing to pay what they want for it.

Call me skeptical, but I am only counting products that you can buy at a computer store or download or use through the web.
An app with a knack for contacts (Xobni Blackberry)
Did the idea behind Twitter, Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, etc change overnight?

Yes, startups do often change their idea overnight, and that shows that the original idea wasn't great, but that doesn't mean that there are no great ideas.

By the way, the "good ideas are evidence of how smart you are" is a bit BS. If all the VCs and/or YC cared about was that someone was smart, and since there are tons of other indicators (where they went to school, how many other successful startups they had, other smart people say how smart these people are, etc.), then if the VCs and/or YC knew by some other indicators that a group was comprised of very smart people then they wouldn't need to know what the idea behind the startup is.

The fact that VCs and YC always ask what the idea is behind the startup before funding it, even when they know the team is full of very smart people (e.g. from multiple successful previous startups), it means that they don't just use your ideas to gauge how smart you are. They really do care what the idea is.
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I see that Garmin still does not treat its engineers well.

For a number of years my father was the business manager for a group of microwave engineers in Olathe, Kansas, strangely enough (only a few hours north from SW Missouri). After that team failed to win a contract for some sort of JDAM precursor (I think, my father is not a techie) they broke up and their top dog was one of the first hired by the founders.

Let's just say that the founders weren't terribly generous with employee stock allocation....
Windows 7 Phone Series Doesn't Support Copy and Paste. Irony Ensues.
Cars. Making a box that will carry 4 people around at 80 mph is a pretty neat accomplishment. Doing it comfortably, safely, and at a a competitive price is an amazing feat of engineering and optimization.
That is what I was talking about. I remembered it being Atul but looks like I was a year off.
The article mentions its only in US domains.
I have a first gen iPod touch, and the (original) lack of copy and paste didn't bother me nearly as much as I would have thought. Now that it's enabled with a software update, I use the feature maybe once every other week. Nice to have, not a killer feature.
Would it be wrong to say we're ending the first decade of the 21st century and I was really hoping for a lot more tech. Most of us grew up on sci-fi. I'd say we're a little behind schedule. "Sorry Dave, I can't do that." is a pretty old movie quote.
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Note that Google is starting to step on Facebook's toes a little with Google Buzz. I don't think it'll put more than the tiniest dent in Facebook, but they aren't entirely mutually exclusive.
Let's play a thought experiment:

I'm Paul Graham, and I've got a fantastic, knock-your-socks-off idea for a business. How much will you pay me for it?

OR

I'm Travis. I've got a mediocre idea, but have spent a lot of time learning about my customers and market. I've built a kickass piece of software that solves the pain. But, again, my idea isn't that great (think Craigslist: the idea of online classifieds isn't exactly a great one, or a novel/clever one...) Will you pay me more for this?