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I just noticed that the styling for the web inspector is defined via css. One such relevant file is file:///System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Resources/inspector/inspector.css

I'm sure one could tweak this and make it look better. anyone up for the challenge, instead of complaining?

FWIW, my complaint with WI isn't that it looks bad, but that it's buggy. Just try a console.log(arguments) inside any function and try, you'll see what I mean. That being said, it's my primary debugger now. I just go to firebug in dire circumstances. I even use Stainless.app sometimes; it has the same engine, and is a little lighter than safari.

EDIT: Even all the js is available! http://i.imgur.com/hXuJ3.png

I smell a side-project coming on...
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Daniel told me who turned him into TC, but I agreed not to say.

Kudos.
Honest question: why does anyone listen to anything Loren Feldman says?
I don't think that formal education is an important factor in success of a startup. After all, when you're steering the ship, there's no one to withhold raises because of your lack of education; it's all about the merits of your product and your marketing.

If you think a PhD will give you the skills you need to run a successful startup in the most efficient way, then you should probably do that, but I don't think the PhD distinction is going to do much for the first intention of "run[ning] a startup".

However, some of the big players do put a lot of clout into that kind of thing. All of the anecdotes I've heard indicate that Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others weigh formal qualifications heavily in the case of an anonymous resume. Many of Google's job listings state a preference for an MS or higher.

I think at high profile companies like that, where thousands of unsolicited resumes are received every day, strict formal educational requirements is a necessary way to pare down resumes queued for review.

At lesser-known companies, the qualifications are generally much looser, mostly focused on a demonstrable background with applicable technologies. You don't need any formal education at all for most jobs in the industry, just demonstrable experience and positive reviews for your past work.
And her son got his MIT CS PHD last year - with Sussman as his advisor.

PDF of the thesis: http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49525/MIT-CSAI...
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Trying to grok this. Seems like it's not producing a solution, but instead producing a set of possible digits that can be put into each of the 81 squares. This output is then piped to Dance, which is presumably an implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_links . Can someone confirm?

I love the idea of transforming Sudoku to another problem that already has a good solution instead of trying to attack it from scratch.
That's so quaint that he uses the "register" storage class. Knuth is awesome
"Opera 10.50 is the fastest browser we have ever produced."

It merely claims to be the fastest version of Opera, not the fastest browser. :)
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check the home page. it states "The fastest browser on Earth".
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I don't know that I agree with the RFS but there's no doubt the iPad is a platform practically built for YC. Apple's restrictive approval process creates a barrier to entry for large scale startups since no one is going to spend millions of dollars on a product that might be arbitrarily denied entry to the market. That barrier makes a huge opening for YC size startups to target the market and make some significant gains.

I still think the iPad has some limitations that will prevent it from being a Windows killer (multi-tasking, restricting vital areas of innovation like input, etc...). But if you're looking to apply for YC funding you really have nothing to lose.
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Yes, especially since these PR hungry wolves gave him 24 hours to confess publicly before they put their own spin on what happened. I commend him for coming out in good faith and being upfront and honest about the situation. I definitely have more respect for him and Divvyshot as an organization after this.
I don't think this should be down voted, because it represents a fairly common (and therefore interesting) opinion. Also, the replies are enlightening.
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The base code is available with the arc tarball ( http://arclanguage.org/install ) which will give you all you need to get started. However, any recent changes done to the current live news.arc won't be there, and I suspect there have been some.

The site seems to be working better, though this may be seasonal, so thumbs up pg and rtm for recent changes.
If by "failing to spot the disaster" you mean : "this thing's gonna crash, now shut up and make some money by saying it won't" - then I agree :) .
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My pending YC application is in this market space. The iPad and similar devices will really change automation.
I had to exclude iTerm (you can exclude apps in Butler), everything else (Firefox, Eclipse, Parallels, TextWrangler, Thunderbird) works fine.

Obviously, Shift-Home and Shift-End should be remapped as well so selection would work.
If the iPad replaces traditional computers

Like TV replaced radio and movies, like automobiles replaced bicycles, etc. Why would iPad replace anything? It just makes it more comfortable to me browse the web or read the book on a couch. When I am in mood for some programming I will put it aside and sit down in front of my desktop or grab my notebook.
The iPad replaces traditional computers no more than spoon replaces fork.
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This is exactly what Home and End are remapped to.
Very insightful comment: If the VC wants to be in the angel round, but refuses to behave like an angel, then entrepreneur beware"
There are some things I understand. I've written parts of Unix/Linux virtual memory, network stacks, process management, threads, interrupt handlers, synchronization primitives, TTY line disciplines, various kinds of device drivers. I've debugged parts of block I/O systems, file systems, NFS client and server, CPU schedulers. I feel like I understand those.

There are things I don't understand. I don't know the I/O architecture of a PC nor how the OS integrates with the BIOS. I don't know how the subdirectories of linux/drivers/ are organized, even at the first level. I've never designed a filesystem, and suspect there are subtleties I don't appreciate.

I never bought Bill Gates' testimony during US vs Microsoft that an operating system includes its web browser. In my arrogant opinion, an OS starts and ends with the kernel. So the next question is, how much do I understand about the rest of the platform? It varies.

I do know how the X11 protocol works, how the classic X server worked, how Xt intrinsics work. Do understand the classic Unix utilities and libc and their modern GNU reimplementations.

Don't know how an RDBMS works inside. Haven't kept up to date with compiler optimizations. Don't know how debug info is stored in object file and executables or even exactly what it is. Don't have any idea how that huge pile of libraries in GNOME (or KDE) is organized. Have only a vague idea of how the current X server is organized.

Even though the last (and first) time I implemented a page fault handler was 1986, I feel like I understand what they have to do, why, and what data structures they need. I'm sure the specifics are very different in any of today's OSes than they were in 4.3BSD, but I don't think that matters. OTOH, I think most of my graphics knowledge is obsolete.

So, in sum, I partly understand my OS. (-:
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What is next? Apps related to evolution and science?
Any 3rd party apps related to music? Who knows. Maybe
nothing, maybe all those things.

There is a name for that: FUD.
How do you know, maybe Apple will release cure for cancer as an app. Will they be evil then too?
Okay. I apologize for my outburst. I'm just a pretty disgruntled IE user (but only for testing sites) and wish Microsoft would just switch the whole thing over to webkit and be done with it.
Thanks for taking the time to write. It might be helpful to post a few links or examples to your previous work and help us understand why they didn't succeed as you'd hoped.

Building a successful company is hard work (spoken as someone working on it, but not yet there), and in my limited experience, nothing has ever just "caught on." I'd suggest that the disparity between the frustration you've experienced attempting to build these companies and the frequency of articles proclaiming just the opposite is indicative of the problem: we want to believe that it's a cakewalk, that it's merely a combination of skill and luck.

What have you worked on, and where are you headed? Perhaps others who have been down similar paths may be able to offer some insight.
But how many people knew of it, or use photoshop.com? I had never heard of it until now. Adobe's doing a pretty piss-poor job of marketing it if it is supposed to be a stand-in free web-based version of photoshop for people to do basic touch-ups on their pictures ...
There is also a wonderful article by Peter Norvig
http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
with 100-line solver in Python.
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btw, here are speed test results by BetaNews: http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-Chrome-5-loses-points...
I have the luxery to be more in a niche market with my Picto Selector. I doubt sites like stumbleupon will do me good. Also avoiding friction is done:
- it's free
- the download is self containing

Because of it's nature (a hobby project) i also have no budget to spend.

But some friction is left:
- a big download (40MB because of the 5000 pictures that are included)
- Windows only (the downside of selfcontained)

I'm interested to see what you are going to do the next months to keep this level of visitors.

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I haven't tried it, but it looks like you're right.
I think that's correct. Presumably this is the Dance he refers to: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs/dance.w
Hopefully, IE9 won't disappoint - trust me, we're working really hard on it :) If you wish to share with me what problems exactly you're facing with IE, and I'm happy to hear you out. My profile page has my contact info.
Exactly. It can certainly excel in a niche, as Apple is well known for doing. I think that niche exists, but I think it's shining point will be enabling new ways of doing things we never thought of, primarily through it being a standardized platform with creative eager developers.

I don't think there's any reason why a nice simple product with great design and UI can't be used by all, including the technical/geeky type.

I don't think it's going to replace traditional computers.
I would agree with your first paragraph if we were all strictly rational machines. But I think that the key to long-term progress and success is to give people the greatest degree of freedom possible, combined with incentives (i.e. salaries, grants, awards) toward things that help society. When you start stigmatizing or punishing people for choices that aren't even bad -- they just aren't "good enough" -- then there's no way that won't backfire and just instigate (rightful) resentment and anger.

I really would not be frustrated that Superman was not doing superhero stuff. It's very hard to herd someone smart or capable into doing something they don't genuinely want to do, and I doubt it's usually productive in the end.

I have to admit, I take this personally, because I may not be Superman, but I sit around writing little stories that nobody but me will ever read, reading books that do little practical good but to fill me with a sense of beauty and contentment; I shoot some pool, play some chess, and I work on software that exists primarily to satisfy my curiousity or to make me money. Most of it doesn't help anyone else very much, and I like it that way. I think I have the right to do whatever I please, as long as I take care of myself and my friends without doing harm to other folks on the planet. When a man comes up to me, as has happened, and talks about how I have a duty to make an impact on the world, I want to kick that man.
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His paper on dancing links is a delight of a read, too. Highly recommended.
I like this idea, but why do you link to a blog comment of yours that says exactly the same thing?
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Sudoku is pretty clearly an "exact cover" problem, and there are loads of known ways to attack those; Knuth's DLX being a particularly elegant one.

As a general principal, it's always a good idea to see if the problem you are facing resembles other known, solved problems.
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Using a laptop while in a car makes me nauseous.
The complicated part is all the crude models that don't do much at all that you have to trudge through to get the few worthwhile models.
I agree, and it's not just Joel; there's tons of Microsofties that I know (me included) that are pretty active on news.yc, even if only lurking without real accounts/profiles, but on read-only mode.
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Software pros and cons aside, in 10-20 years devices with UIs almost exclusively controlled through touch on their primary display are going to appear quite comical. The iPad will encourage horrible ergonomics for extended periods of time which may cause RSS and CTS. Also, I am guessing the iPad will have the highest percentage of drops (physical falling) per unit for devices of similar dimensions (e.g. netbooks).

Seriously, how is controlling a semi-portable device by touching its primary display a good idea for general computing tasks? When considering angles, line of sight, and ergonomics, this product makes little sense to me, except in usages that require sparse interaction.
Beware: just because they don't have a board seat or formal control doesn't mean they won't have a lot of influence, and possibly even de facto control. In particular, if you need to do a follow-on round (and if you only get $50k the first time around it's almost certain that you will have to) you will almost certainly have to do it with them, because if your initial investor doesn't follow on it's extremely unlikely that anyone else will.
I find this a very interesting and important point. Might be the reason why "indiegames" have become so popular.
Survivor bias: If I let hell loose on enough monkeys to bet on financial market before the bubble bursted, some of them would eventually "beat the wall street" and "forsee the burst" and earned themselves interviews, book deals and recognition.

The monkeys could have a chance to talked about their models then.
Hearing you describe this had me envisioning the following shrink wrap product:

buy "Secured home router"

plug in cables

turn on

launch web browser

captive portal configuration screen

configuration goes through common steps, advanced options buttons for those who know what they're doing, one of which is an option for 1 month free software upgrade/virus/malware/firewall administration, 3/6/9/12 month subscription rates and sign-up process.

Actual functionality is: firewall provides reasonable QoS parameters for a shared internet connection and prioritizing traffic in a manner that benefits user-interactive applications (HTTP(S) over p2p, etc.), dns blackhole for known malicious domain names, updating firewall rules for blocking known bad IPs (stolen abandoned blocks, etc.), captive portal style page hijacking for sites known for malicious content (with an ignore this warning button), software updates, configuration backup to a central server.

The main issue I can think of is that the end user wants to feel like they're completely uninhibited on the internet. The problem is that to protect against most real threats, there's trade-offs and you'll have a 5-10% error rate for blocking traffic the user really wanted. This means that support would be a difficult cost to overcome, but I think a url on the system that resolves locally to the router to provide a "what problem are you having yes/no" style troubleshooter could help prevent a large number of complicated call ins.

All in all, this sounds like a really interesting problem with two sales domains: target the consumers directly and target ISPs looking to have another value-add to their internet products.
> There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel.

Only if you consider the fact that both are computers and theoretically capable of running any arbitrary code.

Also factor in the new way of using a computer (via touchscreen). Will that work out? Consider the fact that Apple has a tight control on apps and development. How will the amount of innovation fostered by each system compare?

When you consider those things, you'll realize the argument is not on whether or not the iPad is capable of replacing the software but on whether or not the iPad's design and platform can be a viable alternative to the way we use computers. Because, theoretically any computer is capable of replicating software capabilities.

Consider the Mac vs PC battle. The Mac is capable of doing pretty much everything your PC does, but why does it have less market penetration? Consider the various factors to that.
The comp.lang.c FAQ (which is quite well respected as a good authorative source on C, I think) states:

Q: What's the correct declaration of main()?

A: There are two valid declarations:

int main(void)
int main(int argc, char **argv)

Yet, Knuth states:

main()

This feels like Knuth has done a Chuck Norris on C.
Bram Cohen came up with another transformation of Sudoku - to SAT problem:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=873073
2-5 clicks per day? That would take over a year before you even generated a single CPM!
I find this a bit hard to read. Can somebody render this CWEB(?) file to HTML or PDF for the lazier of us?
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What general computing tasks are you referring to? Most people's daily computing tasks involve web browsing and email or social networking, things the iPhone does and presumably iPad will do quite well.

Also what is wrong with touch displays? 10-20 years is a very long time in terms of computers! What do you see as the future of UIs? To me, touch is more intuitive/easier than using a mouse for most things. The interaction you can get with multitouch pinch/pull, swipe, etc allow for rich new possibilities in UI design.
Even that is actually rather blurry. There's a difference between gift-giving (and accompanying smalltalk) to build relationships, and gift-giving to get one's way.

Understand that the former (gift-giving to build relationships) is designed to artificially create a high cost of entry to any new relationship so that people are discouraged from making bad deals (or otherwise behaving unethically).

The latter (gift-giving in exchange for services) is generally not accepted for the simple reason that it subverts rational decision making on the part of officials. That much is the same everywhere.

The fact that there is "bad" bribery in some relationship-based cultures does not diminish the fact that it's undesirable. People there may put up with it because they just need to get things done, much like the way we put up with the legal and patent system here.

What the kid did in this case regarding the MacBook Air would likely be considered bribery in any country. It is clearly an exchange of goods in return for services rendered.
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This shouldn't be coming as a surprise to anyone...
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George Soros had to hide from Nazis as a child.

I hardly blame him for having to hide, but did he have to go out and help confiscate the property of his fellow jews? Couldn't he have stayed home? Not to mention that he's been convicted of insider trading.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew...

Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.

KROFT: (Voiceover) ...who escaped the Holocaust...

(Vintage footage of women walking by train)

Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.

(Vintage footage of people getting on train)

KROFT: (Voiceover) ... by -- by posing as a Christian.

Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.

(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)

KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.

KROFT: In what way?

Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and -- and anticipate events and when -- when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal experience of evil.

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Not -- not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't -- you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c -- I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets -- that if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would -- would -- would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the -- whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the -- I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
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I agree. I had trouble identifying with the guy so I ended up skipping the personal life stuff. The part about the market and his hedge fund was fascinating though.