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Wasn't the insidious thing about Hitler that people actually loved him out of ignorance? My impression is that there was far more surveillance of citizens in Communist East Germany than Nazi Germany.

If you can get people to actually love you rather than fear you, you don't need a surveillance system in every house (or every neighbourhood as the Stasi system was set up).
Space elevator in my lifetime.
French President affair a media hoax perpetuated by Twitter
This illustrates a new twist on a old problem how to deal with hoaxes. The problem we now face is the far more rapid spread and greater difficulty in getting to the truth with a dearth of 'information'. Your thoughts, solutions and comments.
That sounds crazy, but why not actually? Trees do it. CO2->O2+C where the C is used for say nanotube production sounds pretty awesome.
Sounds more like a news aggregator than a social platform for scientific collaboration.
Something that prevents all this dust from gathering up in my home.
I quit my job last December to start Pretty Graph. I have enough savings to keep me going for just over a year. So, I need to get to ramen profitable asap.

I'm really enjoying my work. I have two part-time co-founders, who have quite busy jobs. So, sometimes things get hard to do on my own, but it was never going to be easy.

It is very satisfying to work on something that I really care about and want to build into something great over time. One thing I love about my new work life is the time I can take to pause and think through things. It's nice to just lighten things up sometimes, not take myself too seriously and just feel happy that I'm doing what I love in a city I love (London) with so much freedom.

Getting up in the morning has never been so easy and going to bed never so hard!
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That is a consequence of needing to eat, not that of needing to interact with others, and you do that because 'more important things' such as work prevents you from taking the time to talk. You could talk to those people face to face without eating as well. Nobody would prevent anyone from eating, but for those who would rather do something else it would be a very welcome invention.
Exactly.

As I commented on his blog.

There is a big difference between planning in an established market such as toothpaste or shipping and then in a disruptive market.

And even in the established markets you never really know what awaits you the coming month.
And it should give us hope that when they start to see slippage in the growth rate of their mobile share; they will come to their senses and let people run whatever software they want.
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>I don't really consider them all that open these days, but I suppose they're better than many companies

Note the article is from 2005, before Apple started that stuff with their iphone/ipad/ipod touch.

Things have definitely changed. I hope this is a far as Apple is willing to draw the line in the sand, otherwise... well, I don't even want to think about that.
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I'm curious why pg, even then, referred to Macs as open. I don't seem to remember that. What definition of "open" is he using?
I agree there's no way the general population would ever understand SSH tunnelling (they have enough problem understanding URLs) but it isn't inconceivable that a desire to avoid these filters could lead to successful mainstream software workarounds. "New in Firefox 3.8: the 'skip government filters' button"
Personally I would buy a Macbook only for OS X, because Xcode is the only way to develop / deploy iPhone apps, and customers want iPhone gadgets nowadays.

But when decision time came, I just couldn't find the justification for shelling out for a Macbook ... and I bought an Acer Timeline.

Cheaper than the cheapest Macbook classic, the battery lasts longer, the hardware is more capable, bigger display, slim, stays cool, decent design. Have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it. Works great.

And I did own a Macbook Pro a year ago ... broke down when I spilled coffee over its keyboard. By contrast, my Dell Inspiron took a coffee bath quite well.
Also before they started with the irreplaceable battery thing.
Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are [in 2005]: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%.

Just curious: has the Mac percentage continued to increase? My perception is that All The Cool Kids are using them these days but that might just be my gratuitous stereotyping.
Popularize the concept of pundits publicly applying percentage likelihoods to their predictions, so they become testable.
I was surprised the javascript code ran so fast it could change the lighting in what seemed real-time to me. I didn't expect to see video scripting inside a browser.
GitHub?
Where does it say he'll work for free??
Because the interfaces and their intricacies are pretty different as one switches OS. When you switch drill brands, it works exactly the same way; you pull the trigger and the drill drills. On Windows or OS X or whatever, you have to log in a certain way, open a program a certain way, install things a certain way, and so on.

Not so much a problem for people who use this site, but a problem for the layman.
It fascinates me that Trevor Blackwell has AdSense on his essays.
I'd be curious to know what the position of Mahalo's investor's are in this debacle? Are they aware of what they're investing in?

(for reference, Mahalo's investors include Mark Moritz, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban and Ted Leonsis)

I'd be willing to setup a scraper site this weekend if they want to give me money too.</sarcasm>
Getting rid of undesirable mails (spam, personal harassment,...)
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I actually don't mind the unibody stuff. I'm prone to fiddling with batteries in my electronic devices and end up breaking clips consistently.

But I'm an edge case at best.
Making Scholar articles open to public access.

Google scholar returned references are mainly to journal articles requiring a fee. This is useless.
Science should be a collaborative work like wikipedia but with referees (not the narrowed minded one).
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He's talking about a powerbook. By open, he means what happens when you lift the screen.
Bucket argument
Digital receipts - I hardly need to carry cash anymore, pretty much everywhere I shop takes chip-n-pin cards so I use my debit card to pay for most things.

However, what you end up with is silly bits of paper that I end up carrying round in my wallet or stuffed into folders at work or at home.

Why can't my payment card contain an identifier that allows the bank to send me a digitally signed receipt - I could get notification by SMS or email that this is in place before I leave the shop.

There is a lot of crypto tech that could be thrown at this problem and it would end up more convenient and better.
The discussion of the java version is neat:

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-java-3.html

In the red corner: People who want short code.

In the blue corner: People want to to see "true" OOP.

Personally, as an example of java code, I think its better to do something like this than to just have the simple for loop. It turns the site from something stupid about beer to a demonstration of what each language can do (assuming each program is written in the "correct" way for that language).
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Lowering the barrier to share data and information between my different telecommunication tools (phone, PC @work, PC@home, lap tops, internet caffe, ...).
The actual article is ambiguous. It really doesn't name any sociopathic behavior but kind of hints at it. Drop old friends and encourage others to drink to excess at company parties are the worst concrete behaviors I remember. But the article uses the adjective ruthless.

I can't make exact judgment about the guy from the article. But I'd judge the article itself to be something of a Rorschach test for reader. Sociopath or go-getter?
It can get to be a pretty big problem for hackers, as well. When I'm on Linux, I use the Awesome tiling window manager and Emacs, both of which are tweaked far beyond their usual configurations. Using Windows or OSX (or even Linux without my configuration) is very jarring for me, and will only become more so the more I customize my UI.
I wish they would sell Mac OS X that run on non-apple hardware. I would save so much money and love apple again.
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I've thought about doing this several times. Do you really think that the hardware quality justifies the price when comparing to a ThinkPad for example? Also, it feels a bit wrong to pay for an operating system I'll never use.
It's more open than you would think; They incorporate 200+ open source projects in to the OS and that's code that they return to the community. (Webkit is a good example.)

http://www.apple.com/opensource/

Darwin, Grand Central Dispatch are some other examples that I can think of.
fsav and I built http://www.clusterify.com/ last year to target this very problem.

Unfortunately, neither of us is working on it anymore, and the site is no longer very active. But the code for the site is open-source, so feel free to launch your own clusterify and build a community around it!
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A better, no hassles international payment gateway

(I know Paypal exists, but I am not their fan)
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I tend to agree with you that it appears to be a perception thing more than actual fact. Webkit has done a lot for web developers and continues to do so today.
Whenever there was a panic or something that required swift action, Saul would always sit back and wait. He would not jump into the fray before he was sure what exactly was going on - which led to the impression that he rarely made mistakes.

Indeed, it sounds like it lead to the reality that he made few mistakes. And that reality is a good reality. Being cool under pressure isn't a fake skill but a real skill. I suppose you could be so cool you don't do anything but not panicking is indeed something that honestly qualifies someone for management.

I know from hard life experience that a lot of situations that seem like they need immediate action, don't. And moreover, someone who can look at such an attention-demanding situation calmly is immensely valuable.
I agree, it's about getting the job done. We have both Windows and OSX in our house. Most people (not to mind hackers), have no problem switching between both OSs or using both concurrently and that includes my wife yet she never uses the Windows machines.

Whenever I hear people getting uptight about or tightly espousing one OS/Platform over another I'm baffled. The differences I can perceive are miniscule and marginal.

That said, Umberto Eco's 1994 essay on the Mac vs. Dos Holy War [http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_mac_vs_pc.html] does resonate with me to a certain extent.
The problem is that when you brand something that will be interpreting differently by people who weren’t part of the zeitgeist when the memo went out about what “fail fast” meant then we educate the next generation of entrepreneurs to do things the wrong way

Very good point.
So then, how did you solve your need for Xcode / App development?
This is interesting, what sort of thing did you have in mind?

I think a horn is more about communicating between drivers, not cars, and seems like an good solution for this.. In the "hey, im here!" sense, rather than "hey, fuck you buddy!". It provides an alert and rough location that doesn't require much processing by the driver.
Last weeked I had a day where 3/4 of my traffic (3K uniques) came from HN. The breakdown;

OS:
1. Macintosh (49.60%)
2. Windows (26.23%)
3. Linux (11.81%)

Browsers:
1. Chrome (33.5%)
2. Firefox (29.55%)
3. Firefox (27.70%)
4. Mozilla (4.92%)
5. IE (1.43%)

Notice that this may be biased towards Mac since the Fakepad.com blog is about iPads.
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There's an interesting exchange:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bcb14/im_a_youtube_sof...

An unsubtle hint?
It's a common misconception that PC hardware is cheaper. If you compare a normal PC to a Mac Pro - Hardware for hardware you'll save ~$5 on the price of the PC.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/apple-mac-leopard-window...

(Article is a bit old; would love to see if with a 27" iMac. I doubt that you could get a PC equivalent for cheaper.)
Could you give me few examples for bot base packages ?
Ask, definitely. That's where people can give back to the community. If it weren't for that ask button on top, I would have probably missed this poll.
Enabling abuse probably isn't wise while driving a car.
I agree. I'm actually doing research right now on creating an ad-hoc network out of all the cars on the road, with the ability to flood in certain directions to notify of impending dangers, such as sudden braking up ahead (possibly a crash). 93% of car accidents are attributed to human error, so I think communication is definitely key.
Some car manufacturers have released technology which allows a car to see when you are getting too close to a car in front of you, adjusting your speed accordingly.

I imagine that using this technology along with local area networks you could improve on the existing technology to enable coordinated lanes. I think it could be incredibly interesting if you were able to have a lane on highways which only allowed linked cars to enter - they are each communicating to each other; establishing the speed of cars, as a group, instead of individually.

As I understand it, traffic delays frequently occur because of the ripple effect of one driver slowing down. If ther was a way to coordinate all cars accordingly, I presume that speeds could actually be increased significantly.
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And they would make so little money and go out of business.

Apple's not a software vendor. OS X is nice, yes, but it's a value-add to entice you to buy physical devices from them.
> Apple is open when they think that can make them money, closed when they think that can make them more money.

I suppose this was meant as criticism, but isn't it often the right thing to do for a company? You could argue the same statement applies to Google; they're open where they think it will please devs or where it may lower development cost, but they're certainly not giving away their custom server OS, or the secret sauce of search... and good for them.
There's probably thousands of undeveloped patents preventing innovation too. I have a naive idea of how to get around the legacy locks problem without re-coring but I'm sure patents would stop any development.
Umberto Eco - The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS
Maybe off topic, but I just did the pre-order and Google Checkout is one of the worst checkout experiences I had in the last few years. The translations look like they came from babelfish, no integration with WakeMate itself, ugly - you would think that a company with as many smart people as Google would figure out that this is not a good way to end your sales funnel.
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Online elections. Think of how many more people would actually vote in the US if it were online. The 2008 election had 63% voter turnout, which is historically high, but is nothing compared to countries like Italy with 90%.

Obviously, there are huge security concerns and it would be a logistical nightmare, but that's what someone needs to solve.
There's no science in this unfortunately - if you gave someone a month's worth of food in one meal then they are going to put on a month's worth of food in fat in one day and spend the next 29 days starving hungry, consequently slowing their metabolism and making them fatter.
Are an extra few hundred dollars every couple of years really that significant?

If you hire even one programmer their salary cost exceeds that within a week.

Even if we are talking personal use, I can understand that line of thinking for poor students- not so much for well payed software engineers.
Hey Saurabh, that looks interesting.

Why don't you make a bulletin board on a topic which interests people here and link to that? Then you will get meaningful reviews because without any content, it's hard to see what's great about your site.

The minimal design is of course nice, but usability is no good without usefulness.
Had cause to re-read this 1994 article this morning after a discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186066 - it's an interesting perspective that goes a little beyond the fanboyism often found in discussions on this topic.
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Canada and Australia at least allow the census to be completed online. There's probably less motivation to rig the census than the election (though there are benefits to both) but it's still an interesting point.
Despite having heard such stories many times now, they keep amazing me. From a European perspective, the whole thing is insane. I doubt there is a single school in the whole of Western Europe with camera's and security guards. The first time I heard about these things, I thought they were excesses that would surely lead to outrage and would be overturned. Instead, these measures gain ground. How can there not be a significant movement to restore the sanity of the USA?
The idea of college police and school counsellor are also really hard for me to understand.

It's a scary world :/ (I mean scary in the ridiculous measures supposed to 'protect us', not scary because of real threats).
No keys, no wallet, no fobs, no cards (unless the internet-device wants to be card sized).
The best opportunities aren't the ones being screened by HR. Most job postings look like someone got a description of the job from the manager, looked for the sentence fragments that could be classified as skills or experience, then put those in as the list of requirements.

LinkedIn is probably a closer approximation to what's needed, but as far as I can tell it's hard to get far out of your acquaintances with a basic account.
The interesting part of this 'don't compete on price' advice is that in many markets (the market I am in included) marketing is often more than half what you are getting from the customer. In the example above, instead of paying $12-$15 per customer to goog, what about dropping your price by $10 and seeing what happens? If your product is comparable, it only takes one reddit article comparing you to the competition to get a whole lot of interest.

I can tell you from experience that if you can undercut the competition by half, you get a lot of slack when it comes to not having all the cool features the other guy has.

One of the things that I think many people miss about competing on price is that if you don't have the marketing muscle of the compititon, you need to be dramatic about your price. few will go with an unknown to save 10%; but if you can save 50%, well, that's a pretty good argument to go do some research on that unknown company, no?

(Overall, my position on the 'compete on price' / 'never compete on price' debate is "do what you are good at" - if you are good at selling to people with money, sure. charge a premium and take advantage of your connections and skillset. Rich people and large corporations need stuff, and there's nothing wrong with giving it to them. On the other hand, if you are good at being cheap and bad at selling, well, maybe you should think about attracting the attention of people willing to do research by lowering your price.)
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Trying it out for a day. Seems usable at least. I like the zero click info.
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Really? My experience with Wikipedia is that topic pages are frequently the first result in Google so I don't think I've seen the homepage in at least a year.
Originally, federal senators/representatives were part-time politicians and also had "a real job". Over time, that changed. I doubt you can get the country to go back to that.
Balancing the real and significant perils of unfettered free markets with the real and significant perils of meddling with free markets.
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Most people (not to mind hackers), have no problem
switching between both OSs or using both concurrently

I was working this way without any problems for a couple of years: Mac at home, Win/Linux at work. And only when I spent significant amount of time working on Mac exclusively I started really appreciate all those tiny and not so tiny differences.
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If not proper elections at least a whole population simulation before the polls. That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count if it goes to a fringe candidate and would reassure them that they're not as few as regular polls and eventual results usually show.
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I think it depends on your skillset, too. Some of us have a hard time sharing control. Personally, this is one of the reasons I've always wanted to run my own company. I mean, It's possible, with the right person, that it'd turn out okay, (I'm looking at you, Chris.) but in general, not having the ability to say "Uh, no, it's my company, we're doing it my way." is something I'm loathe to give up.

Now, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing; For as long as I've been running my company, I've had excellent people helping me. If you can hire smart, you can get talent cheap. And let's be honest; no other sane person would have stuck with me for the four years I took bringing prgmr.com into profitability. If I had taken on a co-founder rather than just paying people, the company would have died a long time ago.

However, I think that investors might be on to something when they filter me out; I mean, I would have the exact same problems with investors as I'd have with co-founders. (this is causing some problems now that my bottleneck is capital rather than marketing or anything else.)