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The potential is there to re-ignite a new closed source era, and that's definitely not revolutionary.

Just because the app runs on the iPhone or iPad doesn't mean it has to be closed source.

I can see how that would be useful if you only have a relatively small number of files. But here on my collective drives there are literally 10's of millions of files...

I think the point is that the iPad manages this for you. You just have to remember that you made a document in Pages and the name of it. You don't need to worry about folders or where it was saved to.

That doesn't mean a single, flat directory. Just that users don't have to manage files.

FWIW, while I personally think that the iPad will be an extraordinary change in how the average person uses a computer, I would agree with you that the future isn't set in stone and the only way to know for sure is to wait and see.
Thanks Tony. The site is useful for creating discussions in variety of categories and not limited to a single subject like stackoverflow is. This might look like a difficult aim to achieve. I am willing to take the risk. Later on I plan to set preferences for individual users so they get to see topics relevant to their own liking.
A link is the wrong object for this functionality. It should be a button, because it is an action that causes something to happen, rather than a link to another page.

A link tells me, "When you click, you'll see a different page."

A button tells me, "When you click this, something is going to happen to whatever you pasted in the form field."
I heard about the first class wagons secondhand, and when I went I only saw first class on the trains. I guess you're right.
Hacker News becomes 3rd grade.
If you're the type of person to home school, then your children aren't the demographic that doesn't graduate. On the other hand i've seen divisions in a YMCA league between the students who go to school together and the students who don't. Home schooling is very empowering, and beneficial. I support it and you.

Not all parents consider "socialization" necessary, but you are obviously not all parents. Kudos.
btw..here is your new profile just in case you din't notice yet :-) http://boardlite.com/user/tony/
Clickable link: http://boardlite.com/

I like the look, it is clean and simple.

One small glitch: it seems that on the page http://boardlite.com/category/computers/list/ some vertical gray border is missing on the left side of "1 post" and "16 views", where the light blue headline becomes narrower and says "Tracking ID: 400000001" etc. Same problem on the FAQ page at http://boardlite.com/faq/ ...

Page load speed: instead of http://boardlite.com/media/js/lib/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js you could use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min..., see http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ for details.
Cool, keep up the good work and viva privacy!
This is really impressive, but I found the effect really distracting and annoying. It's most probably the delay/lag that makes it look jarring.
Thanks. Can you tell me which browser are you using. I am so upset that I couldn't see it before the launch.
Wow, I don't know why I am still posting so I can get more downmods, but I really don't get all the hate.

The fact that child abuse by educators is rare is no reason not to do something relatively simple (like a criminal check) to reduce its incidence. Lots of things are rare - liver cancer; plane crashes due to mechanical failure; Rackspace losing a whole data center, twice; I don't get the whole "pshaw, it's rare, no worries" attitude. I thought many of us here spend a lot of time eliminating rare events.

There are many professions which require background checks; for example accountants. What's the big deal?
Awesome, glad you're enjoying it!
oh yes. Now I know what you are referring to. I guess the problem is on all browsers. I'll do the needful soon.
Using a throwaway account to say this: be EXTREMELY careful picking your cofounder. Mine in my last venture was a close friend who had an extremely accomplished background. But he turned out not to have good ethics (ie, ended up stealing money!) and everything imploded. I even totaled my car because I was so upset as I came from a meeting with him, and my life was hell for a few months.

I don't blame myself because my cofounder had so many great attributes that he seemed like a good partner at the time, but still, I urge all of you to assume nothing and tread carefully when choosing a cofounder. Those worst case scenarios? They happen sometimes. :(
Thanks! Glad you're finding it useful... I've contemplated turning it into a desktop app also.
Yes. Google has massively raised the barriers to entry in Internet search, and profited mightily from doing so. It is a big deal if they are gameable, so that sites like Mahalo can force us to pay an attention tax every time we want to find something.
"And let's face it - have you seen many top management who look grubby? Being well-groomed seems to be an essential attribute of leadership."

As a matter of fact, I've seen multiple CEO's that looked a bit grubby. It's not unheard of, but I get what you mean.

Note: These CEO's were founders, so they didn't climb the ladder, they made it. Probably the significant difference
Runs pretty smoothly here - maybe it's your browser/system?
To begin with, I love cars. I live in cities so I can have a great lifestyle, and to take advantage of all the city has to offer. So you and I are sort of thinking along the same lines, but making a different choice--for different reasons.

I love cars so much that once we get this business profitable and I get enough income from it I will probably buy a convertible Bentley GT like this one:

http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/glitters/b/bently_-8712...

I am not sure if people who drive their own car vs. ride on a bus are doing it out of any having less of a tolerance for the fistfights or other social problems though. I think that the convenience (and for some the prestige) of driving is why people drive rather than it being a cost point or service issue. I do not think public transportation will ever --draw--people out of their cars. To me it’s comparing apples to oranges.

I love having a car and would really hate having to ride a bus or train. Although I do agree with you that public transit is lacking in some ways, in many places the cost is subsidized by the taxpayers to keep it affordable and it does serve to make life easier (and nicer) for people without a car.

In times past, trains used to have separate cars for 1st class, 2nd class and 3rd class. Maybe given the current political climate the cities would be hostile to allowing a separate bus service to operate in this manner. A separate bus service that would be viewed as superior to the buses serving the general population might be frowned upon by the cities and for that reason be impossible to get going. Plus, what would stop the same problem causing riders from occasionally riding the upscale bus and causing the same problems.
Sounds a lot like a raycaster engine (i.e. what was used in the orignal 1992 Wolfenstein 3D), except in 3-dimensions instead of 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
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Dan, you should watch out for the spacing in your post (and other minor issues). Try to convey attention to detail.
You know, "revolutionary" comes from "revolution" which is more commonly used to describe "the overthrow of one government / replacement with another"...

I'm picking nits but it pains me that you missed the original meaning of revolution: that of the earth revolving around the sun and the associated profound change in thinking that the concept brought about.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? Are you referring to "the game" as in Neil Strauss (women), or something more akin to The Wire (making money in dirty ways)

Edit: 3rd option, and almost certainly right, is that Diplomacy is a game, which a quick googling revealed. My nerd-fu is weak! Sounds like you'd be good at Mafia/Werewolf.
Oops, sorry I wrote the comment when I woke up in the middle of the night.

Ok, Medicare in Australia is a funded by an income tax levy that every Australian pays, set at 1.5%. It's an almost paltry sum of money when you consider it's free healthcare.

My private health insurance also receives a rebate from the Australian Government. From what little I understand about the system, the Australian Government funds this out of my Medicare levy I pay, so that I'm not paying twice.

We also have plenty of other medical programs running in Australia - like the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which helps low income people afford the medications they require. I'm not up on the numbers, but I think it caps the costs of certain medications at about $5

It works well, I don't know too many people that complain about our system at all. The cost of health care certainly isn't an issue at all that weighs on too many peoples minds
Great production quality and content--it really humanizes the listing.
Assuming this is legit, yes you can do animation with it. Probably with a minimal performance hit.

Keep all your sprite models separate from the main. For each sprite rotate the camera so you're viewing it from the same relative position you would be in the game, render it and put it to the right spot on the screen. As you do this for every object, you should be able to skip pixels you've already drawn. Once all the objects are up, draw the background and again skip all the pixels you've already done.

So again, if this works it should be able to do animations in a single pass, with just a little per-sprite overhead. (and they could well have overcome that too.)
When making instacalc I had some of the same issues -- why do we emulate the existing calculator with its limitations?

I feel spreadsheets are the other extreme of interface overload -- way too much power. There's nothing in between (you get 1 editable field with calc.exe, and hundreds of thousands in Excel).

In my own usage I want to optimize the 90% use case, like an interactive "back of the envelope":

* Real-time editing & results

* Show the few calculations I care about at once (both question and answer)

* Ignore gritty programming details (does variable case matter? Do _spaces_ matter? Why can't a name be "net sales = 3")

* Make difficult conversions easy ("15 cows/day in minutes per cow").

There's always tradeoffs between familiarity & forging a new direction.
Well, it was worth a try. HN is, of course, a fickle forum on which to ask such a question. If anyone would like to contact me directly, I'm trevor AT theoryville.com.
Kinda off topic, but I think he's right about wikipedia serving ads. They have so many page views, they could put up a couple of image or text ads on the side and make it look very tasteful--unlike mahalo and the other ad filled pages of the internet. Expanding on that, maybe they could only serve non-profits, giving them ridiculously low click or view rates. How could Jimmy Wales not be interested in that?
I have never, ever seen public defecations or urinations on my public transport system either.

The worst I've seen is the odd excessively loud person and perhaps people having sex - but that's it.

It's really not that bad, it could be like jrockway suggested: a symptom of the OP's area rather than the public transit system.
I was trying to be general; sorry if it didn't make sense without examples:

A "demographic"—think TV viewers—isn't composed of what people like in general, but only why they're interacting with your community in particular. The original primary demographic of HN was "Hackers who are here to talk about Startups." That demographic is very small, so it was replaced by its own secondary demographic, "Hackers who are here to talk about Whatever Hackers Like Talking About."

Now, the secondary demographic is "non-hackers who like talking about some of the same stuff hackers talk about," and the tertiary demographic is "non-hackers who only care about the stuff that the other non-hackers talk about, and don't care about anything that hackers care about."
No time to find a link, But I recently read an article about google tweaking their index from a once a month task to something they can do in 10 seconds. (though obviously they are also throwing hardware at that problem.)
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Non-profit with extremely low click rates is an excellent idea.
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The "only focus on one thing" advice you give is our strategy at GridSpy (http://gridspy.co.nz) too.

We can monitor solar systems, water levels, fuel levels, solar hot water performance, temperature, humidity, battery levels and yes AC power usage.

We can also do automation, controlling all sorts of stuff in all sorts of ways.

However, I'm focusing only on AC power monitoring on our site, at least for now. Anything else is hard to explain and install, and much more expensive to sell.
Formal methods in a startup?
I've been studying formal specification and verification methods (Lamport's TLA+/TLC) recently. It's a very interesting (very theoretical) subject, but I wonder about its practicality.

Are there any known potentially useful applications to startups? Most seem to rush into coding without specifying the behaviors of the system they're developing to stay agile. I don't know of any that employ sufficiently complex algorithms where verifiable correctness is sufficiently critical, but I'm new to the field.
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I expected an article decrying unions, but found one decrying the licensing of doctors and lawyers.

To use the case of florist licensing to condemn all licensing is an egregious leap. In general I believe it is sound policy to license professions where the ordinary consumer of their services cannot be expected to know how to judge their quality. Highly specialized professions dealing with the general public such as doctors and lawyers are obvious candidates. For the actuarial profession, you might argue that the hiring companies should be sufficiently sophisticated to judge their competence without formal credentialing. The hidden consumer in this case are the insurance regulators and the public relying on them. And, in fact, companies don't always require credentials in actuarial roles, but regulators won't accept annual statements without a supporting statement from a properly credentialed actuary.

I think lawyers are a problematic case. With most professions you can go to court if the designated gatekeepers are acting in an illegal or unethical fashion. The state Bar association, on the other hand, is going to be nearly impossible to fight for anyone who plans on making a living as an attorney. So, while I do support the goal of ensuring a base level of competence for a professional that may be the only thing standing between you and a jail cell, I am deeply concerned about the current mechanism for achieving that goal. The completely free market leaves too much blood on the floor for my taste to be worth considering as a solution.
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I know of Mafia/Werewolf, but they are too arbitrary for me. Diplomacy (the game, yes) puts some substance underneath the negotiations --- some alliances are easier to pull off and more natural than others, but they can all be made to work.

Also a honest and straightforward approach often works best. Or more accurately --- in the vein of Machiavelli --- being known for an honest and straightforward approach, which is not the same thing.

P.S. Please pardon that I only wrote "the game". I am too much involved in "the hobby".
There was a bit of a hassle with them. Setting up the account was rather annoying.
This post is extremely light on content. I was hoping for some analysis.
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing. I myself have had several "investors" who are interested in a project of mine, only to turn out they're just rich real estate guys looking for a midlife crisis. Sure, I could take their money, and it would last a few months, maybe even a year. But at such an early stage, what you really need are connections. Especially if you don't have a strong team. I'm a lone wolf right now, but only because I can't seem to find someone who has what it takes to start a company. I agree with the article: You need more than just anybody. You need your other half. (So to speak) They complement and fill in any gaps and vice versa.

Time and time again at work or on freelance projects, I find myself pulling other people's weight. Now this sounds conceited, but sometimes it's just the truth, and I'm sure you can't have any of that in a start-up, if you want to succeed!
It would release a hornet's nest worth of issues. For example advertisers might change articles in which their ads appear in order to influence click-troughs. Then contributors will ask for a cut of the money. Then nobody will donate because they have to look at ads anyway.

Then advertisers will start demanding from their sales people that certain content be changed or taken off "or I will remove my ads."

So it should only be considered as a desperation move if their donations plummet.
Interesting read but "traction" really is the only thing that matters. Everything else is just blather. So he got one thing right.
You prolly want money :-)

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Got any free marketing advice?
>Famous examples are Google (search, mail)

Google doesn't charge users for search and mail, they charge companies to show advertisements to users. Wouldn't that make them B2B?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1185060
I was aiming more at not being able to do the deformation required for facial animation or skeletal animation beyond rigging some prims together. To my knowledge it can't be done with this rendering technique.

Every model created for this is, for all intent and purpose, a piece of rock.
I recently bought the sleep cycle alarm app for my iPhone for $2 bucks. Works like a charm for what it advertises.

THus I wonder what differentiates WakeMate from Sleep Cycle?
Ask HN: Would you pre-order GridSpy power monitoring?
Gridspy provides an online power monitoring service - see http://gridspy.co.nz

It can monitor 3 AC circuits in your home or office and allow you to watch that power on-line. It measures "true power" and power factor. It can handle 3 phase power for industry.

Our device has a relatively high price tag attached $950NZD ($665USD). There is a recurring $10/mo subscription.

We have true live connections to the devices, and optional RS232 and RS485 ports - along with automation possibilities. We can also monitor a wide range of other sensors (i.e tank levels, gas / water flow, solar, temperature, humidity, air quality). We'll soon have a nice API and webhooks (HTTP POST back to your server).

I've been approached by several people asking when we are available, if we ship to the US, etc. We have a working product with stock, but can't send it afield just yet (testing still required). I'd be able to ship a preorder to you in perhaps two months.

If I built a pre-order portal to purchase Gridspy at a discounted price (say $400USD) with a promise to offer all new features as they become available and offer premium service for a low monthly charge - would you take me up on the offer?

If not, why not?

What automation tangent (new features) could we pursue that would convince you?
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Blog : http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/

Overview of our stack : http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/10/realtime-data-from-sensors...
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I've used e-xact for a few different projects. Never had any problems with them, and they're relatively developer friendly (I wrote the Business::OnlinePayment::Exact module on CPAN).
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If you look at the author's website, you'll find that she's a Randroid. Not really worth listening to her, IMO.
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I've actually stopped page caching since switching over to Heroku, and I really like using their HTTP caching with Varnish instead. I love that with HTTP you can cache pages with query strings in them and that time based expiration is easy. Additionally, web proxies can cache your page for users.

Additionally, setting up HTTP caching with rails is even easier than setting up page caching if you use Rack::Cache + Memcached (though it isn't as fast as varnish). The bonus advantage of using Rack::Cache is that since its a Rack plugin, it works regardless of the web server config. I can see this being useful for apps meant to be deployed simply at client sites, where admins may not know how to setup a server for Rails.
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I'm on a pretty fast machine running latest Safari and you can tell the glow is behind the video because there's a half second or so lag between scene transitions and the glow changing to match.
> They're also precisely the foundations of different notions of computation

Depends. Monads are too linear, in a sense, to express some computations. Arrows express some things better.
I don't agree. While he shows a similar, uh, detachment from others, Steve Jobs is not a conformist. He does not attempt to project an aura of conventional success. His home famously had no furniture, and Jobs sometimes showed up for his Atari job without shoes. Furthermore Stevehas real skill at picking technology winners, and weaving them into a strategy, championing them to others.

He does take the credit for the work of the less dominant, though.
Without such built-in functions like application or arithmetic this is impossible in every language.

Consider: without application you cannot consider such a language general recursive and therefore it is not Turing complete according to the Church-Turing thesis.