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I'm in, but why aren't we using Doodle or something better suited for this type of thing? ;)

+1 for Sin and Redemption though, I'm there way too often as is, it is a great pub with a fantastic atmosphere

edit: I don't want to hijack this, but I've created a doodle link at: http://www.doodle.com/499x2y852b43inay

if anyone is interested in filling it out (same dates as OP)... it may be easier than straight up google spreadsheeting it. I didn't create one for bar location, but it looks like most people either wanted the Rhino or Sin & Redemption, so we can probably choose later?
Wikipedia and the Matter of Responsibility
Honestly, it doesn't matter what camera you buy. Lens are much more important but even they pale into insignificance compared to subject, light and skill.

Just buy a camera then... Practice, practice, practice. Shoot everything. Try everything. Keep a photoblog. Publish photos daily. Join a club. Do a SoFoBoMo (look it up). Be critical. Aim for better shots. Plan ahead. Shot subjects that take you out of your comfort zone. All these things will do more for you than any camera body or lens, and are basically free.

Do NOT fall into the trap of thinking that photography is about the equipment.

I like to think I can hold my own, even with a basic Sony DSLR and a few mid-range lenses:
http://photoaday.ideasasylum.com/p/407
http://photoaday.ideasasylum.com/p/419
and so on: http://photoaday.ideasasylum.com/browse/1
The auction isn't all that clear in some aspects...

1) What's being sold? The domain and content or the whole server/setup?

2) What's the current monthly costs like?
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>Because people will install apps that don't work and then blame their iP(ad|od|hone) for misbehaving.

Millions of people using OSX disagree with you.
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iGesture: Event-driven gestures and multi-touch for web applications
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+1 for alluding to Ayn Rand via The Fountainhead.

"I have to say though, the NeXT logo looks a bit too 80s..."

I don't agree. I think anyone that has never heard of NeXT would only associate it with "modern" e.g., 1930s and up (because of the typeface).
iPhone, smartphone and iPad gaming isn't going to be what console or PC gamers are going to expect. However, we're not talking about those type of people buying this device.

For example, Brickbreaker has been played by over 50 million people while COD: Modern Warfare 2 has only been played by 15 million.

These type of games (that hardcore gamers would consider silly and frivolous) are going to be the dominant games in the marketplace.
Google's url shortener at goo.gl can generate QR codes
It's not about choices. If a phone that's available on multiple carriers doesn't sell more than a device that's on one, something is wrong.
I don't like to see such colloquialisms in job postings, but as someone who has done a fair amount of hiring in my career, I also don't want to see them on resumes or CVs unless you've worked for Rockstar Games, real Rockstars or Ninjas or on a game called Ninja.
That's a fair point - selection bias. I thought about that later after I wrote it. I was thinking about people I knew who wanted to move to a country and was successful in doing so, through visa applications, finding jobs with sponsorship or whatever. I realise it's not easy, just trying to play a little devils advocate.
Count me among you as well. My task, as I understand it from the perspective of someone who wore out his liquor license years ago, will be to distill the later and, um, less well-thought-out ramblings into an uber-idea to steal and run with.
I agree. I think the top post on Wappr actually killed the concept. I'll be keeping an eye on this subreddit because it definitely has some decent ideas. And even if you don't make exactly what someone asks for, it is good to get an idea of what kind of apps average users want.
Apparently it was not homebrew; here are a couple articles saying that he rented the equipment from the phone company. So the dial-a-joke thing might have been entirely legit.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/woz.html

http://www.woz.org/letters/pirates/07.html

I'm guessing that when the article describes the dial-a-joke service as illegal, it's confusing it with his blue-box antics, which occurred around the same time. According to the following article (a fun read), the blue box preceded dial-a-joke; he got the inspiration for the service from a dial-a-joke line in New York that he called while demoing blue boxes to potential customers:

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/the_merry_pranksters_of_mi...
Nintendo and Google partner up for a search engine game...
linkbait?
Right, but if you were to change the battery in your Prius (and publish instructions on how to do it) you might void your warranty but you're not going to get sued under the DMCA. It seems insane to me that something that could have dangerous side effects (changing a battery in a complex vehicle) is less regulated than code.
Yup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240171

I also wonder how useful virtual memory would be on a device like iPad/iPhone. With limited memory and no multitasking how often would address fragmentation be an issue.
The story of getting Next ported to Intel, and it made the difference in Apple buying Next instead of BeOS, was great.

The behind the scene handling of Steve Jobs is classic "managing up."
That was pretty much my original point about giving up consistency to achieve (write) scalability. E.g. CouchDB is based on that principle: You can write to all masters in parallel and the system provides a mechanism for resolving the conflicts afterwards.
I'm really, really intrigued by the base-64 assets with an MHTML fallback technique for reducing HTTP requests. What is the best way to do this without using Cappuccino?
No, Jobs is entirely consistent. He brought this up as an example of what made Rand great.

It would be a "taste of his own medicine" if Paul Rand's terms resulted in a bad outcome for Jobs and NeXT.

(Also, I really like the products that Jobs makes, because they're really well designed and conceived. Apple products are great for the same reason that Paul Rand was great.)
Have you looked at Appcelerator Titanium? That will give you native iPad widgets.

I haven't used it yet but I've been planning to dig in.
Yes, but Touchscreens weren't an invention of the iPad, or even the iPhone.
I thought the original Apple (Apple I) was the version that came as a kit.

Wikipedia agrees. The circuit board was complete, but the purchaser needed to "build the case".

However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I
Smarphones have always been horrible. Have you ever tried to install a JavaME app that does something more useful than storing a high score on a phone? Or dealt with this symbian signing nonsense more than a year or so ago (they made it slightly better with the signing web service since then, but it is still a hassle)? You always have to cope with some certificate authority protection racket, apart from the interresting APIs.
The openneess if the iPhone appstore is par for the course here...
Patient Health Records: Reality Check
A post that describes the current situation as it relates to a national initiative for building a securely accessible system of patient health records (PHR). The industry is a long way off and the idea of patient’s manually managing their own health record is crazy (Microsoft, Google).
I would have to disagree with the other repliers that this is cultural. I was born and raised in the US (assuming that is the culture the article was working from), and I very much agree with a lot of what you said.

I have a decent number of healthy friendships, where I cherish and seek out those deeper conversations, where we both goof off, or nerd out or something or whatever. Some of those friends are girls and some of them are dudes. Sure the female friendships are more likely to end up that way, but I would argue that the length of the friendship and time you put in are bigger factors in terms of getting to the "My girlfriend just left, holy fuck what happens now" kind of conversations.
Tell HN: you can pick up a WiFi iPad today and trade it in for a 3G later
If you are waiting for the 3G iPad, you can actually buy the WiFi version now and then trade it in for the 3G version (plus the difference) without a restocking fee when it comes out.
Those aren't criticisms, at least not in a technical sense, they're broad philosophical concerns that apply just about equally to any technology you want to adopt, ever.
No they're not, a "big reason not to use Cassandra" would be "it has critical bug X" or "it's missing critical feature Y".
It's all about execution.
I would interpret that as a compromise where C, A and P are divided into some ratio (you still don't get 100% of each). I understand Cassandra does that well if the application fits the model.
Ask Steve Jobs: Do you read HN?
Taking a shot...
maybe so, but the community here wants to know WHY?
He had a butterfly tattooed on his chest (predated his imprisonment as I remember). A South American Indian with whom he stayed on one of his escapes was so impressed that he had him do him a tiger's head using only a bone needle and alchohol for sterilization.

Papillon is the first book I think of whenever anyone asks for a book recommendation.
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Everything you need to achieve massive wiki success (domain, similar domains, wiki, slicehost account, etc) is included.

Another note: I was just told that our pagerank fell from 5/10 to 0. Probably happened a few months ago from wiki spam that we've been strugling with. If you implement a captcha you can might convince google to restore the PR.
I simply love this idea. I wanted to create a calendar app and I'll clearly remember your idea if I have the time to do my project.
So obvious, but only in retrospect. This is insight at its best.
Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club
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Seems like an idea worthy of some testing and tweaking.

I could go for a 3-column (or row, depending on display type) calendar, where the first column shows today in detail, the second column shows the next week in lesser detail, and the final column shows the next month in even less detail.

Perhaps clicking on a given day would bring that day into the first column and adjust the rest of the calendar accordingly. A big fat "today" button and arrows to skip by day/week/month would be fantastic.

(As the OP says, a better artist would mock this up. I am not a better artist. Sorry.)
I really don't see the apocalypse others are seeing here. It's probably because I spent 1.5 years on a solaris box at home (from my normally mac life), nicely insulated from the fix of the mac way.

Yup, Apple's consumerizing computers. It's about time, really. I'm rejoicing: I won't have to help fix people's iPads with network settings, app install/uninstall/reinstall, rebooting, or anything else. It'll solve their simple problems without unnecessary complexity.

And I won't buy one. It's that simple.

Instead, I think it's a wonderful time to hack. I really don't understand what the problem is. Gnome is actually pretty nice now (before OS X I was a linuxer from ~1995 to 2001, coming back now it's pretty nice!). My Nokia N900 is a wonderful little linux-based phone, and it's the stock software stack on the stock hardware!

I still mourn Sun, and will for a while. I'm looking at replacing my beloved Ultra 40m2 with a stock supermicro mobo/case combination. Linux will fly on it.

If I don't want that, I can build arduino kits up myself! If I want more power I can pick up a high-powered arm dev board with a display controller, wifi, ethernet, and plenty of storage and ram to hack! Otherwise I have a pc, with an open OS!

In my book, us geeks have been hogging computer technology for too long. We have everything we need, and it's time we stop making everyone else suffer for our thoroughly-satisfied needs for openness.
The current airlines are subsidized, too. If you want to fly to Small Town, USA, the airline isn't making any money. It's paid for by the people that live in cities that can actually sustain an airport.

The reality is that it takes 6 hours to fly across the Atlantic now. The reality is that 10 years ago, it took half that. That's not progress, even if it is profit.
I recently found and implemented a nice jQuery calendar plugin called FullCalendar in a client site I'm working on. It was terribly easy to integrate into the site thanks to Django. I think I'm going to tinker with it now to see if I can get it to use this type of display as a view option, since it already offers different view options.
There's not a single statistic in this entire article.

True that. This is a very common shortcoming of many blog posts, but that doesn't keep those from being submitted to HN in great number.
Right, and now Swank/Slime does this. Not to mention whatever Eclipse does for Java, etc., etc.
Cloud computing could save the federal government billions
I doubt that's true...there weren't similar programs for iPhone when the 3G or 3Gs were released.
The point that was made above was, "there has been no progress because demos from 15 years ago had as good as graphics as HTML5 games have today".

But the difference is that HTML5 games are games, and demos from 15 years ago were demos. Writing an entire app like you write a demo is quite difficult; hand-optimized assembly takes a lot longer to write than Java. The improvement over the last 15 years is in the programming language tools and runtimes, not the graphics that the programs produce.
Considering that the Android product options prior to November were pretty weak, the momentum in Android is partially based on decent products finally being available to consumers. Unfortunately, I think Google's N1 distribution strategy isn't helping matters.
Last Week's Tech News:

Ars Technica -- "Week in __________"

- Tech: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/week-in-tech...

- Apple: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/week-in-apple-veri...

- Microsoft: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/week-in-micros...

- Gaming: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/04/week-in-gaming-e...
But how is that, as guelo said, a "web job?"
It's a bit easier in a managed framework like Cappuccino, since we have the opportunity to swap URLs before using them. Typically you ask a "bundle" (CFBundle/CPBundle) for a resource's URL, and it will give you back a data URI or MHTML URL for that resource if it has one and the browser supports it, otherwise it will give you the individual image's URL.

In JavaScript you would need a similar layer of indirection. I don't know how you would do it for CSS (presumably inlining them directly in the CSS?)

jashkenas mentioned he was using the data URI / MHTML technique in Jammit for Rails (http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/) but I haven't looked into the details.

Also note we do runtime detection of support for data URIs or MHTML. There's a version of IE (IE7 on Vista, I think) which we have to fallback to individual images for.
I agree with this. Part of the problem is full featured computers have been the only game in town for a long time. Really they have been oversold to people who only need something like an iPad. I just think it's disappointing that, given a chance to learn and explore, most people choose not to. Certainly literacy is much less of an obstacle than computer literacy. Maybe it's too optimistic to favor a higher standard. The barriers between information and people have never been lower though.
I feel like I'm not one of those.
Why does github have to do this? You can do it yourself.
We're building an iPad web app and this is exactly what we need. I hope Apple releases docs for it; failing that, I sure hope someone reverse engineers it.
Ask HN: Do you need to shout anonymously?
I was thinking about using FreeBase (www.freebase.com) in a project and come up with a small website where you can write (shout) to some public figure anonymously. Do you think you want to use something like that?
Google Calendar has an Agenda view which simply shows your upcoming events as an ordered list. I use this as my default view and use the monthly view when scheduling new events.
Canon T2i just came out as what looks to be the successor to the Si (Sx? I forget). I believe it's around US$800-900 with an 18 - 50-something starter lens. I saw a mention of low noise up to 3200 ISO equivalent, and it does 1080p x 30 frame/sec video. If you're going for a starter Canon, I'd include it in your evaluation.
Mona Lisa heist of 1911 concealed a perfect—and far more lucrative—crime
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>Researchers say women's friendships are face to face: They talk, cry together, share secrets. Men's friendships are side by side: We play golf. We go to football games.

That mode of friendship sounds terrible to me. I'm male and I like to be active with my friends (biking, hiking, going to shows, etc...). However, talking about the important pieces of your life (the happy stuff, anxieties, depressing things, etc...) atop a mountain or over a beer are absolutely essential. I feel like the author is foolishly generalizing from his own social life. I would probably feel alienated and unsupported if I had friends like his.
This class level may start out a bit simple for a lot of hn people, but it might fill a niche as well. The idea is to have very short, very simple ideas taught quickly (10-15 minutes, including examples), followed by 25 minutes of questions and answers from the class.

It's all free and done to help out the community. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them (though I'm not the one teaching it.)
I'm in...but when is the cut off time to finalize the date and location?
That's brilliant! I imagine that those will be everywhere very soon.
The Backpack Calendar has a default 6 week view with the current week at the top. The only way to see previous weeks is to expressly go back in time. Otherwise, you're always looking at this week + 5 more weeks ahead.

http://backpackit.com/calendar
The winners get to write the history -- and in the end, more people had more to do with Pagemaker, Illustrator and Photoshop (which were, in practical terms, Mac apps) than they did with the far-more-spectacular (for the time) Video Toaster and Caligari (Amiga). It's never been the machine; it's what people can do with it. If prosumer video was more accessible and lit more imaginations at the time, we'd be singing a different song today.
It's all in how you do it. I know plenty of businesses that have gone nowhere but up buying good lists and emailing them in a personal-feeling manner (with clear unsubscribe instructions. It's not legally spam-- and if your audience isn't geeky, it's not generally going to piss them off.

I also once heard that the thing that made Art.com into a huge business was buying the pottery barn list, cross referencing it with new home buyers, and sending catalogs to the resulting list.

We've never done it-- but I don't think it's universally a bad business decision.
Sounds like a request for... ah... a magazine (eek!)
You lost me at ringtone.

My 3210 (10 years ago!) you were able to program your own ringtones (in the little beeps that it could produce)

Most other nokia's (my 6110) - to use a ringtone it was a case of put an mp3 file on the phone - then select the mp3 as the ringtone.

Do you know what you have to do to get a ringtone on the iPhone?
While I agree with many of the detailed points made by others in this discussion, I can put it very simply: it makes me feel like I'm not a member of the culture of the company.

And companies have to be pretty professional to tolerate some of their staff being from different cultures (narrowly defined) ... and one making such a advertisement sure doesn't sound professional to me.
502 Bad Gateway.

Nginx is a great choice however :)
That covers the first point of the article. Anything available for the second and third points?

I don’t care about present-and-future items with equal granularity. I wouldn’t mind seeing today in an hour-by-hour view, but I don’t need the same granularity when showing events three days from now.

If I switch to a more granular view for today, I lose the ability to see any of what’s happening next week.
Wouldn't that qualify as "only if they can help solve it?"
Is Twitter pulling a Facebook?
Where is the class? Online?

Also, minor nitpick about the blog -- it blocks the normal functioning of the back button.
This link works for me: http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/07/ron-conway-explained/

Could sharpn/a moderator replace it, please?
My problem with the iPad is that it's more closed than it needs to be.

Ah, but it's not if you want to sell content. As most jailbroken iPhone users show, the first order of business is to download every app that sounds interesting - for free. Now, I am not anti-piracy. Applications have often become popular through piracy, and that results in eventual conversions. But in the past, the default has been a lack of protection with great effort required to enforce copyright. This favors the establishment who has the capital to develop protections and enforce them. The iPhone/iPad is a different model, where commerce is the default. Want to sell a $1 app? Trivial. Want in-app commerce? Trivial. Where once you had to build a web service that required 24/7 support, you can now build a standalone product and be done. This is the lone developers dream.

But it is also the hobbyist's nightmare, and that's why the makers are up in arms. Since we happen to be hanging out in their camp, it sounds like this is an unnecessary evil, preventing us from "owning" our devices! But really, you need to see both sides to this: by enforcing copy protection by default, Apple has created a panacea for the starving developer. Write something good, something useful, something fun, and you will get paid by the masses. And when it's all said and done, you don't even have to use one yourself.
Wow, John Grubber loves an Apple product?! What's next, the sun rising from the east tomorrow morning?
Andrew, it looks like the audio feed in iTunes is stuck. I've been itching to hear the latest episodes.
IBM: Digging itself in deeper - ESR
Really? You must have visited at the exact moment I restarted the server. Yeah, nginx is great, it's the default at WebFaction.
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Digital Economy Bill (DMCA, but even worse) passed in UK
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very happy to hear them.
FWIW, in Japan QR codes are already ubiquitous.

Practically every Japanese cell phone has a built-in utility for reading bar codes. Any printed advertising material that contains an URL will also have a QR code.
Ask HN: Passive income?
So far what I know is Adsense (or website advertising) and µstock (like selling photos, themes, scripts...)

Any other idea to make a passive income (with little or no support)?
"Those of you who doubt that the pixels-per-inch resolution isn’t high enough, just wait until you see the type rendering on this summer’s new iPhones."

Hmm, well that's interesting.
> I remember reading Robert Scoble talked about you, guys, like he invented it himself, like SmugMug was his baby.

Scoble does that shit with everything -- see how ridiculous he got with FriendFeed (and how much of an ass he made out of himself at Startup School)
Thanks for the reply.

So what would you say is a bad deal in terms of shutter activations? A guy on craigslist now is selling a Canon 40D with 60k clicks for $1000. Excessive?

I don't know if a full-frame would be worth it at this point. Seems like it'd be quite a bit more expensive.

Getting EF lenses is good advice though - thanks.
Does anyone here have experience working with Ron? anything else to add?

I really enjoyed reading through this article.