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All of your examples still portray uniformity:

> git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git

You are accessing a resource that is partially identified by the username.

> smtp://user:pass@hostname/domain

The username and password is used for authentication to access the resource, but is part of its unique identification.

> http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=krainboltgreene

The mistake actually lies with HN, because part of what should be used to identify the resource is instead a param.

> chrome://history/

This still fits because you are accessing a uniquely identified resource. Just because it is user-dependent does not mean it breaks REST.
Indeed it is -- fixing traits (creating homozygosity) in standard breeds involves intense inbreeding, which also makes normally-recessive and harmful traits much more likely to be expressed than in any natural pattern (inbreeding is normally abhorred by nature). Purebred dogs are far more likely to fall victim to cancers, hip displasia and other ailments that would naturally be selected against.
I still can't help but feel that we're losing something. Where's the next Ansel Adams in this scenario?

The thousand-amateurs argument is like the argument that the world doesn't need professional developers, any amateur can build their own apps with Excel and Access...
Shameless self plug of something that I released yesterday that is REALLY relevant to your needs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1227712

Overall I think that ThemeRoller is good at making themes for "coloured" designs like Mint (soft green), eBay (big and yellow) etc. I think that you could produce something that would match SIGTB easily, because your gradients are big and soft. You will never get something as crisp as Aristo or Ace without getting down to a pixel level and incorporating images.

Check out my other post for how we I use jQuery UI @ work. http://tumblr.com/xjl8127l8
in principle there are good ideas behind this proposed "only accept Open Document file formats idea", wouldn't it be constructive for this article to mention that microsoft word actually supports that format? (at least according to wikipedia).

Personally all my writing etc for anything nontrivial is via latex, a file format which happily enough is human readable (and much moreso than word or odf or whatever), and I can be reasonably confident that if i want to regenerate any documents i have in 20+ years, these files will likely be still machine readable barring cosmic radiation flipping bits or computers switching from binary to ternary representations etc.

In all seriousness though, for all but the simplest of documents, theres a lot of ways that meaning formatting/data can be lost when two different word processors are respectively creating and reading a document file, and thats even ignoring how with a lot of these programs the formatting for a document will be rejiggered if these two computer have different default printers!!
Haha! I was about to quote the same line, thinking that somewhere there's an mythical animals and chimeras protecting organization.
I like this idea, to get business to take it seriously it would be nice to attach along with it an academic study on worker productivity in OpenOffice versus MS Office.
> I think a better solution is stronger regulation of banks. Banks are a major part of our economy, and shouldn't be allowed to make so many risky investments.

The risky investments were pretty much mandated by the regulators that you think will protect us.

Banks must have reserve capital. The regulators encouraged banks to hold lots of Fannie and Freddie stock by treating it specially for the purposes of reserves. As a result, Fannie and Freddie tanking pushed many banks into technical insolvency. (This isn't the last time Fannie and Freddie will make an appearance.)

Regulators also granted a monopoly on bond rating to Moody's and a couple of other companies. Oops - they were wrong.

Regulators also pushed securitization of mortgages to help boost the housing market. They wanted banks to hold such securities as reserve and wanted that to be seen as safe. Their solution, insurance, as sold by AIG, which was heavily regulated.

And, remember Fannie and Freddie? They lied about the loans in their pools, so no one knew how much of the market was subprime. That screwed up everyone's risk analysis.

This crash was pretty much a creation of regulation.

> banks are less likely to get "too big to fail."

If Citicorp is too big, what does that make the US govt?

Regulation is systemic risk.
Haha. Says wapo owner of "Kaplan.edu" that makes the majority of wapos money.

jeez.
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Article Summary:

The real estate market is going from bad to worse. By the end of 2010 about half of all commercial real estate mortgages will be underwater.

According to Elizabeth Warren, the chairperson of TARP, The majority of the mortgages in danger were made by 2,988 midsized banks. She believes the economy will face another very serious problem and “things are unlikely to return to normalcy in 2010.”

Elizabeth also believes the government should “pull the plug” on mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/30/half-of-commercial-real-esta...
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$8B/two months is in the noise.

The 2010 US deficit is >$100B/month, or >$8B in 3 days. (The White House estimates $1.56T while CBO estimates $1.35T.) The 2011 deficit estimates are smaller, but still very large. (CBO says just under $1T while WH says around $1.25T.)

The lowest WH deficit estimate is over $600B/year.
As someone with some experience in both education (I went to school once) and online (I have installed my own internet), I really don't think this will help.

One of the keys to education is motivation, something not imparted by any online learning scheme I've seen yet. It normally comes from interest in a subject, but from other factors too, all not far removed from personal relationships.

I hate, with a passion, the thought of subjecting kids to "education" via screen after screen of sterile click-through slides, or even their slightly fancier cousins, "interactive" lessons. ugh!
I don't see why the json format that he mentioned couldn't easily be made uniform through standard keys (protocol, port, host, path ... etc)
Article Summary:

MSNBC and CNN are both lagging behind Fox News in the ratings. Fox is the second highest ranks cable network in prime time, while CNN ranks 21st and MSNBC is 25th. CNN began it’s sharp decline in ratings during the first quarter of 2010 with the main hosts loosing half their viewers in a year. This is despite recent newsworthy evens such as the earthquake in Haiti and health care reform.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/30/cnn-lost-almost-half-of-thei...
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I recall doing a quick assessment of the UTF encodings recently and coming to a similar conclusion:

UTF-8 is nearly ideal for transmission and storage and is fairly robust for manipulation, albeit it can be the least straightforward to implement(not that app developers actually have to implement it).

UTF-32 is probably most useful as an internal optimization for tasks that can really benefit from a straight scan/cut/paste over even-sized memory cells. You wouldn't store it in your database, but you might want to make use of it in a document editor, for example, to speed up search+replace type operations.

UTF-16 is still substantially more heavyweight than UTF-8, but it can't be optimized into straight memory cells like UTF-32 without breaking the spec. So - unless your needs are extremely specific and you discover a sweet spot in UTF-16 after extensive profiling - it's just not a likely candidate.
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This. I'm tired of most websites assuming I'm an American.
i'm in LA -- i've been trying to attend meetups that interest me. they're mostly out in the westside, though -- i'm in arcadia. getting out there is difficult.

there isn't a specific event to attend, but i signed up for startup weekend, which is coming up. hopefully there will be some cool people there :)
NO SHIT! This is the top link on Hacker News? Is this a fucking joke?

Why are -incorrect- cursory coverage of baseline RFCs Hacker News worthy?
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Article Summary:

The government bailed out Citigroup to the tune of $45 billion in 2008. $20 billion of that has been paid back by Citigroup to the Treasury and the remaining $25 billion was converted to common stock. The stock is now worth $33 billion netting the government an expected $8 billion.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/30/citibank-pays-off-its-bailou...
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Like so many of us know the real learning begins with the work, not the lesson. This is why so many "learn by doing" schools are so popular. Most online classes I've taken are assignment based and have sparse video lectures. While this is great, it's no cure-all replacement for traditional human-to-human interaction. The future will need to transform its libraries into the work hubs they actually are, not just for quiet time studying. I think a lot of PG/Joel/Fried's writings on the "modern workplace" can transfer to the "modern school," where you keep the students close but with controlled interaction (less paper airplanes, more small, private meeting/study rooms with wifi access and decent seats.) Also I see token economies/karma pts and automated skill-set intersecting programs connecting students in such a way they could teach each other. Students would have traditional lectures for their specializations and trickle that knowledge down to other students who only just need the 123's of it. This approach could even eliminate budget costs (very few paid staff members and classrooms) and increase retention (1-on-1 focused tutoring sessions).
My father would also warn you that your teenage children may break into your wine cellar to take a taste of nearly every rare bottle (judging each one uniquely disgusting). This alone can cost you tens of thousands of dollars.
By the way, Felix Salmon is a remarkably good writer to whom you should subscribe. I don't think he gets enough attention relative to how well he writes.
On the other hand, Tcl is extremely easy to learn. Like Lisp, the language barely has syntax. You need to grok 11 rules and you're done. Here: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/Tcl.htm

That page describes the language in its entirety :)
Whenever this topic comes up, I feel obliged to plug David Gelernter's 'tracks and clusters' concept:

http://edge.org/q2009/q09_9.html#gelernter
That's not a "theorem" in the mathematical sense, that's a study. It's an interesting one though, showing how humans perceive space and proximity and suggesting it's biologically rooted since we share it with animals. I'd like to see comparisons across cultures like US vs Japan, and across less herd-like types of animals, like lions or something. And maybe one for fishes, because they use a 3-D comparison. (Maybe I should ask for one with ponies by this point.)
Do not send me an frigging OpenDocument! Send me a link to a web page. If it's not on the web, paste the text into the email message. If it's not text, send me a gif/jpg/png. If it doesn't fit in any of those formats, I don't want it. And if it's a deck of slides, just fuck off already!
Who's this 'we'? I already use Open Office and, for my needs, it is already 10x better than the alternative used at work. Better because (in Writer) bulleted lists are consistent, and it's easier to manage styles.

Having said that, I'll probably not reject your email attachment, instead I'll just make my edits and send it back to you as an Open Document.

As a side note, why do so many people assume everyone else is a stereotype? When people are complaining about their specific needs, all I hear is "All people want to do is...", and "I don't care about XYZ, it should 'just work' the specific way I want it to because that's all people want", and my all-time favourite, "Joe Six-pack just wants XYZ". I've never met anybody with the surname "Six-pack".
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"Why wine isn't an investment"

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Next thing you know, each of those blabbering simpletons in the Windows 7 commercials -- "making things faster was my idea!" -- will be awarded their very own patent.
This makes a lot of sense. Since Chrome OS plans to have a readonly root partition, signed by them, they needed to tweek the plugin API a little bit to conform to their standards.
Current president of the Parent Association of the EPGY Online High School at Stanford University (whew! that's a long name) posting here. The tricky thing about school reform is trade-offs. That's the tricky issue in any matter of public policy.

I thought the experience of occasional EPGY distance learning classes

http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/

(never more than one at a time) when my oldest son was younger was very positive. He was mostly homeschooled, saw a lot of friends regularly in joint classes organized by our homeschooling support group,

http://www.mcgt.net/homeschoolers/index.html

and generally had a lot of flexibility in his education. But then he enrolled in the formal high school program of EPGY

http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/index.html

as part of the inaugural class, and lost

(a) a lot of flexibility in planning his studies,

(b) a lot of face time with this local friends from the homeschooling group (because his school schedule no longer allowed seeing them when they had free time), and

(c) a lot of opportunity to be self-directed and interactive with adults in his learning environment.

A botched online school is probably worse that a typical brick-and-mortar traditional school. A good online school might be very good indeed, and I think the article mentions some online schools that do well, but always the parent must shop.
My password habits have been significantly improved after I started using 1Password. So much easier to have different passwords for each service, and still keep them in the 20 character range. So now I only need to remember a few passwords (My 1Password master password and the passwords I need when away from my iPod Touch or MacBook). Absolutely recommended!
The Patent and Trademark Office prohibits holders of business degrees and software engineering degrees from joining the patent bar or being patent examiners. Those practitioners are required to have other kinds of engineering degrees only (plus a law degree).

Partly as a result, patent examiners do not consider commercial software and business practices to be 'prior art' and patent examiners do not search, even on a superficial level, business magazines, case studies, ACM journals, commercial computer magazines or such materials in 'prior art' searches. The PTO considers that anything in those fields can be patented including common established techniques and obvious combinations.

There has been some talk lately about submarine patents that apply to Theora or H264. One other kind of patent that is likely to apply to both is patents that have not been applied for yet. The PTO seems to have no trouble at all granting a monopoly on existing practices. Microsoft lost hundreds of millions of dollars over in-place editing of linked objects, a technology that had been running on windows for years before another company applied for a patent on it.
This is the recoup on a single $45 billion investment, which is nearly as much noise as $8 is. If your point is just to put the amounts in perspective on the government scale, that's valid. However, the point of the article was not that Citi paid off the national debt, it's that the bailout was not completely flushing money down the toilet. Considering the "omg government waste" hype that was flying around this time last year, the point of the article is the sign of the net ROI, not the magnitude.
Googling the two applications they listed, I get http://thecoccinella.org/gallery and http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=1907....
The problem is a shift to straight online education is too much of a leap. Parents will be opposed because people tend to resist new things while Teachers and Administrators will be opposed because they'll be out of a job.

That said I have some experience in this area (I'm in charge of the IT for an agency that includes a K-12 school). My opinion is that changing education in the near term involves one important fact: Most teachers already get their lesson plans online (we use EdHelper.com)

So the key to making education more interactive right now, IMHO, is to use that fact to provide teachers with more interactive material. Almost all classrooms have computers and projectors these days (we are given funds for them and we're the lowest of the low income because our kids come from our on campus group home and hence have no household income). Meaning a company could provide video, audio and other interactive elements along with lesson plans and almost every school could use it.

So if anyone's looking to create a startup that improves education I'd certainly look in that direction. You'd get a lot further than trying to move the entire education system online

(FYI - If you're wondering how low income schools can afford computers and projectors in every classroom see here: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/11105.aspx)
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Where is the Tokyo HN meetup going to be?
If that's the junior right, then I guess loaning them money at near 0% interest and letting play in the equity market is the major right.

So sad that a mere +8 billion makes headlines when we're going hundreds of billions deeper in the red every month. At the current rate we surpass the mandated national debt ceiling by Christmas.
It just gives you a sense of scale.
I wonder what this poor guy from Bolivia knew?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230939
Congrats Patrick. Good to get out of a Japanese company :). Am in Tokyo myself, and would love to meet you!
So, what you're saying, basically, is that URLs confer no special advantage over URNs—which are specified to just be binary blobs with a schema[/namespace] identifier attached.

I don't agree with this. URLs, in practice, are a standardized format, predicated mostly on how HTTP has handled them. Any active, well-known URL schema will use

schema://username:password@host:port/resource/path?query=parameters&more=with%20percent%20encoding#and-fragment-identifier

as that is what we consider to be a URL, no matter what the RFC says. And that format is useful for encoding a great many things. Just because some libraries have chosen to create things that resemble URLs (such as MySQL, as you mentioned), does not mean that they are URLs as the term is descriptively, not prescriptively, defined.
I think OP's generalization that most average technology users don't care one iota about the openness of their tech so long as it 'works' is dead on.

Have you honestly had a different experience with non-expert users?
I never liked the idea of putting passwords into URLs... it just gives people the wrong idea about how they should handle their password.

To me, URLs and passwords are orthogonal. One says "this is where it is", the other says "let me in please".
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I think the world gets more great artists when the barriers to entry are lower, and there are more amateurs in the field. It might have been easier to name the great photographers of 50 years ago when there were fewer of them, but I think there are a lot of great photographers now - likely more than when it was a less accessible art to get into.
Another angle is that there are certainly more "good" photographers now - I think this generations personal photo collections are way better on average than in the past, because so many people know good photographers, or can take lots of pictures and get lucky sometimes. That's really valuable on an individual level.
'And if it's a PDF, you can go to hell!'

I get what you are saying, and there are a lot of good reasons to believe in using the basic file formats (read: old formats, not better formats), but I think that this is a poor way of looking at the spreading of information.

While a .txt file is accessible anywhere, it is certainly not always more readable. Just because someone could write their thoughts out in a linear fashion, doesn't mean they should. Slide decks are great, and they are sometimes the best option for presenting vital information to a large group of people.

There are good reasons for wanting very basic encodings of thought, but there are also very good reasons to make things more complex (internally) to make them more simple (externally).

Also, OpenDocument is hard to use, as is OpenOffice.
I use latex for pretty much all documents too, including presentations. Everyone can open PDFs, and they print nicely. However, I have not been able to explain why I prefer latex to anyone so far. People just see this weird format that requires an extra step to get a "proper-looking" document, and claim not to see the difference in typography between LaTeX and Word. And no, I don't go around preaching latex to word users - they ask me first :)
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Because its become very apparent how few web-developers understand "web". The more articles like this that point them in the right direction, the better.
That's pretty obvious, because I came up with a detailed system for doing the same thing and I don't run a shipping business. This is an idea whose time has come (i.e. an inevitable product of today's world, manifest as a new idea popping into the minds of dozens or hundreds of people everywhere), because it seems a lot of people have been doing the same thing.
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By the same token, one could ask why the FSF always assume anyone cares about their militant brand of open source.
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OpenDocument is available now, as is free software such as OpenOffice.org that allows anyone to create OpenDocument files at no cost.

OpenOffice may be free, but it certainly comes at a cost. For starters: the cost of learning a new UI. And the cost of dealing with compatibility issues while most other people are still using Office.

For my own needs, OpenOffice is fine. But for those who write a lot more documents, and have more invested in Office, the time cost alone is likely to outweigh the price difference.