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I agree, I did the whole accelerated education thing early in my life too, and in some ways it's been awesome and in other ways I feel like I missed out even if my parents or I occasionally went back to something more "normal". I went back to high school (and a highly gifted one at that, with pretty much all honors/AP classes) for just short of two years. But in that two years, as miserable as I may have been enough to drop out on my own for good in the end, I met people and went places with said people that I just wouldn't really have had the same experience doing any other way.

(Not to say one should go back to high school or something as silly, but interacting with your own age peers can be an interesting experience...and one that can be done in many different ways, including meeting up with similarly-situated peers.)

I've effectively been taking classes at colleges and universities for like the past ten years of my life, and my college experience ten years ago compared to my college experience at 16 and then at 20 have not been the same in any way. So I hope everyone going this path realizes what kind of ride they're in for.

All that being said, UConn isn't doing anyone any favors trying to prevent this guy from doing what he wants solely based on his age, especially if it's necessary for his major and he and his parents are willing to foot the liability issues.
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Needs to be a web server you have enough control of to set caching headers for the files in question. If you have enough control of the web server hosting your site, blog, etc., that's fine.

For iPhone it's dead simple to turn an HTML5 app into a native app to get into the app store (see Bank of America's banking app which is HTML versus Citibank's app which is native). There are even kits to help with that: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/27/nimblekit-native-iphone-apps-...

The point of an HTML5 app is that (a) you can use DHTML+JS to develop it, and (b) you can bypass the app store to deliver it.
Great. Now anybody who takes a non-comformist line in the china debate is going to be accused of being paid by the Chinese government. Great way to go with making sure there is only one opinion on this issue.
Yes, but my concern was, and remains, what happens with third party libraries. The fact that I can rewrite my stuff easily does not mean that I can rewrite that stuff as easily.
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So in a business plan you might do something like, e.g., crunch some numbers to guess market size, right? Let's see what happened when I tried that, using the facts and model available to me in mid-2006:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/06/29/guestimating-market-size...

I analyzed, alright. The conclusion I came to -- total addressable market size of 1,500 -- is so ludicrously wrong that it embarrasses me. For added irony, note how I express skepticism that I would actually be able to sell as many as 1,500 copies.

On the plus side that blog post probably took me twenty minutes to write and I never actually acted upon it. (By, for example, shelving the software as not being lucrative enough -- I mean, I did the math, clearly it was doomed as a moneymaking proposition.) I don't think most business plans are that cheap and I don't think most folks promptly set fire to them after printing.
Yup, a buddy of mine works for Accenture and has been in NYC for 8 months now working on this project.
Might as well join up
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It's a fundraising campaign. They're not releasing it because they're trying to raise money and are building the hype. Read the article. Pretty disingenuous if you ask me.
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Minor internet correction, the placeholder attribute has actually been in Safari since 2003. Also, Safari has supported range inputs for quite some time to.
There's a guy who hangs on on freenode/#emacs sometimes called delYsid who uses a braille terminal

There's some info on his webpage at http://delysid.org/faq.html
As far as I can tell, the only step that I left out is "git init".

Switching branches without losing your changes is poor form anyway. You should be committing before you switch. If not, you can create multiple local branches (ick!)

As for removing, it's familiar: "git rm removed_file"
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
This doesn't hurt startups, it hurts investors by making some people who are currently investors unable to invest in certain types of investments.

It could help startups. We don't really know what the effect on startups will be. There's no clear evidence that investment in startups by outside forces is actually good for those startups.

In fact, it may benefit startups in general by giving more of them a more level playing field for longer. A great startup without investment can compete more effectively against a lesser quality startup with investment, so I'm not convinced that this will really hurt startups.

It's no wonder that it is investors who are claiming this law is going to hurt startups. There's lots of evidence that not getting investment can be good for startups, so I'd like to see some evidence that making it hard to invest actually hurts startups.

If startups were more focused on generating revenue to keep themselves alive, we'd be less focused on seeking investment and perhaps be more likely to survive.
No. Every government and large organization has secrets; a small number are legitimate, a larger number are maintained for reasons of venality, to hide incompetence and so forth. The US has a very open society, notwithstanding its various flaws.

China takes a different approach. Not only does its government obscure its own workings from its population, it seeks to cut them off from ideas which differ substantively from its philosophy of governance. I'm not sure that the intent of this is necessarily evil; to mind it's more like an extreme case of paternalism. The Chinese rulers may figure that untrammeled democracy in china would quickly degenerate into mob politics followed civil or externally directed war. On the one hand I find such an attitude most disagreeable and the tactics employed to that end almost comical; on the other hand, the country went through a painful spasm of mob politics during Mao's cultural revolution relatively recently, and it's understandable if they have no desire to repeat the experience. Whatever the reasons, Chinese society predates even western civilization, is historically somewhat more homogenous and also somewhat authoritarian. The long-term direction of such a society changes slowly.
Ask HN: what document management tools to use?
A friend is looking for a simple document management tool. (I searched here and found a similar question with no answers a little while back?). Docley (http://docley.com/) looks good but isn't released and thus well tested as yet. A full CMS like Joomla might work, but seems poorly focussed. KnowledgeTree is definitely overkill and the MS integration wouldn't be suitable. The community (free-gratis) versions of Magnolia-cms (http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/magnolia-cms.html) and Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com/community/) look like possibilities.

He requires versioning, notes to accompany the docs (eg abstract), limited checkout (it's a small firm so just a note of the "owner" is fine), ability to make files available to clients via the web. It would be used for legal and financial docs so it needs to be self-hosted with good security.

There is a low level of technical ability amongst his 5 workers.

Google Docs/Zoho Office would probably be fine if it were privately hosted and readily shareable. There is very little budget available.

We're both in the UK.

So, suggestions? What do you use?
so you are okay with some other guy taking your software for free, packaging it up, and selling it to someone else, but not okay with the same other guy taking your software for free, packaging it up, and giving it away?

I guess there might be a small advantage to it on server software... "you can use my software to run your webapp, but you must charge more than I do for customers to use your webapp." - still, makes it a lot less likely that I'm going to use your software (and any time you step away from the established licenses you incur lawyer costs you don't if you use the standard licenses.)
> Nope, I didn't say the "collectively" part.

You didn't use the word collectively, but we are talking about groups and you kept insisting that I was talking about individuals.

> >Are tomorrow's older folks going to be able to do the same?

> Sure, if the young keep paying.

Hold that thought.

> One way of looking at it is that young people are subsidizing their older selves, while the current generation of older people are being subsidized by their earlier payments when they were young.

More money is being spent on old people healthcare than old people are paying for healthcare. From that we know that their heathcare is being subsidized. We also know that young people are paying more for healthcare than they're receiveing AND that the surplus is going to old people healthcare. In other words, young people, as a group, are subsidizing old people, again as a group. (Yes, within each group, some folks are going against the flow.)

Since the young people's surplus is being spent today, it's absurd to say that their surplus is going to their future selves. If it was, there'd be money available when they got old even if tomorrow's young didn't keep paying more than they cost collectively.

> It's not as if John Smith's dollar bills are marked so you can see exactly who he's subsidizing.

I'm not talking about individuals. I'm talking about groups.

However, now that you've said "if the young keep paying", I'll ask how that's any different from social security. (SS payouts aren't strictly determined by contributions - there's a huge "insurance" portion.) Yes, the variance within a group is larger, but both are intergeneration wealth transfers.

If you don't think that tomorrow's young are going to be willing to pay for your generation's SS, what makes you think that they'll be willing to pay for your healthcare? (If you do think that they'll pay for your SS, it's probably reasonable to assume that they'll also pay for your healthcare.)
Why does NYC need a custom payroll system? Government agencies are supposed to be staffed by employees who can be trusted by the public not to abuse sensitive personal information such as is contained in tax returns. Yet, these same employees are considered so personally untrustworthy by the government that it is justified in spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design a payroll system whose primary feature seems to be innovative techniques for preventing fraud. Is there any evidence that government employees are more untrustworthy than other employees so as to justify such a system?
Enjoy paying for your bathroom break.

Have you considered what ryanair do with the hold space that they don't fill up with pax baggage?
Full, free O'Reilly book on the subject:

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/
"The only valid reason explaining why Bloomberg design will not change is the behavior of its users. Users who favor complexity and clutter over efficiency and clarity to sustain a fictive status symbol."

I really do believe functional design is important, but this article and the comments illustrate the hubris of the design/ux community at times. There are expensive realities to deal with in changing the terminal even slightly. Furthermore the mockups presented are laughably simple.

To the OP's point, trading is crazy complex and for people not in it the first reaction to its esotericism is to assume it's some sort of artificial wall to keep casual observers out. I imagine there is truth to that, but how about this designer actually sit behind a trading desk and try and deal with the stresses associated with uncertainty, prediction, volume and expectations before they pass judgement on bloomberg and their reluctance to rock the design boat.

I expect a little designer onanism from a site called uxmag, but this article is over the top. These people really do think they can wield their designer hammer with impunity.
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and who is to be blamed for that?
Looks cool, gonna pitch this to the rest of the team and see about going.
Right.

Plus many carriers store luggage in 'cartons' - metal containers with the bags stacked inside. These are put on with a special forklift thing. Essentially offloading all of these can happen fast. If you are being super smart, you can stick connecting flight backs in these cartons, and literally just drive over to the next flight and load.
Maybe this is why some people who are content with their lives, happy to not constantly need more, feel like we should collaborate more than compete. Those who are greedy and need more, more, more are more typically hard capitalists. Those who have enough are more socialist.

I have more than I need and I don't mind sharing. Bill Gates doesn't mind sharing. Warren Buffett doesn't mind sharing. But the bankers who are continuing to take money even when they have billions in the bank lobby congress to make it harder for credit card holders to escape debt with bankruptcy.

We've replaced the food hunger with power hunger. There's plenty of food to go around. Plenty of space. But our hunger for money, power, and fame causes irrationally selfish behavior.
Ask HN: Naïve startup idea?
Several months ago I had the thought of building a video/screencast monetization platform where customers could have their own private label 'site' where they could easily upload videos or screencasts and sell either subscriptions or charge one-time fees for their products, sort of like a shopify for video content. Recently, I have read posts here and there about making money selling screencasts and there's tekpub.com and railscasts.com, etc., and it's made me reconsider the idea.

I have found a couple similar offerings but they're not implemented as smoothly or user-friendly as I would like.

So what do you think? Is there a big enough market of content producers that could make this a viable idea?
Awesome! Yeah, I realized that two of the authors were at Adobe and had a suspicion that you might have been an intern there as well, but wasn't sure.

As a computer vision researcher, I guess it sometimes irks me when I see great research work done, but credit for which often falls on the company that commercializes it.

Glad to hear that you were yourself involved at Adobe, and it seems like you've gotten a fair amount of good publicity from this great work. Congratulations!
And before that, Dave Langford's 1988 BLIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_%28short_story%29 (includes link to text, only a few pages, and follow-ups).

Besides the original Medusa/basilisk/cockatrice legends.
722m on a fucking payroll system and it's 7 years behind date. Have you ever tried to contemplate counting the amount of stars in the sky or the number of grains of sand in the world? Your mind just gets blown, because you cannot process the scale of information. The same thing just happened to me when trying to figure out how this is possible.
This sort of license would make more sense with libraries than with complete apps that people can just package up and sell.
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yeah, the chinese government should have thought through giving legs to that accusation..
I think the big difference here between hunter-gatherer and 3rd world poverty is that your stone-age people weren't living in the toxic waste dumps of an industrializing nation that doesn't care about the environment.

Typical hunter gatherers would have had better nutrition and better access to clean water and the ability to relocate/move without the government forcing them into only certain areas.
I don't need plasma of things like that, I'm just happy with my computer. Thanks for the info, I hope to find out more information about taxes.
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£1000 pounds seems very doable for me and my current situation. I'll send you an email just in case you'll have more information about taxes.
I don't think HN is the target demographic for the propaganda - the targeted demographic, I believe, would be more blue collar (if such a category can even accurately describe the social segmentation in China). I suspect most of the astroturfers don't even speak English.
box.net seems like a good fit for your friend, except it's cloud based.

Do test drive the service with a free account. I'm pretty happy with the service
Sounds like a great idea, do you all meet in person or just set up a group video conference? I like the possibility of doing this locally, ideally to meet up face to face.
Yeah. The article certainly IMPLIES that the US government does not do this. That's a little shady, but that's the way all these types of articles are written.

A while ago, when I first got comfortable with Mandarin, I saw an article that mentioned the University of Wisconsin. Being an Alum, I decided to read through it. Now they characterized the UW, as an American university with 'ties to the American Military'. I thought '...WHAT?' Well I did a little research and found out what these 'ties' were, the ROTC program.

ROTC? REALLY Chinese Nationalists? REALLY? Is that the best you can do?

Anyway, you see how the Chinese Nationalists and their Government twisted that around. The same thing happens in the US. I was reading an article about how they tracked the Google Hackers to a University in China with . . . you guessed it . . . 'ties to the Chinese military'. I thought . . .'Oh lord, here we go again.'
I think that popular causes with centralized leadership typically have a mix of grassroots and astroturf support; the question is how much support is of which type. For Slashdot, or the Tea Party movement, or the Daily Kos, my guess is that the grassroots-to-astroturf ratio is _very_ high in favor of grass. I would be surprised if Russia doesn't employ a lot of astroturfing, but they also enjoy a lot of support from their population -- cf. http://www.slate.com/id/2197514/, and I've heard the rumor that Vladimir Putin is the only force keeping Russia from going Neo-Nazi.

China, though, probably has a lot more astroturf than grass. I've had trouble determining how much of the passionate defense of China on the Internet is real (with the same mentality as the defenses of the late 1800s and early 1900s, probably -- a somewhat grating but thoroughly justifiable one), and how much is less than real... it looks like most of it, or at least most defense of the PRC government, is in the latter category. You don't see crowdsourced counterattacks and a memetic "Ode to a Grass Mud Horse" when the opposition is small.
Several times during my education, my teachers petitioned the school to promote me to more advanced grades. They felt my potential was being stunted. My mother, and sometimes other teachers, thought it would be better to stay with kids my own age, so I never progressed.

I didn't get anything out of interacting with my age group. I may have been worse off for it. I was constantly frustrated by my classmates who asked questions and held up the lesson. We went too slow. I was repeatedly asked to help other students with their homework and even test questions. I always won the math contests, spelling bees and the like to the chagrin of students and even teachers in higher level classes. It created resentment that I faced when I became their students in later years.

When I went to college, I had APed out of almost every freshman class and went straight to sophomore level courses in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. I was never treated differently by the older kids and felt more comfortable with them. They didn't mind asking me for help even.

So I see little anecdotal evidence that stunting a child's potential to give them time to interact with kids their own age is beneficial. Really, what does age have to do with it? As a child, I had better conversations with adults than with children. As a kindergartner I had better conversations with the seniors in high school. I went to a school with K-12 in the same building, so it was easier to interact with older kids, which I much preferred and they seemed to be quite entertained by me as well, so in retrospect, I think everyone would have benefited had I been able to progress at my intellectual rate, rather than the rate at which the earth moves around the sun.
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While it's not illegal to take "friends & family" investment, it adds a lot of legal headache and it's something VCs really don't want to deal with. Startup Lawyer puts it better than I can: http://thestartuplawyer.com/convertible-notes/life-is-too-sh...
then why stop at 100?
Sorry you can't. It's something people ask us all the time but it's just not the battle we picked ( so to speak ).

I haven't got personal experience with them but I'm hearing good things about chargify.
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I don't like this scenario as I think it adds too much hassle rather than promote healthy competition, that it becomes a net negative.
Other ailing newspaper sites must be happy about this. All they need to do is nothing (stay free) and they'll get a massive influx of visitors who are gravitating to the next best free sources. If they're small and lean, that might be all they need to sustain them.
At some point you'll be spending more to stop piracy than you're losing because of it.
"More, he confidently states that his product will offer the BEST browsing experience despite it not supporting Adobe’s Flash player (thus discarding a vast majority of web sites), and gets away with it."

Wait, since when do most sites have flash? It is common, sure, but saying > 50% I feel is outlandish. The "Vast Majority" implies it's even higher.
I'm not sure biometrics is really worth it either, but let's not be naïve here, we don't live in a trustworthy society by and large. If you're hiring people on the scale of a city, you're going to get untrustworthy people. There's no use in them putting their head in the sand and then avoiding doing anything that might suggest that maybe they have a few bad apples.

Also, it's not as if anywhere near the majority of those people have access to any given personal information. How many people does the city employee... 100,000? Every single one of those people will use the payroll system. By comparison, how many people have access to your birth certificate directly... 50? 100?
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