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I think the biggest reason you don't see a hypercard clone take off is that html/javascript was inspired by hypercard in the first place, and the barrier to learning basic web development isn't much higher than hypercard-like tools. A beginner friendly IDE that inspires creativity could be neat though.
Because I wanted that trendy "fork me on github" badge on the website. And for that a code repository has to exist :)
"... how long would it really take [] to release one ...?"

Not too long.

"... how long would it really take Microsoft to release one ...?"

Lemme check the Gantt chart ... somewhat longer.
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All I know is that I love being part of a community that gets that joke.
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Who says oil can't be produced? I mean, it doesn't make sense to use it as a fuel source since you'd have to put in at least as much energy as you'd be getting back out, but you can still produce it.
Faulty analogies. Computers are not cars. Web clients are not gaming consoles. The iPad is a closed client for an open system.
Yes, that quote seemed odd, so I looked deeper at Le Guin's position.

* Most authors weren't represented in the Google Book Settlement, though they will be severely affected by it.

* The settlement is extremely complicated, and it's difficult to put across all her objections in (say) the span of an interview.

* She does want a global digital library, but not under the control of a corporation like Google. Google of course acts in its own interest (and those of its shareholders), and is not even minimally under popular control.

I agree with these points. However, I wish she'd discuss (more than just in passing during an interview) a fair alternative to Google -- one which is free-as-in-freedom and compensates authors/staff. (Or did I miss it?) Because digitalization is very important, and authors' interests do conflict with those of consumers, under our economic system.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/02/conversation-ur...
There is a big trade off the other way. Android has a terrible UX. There are a lot of examples but one is their store. App prices are listed in Dollars, Euros, Pounds, and Yen and that is just a small sampling of apps I've seen. What you gain in openness with open OS you lose majorly in polish and usability. There is no perfect platform that satisfies all needs.
I would agree with you that this seems to be Job’s view of the whole DRM thing, but it’s certainly possible and plausible to parse Job’s actions differently. If you squint your eyes a bit it can really seem as though Jobs wanted to look like the larger than life crusader against DRM. That’s clearly not what he is. If you think Jobs wanted people to have that impression (which is what Cory Doctorow seems to think) his actions begin to look hypocritical.
You've never accidentally stepped in dog shit? Especially in NYC it seems to be everywhere (at least on the Upper East Side).
Apple has a negligible global penetration, and I believe iPad will have a user base smaller than 1% of the total number of computers in the globe in the next 5 years, so even if Apple intends to be evil this will not affect any would be developer. Maybe in the US the case is different, but the iPad will probably not affect how a guy in China, Russia or India learns how to develop an application.
I was replying to the "open computers" statement of which I took to primarily mean operating systems. Which unless you call Mac OS or Windows open, IMHO my point re: linux still stands.
This is quite discouraging to read - the author sets out to correct many common misconceptions but ends up introducing many more - (e.g. electrons don't "hop" from atom to atom (there are some quite useful models of metals based on hopping), metals bend because electrons "fill in" the gaps)

Reading this reminds me of the importance of mathematics for placing a hard edge on vague and potentially confusing terms like "flow" "current" "energy" "store" etc. etc.

I wonder if it is possible to give 6th graders correct intuition about electricity without math?
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> Android has a terrible UX. There are a lot of examples but one is their store. App prices are listed in Dollars, Euros, Pounds, and Yen and that is just a small sampling of apps I've seen.

That just means that Google didn't do a good job at designing their app store. Why does it have anything to do with imposing restrictions on developers?
Mac and Windows are open compared to the App Store; they're just not open source. The market needs openness to foster innovation, but it doesn't necessarily need open source.
Fair. Of course, the whole thing is a simplistic rhetorical device; real life is complicated.

If you really could expect full marks in "be a man of character" and "treat her right" categories -- if you were some mythical combination of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Jesus Christ, perhaps you could redeem a fairly self-centered wife. Those are, after all, men who made their names by succeeding at redeeming evil cultures with little more than compassion and force of character. But it'd sure be difficult and painful. I'm not claiming things would "work out" easily even in the best case, and that's the worst one. Most folks really can't expect straight A's there. Most folks, if they're honest with themselves, are shooting for more like a C+ and maybe don't even always get there. So in a way, how my model handles that corner case is academic.

My point by assigning such a low value to who you choose isn't that it doesn't matter at all -- of course it does. Of course you can easily doom the whole thing to failure (short of heroic measures) by marrying an utterly irredeemable jerk. My point is that it's not a relatively big contributer. And I'm strongly of the opinion that it isn't. Stick to quality women, or even just decent women, and the other factors dominate.

Over ten, fifteen, twenty years of marriage, the single largest factor in who your wife is, is who you are. And vice versa. Her criticisms become your defensive sore spots. Your generocity becomes her avid interest. Your callousness becomes her indifference. Her complacency becomes your disinterest. And on and on. After many years, every groove in your soul matches a cusp in hers, and vice versa. There's feedback. There's resonance. That's why the quality of your wife is 120% you.

You grow to be like who you hang out with. You rise to high expectations or sink to low ones.

Do you want your wife to be beautiful at 35? It doesn't matter whether she was a 6 or 10 or 8 at 24 when you married her. It matters whether you've been buying her jewelry, telling her her beauty is worth sacrifice and expense to you. It matters whether you've been telling her she's beautiful, encouraging her to experiment with new shoes, or making fun of her when you find her with green goop all over her face. It matters whether you criticize or support, because her outward appearance is a measure of her self-esteem, her confidence, and whether she thinks being pretty is a hobby worth keeping up with.

Do you want a sexually engaged wife? Make sex something she loves. Be generous. Be romantic. Be attentive. And wait five years.

Do you want a kind and generous wife? Be kind and generous. Do you want a wife who understands you? Talk to her. Do you want a wife who is not annoyed with you all the time? Listen to her criticism, don't defend yourself, change your behavior, explain in tenderest and most loving tones what has been misunderstood.

To optimize your wife, optimize yourself. Because marriage is really long, and after just a few years, she's mostly who you've made her.

(Goes the other way, too. But this place is mostly guys).
If you read about the DDG architecture (posted extensively in DDG threads here, and also on the blog page), you'll see that there is no one plug that could be metaphorically pulled.
The wide-framed automated loom is an outrage! It is the tool with which the factory owner will crush the artisan.

Have you seen working conditions in the factories? Soon all goods, not not just textiles, will be produced in such a manner. Workers will be treated as machine parts, replaceable and expendable, with all power in the hands of a few. This is what the automated loom will bring! Not just economic ruin but the enslavement of society!

And what of innovation? For 300 years every artisan learned every aspect of his craft, and in doing so contributed to its growth. How is innovation possible, with all production concentrated into a handful of corporations and run by a multitude of drones?

Down with the automated loom!
When the courts step in, what would be the downside to converting the interest rate into one similar to a savings account or bond? The credit card companies are for-profit companies that take some amount of risk in their business. So essentially, they gave out too much credit to a set of people, how much of that do they eat? To me it sounds like an almost optimum situation for them to have someone's wages garnished, and they're still accumulating interest at over 27% and they're making close to no headway on the	repayment. Why wouldn't they want someone to be in that situation? In addition to that, they've probably decimated these people's credit. I'm all for living within one's means but some of this is absurd. It	seems like they	almost have no choice but to declair bankruptcy. At what point to you	hurt the credit	card company for making	a stupid decision to even give these folks credit?
> Just look at Linux on the desktop. :)

I use it everyday, make a nice living out of it and love it, so good point.
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Yes, meaningful access to the original high-resolution images. By "meaningful" I mean stuff like downloading everything in a zip archive ($10 says fb doesn't do this) to working with iPhoto, Picassa, Flickr, etc. I would even be willing to. pay a couple bucks to download high-res images in a zip file

I promise you if fb doesn't provide decent access to the high-resolution images, DivvyShot will be reinvented by a different founder under a different name and offered up as a paid service. Yep, its that valuable, and Flickr has proven people are willing to pay for this stuff.
If Linux had the market share that Windows did, you can bet your last dollar Linux would be as bad off in terms of spyware, virii, etc.
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What's funny here is that he says that he wouldn't follow a Kim Kardashian tweet, but he would follow a Clay Shirky one, therefore the ROI is lower with her.

What he seems to miss is that people who _do_ care about her celebrity enough to follow her will probably get a better ROI from following her links than they would from following a Clay Shirky one - because they have different tastes and interests to him.
The (yearly) $100 fee might not be negligible compared to the price of the device (it's still 50% of the price of the cheapest iPod Touch), but if your child already has (access to) a Mac and iPod Touch or iPhone, I don't think it will be that much of a problem.
> And if the consumer really wanted an open system, again Linux on the desktop (Ubuntu?) should be have much more market share than it does.

Not really, the thing is that MS has a monopoly on the desktop, hard to reverse that trend. Look at Apple, even with their billions of dollars in revenue, they only get 5% of the desktop, Linux is at 1-2% with $0 in campaigning, so not that bad really.
This is an awesome idea and could be awesomer if turned into a full news website instead of just a blog, with multiple editorials and pictures and shit.
Really? As I recall, the iPhone had roughly a two-year lead before anything similar came out. In the case of the iPad, we're seeing clones coming out before the iPad itself.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1235399
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To lotharbot. Almost eight years. He does this stuff right most of the time, and I'm a good wife most of the time. That's how I know what works.
This does not hinder someone from developing software, which is what "op" was under the impression of.
Maybe facebook should acquire dropbox...
Is it kosher to deduct your new iPad from your tax bill?
Anybody here doing it? What are your thoughts on a web developer writing a new toy off on Uncle Sam?
I have a feeling that will be something tackled down the line with a 'premium' paid account. Divvyshot seems to have this as a future offering as well.
Is this a serious comment? If you write your own software towards your own definition, then, by definition, others have different definitions, thereby making things inconsistent.
I can see the recent disaster in Haiti playing a key part in Haitian Creole taking priority over Latin.
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They aren't foregoing life to own a bigger house. Many of them are foregoing their own lives just so that they can feed, clothe and educate their kids.
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We have a service called The Wedding Lens that lets you do this: http://www.theweddinglens.com

Group uploading, full-size resolution uploads and (bulk) downloads.
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I don't think you truly understand just how much of an effect Facebook has on people's lives.
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I was merely addressing an inaccuracy in your post. And sure it does: there are tons of scenarios where the Simulator doesn't work like the real hardware or doesn't work at all: location-based apps, many audio and graphics scenarios, Youtube video playback, etc.
I used to get Hi5 invite spam. Perhaps they're just bitter that Zynga is better at spamming.

Let's face it, all these "social" companies use default opt-in and "let's spam your address book" and other unethical "viral" features - simply because complaining geeks are shitty customers anyway (don't click ads, don't install "apps"), and average Joe doesn't get it and/or doesn't give a damn.
Ask HN: Are web 2.0 to-do lists just hype?
I've tried them all: Remember The Milk, Jott, Tadalist, Todoist, Google Tasks; you name it.

Nothing beats a simple paper/pen or textedit/notepad.

Has anyone here had a long-term positive experience with any of these? That is, has anyone been using one of the above consistently for a year?
Could you add Ninite.com (YC W08). We make setting up Windows machines painless. Free for personal use, $20/month for business. Thanks!
The Seattle alt weekly newspaper, The Stranger, covered you on their blog today. Congrats again!

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/04/02/judging...
You haven't made a coherent argument.

"I came across this" and then you vaguely link to a giant list of features, presumably implying that "disable all plugins" relates to "Flash is the dumbest thing in the world," Also, iPad.

Was this post written by some kind of newsfeed-regurgitating bot? Why am I even replying?
From my experience, good content will be re-tweeted by people (whatever the person). A friend of mine has less than 1K followers, but gets sometimes 30K hits from Twitter (that's 4 months ago). I know another guy with 200K follower but his website doesn't seem to get traction.
I would rather buy a locked-down iPad -- well-executed -- than poorly executed attempts at science fiction (Doctorow's). Seriously, the world is not black-and-white, and Doctorow needs to learn that.
Divvyshot has always stored full-res photos.
Why not write a function that does it automagically and then forget about it?
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My grandmother has boxes and boxes of old photos that are unorganized and as it stands will probably be lost forever soon enough.

I think it would be cool if some company would partner with kodak or wallgreens or whoever is running all those 1hr photo developing places that are somehow still in business. They should be outfitted with specialized photo scanners and staffed with professionals who can help scan a lot of photos quickly. Then these photos could be archived online and partially sorted with that facial-recognition software. Maybe dates and annotations could be pulled off of handwriting on the back of photos if it is clear enough. Some kind of family-tree arrangement would be nice, too.

Anyways, I honestly don't expect Facebook or anyone else to implement this. It is too costly and difficult and laborious. I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it. But there's my suggestion.
They aren't talking about putting up your feet in your own cubicle when nobody is around. The whole rant is about people who do it in communal settings. You yourself said you would take them down if you have company in your cubicle.
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It would be good joke, only... Python has so many ugly web-frameworks, that this doesn't make any difference.
Could you please elaborate on how the use of hashcodes rather than counting numbers for identification on an atomic repository botches history tracking, diffing, or merging?
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Please no...

I want to keep using Dropbox.
Damn recursion.
I fail to see the argument here, Neon is readily within peoples price range and is almost exclusively provided by cryogenic fractal distillation. It costs approximately $33/100g and helium presently costs $5.2/100g. Considering the existing neon producers will only have to modify their equipment slightly I doubt the price of helium would ever surpass the price of neon in the foreseeable future.
Well given what you've told us before, didn't the hours you spent fixing 'bugs' cost you several hundred dollars in time, plus opportunity cost?
Since when have kids not broken the law to experiment? This is like childhood experimentation 101.
I am using Toodledo.com (very ugly web interface but good functionality) with Ultimate To Do iphone app which can sync with Toodledo and it has been working out pretty well.

I agree a To Do list that is not always with you is not an effective list.

I have tried all the ones you mentioned except Todoist and none of them is as effective as my current solution.

Another nice thing with Toodledo is that they have a good and simple API that can be used to make it available on other smartphones as an offline app.
Wow, congratulations.

If you ever doubted your business, you can feel affirmed now. Being bought out by the largest social networking site with a sizable portion of their site dedicated to photos... well, you obviously did it right.

Get out there and do something else right, now :D
Doesn't happen in the UK anymore, since 2008 most UK banks have been part of the "Faster Payments Service" which means interbank transfers generally happen within 2 hours.

At the time it happened banks considered charging for the new faster service as it meant they would lose out on the interest they would otherwise earn from the slower transfer. So I'm guessing that's the same reason US banks are reluctant for faster transfers.
There should be some logic in HN to stop you two from down-voting each other for unrelated reasons. I would hate to see you lose 50 points for not taking the garbage out.
At 1 atmosphere, Neon freezes at 24.5K. This makes it rather ineffective as a coolant.
Quick bit about Gruber and Doctorow
rdesktop works only for RDP v5.1 - that means Windows Server 2003 onwards (if they have RDP TLS enabled) cannot be accessed using rdesktop
...absolutely.
... Which is now going to be closed down.

I have to echo the sentiments of another poster in this thread - what is the point if your startup is just an elaborate job application process? Now a really cool app will be shut down, and a couple of guys will land a job at Facebook. Seems like a net loss to me.
Preservation and proliferation of culture are more important than strict copyright adherance. I am in favor of Google's agressive approach.

But if they're ad-wording books that seems clearly unethical.
Well, if you are homeless, what else are you going to do? It's not like you can walk into a Starbucks and use their restroom (aside: one of the benefits of the huge number of Starbucks in NYC is that they have some of the cleanest restrooms)
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I think most will give you an alert.
I find it harder to type camel-cased names, because I seem to end up mis-timing my shift and ending up with camelcAsed or camelCAsed or even cameLCased names
Heh, was this in response to my "Ask HN" earlier today? :) I agree that these list based systems are always trumped by a text file or pen/paper for portability and simplicity. However, having tried so many list-based systems as well as the "simpler methods", I still found myself just not getting things done. That's why I built http://todoneapp.com, which is really an experiment with a new methodology for doing things. The point isn't to organize you, it's to compel you to fulfill promises to yourself, in a way. This is the system I needed to help me pull weeds. Putting it down on paper wasn't helping. Building a system that allowed me to say "I need to pull the weeds" and at some point asking it "What should I do now?" to be told "You should pull the weeds. Go away and pull the weeds." That's what I needed. It's much easier to do something that "someone else" is telling you to do, than listening to yourself tell you to do it. YMMV of course. :)
> This approach leads to the exact opposite of a consistent UI. Look at desktop Linux.

Ever looked at the KDE desktop? It's much more consistent than both osx and windows.
Why without math?
Over in C#, the implementers decided to give us extension methods so we could inflict this terror on ourselves in a relatively nice way, and left it out of the standard library.
Why should your family care?

Because I don't want them to get taken advantage of. I want them to make informed decisions. And I care about them generally. This is a pretty strange question. If someone in your family worked manufacturing cars and knew a lot about which ones were good and bad and for which reasons, and could just generally help you make a better informed decision about what car to buy, wouldn't you want to talk to that family member about that knowledge?
To be frank, I'm not going to TOUCH a library that contains 400k of base64-encoded zip data.

If it wasn't actually an April fools joke, bad form.
Nice job, Gabriel. I plan to start using DDG. I also am enjoying your work in progress on gaining traction. Many thanks for undertaking it.
Hey Todone -- Nope. Didn't see your post; looks interesting, though. I really like the simple nature of your list. I like that if focuses on effectiveness, and important items.
Government monopoly.
2) Yes, definitely.
3) I'll start keeping track of what does and doesn't work.
About the only useful thing the Apache Software Foundation can lend your project is their imprimatur of enterpriseyness, though that comes with a lot of bureaucracy to back it up.

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", and the ASF practically is IBM!
With something like this it's hard to tell if the author is "dumbing it down" or just doesn't understand the material all that well. He does style himself an "amateur physicist".
Netflix and Redbox cut good deals in exchange for those windows -- they pay less for the discs, and Netflix got expanded licensing for its streaming service. First sale rights aren't at issue. Just look at the Weinstein Company discs that announce "this disc for sale only" before the opening credits, which Netflix happily buys and rents out.
By the same token, I could look at (any) Ruby code and call it the same thing seeing as it is a far enough deviation from 'C-like' languages and I haven't bothered to learn it yet. The "if __name__= '__main__':" convention is pretty well-established in Python. __name__ is only '__main__' when the script is the 'main' script being run (i.e. it wasn't imported as a module/package).