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"Google's CEO hunched his shoulders subserviently, the way criminals do when they're around the police. Schmidt, the body-language expert concluded, is scared of Jobs."

No that's not it,I have it on contact who wishes to remain nameless that he had an argument with his wife an hour before, that and a flux of sun spots has shaken his resolve.

Body language based on a single snapshot, seriously.
Open office handled it just fine, thanks. And the notes are on the "notes" tab of the main display.
If this is what people want (a LRU stack of apps), wouldn't they'd be better off making the dock do this, instead of introducing a third app area?
I think this now can be called "As the Startup Turns" with all this drama.
I'm using FF3.6.3 and I just noticed the Enable Java checkbox is gone now (tools-options-content). Used to be that I would have Java disabled and Javascript crippled, but now it seems Java can't be disabled? Why would this be? There's absolutely no situation where I want to have 3rd party Java code executed through the browser.

Ok, In FF3.6 you have to diable the java platform plug-in to prevent browser java apps from running but it doesn't work. I've got it disabled and the calc still shows up. Renaming the file as mentioned in the article is the only solution. I'd like to know exactly why disabling the java plug-in doesn't work.
"When accompanied by and development platform and strong contracts with major market players this can easily reach the scale of an iPad market and buzz"

I would try to be more realistic about it. Even Microsoft or Google sometimes have trouble building the type of buzz that Apple does. A more practical approach would be to combine your three suggested approaches:

1. Make a concept video of your product in daily use. You can recruit film students in the visual effects department to help with that.
2. Use the video to recruit one or two cofounders and apply to YC.
3. Start working on a prototype of your hardware, software, service, etc.
4. Sell it to Apple/Google/Microsoft and let them worry about creating buzz for it.
Stinks?! Really? Apple have done a pretty good job of backporting features where it makes sense to do so.
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One thing I have not seen mentioned anywhere is that iPhone 4.0 make web apps more usable than before, since it no longer reload the web app every time you switch back and forth from the home screen, as long as it's still active in the task switcher.
You should offer validation services ..

A wants Engish (E1) to French
B translates Engish (E1) to French (F1)
website facilitates C translating French (F1) to English (E2) without seeing the original English copy (E1).

It would essentially double the cost though .. hrm. Or maybe part of (F1) would be translated back into English (E2) for validation. Hopefully is a couple sentences are accurate the whole thing is?

I agree with other posters that the Buyer is at the mercy of the Translator. Its like those people with Chinese tattoos that they thing mean "Love & Peace" but they really mean "Supermarket"
Maybe the answer is to focus on the non-developer side of your life? What else do you do? Play games? Fly kites? What kind of things do you do socially? What about family? Do you have kids? Aging parents to care for? All of those might be areas to explore for ideas.
Why does all this Apple/Steve Jobs/iPad/Eric Schmidt news keep popping up on HN?

If I want to read about this gossip stuff I would go to TechCrunch.
Dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1264353
That might be true. As long as they can preserve a free trade area / customs union, pushing authority down to the lowest level possible is probably a good idea.
The only thing more women is going to cause is rape. I think it's best that they stay where they are safe. Sex deprived engineers should imho have a more gentle introduction to women than suddenly having them shoved in like that.
My favorite line was: "Bad design pokes a finger into the eye of thought."

He even brought out his iPhone & iPad and commented on the easily-navigated UI.

Normal registration was $380 per person, albeit ft students received a $180 discount.

I half-expected him to show some of Randall Munroe's hi-res graphics (such as http://xkcd.com/657/), but alas, it would have been too perfect =)
"No, because people of different genders/ethnicities bring different perspectives to the table."

What does that even mean? What you want is diversity of opinion (so that, if one person has a bad idea, everyone else will call them on it instead of nodding like sheep), and diversity of talent (so that everyone doesn't share the same weaknesses). I suppose those correlate with gender and ethnicity to some extent, but why not try to hire people with lots of different resumes (coders at big companies, startup founders, independent consultants, people who've lived abroad in different countries, etc.)? That would be way more efficient.

"Because if a field is dominated by say, white males, the few women or non-white males are going to feel (frequently with good reason) like they're not taken as seriously by, or seen as being as competent as, the other white males."

Proof? Some fields are obviously like this, but why all of them, or even most of them? If a field is dominated by people who are born in the winter (as many professional sports are), is someone born in June going to be assumed to be less competent?
Here's the moral of this story: stop using XP. Seriously, it's old enough to be in like the 3rd grade by now.
Yes. Relativity's "involvement" here is mostly limited to the establishment of an absolute upper limit on speed which is constant (so far as we know) everywhere; everything else is simple geometry.
I don't think so, the dock works well for "frequently used", which is not the same as "recently used".
I agree, really bad PR and crisis management. I’m just left to wonder, what were they thinking, moving folks from Tucson/ Kansas City with all their dreams just to drop them by the road side; these are definitely not serious people.
Apparently you are spot-on.

The severe irony here is that the reason I'm even attempting this is in response to having recently had my idea oppressed by an equally tyrannical entity (Apple), so I had the thought of taking the concept, re-implementing it using open standards and making it cross-platform and open source...but first I need to build a proof-of-concept.

So garnering this response from the very community I aim to serve and who has been critical of Apple's actions is just...depressing.
Unfortunately, it's dead: http://aws.amazon.com/ast/
I can only speak for myself, but I definitely use task switching all the time. I spent a lot of time with a Nokia N810 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810 before I had a smartphone, and its interface was more like a regular desktop, with a taskbar, etc.
Still stinks though if he can't get the full update.
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Wait, Who Says My Tweets Belong to Google or the Library of Congress?
And when life gives you shit... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpuFeQZCvOI
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I suppose that's the reason he decided to stop blogging.
> The other would be to reduce the size of the labor pool through enforcement of child labor laws, limitations on number of hours worked per week, mandatory and free schooling through age 18, social security programs to encourage the elderly to retire, etc.

Lump of labour fallacy? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy)
Upvote for insightfulness. However, that only works if the people you want to share with also have iPads. If you are a student with a paper to turn in, the ability to print would be really nice. I've only ever had a single professor (just got out of grad school) who didn't require you to turn in a written copy. Someday, when everyone on earth has fantastic e-readers, the ability to print might be redundant, but in the mean time it would be nice to have that on the ipad.
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You can't warn credibly against absolutes right after writing a generalization like this:

> I think you rarely find the guy with the revolutionary idea and the guy that is the determine hard worker to be the same person. The ideas person is normally a dreamer and likes to change ideas quickly while the determine hard worker is diligent and hates change.

These are caricatures that reinforce the false dichotomy between creativity and hard work.
Single 'scare quotes' in English can provide the needed signal to the reader that you are using a paraphrase or exaggerated characterization of a position.
Just buy his books. He does a great job. Hacker News books all the way!
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The title of the article is a bit sensationalist. Especially since the author ends up agreeing with MS's stance.
# lose weight 37862 people
- dieting website - exercise website

aren't there about a million of these?
And this is relevant to hacker news how exactly?
Why, the EULA you agree to in order to use the service.
question answered.
Most fitness or nutrition guides tell people that they should be drinking 8 glasses of water a day.

Considering that the #1 goal is to lose weight, it follows that people listing "drink more water" as one of their goals are doing it as a part of wanting to lose weight.
I think PG's larger idea here is simply: "build what you know." And that is excellent advice.

Either build something that scratches your own itch, or if you're trying to solve somebody else's problem, understand that problem like it's your own.

My first funded start-up was an online English instruction website geared at students in East Asia. We had great software, a great idea, and the market was and still is huge, but I didn't learn English as a second language, and neither did my co-founder, and ultimately we just didn't understand the problem well enough from the user's point of view.
Words always get mangled in meaning when the enter the business vocabulary. "Leadership" is a good example. We don't really need that many Winston Churchills, and probably couldn't survive having them. Nevertheless we admire the quality of leadership want to emulate it. From what I have distilled over years in the corporate world, its practical meaning there has become "Having the guts to suck it up and get with the program."

So it goes with the word creative. No longer will we judge an artist to be creative by considering only the impression their work makes on the mind, without reference to the price of their work. Instead it will refer to the ability to generate unexpected profits with a limited set of resources by "delighting" the customer.

Exit leadership, enter creativity.
"We can state the root cause of the Dwight-Phyllis dynamic as follows: the depth of any transaction is limited by the depth of the shallower party."

There's some interesting analysis to the post - which seems as relevant to game theory as to developmental psychology, however...

Its practical application / warning seems to me (as it resonates with my personal experience, too):

Know when not to enter a game on terms that are stacked against you.

cf: A jogger beside my car challenges me to see who can get to the office faster. When I accept he says, "well, we have to level the field: get out of your car," knowing that with us both on foot his regular training makes him the winner.

i.e., know that there are some discussions where rational-analytic ability are irrelevant. Try talking rationally about politics/religion with a dedicated know-nothing. Or convincing a 4 year-old that he'll someday be interesting in engaging reproductive parts with another human being for the pleasure of it.
This is just common sense. You don't want to install or run anything (besides security tools) until you get the rootkit cleaned up. Any changes to a compromised system muddies the waters and makes it harder to figure out what is going on and how to remove the bastard.
I blogged about this last year and wrote to all three of my Congress-critters. This is legislation written by big-agro and spoon fed to "the best Congress that money can buy." Shameful legislation that is against the public interest. The legislation that was put forth last year would also require home gardeners to jump through the same hoops as large agro-corporations.
The only Unix that has escaped this fate is OSX, because a mega corporation with a lot of foresight, talent, and (most importantly) money, did their magic. Linux will never reach out to the common user unless it receives similar treatment.
Here in London I use streetcar (http://streetcar.co.uk) and don't own a car. It's proved to be a fantastic service.
Apps are better than websites
> future of computing is mobile

my HPC cluster says otherwise
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Congress is taking a best practices system that looks good on one scale (industrial farming) but fails to scale down. Like a PHB demanding that shell scripts be written in J2EE because the former enforces practices better than the latter does. Think of it that way.
Paper replacement device? Far from it. Here are things I use paper for:

1. Cheat sheets! I have a number of pieces of paper tacked to the wall with things I use and reference. It was easy to print out, and put up. The iPad cannot do this.
2. Compare several documents at once. An iPad cannot do this. Many iPads can. The cost, however, is prohibitive.
3. Easy to distribute. I can hand off a document to a co-worker. I'd be less trusting with an iPad.
4. Etc.

Paper isn't useful because you can read from it. It's useful for everything else it provides.

Things iPad and like devices need before it will replace paper
1. Low cost. Sub-$100. Even that is expensive when compare to the power of paper.
2. Easy to share items. Really, I should be able to move a document from my device to another device just like I would hand over a document to a co-worker. This needs to happen cross-devices too. We can do this with email, but email is rather cumbersome with this.
3. Durable.
4. etc.

Look, you ever watch an episode of Star Trek? I remember an episode of DS9 where Sisco is reading through reports on pads. Each pad is digital, but he's still holding up several, comparing reports on each.

Don't get me wrong. iPads and the like are a great step forward, but so much work needs to be done before they come close to replacing paper. The scary part is, nothing that needs to be done on the technical end relies on new concepts, or can't already be done now. It's just implementing it on an open standard and actually doing it.
I'm interviewing Eric Ries of The Lean Startup tomorrow. What should I ask?
It's for tractionbook.com. I should have enough time to get into specifics, which is always my goal.
A cool addition to a very useful project. That said, I prefer using JRuby and Neo4j in embedded mode: the Ruby bindings are very good.
I'm not sure what went through Mark Zuckerberg's head, but I imagine he felt he could do a better job than ConnectU and was compelled to do so.
I really tire of articles that boil down to "Linux can't install because the hardware vendor is stingy with the specs and won't let/help people write open source drivers". Especially when the author doesn't realize it. The core problem is that the people who made your hardware don't want you to run Linux, and the reason why it's important to understand that is no (sane) amount of "extra labor" by "Linux" can solve that problem. And I don't think it's a useful definition of "blame" to "blame" someone for a problem they are not capable of solving. Try putting your Ubuntu on an Intel-based laptop.

And when I say "I tire" of this sort of article, it's not in the hopes that they will stop being written, it's a now-not-so-subtle hint that it's not a very useful thing to post here.
And 7 years (avg) to divorce.
Cool site! I like the design. Clean and chic. I would maybe add a rollover or a button-like image to the "Basic translation" and "Freelancer" div/links because it's unclear that you can/should click those...
Consumed and processed by you, perhaps. The film was released (somewhat shortly) before I was even born. I watched Die Hard for the first time last year. Before then, the only thing I knew about it was that it had Bruce Willis in it. I don't think I'm particularly special, I just don't watch that many old movies.

The point is, spoiling it adds nothing to the conversation: "I watched the movie and you got this plot element that, while important to the film, is completely unimportant to your point ... wrong!". On the other hand, not spoiling it lets anyone a bit too young to have seen it the first time around not have their experience of the film permanently altered for the worse. There is no contest. Don't spoil things, even if it's old as hell. It really, honestly ruins things for some people who are a bit behind the times and care about this sort of thing.
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I don't think so. If the REST server is part of a larger system then I believe that the AGPL requires that the other networked software components need to be AGPLed.

They do have a commercial license (I think that they charge $1K for a 1-server perpetual commercial non-AGPL license).
It was stated that you need a 3GS for this.
Quoted as $5 billion in real estate alone. Given the market you can assume -20 to -30% at least on most RE portfolios.
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Nobody deserves to die from having sex.

The way the world works rarely follows our notions of what's fair or unfair. The laws of nature do as they will, and they are capricious.

Statements like yours really don't make any sense at all.
Hm doesn't seem to work on my Opera although I have Java installed and I quite regularly use javawebstart (for example jabref)
I'm not picking on Taiwan when I say that some aspects of their fortunes are based on passing the buck to the next developing nation. As you point out, this is the well worn path of economic development. I don't ascribe moral value to this or any economic model. This path assumes an inexhaustible supply of developing nations. In the economic models you refer, which nation(s) absorb China's workload? If there is no society left to offload to, the demand side must be reconciled (this now includes China domestic consumption). I don't see the U.S. or China taking this reconciliation well.
He mentions even ObjC compiles down to C. He neglects to mention it does so with the aid of a runtime that a native C app would not have, and is easily detectable.
> 2. Jim Clark is the only person in the world to create three billion dollar companies.

Didn't Marc Andreesen do this too? Or maybe Ning shouldn't be counted until it exits.
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I share the frustrations of others about this kind of article. Popularity isn't the point.

Free software communities don't benefit from simply having a larger number of users who are just as helpless as they were when they were using a proprietary operating system. Having to learn something about the system (even something at the command line -- horrors!) in order to get it working makes you a better computer user, and more likely to contribute help to others who need it. I don't mean this to sound like free software should be designed to "keep the riff raff out"; on the contrary, it should be designed to make it easy for a newcomer to learn something he didn't know before. But I do think that you're missing the point if you switch to Ubuntu or any other free OS with the expectation that you can keep laboring in ignorance of what your computer does. Free software communities don't need such users, and while they may be happy to help them for a time, they can't afford to help someone who won't help themselves forever.
I flagged this article and here's why:

Topics on legislation and its effects are often interesting but direct links to campaign sites don't seem quite right.

Hmmm... now that I write that I don't think that's enough justification. Also, re-reading the article, it does make an effort to make a reasoned argument. Never mind - unflagged.
Doesn't seem to work for me, though I am using IE6 so that is probably the issue.

I think this would be fun, but anyone have any experience making their own envelopes? Wonder if they hold up well...
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These are interesting, but I can't shake the feeling that someone could produce an equally well-written series that drew completely opposite conclusions and I would find it just as convincing.
I'm reminded of a scene in one of the Miles Vorkosigan novels wherein a couple of the characters use a similar approach to get around some high tech military encryption in a pair of communication terminals...
I'll throw my hat in the ring as well.
True, but I think it's a matter of the paths of least resistance.

Let's say there's a 80/20 split, between what is really easy or quick or fun --some subjective measure of "better"-- to do on the console vs what you need a general purpose computer for. At some point, the console is going to win out and those 20 percent items, and tasks that you'd need a general purpose computer for are going to somehow change. Either you'll find another way to accomplish the same general task or tools for the console will arrive that are "good enough". So the question would be, does the console do enough of what people generally do to change the things they rely on a general purpose computer for?

Granted, the successful consoles I can think of are all TV related, and the TV has key advantages over general purpose computers for those consoles (bigger screen, setup to be watched instead of worked on, better sound, etc).
Has anyone tried installing OS 4.0 via iTunes on Windows? The fact that they're distributing it as a dmg made me wary...
I don't get the problem. I could look all this up, but what exactly is bothering you? You don't want me to mention sweden or what's the deal?
I find the weird part about this is you are selling your domains.
I vote no for this move. Find another way to make that cash but keep your domain and your co-founder.

If these guys at bootlab accepted you, there is a high probability that someone else would too.

[who knows post a donation page and see where it goes. I think most of us here knows what survival mode is like, so would be sympathetic to your cause]
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That is a cool trick that I will try. I usually just install the command line tools on each server, write a tiny Ruby script to attach EBS volumes and bind Elastic IP addresses, and put this script in /etc/rc.local - pretty simple to do.
I agree. For certain applications, strongly hierarchical organization is appropriate. I think it's probably best if they're separate per-application hierarchies. The One Tree file system model is really aesthetically appealing to us hierarchically-structured thinkers, but most people don't seem to think that way.

Interesting to note how it's done on the iPad: Photos, for example, are stored in a hierarchy (in certain views at least; there's not a strong sense that the "true" scheme they're stored in is an hierarchical one), but no folder metaphor is used. It's just stacks of images.

Likewise, the "folders" in OS 4.0 are that in name and function only. They are represented more like the stacks of photos, though the objects "in" them are shown as tiled (with a linear view when tapped, for easier picking) rather than overlapping, though, in that case. But an opaque container isn't used.

So, in both cases, the objects are collected without the container being drawn attention to.

This may limit the number of levels of hierarchy that are possible (stacks of photos within stacks of photos would break the metaphor... not that people put real-life folders within folders very often), but most users don't like deep hierarchies anyway, and the extra hierarchy of objects being stored "within" apps helps mitigate that as well as segregate things somewhat naturally by type.

Of course certain tasks will always require deep, complex hierarchies.
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