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Well, if their statements are anything to go by, we can see what they are going to do differently to try and make it work.

They are moving away from the 'provide the platform, get out of the way, let 1000 flowers bloom.' Stack Exchange is going to be launching sites themselves with a more regimented process that (they hope) has a high success rate.

*After seeing Slinkset (I liked that one), these two, Wikimedia etc. have such a hard time getting successful sites going, I have a new appreciation for forums. Forums work. There are a lot of non ghost town, forums started by non social software gurus.
I am sure there are many in the industry who have similar needs such as yours and wouldn't mind this idea at all. What would be nice is that if the platform had tools for peer review, revision control, etc.
I think he was, but he scrapped it. I don't see those preview links on TechCrunch anymore.
What a great suggestion - a rare opportunity to see this interviewer become an interviewee :-)
upvotes for zotero - unfortunately, I have moved on to Chrome and zotero dont workee in Chrome.
Looks like the zotero team is no hurry to move to Chrome yet:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3955/chrome-compatibilit...

And the official browser support page:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/browser_compatibility
Is there a help mode for inputs like there is for links?
I was thinking more of the (relatively few) cases where someone ends up on the Patrician's bad side:

"The Patrician could not tolerate mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a scorpion pit, one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words."

For the Patrician it was mimes, for Jobs presumably Flash, bikinis and now also satire ;-)
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+1 to this. I wish there were a unified standard for networking scanners at all, actually. The majority of business scanners have arcane features to Email, FTP, or SMB-share the documents they scan. SMB is the usually only thing that invites practical use on a small business network, and the scanner's implementation of the protocol is almost always poor. I've encountered $5k copiers that could only copy to SMB shares on Windows XP, mysteriously failing for Server 2003 or Server 2008. I don't even want to think about trying it with Samba.

Networking a copier is no afternoon job, either. I've seen businesses where setting up their copier on Ethernet was such a bother that they just hook up the fax line instead and fax everything to their own eFax number whenever they need a PDF scan of a document.

My dream is that I could plug in an IP address/hostname to any scanner and I press Scan. The scanner contacts a daemon running on the host on a well-known port and protocol (if it's the first time, the host presents a dialog or something to confirm pairing) and then the file goes shoop over the network into a folder of my choosing.

Why does this not exist! In a networked world, scanners need to be more like faxes, except there is no fax equivalent on the TCP/IP level.
Oh wait...that's an example of official apps. Hence the problem of it being "without consent".
My gut reaction is not outright outrage, but I /do/ feel uncomfortable with this. I think I would have preferred not knowing this happened... somehow it's offensive to me, even though I can't point at anything and say, "That's objectively immoral or wrong."

Perhaps it's just too soon.
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Shopify +1, if they fit your needs, you can't go wrong.
While I don't disagree with canceling the current tactical plan ("let's build Ares/Orion"), I wish he hadn't canceled the current vision ("let's return to the Moon/go to Mars"). Maybe the two were inextricably linked, but seems like whatever efficiency we gain through privatization could just as easily be squandered by a NASA stumbling around without a purpose or motivation.

The counterpoint to this seems to be this:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/13/grand-challenges-2...

...which is a call for the next "Moon landing" scale project for the US to back. So at least at some level they're aware that these sorts of visions are needed, and (possibly quite correctly) the Moon return and Mars landing wasn't it.
Vultures circling or cutting out the fat? Time will tell.
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Ning seems to be looking for ways to piss off its customer base.
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Do they have an agreement with Ning? Otherwise... how do you scrape Ning at scale without them figuring it out and blocking your IP addresses? Tor?
From pre-school all the way to university, it just doesn't seem like the people who teach are the best and brightest any more.

And when did the best ever do it?

When my mother was at Stanford in the 1950s they were into ability testing. They found that the department with the lowest scores on a wide variety of ability tests was education.

Every piece of evidence that I've seen since has supported this observation. While there are some truly great teachers (one of whom died earlier this month, Jaime Escalante), and many well-meaning and highly motivated ones, on average teaching does not attract the best and the brightest. It never has, and unless we really change the rules, it never will.
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I'm trying to figure out how to do a k-nearest neighbour search where some of the dimensions are 'circular', e.g. closed loops. Is this possible? Anybody got any clues or want to get paid to implement it?
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Yeah, but most of Google stuff is closed source too. There must be other things that attract engineers to Google than just some open source projects.
I'm not sure if this is actually true or not, but when those SpaceX flights failed, I sent the articles to my dad for his interpretation (currently works on the Atlas rockets). His response was somewhat comical: "Oh yea, those were mistakes we made 20 years ago. Welcome to the business." heh.
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The Chinese have a way of handling uncomfortable posts. They make them visible to the poster, but invisible to everyone else. That way, the poster thinks no one is interested, and hopefully goes away. Since most people won't even know that's possible, they won't check with another login.

No reason to piss a troll off by deleting his post. Just hide it from everyone else.
I see your point. Switching to an app that isn't in the four most-recently-used apps of the first task switcher screen would likely require a similar effort as using the multiple pages of the home screen.

However, if a user is switching between three or four apps for a given period of time, those apps may very well lie on very different pages of the Springboard. The most frequently used apps are not always the apps that matter now.

Even when you would need to swipe in the task switcher, surely it is easier to find an app among 4 instead of 16?

(Maybe the task switcher really is only useful for a small subset of use cases, in which case your position would seem to be the logical one.)
Dejanews had been archiving usenet as far back as the mid-90s but they (now google) actually have usenet archives donated by others dating back to 1981.
Ning gets tons of traffic. It would be awfully cruel to clamp down on a little harmless scraping.
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Sure, but you know you removed them, so you know you can't use them. Everyone else who didn't can expect them.
There are a bunch of HN startups in the same building as these guys, including us at Timetric (http://timetric.com/), Smarkets (http://smarkets.com/) and Rjdj (http://rjdj.me/).

London is coming. :)
I created this account a week ago, and I have the 20 karma. Getting 20 karma isn't difficult.
It's possible, but Apple generally only adds small features after the initial introduction of a new system. I would be extremely surprised if something like notifications received a total overhaul for the final version of 4.0; I think they would have mentioned that.
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Exactly - combine the 2 and you might finally kill off the dreaded fax machine (which despite being more arcane than the floppy disk, stubbornly refuses to die)

My parents were trying to get a fax machine working over a VOIP line the other day - a 19.2K modem on a 20MBit DSL connection. Makes you cry a little when you think about it.
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Don't forget to make text lines not stretch to fill the window. People with bigger screens will be presented with hard-to-read text.
That's through their own choice, and something they can "switch off" whenever they feel like it.

It's called investment and building.
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Yes, it's ethical.

This is a cheaper way to apply a known-effective wound treatment -- not a speculative implant or drug that's hard to monitor. The participation means more professional attention to those treated. The alternative is not expensive state-of-the-art suction dressing, but cruder care and less attention.

To apply the expensive risk-averse rules of a rich country to a poor country would be more unethical.
now all we need is for someone to get the right head tracking cameras set up for a more production ready solution. how cool would that be!
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What metaphor? He didn't say "If Apple was a country, it'd be China". That's a metaphor. He said "If Steve Jobs ran a country, it'd be China". That's a hypothetical.

And really, do we want to go there? Did several million people die during the cultural revolution, several hundred die during Tianamen, and the continuing abuse of human rights, just so we could crack jokes about Jobs? It seems a bit in poor taste. Otherwise, let's just go whole hog, call him Hitler, paint a moustache on his portrait, and Godwin the whole thing.
I think this paragraph really hits the nail on the head:

Apple has built a little slab of Disneyland with its iPad, which is meant to be an experience unsullied by provocative or crude material. It’s beautiful and enticing-- the company has already sold more than a half million of them in the first two weeks it’s been available-- but it’s not the real world.

Disneyland is the perfect metaphor for the iPhone/iPad experience. It's a closed theme-park, which exercises tight control over what products and services it offers its patrons. It's not an open market, and is not intended to be.

I'm hoping that once people get this, the moral outrage (and all of the articles about the moral outrage) will die down.

Applications that are in violation of the TOS are going to be rejected by the App Store. That means they have to be written in the language that Apple specifies, and meeting the content standards that Apple specifies. If there's content that in "Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable", you're out of luck.

And, of course, it's well within Apple's rights to keep the leash so tight, just as Disney can tightly control which goods and services are offered within the confines of their theme parks. It's not anywhere near a monopoly situation, and there are plenty of opportunities outside the park walls for developers to make and sell whatever they like.
OK, seriously guys? I explicitly asked for feedback and instead I got heavily downvoted with no replies. I tend to hope for better from HN.
Why wouldn't I? Disks, even flash-based ones, are cheap when you're talking about storing music.
Oh yes, the mimes. I guess the exception confirms the rule ;).

To the Jobs list, add non-ObjC languages, VMs and everything that allows the proles to tarnish the things of beauty his company produces.
i think you sort of answered the question yourself. If you truly believe you can get over the hump yourself, why give up equity for funding you may not need.
The analog output is probably fine for high-impedance headphones, like DT-880s or the ER-4S.
"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture," he says. "It just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."

Man this quote from the Pomplamoose guy really does a good job of making a spot-on observation while managing to diss his own band.

He's right IMO. The music and music culture of my generation is self-centered, and pompous (see hipsters). But I still enjoy it. I think by making music that's "very normal and very accessible" you wind up in the land of vanilla like Pomplamoose.
Don't be an asshole.
The best ones live on in time immemorial it seems - Feynman comes to mind.

I should also add Walter Lewin to the list for bringing teaching alive (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-Magnet...)

I don't see why practitioners can't be good teachers really? I had the great pleasure of chatting with Dr. Dennis Liotta (he made the breakthrough HIV drug that more than 95% of HIV patients in the U.S use) the other day and boy can that man teach. I walked out learning not just about chemistry, but also but drug discovery, economics of scale in the developing world, ethical way of making wealth, etc all the while he was teaching.

Perhaps, the better teachers excite, not educate. For the excitement itself is the highest form of education.
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I'm actually not convinced that this is a wrong direction for the App Store. I'm not an Apple apologist or fanboy by any means. What Apple has created with the iPhone and iPad is actually perfect for "regular users". For my mom, for my grandmother. Even for my dad, who is just too busy these days to configure computers and phones, who easily has the knowledge and skill to do so. The ability of these people to do powerful things without having to spend time working on it is actually quite interesting.

I am completely turned off by the direction computing is taking, but people who think this is just a fad are wrong, and aren't looking at the big picture. People buy Apple products because it gives them what they want. Yes, Linux is much superior to OS X and Windows, but the majority of users don't not use it because of some FUD, its because they don't have the time or skill to work with it. Apple is taking that concept to the next level, where anyone can accomplish things in a much easier way.

This won't go away. Apple is being extremely successful, and I see many other companies who are going to jump on the bandwagon. But for us power users, there will always be the hardware that we are used to buying available. Linux is not going to go away. There is just going to be a bigger divide between what your nontechy family and friends use, and what you use. I don't know whether or not this will destroy the next generation of programmers, who won't have had the ability to tinker. I can see that happening. But really, this is not going to be a negotiable thing. This isn't something you can fight against. This is the way technology is moving. We have to adapt to it, not the other way around.
OK how about this one: http://www.apptism.com/apps/kim-kardashian-hot-celebrity

Her "official" app is here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-official-kim-kardashian/i...

Shall I find some more?
Holy Crap! And here I thought I was the only person who's had to break a Civ CD...
Regrettably, it doesn't scale well in my experience. I take part in one large political internet forum (for reasons that are increasingly unclear to me...) where this kind of up/down system was tried, albeit with uncapped totals.

Prior to that users could only recommend posts, and the mechanism was transparent enough that members of a faction would cross-promote each others' posts and employ many other 'turf war'-like tactics to maintain mindshare. After up/down voting was introduced about a year ago, a majority of members prefer it while 25% or so complained bitterly about censorship and all the usual cliches. Flamebait or outright stupidity is now downvoted fairly quickly, but turf wars persist and a negative response to a new thread is frequently seized on as an excuse to start a mini-thread about 'downvoting trolls' and use said 'discussion' to keep the thread alive despite its poor reception by a majority.

Anecdotal to be sure, but with about 2m monthlies and a year's worth of observation (plus umpteen meta-polls, since every community enjoys gazing at its own navel) the trend is pretty obvious. By comparison, HN is populated by wise and kindly Vulcans.
Why can't I have multiple research/academic fields?
If you told people what you were selling that may help ex: Downloads, physical goods, etc
They could have made it smaller. An inch or so less diagonal for the display and a slightly thinner bezel would be ideal for my purposes.
Good luck with your initiative, it's the first time I hear about the idea to create printed monthly from HN content.

What I think would be also useful is to not only reprint articles with some karma point threshold, but to produce complete editorial layer on top of HN forum... like handpick, curate and comment on the best submissions, or map how HN is evolving as a whole, etc... lot's of possibilities when I think about it now.
I think you underestimate what Comcast et al are trying to do to the Internet, with the help of various convenient politicians.

Things like the .xxx proposal and opposition to net neutrality are steps towards the same kind of 'clean, curated experience' you get on the iPhone today.

Thankfully they seem to be getting knocked back every time they try, but only with great expense and effort from groups like the EFF. And they keep on trying new ways to ruin the Internet all the time.
Might be obvious for everybody, but in Safari, you can drop a file on the 'no file selected' text you get after you press 'attach a file'.
A couple of quick thoughts: if Cody Brown's right about the future of news, then startups like NewsTilt have been barking up the wrong tree. I suspect that he's on to something here (and his mentor, Clay Shirky, is pretty supportive of the startup he's doing - Kommons).

Bob Stein, from Future of the Book: "I just read his blog post announcing the new venture, and find myself deeply disturbed." (http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2009/10/theres_...)
I'm not sure, and didn't downvote you, but the "WTF?" in the first comment may have set people off.
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Are they not simply developing within Google's (et al) ecosystem similar to bit.ly in Twitter's? What happens if search engines evolve slightly or ban them? With >$300m raised already an IPO simply smells like an attempt for investors to exit before the whole thing implodes.
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I'm not based out of an area with a reasonable tech sector

I know how you feel -- there were so few decent jobs in tech in the town I wanted to live in, I had to bloody make one to give it to myself.
Where's the problem? Just adjust your distance metric accordingly.

Or if you have a kNN kernel already available which takes inputs in Euclidean space, just map a dimension t into two dimensions, sin(t) and cos(t).
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ctrl+u and ctrl+d seems quite inconvenient given that they're miles apart on the keyboard. two handed page-up scrolling? I guess you need to be a vim user for it to make sense. Presumably the page-up and page-down buttons work too.
What is the science behind vacuum suction healing? Does anyone have information on why this works? I see the theory from the article, but I would love to know more about this.
You are correct, but the basis of the rejection is fundamentally flawed. Simply reusing the likeness or identity of a public figure (eg in a sliding tile game) is potentially an infringement on the person's right to publicity, as well as possibly the originator of the image if it involves commercial photography. Partaking in any profits from such an app would expose Apple to liability and is justifiably avoided.

However, the parodic nature of cartooning, and especially political cartooning (of figures who hold public office), is very strongly protected by the first amendment and masses of legal precedent, or newspapers would be getting sued right and left. Liability is not an issue here, as evinced by the ability of editorial cartoonists to freely ply their trade in newspapers (many examples of which, from large publishers, exist on the iPxx).
This rings very true with me as a user. I know I've spent minutes hunting through a particular website's navigation system looking for the non-existent about page before abandoning the website entirely.
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VW's experimental Passat drives and parks itself, has iPhone app.
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Agreed, I dropped papers for mendeley and I'm recommending it to everyone.
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We all know that app store rules have been applied inconsistently, don't change the argument.

Was the app banned for satire or the use of public figures?
Opera also has it's vim bindings. Works quit OK, although not as good as vimperator.
http://my.opera.com/Blazeix/blog/vimperator-for-opera
(Note: this is not an extension, just a set of bindings, still the behaviour is pretty close to vimperator)
Having something protected by the first amendment doesn't mean you can do whatever you like, whenever you like. Private companies can make private rules. Do you think you can say whatever you like at work and not get fired?
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What's wrong with the .xxx proposal? It seems just a namespace for website owners to accentuate the sexual nature of their content.
All I can offer is that it wasn't buried in fine print. It was clear and it was something we all had to deal with as soon as we arrived in Vancouver. I think that it was unfortunate is one thing, but that it was 'shady' is misconstrued.
Mine too. (I'm posting this because until recently there was no contact information in my profile.)
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The teacher should be spanked.
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I always have a screen session open with htop in one terminal. I take it for granted so much the lack of htop bothers me if I need to do any form of process management.