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Ask HN:  Posterous and existing sites?
Wordpress never clicked for me. I did better with Textpattern but remained frustrated. I started a Posterous account today and I posted all kinds of stuff to it in a fairly short time. At first blush, it appears the whole 'submit via email' format is as wonderful as they claim. I also have a couple of websites that everyone refers to as blogs anyway, even though they aren't. But those sites have donate buttons, Adsense ads and affiliate programs which help pay for my hosting costs and domain names. They also have historical stuff, some of which is organized by subject to try to present an overview of information.

Does anyone know if there is either a means to use Posterous to run a blog on your own hosted site or if it is possible to put ads and donate buttons and stuff like that on a Posterous site? If I could work out some of those issues (and a few other things), I would seriously consider moving all my sites to Posterous or at least using Posterous to manage a portion of each site. For me, not updating my sites with content frequently enough has been a major issue and this looks like it might go a long way towards resolving it. Though running my own sites has caused me to learn a little (x)html and css, I'm not really a hacker and that end of things has been an impediment for me to site development. I have not been able to get site navigation to work right in Textpattern and, well, most (or all) of my sites could probably stand to radically evolve in order to breathe life into them.

Thanks in advance for any information or suggestions.
I love the scores posted, I also love that I don't see any above me (Chrome 5.0.371.0) (yet), but I'd like to see a bit of a better breakdown. Anyone know of some info on some of the conflicts, like I'm missing a few in User Interaction, but I don't know who isn't. Or other html5 statistics sites, since the topic is a pretty common trend right now.

Edit: (Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(H... in case its useful to anyone)

I agree on the fact that there should be some differentiation between current html5 and proposed, (and that this site is hilarious: http://isgeolocationpartofhtml5.com/), as well as some of the downfalls of scoring codec support that the author has mentioned, I think I like the out of 155 idea where chrome can go above it.
After what we've seen lately it seems that many Apple users WOULD love it. The end users are the ones here getting hurt by these grudges - why can't they see it? There are great Unity3D, Appcelerator, and Flash apps that will never be made on the App store. How does that not bother you as an end user?
Codec support isn't HTML5 support. Also, since when was MP3 audio/mpeg3 (which is tested)? The test should be for audio/mpeg. I know Chrome supports MP3.
I guess that'll be impossible.
By On I meant active vs non-active brain areas, I did not mean to imply that an individual neuron is an information unit with the capacity of one bit!!! Information is not even stored inside neurons but is a function of their connections.

My statement is accurate. You can temporarily and manually activate and deactivate areas of the brain using trans-cranial magnetic stimulation and cause all sorts of interesting shifts in conciousness including out of body experiences.
The Reason Twitter Bought Tweetie: User Experience
The reason that Twitter bought Tweetie is that they are no longer content to own the platform, they also want to own the user experience. With this increased interest in the user experience, Twitter has changed their ability to impact the customer ecosystem and how they may try and monetize in the future.
There's also one with Djikstra. Knuth would make a fitting motive, too. Especially for documentation.
I have never heard of it before, but it seems pretty damn obvious to me what he is saying. Not really worth a discussion.
Current chrome-unstable (5.0.371.0dev) on Linux scores 142.
I'm sorry, but that's just not true. As the recent OS4 demo showed Apple has put a lot of work into creating custom features on the iPhone. If developers start using Flash and developing one application for every platform they'll stop using those custom features. If developers stop using those custom features then they make the whole platform less valuable. If that happens then the iPhone no longer holds any advantages over say Google android at which point Apple loses its market share.
Yes, you right. This is very cheap way to initialize ArrayList. I use it too.

Did you know something similar for Map's? :-)
I've worked with agentzh before, and he is extremely knowledgeable and friendly. He's an amazing asset to the Nginx project!
Why you worry?
I still like a range. I mean, fairly recently someone asked me for a recommendation... I did some legwork and found that one of the best people I know was looking around at the time. I made the recommendation, and kindof embarrassed myself. turns out, the guy wanted "a quick learner" (meaning someone cheap with little experience)

I mean, I think hiring people without experience is great; how else are they going to get experience? but if you are looking to pay $25/hr, don't waste the time of people who expect $200/hr. (and visa-versa.)
Also, on the Binary Fractions page, in the last cell of the first table, the last term is "1x0," which should be "1x1."

Nice, informative site though.
Maybe he wasn't 'forgetting' but rather subtly hinting: someday the App Store will require all apps to earn their spot with iAds impressions!
I really like Dokuwiki, and one big reason is that it uses plain text files to store content.

That makes it much easier to write tools to interact with content (e.g. grep for stuff, do backups into git, have scripts that check for certain content and send me E-mail, and so on).
Something that leaped out at me: "I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system".

Voluntary exchange is not a moral system. A free market doesn't have morals.
Jobs on why the Kindle will fail:

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

I'm not sure I can read your interpretation into it.

From what I read, Jobs says that 'people' don't read anymore - even books on paper. So it is useless to bring books in any new ebook form, because the market is not there. Books in general is an outdated concept according to Jobs at that time.
Heard of Google NaCl?

Yeah. Native code in a browser without the security implications.
nice, can you please make the title of each link show the summary, or arrange it in one column that expands 1 idea only regarding whatever is clicked, within that column. The idea can then be easily contracted again, or does so automatically when another is clicked.
The examples are there to show you what you can do from a flexible piece of software like Nginx. It could have nothing to do with the web tier.
It's really not a poster case for "unfair competition". It sounds more like "just plain competition" to me. There's no rule of business that requires you to make your platform available to competitors. You do it when it makes business sense, and you stop when it doesn't.
Isn't WebKit the only engine to support them now, and isn't in not formalized yet? But I think KAAZING would make support easily feasible without direct built in support so I'm not too concerned with including it in the score.
My prediction: "The version number finally equals Pi. No more changes to the software are possible, because it's now perfect."
Midori 0.1.9

117/160
But I don't see the "quality" concerns that Jobs sees. Do you? Do you think it could be an excuse to maintain control over the development process and to hurt the Adobe CS5 release?

They have a review process which is used for quality control yet they allow 60+ fart apps in the store! Why don't they tighten the review process on ALL apps (including non Objective-C apps)?

I guess you could say it would cost more to hire reviewers but the money made on the new app sales would certainly cover that (and much more). To me it's just a huge slap in the face to end users who will miss out on much app potential (assuming the reviewers did their job) and to developers who have dedicated time in learning a 3rd party framework - yet so many people here and other places seem to love it.
How does that work? It went backwards? And WebKit in what browser?
Because other weighting factors suggested they should be shown.

I wasn't implying a simplistic 'everyone knows where X is, don't show it' system - just that being well known could counter-intuitively reduce the need to show a label at some zoom levels.
Not true, as the iPhone gets more popular, Adobe will take care of those custom features. There will be custom features for iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile. It'll make developing for mobile more fun, because you don't have to develop each application alone and use a specific machine/os for each phone.
w3m and links:
Des not run.
Manage Your Customer and Lead Data Right from the Start
Perhaps because they have connections? A lot of their almumni go on and have jobs as managers, who then hire consultants.
He explains his reasoning in the next sentences.
MonoTouch doesn't target anything but the iPhone OS. It's hardly an afterthought.

Titanium targets both the iPhone OS and Android, but it's pretty clearly aimed primarily at the iPhone.

The Lua stuff Tapulous uses in their games is targeted only at the iPhone OS.

Nintendo of all people is happy to let game devs build stuff with Unity.

The trend continues, really. I have no idea how crappy the apps are that the Adobe stuff produces, but I do know that these other toolkits are (a) extremely useful and (b) now off limits if I want to do anything on the iPhone. I suspect that if you dug through what's there, the Unity/MonoTouch stuff would prove to be of a higher average quality than the straight ObjC apps. People who look around and choose toolkits like this are generally pretty smart.
Lesson here kids: Don't do absinthe.

"Normal" (less potent, US-importable) absinthe isn't bad, especially poured through sugar with water. I don't think I'd try black absinthe, though.
Dude who wrote article forgot the fact that it wasn't meant to be exact.

It's called potential, buddy.
I disagree with Reitzensteinm. It's brilliant sarcasm and deserves every upvote.
There are native compilers for languages other than C.
Reader (iBooks, Kindle, Stanza, Marvel, ComixOlogy, IDW)

Browser (Safari)

News (Bloomberg, NPR, NYTimes Editors Choice, Paris Match, BBC News)

Doodle (Adobe Ideas)

Video podcasts (TED talks, GOLD, Lawrence Lessig, White House Music & the Arts)

Education (MIT Open Courseware)

Big frost so far: Numbers
Many anthropologists believe great cultures begin to fail when they forget what made them great in the first place. It might be a little far-fetched to call hacker news a culture in and of itself but there is no doubt the site has its own specific personality. By the same rule I don't see the harm in you pointing out what makes the site's personality appealing. In fact I think it does a service and that it reminds us all what makes the site great in the first place.
Somebody needs to invent a font or HTML 5 tag for sarcasm.
I would agree with you if the platform we were talking about was something like the web, but it's not. It's a proprietary platform owned by Apple. It's not the 'progress of a platform,' it's the 'progress of their platform.' The progress of a platform created and owned by Apple. I may wish that I could develop and release applications for the iPhone using some other methods or languages, but I do believe that it is Apple's prerogative to control their platform.

Fortunately, it's just their platform and there are a myriad of other platforms out there not controlled by Apple that do allow me to develop for them however I see fit. I don't believe that developers are 'degraded to do what Apple pleases.' Even with the new SDK restrictions, there is still an infinite number of ways to express yourself developing applications for the iPhone.

I also think that as much as restriction may stifle innovation in some ways, placing limits on how something is done can also force you to be more creative and innovative in other ways.
To me the confusion is more with the loop constructs. My mental model is fine with variable capture in general, but I don't interpret loop variables as "real" variables. What I'd intuitively expect, if I didn't already know that most languages don't do it that way, is that the loop variable is freshly bound on each iteration. That expectation is strengthened by the fact that a lot of languages seem not to want to allow you to actually use it as a real variable anyway: you often can't modify the loop variable within a foreach-style loop, which leads me to view them as fresh immutable bindings per iteration.

Admittedly, the Java for loop is a plain C-style for loop, where you actually can modify the loop variable if you wish, so it pretty much has to work that way. But the binding-reuse behavior of, say, Python's for i in range(n) loop makes less sense to me. IIRC, it's also one of the many contentious differences in Common Lisp between the LOOP and ITERATE macro packages.
Maybe he rewrote TAOCP in C?
"I wasn’t sure at the time, but having had enough free time of late to ponder such questions, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that having a father who can pay for a top-notch education outweighs the disadvantage of being raised by a hypocrite. Sticking with the job for the sake of a paycheck passes the children test."

I wonder how many children get sent to college by dads like that.
My opinion is that Apple is trying to make its platform as closed as possible. Like that people who want to develop for iPad, needs to buy a Mac, use Apple software development tools, use Apple browser... and Apple takes care of distribution and other things. This is exactly like working for Apple as an employee, but instead of getting paid a fixed salary, you get paid as much as you work and as much as your product sells. So you now know the rules. Either accept and work for Apple, or look for another more open platform (and there are opportunities with Windows Mobile, Symbian, Maemo, Android...)

For those who think Apple is in War with Adobe, I highly doubt it. Adobe can shut down their CS suit for Mac. So I just think it's a track and a culture, Apple is taking and working on. If you like it, work with them. If you don't, there are other options in the market; if you don't find anything that suits you in this world, so build a nice world of your own.
So he should have said zero impressions per day since no apps currently use iAds.
This proves HTML5 has a very long ways to go before replacing all 3rd party plugins.
Knuth has proven pi is not transcendental and is changing the versioning to use the Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant
Do you work for Adobe? If not I don't see how you make the claims that you're making right now. I certainly wouldn't bet my business on those claims. Which is what you're asking Apple to do.
It's an interesting thing to consider. Take the case of multitasking, where you end up passing a block to be executed as a background task.

I wonder how well that will translate to other languages, which as you say, have similar constructs but perhaps varied differences in scoping rules, memory handling, etc?
I read posts mentioning "crappy [Flash] ports" to obj-c and protecting "customers from [Adobe's] shitty product". If the port is crappy, then reject it for being crappy, don't reject it because of the tools used to build it.
Jill Knuth is really James Randi.
Apple removes "Google" branding on Mobile Safari in iPhone OS 4
Document databases could support joins, and occasionally I wish MongoDB would handle them for me. All the plumbing's there, they just need a query engine that can take advantage of it.

The great thing about document databases is that you don't have to normalize them to keep your data structured, but you can normalize if it makes sense. When you normalize, joins become really handy.
The author of the submitted article may have more sense of history than most Americans. It is a historical fact that Adam Smith first wrote a book The Theory of Moral Sentiments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments

in 1759, pondering the issue of why people behave morally when they could simply guard their own self-interest. As Smith pondered the issue more, he wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

in which he discussed how free-market trade provides incentives to moral behavior. EVERYONE who is well educated should recognize this quotation:

"But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages."

In other words, society can be structured so that people will help you or other people who need help while looking out for number 1.

Hayek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Hayek

is good author on contrasting economic systems, showing how they can be actively immoral.
No, I am saying that soon there will be easy-to-use tools for publishers to obfuscate ads, making ad-blockers much less effective. Consequently, "pay to turn off ads" website subscriptions will become somewhat more viable.
I was saved by noting the domain after the headline.
This is the bug you're talking about and I can't wait for it to be fixed up: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29729
You might find a temp solution here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=3d94...
Bindings in themselves might be relatively simple to keep up to date, but binding documentation, error handling, etc, are not. Take a look at the Python bindings for Clutter (C graphics library w/Linux roots). Clutter is sponsored by Intel and well-maintained, and yet the Python bindings are several versions behind and the documentation is a mess. In a consistently evolving language and/or framework, every linkage creates delays.
Good point. I see this as a good mechenism for allowing immutable lists (in which case it probably doesn't matter). But for mutable ones, you would probably want control over the datastructure.

The only way of allowing the programmer to do this, that I can think of for now, is by casting perhaps?

List<String> list = (LinkedList)["ham","eggs"];

Just an idea ...
Partly off topic:

Is it normal that I have only two real fears,
Mosquitos and Floating Point Arithmetic?

(And I know most of FPA stuff and few most useful numerically stable algorithms)

BONUS POINTS: Which part of question is off-topic? :)
I preordered mine. Despite the first couple of days of unadulterated enthusiasm, I'm thinking about sending mine back this week. No killer app. Not a meaningful proxy or replacement for my iPhone or laptop. And, I get bad eyestrain if I use it to read for longer than 20-30 minutes. It certainly hasn't lived up to the marketing mantra of 'magical'.
Hmm. What I meant to get at is that the clause seemed more likely to relate to the "we didn't discriminate against you in letting you go" thing, which he also mentions. In other words, not only will you not sue us for discriminating against you, you won't go around saying we did either.

Bottom line, I think it's much more likely that he's misinterpreted the document than that they're trying to silence him.

What are they afraid of, that he'll reveal big consultancies tell clients what they want to hear? That's not really a news flash, is it?
The exchange rate may wiggle.
Wellington Declaration calls on governments to change their approach to ACTA.
Boy, that's a terrible analogy. What we're beginning to see in smartphones is a competition between different business models: one (Apple) that exercises a lot of control over the platform, and another (Android) that exercises very little control. We'll get to see how that plays out. That's the free market for you.
Other OS X alternatives (on OS X 10.5):

Opera 10.10: 38/160

Firefox 3.6.3: 101/160

Chrome 5.0.342: 137/160
The proposal "right to share files provided no money changes hands" merely brings the law into line with the reality on the ground.

Copyright is dead. (More precisely: certain business models, based on copyright, are dead). People can either accept or reject that fact, it remains true either way.
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Twitter used to predict box office hits
Your comment is an example of why I wish we could save comments as well as posts by upvoting. Horrible article, excellent comment.
It's pretty painless to point your Posterous site to a domain you own, or yoursite.com/blog.

Check under Settings->"I already have a custom domain name (e.g. yourdomain.com)"

I'm not sure about ads.
I hope Greece will get bailed out by the IMF (if bailed out at all) with enough strings attached for some tight bondage.
Fantastic story. Sounds like a major lucky break in our understanding of neurology.
None of those afflictions sound like something people can't change or ignore.
That might be the case in the US as well (but it may not be enforced). For instance, the term "software architect" is technically illegal, but nobody actually enforces it if it's in the context of software.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/

"Zero" is a probability in the same way that "infinity" is an integer, because there's always a non-zero chance that your beliefs are mistaken.
I also think this is the correct interpretation.

Maybe he needed to scream out loud to bring a bit of relief to his abused up moral.
Are we still on this?

The curtain has closed; Apple is now evil... move on.
I think shareholders might not widely realize how it works. Often, shareholders are actually the ones who demand bringing in outside consultants, because it's seen as getting an independent third opinion. It looks more self-interested for the company's executives to set their own pay, than it does for an executive-recruitment consulting firm to recommend what the going rate is. Of course, executives have gotten good at getting the right consulting firms to answer those questions, and consulting firms know that if they don't answer appropriately, they aren't going to be asked back.
I think the more this concept (open startup ideas) gets fleshed out, the more appealing it has become. This is a huge improvement over the original spreadsheet, but I could see even more value being created with a better interface yet. Organize by subject, add search, etc.

It feels like people are becoming far less guarded of their brilliant ideas than in times past. I wonder what could come out of a vibrant and open "idea discussion" community.
Selection bias: We are only looking at them, because they are so successful.
Who would it be worth a monthly fee to? Answer that question first.
A couple questions:

- Can it capture full pages as well?

- Can you detect the width of the page automatically and adjust the shot to that?
Depends on what I would swap with me. (E.g. am I allowed to keep my current age, or do I also swap the age with the rich guy from 1900? What about my health and knowledge?)