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No one is mentioning the HTC Evo (which you would want to mod to r00ted Android 2.2), which I totally love.

The screen is HUGE, to the point that it almost becomes a tablet - yet it is still a phone. The screen makes the phone a little big, but given that the screen goes practically up to the edge of the phone on all sides, it's efficiently proportioned. And I find I can get v productive on it - writing longer emails, reading ebooks, etc.

I get all the benefit of Android (see elsewhere in this thread), Sprint (which is actually v good coverage in SF and other metros), 4G coming soon and unlimited plans for $59. Wifi tethering is free if you r00t the phone.

You won't have any problems with running linux with it (for a start you don't really have to connect it to a computer for anything unlike the iPhone) whereas it's practically impossible to run iPhone + linux effectively (via Wine basically, urghh)
Nice idea. We should try to reach some teachers.

Actually, the background image may not be a bad idea, but the problem is that we currently have about 100 sentences for the Free version and keep adding new sentences for the Pro version. So, keeping up the background would be a huge task (along with the file sizes)
No, I think he's asking a legitimate question. Who finds these enjoyable to read? iPhone fanboys that love being told what they want to hear? What other purpose does it serve to not only write about the antenna for the dozenth time, but to post it on HN yet again?
SF/Silicon Valley. Seriously, if you have the freedom of choosing among cities, a hop across the pond is not a big deal. Might as well stack the chips in your favour.
Defaults: Agreed, though those of us who have been on vim for a long time obviously have a .vimrc we carry around. It'd be nice to have a better set of defaults.

Plugins: Vimballs already solve this problem largely.

Automatically in insert mode: Oh gosh no. The only case where you'd want to start in insert mode, I'd guess, is a new file. If you're opening an existing file, you're not going to start wanting to type at the beginning of it. Generally the first command in a file is a search or jump to line.

The author mentioned that he wanted a plugin that can quickly comment a line. There's more than a few ways to do this manually in vim that is quick. For example, to comment a block:

^<ctrl-v><n>jI# <ctrl-[>

where <n> is the number of lines to comment. You can also easily write a command in your vimrc to comment the current line in one keystroke.
102 pages via one of the most annoying PDF readers on the planet? No thanks.

There are good, free, PDF readers for every major operating system and for every major mobile device. I wish people would just link directly to PDFs.
"A web-based SRS app."

I am sure you can come up with a better description than this.
I've been using Linux for 15 years and *NIX for longer, and I really wanted MythTV to work, but the Wife Acceptance Factor was too low. Windows Media Center won out, due to:

1.) CableCARD support. Expanded analog has left in my area, and ClearQAM doesn't cover enough channels for our use. HD-PVR is a very unfortunate kludge that I wasn't interested in undertaking.

2.) Netflix streaming support. We had it on the PS3 already, but wanted it everywhere. Most of our TV watching is done in the office.

3.) Ease of use, east of setup (even with Mythbuntu and a Logitech Harmony).
Looks like too much FUD for me. "Look at what cost an employee in France" - what's next, "you cannot fire anyone ever" ?

Bring some facts in here, leave the conclusions to us please. As for getting the "government support for young companies", isn't negotiating with Sand Road VCs a skill of its own as well ? What about scoring DOD contracts ? Both require immersion in a culture with specific goals, myths and traps.
I've never tried parsley as suggested by another commenter, but I use Nokogiri (ruby) and love it. It's tolerant of broken HTML and has many easy ways to move through the generated DOM (CSS selectors, xpath, etc)
Hi, I wrote Parsley.

We (tectonic and I) also wrote an in-browser IDE, and a Javascript-driven web crawler that runs on headless Firefoxes on EC2. We wrote something similar to scraperwiki, that integrated a simpler version of the IDE.

We got a couple consulting deals, building smart web crawlers for clients, and about 15 passionate open-source users. I think the primary problem is that unless you're scraping many sites, it's easier to write 50 lines in Ruby/Python/$language_you_already_know, than to learn a new langauge and cut it to 5 lines.

If there's interest in digging this project up, please contact at kyle@kylemaxwell.com.
There's quite a few things brewing in the Copenhagen/Malmö-region. Flattr is located there, Bambuser, Polar Rose and Neo4j are there and there's even a startup accelerator going on for the first time just now in Copenhagen: http://startupbootcamp.dk/ and another similar in a nearby university college http://www.startupcamp.se/

But as you see from the other replies there's not one particular region that is so far ahead of the rest that it can be called the startup centre of Europe. Berlin, Barcelona, London, Stockholm... the startups of Europe are spread all over the place.
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That is awesome, at first cut it does look nicer than Nokogiri, which I had been using, for quick scrapes.
And that's a fine lesson, and we all know that, it's a common theme here. But a 27 year old who was using the Internet at age seven doesn't count as non-technical, so this person is a bad example.
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WOW.

Assuming this isn't a hoax, and the proof holds up, this is front-page news kind of big deal.

As I recall, this has way more real-world practical usage than the Fermats Last Theorem proof.

Read the "Consequences of Proof" section in the Wikipedia article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

[edit] The responses below are correct. Proving P=NP means the world gets turned upside down. P != NP is already sort of assumed.
personally I went for a Samsung Galaxy S, (A8 processor, Android, 4" AMOLED screen) this was more of a leveraged bet on Android, and a decent processor, than anything else, 3G network in the UK.

Like you I had delayed, but in the end I went with Android because of the rapid iteration model of the platform as opposed to the curated nature of the Apple Product/Service. Not to mention the hackability of the Android platform. YMMV
It's showing up regularly, yes. searchyc.com should be everyone's friend.
Android on the carrier of your choice, hands down. My wife and I recently switched from a pair of iPhones to a Droid and HTC Incredible, respectively. Using our phones (and integrated Google Voice) is like a breath of fresh air. Between leaving AT&T, the customizability of the OS that my wife likes, and the developer freedom that I like, I can't imagine us making a better choice.
Write a book about how you collected the data. Then just collect it again when you need it in 50 years. In a long time scale, processing power is cheaper then storage.
Or TechStars. They've been rolling out a lot of good companies with serious business plans as of late. People are taking notice.
It is, but you're paying for the player / CMS / advertising tools as well. It's a lot more than just a CDN.
One potential target audience: Homeschoolers. A term you should learn and use: "carschooling". This would be a great activity to teach them something and keep them out of mom or dad's hair while driving around to all the activities that some busy homeschoolers pursue. I have already posted it to one (edit: two) of the lists I am on.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33127/35539144-pnp12pt.pdf
They couldn't have. Sun don't own Unix.
Here's a list of many other proofs for the P vs NP problem: http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
Anyone got a link to any proper discussion?
Thanks for that tip I would just have Visual mode, select lines, I, and then #, Esc Esc

I need like a vim tip a day or something to show me more of these tricks.
The 18K liquidity requirement for Dutch BVs is about to be dropped, if indeed it hasn't already.

It's a trivial obstacle anyway. You only need the money in an account on the day of incorporation.There are a number of companies that will lend it to you - for a fee, of course. :-)
I'd like something in .NET that I could throw a parselet/blob/widget/thingy at and it would return a list of important stuff from a website that I was authenticated on. Others could do the same from other platforms using the same setup. And then the parslets would be independent of the platform. Ideally it would be integrated into the browser or the O/S. This means when I sign up for your service X, I also download my widget for it. I can then access the data anytime I like without having to play inside your walled garden.

Not sure I'd want to pursue it right now, but shit, it'd be a game changer on all kinds of levels. Especially if it allowed two-way communication.

EDIT: In fact, I know just how I'd deploy it -- as a shell mod in windows. You have a drive Y which is really a NortonBackup, no reason why you can have drives and folders that represent any sort of online service you have that stores your stuff -- FB updates, Twitter, etc. Let the O/S worry about synchronization and all of that. Why read 27 ads for FB games when you can just go to X:\Facebook\FriendsStatus and read all of the unadorned status updates, which is why you visit anyway?
Can someone call Knuth? If he gives it the thumbs up then I'll believe it.
Does vimtutor not come with MacVim? It would have alleviated some of his issues.
Berlin is way cheaper than London.
Best shot is to enroll somewhere on a student visa, and do your startup on the side, or skip class entirely. Europe is too conservative to have open arms for entrepreneurs
I was never even close to being addicted to coffee and I refuse to drink even one drink due to its effects on my body. Stimulants not only fry you a bit, they also fatigue your adrenal glands which is the major cause for midday fatigue, random allergies, and poor sleep at night.

I highly recommend anyone that drinks anything more than green tea to quit - it seriously f's up your adrenals...
Why isn't this in a peer-reviewed journal?
(2) Samba, or at least Ubuntu's version of it, is very flaky. Some days it would see my networked drives, other days it wouldn't.

The SMB client on your Ubuntu media player would have trouble seeing network drives?

Make sure everything is in the same broadcast subnet and ethernet segment, and make sure that you aren't running NetBIOS ("Windows File Sharing") over anything other than TCP/IP, not NetBeui -- this shouldn't be a problem with more recent Windows versions, but every so often it pops up.

Also, you might have luck if you disable nmbd in your samba clients and let a Windows machine be the master browser, especially if your media player linux machine isn't always on.

But I guess this is all moot if you've moved onto some other solution. Maybe this will help someone else.
This remark appears to be a tiny side-note in a larger "State of Free Software" keynote talk, and makes Moglen look like a crazy person. I blame the title of the HN post, not Moglen.
Emphasizing the "assuming this isn't a hoax" part, even if it is correct, I don't think it is a life-changing deal.

Computer Scientists have been assuming for years that P does not equal NP, so they've been doing research with that assumption already in place. Proving that the assumption is correct won't hugely change anything.

I'm not trying to knock down the greatness of this proof, but the repercussions aren't going to be that major.
Can you name those hosting providers you're using? I think that it could be useful to many of the readers here.
I believe it already includes Chrome Frame. And it doesn't run on Safari because the <audio> is ogg.
It's also possible to use Clojure on Android:

http://riddell.us/ClojureAndAndroidWithEmacsOnUbuntu.html

... although the impression I get from the stuff I've been reading is that there's a 3-4 second delay when starting up an app written in Clojure. There were hopes that Froyo will help in this regard, but I haven't been able to find any reports on that yet. My Nexus One should be arriving this week, so I guess I'll be finding out soon :)
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Well, assuming this proof holds up (and there are already links in the comments to other proofs that P != NP) they have proven what most people already assume, that the two are not equivalent. The consequences of P != NP are mostly just that people can stop spending time looking for ways for P to equal NP. Which is valuable, but doesn't have much "real-world practical usage"
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I'm better at Python, but I enjoy Clojure even more. The point is that there are to little tools for Clojure, which I also enjoy writing. So doing what I enjoy most kind of means I'll never finish, but produce a lot of tools on the way. Scale is more of an excuse than a reason to use Clojure I'm afraid.
It's no doubt a very clumsily-executed policy that has a net effect of decreasing the quality and increasing the cost of all software DoD buys, but "a foreigner touched it" is not a crazy security control. You wouldn't necessarily know just by looking at the code whether it it fatally compromised security, and the IP stack is among the more security critical components of the system.

Please don't take this comment the wrong way. Can DoD meaningfully control for this risk? No. What they're doing is no doubt stupid and unhelpful. But the original notion, that maybe "foreigners" shouldn't be touching the IPv6 stack of something DoD depends on, is valid.
Agreed. He's become a whiney apologist. Every post is more infuriating. And I love Apple.
Playing a dodo's game? Platform hackers are sad? HTML5 is going to be 'every where you want to be'? Why are a few lines written to the standard of a middle school book report on the front page?
Is it possible to move your own mp3's to the phone?
a) Complicated academic proofs take (and should take) months if not years to verify, and will only be "front-page news" after verification. This is hardly the first unverified proof of the [edit: possible (in)]equality of P and NP.

b) The practical consequences of P=NP are immense. The practical consequences of P≠NP are that we can stop looking for computational unicorns and fairies.

We have for some time thought that P≠NP, but boy do people like those unicorns and fairies.
So a crazy, largely FUD remark is OK if it happens to be in a larger talk?

I did some searching, and this isn't the first time he's claimed LLVM is a threat to free software: http://digifesto.com/tag/eben-moglen/
I shouldn't have gone sarcastic at the end there, but I was quite serious.

I presume the front-page algorithm has some sort of "magic" in it so that the only articles making it to the front page are that which a significant proportion of the user base would want there. Is that not correct?

Not every post is going to be interesting everyone, but as I mentioned before, the originating URL makes it easy to spot ones from URL's you know that you're not interested in.

Myself, I am a bit of an apple fanboy - and seeing what other HN-ers opinions are on Grubers posts does interest me. I think there are probably a fair few apple fanboys on HN who agree with me.

On a similar, but unrelated note, most (not all) of the articles I read on HN I've already seen through some other means anyway. It's really only the comments that I'm interested in, which are generally of vastly superior quality than that of the originating site (if it has them).

edit: at the time of writing, the story does only have 8 votes. Is HN using popularity of previous stories from that domain to push it to the front page quicker? It does seem a little odd - maybe I'm wrong, and the users of HN really don't care about this story anymore.
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This is the best answer.

I also think things like NASA datasets, other govt agency datasets, etc, should be placed on torrents for anyone who wants to make a copy. Let the self-replicating nature of the internet serve as the backup backup plan.

If you put those Apollo datasets online, it's a guaranteed certainty that some hacker somewhere will have them in 50 years.
What is MVP? The rest makes sense, except I figured scaling is more of an excuse than a reason to use Clojure. I'm sticking to Twisted anyway for now.
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A proof of P = NP would have huge practical consequences. A proof that P != NP "only" represents a huge advance in the theory of computation.
I just landed in CPH a couple on month ago, and I see a lot of potential in the Scandinavians countries as a niche market.

The main problem is that salary and taxes are very high.
Yeah, in general it's believed that any proof that P != NP would likely provide a lot of insight into which factors of an NP system make it difficult, and thus potentially allow us to divide even cleaner problems which are "easily" solved and problems which are "difficult to solve."
The huge consequences are if P = NP (which no-one really believes).
Yeah, I'd be curious to see what people who are still working in the field have to say. My red flags went up as soon as I read "statistical" in the abstract, since that could easily imply the common problem of assuming the existence of a secure PRNG. However, I haven't read the entire paper in depth (and likely won't have time to anytime soon), so I don't really know if that common trap was fallen into.
This is Murdoch's attempt to hurt the online ad world which subsidizes many sites Murdoch thinks should be paid. And because they are not paid, they are hurting sites that are going paid...such as the WSJ.

Ah Murdoch.
It's an example of intuition. Also some birds display intuition-like behavior, so this cognitive feature probably goes back a long way. Being able to intuit a solution means imagining a solution (a sort of internal simulation) then formulating a plan and then carrying out the plan. Intuitive behavior doesn't require large numbers of trial and error efforts, as you would see with less intelligent creatures.
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Compact Cassettes are now in their 47th year of production, still going strong in developing countries. I’m willing to bet that you will still be able to buy cassettes and players in twenty years.

The story for CDs seems to me to be similar and they are still popular everywhere. I give them at least another forty to fifty years.
My reality of HTML5:

HTML5 can do nice things that hackers can currently post on their blogs in the hope that, if they are first and loud, eventually someone big will come calling and their developer dreams will come true. HTML5 is a nice thing to research for the mid-to-long term because in the real world the percentage of users that hit the site my job relies on that use IE6+7+8 is over 85% and that will not change any time soon. HTML5 demos do look pretty though so kudos on those but don't get carried away.
Isn't this essentially scrapping content from other web sites with out their permission, removing all the ads, and then presenting them in a nice way. I always assumed this was not allowed?
I'm curious: if someone other than Zed Shaw had written this, would you still have responded so contemptuously?
I just spent some time with the Samsung Galaxy S (T Mobile) last night. I was very impressed. The lightest smart phone I have played with at that size. The screen is great, not as good as iPhone 4 but still one of the better ones. It came preloaded with Avatar in HD. Tt's not the best selling point but a good way to demo the phone and I was impressed by the quality once again.

Now the most impressive part was Swype keyboard. First time using it after seeing it 2 years ago at Techcrunch 50. Basically, once you use that keyboard pattern its tough to go back. I think you should be able to install that on any Android device.

I use iPhone 4 day to day. Pretty happy with it, apart from the service.
Because it hasn't undergone the proper level of review in order to be published in one. As it stands, there is no reason to take it seriously until it has been. There have been several posts of such papers here before, and I would highly advise the level of skepticism expressed by a fellow HNer with submissions like this c.f. : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893877
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The remark in context doesn't make him sound crazy. LLVM is "less free" than GCC, because LLVM doesn't take the same steps to preserve programmer freedom as GCC (a quintessetial GPL product).

I don't agree with him, but he's making a remark consistent with his worldview. And it's hardly outside the mainstream to target Apple for violating programmer freedom.

However, by making it sound as if a concern about LLVM was the theme of his talk, you've made him sound crazy. That's unfair and lowers the level of discourse at HN.
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I said he did more. His views are irrelevant. Obviously in principle the British paid lip service to a caste-free society, but in practice they were the authors of apartheid.

Also when you look at his views closely, especially after 1925 or so, he moves into a position very similar to that which you will see of modern Christian theology, where you hear much talk of the importance of personal choice. So people should follow a caste and so on, but that's not the place of the government to enforce. That's a much more moderate and workable position than abolition, and much easier to implement. Absolutes do little good when aiming for radical societal reinvention.

Even Sati was pushed out bit by bit, by various reformers. But again, from a vegetarian Hindu perspective large-scale livestock slaughter is a similar if not worse evil than Sati, and unless you can provide a proof that animals don't have souls, your rationalism has no place in that discussion. You might as well commend the Communist party for bringing about gender equality as a counter argument to someone railing against the gulags. All it shows is that we always have some places where we cannot accept cultural relativism.
I've not seen any discussion of his paper yet, but the author has an impressive CV:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/
You people have way too much free time. I'm going to get Congress to pass a law stating all free time must be given to the gubbermint.

Cheers :)
On Vitamin D, you need to be careful because it can also mess up your calcium levels. If you calcium levels change, then it can affect your magnesium levels. If your magnesium levels drop, then your muscles will hurt hard core. If you ignore the pain (and deal with it like a real man), then you will die.
Moglen stated, "but Mr. Jobs is investing heavily in LLVM solely so he can stop using GCC, lest the patents somehow leak across the GPLv3 barrier, and we become able to use his claims. Nobody has ever tried before, to build a multi-platform C compiler solely in order to undermine freedom."

According to wikipedia, the LLVM is licensed using the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois/NCSA_Ope...

As stated in that entry, "Source code under the NCSA license can be incorporated into proprietary products without the reciprocity requirements that copyleft free software licenses raise. The license is compatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License."

Can someone smarter than me explain how this license undermines freedom? Or how the LLVM undermines freedom despite this license? I'm having a hard time connecting the dots.