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>Third, Outlook isn't just a mail client, it's an integrated communications suite. It has taken OSS years and years to catch up with this. You may not agree that it's a critical feature, but for millions of business users, it's a deal-breaker.

KDE has had very good PIM software for a while now even before KDE4. Kontact has always been a suite for that kind of stuff, and it's possible to do most things in Outlook in Kontact. Also if you're talking about Exchange and groupware servers there are a few for Linux like Zimbra. However I haven't even seen Fortune 500 companies make most of the use of Exchange features.

Also your measure for success is very shallow. Essentially you don't see OSS as competition, which belies your actual position and tells me that there's no point in arguing this with you considering your mind is made up about OSS. As far as I'm concerned all vendor software loses out because it's missing basic features from a IT management standpoint. Also from my experiences millions of business users are too stupid to use Outlook in any shape or form because they lack basic computer proficiency skills.
Absolute necessity:

Garbage collection

Built-in (or included library) types: string, integer, decimal (precise, not floating-point), boolean, list, dictionary

If statically typed, generics

First-class, anonymous and inline functions, as well as closures, or at least some convenient way to imitate these

Really, really nice to have:

If statically typed, type inference

List and dictionary literals

Consistent naming of all included code

Operator overloading

Map/select and filter/where functions on built-in list type (preferably all the functions of IEnumerable in .NET and then some)

If it wasn't obvious from that list, my favorite language is C# (at least version 3.5 or newer).
I struggle falling asleep sometimes as well. Actually, a lot of the time. Here's what helps for me:

1. Don't bring my laptop into the bedroom. If it's around, I keep giving in to the urge to check HN or Facebook or Twitter or my email "one last time" every 15 minutes or so.

2. I drink a glass of milk and take a melatonin tablet about 30 minutes before bed. Melatonin helps induce drowsiness.

3. Turn the light off. Seems totally obvious, but if I'm reading in bed, I may have my lamp on. Sometimes I just have to force myself to turn the f!#kng light off so I can fall asleep.

4. Turn the AC down. I sleep better when it's a little chilly, so I turn my thermostat down a few degrees a little while before bedtime.

5. Daydream. I just start running through some kind of scenario in my head and let the fantasy run until I fall asleep.
I'm definitely busy, but its all about who you are targeting. Most web apps now are competing with most of the big companies in some way or another.
>>That's because your analysis of it is hipster, populist garbage. Sorry to be impolite about it, but the whole "who killed the electric car" movement is populated by people proud of their ignorance.

I don't understand what you mean here? They destroyed the engines? Why would you destroy your capital? It's their right I guess but that seems irrational.

>>Toyota's quality lead over GM has shrunk to almost a rounding error, yet we'll forever hear the "angry at GM guy" railing his 1980s argument.

Rounding error? Every car that my parents have owned from GM in the last 30 thirty years has cost them fortunes to maintain. My Corolla costs me virtually nothing to maintain after 10 years on the road and living on the streets of Boston.
Is there a good tutorial to be found about making an HTML5 app?
I don't think its extraneous features detract from it as much as you're suggesting, but I also am probably not so qualified to judge since I barely use it (since there's no email integration). We've got highly portable hardware that integrates IM, SMS, email and media two-way/embedding (smartphones) but there's definitely room for a software or web application to provide all of these in one place on their respective platform. That's what I was hoping Google Wave would provide, but the rollout and self-containment is the critical factor in crippling it
Food. I miss the healthy, affordable, sociable dining halls from university. There are people who cook better than I do, and who should be able to make great food at a reasonable price by buying fresh ingredients in bulk.

My options for eating are

* Cook it myself [1]. Cheap but takes time and effort to make good food.

* Restaurant. Good food but expensive and takes time. I don't always want table service and small portions.

* Fast food. Quick and cheap, but unhealthy.

* Supermarket ready meals. See above.

So yeah, I would love an urban cafeteria serving a handful of healthy, cheap, fresh meal options. I'm sure it can be done.

Edit, re Tel: [1] I love to cook, but not when I'm in a rush, and I'm not always near home.
Wel I guess that the problem was/is that nokia released the N97 2 years after the original iphone and around the same time as the Palm Pre and the HTC Hero. those phones are both way better than the N97 and far more in line with what people expected form there phones after the iPhone. the amazing thing is that a big company with lots of experience making phones needed 2 years to but something so shameful on the marked.
I don't care much if other people like bad things, but it irritates me when societal structures don't exist to allow me to enjoy the good things properly.

For example, the other day I was listening to my opera channel on pandora, and because pandora has horrible displays for opera music, I could not figure out what aria I was hearing, and spent close to two hours trying to figure out what it was. ID3 is totally unsuitable for anything besides pop music.
Can you list some of the (possible) improvements you can think of?
Because it's a smaller cost than the money you could lose on a car with a troubled past.
> First, it's good to get more people realizing that HTML is already pretty damn good at creating app-style experiences,

That would be good if it were true. It's not.
Everyone is talking about how much they practice their scales in their "daily practice." If it's a chore to you and has no practical application, don't waste your time, play something you like. The only reason I know a few minor and major scales is because I like to improvise. When it comes time to solo, I know what to play because I know what notes are in the scale. If I didn't know any scales, I'd be lost. It also make a lot more sense if you practice with some backing track/chords cause then you can figure out what sounds good. This also applies to playing piano, lets say I want to play some minor sounding progression, I'd most likely play A minor because all the white keys are in the A minor scale which makes it easy to create a melody.
Personally, I'm offended by the popularity of "Classic Rock" and the fact that marketing channels have broken down to the point where there's no connection between great music being made today and many listeners.

I grew up listening to "Classic Rock" in the 1980s, and it took years for me to realize that this had deprived me of the authentic music of my youth... It was the music of somebody else's youth, which makes it all the more dangerous and seductive. It appeals to geezers who were listening to it when it was new, and it still appeals to new generations of young people.

Classic rock dominates the airwaves in my locale; other than NPR, I find everything else unlistenable [there was ~one~ good urban music station a long time ago, but it's owned by Clear Channel and quit playing anything good rather abruptly after 9/11]

The situation has many dimensions (for instance, any credible 'new' rock has to make a rapprochement with punk) but the thing I hate the most is hearing the same doobie brothers song on the radio driving into work and driving home. I'll listen to NPR or a Shonen Knife or Red Red Groovy disc, but I feel bad for all the boomers who can't escape the gravity of 1968.
Can I ask why you would even keep an account at such a bank then?
This feels like link bait. The same full-length talk was given over 6 month ago, which this story doesn't seem to link to http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2334
Should read "dispensable."

Probably true.
Physical discomfort when you're trying to think deeply about anything is a huge detractor -- hence the importance of taking care of your body even if your interests are mostly "mind".

But that said, throw out your TV, don't thoughtlessly collect expensive shit that you then have to worry about fixing/protecting from theft/maintaining, etc..
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You didn't put in buzzwords like "behavioral," "science," or "paper."
I believe they took all the EV1's and shredded them. So yes, they did destroy the engines, the chassis, and the spare parts so no one could maintain them outside of GM even if they wanted to.
SSL isn't a distribution channel. SSL is a authentication mechanism.
Iran. The Twitter Fail Whale. No excuse for either.
That Einstein quote is a great one. A few other in my list that are (more or less) relevant to hackers:

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
- C. A. R. Hoare

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
- Douglas Adams

"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll

If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
I think the comment was very Google specific. A couple of example projects there are GWT, which compiles Java into JavaScript, and Android, which uses the Java language compiled into Dalvik byte-code. In both cases, the Java language is being used although they aren't attempting to place or use Java (tm) VMs on the client site.
"Since when did $41K (really $33.5) get classed as a "massive price"? That is an absolutely typical mid-level sedan price, and apparently the volt is fairly well equipped."

Since the economic crisis happened. I'm not even on my way to saving for my first car, and I'm already looking for cars under $10,000.

Most families that are not well off usually look for cars in the $20-30 grand range. So 41K is a lot - in today's terms.
As the creator of typefrag pointed out... once you rely on a platform as part of your business model, you take that platform ugliness and all with you. Don't like it? Don't develop for the app store. There is no better way to protest than to not support them. But we all know the allure is all too much for developers and they will eat apple's cake at any price.
While I don't disagree with what he's saying, there is a nuance that isn't coming across that is pretty important:

It's not just about entrepreneurship - every real business is steeped in stuff that just can't (or shouldn't be) taught in school. Business school theory is meant to be general, and sometimes painfully high-level in its focus.

BUT! That doesn't make the knowledge and experience of business school worthless or something that has to be "unlearned". A broad knowledge of business practice and theory is not a substitute for practical domain experience and knowledge. It is a great compliment, however.

It seems trendy to dismiss MBA's (the degrees, not the people) as worthless, or even worse, apologize for having one. The truth is far less sensational: It's a degree - nothing more, nothing less. As long as you keep an open mind, all knowledge is good.
Things that assume/require that I have exactly one physical address.

That includes banks, insurance companies, government agencies, utilities, and pretty much every business that I need to deal with to do anything.

90% of the pain I encounter during my life on the road stems from the fact that I don't own or rent property in the US, and therefore don't have a fixed address. There are tons of people in my situation (especially among the less well off), yet every time I have to deal with any official paperwork from any organization they make it seem like it's some novel situation they've never encountered before.
Hey we're losing 20,000 dollars for each car we sell but don't worry we'll make it up on volume!
At least if you're going to code in Java ME, rather than C++, Android is way more open than the Ovi store:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/06/23/ovi-lays-an-egg
Unlike most HN tropes I haven't found the "and here's how patio11 does it" angles to be tiresome. A one-man profitable non-funded small code-driven business is chock full of lessons for all of us.
>Why would you destroy your capital?

They were trial products, and represented a significant liability to the corporation for no benefit. The automobile industry is pretty much the most litigious industry going, so eliminating what wasn't commercially viable was a very, very fiscally prudent move.
They also removed the engines from the cars in their showroom. Where's the logic in that move? Is someone going to break in and steal the car?
Why is the totally electric Nissan Leaf only $32,780? Under ideal conditions it can get 130+ miles to a charge [1] implying it uses better and/or more batteries than the Volt.

The trim and finish must be much better on the Volt considering how expensive batteries are and how relatively cheap gasoline engines are. Or am I missing something here?

1: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20008319-48.html
I would pay cash for "Learn HTTP the hard way"
Advertising - especially online. I believe one of pg's areas he thought YC would fund was an ad startup and there's a good reason for that. Online ads are still in their infancy. Ads are often clumsily placed on content sites using keyword matching that can misfire or even backfire (ads for airline tickets in a story about a crash).

To make matters worse, all content seems to covered with a slimy film - the sorts of ads that normally appear on late night TV seem to show up on the best of sites.

Believe it or not, there are people who enjoy well executed television or print ads, either for their entertainment value or for their effectiveness. I haven't heard the same for online ads, with possibly the recent exception of the "Old Spice Man Who Your Man Could Smell Like."

There's a lot of room here for improvement not only of the ads, but for the online experience overall. While Google and others are milking the contextual cow, some bright minds are going to come up with something revolutionary that will change how publishers monetize their sites. Ads will fit better, be more engaging and monetize sites and drive results for their buyers.

Perhaps then those ads for diet pills, get-rich-quick schemes and their ilk will be banished to the gutters of the internet where they belong.
you don't hear about it because you don't know rich enough people, or because you're tuned out from it - like weathermen constantly being wrong. they aren't, you just remember it more when they are than when they aren't.

I had a great experience with two airlines recently, bmi and airberlin, but it was probably because i was prepared to pay a little more than my usual easyjet price.

Yeah, i think that it's probably more to do with the correlation of how much you pay to how much you will enjoy airlines though
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You'll have to explain that to me. What was the liability? Government regulation? Why was the trial considered a failure anyway?
I've had great experiences on Virgin America. It's cheap, the planes are nice, there is wifi, the terminals are better, the stewards and stewardesses are pleasant and good looking, etc.
Slow people in New York annoy me. It's like everyone is on vacation, even the people who live here.
how does tradeworx compare to jane street capital?
Thanks for this - I ended up using the same guys and was quite happy.
I thought this was playing audio not streaming it. A streaming app would need both background network access and the ability to play audio in the background. See the Background Audio section at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iPho.... It is not clear here that network access is permitted. Being vague in the permitted application functions for each mode makes it difficult to know what exactly os permitted.
Angular: A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps
Web based accounting software for startup
What is the best (cheap, easy to use) web based accounting software for a three person startup? Thanks!
>Since the economic crisis happened. I'm not even on my way to saving for my first car, and I'm already looking for cars under $10,000.

I'm not sure if the economic crisis has anything to do with that. I haven't seen any major slashing of prices. Quite the opposite, in fact: Incentives and deals have disappeared, and the net cost has increased.

>Most families that are not well off usually look for cars in the $20-30 grand range. So 41K is a lot - in today's terms.

I don't think it's intending to compete with standard family vehicles. This is a very low quantity run, targeted at the sort of (young professionals) people who would likely have bought a VW TDI or something, where the price range isn't all that different.
Would you be willing to pay to remove the ads from a website? Pay for each show you watch without ads? Pay more for an ad free newspaper? If not, you shouldn't be complaining about ads (even though they are pretty obnoxious). The ads support the content that you consume. Or do you have a better way to compensate the people that create this content?
Not to mention potential anti-trust implications (US) or dumping (international).
It's not quite the replacement for a dining hall, but learning to cook is not only cheap but really enriching in other ways as well.

1. It's easier to be healthier (and in time this transforms
to "impossible to not be healthier".
2. It's an impressive skill for attracting relationships
both friendly and romantic.
3. Once you're confident, cooking for a party of friends and
second degree strangers is a GREAT way to meet new people.

I forget who it is, but there's a HNer around who's had great successes throwing open-to-all, multi-course Hacker Dinners and taught himself the skills more or less on the fly. At the end of the day, everybody eats; almost everybody can enjoy interesting, tasty food; and those who can skillfully, confidently serve that up become a social hub.
Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
If so could you recommend any good Server/Channels.
I was with you until the end, where you start pretending that Apple's guidelines are capable of preventing malware. Take a look at the kind of stuff they reject apps for and tell me this is a process that has anything to do with security.

I mean, remember just a few days ago, when a 15-year-old released a tethering app right under Apple's nose? Remember a year ago when everyone was outraged because an iPhone app covertly uploaded your whole address book to the developer's server? This Android app is arguably less of a violation than that one. They only check the visible behavior of your program and whether you're using private API. As long as you don't throw up a dialog that says "DURRR, I'M STEALIN UR INFO NOW MAN," Apple isn't really looking for you.
how much do a second year trader make at these prop trading firms?
This is certainly not universally true. (Have you ever had someone take this approach with you and your life? Ignorance combined with an intentional lack of communication can lead to mistakes that can never be really forgiven, and lost trust that can never be regained.)

That said, taking an option off of the table simply because you'd have to "break a rule" to do it can be foolish -- just be aware of why the rule exists, and what you're actually risking in breaking it.
This morning.
Reloading whole pages when an iFrame would be much better.
Learnings from founding a computer vision startup
Yes. You are both right and wrong. Dealers are obligated by their contractual agreements to make offers to trade; but what exchanges didn't specify are what prices their dealers could offer for their trades.

If the dealers don't want to trade, they just make their buy and sell limit orders to be way out of the normal price band. Hence, I want to buy Accenture at $0.01 and sell Accenture at $1000. Yea, I'm meeting my exchange contractual obligation, but who's going to trade with me now?

What happened during the flash-crash is that people's market stop-orders were getting triggered after the initial crash, when the market went down 20%; when all other human traders stepped out of the market, but there were still tons of market stop-orders to sell; guess whose limit buy orders were matched? Accenture buy order at $0.01.

To be fair though, a lot of those ridiculous trades were later busted by the exchanges. But the irony of the whole crash is that the HFT traders actually fanned the fire on the crash and then later rode the wave all the way back up (for the trades that weren't busted anyways).
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How about $25280 (after tax breaks) for a LEAF as an individual car for each family and Zipcar for the longer trips? If Zipcar isn't available, find two other families and arrange a "car co-op" with a Nissan Versa, which would cost about an additional $5000 to each family. That still comes out almost $10k ahead of the Chevy Volt.

(My dad did a "car co-op" with his best friend in medical school in Pittsburgh. It was an Edsel!)
"entropy" ;)
>It's got nothing to do with profitability, viability, maturity of technology, etc.

So had the rest of the industry moved to electric vehicles, eating GM's lunch? Surely they must have given that GM was in bed with big oil and was turning a blind eye to this great technology.

Of course they didn't. Honda and Toyota did some minor initiatives in marginally hybrid vehicles (which they sold at a loss primarily for image, while at the same time ramping up their own mega-SUV land yacht efforts). Everyone else just ignored it.

Worse the entire industry didn't even know what "future" was the best future. Hydrogen fuel? Electric? Flex fuels?

Was some sort of ultra-capacitor going to come and change the entire industry?

The improvements in battery technology over just the past couple of years have been incredible. Everything relies upon battery technology, and the entire worldwide automotive industry is essentially working together on this. GM in no way had it mastered over a decade ago.

>At one point, almost every single car they sold was at a loss - they were paying people to drive them off the lots.

Any year that any company has a loss you could claim that they "lost money on every single unit sold", but of course that would be facile. GM's trouble centered on a long accumulated pile of debt while they did a worldwide expansion, coupled with massive liabilities to the union in the US.
IPad owners 'are rich and self-centred'
I've had a lot of success with the CouchSurfers community. It's a travel oriented site, but they also promote meetups for the people living in a city so as to form a tighter, most trusting community. When you throw travel-wise tourists, friendly city ambassadors, and generally open-minded go-out-and-tackle-the-world style people together in a room and have them share stories or plan events it gets crazy and amazing really, really quickly.
IT helps Heathrow reduce baggage 'misconnect'rate
Me too. I had no idea flying could be so enjoyable. I've made the Seattle -> SF trip a 4-5 times this year on Virgin and I've been over the moon at how easy and comfortable it's been.
There's about 190* of us HN'ers in the #startups channel right now. http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/

*Maybe we're not all HN'ers, but darn close.