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Yeah I was wondering about that too. Searched around awhile but the comp.lang.javascript archive doesn't appear to go back that far. I think Google is just keeping the Page post up there for posterity's sake.
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris would not have been serial killers if they had not be so mercilessly bullied in school.

Causation for that has not been rigorously demonstrated. But, agreed, the school social environment they were in is described by press reports as having been toxic even before they brought their weapons to the school.
I wish it was $2.50 in Seattle. I'd even be overjoyed to pay the Bellingham price of $2.82. I paid $3.11 to $3.17 the last two times I filled up last week.
>hassle of BitTorrent

What do you mean? I hadn't noticed.
Last night's delay of iTunes 10 may well have been due to some last minute hardball negotiating by Apple to get their terms. Facebook must have drawn a line in the sand, forcing Apple to flip off the FB connect button.
Whoa. What?

Apple agrees to onerous terms from the studios, who are about as decidedly on the extreme side of onerous as anything on the planet, and failed to negotiate with Facebook? Jobs probably yelled at Zuck and they got into a fight.
This looks great. I cook a lot with my iPhone (just in the browser). My suggestions, with the caveat that I haven't actually tried your app yet.

- Make sure there's a way to disable the "sleep/screensaver" mode. This is my biggest annoyance.

- I couldn't tell what the "milk" icon was supposed to be. Maybe show a glass of milk instead?

- Most importantly, instead of showing the ingredients as icons, show them as "before/after" each step. Preferably with photos, not illustrations. For example, you say "potatoes: peel and slice". In my experience, a novice cook would say, "how thin? do you want them lengthwise or what?", etc.. same thing with "finely chop garlic", "cut off the dark green part of the leeks?", and especially "boil until thickened and bubbly", etc... what beginning cooks what is "make it look like THIS (with a picture).

- I LOVE the kitchen timers. Maybe make that a separate app?
This is a tangential pricing-related question:

Why does Netflix, which is solving some hard and interesting problems both on the technical (delivery/algorithms) as well as business side (licenses etc) only charge $9-$15 a month whereas online services like dating sites and project collaboration SaaS tools that are arguably much easier to build get away with charging anywhere from $30 to $60 a month?

If pricing is about supply and demand, shouldn't Netflix be able to charge a lot more (at least double of what they do now) since there aren't any comparable services with the level of user satisfaction as Netflix. I would gladly pay $30 a month for Netflix just because of how great the service is - I mean unlimited instant watching, access to some amazing foreign films, DVDs. Dating sites and some other SaaS services - dime a dozen. When a Match.com asks me to pay $30 a month, I cringe.

I'm perplexed by this.
I really wish this was parody; but sadly it is almost certainly real.
I would not consider "unschooling" or home-schooling for a child, nor do I think it is a good option for the majority of children.

People love to malign the public school system, but the truth is that in most places in the western world children have the opportunity to get an excellent education. The problem is that more and more parents don't seem to take the time to teach their children to respect others, be it authority figures, peers, or anyone else. Children who are taught by their parents that it's fine to be disruptive (at inappropriate times, at least), ignore their responsibilities, and generally think it's ok to do whatever they want make it harder for the other children to learn.

The field of education has evolved over hundreds of years, and there are plenty of researchers working hard to find better ways to teach children. I certainly don't agree with all the methods they are trying today, but that doesn't mean that I feel many parents can do a better job.
College degree is probably not too bad if you settle for local community college -- about $5,000/year or so. Private universities and colleges can easily get to $30,000/year.

As for healthcare, it IS that bad. Most working people have reasonable coverage (some of then even at reasonable price, as a percentage of income). However, it ties the worker to the employer. If you get fired, you lose your health insurance. If you quit, to move to another job, you lose your health insurance and have to get a new one (and at least until the recent healthcare laws, they didn't have to accept you -- sucks if something happens during your first job, because it's a "pre-existing condition" for the new one).

The end result is that employees are often held captive by their job because of the (essentially unrelated) health benefits. A friend of mine married 6 months earlier than planned to get coverage because she lost her own job.

Job mobility is much harmed.

There's COBRA -- an insurer must let you keep paying for one more year. However, the employer subsidy is gone, so people who pay $200/month all of a sudden find themselves having to pay $1200/month after quitting their job (or being fired).
Pinball in the Social Web
I remember hearing about this some time ago - it's still pretty cool though. I love the name especially, fantastic imagery.
While there have been some very good attempts at making server-side JS (SSJS) work, IMO NodeJS is the first to get it right. With the growing ubiquity of JS, the scalability of NodeJS, and the explosion of JS-based document storage its success is not surprising.

The ability to create a scalable platform that uses the same language from data storage to UI means developers can focus on being a JS expert without having to spread their time and abilities thin being mediocre in many languages.
Poverty of Imagination in an Age of Deminishing Resources
I think the article is referring to the Bittorrent company's attempt several years ago to get into bed with the Hollywood studios. The result would have presumably provided a service similar to Netflix's online offering -- i.e. not the same service you are currently getting from the Bittorrent software for free.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.j...
US spends $11M to kick-start video search technology
This is another part of it: It's very difficult to compare health care in the same way you can compare, say, auto insurance. I've got a policy from my university, but it's still a significant document of legalese that doesn't easily explain what I am and am not entitled to.

It would have been nice if the health care reform created some sort of common labeling for policies that allows you to quickly scan your coverage. Or even some online "what if" simulator, where you can ask questions about what the policy will and will not cover (startup idea here?)
Note to fellow HN readers in the U.S.: Please ensure that you have at least some basic health insurance even if you are self-employed or unemployed or you do not have access to health insurance through your employer. You should be able to find a relatively cheap policy if you are single and elect a high deductible. While the likelihood of a major medical illness is relatively low for healthy, young individuals, you never know when medical catastrophe can strike. I know couple of young individuals who were tragically diagnosed with cancer and did not have health insurance. You do not want to find yourself in such a position. Thank goodness Congress enacted health reform earlier this year. While the bill is not perfect, I personally am pleased that it includes a health insurance mandate.
Then there are the ratings agencies (Moody's, S&P) who did such a great job during the crisis, but that's another topic altogether... :)
I'm fully aware of the total amount my employer pays every month, and I don't mind it one bit because I know how much it helps others.
Love their TOS:

Third-Party Offers: We may arrange to have marketing and promotional information of other companies sent to you that we think might be of interest to you.
Ask HN: media/entertainment software graduate program in Australia?
Are there any programs in Australia that are similar to NYU's ITP or the MS degree at MIT's Media Lab? Melbourne preferred, but not required.
> children don't have the experience and exposure to make optimal decisions.

The argument here is, I believe:

"What is the best way to get children experience and exposure?

A. Experience and exposure

B. Lectures about A.
1) At the moment it's still very 'low level'. While there are certainly some small frameworks (ExpressJS, Geddy) there isn't anything near the level of stuff available for other languages like Rails, Django or CakePHP.

2) See the node knockout - As you can see some neat stuff is already being built on it, so yes.
Also, it's just been announced that there is integration with WebOS, the Palm/HP mobile platform so now it's not just for web apps, but for mobile apps too.

3) Like devmonk it isn't for everything, but I could see it fighting it out with PHP as the base language for web apps - it's as simple to install, and with lots of developers in that space already knowing JavaScript in writing their own apps, it could compete to finally push PHP out (or maybe it's just my wishful thinking).

4) Once some of the modules around it stabilise (not far off), and a Rails/Django-type framework becomes more common, then I think that's when it will hit mainstream.
Good question (hence my upvote). I have been the home-educating parent, sporadically employed for money, as my children have been growing. Observing them pursue their interests has given me new career ideas, which I like better than my former career.
Some of the phrases must be grouped. 'Smokes with' and 'stones' brings up the same video. Overall, I think this is entertaining but it's not on par with Old Spice
The vast majority of websites that are inadvertently serving malware have been compromised through the website itself, which can happen totally independently of the web server software or the host.

About the best the host can do is have a reasonable IP blacklist, but even that doesn't stop nearly enough attackers. (My little mail server, hosting only around a dozen accounts, is currently averaging 14 new SSH bans per day for example.)

The only thing that a "secure" host guarantees is that a compromised website can not lead to a compromised server; attempting to measure that by checking the number of malware-hosting websites at a service provider is the wrong way to go about it.

All that said, if you want a "secure" host without spending a lot of money, your best compromise would be an OpenBSD VPS, and then either spend a lot of time learning how to set it up correctly (and maintain it), or have someone do it for you.

Having NetSol and GoDaddy on a list of potentially "secure" hosts is hilarious.

edit: I'd recommend checking the Sucuri Blog (http://blog.sucuri.net/) for an idea of who's been compromised and how they've responded. Sucuri's pretty good at keeping track of all this stuff.
A good book for developing reading skill and getting kids hooked on reading (it has worked for all four of my children) is Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach.

http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom...
The socialization question is an extremely common one, and it usually indicates that the person asking it thinks unschooling is somehow "school at home" or something similar. This is frustrating, since it's exactly the opposite of the truth: People unschool their children so they can be exposed to a wider range of social experiences than those provided in the narrow and artificial environment of most schools.

I think pg's essay on why nerds are unpopular has some good insight into much of the "socialization" that goes on in school: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Congrats, guys. This is excellent sauce.
Blacklisting alone don't tell if a hosting company is secure or not, but is a good indicator of how it is being perceived from the outside.
Semi offtopic:

Can anybody tell me about an appropriate data structure for computing Scrabble (or any crossword) short of full-out walking a 2d grid? I've read a bit about Tries and Directed Acyclic Word Graphs, but those seem to just be for optimizing dictionary matching, and don't seem to account at all for the actual structure of the board (especially not the possibility of colliding with other branches when adding new words).

I'm 90% certain it'll come back right back to needing a global and explicit a 2d grid when I try to build in a board with static score multipliers, but ignoring this for now and just trying to lay out letters: is there a masochistically-functional way to compute Scrabble/crosswords without working on an explicit 2d grid?
I read it because it has intelligent discussions relevant to anyone who works with computers in business.
My guess is complexity. The double rotors require coaxial drives and the helicopter itself ends up being taller. The top rotor maintenance is going to be more difficult.

The Kamov company's helicopters were all(?) double-rotor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov

Kamen Aerospace has double rotor helicopters without the coaxial drive (interleaved rotors)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_Aircraft
I don't think I would pay $30 a month for Netflix. From my perspective the demand for their services is fairly elastic, especially considering the substitutes. However, I do expect that prices will be recalibrated once video streaming makes up more substantial portion of their business. I'd imagine the economics of streaming vs. sending a DVD are quite different.
Telepresence: A Manifesto
I kinda agree with you, but when you see 21% at Rackspace, it shows that something odd is going on there (taking out hosting-specific attacks, the % should be the same everywhere).
What percentage of those terms would be "terms offered by one Steve Jobs" to users?
Thanks for giving us some fantastic user feedback the last few months!
Cartesian coordinates seem to provide a very practical way of assigning an ordering.
I don't get the arbitrage takeaway? I thought that income tax was only a part of the puzzle. Maybe half. The other taxes you pay aren't affected by what you put in retirement accounts.
And good on them; that'd be good for my grandmother, especially now that my grandfather's old SLR has died.

There's still a demographic out there that doesn't pick up on new tech quickly, either because they can't, they won't, or they don't have time to learn.
And it is noticeable in the constant decrease in quality of both submissions and comments. Just compare the scribb.ly discussion here to the one on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d8ph4/building_...

Granted, one can circumvent a lot of nonsense on reddit by carefully selecting and managing subreddit subscriptions but in the end I find myself unsubscribing from more and more reddits over time.
NetFlix simplified my life. The value of that is what I think is underestimated.
Such a smart comment. The ideals matter, but so do the individual kids. What works for some may not work for your kids, or for you as a parent. Being adaptive gives better results than following the One True Way. Especially with a thing like "childhood," which is so idealized -- it's easy to get carried away.

Also, as a parent, you have to remember that your issues about school (too strict, too unstructured, too much bullying, not enough recess, whatever) are likely to not be the issues of your kids.

You shouldn't be making their educational choices to compensate for retrospectively-understood mistakes in your own education.
My contribution: If you're doing this, and you have a smart kid, for God's sake, buy a lot of books, buy every book you can think of and put it in your house. I can point at three quarters of my interests and trace them straight back to books I picked off the shelf when I was 10. My parents had a lot of books, but even so, I ended up having to re-read the ones that were interesting to me instead of pushing further and learning more as a kid.

I think that if Amazon.com had existed and someone had given me a $500 gift card to last the duration of my childhood, I would be a lot smarter and better-educated than I am today, having established a better foundation.
Deconstructing Alcoholism
As a point of comparison, I've met several hundred who are not in the least socially awkward.
You might have morals and/or value your time, but actually I think the article is dead on that they're competitors. A large segment of the population chooses to pirate instead of pay. If BitTorrent ceased to exist (as a technology - not the company), NetFlix would almost certainly gain some customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_a...

If you can find even a single agency on that list which performs a function you wouldn't be willing to pay for, the rest of my comment follows for you, specifically: that agency is a net cost to you comprising both the taxes you pay to fund it (proportionately) and the decrease in wealth caused by keeping those people from contributing to the economy by doing something productive. This isn't specific to the US government, of course; that's just the easiest example.
It's a valid assertion.

Not to start a whole thing about piracy -- but what always surprises me in conversations about Bittorrent is that most people speak as if it has no effect on anything, anywhere, ever. Somehow, it also seems to exist outside any real purchasing decisions.

I'm not attacking you personally, but honestly that kind of thinking (as I've stated it, not you) is delusional.

The existence of unlimited free copies of your product is going to effect your business and your ability to profit. No question.
My home ec class was worthless. We cooked and sewed, which I think is much more traditional course material for home ec. It sounds like your brother's teacher looked at the title and made up the syllabus - I've never heard of anything remotely economics-related ending up in a home economics class.
I believe the private recycling companies that operate the redemption centers do get the full CRV, rather than the state keeping it (though the state keeps the sales tax on the CRV). If you go as an individual to a recycling company to return containers for a refund, they pay you less than the CRV, the difference going to their costs and profit. Since it seems to not be a very competitive market (recycling centers aren't really competing for your business by offering higher redemption values), almost all of them pay the minimum redemption value that CA law requires them to pay.
In my experience these are the shortcomings of using bittorrent:

1. It can take several minutes to find a decent release for titles that are older (>5 years) or less popular.
2. Older/Less popular items are poorly seeded, meaning I potentially have to wait overnight for the download to finish. (A new episode of a current series, however, usually comes in as fast as my broadband connection can handle).
3. Unless you know all of the release groups by heart, you have to spend a minute or two sifting through search results to find a release in a usable format in good-enough quality. Often I have to settle for something that plays fine in mplayer/vlc instead of something I can stream to my PS3 connected to my TV.
4. Maybe about 1/20 times I finish a download only to realize that it's A) not in the right language or burned-in with foreign subtitles B) terrible quality C) incomplete.

Sure, I get to keep the files, and often I can find stuff that streams on all my devices without hassle, but I watch stuff infrequently enough that the effort and possibility of failure is bothersome. I'd gladly pay to be able to choose a show and watch it immediately, assuming that the library of available content was large enough.
They say "not to say you abandon your child at the playground". Every kids plays the "why" game with their parents. They're naturally curious assuming they're stimulated. You can feed this curiosity and see where it takes them. If they love sports, see if they're interested in reading about the greats, or looking at stats, etc.
it can do either, but i think it's designed to do the former.
To say that this project is awesome is a HUGE understatement. We are currently using it in our upcoming CMS (http://www.gethifi.com) as an in-browser text editor. It looks and behaves great:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gethifi/4952045778/

They are currently trying to get it to work on the iPad/mobile safari. That could quickly make the iPad a reasonable mobile development environment.
Anyone know of a decent biography of Igor Sikorsky? Most of the ones I'm finding on Amazon are either fluff or kids books.
Inside Chicago's Tech Hub - Home to Groupon and more [video]
your probably thinking of http://wrongtomorrow.com/ which no longer seems to be up - and it never seemed to get much traction anyways.
In addition to what some other people have said, there is a certain percentage of kids who are homeschooled because they were socially awkward in school.

In theory, homeschooling allows these kids to develop their social skills in an environment with less risk of serious teasing/bullying. In practice, it depends on how the parents approach things.
Perhaps it's a volume thing?

I suspect that "I want to be entertained" is a bit more universal than "I want to find a mate" or "I want to manage my project."

So maybe they're finding some kind of sweet spot there?

The thing is, I use Watch Instantly sporadically. Sometimes hardcore, every night, for a week when I just need a break from everything, and other times not more than once or twice a month. $9 is such a fair amount of money to ask, I just let them bill away regardless, because I want to have it immediately if and when I want it.

So it could also be that <$10 is just the right amount of auto-pilot billing to maximize their revenue for spotty users.
Happy Hour is a Button on the Register
Heh! I just added a link to your blog as a recommendation, before seeing your reply.

My guess is that more of the stuff at Rackspace is being admin'd by customers who don't know what they're doing, versus the managed shared hosting at other places.
If forces a move to fluid layouts for the web I'm all for it. I like my browser windows tall and narrow, which breaks a lot of sites unless I use Readability.

On small devices, however, there is definitely a place for pixel perfect designs. The designer have to be real conscious about what fits on the screen and how to lay it out in a way which is understandable and good looking.
Wow, I was expecting a Copyright 1996 down on the footer.
For UK people, they're planning to relaunch here by the end of the year:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a200103/netflix-to-r...
HipChat’s Enterprise Communication Platform Adds Video Chat And Guest Access
I don't know what's the proper way of implementing macros but I can tell you how I did it in my toy lisp implementation:
I compiled defmacro as a normal function but I also added it to a macro table, then in my compile-form function I would use this table to decide if the form is

a) a special form
b) a function call
c) a macro

(a) and (b) are obvious, (c) means I would call the compiled macro "function" on the rest of the form and the execute compile-form on the result.

It's unhygenic and there's probably some fatal flaw I didn't catch.
Absolutely. If you make this for the iPad I will buy it day one. You can even get away with raising the price a couple bucks on the iPad but still essentially have the same functionality.