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It's not my point to show that ideas don't have value. I simply don't have the bandwidth to execute on a lot of ideas and I think there's more value to putting them out than keeping them to myself.

If I thought the idea didn't have value I wouldn't take the time to write it out and post it.
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So, is HTML5 not an open standard either? I had understood that in the common parlance it was.
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Copywright != patent

copyright protects the expression of an idea, while a patent protects the idea itself
If you (or somebody else) can manage to pull together a proper "idea hub", I'll happily contrbute!
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I would think that the hops are the determining factor in cost and taste of beer. there are just so many varieties of hops and there is a shortage right now because of the subsidies in other industries pulling farmers away from it to focus on corn. (I think it's corn but it has been a while since I read it) The owner of sam adams brewery had a hop subsidy to small brewers at the prices he could get to help foster the microbreweries around.
In brief: 1. poor Gmail support 2. lack of Google Voice support 3. reliance on iTunes without alternatives
Word to all that.

Come to think of it, I've never personally seen a graph of tuition inflation with out-of-pocket payment, private loan payment, and federal aid payment all on top of each other, mapped over time. THAT would be a telling graph.
Articles that equate Flash with Flash Video are shockingly bad.
Good lord, an interesting article about a subject I've never seen before and the most up-voted comment is a petty whine about using 'leverage' instead of 'use'?

And in fact, in this case, were I to eliminate jargon in this case I wouldn't replace 'leverage' with 'use' anyway. I'd say 'make use of' to suggest a thin layer of indirection not implied with the word 'use.'
The PDK uses the same tech as iPhone apps, they've already shown it's trivial to develop a game for iOS and port it over. That makes them much more competitive than Android, and already webOS has many more games available.
I would agree with this. In fact, I bet you could differentiate services for different amounts: Evernote integration is probably not worth nearly as much as Salesforce integration.

You could also consider buffet-style pricing, where you get X services for N dollars, X+Y services for N+M dollars, etc. As you get more services, that may enable you to keep the value/data ration reasonable. It doesn't make sense with 12 services available; with 144 services, it might. I know I don't want to pay extra because you support 130 services I'll never use.
interesting. How big do they get indoors?
Will be interesting to see what variant of AutoCAD is released.

My Dad is an architect, very long-term AutoCAD veteran, long term disliker of Windows. IIRC the previous cross-platform AutoCAD was the stripped down LT (is that right?) version. Useful for some things but not a viable choice for heavy AutoCAD users at the time.
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Work on something useful, something that has a goal.

Beating your head against a problem for hours is the best way to learn something (because you learn all the ins and outs of that thing, not just the part you were working on).
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I upvoted you because I got the humor. Seriously, at this point I am completely willing to accept this is just me, because I have heard no one complain about this but me!
I sometimes think that the lack of books for Postgres is because someone is paying to keep them off the market.

Every few days on pgsql.general mailing lists, there is someone asking for a good Postgresql book (the "High Performance MySQL" kind)

Less books = one more tick mark for Oracle.
Imagine a headline that read "Smoking correlates with increased life expectancy among centenarians."

On aside topic, I've heard from three different people (each around 60) that they plan on taking up smoking (cigars, at least, in one case) when the reach 70 or 80.

Interesting idea. Me, I'm so glad to be free of the headaches of maintaining a smoking habit I can't see ever going back, even if any health risk was irrelevant.
Sorry to pollute the stream here, but...

I'm interested in talking to you about integration. I can't use the contact form on your website because every page now sends me to the "Thanks for signing up" page and, unfortunately, you don't have an email address in your profile. Can you (or somebody appropriate :) shoot me an email (address in my profile)?
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there are a large number of sites that also demo html5 sucking just as bad. video=FUDcrap. 230+ points for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430 really? ...when it sent smoke rings out my dual core with 4GB of RAM? i most certainly don't work for adobe, but crap like this is what made me stop reading slashdot. btw: i like arcade fire a lot.
"Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk..., heavy drinkers are less likely to die than people who have never drunk."

Hmm, seems to me that all have precisely the same likelihood of dying.

Sorry to be snarky, but this is just awfully poor editing. Reading pop science reporting is often just painful.
Probably. But I was leaning more towards, listing specific accomplishments instead of generic business-y words.

(Disclaimer: typing this on an iPad)
My startup is working on making endpoint-to-endpoint security for email really easy. I'm wondering what that cozy relationship is going to look like for us (of course, that is a Lamborghini problem ;).
Looks like I need to buy an Apple product just for this event?
Interestingly, that's similar to the criticism often levied at operator overloading in C++.
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I think that your final point has the most explanatory power.

Everyone knows that a sufficiently geeky person can make a computer do magical things.

However, apps (in the general sense) become much more exciting when they gain wide appeal, and the difficult discovery, install, setup, and maintenance experience of earlier approaches were an enormous drag on their wide success.
It looks like you're checking out the Vim Color Scheme preview page. :)

http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/

When I find myself with many vim instances running I tend to start giving them different color schemes to make them easier to differentiate. More often, though, I have things split across 8 virtual desktops.

(Same for shell windows. Too often I've forgotten where I was. Having, say, the shell to a remote server use a yellow background alerts me that this is not my local box.)

Also: Bacon rules.
If it really is fine, why don't you make a video and post it? Unless someone does this, the video above trumps text that claims otherwise.
i originally misread it as "gremlin", those little devils that do annoying things when no one is looking.
That was an impressive answer from Ryan Budney! ... Then I clicked to his homepage and discovered he is a math professor with interest in knots. I love the internet.
Any discussion that can include the phrase ...consider that if you had a stretchy pair of toroidal pants with vertical stripes... is alright by me!
Though there are only two opinionated words in there: calling the iPad "magical" and their computers the "best"

To me, though, those two opinions seem no sillier than Microsoft's claim that their software helps people "realize their full potential."
Any time you're hoping for someone to pull a Steve Jobs comeback, you're already in deep trouble. There are very, very few Steve Jobs types in the world.
I think the grandparent was asking if the X-ray machines themselves could be miniaturized enough to fit in the glasses. In case you wanted to use them when a giant machine wasn't around.
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Is this endgame Linux ?
For all intents and purposes, this is the market that Linux should have.
High performance *nix, highly stable, can run huge programs on it.

Coming from the silicon IC design industry, there are huge IC layout tools which run exclusively on Linux. They work a lot similar to AutoCAD-like software - they do a lot of automatic layout, place-and-route, 3D design, etc.

These tools run for weeks at a time on linux machines and are highly optimized for Linux.

That existing market could have been so easily translated into software like Autocad for Linux. But something went wrong somewhere - probably the OS graphics API was not good enough (a frequent enough complaint for Linux)... I really dont know what.

But even after a proven 4.4 billion dollar market (EDA industry market cap) for Linux based high-performance design tools, Autocad went after Mac. Knowing fully well that TCO for a Linux based system is far, far lower than a Mac based.
An impressive layman indeed, knowing to post a question to StackExchange under Topology.

And I mean that sincerely - that page has some pretty awesome 'layperson'-level (as much as it can get, I suppose) information on topology and manifolds in particular, for a an interested onlooker.

Typical classy HN stuff :)
You know, Menlo is based on Deja Vu Sans Mono.

http://typophile.com/node/58625#comment-351070
All I get is a stuttering animation and choppy noise in chrome... 100% cpu usage and 500mb of memory used... The idea sounds cool though...
You'll notice that jl followed people in the "right" order, starting with the company, then pg, then the worker, then this reddit dude.

Contrast that with pgs follows, which were uncalculated, and revealed the rough order in which he thought of people as being "interesting". Sam Altman was one of his first follows, in spite of being a very boring twitterer (I think he just checks in with loopt on twitter).

The high up joshu follow, ahead of trevor blackwell, for example, would imply that they do speak outside of at meet-ups.
Yes Adobe should just abandon the technology that pioneered many of the things in HTML5 because everything's invented now!
But they still own the brands and for business people it matters. They can also develop various proprietary extensions.
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Maybe I don't understand the concept of "developer mindshare" well enough but it seems to me that Oracle does engage with the user community and not just the business community.

They do this through user conferences such as Collaborate and ODTUG (which is developer specific) - those conferences are much more technical in nature than the marketing oriented OpenWorld.

Oracle also have the OTN and its ACE program for engaging with the technology people, including forums, beta programs, code sharing site, etc.

And of course, Oracle supports the local user groups which are also technology oriented - many of those user groups are highly critical of many Oracle decisions (and you should have heard the noise when Oracle Support site switched to flash) - but Oracle still supports them because they know that an active user community is essential.
Once you've got one hole you can just consider it like a sack, all the others are superfluous.
I would love to hear why you made this decision.
Cheaper for developers... not users. I might not switch away from iPhone for my personal use, but if I could pick up a palm for a few hundred bucks, I might write an app for one. As a mobile developer, you have to dest on-device and the price of supporting many devices can add up quickly.
just take the class. It'll be fine.

But if you also want to learn something else for interest sake, try python with this http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/
> The original inspiration for Greplin? Says Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham: “He was on his way to a party, and he didn’t remember where the address was stored. Was it a Facebook event, or in an email, or in his calendar? It was a pain to try searching all these things from his phone.” So he built the solution.

If you can't memorize the address you write it in your phone's organizer/reminder. This sounds a bit like over-engineering.
Not true—in the case of a punctured torus (like the shirt with joined sleeves), it's not like a sack at all!

It can still be turned inside-out, but it's a little trickier to visualize. You can imagine the hole stretching until you have a pair of identical rings glued together, then it's easy to see that you can shrink the hole the same way except in the other direction. But there's no way to make it look like a sack with holes.
Why is being on github a "huge signal" that they care? They're pushing code into the wild, giving it away for free and actively maintaining it - who cares where they host it if the code is good code?

I'm getting really disturbed at this "if it's not on github it doesn't exist" meme. In the past it was "if it's not on sourceforge it doesn't exist" - what's next?
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Oracle used Sun's hardware to build the Exadata - which they very aggressively sell as a data warehouse solution. Competing with Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum and the likes.
For what it's worth, I've had a similar experience on my Motorola Droid.

The worst part about having Flash, though, is all the Flash advertising that I now see.
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Well all things being equal, wouldn't it be better for the open-source solution to win out in the end?
Definitely true - I didn't think about access to proprietary databases or the excellent libraries.

I wonder if universities will have to go even deeper than they currently are to compete with the internet, or if the proprietary databases and large libraries will inevitably be made irrelevant by the internet.
I think that it's just tagged 'topology' by 26 people. The original question-poser may not have known the term.
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[1] http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14636

Then I suppose the complaint against split infinitives is really just an attempt to prescribe against awkward phrasing. Those crazy Victorians.
I'm thinking Rackspace might well have been in the right on this one. If the customer was in fact phishing, Rackspace was well within their rights to shut down the account. It's really up to the application creator to prevent that abuse.

That said, it's good to have a reminder of the risks of outsourcing your hosting. I still think the tradeoff is worth it for experimental products where you don't want to invest too much upfront.
Yep! I was about to post that I learned this from my toddler... and trying to squat (western style) next to him to play.
I'm very disinterested in this topic.
I'm not down with the beating senseless part, but I would say that by making a service "free" they don't get to be sloppy or negligent with privacy. There's still a duty of care, as the lawyers say. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_of_care
Sun was a phenomenally successful business - but not at selling software. Software was their way to sell hardware.

A few years back, I wanted to buy stock in a software company, because I was in the software business, knew something about it, and owning stock would result in me learning more, which would benefit me doubly. Out of Sun and Adobe, and choose Sun (still love java); but after I placed the order, I realized that Sun wasn't a software company. It didn't draw significant revenue from software. I tried to change the order to Adobe, but it was too late.

I sold it years later, for half. I don't regret the loss (it's the stockmarket after all), but I do regret mistaking Sun for a software company.
This may sound contrived and sarcastic, but I assure you it is not.

Try your best to get Robert Scoble's attention on this. Rackspace has tasked him with being an evangelist primarily focused on startups and bringing them into the Rackspace services. It's my understanding that things like this should be his primary concern.

I could be mistaken, but I'm used to that.

http://twitter.com/malbiniak/status/22672201225
The standard rationale for doing a note is that they're simpler and therefore cheaper to do, which in theory helps both founders and investors (unless anyone thinks its a good idea to blow startup capital on lawyers).

This article was pretty much the most clueless thing I've ever seen written about convertible note financing. Better to just forget you ever saw it.
lets call it "stakeholder" faith then, and include members of the userbase who have invested their time in the site.

I would count them as a group who is not prepared to sit around to wait and see what happens - they want things fixed yesterday. Giving Rose a 2nd, 3rd chance etc doesn't build trust with this group IMO.
Not necessarily. For all reasonable articles of clothing, yes, it's true. That's because clothing is designed to enclose an interior which is isomorphic to a sphere [1]. Thus, clothing is simply a sphere with holes.

But there are plenty of hypothetical clothes for which this isn't true. Consider a mobius strip - like a sack, there is only one hole, but a mobius strip isn't a sack (and you can't patch it shut).

[1] I don't want to think about clothing for which this isn't the case, since it would involve the digestive tract.
Your middle paragraph is reasonable and a good idea. What's with the first and third?
DSLs aren't just about the curly braces and lambdas. It's also about reducing the amount of boilerplate code required to achieve some task. You can do this with higher order functions and objects but only to a certain extent.

If you find that your language still requires boilerplate code to implement features in whatever domain you're working in, then perhaps it's time to get a new language - or write a DSL.
This is so skewed. 1800 participants, all with different health backgrounds, then divided into 3 groups of heavy, moderate and never. That's not really a sample size to get any definite conclusion from. These results might be a reason to do a more trough research at the most.

The variance on this thing is huge. To tie their drinking habits to their mortality, negating all other factors, on this sample size, is ridiculous.
It seems a bit hard to follow, right from the outset. Maybe a dumbed down intro chapter or two is in order.
I agree. Hosting providers usually reserve the right to shutdown your server if it has been hacked, and phishing is often more directly harmful to people.
I took 3 terms of discrete math from him at the University of Oregon a few years back. He was a great instructor and really smart guy that knows more about knots than I realized could be known at the time.
@matrix, I think overall direction is correct, Rackspace should try their best to notify their customer if they received complaints. However the ridiculous point of this case is totally shutting down all servers of a startup in just 1 hour, which is really horrible. Instead I believe they should at least give 12 - 24 hours for a startup to react and investigate before taking down all their services?

Is that really on the same direction that they want to serve startups?
It could have been profitable if it wasn't. Up until recently Reddit was being run by only two or three engineers on a shoe-string budget. Digg had way too many employees, way too much ambition.
To be fair, a service the size of Rackspace Cloud is bound to screw up at least a few times.

Then again, no one ever got fired for switching to Linode.
Everyone hate spam. I don't object Rackspace to shut down an account that is obviously phishing/spam, but not take down as soon as they think there is an abuse. Grace period must be given, so the the site holder can respond.

I don't think it is possible for few-man startup can responds in 1 hours for 24x7. I would choose to use an alternative hosting that give a longer gracing period.
I agree that this is a very good topic and I'll flesh out some thoughts and post them soon. I'll email you when it's up. Would love to continue the dialog!
One of the commentators on the original article suggested using a stool. It's a good idea, but what a choice of words!
It doesn't store any of your credentials!!!
I doubt the resemblance is a coincidence: greplin appears to be a portmanteau of grep and gremlin. (IMHO, it's a great name.)
first - didn't want to come off as "complain and your problem will be fixed." i never anticipated having it called reasonable.

third - second paragraph is my interpretation of a conversation i had with some people from rackspace and it could be wrong.

also, hello from minneapolis.
I think this is great. One thing that I've been thinking about recently is that all my startup ideas are very technically sophisticated. That is, while they might indeed have the potential to make a big impact, they also involve a lot of detailed technical work and focus in computer science. I think part of that is that I'm simply exposed to systems far more than most other fields, so it's interesting to see the kind of stuff other people come up with. I would never think of Twitter, for example.
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> Grace period must be given, so the the site holder can respond.

Unfortunately, during that grace period, numerous people may be receiving spam emails directing them to the site, and some of those people may be naively entering their information ...

I really dislike the way most service providers and the like handle spam, but unfortunately, I too must side with Rackspace on this one. They simply can not afford to "wait and see" until the site owner responds, or provide a grace period while the site owner tries to figure things out.

Phishing attempts must be handled by site owners as though their server has just been compromised and someone is currently downloading the entire password database: the server must be shut down immediately, the problem fixed offline, and the server only brought back online once the issue is fixed.

Sorry. :-/
No doubt this is true.

Amazon has been quietly building a decent movie rental streaming service.

It's player app is now built into major brand devices (Sony, Samsung, Tivo, Roku, etc) and expanding fast.

Instead of aquiring NFLX per rumors they're positioned to make a real go at it themselves by subsidizing rather than dropping the $5 - 6B for Netflix.

Bottom line it's going to be an epic Apple, Amazon, Netflix battle.

Although if neither Amazon or Apple picks up Netflix seems like a pretty spot-on aquisiton for Google to boost their new Google TV .
First of all, what is up with Linode's London datacenter? I barely press enter on commands and they've already been carried out. Seriously, it installs packages before the text from the server reaches me, and I get 15 ms latency on it (the SSH echo feels faster than my local PC).

Is it just me, or are their other datacenters slower than their London one? It might be the latency, as I was actually in London, but the one I have in Georgia doesn't seem to have that fast disk accesses... Bottom line, though, the London datacenter is just time-traveling fast.
VLC supports playback already at least on Linux. I believe Microsoft is just using the same name to describe what they are doing in SilverLight but it isn't based on Apple's spec.

I'm sure this has a lot to do with the broadcasters supporting it already for the iPad. Some of them have done so since before launch. The new Apple TV platform will surely build on top of that and I'm guessing you will get to see the same iPad CBS app running on a TV.