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So you can happily use Atom, which allows you to say whether your title has markup or not.

What alternative was there? Would you have been happy with just adding an attribute to title? What if people didn't use it? What would you have solved then?

And would you have been happy with jsut that one change? THen why is Atom so different from RSS? Why did the name for <item> change to <entry>? I don't recall anyone offering a reason why item was such a bad name.

Another question -- when was the last time you saw a title that had markup in it? I've never seen one, and my code has parsed a lot of feeds over a lot of years. Perhaps people followed the doctor's advice. If it hurts when you do it, don't do it.

Try a thought experiment, suppose we had changed the spec. What else would you have wanted to change? Juding from the Atom spec, quite a bit. How many RSS's would we have then?

And who would this have been good for? We all would have had to stop making RSS apps and convene and working group and hash it all out. So instead of having 50 people on the Atom mail list, we would have had 800 people on the "Let's Completely Redesign RSS" mail list.

Did you observe what happened with SOAP when the WG was formed? And you think that would have been worth it, just to get an attribute on the title element?

You have to look at the actual problems people are having writing apps.

That you guys could only find this and the number-of-enclosures issue says that RSS 2.0 is pretty damned good. And it works for what it was designed to do. And things we didn't expect when it was developed. That's the sign of "pretty good" technology. No it's not perfect. Anything you ship will not be. Atom is not perfect either.

It's amazing to me that after 7 years, and the lack of impact that Atom has had, that you still don't get this. I would never have said it this way in normal discourse, but I think you should have the experience of someone lecturing you in public, as you have lectured me.
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It's a little late to say this, since you (ebaysucks) have posted this in public (bad plan), but DO NOT REPLY under any circumstances. Replying does two things:

1. It alerts the sender that there may be an interested party on the other side of unknown intentions. This gives them further reason to continue to pursue that they didn't have before.

2. It confirms to the sender that the message was received by a potential defendant. That, then, becomes a piece of the litigation: "Your Honor, over a year ago we sent Mr. So-and-So an email regarding this matter, and he flatly refused to negotiate in good faith with us. Given that... (insert bastardly thing here)."

In short, don't reply, and never reveal your thought process to them except through counsel. And don't pick painful fights (especially inadvertently) for no reason at all. If you feel an overwhelming urge to take some kind of action, talk to a lawyer.
If they get youtube like popularity one day expect a horde of lawyers at their door. One thing is for sure though justintv would be deserted without the illegal streams.
it sucks up time from my life i will never get back.

You could be talking about the entertainment industry. They seem to be doing ok in the market.
Really not that funny and worse it gratifies no intellectual curiosity. (Not to mention that it is a repost from an earlier link to their homepage)
I wrote a metacircular compiler-compiler that generates parsers in PostScript: http://github.com/kragen/peg-bootstrap and a bootstrapping compiler for a very simple Forth-like language: http://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth (although I need to fix it so it will run on current kernels; apparently I cut some corner in the ELF spec...)
Those elephants can run very, very fast if they're pissed off, and among other reasons, the savannah isn't straight-line driving for the most part. Elephants like to frequent parts that are heavy scrub, which limits straight-line speed. Besides, the land rovers out there are generally very old and really not capable of exceeding 50 km/h.
I remember these methods from one of my books. However, I can't remember which one. It may have been in "Ship It", but can't be certain. http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Successful-Software-Pr...
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Stopped reading at "says Nathan Myhrvold".
Infinite flexibility, and none of the power of JS is sacrificed. This framework is awesome.
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Why do this? Is it an inside joke?
Clay Shirky presents "Cognitive Surplus" as a video talk
Alan Mycroft has given some C interpretations of HAKMEM examples at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~am21/hakmemc.html.
When a patient has heart failure, you try to stabalize him first. You don't immediately put him on the operating table to do stomach reduction surgery in order to combat the obesity that caused heart failure.
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Yeah, I cried a river that I couldn't express myself like that. Fake McClure blog in the works? Maybe.
> Perhaps you should break down that problem into solvable small ones? Then you could determine how I was able to teach myself each of those with only a high school education.

This is something I've heard a lot. I don't mean to disparage your accomplishments, but how exactly do you know what you're missing with a college/grad school education? It's fallacious to think that a college education will instantly make you smarter, but it's also fallacious to think that a college education is worthless.
Just wait - one of them will go back in time and try to kill Lego Sarah Conner. You'll see.
This is the lamest thing I've seen in a while. Har-de-har-har, good sir!
It was the good link. Here's the key point:

"On average, subjective evaluation showed that students found transactions harder to use than coarse-grain locks, but slightly easier to use than fine-grained locks. Detailed examination of synchronization errors in the students’ code tells a rather different story. Overwhelmingly, the number and types of programming errors the students made was much lower for transactions than for locks. On a similar programming problem, over 70% of students made errors with fine-grained locking, while less than 10% made errors with transactions."

Transaction are felt as being of average difficulty, but they in fact spur far less errors. I bet we could find the same kind of bad judgement with "map" higher order functions vs "for" loops.
I think Nassim is standing on shaky ground here, although we do not have the full text of his remarks.

I do not think our understanding of real world economics and the way that our economy actually works is adequate to state anything about the impact of one strategy versus another. Academic Economics certainly is not adequate to predict anything in the real world with any degree of reliability. Time series analysis of indicators does not provide insight into the causes and effects of complex events. No one seems to be trying to model the impact of various strategies and compare them to observations.

Policy makers really need better, experimentally validated tools to help them make decisions. We need an experimentally verifiable model that allows rational comparison of strategies. It would be nice to have some experimental validation of the belief systems of the current economic pundits. Me, I doubt that the unfettered free market economy can deliver what is promised.

Without better understanding, we will continue to fly blind, waste resources, and make sub-optimal decisions.
True. But that won't solve the problem for everybody. I will solve the problem for everybody.
No, most people are taught not to pursue their own individual goals during the first two decades of institutionalized education.
TED version: http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_w...
So many comments, have not read through them all. There are so many cool things to stick your head in, so you ask if you are getting too old; YES. I am 46, and predates your career by 15 years, and I am still fascinated over the new possibilities that presents themselves year after year.

Sharing of ideas in Open Source; Happens all the time, maybe it is now too technical for you to follow, and family interests keep you from digging in enough to catch up.

Sharing of ideas of the future; Happens all the time, in blogs, tweets and what not. In fact, we are getting drowned by so much information that it becomes a challenge to filter the noise. AND you have a new idea right there; Give me something to filter the garbage out and serve me the gems on a plate. Such tool itself will accelerate ideas collaboration even more.

Privacy concerns; Centralized so called "cloud services" at various levels are going extinct in the future, because of privacy will become a massive sore points, possibly after some scandals (need to brew a decade or so for full effect). So, prepare social network system that is truly distributed and where the consumer control exactly what is shared with whom and how, and can take it off-line...

I think over a week-end with a lot of supply of beer, I think a group of visionaries can come up with 10-20 solid new things that is both doable, and should inspire people who like to GetThingsDone.

So, the final question to you; Are you the consumer or the producer of the great things to come??
I've always assumed that the sound effects from their underwater shots were studio effects.
I think the real point of the story is the push towards animals as entertainment rather than the fact that some hard to get footage is staged (though the two points are mixed together). The Economist had a good article on just how profitable wildlife show are, http://www.economist.com/node/16793496?story_id=16793496&.... Consequently it is easy to see why content creators are keen to reduce costs (cut corners ?) and boost ratings.
I think that the Artistic License would fit very well.
You are safe. Although I'm not a lawyer, it's very well established that titles and short phrases are not copyrightable. They can be trademarked, but (except in the case of album titles, perhaps) that would be very hard to argue in regard to a song title.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
I went to Akihabara on a visit to Tokyo a few years back... I have to say I was pretty unimpressed.

Visiting Japan is a mind-blowing experience but once you have got over the crazy ways they do retail in general, Akihabara itself doesn't have much to offer IMHO.

The few unusual stores that are there are the ones the guide shows, like the discount test equipment/oscilloscope store (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGPddaXFkXU). Sure they are kind of cool but most of it is just regular electronics at prices that were not competitive.

The internet really changed things - Akihabara was the place to buy unusual and rare electronics but the chances are you can buy anything you see in Akihabara in the US via the Internet, at a cheaper price point. I'm sure you can buy those second-hand oscilloscopes at similar discount prices via specialized online retailers.

Do check out the video of the labyrinth 'department stores', which are buildings full of small vendors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKmwIBfT5U4). I used to visit buildings like that in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that were several levels just full of pirated software - all dark and full of neon, it was like something out of Blade Runner.

Roll-up shutters to lock-up style units with all this software on the wall - patrons would just pick off the wall the names of the software they wanted (Windows, MS Office, Photoshop, etc) and some kid would run off and bring them the disks at $1 a pop. Every now and again one of these units would be selling noodles or soup or pot-stickers.

But again, the Internet has disrupted that market and you don't see them as much (http://ahcheo.blogspot.com/2009/06/todays-imbi-plaza.html) - I guess because if you are interested in obtaining pirated software you can do it via Bit Torrent.

Speaking of fake stuff, check out the "Mac Store" in Akihabara: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotben/53700249/

This photo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotben/53699076/, also reminded me that if you do visit Akihabara go at night, when all the neon is lit!
Another alternative to following along might be to try and reimplement the code as you go along in another language you may know, the code is easy to follow and with very good explanations about what you're intending to do it shouldn't be much of a problem.
I'm not sure, but is his company every sued any startup for patent infringement. I read about his company in super-Freakonomics and he seemed to be genuinely caring about solving hard, big problems. He may be amassing patents to get protection but unless he actively screws small companies by buying patents, I'm not sure I would call his company a patent troll.
Ah man, I really could have done with this in May.
Oh well, was still super fun discovering it all myself (i think i went in pretty much every shop in akihabara over the course of about a week!)

Will have to visit the hacker space next time i get the funds together to visit :)
Well, Firefox doesn't seem to know what to do with a BIN file called 'play' when I hit the 'Go' button. I don't know why, but you might want to look into that. That could be a sizable slice of the market to simply ignore.

I was surprised that I actually got into the game a bit. The problems are challenging enough to make it a real race with the timer. I didn't quite expect it to be as interesting as it turned out.

This might work well as one of those IQ quiz/survey things that seem to crop up a lot in banner ads. You could push it with a slogan along the lines of "How fast is your math?" although you might want to get a bit more creative. Checking just now, I see the domain fastmath.com is already taken. In fact, it looks like there are already some games out there along similar lines. Don't expect to find a lot of low hanging fruit.

That said, I think you might still find some opportunity. I would probably look at hooking the game into Facebook to get it in front of more people, and promotion deals for self-help books targeting math skills.

You'll probably need to liven up the design, though, and you absolutely MUST make it work with Firefox, without telling or expecting the user to do or install anything. I don't know if it's a problem for anyone else, but I JUST freshly installed FF on my Windows laptop, just in case the problem was Linux, and it failed the same way there. Google Chrome handles it on Windows (as I assume does IE), and Konqueror on Linux even knows what to do with it. What Firefox is missing, I don't know, but I suspect that slice of the market is a little bit big to just ignore. You would probably do well to look into it.

Good luck!

UPDATE: Had another look with Windows Firefox, and it's identifying the file as MIME type "application/octet-stream", which is probably what my Linux version considers a BIN file. I'm also noticing that sometimes the browser does seem to dectect the file/MIME type and run the file correctly on both Linux and Windows. Less often than not, though.

At a guess, you're going to need either to set the Content-TYpe (text/html?) explicitly, or give the file an extension. Otherwise, Firefox is unlikely to handle it consistently, let alone correctly, and that's liable to KILL your chances of monetizing anything.

Again, good luck...
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Okay why does this get moderated up to 22 points if Hacker News is such a respectful place.

I don't know who this guy is and what axes he has to grind (and the 22 people who think this is an important comment), but RSS is a huge success, anything but a "clusterfuck."

And River2 fully supports Atom. That's just outrageous that you say my software doesn't support it.
Personas, storyboards, scenarios: we used all of these at Microsoft. I've used aspects of each within the startups I've worked for or started, but never quite whole hog.

Nevertheless, they're likely all valuable tools. Just because you don't need to use a Philips #0 screwdriver every day doesn't mean it isn't critical to have when the situation demands it.
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I can kind of see the cost point - though most would argue that the lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree far outweigh a $100K investment.

Do those studies on lifetime earnings really isolate for other factors?

If dropping out of the college track isn't considered a valid, supported choice, then the only people that drop out will be those that have fallen out of the system. Is it a surprise that the majority of those students then fail?

But the time thing kind of bugs me. As driven as HN is this may be a minority position but I really don't believe you should be working (in a 9-5 career style job) between 18-24. I really don't care so much abou t college, but have fun, go out, date guys and girls, travel, there are so many things you should be doing at that age then starting a business and you'll end up better for it.

I got the "having fun" and dating out of the way between 16-18 (I dropped out of high school and moved out at 16). Everyone needs time to figure things out and grow up, and there shouldn't be a rush to start a business, but avoiding significant responsibility until you're 24 is unnecessary, carries a heavy opportunity cost, and is a waste of some of your most productive and formative years.

I didn't start my career until my late 20s and I don't regret that at all.

It's great that this worked out for you, but I have to say -- starting work in my field at 16 meant I had 10 years of experience when I was 26, and that expansive lead time on my contemporaries has been invaluable and allowed me to bring a breadth and depth of knowledge to my work that most people simply don't have, has ensured that I remain well ahead of the curve, and has provided me with a considerable backstop of experience to draw on when running my own business.

Given that I still love my life's work -- and that I have a few good working decades still ahead of me -- if I were given the choice, I wouldn't trade in those initial years for any other opportunity.
It is easy to understand.

This is the setup statement for why everything that follows in your post is wrong. If everything were simple and easy to understand we would have a straightforward, generally agreed upon solution. Instead, we have a complex multivariate macroeconomic system which we cannot control or isolate, meaning that reactions like these, as a whole, have about as much scientific backing as voodoo.

I'm really getting tired of these pop-economic articles on Hacker News. They never really inspire great debate, nothing gets settled, and everyone hits their own straw man.
> First of all, you're assuming

No I'm not. When I say "no error", that include the specs. For instance, correctly following a specs when the green button set of the emergency shut down makes the interface too astonishing. That's a bug.

> Second, it's way more easy to take a bunch of common sense measures than to deal with this.

Of course. we never tried it seriously. What we didn't try yet is always more difficult. But if we do, it may very well become easier. I don't know.

Anyway, these weren't the point. My point was that the domains where we need bug-free code is broader than we might think at a first glance. Not being able to trust that the code you run is error-free has costs that could very well be more important than taking the time to prove the absence of errors.
I don't know. Isn't it possible that Canada does well supplying resources to emerging markets and the US stock market that Prechter talks about still goes down or stagnates? Prechter and Rogers don't make predictions about the same thing.
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Considering that it's a upcoming feature in IE9 which is yet to be released, it is premature to say if anyone will actually use it.
Twitter is a noisy circus of spats and celebrity watching, and its hapless founders still can’t figure out how to make money.

Anybody who says this is clearly just trolling, since everyone knows they are making a ton of money selling the data to the search engines before they even get started on the advertising, which they are working on. And as for "twitter is for celebrity watching", that meme died a year ago.
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I respect your perspective and attitude, and while it may be a perfectly functional one to operate in, it is not realistic.

I'm not a fan of truisms such as "the quixotic nature of life that you never, ever get what you're looking for" and whatever it is called when you claim 1 factor of many is the culprit such as "lack of drive is the reason people fail" and "this is the difference between zuckerburgs and me".

Truisms are nearly always incorrect. I am looking for my keyboard. Well, it's right beneath my fingers. That should seem to disprove your theory of innate life quixoticness. I'm not meaning to be facetious. That's just how reasoning works. It's very likely that you perceive life to be this way because you don't give credit to the times where you do get what you're looking for, and, conversely, you may attribute too much to the times where you don't get what you really, really want (despite seeking it very thoroughly).

In terms of why people fail, and the difference between zuckerburgs and you, there are many, many different reasons. While you might have meant to say "the main reason" or "the main difference", it is my perspective that issues as complex as "what makes people different from one another" and "why do some people succeed, and some people fail" are pretty much unsolvable. There are just so many factors in each person's life, and the world in general, that it seems incredibly unlikely that one or two factors are behind any given characteristics of our life and world. This is also why I lend very low credibility to anything I read that says: "Want some big thing X, then do some simple thing Y" and other such link-bait articles. It is in their brevity they appealing, easy to believe, and probably wrong.

That being said, of course these types of life-experience and drama-driven topics are fun to indulge in, from time to time, but it takes a lot more than a few paragraphs and minutes of thought for me to take away anything other than: "Interesting..."

In specific response to "drive" being the main factor behind success, it's probably true that it is very important. There is also luck (a massive topic that encompasses anything from having your competitors succeed/fail [which recursively accounts for more luck], to whether or not you overhear a specific person say something when you're in a certain frame of mind [aka: Inception]), who you know, where you are, etc. Kyro was pointing out these attributes and their relation to the article, which I thought was insightful. And I definitely do not think he is mistaken in doing so.
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How do you imagine experimental validation in a macro economic context?
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