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Sure - and when jQuery was first released it was super-tiny too. The reality is that: 1) Targeting a single platform will yield a smaller file size at the expense of market share. 2) Shooting for small file size will throw important features and functionality under the bus.

I mean - either it's feature complete and it's small or it's not feature complete and its size is unknown. A large portion of the linked-to site is dedicated to the size of the library so I assumed that it was feature complete (as did most of the people in this thread).
This is neither original nor insightful. The political economic function of government is to ensure that markets function under controlled conditions. An elaborate government apparatus exists to manage vast social programs for business. The US Patent Office is one small example, but there are many others that would be apparent, were it not for pervasive anti-government rhetoric. Another example is limited liability. Without the enforcement of limited liability, elementary transactions we take for granted--mutual funds, for example--would be inconceivable.

Misunderstanding about the relation between business and government is encouraged and systematically exploited.
For example, Wall Street likes to create the misleading impression that it wants government out of its business. According to regulators in Washington, Wall Street wants government to give it business. And Wall Street is getting it, off the backs of the working and middle classes. While I agree that the system is dysfunctional, I disagree about the political economic function of government.

Anti-government rhetoric is the diametric opposite of the truth, which is that the political economic function of the government is to ensure that markets function under controlled conditions. Instead, you hear that the government is not (or should not be) the insurer of last resort and that negative externalities and risk pools do not exist.
Not a single one of the anti-government rhetoricians have provided a useful measure of efficiency, incidentally. They conveniently tend to forget that big corporations are bureaucracies as well.
Tkanet comments ---Apple's global MVNO strategy with universal SIM.
http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/
I am very surprised that Slicehost is still being updated. I thought that after the acquisition RackSpace was purposefully not updating Slicehost to get more customers to use their RackSpace branded version

This update make me wonder if Rackspace is seeing that there was more to slicehost then just the platform, and maybe considering focusing on the slicehost brand.

I still love the Slicehost docs and use them even though I'm on linode. If it looked liek Slicehost wasn't being ignored I would gladly move back.
I've proposed a solution elsewhere but I'll quote it here:

We already have a pretty good K-12 public education system. At least it's pretty good for its original purpose which is to make better workers. I say we overhaul the K-12 system so that by the time each person graduates they'll have the equivalent of 3-5 years of medical school. Then, in addition to college + traditional medschool (or just votech), give people the option of attending a publicly funded quasi-votech-medschool, the graduates of which will be licensed to practice medicine (and these people will have about 7-9 years of training at that point).

So, we would have simultaneously increased the number of doctors and nurses, decreased the need for them (since medical knowledge will be more or less ubiquitous), created some parity in knowledge between health care providers and consumers (the disparity is one of the big reasons a free market can't work). Most importantly, since medical knowledge/skill will be so pervasive we would see a lot more innovation and entrepreneurial activity in that space. Instead of people working on the next Facebook in their garage/dorm room we might have them working on new kinds of equipment, treatment, or even medicine (like that doctor that built a dialysis machine in his garage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1180628/D-I-Y-dial...). Or perhaps more stuff like this: http://www.wakemate.com/

Simply make everyone a doctor of sorts.
...in which you can't trade (because of theft) and no one enforces contracts.
I have two projects. One's a framework and application in C, with some utilities for it in Ruby (plain, no frameworks). The other one is in Python just because I thought it'd be a good way to learn the language in depth.

At my day job, we're using C, with our tests in Python (using robotframework [1]) and testing frameworks in C++.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/
The huge expenses you incur for moving are part of what the private companies would extract from you. While the company may be able to "efficiently" provide you a service for for 1/10th the equivalent government price, they will charge you something like 95% of the "total cost" of you switching, whatever that may be.

The issue is that you won't have 10 or 20 providers for roads, water, electricity, landlines. Anything where infrastructure costs are high or where its nearly impossible for two providers to have identical, commoditized services as with roads will not be competitive.

For things like getting a passport, driver's license, etc you will have some competition, but there are plenty of private companies that provide crappy service as well. How many people who buy cheaper merchandise later think "what a piece of crap"?
I immediately started thinking about seek times and elevator algorithms and that kind of stuff, which really threw me off course.

Not necessarily off-course. If you have 32 GB of RAM and you don't mind an average latency of 10000000 ms, a single 1 TB disk works just fine,
I love the concept of using JQuery Templates! But does anyone have experience on how using this affects SEO and search engine crawling?
Steal the Code
Sounds like a good tool, but again, it can't be installed inside the network..
That's not how it works for most employers I have seen in my day :)
sounds like California's referendum hell to me.
Those are not good examples, since an author or screenwriter will have people at the end who can help make it work. An editor/publisher or director/actors are essential. A good screenplay could still result in a crappy movie in the end.

(I do believe that a good developer who can code, has people skills, good style, etc. can do it alone.)
What a stupid site...steals content, reposts it on its own site with a small little link to the original source to steal traffic.
Deploy a High Performance Key-Value Store using Redis on Ubuntu
What? They can't even put a reliable date on Froyo for the Galaxy S line in the US but they're already shifting resources to a new hotness?

Could this be interpreted as a call to abandon the Galaxy S ship?
I have a number of problems with this essay, but I want to focus on this idea that people work and earn money, and that money is theirs, and them the government tax man comes around and takes their money. This has to be one of the biggest fallacies of the modern era. I hear it echoed in various forms by people of all different stripes. The notion that there is an independent, absolute concept of wealth or money or cash apart from the laws and government we put in place is so injurious to a healthy understanding of self-governance that I often can't take people seriously after I see them start to go down that road of argument. Implicit in that dollar you have in your pocket, in your paycheck, is a whole set of social and political conditions that allowed you to work, safely, without discrimination or abuse, or threat to your health, to get that dollar in the first place.

This idea of "my money" is willfully ignorant of the tax payer-funded or -secured bounty that allows these same people to have such a high standard of living and a platform upon which to spout their anti-government, every-man-for-themselves arguments. The sheer scale of the background conditions that these people take for granted -- roads, sewers, police & emergency responders, airwaves, parks, clean water, the military, etc., etc., etc., -- is so enormous, encompassing, and enabling that, for people like Carmack decry the very system that made them so wealthy, the disingenuousness and hypocrisy is staggering.

It's time -- lord, long past time -- for smart hacker types to leave behind the immature, naïve libertarianism that pervades their industry and engage with a real, honest politics that, at least implicitly, acknowledges and owns-up to the great wealth and resources already afforded them. /You didn't get here on your own, and you never would have otherwise./
I did the math for my own applications and found that Amazon's system is competitive pricewise with something I can set up in a data center that has acceptable reliability (RAID1 + "enterprise backup" that may or may not pull through in a pinch)

If you consider that a home-rolled solution is not elastic to demand and therefore I'd probably wind up with a capacity factor < 50%, it's a wash pricewise. Meanwhile, I know the AMZN-based system is going to make me sleep easy when it comes to business continuity nightmares.
How much did it cost to write it in-house, in terms of man-hours, and the salary cost? (I assume there was other stuff developers could have worked on, and that they weren't just sitting around previously.)
Or maybe one as a metaphor for the other. Still, it's not a great example.

I'm struggling to think of examples of movies where characters really are motivated by doing stuff just for the hell of it. The only example I've got so far is the Joker from The Dark Knight. His motivation throughout is exactly what Zuckerberg described -- doing things because he can and because it would be interesting to try. It's not exactly a positive portrayal, though.
If John's C's first public expression of political opinion isn't Hacker News, I don't know what is.
In the USA, that typically is what people can afford. At about 3 character an inch, it also nicely fits below a laptop. In parts of Wesrern Europe, 70 or 80 characters are common, too. I have even seen two-line displays with two times 80 characters. Those are huge, though.

Fills-screen is a bit of a holy grail. What prevents it from happening is technology and price. The only reliable technology uses space next to each character for a piezzo-electric actuator. That makes it impossible to make displays that stretch far in two dimensions (that two line display was over an inch high)

Also, those actuators are fairly expensive, say $40 per character. production volume is low, so any manufacturer will need 100% or so of margin. Result: 40 characters for a couple of grand.

AFAIk, any other technology still suffers from reliability problems. It turns out to be quite hard to make a small reliable actuator with the required force, travel, and resilience to dirt.
It's as if there's a concerted effort to post these hit pieces against Whitman on HN. Yesterday it was how she destroyed HP's culture, today it's 'failing her way to the top at eBay'. What's on for tomorrow? Raping puppies? Grinding up newborns to make baby oil? Drinking the blood of young girls so she can maintain her youth?
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Not my favorite, but interesting:

You are given two eggs and a hundred story building. You need to tell me, using as few drops as possible, what the highest floor you can drop an egg from and it won't break.
Pretty much all empires that I ever read about fall prey to wars, wars debt, or inflation.

There's something about war debt that cause revolution and collapse of empires.
Hey, you've hit the big time. Become an angel investor and give me the $1.01, I'll turn it into $5.27 by next Tuesday.
This would be grossly unethical, but you could have intentionally broken it and threatened to quit unless you got a raise or a bonus.
We use Clojure, which is sadly missing from the list
Can you elaborate please - how were they wasting the money, what was the change that you made?
My first business idea was making scrolling LED displays.
I tried this about 20 years ago. At the time I didn't realize that almost ALL electronics are manufactured off shore and that it would be impossible to compete. We did make a prototype but that as far as we went with the business. I learned that just because I could make something doesnt mean that I can build a business around it. There is a lot to learn before one becomes well versed in the field of startups. The word failure is not appropriate for our field. I think not yet succeeded is better.
Does that mean you never have a similar experience doing business with private companies? I think booking a hotel room or flight can be a comparable experience if it goes poorly.
Though I didn't have control over all the variables, I started my math on when to start having kids by first deciding the age that I wanted to be when the kids were likely to leave home. A good number sounded like 50 to me. We wanted 2 to 3 kids (2 years apart), so when my wife and I were 28 we decided to start the baby train rather than wait any longer (i.e. a better financial situation). My son is almost 2 and I have another due in Feb., so that should put me at almost 50.

I do miss having some of the free time that I used to be overflowing with, but I wouldn't change a thing (well maybe family close by to babysit the kids every Sunday --> never discount the value of having family near by ... assuming of course you get along well).
No, the underlying problem is that not enough people all care about cutting the same government spending. If I want to cut my personal spending by 20% next year I can't just wake up on January 1 and do it in one step. I need to figure out what exactly it is I'm going to not buy or pay less for next year.

Likewise, Congress can't just pass a law to spend 20% less without identifying exactly what it is going to spend less on and how. Getting people to agree on those particulars is the problem.

What makes it worse is that the things you might get wide agreement on cutting generally are things that would save negligible amounts of money. Also, even people who care a lot about the government (one way or the other) generally aren't willing spend time learning all the details of what the government is spending money on. Its really complicated and boring and I think people (especially us hn readers) would rather think of the problem at a higher level of abstraction (and in greatly simplified terms). Unfortunatley that just isn't helpful at this point
not exactly ethical, dipping into all these expired accounts. but what's that got to do with anything?
Inline images with data URIs might perform equally well with less hackery.
But what we can both agree on is that only Government could do it if it is possible.

Hell no. A combination of private charity and vigorous markets have provided quality universal food and entertainment. Government is presently attempting quality universal housing and education -- and its failing miserably on the "quality" point, and ain't doing that great on the "universal".

If quality universal health care comes from anywhere, it will be from Silicon Valley & Red Cross. The most government will ever do is mandate it, try to implement it, fail, and claim it's doing its best and just needs a little more money.
Qoute: "with a jQuery-compatible syntax (lots of the jQuery API is supported!)"

That's true. Lot's of it is. Some of it is not. And yes, it targets bleeding edge WebKit mobile browsers.

Yes, some of it is broken and doesn't work correctly yet.

Some of it fixes bugs that jQuery doesn't fix AFAIK (like memory leaks on asset removal on iOS devices).

It's an early beta.

And it does it all in 2K.

I don't care about what the jQuery project does, and how it takes "a far more pragmatic view of web development"; Zepto.js doesn't want to be a do-it-all-works-everywhere-project; so I really don't get your condescending tone ("just taking a quick peak...", "straight-out breaks", "missing critical functionality", "broken for most cases", "I can keep on going", "...might be fine").
I could (and still can), but it would indeed be unethical...
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Many people asides from myself use OS X.

The Mac version of Silverlight is known to be of far less quality than the Windows version, and Moonlight on Linux is known to be considerably worse than that.

Flash performs much better than Silverlight on both the aforementioned platforms.

However if Flash did have the same issues as Silverlight did, then yes I would expect a warning.

Edit: I stand corrected - apparently Moonlight can't even play the video at all. :^)
Yay.

And I bet the person who approved the push out of that av/fw package had nothing come back on them, right?
True, though most of the wealth in America is held by a small minority too, which kind of creates the weird taxing/spending incentives. (http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-a...)
Oh no! I definitely want to look into making sure that this one is good enough before I look to make a second. I do have a million more projects I'd like to take on - but each of them has to play out to their maximum potential before I switch to the next.

If this can make $1 in 1 day on an evening's work, how far can I get if it's actually a GOOD site?

Feedback from where people see the areas of concern is useful. I've already read "Load time" in the comments as well as "game quality" and "exclusive content"

Load time is one thing I'd not considered. I think the images must load quickly for me because I've got them all in my browser cache.

I've changed the default sort order of the games so you're much less likely to get 'crap' on your first click than you were when they were random - but I'm working on adding categories as we speak, that way people will be able to find their genre quickly.

Thanks for the feedback :)
I'm pretty sure your reasoning is the entire basis of the Tea Party movement. It is people fed up with both the Democratic and Republican parties' outrageous spending, and want a new group of Politicians to be voted in. It is why many of the Tea Partiers running for office have little or no experience and it is what propelled people like Governor Chris Christie to a win last year.
Yep - and it's probably fine if you're only building apps for iOS devices - possibly Android as well. Beyond that you're getting into very shaky territory. What about Opera (the most popular mobile browser)? What about Blackberry (the second most popular mobile browser)? What about Symbian (the most popular mobile platform - which uses antiquated versions of WebKit)?

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-200909-...

It frustrates me to no end that the only JavaScript tools being developed in this day and age, for mobile platforms, exclusively target the latest WebKit: Sencha Touch, jQTouch, Zepto, etc - they all exclusively focus on the latest WebKits and it's completely baffling. No web developer in their right mind would drop support for IE - no one would hire them - and yet they seem to be fine taking that approach on mobile.

Even if these tools are only being built to be used within a "safe" environment like PhoneGap - web developers don't understand that distinction. If the only tools for mobile web developers target WebKit platforms then web developers will only ever target WebKit platforms. As has been shown in the past competition is absolutely critical to the health and longevity of the browser - when one platform dominates and doesn't receive competition the platform will stagnate.

Not only is targeting multiple platforms pragmatic, you get more users visiting your sites thus making you more money, but you also help the health of the mobile web as a whole: Pushing more browsers to compete better and provide an improved experience to all users.
penalised with a whopping £120 fine (reduce to £60 if you pay promptly)

A more straightforward way to say this is that there's a £60 fine, which increases to £120 if you don't pay promptly.
Works pretty darn well here in the UK. Impossible my arse.
Go to the closest business library and schedule an appointment at the research desk with the librarian. I know, this sounds so dreadfully analog, but this is basically a free government-supplied expert consultant for your startup. They know all the right sources to consult, and have them all at hand.
I was surprised with the "coin-flip" probability that Giants win series
Buying marijuana domain names
How does Embedly make money?
Ask HN: Growth of my service is stagnant. What next?
I run web site http://www.fbchatroulette.net/ (Facebook Chatroulette) and, amazingly, service has more than 1300 Facebook fans and about 15000 registered users. But growth is stagnant - no hockey stick.

I wonder what can I do to scale up this service.
Is there some low hanging fruits I'm forgetting?
Is it that I need to improve user interface? To make it as dating site? To add different games? Maybe to add offline random chat?
A live stream in a common web format, either Flash or HTML5.
There are a couple of questions about Backbone towards the bottom of the article, and this seems like a fine place to answer them:

akshayr mentions that in the context of an event handler in a View, "this" is bound to the instance of the view -- which differs from jQuery, where "this" is bound to the element that the event originated from. This is by design: it's awfully nice if methods on a View maintain their notion of "this", regardless of if they're called directly, or triggered by a DOM event. If you want to know which element was clicked, that's what "event.target" is good for, where "event" is the object that jQuery passes as the first argument to all DOM events. Here's an example that makes use of both "this", and the specific element:

var NoteList = Backbone.View.extend({

events: {
"click .note .title": "openNote"
},

openNote: function(e) {
var el = $(e.target);
var note = this.notes.get(el.attr('data-id'));
note.open();
}

...

});

The other issue raised is the lack of JSONP support in the default implementation of Backbone.sync. It would be great to make this a configurable option, without having to drop down into jQuery for simple fetches, as akshayr did. Hopefully this will be a part of the next release.
> rapists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

You can ^W instead of ^H to delete a whole word instead of just a character. ;)

(Though I have always had a soft spot for the people that take the time to get the number of ^Hs correct.)
To someone who has never heard of your startup before, your front page doesn't do much to explain what you do.

Something to do with embedding content not just a link. What do I do from there? Your call to action button is a link to the api and the jquery plugin goes to a github page where I have to checkout the repository to try the demos.