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Ahh... I read your site as 30k reports total. You might want to fix that, as if it worries me, it'll probably worry others.

A running total would be cool.

Will send feedback next week.
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I only have looked at Knockout for about 30 seconds but it does seem to be in the same space as backbone.js.
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Nice design though
I bet it will probably rise the number of YCombinator applicants for Summer 2011! :
Yeah, but it's old. The URL checking mechanism only checks stuff within the last X months. That's to allow genuinely good stuff (like this, BTW) to re-surface.

I think there should be a place for great finds to live, and submissions checked against that as well. In that way we'd get a chance to go look at previous comments, and also have a library of great articles to browse through.

I've started and am iterating, but slowly, as I have several other things on at the moment. If you'd like to see what I have already then email me. I need to write-up my intended and expected enhancements.
This is really awesome. It's lightweight, well documented and Open source.

I actually find it better to use Backbone, jQuery and Knockout together instead of heavy and bloated libraries like ExtJs and Cappuccino. These three libraries provides the necessary functionalities to build a medium sized JavaScript application. You'll have to take care of the design yourself, though.
Ideas:

* One idea is to use the classic "Give us your credit card details first" approach. You allow people to create accounts but, once they go to send their first free letter, you explain that "To protect against spam, we require that you confirm your credit card details. Your card will not be charged for this letter."

It isn't optimal if what you want are signups but it would definitely decrease fraud.

* What about using an IP address filter that prevents people using proxies or IPs from certain countries (Nigeria for example) from using the free service?

* What about pretending to send the letters from Nigerian/certain IPs but not actually doing it? This way would allow you to see patterns: which IPs or IP blocks were abusing the service, which search terms you could automate for blocking, etc. Basically you send back a "Your letter has been sent!" response to the user but you don't actually do it.

* What about requiring telephone confirmation of address info?
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My initial thought was: high density, asynchronous cores -> brain modeling. You treat each asynchronous core as a neuron.

Reading up on Charles Moore this may indeed be the intended case: http://www.pcai.com/web/ai_info/pcai_forth.html

> Charles Moore created Forth in the 1960s and 1970s to give computers real-time control over astronomical equipment. A number of Forth's features (such as its interactive style) make it a useful language for AI programming, and devoted adherents have developed Forth-based expert systems and neural networks.

Still, 100 billion neurons in brain / 144 cores * $20 per chip = ~$13 billion . Also I would guess most modern researchers in this area don't know Forth and are doing high-level programming and virtualizing neurons rather than taking a low-level hardware approach.
I would suspect that people who have read it would realize this from the title, not the year. And, again, the year is visible when you hover over the link. There's not much more to discuss. Let's just agree to disagree.
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I'm working on an HTML5 video player. The special features that will differentiate it from others are a sharing widget in the video and a gallery that show up when the video ends pushing the user to watch more videos.

Any other ideas?
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1) There are some awesome Feynman interviews on the web.

2) My brain will refuse to learn anything unless I can understand it from first principles. I spend a long time trying to get an intuitive understanding of a problem before starting to try to solve it. When solving a problem, I talk out loud as if I'm trying to persuade another person of my argument, including responding to imagined objections or questions. Often I find myself thinking "wait, what exactly am I saying here? what do I mean by this?" I meta-think, estimating the probability of me misunderstanding something without being aware based on context (e.g. if I think something is easy when really smart people think it's hard, then I probably missed something).

Math is helpful for picking up good thinking habits.
Surely it will be really hard to get better ways of visualizing code, it's an abstract thing and so it's hard to represent.

But what we are really missing is execution visualization. Applications aren't code, applications are execution systems and it's a shame to test execution/debug like we do today.

As someone has said, it's almost impossible to test all inputs for an algorithm, it's impossible to prove the correctness of an application without testing it.

Without testing we're nothing, most of us can surely say in which conditions our applications will break, but how sure are we to say in which conditions will it work? Much harder.

I would love to work in IDE improvement as I believe there is really a lot of things to improve.
It's owned by Oracle. Any oracle devs on here who want to ask corporate to gift someone a nice domain?

EDIT: Although I doubt they will, since they presumably acquired the upshot.com domain when they bought and killed upshot, a competing startup...
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This is the same guy making the same arguments as he's made on several occasions. See here - the same mall example, same ghost city example, same starbucks example. He's like a stuck record.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199422
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I like how I've lost 40 points just for having a disagreement.

My tone and manner are no worse than anyone else who manages to stick around for more than a day without being downvoted in to oblivion. I haven't even called anyone names.

I've even had deeper, more protracted arguments than this without losing any points.
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Reminds me of the wonderful connection machines of lore...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
Can someone familiar with this project please explain how this infers the dependencies in the procedural code that you write?
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applapse.com sounds nice to me. It could connote a time lapse recording of an application and isn't registered. I like it.

iterup.com just came to me, is short, easish to say/spell and doesn't resolve.

iterrate.com - with this name, people could rate the designs as they change. Spelling is a bit off, but it's only a fun techie project so it perhaps matters less.
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You have "skill" genius where someone can play the piano, chess etc extremely well. You also have "creative" genius which is people like Einstein who makes creative new leaps. The first kind of genius seems to be genetical while the second can be learnt.

I would think the opposite. People can get good at chess by playing a lot, but Einstein's ability seems innate.
Knockout is meant to enable the whole MVVM pattern, and supports it with:

* Declarative binding syntax (a very simple way to link model properties/functions to DOM elements without writing manual "render" functions or event handlers)
* Automatic dependency tracking (so you can have arbitrary nested chains of computed properties that combine multiple observables, and so KO can work out on its own exactly which part of your UI to refresh after any given model change).

The templating stuff is a bit more baked in with KO too. Backbone, on the other hand, does more of the JSON data access stuff natively, whereas KO assumes you'll use normal jQuery Ajax for that.

(Disclaimer: I don't know backbone.js well, and I created Knockout, so you may want to make your own comparison.)
See http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/observables.html#how_dep...
Also like espresso, it is more harmful to the body parts involved than alternatives.
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Almost every post I make in this thread ends up with 3-4 downvotes no matter what, so I'm hesitant to answer this with any kind of thoughtful response.

I want to, but I was looking forward to hitting 200, and now it's pretty far off.
Ask HN: Show us the app you applied to YC with.
It'd be interesting to get a glimpse of some applicant's URLs, and you'll likely get some feedback.

Just a tagline and a URL will suffice. If you don't wish to share that, then even the market you're in would be helpful.

I didn't apply this round after discovering my latest idea isn't YC worthy, but it would've been the Dashler Toolbar.
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Re "tivoized" hardware, I'm starting to seriously wonder if the drawbacks from the invention of asymmetric crypto have outweighed the benefits...
Mobile is a different ball game. To start with, while hardware is more varied it's also got far more standardised input hardware - there's a keyboard and there's a mouse and you can rely on that being the primary input.

On Android there will be a touch screen, but it's size, resolution and accuracy will vary. There may be buttons but their quantity and makeup will vary.

The second factor is that you cannot get away with bad UI as much as you can on the desktop. On the desktop it's frustrating but survivable, on mobile it's a death knell.

It'd be more accurate to call it write once, run poorly everywhere.
"for", not "on". maybe "of" would have been more clear.
I don't think so. Backbone is more about the Models, Collections, and persistence. Backbone doesn't do much with views or even touch templating, it just gives you a basic way to hook up the views to the data.

From what it looks like Knockout is all about the views and templating. Seems like the killer feature is auto-updating views and its templating system.

Backbone does do some things with callbacks and handling changes to your models, but you would update the views yourself.
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Serves me right. I do an essay about MVC, PVC, and (¬M)VC patterns, and someone comes along and introduces the very interesting MV(VM) pattern. Very interesting!
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On the side: Email campaign analytics done right. There are already companies in this sector, but I feel I can do better.

For fun: I run http://www.re-cycledair.com (PHP & Wordpress Articles).
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At first the American side of me read this post title and agreed. It just didn't seem likely. But after reading the post, I don't think it did a very good job of describing why Britain hasn't produced more successful startups.

The primary reason that Britain doesn't accel at more, I think, is both opportunity and size of the population. If Britain were at least the size of the U.S. with otherwise the same ratio of opportunity to excel vs. the U.S. counterparts, they should have produced at least one startup-gone-global-household-name by now.
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Someone, somewhere will read it anyway.

With a carefully calibrated spam filter, one could even make it so that no human interaction is needed: when the filter tags the message as spam, it tells that to the user. He can then contact the site administrator if he feels the software is at fault.

Privacy preserved.
Archive.org already does that for you.

I also had a similar idea of tracking a startup through history (showing everything from historical alexa traffic to google news to tweets to screenshots to blog-mentions). Screenshots alone won't give a lot of information but if you add meta-information to it, you will be able to see the startup's evolution.
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And it has also cost Ray Ozzie his job at Microsoft.
Today I'm teaching for a few hours on DOM events (yesterday I taught for 4 hours on JS: The Language) for http://jsmasterclass.com

Finishing the launch & prep for my "build your own product, market and sell it" course - http://unicornfree.com/30x500 (about 65% sold out already, I'd like to see 100% by Monday)

Working with an illustrator to create custom illustrations for my launch concepts, & a duo of marketeers/illustrators to create fun promo materials to help grow my profitable SaaS

Working with my biz partner (husband) and freelancers to create a system, priorities, and workflow so we can all work together on bug fixes & new features to grow that profitable SaaS - http://letsfreckle.com

(Delegating well is INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY hard.)

Wrapping up the last bits to get http://charmde.sk dogfood-ready

Sourcing the exact mid-century furnishings & art I want for our apartment - cuz I'm superficial like that

Hacking on a fairly revolutionary (if I do say so myself) decision-making & pm tool, with my husband & a friend

Suffice it to say: TOO. DAMN. MUCH. But that last project is just pure fun, and it's really making everything else less burnout-y.
USA grew prosperously for the past 100 years on the back of consumer demand of a mere 200-300 million people. I still fail to see why China cannot do the same with a population of 1200 million.

Yes, there will probably be a recession or even a depression here and there, but in only a few decades time China will be much richer. The article is only a short term view, it doesn't address what China will become in 10, 20, 30 years time.

There is of course the one child policy that might negatively affect China's economy in the future. China's government is no democracy, and I don't see any reason why it wouldn't simply kill the law when it becomes advantageous to do so. After all, growth at any cost!

EDIT: Would like explanation of downvotes.
I recall from contemporary news reports that when he was found there was a medication (Trazodone) that is occasionally prescribed for major mood disorders (NOT schizophrenia) in the cabin where he was living. I see the "schizophrenia" diagnosis for him was not a finding at trial, but just one psychiatrist's proferred testimony, since he told his lawyers to avoid using an insanity defense and thus didn't put the issue to trial.
That sounds more like a complaint about the openness of the hardware than the software.

If it eventually becomes impossible to buy PCs that won't boot unsigned code, that will be a sad day, but it won't make open software any less open.
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Forth was used in AI in a pretty non-linear way.

I have a book where authors developed Lisp on Forth and then proceed developing Prolog on newly created Lisp. Then they demonstrated how to use that Prolog in the development of rule-based expert system.

There was a saying that Forth amplify programmers' ability to develop programs and to make mistakes. If you a need an AI tool, but do not need your mistakes to be amplified, stay away from Forth. I think that apply to other areas of domain-specific development as well.

While I adore Forth, I cannot recommend it to anyone. Especially to simulate brain - what if you introduce an error, Forth amplifies it and we'll get a hidden psychopath? ;)
Except most of the drivers, the firmware, and some of the applications are not. I think most of developers would even be satisfied with a binary blob (ala nVidia or Broadcom) that would allow them to use the hardware, but not even that exists.
Huge corporations don't have a process in place to authorize such a transaction (unless you are offering them some serious money, in which case they will figure out a way).
Amateurish? Not really-- just derivative.

As naming trends go, I'm not terribly impressed by this one; but, if you're willing to submit to the vagaries of Libyan law, meaningful .ly domains are much easier to come by than .coms, I suppose.
Interesting post.

I have to disagree on one point: content bundling. We, as consumers, want content to be unbundled (so called "a la carte" cable). Nobody else wants this. Not the content creators nor the content distributors.

Content creators fear it because of the revenue they make from bundling. A cable channel might make a pittance on each cable subscription but they're making it on every cable subscription.

Content distributors suspect that unbundling will lead to consumers buying less content, only the content they want to watch. That means less revenue for them.

Basically put it out of your mind because it's not going to happen anytime soon.

I agree with Mark's assertion that the industry is suspicious of Google's motives and this will hamper the adoption of Google TV. Google wants to commoditize this and many other markets. In many respects this is good for consumers but effectively destroying the viability of a market by giving it away is the kind of thing that has unintended consequences.

I suspect Apple are far closer to the mark here: people don't want a computer. They just want to watch TV. At some point I can see more and more TV being on-demand.

But there is a schism over pricing that will need to be resolved. Content creators think Apple's rental prices are too low. Empirically, Apple's prices are too high for consumers (eg Amazon pointed out you could buy a TV series for less than you could rent it for from Apple in some cases).

I would love to see a revenue breakdown of a TV show as in how much it makes in advertising (excluding product placement) and then compare that to the potential revenue for renting that same show ad-free. I suspect the rental model is far higher but I suspect the television industry is still entrenched in this idea of selling advertising.
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China's advantage is that they can sell incredibly cheap products in vast quantities. The west has become utterly dependent on them. What will they do if China pisses them off? They're not going to manufacture at home.
It's good to see more developments in this area, as I liked the management offered by projects such as SproutCore, but the stack as a whole was very heavyweight.

I did work on my own take, using some of the ideas from SproutCore, though didn't get very far in polish (http://github.com/erudites/eventful)

I've only had a brief look, but the dependency tracking looks much cleaner than other solutions I've seen for partial template redrawing.

Do Backbone and Knockout interact well, or are there conflicts in getting them to play nicely together?
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Amateurish? No. The current fad? Sure.

What should be of far more concern is the risk that startups are taking with these TLDs. Example:

http://www.thedomains.com/2010/10/08/days-after-vb-ly-was-se...

.com domains are more expensive but are far less risky.
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Is this the same system that replaced the failed Microsoft platform? http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban...

Microsoft had run huge ads on how LSE was using .NET and Windows in critical financial applications. Within a year LSE had suffered crashes in the same critical areas.
I know that some of the drivers are not open source. 'Most'? Let's talk concretely: does anyone know which ones?

Applications: sure, you don't get some of the Google stuff, but so what. You can run the system without that.

Android is not 100% free. But as far as I know, it's closer than anything else out there, and thus a good starting point for those wishing to work in that direction.

And the system itself is pretty open - it's easy to see how things work and interact.
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I thought folks here would criticize him from taking the place from someone who would have time to use his knowledge. So why didn't this happen? Do you guys think knowledge has intrinsic value by itself?
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