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> It's a total perversion of what a URL and a webpage are supposed to be.

No it's not, it's simple HTML with JavaScript attached. Most of it probably works even if you disable JS.

> It's ugly hacks on top of more ugly hacks to produce a substandard experience.

Some examples please! Otherwise I have to assume you have just made it up.

> An app like this is not hard to produce with Xcode and Obj-C

"not hard" for who? It doesn't even have garbage collection, it's basically C with OO capabilities.

> There is a place for web apps and a place for real apps.

You probably meant to say "native" apps, and you didn't even bother to back this up.

> they don't have much to show

Except for: Youtube, Facebook, Flickr and probably hundreds more.

> buggy javascript and unreliable software

How is the JavaScript buggy? are you assuming that no one can code properly in JavaScript? Are you saying that every software written in JavaScript is unreliable? All this without even giving a reason?

> Or substituting Photoshop with one of the dozens of webapp photo editing tools. It's all cute, but in the end its not practical for real world use.

You give one example, but ignore all counter examples.

> It's all cute, but in the end its not practical for real world use.

Then why are people using it? Why are developers developing for it?

> It's unfortunate that so many talented programmers are sucked into this "webapp everything" mindset and devote themselves to crappy products, sometimes simply because they have a personal hangup with Microsoft or Apple.

Are you assuming products are crappy just because they are webapps? Are you saying that people chose web just because they hate a company?
This is extremely good information, thank you. We have been careful in how to describe to them what our long terms goals are without being specific what technology we have up our sleeves. It's been great reading HN for so long, I feel like I have the basics down - be calm, expect nothing, carry on as usual. But cross fingers.

>Negotiating the deal is though topic for another post.

I would like to read this post :)
"I want to create a GitHub app for Mac OS X that will allow you to stay up-to-date on the latest activities of your friends and favorite open-source projects."

The activity stream is just not a good tool to stay on top of what's happening when you're watching hundreds of projects.
Why introduce an surrogate key unnecessarily?
You could probably charge double, triple or quadruple and still get customers.
In the city I grew up in (Edmonton, Canada), the police used to tell the radio stations where the radar traps were. The goal of a radar trap is to get people to slow down.

That was in a gentler time; nowadays I recognize that radar traps are often used for revenue generation, so forces might be more reticent about revealing location. But 20 years ago even the police themselves would have had no issue with this, and might even have endorsed it.
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I can accept bias, especially in an online article. It's the nature of the game. That said, the author's response to commenters reveals an almost Gizmodo-like lack of professionalism. To whit:

"i think the article, which reports that which was posted previously when paypal froze the funds, and that which payapl revealed today, is in no way misleading.

moreover, the comments below reveal further evidence why paypal could do what they did, be it right or wrong. thanks for your overzealous, inaccurate, comment "Winslow." isn't it fun to laugh a little?" (Admirable ability to locate the shift key, especially for an author).
What gets me is that what Anonymous is doing isn't terribly sophisticated. Imagine if they had an overarching military-like strategy and intelligence system to back them up, rather than a stand alone complex like "LET'S DDOS STUFF" and obtaining "docs" on people.

Shit. It makes me want to join in.

Also been thinking for awhile, what's needed is an intelligence clearinghouse.

An open revolution wiki that goes beyond dropping docs to one that mimics the world's intelligence systems. Collating information on organizations, people, things. Linking them together. What makes them culturally tick. Their logistical backbone. Their economic makeup. Their command and information gathering apparatus. Their political connections. Their geo and temporal locations.

A target-centric database that people can extract useable tactical information from, so when the times comes ...
I think your advice holds in general, but one interesting exception can be implementing a model, in the MVC sense. This can require a lot of communication across the language wrapping, and definitely become a hotspot. This is less of a problem in toolkits that retain state, but then you pay a cost in maintaining duplicate representations.
Visa and MasterCard cannot act in isolation from the government: They form a duopoly that requires regulation, and they are subject to quite a bit of it. As felixmar pointed out elsewhere in the thread [1], they have gotten favors from the government that have been exposed by the very leaks at issue. It doesn't take actual evidence of a specific request from the government to establish that the government influenced their decision to change their minds about doing business with Wikileaks.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985128
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1) The bailout consists of loans

2) When a loan from the Fed is repaid, the "printed" money ceases to exist, so slightly more money is ultimately destroyed. The "gobs of cash" are not "simply printed".

3) There is no evidence of either price or monetary inflation actually occurring, as both price levels and the money supply tends to contract along with economic contraction

4) "bailed our companies" != wealth transfer to the rich
We seem to be ok with #4 so far, but we'll see. They'd be buying us for our technology and staff, we've gone really far where they want to go and I've had an intimation that they've put some R&D into it already and figured out that it's pretty complex stuff to do well. It's been an honor to have so many great responses, I'll post back here with an update (some weeks from now.. Christmas is going to be nerve-wracking unless Big Company really just wants to get this done before the end of the tax year).
seriously, if you cant afford it right now... copy it. download the torrent and dont worry.
every single company and former startup i know have now drawers filled with windows, adobe and whatnot license papers... thats just how it is. thats part of the online culture. if you cant afford 4 licenses each 1200 dollar im sure when you have the money youre proud about the fact that you can buy it now and you will buy it...
> Yes they can. Things can be pre-loaded in the background. Data can be queued. Storage can be local. I know you can find some package or framework somewhere that attempts to do these things in a web browser, but its all hacks.

You clearly have no idea what you talking about: http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/

You basically called web standards a hack, just in case you didn't notice.
Where exactly is the hate? I can't find a single comment that I would say is hateful.

People are just pointing out that it might not be that great an indicator of popularity. The rebirth and rise of Javascript is quite real and well deserved, but I wouldn't hold this up particular statistic as being that significant.
Nice to see a fellow UW-Madison alum on HN.

Do you think being based in Wisconsin hurt your chances of success?
I recently moved from Madison to San Francisco, and the difference in the startup scene is tremendous.
If you want to blog, blog. If people like it, they'll read it; if not, they won't.

Not sure where you're going with "do you think this is a good approach?" unless you're trying to advertise.

Also, you seem to have posted the exact same thing yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981394

...and you've been posting links to your blog for weeks now. One mention of your blog is quite enough, thank you. If you add some interesting content that people find useful, your readership will improve.
Yes, I heard about that one (it's hard not to). This is an interesting read I think: (apologies for the source)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1307137/Su...
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Well, given the fact that people here enlightened you about on-page SEO let me give you the best advice about off-site SEO...

Build some backlinks! ;)
I'm really looking forward to see what Crankshaft does on Mozilla's Kraken benchmark:

http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/index.html

Supposedly, Kraken has more long-running, sophisticated algorithms (like 'gaussian blur') that are kinder to TraceMonkey's tracing JIT than V8's traditional JIT; if V8 now has a tracing JIT (or something that works much along the same principles, it could be that Kraken becomes a two-horse race.
This is a really ignorant blog post about the accusations against Assange.

I don't think it's even ignorant; more a random meaningless train of thought filled with non sequiturs, an extended version of what you see people writing on Facebook or IRC when they're drunk. Seemed an obvious "flag" case to me, it's even filed under "General Nonsense."
Meh. I'm not defending the attacks. I do think, however, that the moral landscape is significantly greyer than you depict. No nascent movement in history has been morally acceptable by the standards of the establishment. Whether this becomes the American Revolution, the Khmer Rouge, or That One No One Ever Heard Of Or Remembers remains to be seen.

As to your specific point, leaving my car unlocked with the windows down overnight on a dark street in Detroit doesn't make the inevitable thieves justified, but it does make me retarded, and completely undeserving of sympathy.
Having someone they respect tell them something they that, deep down, already knew, was probably the reason they shut it down. If the business model isn't right, then it isn't right and no amount of coding can fix that.
It's Visa and Mastercard's responsibility to make sure their system is secure, that's what vendors pay them for.
Caching I guess... of things.

For instance, the GitHub wiki is actually stored within a git repo. Having a local editor/viewer built into this application for the wiki would be useful.

This goes for the ticketing system as well.

And finally, to have a git GUI built into the application would be useful, even at a simple file-browser/log-viewer level (as I would probably use the command-line and tools like Tower for any more complicated requirements).
> I suspect we're only months away from a bunch of these people getting arrested for cyber-terrorism.

You're an optimist.
I'll try, but Matt is a busy guy.
All of the recent DoS stuff summarized for people like me, just tuning in
I think a reference to Solidarnosc would have been much more appropriate.
Also, wanted to mention that I think your main issue is going to be the behavioral change that your site requires. Users aren't used to making decisions by using a Swayable.

With new users that you acquire, the product might be awesome at first but once the novelty wears off, the users usually go back to making the choices in whatever way they were before.

Others might would not be interested because while this does solve a problem of deciding between two items, people have already established processes in making those decisions (be that asking their significant other, looking at product reviews online, or asking friends). Using a Swayable doesn't make the decision making process so unbelievably simpler to make a user take the effort to change the way in which they make decisions. As a rule-of-thumb, products that require a large behavioral change (and I think this is one of them) need to provide a 10X improvement for the user in order for them to consider making a change.

I'm sure you've probably thought about these issues, would be interesting to see how you address them and how consumers respond. Although this might just be "fun" enough that makes them use it.

BTW, there's a great paper on this topic: http://hbr.org/product/why-consumers-don-t-buy-the-psycholog...
This is a great response to the other post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983141). I think the work of web designers is vastly undervalued and to say a quality design is worth only $15.00 is pretty absurd. 50K, okay, it's a bit of hyperbole but point well made.
Apparently Swedish laws are unique. If you have a penis, you're half a rapist before you even get through customs. And if your condom breaks, that's jail time.

Geez, you would think a guy like Scott Adams would want to do a bit more research before writing a blog post like this.
> Actual mobs sweep tyrants into power

They've removed them as well. See "French Revolution", Romania, Albania and a bunch of others.
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No, it does not equate to quality. However, if your language isn't sufficiently popular, you run the risk of not having many ready-made libraries to utilize.
It's almost as if the hackers themselves hacked Scott's blog and posted this.
Are you sure? I thought they were generally ok with it as long as it was the same information the user sees, just presented differently to help Google index it better
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David Cohen of TechStars has written a good post about this -

http://www.davidgcohen.com/2010/06/18/you-have-acquisition-i...
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Assange is not only being charged with the obscure Swedish law of "sex by surprise"

He isn't being charged with this because it doesn't exist:

First things first: According to the Swedish criminal code, there is no "broken condom law," nor is there a law against having consensual unprotected sex. (Unlike the U.S., anything not listed in the code could still be considered a crime, but only by "special legislation.") In the Swedish warrant for Assange's arrest, both of his accusers said that they had separate consensual sexual encounters with Assange that became nonconsensual after he refused to use a condom or replace a broken one.

...

Prior to the complaint, rumors were swirling that Assange was being charged not with rape but an obscure Swedish law against "sex by surprise," which is likewise nowhere to be found in Sweden's criminal code.

Perhaps why this misinformation is being spread so easily:

Swedish blogger Linea at Feminism and Tea attributes the confusion to a mix-up over a colloquialism for rape:
"Sex by surprise" or överraskningssex as it would be translated in Swedish is slang for rape. It is a term that is used when speaking about rape, but jokingly, or keeping it light, a word that brings with it positive connotations, which makes the word inappropriate in itself, but it is nevertheless synonymous with rape.

Source: "STDs, Broken Condoms, and ‘Sex by Surprise’: A Primer on the Charges Against Assange" http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/12/crayfish_parties_and_br...
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c - because you can always do it in c

java - because there is tons of work, and its a damn good language

lisp - because sometimes i just need a language with which i can build another language.
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Talk about surprise waking up finding your home country trending on HN!
Probably because they don't have the capacity. Think about the traffic the actual payment processing sites get from ordinary use.
PayPal has a right to refuse to do business with anyone, and does so on a very frequent basis. Indeed as any of us do. Wikileaks can write their own payment system.

Messing with PayPal messes with a lot of small businesses that make their money through the internet.

It's a stupid move because anyone who was in the 'undecided' category with anonymous, and relies on things like PayPal, is now in the 'against' category.

PayPal is already back up and running. And Anonymous just lost a lot of support, as evidenced by this page. That's an own-goal in my book.

These type of actions are also very likely to backfire. PayPal is not going to change it's policy, neither is Visa or Mastercard. If anything, it will harden their opinions.

If you want to do something about free-speech then there are much better ways of going about it than this.
The acidity of your dripping sarcasm appeals to my gen x sensibilities.
HN is configured to delay the reply as the thread gets longer, like a brake. You could reply to my previous message now, as you can probably see.

Of course I was replying to tlrobinson, who said :I'd rather do something I enjoy for slightly less money than get an office job or flip burgers. That was in reply to swombat's question about whether the design thing is sustainable economically.

In Brazil it may be, in the US it probably would not. I have no opinion about Aurelio or his $15 site (although I am pretty sure someone else will do the same thing for $12 soon). I am well aware that Brazil has a different kind of economy from the US; what he is doing may well be sustainable in Brazil - although the cost of having a western-style standard of living with a computer, reliable electricity, and internet access is much closer to the cost of living in the US than it is to people earning $54/month in a favela or rural area.

I also completely understand the idea of doing something you enjoy, even though it might pay less than a conventional job. That is why I was working for an email/groupware startup before NCSA released Mosaic, to give you one example. There are certainly times that you should be willing to take a big economic risk, and refine your skills even if it is hard to sell your product/service in the market right now. I am just pointing out that doing this can also become a limiting factor, because you are associating your service with very low cost. You would not go into a Burger King restaurant and pay $100 for your dinner. Even if they hired a great chef and actually made a gourmet meal, almost nobody would risk paying $100 to try it. Similarly, if you try to get a job in a top restaurant you will need something more persuasive than previous experience cooking at Burger King. You could be an excellent self-trained chef, but they will judge you by the price and quality of food at Burger King. You could say 'I made a lot of delicious meals for my friends and family, they said my food was great.' The restaurant owner will probably suggest you get your friends and family to help you open your own restaurant.

why? Because life is short and people are busy. They don't have time to judge every job applicant or supplier individually. Instead they will look at price information as a proxy for quality. This is why companies sometimes ask job applicants for a salary history, they want a simple filter. If you get a bank loan to expand your business, the bank will want to see the last few years' accounts for the same reason. They don't understand your business, but they do understand cash flow.
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That's an awesome idea, on the portfolio and the link to you, help the Google love.
The detector in my video is a Cobra XRS9345. I am doing what mikeknoop and ruslan are suggesting: hacking into the LEDs and reading the device's idea of what it detects. The actual signaling is non-obvious and I intend to publish the code that interprets them once it's stable. One idea that I'm kicking around is building a kit that you can solder to your detector's LEDs.

I wonder how much market there is for a kit that requires the user to open up his detector.

Ari.
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All of Facebook seems to be updated for me, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to write on someone's wall. Is that a feature they removed?
This post is gibberish. My comment is about as insightful as anything you'll read in the post.
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PR and public sentiment have become meaningless in these things. People may moan about right and wrong, but they don't alter their behavior. Just look at how little impact the outrage at child-groping has ultimately had on the TSA.

Companies like Amazon, PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard made calculated decisions, assuming that no reasonable amount of e-outrage would result in enough damage to their bottom line to outweigh the ire of the government. These outages are changing that equation. The next time they're about to glibly kick someone off their network for political reasons, you can bet that they'll at least pause to consider the potential consequences.

Is Anonymous doing the right thing? Maybe not; I'm torn between the importance of freedom and the stability that the rule of law provides. It's not about PR though.
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We should also be careful when discussing the case not to fall into the trap of demonising the women involved, based on little or no available evidence, just because we like Assange and approve of what Wikileaks is doing.

Reasonable doubt is rational. But I'm seeing a lot of misogynistic attacks elsewhere on the Interwebs, and they're irrational and counterproductive, as well as being icky.

This article is good:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/rape-claims-juli...
Yes, it is ignorant - he makes claims about the country and legal system of Sweden based upon falsehoods and inaccuracies about the charges against Assange ("if your condom breaks, that's jail time").
I think it's a point well made, and I actually enjoy sarcasm, but this is certainly not the kind of thing I expect to see on HN. I too agree that $15 for a "web design" is absurd (heck, even the sentence "a web design" alone is). Quality work depends on the designer diving into the business of the client, which certainly will not happen in this case.

That being said, I would actually love to see an actual articulation of the points motivating this "response" rather than a page that can simply (and quite likely will) be perceived as arrogant.
Printing dollars is figurative, I'm aware you don't have to print money to add imaginary money to an imaginary money supply, we have computers. Printing money is symbolic of more money going after less resources because of fiat currency (you can't print a loaf of bread). If banks got more money to go after less resources, this came at the expense of someone elses purchasing power at the time. Nothing is free, Bernanke didn't find perpetual energy, and "printing money" has its effects - namely being the business cycle.
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I disagree. I think this quote puts it in perspective:

“Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”

I didn't say we were perfect, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
Read the article:

"at the same time working my “day job” which is a co-owner of a marketing project management business."

In addition to the day job and the startup, she's a mother of twins and wife.
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