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I'll have to disagree with most of what you say here.

I would attribute Apple's decision not to divorce the iPad from a PC to their desire to assert some presence onto the PC ecosystem. They don't want to be be JUST your tablet OS, they want to be on the desktop, by forcing installation of iTunes onto Windows machines as well.

This way, both products reenforce each other, and they can get increased market share on devices and onto Windows machines (with an activated credit card so you can purchase music directly on the PC).

Apple is ultra-competitive and they do not want to cede any niche of the market that they have managed to gain. Even though the experience of using iTunes, especially on Windows, is horrendous (for all of the reasons already stated in this thread). That's that only logical explanation for maintaining this extra complexity by a company that is otherwise brilliant at simplifying the user experience.

BTW, I do think Google has approached this with a much better vision - treating an Android device as a first-class network citizen. Google does sell content (app market as well as enable 3rd party music stores), most Android apps integrate some form of cloud storage for your data (which don't have to be managed by Google) - if you switch your device, you'll not likely loose anything important to you.

Updates also work very well over the WiFi network - no need to use your low-bandwidth data plan.

Overall, I don't see this as a technical hurdle for Apple - they just have a conflict of interest in locking up users vs. giving them the best user experience.
YC is getting big enough that alums could probably create a cottage industry reviewing apps for a fee. My roommate just submitted his app, and would have jumped at something like that. So much time spent googling for 'successful YC app', 'successful YC app video' instead.

1. Setup YCappreview.com

2. Get enough alums on board

3. Figure out how to charge and how to distribute revenue

4. Profit!!!
IANAL, but the GPL version 2 is incredibly vague about this:

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.

One could argue that having a patch set or git repository is the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it, especially considering how upstream provides their sources.

But as is often the case with the GPL, it is nearly impossible to understand its implications.
A livestream would be pretty cool too
I was going to try and attend this Ignite. I'm not convinced that this makes me regret not doing so.

That is: I don't think that this was presented at a speed where anyone not familiar with the mathematical principles will feel anything other than otherwhelmed by information overload, and people previously familiar might be amused by the presentation, but otherwise probably not that enlightened.
Yes, a lot of people have asked for iPad support. Unfortunately, the Javascript performance in the iPad1 is too slow, so the game is unplayable there. I have high hopes for a version running on the iPad2 though.
You forgot

- can only resize a window from one corner, and that corner may be off the screen in certain cases so that you can't move the window to a position where the corner is even visible (this just bit me this week)

- still doesn't understand how to fullscreen programs (windows maximize function is the single best OS function I've seen that allows a user to focus on just ONE thing). I think this is fixed in the upcoming OS X but I don't have it.

- liters the screen, the doc, the global menu with all kinds of state icons to show running programs and background services, but doesn't have a built-in notification system so that the users have to install http://growl.info/

and more and more.

That said, it still manages to be a great OS. It was miles ahead of XP. About par with Vista.

But sadly, it's lagging behind Windows 7. And the new OS X versions just don't make me terribly excited. I'm ready for something new.
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Ah, there was my problem, then. I guess you have to be a genius to understand it.
I think a "post-pc" device should be able to stand on it's own two legs.

Why?

I ask seriously. Your interpretation of the phrase post-PC as "you don't need to see a PC ever again" is just one interpretation, and perhaps not the one that Steve Jobs meant. [1] It's a deliberately ambiguous term, like most statements about trends and fashion.

He's talking about the PC era. Just because an era ends doesn't mean that all its legacy goes away. Indeed, it can mean quite the opposite. The mainframe era is over, and yet there may be more mainframes in existence now than ever. The era of recorded music sales is, arguably, in decline, yet that doesn't mean that we don't have recorded music anymore. In that particular case, it means that recorded music has become so cheap and ubiquitous that it's like air, so it's devalued and its profit margins have dwindled. Kind of like PCs.

I've always felt that the iOS ecosystem was post-PC not because it is trying to replace the PC, but because its design is predicated on the assumption that everyone who actually wants a PC has one by now. So of course iOS doesn't have to support, say, emacs: If you want to run emacs you do so on your PC. If by some miracle you want a PC but don't have one already, there's probably a disused one sitting at a nearby garage sale marked "$25" that would do in a pinch. And, more controversially, of course iOS has a closed and curated ecosystem: If you want an open ecosystem, pick up a PC for a few bucks. They're all over the place. I had to throw away two of them last year.

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[1] I mean, not this year. Apple still makes PCs. Surely they won't declare the PC dead until they stop making them.
If you watch the final 10 minutes of the referenced video, you can see it there. There is no way I can run a demo continuously as it uses all the resources of whatever machine it runs on.
Sure, but "have enough money to avoid poverty" is a much different goal than "make a billion dollars".
I don't think testing can measure depth of knowledge, character, creativity or enthusiasm. The reason being that these things simply aren't measurable. They don't come in units.

Depth of knowledge, for example, depends on the connections one forms with other areas of knowledge.
"some variations on MVC where the distribution of responsibilities is different"

Most don't. I'm using Django. Recently I've started digging into iOS development (whichs rocks). I know that comparisons between the two are not fair, but I can't help wondering.

As I want to have my code easy to read and maintain, I'm trying to find the best places to put the methods, so they make sense. Any other tips are welcome.
Advertising sales is really hard. You can create a marketplace and get connected to a bunch of newsletter publishers but then you need to convince a whole heap of people to give you money.

Publishers are also (usually) particular about what kind of advertising they run in their emails. They want to make sure that it's "on brand" because if it's not then people might stop opening or reading their emails.

It's the classic problem of the 2 sided marketplace but the easiest way to start out here (IMHO) would be to find a newsletter or two and go out there selling their inventory. When you're oversubscribed go and find another relevant newsletter and sell their inventory. Wash, rinse and repeat.
What ad trackers should I avoid when on the Internet?
Yea, do a live screencast of this!
Excellent, looking forward to the progress!
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> All of the techniques slow the things that increase aging.

That sentence fails to rise to the level of coherence. What are "the things that increase aging"? What is their usual velocity? How much do they increase aging? What's the relationship between their velocity and the speed of aging?

If you mean "all of the techniques slow the processes of aging", you're absolutely wrong. Exercise accelerates your metabolism, which accelerates some of the known aging processes. Of the other 11, most have no known connection to aging at all.

> Calorie restriction is not realistic for most people but all of my techniques are

Caloric restriction is easier for many people than quitting smoking, having sex, sleeping a lot, avoiding hospitals, or avoiding accidents.
Wait, I thought there were like 40 companies in the w11 batch?
I'll take a look at your app if you want, I already talked with you guys at LAUNCH so I understand much of it already.
Profile karma average doesn't seem to work as I'd expect. Despite numerous recent posts and comments with points well above my previous average, the average has gone down.
> And then they wonder why a college degree is not a ticket to a good job.

Because everyone around them tells them as much. My grandparents think I should have a job because I have a degree. In my opinion, my parents also overvalue my degree though not as much as my grandparents.
I can collaborate what the article is asserting about many students "skating by" with five or so hours a week of study. This is more prominent in the social sciences than, say, engineering, where I am. I frequently notice students drinking in the middle of the day or goofing off all day when others spend the recommended 40+ hours outside of class in the library.

I guess this shows how a college degree no longer means much on its own, and students need to make sure they are leaving with marketable skills that employers demand. Some programs, CS for example, arguably allow students to move directly into a productive position out of university, while others seem to lack in this aspect.
Well, I know it's definitely possible to have it be completely independent. Palm did a fantastic job of having the Pre be completely separate. I have never connected it to my computer and everything is done OTA...updates, app downloads, etc. Apple is just dealing with the original way that iOS was developed. It will take a bit for them to swap everything to OTA :(
Good point. Really there are a lot of questions that someone who has an idea should ask themselves about an idea. This could turn into a series on ideainator, now that I think about it.
Try

#splash {color:#CEF}
#splash h2{color:#CF9}

You'll get a better idea, then start tweaking hex colors to get the perfect one.
Wanting to make a billion dollars leads to this sort of silliness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw
I use both git and hg - and like both of them (though I have more experience with hg). Github is far and away the best hosted distributed version control service, with a constant stream of innovative features for open-source developers over the last 2 years.

Git has had two main drawbacks in my mind. 1) Much of it is implemented as script commands, and I think it still requires you run an emulated shell in Windows to use it (by contrast, Mercurial is a pure python app, and is ultra-portable). 2) Coming from the Linux community, it seems a little heavy weight for small projects. Some command require what seem like extra steps on Git as compared to Hg. For example, Git requires that you do a "git add" before doing a "git commit". Mercurial assumes that you want to add all the changed files in your repo (or you can list the files needed in a commit).

For complex scenarios, Git's system does provide a bit more control in packaging up exactly the set of changes you want in each atomic revision.

Besides these minor historical differences, I think they both are excellent, and are really a matter of personal or team preference.
Interesting to be remembered that Dropbox submitted their app here at YC. (URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863)
The difference is that investigating someone who fits a particular behavioral profile is something that a reasonably competent organization might do, while investigating someone over nothing but a Reddit comment that he didn't even write would be stupid. When even the subject of the story describes it as the former, reporting it as the latter is sloppy at best, fallacious pandering at worst.

See, what bothers me about this is that instead of highlighting the actually interesting legal question of whether installing such GPS devices is a violation of civil liberties or should require a warrant--the things Afifi is actually suing over--TechDirt (among scores of others in the giant web echo chamber) just throws this into the "look at this fucking government" bin where it does little more than reaffirm, 2 minutes hate-style, whatever the reader already believed.
Thanks for the comment nedwin.

If nothing else, I'd like to at least make it easier for startups and small companies to have somewhere to find what these requirements are. Maybe this ends with howtosubscribe.com being a labor of love to help organize the net's plethora of newsletters.

If your proposal of selling one or two and then expanding from there. This idea would probably be suited better for someone with history of selling newsletter ads. For me, it'd be a problem of being the "wrong person to execute". Something I hear Chris Dixon & PG mention a lot.
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I'm interested in knowing where you get this idea what H.265 won't be subject to patent royalties?
> What will this accomplish if the data has actually been erased?

You can, at least, recover files the owner of the disk just erased before being handcuffed.

It would be trivial to setup a background task that overwrites all free blocks of the (physical) disk when the drive is idle. Or insert that in the filesystem driver, to be done when a file is erased. You could even maintain two write queues, one high-priority for the data you want to keep, one low-priority for the data you want not to keep.
Personally, I think you are thinking too small. IMO there is a larger opportunity for a marketplace to buy and sell promotion for the long-tail of the web (niche content providers and small startups selling to a niche audience) across many mediums including newsletters but also company blogs, social media presences, forums, etc. Buysellads.com does it well, but I think there is room for another player who can execute in slightly different ways.

I actually have been thinking about this idea for a while and would love to chat more about it. I've been working on a travel industry startup for 2 years that has had a difficult time finding great/targeted advertising opportunities.
Those Who Create Marketplaces and Those Who Participate in Them
Why do Microsoft have such a difficult time, to this day, developing a decent web-browser? With their near infinite financial resources, surely it is no accident that IE has so many issues, uses tons of proprietary code, and doesn't support, for example, the <canvas> tag until IE9.

Like a good capitalist you may argue that MS is not in the business of supporting standards, or it is not their job to make the lives of web developers easier. You'll argue that they are a business, and by locking in companies by using proprietary code, MS is being smart. To this I'd say that Google and Apple aren't exactly running charities yet they manage to produce web browsers that a truly first rate.
Developers are charged for disc production. Not to mention the huge fees to get titles passed Sony/Nintendo/MS/etc QA. (TCR/TRC checklists, anyone?) Don't kid yourself... developers get squeezed dry on consoles.

Apple/Google don't use physical media, like Steam, sure... but that single similarity is not sufficient to prove Steam is a "better comparison". So, again, Apple/Google are much more like console manufacturers than Steam, and their deal is comparatively better than PS/Xbox/Wii developers get.
The last time I looked, Git on Windows required you use a different shell than the native Windows command shell (not that I'm a fan of the crappy Windows shell, but it does make it more awkward and feels less "native").
The language in the standard may have changed in C99 due to unprototyped functions being deprecated. In C89, however, I'm pretty sure that unprototyped and prototyped functions need to have compatible calling conventions. In practice, there's no platform I know of where a prototyped function cannot be called as a variadic or unprototyped function (barring special platform-specific ABIs like stdcall that weren't designed for C). Some RISC-style ABIs with pass-by-register and shadow space will fail in the reverse case (a variadic function called as a fully prototyped function) since the shadow space doesn't get populated by the caller for a fully prototyped function, but for a variadic call site, both the shadow space and parameter registers will be populated, specifically to allow prototyped functions to be called as unprototyped.
Nice! Also, you should tweet your progress ;)
Whats a good software to do the live screencast?
I've always assumed that Apple required wired sync because otherwise syncing would drain the battery unacceptably. USB syncing doesn't use a radio transmitter, but more importantly, USB supplies some power to offset the drain from sync. When battery life improves I expect this requirement to go away.
Is it a stretch to see a political aspect to the academic focus on solitude as a pathology? At a fundamental level, liberals (whose ideals have paradoxically been claimed by conservatives in modern America) glorified the individual and defined the highest ideal to be freedom, a state in which reciprocal obligations are minimized. Leftists have defined themselves in opposition to liberal/conservative ideals by celebrating collectivism, promoting mutual obligation as a good in itself, and denigrating individuality as an unhealthy delusion and a denial of humanness, which is inherently social and collective.

The split can be seen very easily in how (to revert to the modern American terms) liberals and conservatives talk about difference. Conservatives celebrate individual difference; liberals celebrate group difference. It is very interesting that to be different as an individual is a conservative ideal, treated suspiciously by liberals, but to be different as part of a group is a liberal ideal, treated with suspicion by conservatives.

(Note that I'm talking about the two groups' rhetoric here; I'm not talking about who is actually more hospitable to difference in practice.)

Is it any wonder then, that psychologists in academia would see aloneness as a pathological state, a departure from the psychologically normal and healthy state of functioning as a group member?
Interesting. The BBC was, in many respects, very sophisticated for the time. It makes sense the simpler, cheaper, Spectrum made a larger splash in the home market.

In Brazil, the home market belonged to Apple II clones at first. Small offices split evenly between TRS-80s and IIs, with a small participation of CP/M machines. Later the home split between IIs and MSXs, losing space progressively to IBM clones. And then it all became this dull x86 world we now know.
If facebook is going to ban google, it should provide its own revenue possibility for its app dev's.
What's the purpose of including the entire bill?

They also left out some key details:

(1) Who paid?
(2) How much did they tip?
I was thinking about that but I literally have no followers ... @travisglines
I certainly don't think there is anything at all wrong with teachers keeping more or less the same lesson plan year after year. From what I understand (and I have not personally studied this), the preferred teaching style in Japan and some other countries is to only make tiny incremental changes to lesson plans, year after year. Almost more of a scientific method or perhaps genetic approach to creating good lesson plans, as opposed to the more "artistic"(?) 'recreate it from scratch' method American teachers apparently use.

But really, my point is that "teachers don't really get breaks because they spend the summer revamping their lessons" thing is an old tired meme that really needs to be critically examined.
its a massive market. the problem is the targeting. how do you target ads appropriately? everyone wants the high CPM ads, but nobody knows how they will perform. and you have to do a separate mailing each time
I don't know about the 386, but you could power a lot of stuff out of the heat of a Pentium 60.
Besides not being a subject matter expert, I don't have any evidence to support this assertion:

It feels like you're looking to get involved in an industry that's being disrupted (unless e-mail newsletters are going to continue in their current form, which I don't believe), but that your idea isn't causing this disruption. I feel like there's a pivot somewhere here, after some more time on it.

So in essence, I'm giving you the opposite of what you want; I think if you start looking into this further, you may hit upon the true solution. At least it sounded to me like you had the knowledge and interest to make it happen.
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Thanks for the clarification. We did open-source it last week (so you had an older version) and accounts are no longer required, you can download/build/run it. A lot easier to use should you choose to try again. If you need any help with the migration, we're always around the chatroom.
Do you think you find it easier than most people to make sense of other fast speakers?
Personally, I think without some kind of temptation to sign up this marketing tactic will be met with a resounding "meh".
I completely agree. While sitting in my basement in a t-shirt and sweatpants, I happened upon a very interesting headline on Hacker News... (I'll stop, I'm no good at it)

I found it really excruciating to read this article. I realize that there's a sort of formula for telling a story in news magazines (and I appreciate that it is an art form), but it drives me crazy when the story is more about the interview circumstances and less about ... anything, really.

... Then I realized something that I've found unique about Hacker News over the last several years: The submitter added the bit about "how he's coping with his new reputation". So I can neither fault FT for writing a story, nor can I fault the submitter for finding something about the story that I'd find interesting (to the contrary, I greatly appreciate the service).

Perhaps it's a new startup idea (or an old one done in many different ways [newser or even wikipedia]) ... the point in more than 200 characters and less than 4 paragraphs. Bonus if it includes customization to the reader's interests.

EDIT: phrasing.
Ask HN: Programming in front of a projector rather than monitor?
Has anyone tried this kind of setup? I have a big white wall in my room and no desk yet. I was thinking of just getting a projector with a very high resolution 720p or 1080p and using that instead.

That way I could sit on a couch or a chaise longue with just my keyboard on my legs. There would be a lot of eye movement because the width would be a lot greater than on a normal monitorand it would be quite far which I think would allow me to use my far sight instead of the shortsight that I use now when programming or reading.

The internet hasn't got much to offer on this subject, but I would guess that's also because high resolution projectors for home use have only been available for a short while and they're also more expensive than really big monitors.

Does anyone have a 720p/1080p projector at home and can tell how simple text looks like? Is it crisp enough? Is it foggy? Can you stare at a wall of text for 10 minutes?
I can't say I know any people over 40 at all.
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