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I'm agree about Russia ecosystem. You are right!
Milner is a hero for me, really! He does business in both ends: russian and western internet.

I used to try to do some projects in russian internet.
2 years ago built http://www.moivizitki.ru (social business networking), a big Moscow based web company wanted to buy it (mostly hire us), but i decided to spend my life to build own startup (you can find job any way if needed). Built several e-com affiliate projects for english speaking world. Now my friend and i apply to YC.

I wonder if any person from post Soviet Union was excepted to YC (I don't say even a team, at list person :).
Did you ever implement anything that we could play with?
if you are redirected, you can access google.com in English (there is a link on the page lol)
BBC pictures from Japanese earthquake and tsunami
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Opensource doesn't need designers, there are plenty of those (real designers, and programmers with decent design skills). What it needs is focus.

The main problem with opensource UIs is the lack of attention to integration issues and detail, which results in a (serious) lack of polish.

The proprietary model has the advantage that you can put someone in charge of this. Someone that will order people to polish stuff up. Opensource projects can't do this. Everyone does its own thing, and can't be bothered to do the boring work, or they'll leave.

The mistake here is thinking that uniformization fixes the problem. Well, guess what, none of the successful UIs are uniform (violation of UI guidelines is the norm on Windows, and Apple also doesn't with increased frequency). But what they don't do is leave applications with misaligned components and such crap.
It's probably also deep. Deep earthquakes do less damage. But still, 8.9, that's almost 100 times bigger than a 7.
If the shipping is paid for by Amazon out-of-state, I'd be surprised if they see any sales tax from it.

Amazon hasn't stopped shipping to Illinois - they have simply stopped allowing affiliates in Illinois, so the decision is unlikely to change the amount of shipping. If they did manage to force Amazon to collect 10% sales tax, people might spend at most 10% less, because collecting sales taxes reduces their means, but all of that would be captured by the state immediately, rather than more taxation through indirect mechanisms like increasing the number of shipping employees, where they would capture far less of that 10%.

If they did force Amazon to collect the tax, they might also cause some people to buy at retail stores instead of online, but shipping to homes is probably more efficient in terms of labour than shipping to stores and having salespeople employed to sell them - so more tax capture there. People might instead buy from online stores in Illinois, now they no longer have a tax advantage - that would also mean more tax capture because more of the supply chain is in Illinois.

All in all, of all the possible outcomes, it seems very unlikely that tax revenue will be decreased because of this. Amazon is trying to bully the state of Illinois because it is one of many states; if other states follow suit, Amazon will almost certainly have to back down or give up on having affiliates altogether.
sadly not. I had it running on my own blog for a few weeks, collecting data which I then analysed. I'd have loved to have got a nice plugin put together for it all but I didn't get it that far.

Got a distinction for it though! You can read a little about it here: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/06/adaptive-web-sites/
> No they are haters because they are spreading FUD about Ext.js with no true or substantial points to support their claims.

Does you claiming the opposite make your comment valuable?

> This is laughable. Microsoft and Google use jQuery for web pages. Not applications. Looks at Gmail and find jQuery there ???

Sorry, I can't take nobody seriously who uses meaningless buzzwords in this context. Your comment is laughable.

> If they want to waste their time and be overtaken by the competition who are making better use of resources they are entitled to make that poor judgement.

Again: poor assumption.

> It takes less resources to extend Ext.js that is does to replicate it.

What if the functionality inside Ext.js is not what you need? You can extend a hammer to make a tank, it's just not practical.

> Spreading FUD about a framework that is completely false is trollish behavior. I did not do that.

Your 1 day old account and your tone suggest otherwise.
MVC is fine. It's the way that your controllers are instantiated by a NIB that I find odd. It's too magical for me.
Yes, that's very true. I believe the point here though is to play to your strengths for the good of the project. If someone else is better at the detail work then let them do it. The project as a whole will be better produced and that's your end goal. We're not here to build character by completing unwelcome tasks, we're here to build products.
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Why does it come to mind?

It comes to mind because I really wanted Grooveshark on my iPhone and would have paid for it but it's not there.
(Except by jailbreaking and I'm not willing to do that)

Apple's behavior seems logical and sensible here as the "gatekeeper" of their store, it's not their job to resolve trouble between UMG and Grooveshark.

They're already trying to resolve trouble by doing what UMG wanted.
In any case, we could nitpick over that point for hours.

And again, Spotify was still in the AppStore last time I checked, so what Grooveshark's app is not, in and of itself, "a [...] killer apps there which would never make it to the AppStore."

Seriously? Last time I checked, Spotify was only available in about 7 countries. (Last time being 5 minutes ago).
I don't see how you could even compare the two services. They work differently.

In any case, my comment wasn't specifically about Grooveshark, rather, to point out that there's a whole class of apps that people may want but would never be available on the App Store for various reasons (legitimate or otherwise) but will be available on Android.
Over 3000 speakers are in the database !
Exclusivity for HN: in few hours update of user's profile pages on RateMySpeaker !
I think it's the other way round. An 8.9 takes a long time to build up. When it's almost ready to pop, then a smaller earthquake can set it off.
http://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect) :)
Good point. I find it hard to remember whether Facebook ever participated in an initiative like this one. I also wonder if majority of dedicated FB users would actually care to pay attention.
It's too much focused on the technical side, I'd present it as a multiuser audio sequencer, with an awesome demo and what would you do with the cash. Technical details are available on Github for people interested in.

edit: By the way, great project !
YC is about get a rapid introduction to the network, which is what he needs. Also, demo-day could net $1m+ based on previous years.
Oh, Sorry I should of specified. I did mean for an open source project or even a internship
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Ok, I think we will have to agree to disagree!

All nice in theory... the real world is very different.
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It would be interesting if all major websites had this sort of alert system. They already know about where you are and as less and less people watch regular broadcast television it isn't always obvious what is going on with regards to weather. Here in the Midwest it would be pretty great to be able to see that there was a tornado warning or something in my area. In this example it could provide specific information for the particular area.
the new york times has had something similar to this for years.

you can highlight words and it will show a "question box" that you can click to see more information about the word, google search, etc. it's displayed inline so you don't need to navigate away.

it's a nice idea, but it's terribly annoying.
Yeah, try being less technical and more "look at this cool thing!"

Also, $20k seems like a lot.
> The use case of a page vs an application should have a huge impact on the library i.e. architecture you select.

Loose the term 'web page', it's non-existent anymore.

> If it doesn't and you say for example use jQuery for a RIA your on the road to a big ball of mud.

If you don't know how to use it.

> Progressive enhancement is a concept best applied to web pages not applications.

Again: loose your vague buzzwords if you want anybody to take your comments seriously. Progressive enhancement is something that good webdevs do, and lame webdevs ignore, because they are too lazy to look into things.

> Ext.js 4 has full ARIA & 508a support. Your example of YUI does not.

This is a pure lie.

> Name one feature YUI has that Ext.js does not ?

> YUI does not have any decent RIA architecture support, for example MVC.

> YUI like jQuery is good for pages, not complex applications.

I think I have spent enough time on your trollish comments.
"... The Sinclair ZX81 was small, black with only 1K of memory ..."

It was also small, white with 1k of memory if you bought the 8K ROM upgrade chip (which I still have somewhere) for the zx80 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157607718005837...
I dunno, my "Editor's Picks" subfolder seem to have been replaced by a huge button that starts a web browser. If I wanted to browse the web I would have started Safari, wouldn't I?
I very much doubt that Gregg Gillis will send them a takedown notice. (They are technically violating his copyright since the track is under a non-commercial/attribution Creative Commons license and they seem to violate both those terms. Gregg Gillis, however, doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who would send out petty takedown notices.)
nytimes.com used to do something like this. It was super annoying.
I already have a copy on my local for dmenu :)
Pretty neat, but you could maybe sort/filter with specific hashtags ?
I agree it's important that we maintain a culture of curation here, but some events are big enough that they eclipse cultural mores.

With respect to the kind of exceptions we make every day, I agree with you. But once or twice a year, a lot of people die, and everyone kind of stops what they're doing and pays their respects, wherever they happen to be, whether you're in line at the bank, or on the floor of the senate.

We all happen to be on HN 24 hours a day, so this is where we all stop and take notice.
Uh, first of all, get rid of the glasses and the dude on the left sitting with his mouse open. Then, focus on the demo.

One of the best things I learned from Presenting to Win is that one of the first things you have to do in a product pitch is show what problem you are solving for the audience. This is the best way to capture their attention, and will get them interested in what you are trying to do and how you are going to do it.
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Not seeing the benefit of this over SpeakerRate (http://speakerrate.com), which has been around for a year and change.
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Perhaps you can give us an example on how to implement this. I would be really interested in it.
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Although I feel terribly sorry I think this shouldn't be here because it's not related to what this site is about!
BUT I think we can have Hacker related news about this earthquake! for example isn't it nice that news channels are now talking about what WILL happen in next hours around the world?! Or have you seen Google's first page and the alert about tsunami?!
So THERE ARE very interesting hacker-like news about quake out there
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Well you can choose to install the console toolchain from the XCode dmg so you don't waste 15GB. Also what do you mean by "spend a decent amount of time installing xcode"? 5 minutes? 10? Whoa, not a big deal.

Anyway I fully agree that apple should be very quick in releasing a free downloadable compiler toolchain and charge only for the IDE.
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By "dude on the left", did you mean https://github.com/hij1nx or https://github.com/tmpvar?

I'm not keen on getting rid of either of them. :-(
It's sad that pittances like these ($25K) influence (direct?) decisions that then divert hundreds of millions or billions.
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Auckland-based geologist Chris Buckley says the tsunami wave is on its way towards New Zealand at 500 or 600 miles an hour.

I think soon it's hitting Hawaii. Let's hope it'll end as well as in Taiwan.
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I was thinking of a similar orign-of-life analogy, but unlike life, compilers have sprung up independently of each other many times over. That is, in the early days, it was common to implement everything over again in assembly on a new machine.
That was just recently, though. Also, there's a huge difference between writing a check and being heavily involved in philanthropy. Gates et al pursue philanthropy as they pursued their careers, but Zuck's is more of a fire and forget style of charity. I'm not blaming him for it; he's a busy guy and it'd be stupid for him to adopt the Gates model while facebook places the demands on his time that it does. Were it not for TSN, he likely would have never done either, not because he's Scrooge but because it's just not a big deal to him.

Which kind of goes back to my point. He's doing essentially the same thing as a billionaire that he was when he was running facebook from his dorm room.
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I love Haskell, it's incredibly powerful, fast and elegant. However, I switched to Erlang because it's a heck of a lot easier to learn and it's quicker to sit down with it and produce something tangible. While I struggled to learn the concepts of Haskell, I immediately "clicked" with Erlang. I still wish to look up Haskell again though, it's very intriguing.
hi HN! I put this together to toy around with some new technologies that I hadn't played with before.

It's a service for recording audio directly to 'the cloud' with any mobile phone.
seems to need a check for duplicates? but otherwise pretty cool
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If you're going to do it anyway, consider using Flattr. I'd pay you.

Edit: and if you do, twitter me at @mariuskempe and I'll start donating.
Actually, you don't need to buy Xcode4 just to get gcc ;) Just have a look at the opensource page of apple: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/. You can get all the sources you need and thus could also create your own "brew package", or am I missing something here?

Also you can still ask your users to find their OSX-DVDs and install (though an older version of) Xcode from there.

If someone already mentioned the above, I apologize, but I'm too lazy to read 220+ comments :P
Do you have any pointers? I don't think they compete directly with Facebook, and I haven't found/seen any other professional social networks.
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Not a very good list though, Plaxo, Bebo and Facebook aren't really LinkedIn competitors imo.
Update: Tsunami waves have begun to hit the islands, but it's relatively small for now.

Update 2: About an hour later, still very moderate waves, although the water has been receding so far that you can see the reefs. No damage reported. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center doesn't expect this to be a major event, although there's still a few hours left in the danger zone.

I'm in Hawaii right now (out of the evacuation zone). They expect the tsunami to hit in about 45 minutes. The tsunami sirens have been going off about every hour, the evacuation zones have been blocked off, and even the police are starting to move to higher ground. Honolulu Harbor is pretty much empty, and it seems like all flights in and out of the airport have been cancelled.

Also, Waikiki Beach is deserted, the hospitals are being inundated with people seeking shelter, and we're all basically holding our breath. The scary thing is that many people don't realize that a tsunami wave is not like a surfing wave; it's basically a solid wall of water, and we're expecting 6-7 feet at the moment.

If you want to follow what's going on, check out #hitsunami on twitter; it's being updated very frequently. Also, there's a live webcam of Waikiki Beach at http://hitsunami.info.

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Yes, I would think so, but then where is it? I just don't see it.
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it will take at least 1,000 development hours to get JSONloops to v1.0.0.

1000 hours / $20,000 = $20.00 per hour for developers on average

Is that too much to ask for?
It also possible he is still unhappy about the exploit from a while ago. I did write him and ask that the blacklist be lifted, but did not get a reply.
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Although I can't see it! it says I'm from a forbidden country: http://i51.tinypic.com/126eouh.jpg
And stream fusion should get rid of intermediate data structures.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307532
It turns out that I was looking for something like this right now, and this just appears on HN! :)
I imagine the federal sales tax would be set to the same level as the state sales tax. States couldn't change one without changing the other.

(I've not really thought this through. The above is just a random thought. Be nice.)
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It looks like they provide some information at the top of the search results if your search term include the words earthquake or tsunami.
seems like you are asking to get dissed.
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The tsunami is expected to reach Mexico's coastline within three to four hours, the BBC Mundo's Alberto Najar reports. Ports in the state of Guerrero are now closed. In Baja California Sur, civil protection authorities say they expect no major damage.
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Absolutely yes. A new language opens up a new world to you.

People who would otherwise consider you a ignorant tourist change their attitude towards you as soon as you greet them in their language. The more fluent you speak their tongue, the more they open up their real thoughts, and the more you are able to really connect with them, because they feel honored by the effort you made to converse with them.

This also has entrepreneurial implications: Your business partnerships in non-english speaking countries will significantly benefit from you being able to speak their language.
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It's exactly the opposite of magical: you're simply building objects in IB that are "live" while you're building them and that then are freeze-dried when you save the file, and reconstituted at runtime.

It's certainly magical in the sense that it's a beautiful way to do things. ;-)
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The fine print for new iOS devs:

If you succeed in overcoming all of the obstacles ahead of you and actually create a worthwhile app on Apple's platform their is a good chance they will screw you over without warning or explanation by blocking your app, yanking your app, changing the rules, calling you a pornographer, randomly charging you new fees, prohibiting whatever it is your app does, changing the hardware you're allowed to use, changing the software you're allowed to use, and many other ways that seem impossibly outrageous right now until it actually happens.

Invest your time and money at your own risk. You've been warned.
I see lots of photos of someone's passport or wallet and some pamphlets. Some celeb photos, emo shots, a cafeteria. No earthquake footage.
Any chance you could share that knowledge? That sounds fantastically awesome!
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I see one quake photo (http://twitpic.com/48fzhv).
> Seriously? Last time I checked, Spotify was only available in about 7 countries. (Last time being 5 minutes ago). I don't see how you could even compare the two services. They work differently.

I asked how different they were, because I can't see it apart from Grooveshark's ignoring of IP (which is very much the root of them having been evicted from the AppStore until their resolve the situation). Which is I fear a very debatable "feature".

> In any case, my comment wasn't specifically about Grooveshark, rather, to point out that there's a whole class of apps that people may want but would never be available on the App Store for various reasons (legitimate or otherwise) but will be available on Android.

You specifically pointed out to Grooveshark as an example of that kind of applications. It's not.
I'm pretty sure you can add Colorado: This being the reason I am not permitted by Amazon to become an affiliate.
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Man, there's all these things standing in the way of success! I'd better not even try.

Come on, seriously? There's risk involved in pretty much every venture, and you can't exactly control the actions of outside entities. If I kept avoiding tasks because there was a chance of it being screwed over by someone else, I'd never get anything done.
Japanese authorities are urging some 2,000 residents living within a 2km radius of a nuclear plant in Fukushima to evacuate, the AFP reports. The plant has been shut down after its cooling system failed.
Me neither, real man, I was around 9 when I got hands on a VC20.
Been doing iOS dev for a few years, friends with many others who have been doing the same. Sometimes things suck. But, not usually. How is this any different from relying on Google to "guarantee" a base minimum to dev against… that seems to be ignored by handset makers

All platforms have downsides.
That question has no meaning. Morality is not something you can enforce. Morality is a strictly personal matter, and anyone that tells you that you have a moral responsibility to do something is confused. Nobody can tell you what your moral responsibilities are other than yourself.

In this light, the parent post is right. "You might have a moral responsibility" implies that you may feel compelled to do something. The frequent misinterpretation is that you have a responsibility to someone else, which is false. If you feel compelled to carry on a job you hate to save lives, you have a moral responsibility. If you do not feel so compelled, you do not have a moral responsibility. You cannot have a moral responsibility without feeling compelled.