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Paper doesnt have copy and paste, still there doesnt seem to be any shortage of mind bending work that people do with paper. In the absence of copy and paste your workflow would probably look a bit different - possible read things one by one in sequential order and form a complete working model before opening the editor to actually write code. Depending on what you are doing this might/might not be a good thing.
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I agree, it's not really usable. That being said, if you would give settings, everyone could make their own style. That would be ace!
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what technique can I use to drive traffic
Do you guys have any suggestion on how I can drive more traffic or more specifically get people who offer stuff on craigslist free section or offer on freecycle to offer on onelovee.org? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much.
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Believe it or not I've stumbled upon your blog before in searching for some answers to questions touched on in this post. I must say your blog was a big motivator based on the fact we're both young and non-MBA business guys looking to make our mark in the tech/startup world.

This post was very PRO python/django... other posts I've searched on HN have been pro Ruby/Rails. The best piece of advice I've gotten is to try both, I burned down 1/2 the entry rails book I ordered... Loved it(or maybe I was just excited to create some extreme novice terminal program telling me how many characters are in my full name). Tonight I'm going to attack the Learnpythonthehardway tutorial and then decide.

Do you feel like you're coming along quickly? Enjoying yourself thus far? PS I plan on blogging about this endeavor.
I believe it's more of a PR stunt. Few weeks ago they banned 20 big sites which they considered spam like ehow.com and experts-exchange.com. Now I do agree that these sites do not have top notch content, but I am able to find my answers on these sites on frequent basis.
Cool, submitted one...
That's a very Windows-centric comment. The cases I am referring to are in regard to non-dominant platforms. Compare OS X, NetWare, Linux to the likes of OS/2, MacOS (8/9), Solaris.
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The design is headed in a good direction but there are definitely quite a few little things like this that could be improved. The top bar can still be fixed position at the top without requiring an enormous minimum width. Similarly, the idea of showing only the portion of the image that will fit on the visible page is good, but the calculations are a bit off I think so it ends up looking a bit like a mistake.
This is the future, there can be no doubt. The rewards of performance enhancing drugs in intellectual pursuits are tremendous. Even primitive performance enhancing drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine have fuelled some of the greatest minds in history.

</socially undesirable fact of the day>
Am I just blind or is there no volume control?
That sounds good. It's just that it's easy to get carried away with an algorithm you own which produces money by "selling out" and doing what your highest bidders want you to do in this kind of business. As long as it's monitored and done in such a way to make money and be appealing to non-mainstream as well as mainstream styles, this will be very useful.
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Because pay-for-play is the very worst of the music industry and I won't support it in any form.
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This exact same comment and link appears on the TechCrunch post. I'll attribute it to bad form instead of blogspam.
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What technique can I use to drive traffic
Do you guys have any suggestion on how I can drive more traffic or more specifically get people who offer stuff on craigslist free section or offer on freecycle to offer on onelovee.org?
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much.
Is Apple a cash strapped startup or what? They easily get a lot of value via hardware sales from apps being made for their platforms to start worrying about bandwidth costs.

Imagine if all OS X and iOS apps disappeared today? How many would still buy Apple hardware?
Do you remember what your reasons were for moving to EC2 direct? I.e. needed how much more processing / memory / etc.? I know that when I start adding in some typical features (background processing, redis and / or memcached, wildcard domains, solr search, hourly crons) the heroku prices really start to add up. Significantly more than EC2.

For example the Heroku addon for 100MB of memcached is $20 / month... which far exceeds the cost on an EC2 box.
>>... considering that it arrives just 11 months after the original. But it is in no way a radical or significant departure from last year’s model.

I like the way he used the sentence. I think he meant, "But it is in no way a radical or significant improvement from last year's model"
Seems like building out both ends of this market will be really tough... any ideas what the investors saw?
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Payola wasn't terrible for the musicians who got played. We're making it a model that a brand new band with no following can buy into. For $10 we can play a band 1000 times. They usually get less than 100 fliers for that, most of which go into the garbage. People should protest Kinko's....not us.
So low skill workers find it harder and harder to find jobs. No surprise here.

Automation, bitches.
I can definitely relate.

It's been about 15 years since I had mine. I slept a lot, too, and basically stopped all social interactions for roughly two months. Messed me up pretty good.

It's good that it happened early in my professional career and before I had any dependents. I am now able to better self-regulate and have been able to pull back when appropriate without getting in too deep.

But most importantly I learned not to take work so seriously. It's not really all that important in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah that is my point, then why is there a focus on who is first?
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A settings menu is on my todo list. An easy way for you to customize the look and feel, fonts, colors etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8Z__o52sk&feature=relat..., enough said.
Well I just found out that Google Chrome 10.0 is out. Thanks for that.
Paper has a desk, which allows me to look at several pieces of it at the same time.

When doing derivations on a legal pad, I often get angry flipping between pages and wind up ripping out of all of the pages of work and arranging them on a table so that I can look at them all at the same time. If I'm working from a book, I'll xerox the pages I want so I don't have to flip back and forth.

Android/iOS lack this important characteristic of paper, but traditional desktop OSes emulate it pretty well.

I have to see equations in a pdf and code in an editor at the same time. This is non-negotiable. If I worked at a company using some iOS-alike on their desktop workstation where there was only one app on the screen at a time I would be killing a whole lot of trees printing out papers so I could look at them while I code.
I've heard countless people rave about Salman Khan and his teaching methods - both here and away from HN. The truth is, I had no idea why he and his teachings were such a big deal...until now. I had seen some of his videos before and read some of the articles about the Khan Academy, but had never given them my full attention. To me, it was just another guy with his own teaching methods.

But when I see him talk at TED, it makes perfect sense. Not only is he a superb speaker, he gets his points across clearly.

Probably the best point of all is this one:

"What I do is I assign the lectures for homework and, what used to be
homework, I now have the students doing in the classroom."

As radical as that may seem, this idea has TONS of potential. Do we really need teachers there in person if they are just lecturing? The real use of being there in person as a teacher is for interacting with the students. What better way to do that than by helping them with the work (i.e. homework) and letting the Khan Academy lecture when little interaction is needed.

I am definitely going to hop on the bandwagon now and join everyone else in following Khan while appreciating his pure genius. In fact, the best way to describe him is to combine all the great things people here on HN have to say about him:

> He's amazing. (joshu)

> I really do think Sal Khan will revolutionize teaching. (solarmist)

> Hero material. (MikeCapone)

> Future of education. (omfut)

> Really wonderful reminder of what just one person can set in motion. (runevault)

> Simply amazing that a guy armed only with a tablet and a microphone can have this
much impact. (keiferski)

> He is a big inspiration for anyone looking to change the world. (omfut)

The list could go on forever. And it's not every day you hear people talking about someone and their ideas in such a way like they are now about Khan and the Khan Academy.

If people are saying it is amazing, then there's a pretty good chance that it truly is amazing.
What kind of computer do you have? It's either on the front or the side.

But seriously, I told the team we needed one and they were like, we have more important things to worry about. Haha! We're on it asap! Thanks for the ammo!
I should have phrased as "what is the minimum number of characters that need to be seen by a Ruby parser in order to have something Turing equivalent to Ruby without a limited character set?"
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Rape isn't terrible for the people who do the raping. Thanks for making the industry just a little bit worse.
Yeah...we're forcing ourselves to focus on quality by not charging the band until someone has listened to 30 seconds. If we get a lot of skips, we lose money, so we're forced to focus on the right matches and high quality music. We want to do this right.
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I have a couple of ideas with my friend Alex who is a finance and computer science programmer, I am in law school with a business admin degree in under grad.
•	Dating/ marriage site-
1.	levels of privacy, or access:
2.	such as only craigs list words only,
3.	or regular w phone and info history etc type, or
4.	photo like match, or
5.	video like porn? But not porn,
6.	or phone number…
7.	or for marriage
•	law tutor match- there are no tutors at my school univ of indiana
•	or any school subject/ pupil match
Simply amazing that a guy armed only with a tablet and a microphone can have this much impact.
ok i'm confused. why doesn't dns wildcard caching solve this?
I think most good investors will shy away from single founders for many justified reasons. PG writes a lot about it in his essays. actually, most people in this space who write, will have written about this, so I won't spell it all out.

The 2 recurring themes are: How can you convince anyone of your product if you cant even convince 1 other person to join you? and 1 person just can't do it alone, you need multiple perspectives to dissect a problem.

There are very very very few exceptions, probably enough to count them all on your fingers. That said, I'm in the same boat as you and looking for a cofounder but I'd say don't just go and pick up any cofounder. Take your time because this relationship is something that takes a lot to build and is not like just hiring someone to help you with a task.
It is not cool to publish someone else's slides on your website without their permission.
I'm just kind of unclear as to how they'll build a huge audience, given that any pay-for-play scheme, as a rule, is not going to be playing the music that I most want to hear.

I guess I'm wondering, where's the filter? What will make the music that I hear at this site better, on average, than the music at any other site?

Because it sure as hell isn't the fact that artists will be able to pay for exposure. IMO there's just no way around it, pay-for-play is a listener-hostile dynamic, there's absolutely no way it could improve the quality of what I listen to.

Actually, maybe that's a lie, there's one tiny way it can help: if pay-for-play is limited only to the acts that have not had enough exposure for the "market" to figure out whether they're any good, then it can improve what I hear by letting the artists pay to make sure that they've actually been listened to by enough people to be fairly judged. The real problem with payola schemes is when artists that have already had plenty of exposure can use money to make sure that they have more exposure than even the organically successful acts - this is something that Earbits needs to make sure it avoids, and if it is successful, this will mean some tough decisions, because they'll have to start turning down money that their biggest customers want to give them ("What's that, Mr. Combs? You want to buy up 90% of our play time for the next two months and fill it with your label's shitty music, and you'll pay us six times what we made last year? No thanks, that would be unfair.").

In any case, I think more needs to be done to figure out a compelling pitch to users. The payola side of it is not the right thing to emphasize - it's going to offend musicians, and it's not going to attract users.
Is that the case? My understanding was that they were offering an additional bounty however the rules to claim that was a bit more strict than the standard pwn2own rules. I could be mistaken though...
> This is because, in a change to historic competition rules, the system configuration was frozen last week, so the last-minute fix hasn't prevented exploitation.

then later

> One possible reason for this is that Google published a Chrome update yesterday, closing at least 24 security flaws. The would-be Chrome attacker may have been depending on one of these flaws to attack the browser.

I thought the configuration was frozen last week. Was that only for Apple? On first read, this seems like a faulty conclusion based on the earlier statement.
Doesn't work at all for me on Chrome 11.0.696.0 dev. When you click the button it does absolutely nothing. When you go to options it opens up a new tab with whatever "home" page you have set. Also, no errors in the console.
Feel like my life for the last 4 months. 2 more to go...
I doubt he meant that given that he devoted paragraph after paragraph to describing all the improvements.
I'm on the every other device plan. Technology doesn't change enough every year to justify the upgrade. Every other Apple upgrade is good, and it works out that I'm staggering the iPhone and iPad. This year the 3GS gets traded in for the 5. Next year the iPad 3.
I think you're trying to make a joke about how the iPad 2 isn't any better than the first but it doesn't make sense. Any village idiot could tell you the iPad 2 is better than the original. There's not a single feature that got worse.

So then the operative part is was it radical or significant? Well, Gruber's whole point is that Apple launches radical products and then slowly improves them. He even concedes that it's probably not worth upgrading for many people:

Most of the 15 million original iPads sold to date do not need to be replaced by iPad 2s. That’s not a problem for Apple, nor a failure for the iPad 2. A $500-800 device should have a useful life that is longer than a year.

So what exactly are you trying to say?

I think this kind of analysis of Apple's process is far more interesting than the resultant products.
I'm sorry for the lengthy delay before the response. Hopefully we'll get better at this in the future.

I agree - this functionality is justifiable. However, we have many things we'd like to implement, and this one wasn't prioritized for the reasons I mentioned.

I'm sorry we told you this couldn't be done. In actuality, this reached the attention of our engineers quite late. As I understand, you first spoke with our support staff, and then with our community manager, after this thread. You're right about the gap - this is theoretically possible, but it just hasn't been implemented. At all.

It's also not exactly simple: we denormalize data in lots of places, there are plenty of nasty side cases relating to inter-related networks, the data lives in many separate systems, and of course everything is backed up. Getting rid of a single network is more than just a DELETE query. This is lots of code to write and test.

I hope that helps explain our response.
| The U.S. is so far behind in education

How did you develop this hypothesis?
What does it mean to be ahead or behind in education?
Anticipating some of your answers.
Is it really meaningful to compare the test results of the US to those of Finland?
What are the reasons for the differences between the test results of Finland and the US?
Is a few more weeks in school really the best reason you can think of?
Are you aware of the fact that if you only consider white people the US compares much more favorably to European countries, in fact score better than 30 of them in one particular test?
Why do you think that would be?

Those are some of the questions that come to my mind when considering the issue. This is something I think about a lot, especially since I starting dating a elementary special ed teacher who has shared a lot of her experiences.

You can't consider these international test-score comparisons without also addressing the diversity of the US. In particular blacks in the US still score significantly lower than everybody else. Why is this and what are we going to do about it? Just declaring it to be "racism" isn't enough. If it's racism, what kind is it? What does this racism actually look like? If racism is still present in schools it is probably unconscious to those perpetrating it. I sincerely doubt it's just racism.

I don't know.
Your entire post seems to imply that there is no way for ad networks to target advertisements without tracking users from site to site.

However, if someone is visiting a site about, say, cats, it is still possible to show them ads for pet-care with no tracking required. If they then visit a site about data structure, then you show them ads about, say, data structure text-books, but the advertiser can't reliably detect that they are the same person who just visited the site about cats, so can't show them another pet care ad.

Tracking users might slightly improve the targeting of ads, but not by much - saying it will make companies in the EU unprofitable is extreme hyperbole.

Of course, the draft directive may not actually be effective, especially as IPv6 rolls out and NAT becomes progressively less necessary and common. IPv6 address + browser header fingerprinting could easily be almost as accurate as cookies to track users, and it doesn't require storing any information.
If Gruber is right, what Apple did with the Smart Covers is really remarkable. First, they'll get an extremely high attach rate, probably north of 75% or 80%, much of which is probably pure profit. Second, it may be enough of a feature to convince some iPad 1 owners to buy an iPad 2 (and a Smart Cover). What an absolutely shrewd design that is likely to lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and profit for Apple.
Aesthetic changes like this seem better suited to being Stylish[1] layouts or Greasemonkey[2] scripts, rather than full-blown extensions.

A quick userscripts.org search for Hacker News reinforces this: http://userscripts.org/search?cref=http%3A%2F%2Fuserscripts....

[1] http://userstyles.org/stylish/

[2] http://www.greasespot.net/
HN hates Gruber with a passion but votes his review all the way to the top. Beats me.

Here are other reviews but they all sound pretty much like Gruber’s:

http://www.macworld.com/article/158439/2011/03/ipad2.html

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/09/ipad-2-review/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/ipad-2-review/
Why can't someone just make a smart cover (sans the auto-on/off?) for the iPad 1?
May be a bit off topic but I think,

With new superior models coming every year, time for Apple to do some innovation in the business-model (well, in addition to the app-ecosystem they created) and move to a subscription-based model :)

One pays few grands (say $2k) every year to upgrade i/pod/phone/pad to the latest version.

(well, they have recycling program with 90% depreciation!!)
this looks like a job for dotjs

https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs
Every year the press makes it sound like a race, or that being exploited first is somehow worse than being exploited later in the day. The fact is that time slots are assigned randomly: http://twitter.com/VUPEN/status/40078022325444608
It's nice. Text is easer to read.

But, could you add some color schemes, from witch I can choose? It would be great.
Sometimes Apple will release a new version of a product and disappointment will follow. People will always point out some improvements, as there always will be, but sometimes there are just less changes than what people were expecting.

I think it's safe to say that the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 (the last big two releases for Apple) have been significant upgrades. Gruber agrees and so do many other analysts. Instead of feeling disappointed, I felt pleasantly surprised after the announcement - a feeling that I'm sure many other people shared.

Let's just say: Apple is definitely on a roll.
I recommend the book "Power Sleep" by Cornell professor James Maas.

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Exceptional book that really transformed my college experience.
Before anyone says "but this doesn't give you the OS X SDKs!", it's fairly easy for me to get them from the company's iOS developer account. If that's different for this program, I'd be absolutely stunned.

There's multiple ways around this, everybody just feels like bitching about $5.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I still have a hard time taking an iPad and getting the function I want out of a tablet. At this time and for me, it is still more or less an extra toy that I can overlook.

However, I understand how well it fits the bill for casual consumption, and considering how Apple is effectively building a robust platform for content delivery. It seems that an iPad in every house would pay dividends for years to come.
Hacker News doesn't hate John Gruber. Gruber polarizes Hacker News, just like Apple does.
cool. why so secretive?
I've seen a lot of TED lecture. But as a parent I think this may have been the most important one I've seen yet. I've used the Khan lectures, but hadn't seenn the vision. It's one of those rare times where I feel like I have seen the future -- and I really like it.
Apple said they built the smart cover and the iPad 2 at the same time, so there is hardware in the iPad 2 that is required for the cover to work. Primarily, the magnets needed to have the cover attach.
The original iPad doesn't have anything on the left side for the magnets to grip onto.
You need the built-in magnet inside the ipad 2.
It just won't be the same. You can't make the iPad1 switch on / off automatically and there's no magnetic spots on the side where a cover can magically attach like on the iPad2.
It sounds like the system configuration being frozen doesn't change the browser updates that might occur last second.
Chrome has superior sandboxing of the rendering engine than Safari, so even if you could crash Chrome with the bug, actually doing something "useful" would be significantly more difficult.
You have a point, but no one knew when it was coming (hence why I said you can only see bubbles in hindsight). I should rephrase and specify that no one can tell when a bubble will burst. And as long as a bubble keeps growing, you can still make money buying into it.
Isn't that the point of Chromes ctrl-shift-T incognito mode?