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This Post hits all of the keywords..
StartUp, OpenSourced, Infiltrate
a bit of a turn-off
...seems to be a trend on HN to have such a post nowadays
It's just the hash-bang links that break with JavaScript disabled. If you visit the home page with JavaScript disabled (or IE-enabled, heh...), you're actually good to go: http://worrydream.com/Apple/

Personally, I think it's a gorgeous site; An amazing example of interactive front-end web development. It amazes me to think that just a few years ago, the only real option for this interactivity would have been Flash.
Actually much like the humans.txt file for sites -- all sites should have a contact.txt file that is modeled after this and has one URL to their address on gmaps.

so you could type into your browser: hardknoxcafe.com/contact.txt and get all the info you needed.

minimal style.
Thanks for bringing some much needed science to these proceedings, my man. Too many people mistaking computer science for a therapy session where their feelings matter. Computer science has much in common with the honey badger. Think upon this and be enlightened.

Yours in perpetual discovery,
- Lil' B
Does it count as "well done" if it's devoted to dishonestly spreading FUD, though?

I assume that the point of the website is to imply that coal-burning power plants cause asthma. Is there any evidence for this whatsoever? Googling for coal and asthma, most of the hits I get seem to be related to this very hoax, and the fact that asthma rates have climbed significantly over the last century while coal-burning has got less prevalent, cleaner and much further outside major cities implies that it really ain't.

How is this any better than a website devoted to, say, spreading the meme that free software causes communism?
Do you think that apps using NaCl will be more deserving of being treated as something different than a website? As browser technologies get more advanced it becomes increasingly possible to make things that seem more like a traditional desktop application than a webapp. That said, I don't think that we're there yet and most of the offerings (even from Google) in the store seem like nothing more than a link to a page.
Mobile friendly and everything.
My business partner and I were talking about a service like this the other day. If PintPay was to act as an OAuth provider, it might resolve the password issue.
Its not a surprise. Their js is obfuscated to hell and back, but there's nothing to prevent someone with the patience to completely get a clean copy of the source of this version of the game
Yep, the konami code to get into dev mode has been in webos since the very beginning. I am talking webos 1.0.

Also, WebOs is great. I really like it and the UI but so far the devices have been fairly unimpressive. The original Palm Pre was good for about 3 months. After which android and iphone have gotten so many updates.

If the Palm Pre 3 lives up to it's ideal, it would definitely be worth a look but unfortunately, as cool as the OS is, the hardware just doesn't match.
CSS background gradients are visually appealing, but I'm not sure that's what users want to spend the ergs in their mobile device battery on.
The immediate reaction to this proposal will be the argument from every corner that you have just barred anyone with industry knowledge or expertise from being willing to take any government regulation position. Thereby guaranteeing incompetent regulation. (Insert long list of examples where unknowledgeable regulators have proven incompetent to regulate.)

You can be sure that this argument will be accompanied by large donations to lobbyists, and by outrage among all government regulators who were expecting to wind up in the industry that they regulate (and that they frequently came from).
It's not a joke. It really works that way. Pretty cute.
Wow, I hadn't seen Ares before. An in-browser SDK. Sweet.

Honestly, WebOS itself is way better than android or iOS, it's just that Palm sucked at marketing it, the Pre was only available on Sprint, they didn't attract many app developers, and they only sold 2 WebOS phones. I hope it's not too late for HP to fix it.

Between the gestures, notifications, card-based multitasking, and JS/CSS/HTML apps I'm in heaven.
Looking forward to the Pre 3.
If I can run a shell of my choice and feel my privacy is intact (for non google software stuff) it satisfies my needs as well.
iPhone 4, iOS 4.3 - Site works great (well, besides the slow, initial load time...) In fact, compared to my desktop browser, I prefer the transitions on my phone! Much, much smoother!

*Edit - Commented too soon. Just crashed it playing around with the horizontal scroll area at the top. Navigating around seems to take its toll on the browser. Oh well.
I think it's about having the choice.
I also highly recommend Django.
I don't get what this is for. Is it to make it easier to deploy apps built using Mono for Android?

http://mono-android.net/
Indeed. This is what I meant.
Very well said. IMO anyone who disagrees either doesn't know enough of "the situation" or has simply scanned over your words, not actually digested them.
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Right, I understand that but what I'm getting at is: if I create an application that is purely JS/HTML/CSS based, will my source be available to other developers that put their phone into "developer mode"?

If so, is there any way to make it not publicly available?
You don't need multiple IPv4 addresses to make use of a wild-card (or other multi-name) certificate. A wildcard certificate will verify any matching domain so you could have many sub-domains of the same domain (using a single certificate for *.domain.tld) on one address and browsers would not complain.

Also you could run the distinct (sub)domains on different ports on the same address, though this is perhaps less useful.

Also, with SNI you can use many single-name certificates on one address (and all on the same port) using SNI. Unfortunately there are a number of significant client combinations that won't play nice with this (most notably, if you can't guess, IE on Windows XP): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Support
I think WebOS is great. But all the Palm devices are sliders which kinda sucks. I wish they'd come up with something comparable with Nexus S or iPhone 4. A simple, but cool nice little piece of smartphone. But, that's just me.
How is flushing a write every 60 seconds orthogonal to consistency? If there's a server crash between the write to RAM and the subsequent flush, the data is lost, is it not? How do you guarantee the data is there in that case?
I loved my Pre when I was still with Sprint. By far the most enjoyable to use out of all the phones I've had. My biggest complaint was (and still is) the lack of applications. If HP is able increase their app library, they will quite possibly find me buying another WebOS device.

I really hope they succeed if only because of the openness of their phones. It feels amazing to have full access to your device out of the box without having to jump through 1.5 million jailbreak hoops.
I love it. Even the font.
I was very interested in your product at first, but this answer turned me off pretty quickly.

The site looks good, the service seems nice, but I'm not convinced you are PCI compliant based on the answer here and the Linode tag on your website.

I mean no offense by this comment, but payments are quite important, so I'm just pointing out what is making me feel uncertainty.
think you're viewing my statement out of the necessary context..
> Z ring enriched (if this is right word) with sqrt(5)

I think "extended" is the right word (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_extension)

It is commonly denoted as Z[sqrt(5)]
css gradients are the qualifier for "cutting edge"?
ForPlay: a cross-platform game library compiling to HTML5, Flash, Android & Java
Facebook or no Facebook, anyone thinks this story would turn out good for Mark S. Zuckerberg? Free publicity everywhere?
Seems to be more likely about supporting Silverlight on Android:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/04/Silverlight-Android
I don't think so. I think people are well aware of what these trade-offs hope to accomplish, but don't feel it'll pan out with the consumer market. Just because someone radically rebalances features in a device doesn't mean it's going to be a winner. We'll see.

Part of the difference is that with ipod, apple had no other incentive for its design than to make consumers happy and thus get money. That isn't even close to the case here. Google has strategic objectives, and it hopes to promote those aims with chromebook. Google has a ton of bias distorting its vision as to what will excite users.
Why Geeks should hate HP WebOS:

Only one recent device (at the moment) and it is carrier exclusive in most countries (for me, in germany). I like the new devices and the operating system, but sadly, I also have a good contract with a different carrier.

So: sorry HP, but i'll pass. I never bought a locked phone and I will not start because of your hypergeeky operating system.
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I've banged my head over a similar idea for a while, and I have failed to figure out a viable monetization strategy that won't compromise such a service eventually. The best I've come up with is that it must start at bottom and move up. From local communities and the governments that manage them, the power could be slowly drained away from the federal level (and even the state) eventually leading to a more decentralized system that is less susceptible to corruption (which obviously requires constant vigilance on the part of the local communities).
How then are conflicts of interest handled within any given law firm. This is effectively the same thing. Let them bitch about it - we need to solve this problem.
Games on Steam do this
Your comment is eating its own tail.

Let's get really practical: public-only financing of elections, plus conflict of interest rules with teeth (no job in the industry you regulated for X years after you left) will make it significantly harder for special interests to exert undue influence on our elected officials. At least, if they sell out to corporations, it will be out of deeply felt corporatist convictions rather than for intellectually bankrupt cash considerations.
All non-PDK apps are viewable.
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Oh come on, this isn't that bad.

This is to protect people that have entrusted wikileaks with their information. Essentially what it's doing is preventing people within wikileaks from disrupting the release cycle.
instead I'll have fiddle with video drivers, get calls when the sound stops working after an update, get calls about why the computer stops waking from sleep like it should, etc, etc
Wow, browsing that site from my phone is a crippling experience, they have this:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" />

..yet they haven't actually optimized the site properly for a small display, meaning it's not actually possible to scroll/zoom to see any full line of text (tested on iPhone).
I don't think you've read the article, actually.

The key point is that he is trying to calculate arbitrarily large fibonacci numbers, and so the addition is itself an O(n) operation. This means that even after memoization, the complexity is still O(n^2), and he uses a number of tricks to reduce that.
What makes it really bad is that there is also this bug in mobile WebKit from four years ago that nobody has ever gotten around to fixing:

http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/03/07/problems-with-safar...

Basically if you are at or near 100% CPU, Safari’s HTML parser silently fails to parse your HTML.

Additionally, we have found this is not limited to the innerHTML property; we have observed the problem to happen with the W3C recommended method Range.createContextualFragment.

EDIT: formatting and cleanup
Presumably in his opinion it is likely, hence the "probably". Mystery solved.
Society, in general, doesn't "get" that white-collar crime like the mortgage securities fraud is the engine that powers blue collar crime.

The problem is that society in general spends far too much time and effort and money harassing blue collar criminals and keeping them locked up in a system that will never "fix" them. Society needs to make a conscious and concerted effort to prosecute white collar criminals -- to give them punishments severe enough to prevent the abuse and fraud from the top down, the abuse and fraud that leeches from the poorest "blue collars".

Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Galleon Group who was convicted today "acted like the rules didn't apply to him". Probably because at this point in our history, society is starting to believe that the rules don't apply to the power suits. This is why none of these brokers have served jail / prison time.

Steal an automobile: go to jail; do not pass go. Steal somebody's house and life savings: go to swanky federal prison, stop and take a vacation in the Bahamas (where your tax shelter is) on the way.
Yeah I wish they would use canvas for browsers that support it, and fall back to the million-div method
Ppffftt, I wrote a recursive algorithm that calculates 2^n in O(2^n) time for an exam question.

That's what I call a bad algorithm!
So the problem is that government is making non-meaningful regulations? And is regulating in a non-meaningful way?

What would give their activities meaning?

And how do you define clap-trap?
i don't know their audience but i imagine they're leaving opportunities on the table. still, it's better than many commercial sites who try to do more.
> when a user buys a computer, it is their responsibility to go searching on the web for a free, reputable and safe anti-virus company

Actually these days they can just opt to install Microsoft Security Essentials and they are done.
> IMO anyone who disagrees either doesn't know enough of "the situation" or has simply scanned over your words, not actually digested them.

That's not a useful stance to take on things. "Anyone who disagrees with this is ignorant or didn't understand" is a recipe for never having a useful conversation.

You want people to change their minds? Spend at least a little time listening to them. Not "I'm waiting for you to shut up" fake listening, actual listening. Learn why they think what they do. You have to counter their biases/ignorance/arguments on their own terms, anything else is more self-important posturing on your part than useful debate.
Mostly derived from @jashkenas wiki page:
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

BTW, mobl isn't tierless, it targets client-side development.
Practical, heavier than air flight was made possible due to internal combustion engines. It's also still less practical and more expensive for some applications e.g., cargo than other options. Practical, low-latency distributed databases based on "invoke consensus protocol on every commit to the log" would be made possible (on limited size local networks) when networking gear with performance exceeding 10GigE/Infiniband becomes "commodity". Even then, it will still be impractical and too expensive for some scenarios.

At the present time, the fact that I said "invoke consensus on every commit to the log" and "low latency" in the same sentence is making distributed systems engineers cringe (I would _not_ advocate building such a system). The fact that I said "Infiniband" and commodity in the same sentence is also making systems administrators and DBAs cringe.
Sigh. It was related to the article!

Sorry.
It's a shame that people have voted this comment down because they don't agree with it. That's not how voting is supposed to work.

You make a good point: why would anyone knowledgable about the communications industry EVER take a job on the FCC if they knew it would bar them from working in the private sector in the future? We don't pay FCC commissioners nearly enough to make that work.
I use igoogle start page, and I can't see any animation, just a static Martha Graham Google Logo. Does anyone have a the correct google URL in the States? I've seen the video of it, but it annoying me that I can't see the actual animation.

*edit: I found it http://www.google.ca/
White collar criminals run the system, so not too surprising.
With many small divs they only need to redraw the part that changes. The sprite can also be smaller because every frame doesn't have to be the full size of the logo.
Try using an private/incognito window/tab
Pretty soon, we'll need some sort of index to manage all of these text files full of useful information. We can connect them together to make it easier to navigate. Let's call these hyperlinks.
Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen.

And then there's these guys who convinced two presidents they were too large to fail.
how many people use Skype just for the IM? I find it vastly superior to all other chat clients....
if you don't want to log out, just open up chrome in porn-mode (incognito) and go to google.com

or just use any other browser your'e not logged in to. or just log out.
The US government is beyond corrupt and beyond any possible reform and nobody cares.

my team versus yours bullshit

It won't happen in my lifetime. I know that much.

Have you ever volunteered for a local politician? Paid close attention to an particular issue? Gone to your state capitol to lobby for a particular bill? Took notice of any substantive differences between politicians of both major parties running against each other? Have you ever spent a substantial amount of your own time and effort to attempt to fix any of these issues?

Or do you just bitterly complain about the irredeemably corrupt nature of US government on online message boards?

Your cynicism, and those of people like you, is also a large contributor to our nation's innumerable problems. There exist honest, well-meaning, hard-working people working in government and politics to attempt to fix these issues. Unfortunately they're outnumbered by people like you, who tar all of them with same brush you use for the most corrupt business lobbyist. That's probably because it's much easier to complain than fix the problem.
I actually applied with a similar idea to summer batch and didn't get through. I think YC doesn't consider this viable.
Besides, Google is probably going to be the one to dominate the space with their $700M ITA acquisition from last summer (the deal was cleared by court a month ago). Watch this video:
http://www.google.com/press/ita/
I'm 30, so my 20s are in the past. It's probably not fair to put everything on the excessive time I spent on algo/eng/coding/bizdev but there's a fucking lot of skills involved in startups. I picked a couple wrong projects, spent my time and money on them (I come from a far-from-rich background) and so that was that.

edit - that is to say to you guys in your 20s, be efficient and maybe you can do both
If you ignore the installation part, even Steam syncs your progress between computers.
What makes you think that other groups wouldn't be the first to fly?

I mean, think about it: Would you secede from a city that used your own tax dollars to humiliate you on buses and at water fountains and lunch counters? And then beat you in the head when you object?
That's really strange because I've had the opposite experience. I use ssh for most of my work. I can play hulu videos in 280p, I can view almost all pages and content slowdown free.

The cavet being I cannot run hundreds of tabs, I usually keep it around 5, and when I'm on a flashy website it slows everything down.

Its getting better almost everyday though and now I can almost watch hulu videos in 480p.
ok I clearly have to clean mine up: http://funkymonkeycorp.com/
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Hmm, for some reason I hadn't noticed JS11 before. More succinct version of JavaScript that's not as radical as CoffeeScript in terms of changing the syntax:
http://js11.org/
That's not minimalism, that's just lazy.
relevant: http://xkcd.com/773/
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"But they did so without asking what the market actually needs/wants or looking at what smart schools are currently using (and the related costs)"

That's not true. Just empirically not true. Additionally, you didn't include fully-loaded costs in your blog. Trivially: how many hours go into testing and deploying updates? What is your AV update subscription annual cost? Those are just the first two I noticed without really re-thinking the problem.
my research seems to indicate you start off low, plateau at around a quarter and then once you have a niche you can see these high values. I've heard that $1-$5 are common in the sense that you see them, not in the sense that they are within a small number * standard deviations from the mean.

overall the principle holds but the investment is an accelerator, once you have users you have competition.
I wish Google bought Skype just so I could find and search archives of my conversations in my gmail. It is incredibly hard to believe how skype survives without online chat log archiving. I find it almost essential for business-related work.
Also, this is not bad, considering it's the 8th largest publicly traded company in the world: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
The current price is definitly too high, but I can vouch for all those feattures. It instantly goes int and out odf standby. I don't really like the new hardware I wish they sold more cr-48s this is one nice machine.
No?

I can create an anonymous Second Life character at any time, linked only to my account info (an email - Mailinator solves that). I can build something in-game and sell it, creating money with no person bound to it. Or be given money in-game for a real-world purchase, leaving me with money that still has no connection with me. There's barely a central authority, as there's nothing stopping you from passing money around in-game, which would be the major barrier to illegal trading. And what is there is rather impotent, as everything can be done just as anonymously as in Bitcoin - they can get your IP address, but only if they're watching, and that's far from an identification. Just go to a coffee shop.

Bitcoin just makes it easier, and fault/attack-tolerant. It's been possible for quite a while. Though perhaps the most useful aspect to this is that transactions aren't revokable, where they are in nearly any other non-physical system.
It's a problem if one puts their own interests first; it's not to convince oneself and one's allies to do what's in the common good.
That's a really good question. I don't know what specific action American voters could take.

After some searching the best I could find is this group (http://www.citizen.org/), which seems to be a non-profit working in the general area of disentangling government/corporate interests.
Considering how far Goldman's tentacles reach into the federal government, I'm not surprised at all.
Bunsen was done with canvas:

http://www.google.com/logos/bunsen.html

It probably wouldn't have worked here, at least not without the gorgeous artwork that makes the doodle famous. It was already a huge PITA to get all the control points into Bunsen, and that was a mostly static animation with pretty much simple polygons in motion. Martha Graham has fluid motion and semi-realistic human figures; this is far too complex to draw with just code.
Absolutely agreed, but the industry insiders have to be impartial and use their knowledge and experience to come up with a decision.

The question you have to ask is what's the motivation to approve (or deny) a given application or law? If it's because it's the 'right thing to do' (broad term I know) then fantastic. If it's to 'help out a mate' or 'it may be the right thing to do, but meanwhile there's incentives for me to vote this way' then that's where integrity has to be questioned.
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