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Actually, the leading thinkers in all times were very often either atheists are extremely a-religious compared to contemporaries. They had to be publicly orthodox. That is because there has never been a religious authority with the power to do so that has refrained from using the force of the state to enforce orthodoxy.
simplified browsing = google search engine

i've seen 7 years olds using it with incredible ease finding what they want

"and small children don't want the full web; they want to communicate and share pictures and look things up"

Shouldn't they call it simplified communication or simplified file sharing if thats what they mean? I think simplified browsing refers to something else.

Concerning communication, there are already some successful social networks just for children that prevent sharing of personal information.

"communicate and share pictures and look things up"

Also that phrase pretty much sums up the average usage of the internet for any age, not just children.
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FYI, if you've just gotta get into Facebook immediately, m.facebook.com works (mobile site). ;)
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Reg I will miss your posts, you were one of the developers out there that constantly challenged and inspired me to be a better programmer. Your thoughts and explanations will be missed.
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Holy crap. He looks sick.
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I really hope that it happens for your sake, Owen. We're rooting for you.
<blockquote>If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly. But then it actually becomes harder to judge them: is this group proposing x because they were already thinking about it, or because they know that's what we want to hear?</blockquote>

Why is this important? I don't recall reading anywhere that Y Combinator takes on responsibility for a persons motives when starting up a company...
I admit that my understanding of some of these concepts like futures contracts is negligible, but it still seems bad if, say, 90% of all bit gold is generated by criminals at no cost to them, while regular people have to expend their own resources to create (or buy) bit gold.
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What are you talking about? The email address is an image to make it harder for spammers to harvest it. If you want to email one friend it's not that difficult to re-type their email address.
Your account can be banned if we would data fetch friends, photos or whatever else what belongs to the network. Other than that - one can hardly agree that personal data is what belongs to PERSON.
I agree with Hugh. It is not really that difficult to type it out in your email application.

Don't be so lazy. Or just use the FB messaging system :P
How can spammers see your profile when it's protected and only viewable by the people you've personally approved to view it? To be honest, though, I didn't even consider your point of view. That COULD be a legit reason, but I'm skeptical...
That should be -- "Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away."
The only legit reason is to protect from spamming, and considering your profile has all kinds of privacy protection, it seems like that would be the way to deal with it. Do you work for facebook? ;)
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Are you confusing digg users with google (and digg) staff? You do realise they are different sets of people?
How exactly does the US enforce its laws in countries (or on businesses) that exist outside the US? It sounded like e-gold didn't just have some paper corporation, but an entire, multi-national structure of protection.
This is what I'm wondering. Digg as it currently exists isn't worth $400 million, but if google can use its clout to bring it into the mainstream then maybe it would be.

Of course, there's the question of how a site like digg could cope with ten times more active users (and hence ten times more votes and comments), but perhaps they have ideas for that. Combine digg's popularity-based voting with google's knowledge of what _you_ are interested in, and you might have a pretty good algorithm for delivering interesting, targeted news.
oh Jesus, how is this simplified? you just introduced a bunch of new functionality. now instead of downloading attachments you need to browse through modules to find them? what happens if the sender is not a trusted contact? it should be simplified not more complicated (which is not what happens if you add IM to it). if your targeted user thinks that FF is too complicated then good luck finding the IM box in your new simplified browser!
this is like debating with the people who think it's okay to bring Tupperware to an all-you-can-eat buffet.

It's more like management kicking you out after they've felt you've had "all-you-can-eat".
It depends on your privacy settings -- if you set them to minimal then I'm pretty sure anyone in the world with a facebook account can see your profile.
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Of course, it is an image to protect it from spammers, but how long until spammers use image recognition to get your e-mail?
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I don't think that's a fair analogy. First, I rarely upvote or downvote links or comments, I just read and discuss. Secondly, someone brought up a reference and I gave a link for context. On a website meant for sharing links, I find it odd that you would find what I did offensive.
"Starting Something" - The story of Neoforma, from startup to IPO, written by one of the two founders. Has especially great insights on the people aspect of the journey (VC's, employees, family, partners, angel investors...etc).

'The Search' - talks about Google and search companies in general, how they started, how they developed their business model, and the evolution of the industry in general. Especially fascinating is Bill Gross's story, and how he started ToGo.com (later became Overture) and invented a lot of the things that people commonly only associate with Google. It was also the first time I read the in-depth story about the founding of Google. inspiring...

'Founders at Work' is terrific also. Can't wait for the second part.

I'll throw in an extra recommendation. Not exactly a book, but a podcast actually. It's called "Venture Voice". It a series of interviews with entrepreneurs (Ev Williams of Twitter/Blogger/Odeo, Jay Adelson of Revision 3 and CEO of Digg, Calicanis of Weblogs Inc, Kawasaki, Mena Trott of Six Apart, to name a few). You can think of it as an audio version of 'Founders at Work'. Those two are a real must especially for web entrepreneurs.
It seems that most of us aren't explicitly aware when our brain is "tired" (as opposed to our muscles). But we have to decide that we are too tired to make decisions. In some cases, that may be non-trivial.

I don't mean to sound cynical, just curious.
I'd feel better about it if I didn't know the textbook manufacturers have a suspiciously friendly relationship with the people who select the texts.
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Is it celebratory to tokenize someone in a headline with an irrelevant physical attribute?

Example: We're also in a domain heavily dominated by white people. Would "Tetris written (by a black hacker) in sed" seem as celebratory to you as the female variant?

Personally, to me neither are true celebrations, just tokenism. People, whether women, men, black, white, whatever, don't like to be tokenized and patronized.
Not trying to break the protection, just play the file. No copying, converting etc......
Your post reminds me of Black History Month. It's intended to celebrate great accomplishments by black people, but it feels more like pity. It seems as if their race were some sort of handicap so we need to make their work seem grand and donate an entire month to it.

I don't believe that anyone has ever truly been inspired by this feel-good crap.
Is this a joke paper? Serious question. The findings don't seem right to me at all. 40% of people got the answer wrong?
Actually, I was just kidding. I assume the upmods are people who don't like Valleywag?
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They store each complete version instead of just diffs? Bravo! Brilliant.
no, he looks thin. He had pancreatic cancer. The pancreas is a primarily digestive organ. You cut out the pancreas, people don't digest as efficiently. After several years, they tend to loose weight. This is actually why cystic fibrosis patients are thin also: their pancreas becomes plugged with mucus and they have problems digesting enough protein. There are enzyme tablets for just this sort of thing.
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>Tetris written in sed (This is the most important story ever!!!!)
I've always felt this way, and have never been able to understand why Java is thought to be great for "average" programmers. Java is hard, at least for me. Certainly much harder than Perl, Ruby, Smalltalk, Tcl, and Scheme (I haven't spent any time with Lisp). I even find it harder than C, in general, though I suspect that's just a factor of how much code I've read/written in the languages...and I've never had to build the infrastructure in a C project that Java removes completely, as I've always been a contributor to an existing project rather than starting from scratch. But, Java is certainly not a simple or concise language. There's a lot to learn..."Core Java" apparently requires two gigantic 1000+ page books. While one can learn most of Scheme from a single tiny text. Java has so many nooks and crannies that I feel like I'd never be able to learn it all. Likewise, one can get a pretty good understanding of C by spending a weekend with K&R. Simple but powerful languages hold more appeal for me.

But, I guess the thing I (and possibly Reginal and Giles) find hard about programming is not the thing people usually find hard about programming. I think of myself as an "average programmer", but the thing that bothers me about programming is tedium and the fiddly bits. The more scaffolding a program has, the less I enjoy working with it and the harder it is for me to grasp. If a piece of code isn't for something, then I don't like it and find it really ugly, but also hard to understand. So, Java is chock full of stuff that makes me zone out completely. I've been surprised to find that PHP is hard for me, as well. I always sort of assumed, "Hey, I've met some really dumb PHP programmers...how hard can it be?" Until I actually had to work on some PHP code. It's so verbose. Everything is a function call, even basic data structures. So, I find PHP much harder than the other languages that I work in, even though it has a reputation for being easy.
The topic of simplified browsing targeted solely to old people comes up all the time with my parents and friends' parents. From what I've collected, old people say they want easier this and that, but when it comes down to it, the individuals that continue to experience difficulty either do not take the time to learn new technology or are hindered by a disability.

If easier means different, how can you expect them to take the time to learn your new approach when they don't take the time to learn something as simple as Google search? Google search is just one huge text box in the middle of the display. It doesn't get much more straightforward. You type what you want to find and then sift through the results.

My mom is the biggest noob when it comes to computers. She doesn't see or expect buttons when she looks at a UI. My mom didn't grow up with GUI's for cable, video games, or computers like I did, but she has been practicing on her computer for the last year or two and is finally getting the hang of it just fine.

I think no matter what you do, a person not used to using computers isn't going to understand without first taking the time to learn the basics.

There is definitely room for improvement though, just don't target any particular age demographic. Someone will come up with something that will make web browsing easier and more efficient for everyone.
Yep, those sound like the kind of users Seth Godin would call "laggards", and trying to build a business around them is usually not the best idea.
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Maybe. It's a pretty crazy world. <3 Can I get an invite for dropbox?
7 year olds are searching "darth vader rap" on youtube behind your back. They don't understand the web like you do but they figure out/share how to nav to stuff pretty quick.
Sorry for not responding sooner. Hacker News needs an active message flag like Reddit has.

The first one (flownet.com) failed. Never made a dime. Never found an investor. But we had working (hardware) prototypes.

The second one (indiebuyer.net) made some revenue but ultimately ran out of money and folded.

The third one was acquired by Richard Branson and is now Virgin Charter. (That wasn't an exit, so I still haven't made any money from it. But it's looking promising. At least it's still in business, and doing well last I heard.)

The fourth one is looking pretty promising as well. (Actually there's a fifth one too, which is also looking pretty good.)

So I've been at it off and on for fifteen years (we started FlowNet in '93) and I still haven't made a dime off a startup of my own. But I think I'm getting better at it :-)
Wow. Wish we knew about this sooner... Are all emails referencing a Dropbox URL filtered out by GoDaddy?
Actually, the conf call mentioned a "product transition", not a new product. They are changing something in their existing lineup, not adding a new product to the lineup.
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understanding the 3d elements of computers such as raised buttons and stacks of tabs or folders seems to be a big tripping point. They aren't sure what they can click on and are afraid to just start clicking because they think it will break something. For them "break something" means when the computer does anything that they haven't seen it do before.
Simplified web for old people would probably work as just the same browser but with big instruction boxes popping up everywhere. Google would look the same, but with a box and big arrow pointing and saying "type what you want then click here!"
basically someone should make the paper clip of microsoft office for firefox. It would intelligently identify common tasks and offer suggestions.
If by "doing fine" you mean "almost dead," yes they're still healthy.
"The biggest problem I see is that hosted apps are great, but these guys need the software to be up all the time."

I was the Director of IT for a $250mm startup, a little under 5 years old. We started, as almost all valley startups do, using quick books for our financials. Very quickly issues like Purchase Orders, Expense Reports, became more important so we looked to move to an online SAAS financials system - we chose Netsuite. Our internet connectivity grew as the number of our employees grew, until today, at 120 employees, we have a finance/procurement department of 10 people, and a 3 Mbit connection to the internet. Our Financial software has been on the Internet somewhere for the last 4+ years, and has never gone down. I used to be impressed that our DSL link was as reliable as our T1, until an ISP explained to me that they were probably both landing on the same equipment on the back end - just one of them was coming at me with T1 Framing.

This is just a long way of saying that Internet connectivity can be assumed now. Large (very large) companies don't think twice of oursourcing their business critical functions, and, in fact, as we transition from Netsuite to Oracle Financials, we didn't even consider hosting it ourselves - found a third party and paid them $5500/month to host it for us - access over a L2L IPSEC link.

Anybody want to form a YC company - don't worry about the Internet Part - unless you are building a real-time/nuclear/medical/navigation/flight safety product/etc..., hosted apps are the way of the future.
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>>No, software patents are a tool for trolls, nothing more. Every invalidated software patent is a victory for mankind.

This is much too strong, I think. I'm a co-founder of a small biotech startup with a single patent to its name. We had trouble enough raising money even with the patent. Do you think that I, or anyone else, would have put up with all the pain and the long hours in the lab if we new that Agilent or Biorad could swoop in at any moment and take our markets away from us using their marketing clout?

>> If, OTOH, you believe that the intended purpose of software patents was to allow deep-pocketed corporations to patent-troll their smaller competitors to death... the system is working precisely as designed.

Sometimes, no doubt. But Borland and that small storage company both cleaned Microsoft out for over $100,000,000 apiece, and MSFT's market cap is a bit larger.

A patent is a limited term legal monopoly which effectively creates a legal partnership between a government and, say, a three person startup on the one hand and, oh, Google on the other. Without the patent it's you and your buddies against Larry and Sergey and you're just bringing a knife to a gunfight. Since this site is largely devoted to startups, this would seem to be an important point.

I think the real solution is to shorten the terms of software patents to, say, 7 years and tighten up the meaning of "obvious to one schooled in the art". That would immediately reduce the patent infringement search space while still giving a small company time to build a first-mover market advantage.
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What's with all of the conspiracy theories?

I don't think people grasp how easy and widely e-gold was used to launder money. It was THE premier way to move money if you were involved with any sort of electronic fraud.

All you had to do was cash-out someone's bank account then wire the money to an e-gold affiliate, who deposits it into your online account. All transactions are irreversible. e-gold kept minimal records and after the money enters an offshore account, the government has little chance of recovery.

There were millions of dollars being moved through e-gold with fraud. They purposely made the process easy with as little verification as needed. Their market was criminals. I'm sure most of their profit came out of transaction fees related to fraud.

Where's the innovation? Their site looks like shit. They just managed to find a loophole to look legitimate and survive this long. I'm not surprised that the owners plead guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
"For text input, I’d actually not even bother putting a text box anywhere on the screen."

Bad idea. No hint as to where and how to enter text. How is one supposed to come up with the idea to just start typing?
Y!Hack may not be the best forum for finding answers to tech issues. You might try ask.metafilter.com, some smart folks over there and they dig those types of questions.
P.S. The portals (I worked for one of those) are a step in the right direction as their convenient UI and STP lowers the cost of a transaction in terms of human effort, but other than that add little value on top of what's offered by the banks. They are at most leaf nodes in the networks as they can't hold money even intermittently and the actual settlement still takes place through the banks. So they cannot open 'new routes' in the network.
Love the title, drives home a fascinating commentary on today's tech.
Is the translation wrong (I got it from wikiquotes), or do you disagree with what he said?
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Wow! It actually found events in Budapest. The idea and functional execution are great.

The layout sucks. The positioning of the elements seems accidental. Your logo is pixelated, it looks like something from the CGA days.

The search results box is way too small. That should be the main area. You're probably thinking that the map is cool, but as someone who has written GMaps mashups, I can tell you it's not that cool. You could even get away with not showing it at all, and only popping it up onClick. Yeah, it seems cool to show Budapest when I type "Budapest", but frankly, I know where I live. Also, at this point you're not putting down markers anyway!

So, I'd rethink the layout a little.
I was surprised when I opened up the page and it was showing the map for Bellingham (where I live). I was instantly intrigued to see what was going on because I connected with seeing the familiarity of the map despite the unfamiliarity of the site. I think with a little work on the layout it could be very cool.
I'm religious, but I'm seldom willing to discuss it in technical forums because of the responses it draws. Specifically those who feel it their mission to, first, tell me what it is I must believe, then, tell me why it's foolish to believe those things.

There are a lot of folks who feel tech forums are an appropriate place to make atheistic comments or anti-religious statements, probably because they feel like they're among a receptive audience. I think this gives an unbalanced impression of how far the split is to one side or the other. For myself, I just ignore the statements. It's not about what I'm in a tech forum for. And I don't consider it any more indicative of where the group mind is than statements on, say, film preferences.
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Oh, I was just applying the principle of the quote to itself.
I would really appreciate if, when the user agent is iPhone, the comments page allowed the text to reflow. As it is it is far too wide to view comfortably without lots of scrolling.
I don't think you read the answer properly. The response was "it's impossible to plan for" and your answer again is "you should plan ahead".

And I actually do think the fact that you don't have kids does mean you don't know how hard it is. (It's like me saying I know the physical act of childbirth is hard, but I think it's certainly not the same as me going through it.)
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