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Please keep dreaming happy dreams. In our great nation this is still something that's legal.
Yeah, that's what everyone's been saying for about 3 years now. It's what a lot of people say about every technology, including the 99% that don't catch on. It's so cliche as to be meaningless.

I'm not sure what you mean by "web systems", but if you mean browsers/standards they're moving at far too slow pace to assume any impact at all on anything ever. And even if they advance, there's a lag until people adopt them. A large percentage of people still use IE6, so any business model built on "web systems" unavailable until IE9 is so far off as to be not worth discussing.
Yes, but I believe that was back in the 50s.

Much has changed since then.
please stop flame-baiting on news.yc, almost all of your seven posts in this thread have been of that nature. i come here to avoid flamewars. thanks!
If indeed they ever get an early warning system like they've been promising for years that gives a few minutes warning before large quakes hit, twitter could be valuable. In addition to those great whackin' horns they blow for emergencies.

Otherwise, I don't see much point in twittering "dude, there's an earthquake!" All of the effected people will already know that.

SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’s potential. How about a powerful reminder of nature's potential? Tweet.
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Well, I guess I meant that any formula you come up with around that statment suffers from revisionist history, and a very subjective view of what is really good. I was objecting to the formula you hadn't pinned down based on the output.

Most people would say that George W Bush deceived us into invading Iraq. Had he found a few nukes lying around, would that still have been unethical? A lot of people who think his actions were unethical now would probably not if the results were different, even though nothing was known at the time he did it.
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Come on, Project Orion wasn't stupid.
I've found that knowing about stuff like data structures, algorithms and Big-O complexity will make you stand out from most other candidates.

It's good stuff to know regardless.. :)
so you'll know how to avoid arousing suspicion
I never thought one day I will see people relate him with startups when I was 22 reading his novels 18 years ago.

One of my favorite quote from his "Norwegian Wood" is : ""The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination". "This bunch" was socialist university students.
It means "green" in Japanese. But I don't know what the implications of that are supposed to be with regard to an operating system project.
I think it was the 70s. And what changed was that the University of Berkeley got its hands on it.
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Goes to show that anything you enjoy, if you think about it hard enough, can be applied to startups. It's all human experience. Feynman said it as "The whole universe is in a glass of wine."

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Personally, I don't like this example. I love Murakami's novels because they contain mystery and loose ends, and they don't pretend that human lives neatly wrap up into stories. Murakami doesn't tell me what to think, he shows me enough complexity and paradox to make me think. The blog post, on the other hand, is name-dropping him to repackage the same motivational bullet points.
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Most major news sources' first release is just that, without the "fuck" and 20 minutes later.
Depth and accuracy? The first AP article isn't going to have anything except "there was an earthquake." Perhaps they will have the Richter number. They will definitely not have the epicenter or the damage/casualties. It may even be less than 140 characters :)
If you're just saying Ada doesn't guarantee that the program does what you really need... no language can do that.

That was basically my point.

I agree Ada's pretty cool, but Dewar listed Ada and C (!) as the only two languages suitable for safety-critical systems.

I mean, really. What does one say to that.
Oh, this isn't a regular Microsoft product. It's Microsoft Research.
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... I didn't realize SD could stand for something else.
Microsoft is coasting on past momentum at this point.

And between them, Apple and the swarm of open source operating systems have nibbled away a couple of extremely key markets. Name me a field where intense concentrated utilisation of computing resources happens in a mostly Windows environment. Most of the industrial computing environments run on some form of free unix-like OS for some very good reasons. And industrial computing (whether Google, Amazon, rackspace or what have you) is the growth segment of the technology industry at this time.

Windows may own the desktop still, but the desktop is a relatively saturated segment of the market. And most of the sales are replacements, not new seats.

And please don't just dismiss me as a Microsoft hater, I know some very smart people who work there and I do not underestimate the capability or creativity that can come out of the company when it comes down to the wire. But as one of the people I know there said to me a couple of years back "Inside microsoft there are about a hundred world class software companies, most of which are working against each other."
I will try solving those problems.
This is the sort of intersting thing I come to HN to read.

(Although "We can't give it to you here" still seems kinda dickish)
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That's probably true. I guess definitely a subsection of news that Twitter might be good for if you subscribe to a lot of people.
That's really interesting. Pair were early big players in the web hosting space (back when it took serious skills to run a hosting provider). I've met a few Pair folks over the years...mostly support reps and sysadmins, but all seemed quite smart. Dunno what that means for the companies ability to incubate companies.

But, it's definitely wise to branch out...hosting is a dangerous business, and one that gets more challenging by the day. Only the most savvy are going to survive it.
Game changing. If this works, Posterous will be the interface for many many blogs. Trying it on my wordpress blog now...
Interesting how they're posting to Tumblr, their competition.

I guess this shows how much they value openness and user happiness. Well done!
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awesome feature.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to simply have a pre-ordering system, especially during peak times. (That is, before you enter the store)
It worked. Only real problem is there's no way to add categorization and tags. However, the wordpress interface is so buggy and clunky, it might be faster to create via email, email to posterous, then add tags & categories via wordpress.
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10k uniques a week? Look at their alexa rank, I seriously doubt that is true.
True that. There is much for us to work on, and tagging is something we do think will be valuable down the road.
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I am pretty sure the London Underground is run at a profit, as are the private railsways that service the country side around London. Of course, the cost of using those services is pretty much the highest in the world, and they have pretty high population density, but still, pretty sure its run at a profit.
Interesting, I didn't realize they had LIDAR as well.

I bet they also record WiFi and cell tower location data for geolocation (i.e. Android). If you're going to drive thousands of miles, you might as well record as much data as you can the first time...
Absolutely agreed. I emailed Gary recently saying that I didn't think Posterous had enough to really compete with Tumblr. But something like this doesn't just change my mind (regarding Tumblr posts, of course) - it's genuinely a very useful feature. Well done.
...for certain values of "stupid."
Jakob Lodwick launched it something like a week or two ago.
you guys have really taken the "getting better every day" principle to your heart. absolutely fantastic going. keep up the good work!
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The point is, low-level, as the name implies, is at a lower level than high-level. So every once in a while, you'll run into problems at the higher levels, and you have to dig into lower level stuff to solve a problem.

So what do you do if you cannot because you have no conception about the lower-levels / overall architecture? I've seen PHP programmers run into bugs and throw up their hands and yell "It just doesn't work! But the bug cannot be in my code!". Of course the bug was in their code, they just have no deep understanding of even their own environment.
You mean it's a microcosm of the internet that's smaller but better structured?

Like Facebook, Wikipedia, or Second Life?

Clearly it's doomed.
I've heard those points and that rhetoric before and I am not convinced. It is insufficient to say this, but I think we are approaching this issue with substantially different experience, assumptions, and background knowledge. I don't think I am contributing much to the world by spending a lot of time on a comment in this forum, so I will unfortunately leave it at that right now. If you live in San Diego, how about coffee sometime?
The quickest place you'll get the epicenter/magnitude from is USGS:

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

You can sign up for SMS alerts too:

https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
We could build an interstellar spacecraft if our society took science seriously.
I got asked in a Google interview: "What is 2 to the power of 64?"

.. I wasn't really expecting a question like that so it really threw me off.

See if you can figure it out without a calculator. :)
"Personally, I was so offended by that expediter that I'm now getting my coffee at the Starbucks on 60th Street. The 58th Street branch can take a flying leap for all I care."

Hum... "Fuck you Starbucks, I'm so offended I'll go at ANOTHER of your branches! That will teach you."
Could someone critique this OpenID clone ?
That's an interesting possibility but I wonder how fast it is to record a WiFi signal properly. On my various laptops and phone it's too slow to pick up all networks while driving at 20ish miles per hour.
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But what did most of those guys actually accomplish? rtm and Shawn Fanning, we all know...but did Mitnick really do anything interesting other than get caught stealing phone service and equipment and given somewhat unfair treatment by the courts?

I got my first modem when I was 12 and grew up around that part of computer culture (and committed more than my share of federal crimes by the time of my 18th birthday), but as an adult I look back on the whole thing as rather embarrassing. If I'd only had access to real computers, I'm certain I wouldn't have found 2600 and the phreaking and cracking scene so interesting. And, of course, the really interesting stuff was happening on real computers.
As Jason said it elsewhere, "If U want to work 9 to 5, Go work for Starbucks"
There should not be two exactly same posts on the web. Put it in another way, all posts on the internet should be distinct.
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It is sad when you have to buy a degree from "Liberty High School" but it does open up many fine opportunities in fast food.
The jump from OS 9 to OS X did not happen when Apple nearly went under. It happened after sales had picked up again with the release of the iMac and similar hardware. Of course Apple at the time was nowhere near as profitable as it is today, but saying it "nearly went under" is an exaggeration. That happened in the years before Jobs returned and in the first two years or so of his return.
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great wish list, but amazed that there is nothing about work. here we are just about to enter a major global recession, and millions of people are going to be looking at different ways of getting work - for instance being able to find work anywhere in the global economy without having to move from their homes. but now there is a solution: see www.ki-work.com
I personally don't see a desktop OS being "game changing" at this point anymore. We've pretty much figured out what we're going to be using desktop and laptop computers for by now.

But you're right in so far that Microsoft's all-important "legacy" stuff is by now so old it can easily be run in virtualization or even in emulation, so they're probably on the right track.
I think that part of his point, which he has failed to articulate, is that future programmers need to undergo the inherent rigor of low level programming so as to build the mental muscle - so to speak - needed to solve highly complex problems.
I believe a suitable analogy is how Roman legionaries initially trained with lead swords.
Didn't Apple announce something like that for the iPhone?
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Yeah. If I were cloning this, I would put the numbers in the upper-left-hand corner, and change the colors on the board. Perhaps I would change the point value for some letters also, and maybe move the "triple word score" squares around.

Actually... now that the competition is shut down, I wonder if I should implement this. Can I have some funding, kthx? ;)
Not only that, I think it's the only way Microsoft can get back in the OS game long-term.

The only thing that puzzles me is that they're building it all from scratch instead of at least basing it on an existing O/S OS like Mac OS X did.
Turning down a company's offer to buy you out is a valid reason for them to apply a law designed to prevent movie piracy against you? That "serves 'em right"?

It "serves 'em right" for trying to profit from a clone of someone else's idea, but I doubt they did anything illegal. I hope they fight this and win, but it's a shame that they didn't use the opportunity to create a slightly different variant of Scrabble. Maybe it would have been better.
I like how Cuil uses the same color scheme as Google. As does everyone else trying to clone Google or Google ads.

If you're going to "kill Google", why not come up with your own graphic design? Or just change the colors to purple or something :P
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So I just launched one of my startups: AdExchanged ( http://adexchanged.com/ ). I'd love to get feedback from you guys!

The point of the ads is not to replace adsense, but to have people use us along with adsense. Would any of you guys use this?
Custom board = make your own Scrabble, but not in a way that Scrabulous could get into trouble for.
I really like the system at Wawa: there are many touch screens. You enter your order and then take a printed receipt to the register, pay, get stamped, and get a copy. Then you trade your "PAID" stamped receipt for your sandwich when they call your number. Super fast and easy, never a line for the screens, and you can browse the rest of the store while you wait.
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I was woken up by an earthquake in Berkeley last year. I immediately ran to my laptop, and checked the USGS .. it was there (magnitude/epicenter) within seconds of me realizing it. Point being, for most news stories that Twitter could break, there is a specialized source that already has it.
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Another good rant: "If you read Problogger you are a bad person."
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that's fine, but does xkcd really belong here?
In an ideal world, we agree. However, in practice, it's just a part of the fragmented web world we live in right now.

Communities of people spring up all over the place, and a problem we have today is sometimes you do just want to get something everywhere, without posting multiple times. I might have a community on Twitter, Flickr, Xanga and Blogger... today I have to log in and post something 4 times. Or, post once by email from my posterous.

I think that's valuable, at least for me. But judging from our feedback from our users so far, they agree too. And as a startup, that's what counts.
I am beginning to think the creation of xkcd cartoons could be automated. Just place some random stick figures, and use any one of the million computer poetry generators to fill the bubbles.
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Ask HN: Your hobbies?
I'm curious what everyone's hobbies are?

I'm trying to understand the perspective of other commenters on HN and the best way I guess would be to learn a little about others by what their interests are - maybe also add in what it is about your chosen hobby that you find enjoyable?

So please share.
Free speech as a policy has consistently been interpreted as political speech, that is, speech about what or what not we should be doing. It this sense of speech as a voice of opposition calling for change in the status quo that I meant.

Sorry to make so many jumps, but it wouldn't have occurred to me to use the term in any other way -- obviously I'm not talking about speech one does not have to pay for. Or speech that is unconstrained.

There's a fine difference between honestly describing what you believe to be the other person's views, exaggerating the other person's views in order to show how his/her argument fails at the extremes, and purposely mis-stating the other person's views simply to mock them without giving them a fair chance at explanation.

We do all three of these all of the time in normal arguments, btw.

I just couldn't equate the blog to the TV channel reference. I'm not going to defend Fox News, mainly because I don't think they need defending. I'm unaware of anything that seems "wrong" about them, save for the fact they seem to bug the heck out of more progressive people. But it seemed like two different genres, and two completely different animals.

There's an interesting question in there about blogs in general, and the tendency in media for consumers to prefer people who rant and rave, as I notice many of the later evening cable news entertainment shows doing. (Note the separation of news, news commentary, and news entertainment) I wonder why this type of "corrosive" media attracts so many viewers? Is there a large group of people, for instance, that really want to hear YC misrepresented and trashed? I don't believe that. I believe the article in question only exaggerated a bit to show where the site could be headed. If not, there's nothing stopping us from using his piece for that purpose.

It just always raises my hairs when somebody says something to the effect of "stop that man! He's saying something dangerous!" or the like. I'm just curious. EDIT: Paul did not use the word "dangerous." he only implied that this article was in some different category of bad speech beyond LOLCats.
- I play a bit of tabletop miniatures wargaming, I enjoy it more than chess as the games are generally less serious, yet more social

- I like to read - most often you can find me reading non-fiction books, currently reading "Dont Make Me Think" by Steve Krug

- I enjoy to BBQ and having friends over for a good meal.

- I code, I'm working on something currently that I'm considering applying to YC with (I'm unsure though) thats being built utilising the Django framework.

- I used to play mmo's a lot (generally the Everquest series) until I figured out how much time I spent on those games on average.... I no longer play mmos as a result.
I would recommend adding a demo of how the ad units look, mention if they are nofollowed links, and can you choose your ad partners or is this automatic.
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That's a very cool system, and yes, I would use it for certain things.

However, I would take a little more time to review the text on the pages. There were a number of phrases that struck me as... infelicitous. Most notably: "Each time somebody sees the ads on you site, a partner site will be display your ad."

Those little blurbs are the first impression people get from the service, and the difference between sounding like "just some random site" and "a really cool, professional ad service" will make a difference in adoption rates. Best of luck!
Sigh... Most of you didn't even read the article.

Not one of the "base it on Linux or BSD" comments gets it. This whole thing is MSR saying, "look, we got it wrong, and so did everyone else. It's not just about one computer anymore."

Sure, they're fixing up the way system resources are exposed and planning to make the whole OS more fault tolerant, but the key takeaway is that the whole OS is network aware. Apps can discover storage, processors, memory, and other resources on the local trusted network, and use them without caring at all that they might be on different machines.

Try getting a single apache or IIS instance to run on 50 servers in a cluster, without writing all of the distribution logic in the application. Sure you could separately configure a local instance on each node, and set up file syncronization or network storage, and...

Why federate your database when you could just add another node to the OS cluster, thereby increasing the resources available to the single DB instance?

The goal is to get all the infrastucture work for free.

I hope someone, anyone, can pull this off. As a developer of a distributed app, let me tell you, the bar right now is WAY too high, and current operating systems, be they Windows or Linux are not up to the task.

[Edit: slashes caused unintentional italics]
Wait a minute, why do you accuse the poster of flamebaiting? I just read all his posts - he's speaking his mind using logic. Please quote him on what you consider flamebait within his posts, otherwise YOU are the one flaming now . . .
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