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What's palm actually doing these days? Do you think they'll ever release a new version of the Palm T|X?

I've been waiting to buy - the Palm T|X is almost 3 years old at this point. Should I keep waiting? Is it hopeless? Give up on them altogether? I don't want a smart phone, I want, well, I want a Palm T|X, but with more memory and a faster CPU (or better battery life).
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You can take a taxi, for about $5.00 from the bar area in Ottawa to Hull, Quebec. Alternatively you can walk it in about 15 minutes.

Luckily for ride programs you have to cross a bridge and there are cops policing it most weekends.
A "rushed prototype" might still be a good start. What was the business need filled by the Linux kernel when it was at 6 months?

Your mundane suggestion has quite a bit of merit. However the Lisp OS would rock the world in a much bigger way. What I described would actually be capable of running Linux apps, but would also open the door to advanced kernel hacking to ordinary application programmers. It would be capable of competing against a commercial version of Singularity. It would further enable innovation with regards to security and programming models. It would be in a position to become the Linux/BSD of the next generation of F/OSS operating systems.

It would hardly be a waste.
I work for a startup now valued at around a quarter of a billion dollars that's negotiating enormous deals with some of the largest providers out there... and our entire development team can fit around a dinner table. In fact, we have significantly more products than we have programmers! Our new CTO, who previously worked at a much larger company, was utterly shocked when he found that our massive product lineup was developed by such a small team.

There's also a huge benefit we gain from using existing open-source solutions whenever possible--if you avoid NIH syndrome and stop trying to reinvent the wheel, you can regain a huge amount of productivity.
The 160-mile download diet: Local file-sharing drastically cuts network load
Okay, more like $23/month. Still, if a non profit can't afford that for a website, why does it need that much website? Why not a static page parked somewhere for free?
I kind of agree here aristus. Most college professors are kind of stuck in the past. Just look at all the really creative development stuff that's come out in the last coule of decades....

Linux.... 16 year old Finnish kid with nothing to do during those long cold finnish winters.

MySql.... bunch of swedes with the same problem.

PHP... a few hackers with credentials I'm not familiar with but I don't think they came from academia....

Ruby... Japanese kid obsessed with unix and C.

Rails... Danish kid going to a business school in denmark and hacking on the side......

True, the code that runs the internet was written by a bunch of UC Berkley grad students but that was back in the days when you had to be tied to some kind of entity like that in order to have access to the hardware that was needed to run your code. Since the mid 90s this hardware has been very cheap and available to anyone with the passion to purchase and develop.

Many have and they have left traditional venues for new and creative functionality in the dust.
Why the hell is this linked?
there is lots of content (mit open courseware, lectures from many universities in iTunes, free books being released online) available for self-learners.

is there a "virtual university/classroom" website that helps different people to study together?

something simple & free -- like craigslist.
PG, sorry if we misquoted you. Your advice was invaluable to us because it helped us understand why QuickMeet would not be something worth pursuing at the time.
I want those columns for text. I remember reading a great article from A List Apart with JS for the Columns.
It looked like xrange to me. Honestly, though, I can see why it's not in SBCL, because I don't actually find myself using xrange all that much. It's mostly stuff like:

for unused in xrange(500):
# perform some operation (500 times)

In Lisp, this is just:

(dotimes (unused 500) ; perform some operation... )
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FYI, the process has been simplified with a security tool called Surf Jack.

See http://enablesecurity.com/2008/08/11/surf-jack-https-will-no... for more information. The Internet -- it's a fragile thing.
I find the author's assumptions that every idea stems from one individual and must be (ineffectively) communicated to everyone else to be rather strange. I'm all about small teams, and I personally prefer to work alone, but to ignore the contributions that are offered by other members of the team is folly. The "corruption [of ideas] at multiple points" that he mentions could just as easily be interpreted as improvements on the idea.
The single biggest use of stolen University logins is to download papers
No offense, but I think this argument is pretty silly. "dd" off 16 bytes from /dev/urandom and base64 it. You win; you just saved 7 characters.
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Also note that the prestige only comes when people know that you paid that much. So thanks for letting us know!
You can call it overreaching; I don't mind. But you just disqualified yourself from a big chunk of otherwise interesting jobs. It's not like I'm making up the fact that software startups have non-negotiable IP clauses.

You want a really fun non-negotiable clause? Come up with something "patentable", then quit. You can be forced to work on the patent application, a year later, at a rate set by your ex-employer. Happened to me.
http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/lispm-faq-and-his...
But last I saw QVC, they do say the actual price, in addition to the Easy Payment stuff. Surely you can't argue with that?
I was amazed by Frogmetrics -- what a great idea! People are just standing around at the checkout point anyway, this is a great way to take advantage of boredom.
There is plenty to choose from:

Prototype - http://www.prototypejs.org

jQuery - http://jquery.com

MooTools - http://mootools.net

The simplest PHP-ajax library is probably going to be xajax (http://xajaxproject.org)
If we actually performed that experiment, and you were to be killed if you guessed wrong, what would you answer to the question "Is the coin heads or tails?"?

Then ask yourself, how afraid of dying would you be?

(In particular, the reason why the probabilities don't work out that way is that on any given awakening, you have a 1 in 1,000,001 chance of it being heads, and a 1,000,000 in 1,000,001 chance of it being tails).

If these previous arguments are not convincing, consider this (equivalent) alternative: what if you were woken up once on tails, but only 1 in 1,000,000 times on heads? What would you give as your credence that the coin came up tails then?
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I've watched this course online, and it's a great one.

A few random comments:

* It is a good idea to download the course materials from http://ocw.mit.edu/ans15436/ZipForEndUsers/6/6-046JFall-2005...

* The video lectures can be downloaded if you hack the URLs a bit. Full instructions at: http://amazingstuffs.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-data-stru..., but it doesn't bode well if you can't figure it out for yourself

* The math gets significantly less heavy after the first few lectures. If you get lost, plow ahead and revisit the first few lectures after you've gotten further.

* Erik Demaine rocks. He went straight to the top of my list of "computer scientists I'd like to have a beer with sometime..."

* I found the discussions of Red-Black Trees and the graph theory "trilogy" to be especially enjoyable, but that could just be me.
If potential startup succes is judged substantially by the quality of teams, and this is very much dependent on the quality of a team's interaction, empathy and collective intelligence, then having automated recommendations on potential cofounders would be valuable. Even YouNoodle could use its startup data to recommend people on the site it predicts would lead to a quality team and hence a probable quality startup.
Most sites have this well-known (?) security issue... Hardly new and surprising.
Well, so yo should have kept it to yourself to preserve your own best interest. That's exactly the problem with that situation, it stimulates you to work 9-5 and keep quiet about everything and anything. I think that situation is broken.

And it's strange how you, an apparent victim of the system, come to its defense. Doesn't compute.
There is a good deal less scope for customization in the McDonalds experience. Can you even add or remove components for your Big Mac?
if it doesn't exist already, its a good idea for a startup.
From the ashes of the graphics wars, another start-up
I should do crappy work because otherwise I might get burned? Yeah, sorry, I'm busy living an actual life.

I'm not making moral judgements here; I'm just offering some data points on how some places in the industry actually work.
Not really, Arrington presented anecdotal evidence, and Gruber smacked him down with a survey contradicting the anecdotal evidence. Unless some new evidence comes to light, Gruber's point of view holds more weight.
So how do you interpret the survey results that Gruber presented?
I just want to point out that Ruby was written by someone I would barely call a kid.

Beyond which, I have only one response to the "look at all the things made by people who aren't professors". Well, look at how many people who can program who aren't professors. Think of all the projects that grew from BSD. Think about Latex.
Brad Feld likes to say finds the diamond in the turd. Meaning to pull out the one or two good ideas and focus on those. When you said turd, it reminded me of that.
Frogmetrics has an incredibly talented team and incredible market opportunity. It's a great privilege and honor to be in the same YC session with them!
I have been saying we should do something like this on hackernews for a long time. This is a great idea, I hope people really start using it!

And let me get my obligatory YC08 mention in...way to go slinkset on your 3rd consecutive week with a site on hackernews. Keep pumping them out.
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Find us online? My details are available on HN - probably too much info online :(
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They have thousands of users?!
If you haven't read Don Norman's book, you should do it. It's called "The Psychology of Everyday Things" and it's a wonderful exploration of how to make products easier to use (without sacrificing functionality). The examples are a bit dated since the book is from the 80s, but the concepts all still apply.

My favorite quote is "It's a shame when something as simple as a door needs an instruction manual, even if it's only one word".
I'm Russian, and think so too. :-)

If you don't know Russian or Hebrew, how did you tell? Just curious.
Yeah, and targeting Gmail in isolation seems pointless
I guess you haven't read any of the other discussions on this topic.
If you don't have the identity verification, the encryption is worthless.
If my grandma went to a site with a self-signed certificate - you're damn right I'd want an error message stopping her, as there's no guarantee she isn't giving away the last of her pension money to a scammer somewhere.

To use your ticket analogy: a self-signed certificate would be a ticket in coach. You have no idea what plane you're getting on, or where the plane is going. I wouldn't put my grandma on a plane where I didn't know she was going. You would? :)
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I actually think it may be worse than all of that. In war and politics, compromise is the weapon of choice of the craziest party. Tell lawmakers that filesharing is Armageddon, that beeeelions of dollars are lost each year to the pirates and that the entire economy will collapse if not fixed right away. The draconian measures that are seen as the "compromise" (which would, if presented outright seem ludicrous) now seem tame and acceptable.

"Lifetime of the artist plus 70 years" sounds so much more acceptable than "lets just do away with this public domain thing."
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I don't think JustHackIt will take off

Why? Why don't you make JustHackIt your startup, or at least your muse? With some Google ads it could be, at least, self-sustainable.

Are you looking for a cofounder ;-)

You might want to borrow some ideas from speed geeking:
http://facilitation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Facilitatio...
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Um, HTTPS will save you.

(oops, I was referring to the link in the "surf jacking" comment below/above by sd)
What I'll say to that is that if you lowered the age now, there will be a few years of excessive drinking by those previously not allowed to drink. Which President will take that responsibility?
There is probably a good thought in there somewhere. Get a thread up and running where people can post some of the worst ideas they can think of for the people applying for this (and later) rounds of funding.

Sort of like a process of elimination; people can cross-check their ideas against a list of pre-determined list of bad ones for similarities. Might help with an early filtering process or even good for a laugh.

For example:

It's like a toilet, but only more social!
This is not only a bad idea, but I think George Michael has already done this.
I think the concern is that HTTPS is necessary, but not sufficient for security. If you use HTTPS on your site, but send cookies without the secure flag, then it is possible for someone to trick the user into acquiring (or otherwise obtain) standard HTTP content. Setting the secure flag requires that all content sent relative to the cookie be from HTTPS. Hopefully, that makes some sense.
> south of France

Italy is the same way - quite healthy attitudes towards alcohol. It's very rare to hear of anyone getting drunk just for the heck of it, and it's usually something people are embarrassed about, rather than proud of.
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I dunno...I've seen both sides of this issue.

I had an iBook 13" I got in 2002. Stayed with me for three years before the logic board start to go out on me; freeze ups, bad video, etc. It seems like it was either asleep or on, and always with me so I kind of expected it.

Another person I was acquainted with seemed to have this same problem but every few months or so. He got a few free Ti and iBooks out of them. Better to ask forgiveness, I guess.
Don't know if PG has released browser stats for HN - but my guess is that Safari and Firefox on OS X would be fairly well represented.

Everyone likes news about their tools - ever seen a mechanics shop when the snap-on van pulls in?
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Good essay.

I liken the difference between Python and Java to internships at small and large companies, respectively. In the small company, you can do meaningful work in any department—you can be the cook, accountant, and network engineer in the same day, just as you can parse XML, send automated e-mails, and invert large matrices in Python with plug-and-play modules. At a small company everything's transparent, and on a scale you can understand; there's no organization for organization's sake, no vapid meetings or processes, just problems that need to be solved and the tools you need to solve them.

It is only when the small company grows, when the founders can't interview every new employee and the clients aren't recognizable by name, when managers and engineers are disjoint groups, that one needs all the stuff they teach you at business school. To round out the conceit: the Java curriculum is that stuff. And to a kid just learning to program, it's cruft.
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Awesome. After spending way too much time staring at horrendously verbose and chattery PHP code lately (and being a Perl, and occasionally Python, developer historically), I've begun to wish for some resources on cutting down the verbosity dramatically. It's just painful to read most PHP code (many folks complain about Perl code, but at least most of it is short, and the culture encourages brevity and conciseness). PHP developers often seem to have some sort of inferiority complex about their language not being Java, and so they try to make it more like Java whenever possible. Which is, frankly, nuts. Java has its positive aspects, but none of those things are going to be achieved PHP by trying to emulate the syntax and OO conventions of the language.

Now if only an appreciation for the beauty of brevity would find its way into the PHP culture.
I'm not greyman, but anyway... maybe the survey is detecting a different culture: people that owns a Mac gives higher scores to customer service not because it's better, but because they feel more satisfied with their computers. That feeling might come from many reasons. I wouldn't use it as an argument without a detailed survey that evaluates things like response time, charges for reparations, or kindness of personal.
there's an optional accessory that bolts onto your laptop. i hear its waterproof too.
So you're appalled when someone excerpts your own words in a threaded discussion, with the full quotation available above the excerpt, but you're fine with putting quotation marks around completely bogus "loose translations" of what other people say so you can argue against straw men instead of their actual statements? To quote you, if I may, "that is the worst logic I've ever seen."
"The problem with your comment is that you don't really grow up until around 35 or so."

Har. Lemme guess...you're 36?

The problem with age as a metric of "growing up", is that the cutoff is always older than you are, but younger than the guy who makes the rules.
In Spain, driving license is renovated every 5 years until age 30, then every 10 years until age 50, then every 5 years until 60, then every year.

And each renovation means: pass a vision test, past a reflexes test, pass a general medical test.

The thought of having people enjoying their "freedom" on the road while exposing anyone to a car accident because of their bad physical condition sounds ridiculous to me (I'm Spanish.)
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Well, my point is that your entire positioning is wrong. Not that you lack certain features. The whole "blog" with X thing is tired and old news. Position in a fresh manner.
... and start publishing in open source science journals.
It's an interesting point about the changing role of media as it becomes digital.

A friend of mine was complaining that he couldn't share his Kindle ebooks with friends which was something he did a lot when he had actual books. Now he can only recommend they spend money on stuff.
I read

Should the US drinking age be lowered to 18? (cnn.com)
18 pints by thedob

Lol.
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You used `md5' in your pipeline, I assumed you meant md5sum(1) as I'm not aware of an md5 command. md5sum gives a 32 character string that's the 128-bit MD5 digest in hex. Therefore it uses only characters 0-9a-f making the password weaker. I'm sorry that you find this criticism "silly" but others reading your pipeline may not, like you, realise its flaw, you got an upvote after all, and use it.
You have to be careful with "explain" - sure you can "explain" anything with a presumed genetic disposition. That is in general not really a proof, only yet another theory. I just wanted to point out that there are alternative explanations.

For example, Europeans tend to be really good at soccer, whereas Americans suck at it. Is it genetic? I highly doubt it, since the European genes are readily available in the US. It has a cultural reason (simple statistics - popular sports - higher percentage of kids trying it - higher percentage of talents being discovered).
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Gobsmacking web design and presentation, too.
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So that's what business is for you? Are you making a product for yourself or for investors? Why should I care what investors care about - I'm trying to make a product for users, and not for investors. A few thousand people following my product is EXCELLENT, because out here in RL, a thousand people are not following me.

You have the wrong attitude if you are only focused on what investors want.
Kind of a tough pill to swallow, eh?

In any case, my point isn't that people should receive some benefit based on maturity. It's just the opposite. We live in a society where kids at 12 can have credit cards, at 16 can drive, etc. It's perfectly fine, imo, to allow people to do things while they are still immature to some degree.

The "guy who makes the rules" is the guy who votes. That's people 18 years and older.
As noted by others here, CSS3 style columns are supported in Firefox with a -moz prefix. In my opinion the implementation is barely usable though, because if you have too much text to fit onto the page they overflow off the bottom of the page instead of off the right hand side.

I seriously wonder if the CSS standards group has any loud voices from anything other than a static-content background because everything makes perfect sense if and only if you know exactly what will be on the page.
If you're going to go with that analogy, what people seem to say is that startups are like a marriage. So a 'matchmaking' service might work out ok, but you won't really know it for a few years.
This is precisely why I would never buy a Kindle.
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