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Apple's New Multi-Touch Tech: Multi-Touch Data Fusion Adds Camera, Voice, Force Sensors
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Why not just link link our identities to DNA, thumb prints, and other unique features of us?

Because the thing is that modern western society doesn't want a system of identity to be perfect, we just want it to be good enough.

The reason for this is quite simply a history lesson. Every single time the controllers of identity are able to do it really well, the rest of us get royally screwed.
I'll be the first to wish you good luck :-)
I suppose there aren't any Frank or Sammy fans on this board.

Nice try though.
I want but it is not ready yet.

I love the "incognito mode", but while playing youpr0n flash movies it will freeze once and a while, and especially if you scrolled up and down.

Not industrial grade yet. :P
Slinkset (YC summer 08) downplays custom reddits, announces anonymous functionality
Probably looks strange, but it's a perfect match. To implement the core in Erlang is way easier while Python is better suited for the client code. There is no interoperatibilty from the user point of view, Erlang is just a service here.
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Congrats to Slinkset...this new functionality makes the service even more versatile than it was before. Very nice work guys!
I know it's un-popular to admit using Microsoft technologies, but I use Exchange/Outlook/iPhone.
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How many people would get into the bar if US Customs was running the door? Certainly some would, but probably 98% less. Most of the time the reason fake IDs work is because bouncers just don't care. As long as you give them plausible deniability they're happy enough to let you pay them money.
I'm a Philly native, and participated in the DreamIt program this summer. -- vuzit.com. In 2005/2006, it seemed that everytime Paul Graham wanted to bash a city's startup culture Philadelphia got thrown in there. I'm hoping that perception is changing ...
http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

Philly is one of the largest startup hubs in the world for bio-tech and life sciences. Philly might not be known for its tech scene as much, or very early stage investing, so DreamIt has been a big step for the ecosystem here. Philosophy on investing seems different than what I see in Silicon Valley and NYC.

There is money here: Entrepreneur Magazine's VC 100 in August 2008 listed Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA as tied for 3rd in the country as far as #deals done. Josh Kopelman and Chris Fralic from First Round Capital are here too.

There is community here: Phillystartupleaders.org is a group of 250+ mostly tech entrepreneurs and VCs that meet monthly for a happy hour event. Indyhall.org is one of the most successful coworking spaces out there. IgnitePhilly was a huge success, with another one planned in the next couple of weeks. phillytechhq.com is a blog aggregator of all the tech companies here (big + small). The "user group" community is pretty huge too: http://phillygroups.org/community/GroupDirectory

There are alot of universities that provide access to talent: Drexel, Penn/Wharton, Temple/Fox, etc.

Philly also has an awesome combination of art and American history that make it a wonderful place to live. I hope this clears up some perceptions about Philly!
The part he seems to like is the map, which looks like a big fat guitar solo to me.

(it currently looks dead to me-- no "live" activity)

A home page should convey what problem the software solves, a clear path to signup, and should have some information that shows that it's a "safe" path-- press mentions, user accolades, adoption #s, etc. Presumably the map is trying to serve this last bit... It could probably do a better job if the designer was more interested in conveying information and less interested in eye candy and JavaScript.

The rest of the page looks solid, though.
Hey all, so "anonymous" is only days away (possibly this Monday). We're not planning on releasing the feature to the general public until the 16th. But if you'd like to be one the "special" users to test it out early please email us and we'll set you up. Thanks.
One day of TDD, and other thoughts on testing
Touchpad scrolling doesnt work. So I have uninstalled it. Shall be using Opera n FF
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I think this is pretty disappointing coming from Harvard Business publishing.

Google isn't trying to create new grand markets that they might or might not get a share of, they are simply commoditizing their complementary products, and making them as good as possible.

Complementary products are products that are used together, and where one enhances the other - cars and gasoline are classic examples. By commoditizing, or making cheaper, your complementary product your own product becomes more desirable: If gas is cheaper cars are more desirable. This is classical economics, and has been known since Adam Smith.

Basically what this means for Google is that they have a strong interest in commoditizing the webbrowser, making it as good as possible, thus making their own complementary products more desirable. This is also one of the reasons they are interested in firefox - it isn't philanthropy: it's purely business.
I am guessing HN has quite a few people in the TDD/Agile side of programming. I am curious to hear about how people got into it. If it was a jump into the deep end or a slow progression.

For me it seems to have been a slow progression over years. Initially doing testing because I didn't actually have access to the real hardware. I still get mad when testing gets in the way occasionally but thinks it helps more often than not.
This really isn't fair. Since we also consist of the demographic least likely to actually click on ads. Since impressions bring in such small amounts of revenue compared to clicks we're really not shitting the scales very much. In the end advertisers have found it an effective strategy at reaching people /not/ in our demographic.
Historically, the most successful 'unions' have been the professional medical, legal, and engineering associations, since they've been delegated the right under law to control the number of practitioners. For IT unionization to work, you'd need to persuade government to treat it as an engineering profession and require licensure. Personally, I think the window of opportunity to professionalize IT has long since closed.
Are PPC machines still even available on the desktop? I know IBM is still selling servers, but obviously a browser isn't much use on an 8 node node Power6 server. Seems like maybe PPC isn't a platform worth targeting new desktop software to...though, since it's open source, as long as its endian-sane, it ought to just be a recompile away, once it works on Linux.
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Objective-J is actually a fairly thin layer on top of JavaScript. It adds classical inheritance to JavaScript, not unlike what most JavaScript libraries try to do, except it cleans it up (IMO) with Objective-C style syntax.

Even SproutCore is resorts to preprocessing code to get syntax enhancements, like their sc_super(whatever) which is converted to arguments.callee.base(this, whatever).
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I won't be switching, at least not yet. I think as a technical innovation, Chrome is amazing. But in terms of user friendly features (who doesn't prompt to close a window with tabs?) it has a long way to go. Google has a history of this write strong powerful utilities and make them shiny later. I have nothing wrong with this, as long as they realize they are doing it. It is the Unix way after all, and we all know the Unix way is the right way :p
I admit that's the first thing I tried when I got Chrome. 280slides.com works quite well in these types of things. "Plainview" on OS X is particularly good for presentation software and other apps that benefit from full screen viewing.
The Amazon example is not very fitting IMHO, since they have full right to do so. Are they obliged to sell your book? Don't think so...
It seems to flow nicely. I can inspect dynamically created elements by right clicking on them, where in FireBug somehow the link kept getting activated.

I also like how it computes the styles, but I'm not sure how to track down the computations. However, these are all my falling-outs. The browser works nicely.

Although, Shockwave Flash just crashed while listening to pandora and using the webkit inspector. Related?
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I used to have a palm 3. I dropped it. I tried lugging my laptop around. Awkward is an understatement. As you pointed out, the mobile phone is limited or expensive or both. Since I don't need to have instant access to all my contacts and schedule/calendar, I use a moleskine address book for my important contacts. Flexible page layout and I don't worry about breaking it and spending Benjamins for a replacement. I have a simple book calendar. For appointments which I need a reminder, I use Google Calendar, but I don't quite like keeping all my personal info in Google office.
why is ad-blocking so important?? please someone explain me...
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I'm a bit confused about where you're coming from here. They could certainly have attempted to license v8 but since the bulk of what they have going on are extension of the already open sourced WebKit rendering engine that would have been difficult.

Now they certainly could have written their own rendering engine, but if time has shown anything it's that this is not easy task (look at the lag time between release to market and efficient rendering for any of the big engines). And in this case it would have likely meant the death of the project to step out with an inefficient root rendering engine.

Okay... so let's assume the above. They are forced to open source the components that link in with Web Kit, but they keep the Javascript VM closed and license that. We now get to throw into contention that there is any significant cash flow available to license. I think that's certainly suspect.

So finally let's think about why google might not care. This isn't about making a money move. Much like releasing IE back in the 90's wasn't a money move for MS. It is however a platform move. Google has a number of very resource intensive javascript applications, a number of which are common for people to have open at the same time. That requires have a better framework for dealing with these kinds of tasks. Chrome is an attempt to provide that.

It's not even clear if this is a serious browser bid, or more of a road map for other browser vendors to emulate. In the end it doesn't matter. Google's revenue stream requires eyeballs, lots of them. And the eyeballs are asking for better performance, Chrome is a means to that end.
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Being a small demographic that isn't the primary income for many sites doesn't justify taking away their income.

While I agree that hackers often don't click ads some do - particularly if the ads are targeted to this demographic. In this respect it's noteworthy that sites such as Reddit and Slashdot derive their income from showing ads. And their primary audience is hackers.
Chrome is a verb now?
So he pretends to back off, we pretend to believe him, lawyers pretend to be satisfied. RFIDs are still a can of worms.

Everything is back to normal then?
I've just spent some quality time with Cappuccino - and it's not hyperbole - it's that good. I'm much more enamored of the 100% javascript approach than Sproutcore's impedance mismatching between client, server and intermediate "compiler". And all this love despite the obj-c square brackets!

Congratulations, 280 North! What a contribution.
I'm using it as soon as I get a Linux version, stable or not. If the core is solid, then crashes will be confined to tabs. Of the three extensions I use, one is already built into Chrome (incognito mode), one is a proxy extension, and one is NoScript. I use NoScript to keep my browser from crashing all the time, but hey, if it has the process isolation, then I'm not going to worry about it.
Comments more like slander than libel
Google may face antitrust challenge on Chrome
And there I was, hopeful that people would stop submitting the scribd links because of this development. Oh well.
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How did they know that he was correctly identifying them?

How do yo correctly identify someone by sight?

Everyone who can talk (and I would guess grunt or otherwise shake the vocal cords) has a voice signature. The difference in some might be minute, even undetectable by most people, but the difference is still there.

People who have lost their sight tend to pick up more on the other senses (unless there's some damage there too). Consider braille. Can you distinguish the different dots?
I read this morning that 50% of salesforce.com users are using IE6. Which, as we all recall, was released in 2001.

This isn't a war-- it's a tiny little skirmish in the island nation of EarlyAdopteropolis.

Let's hope it escalates.
Thanx For Standing up for Philadelphia! Our Medical Technology is first rate also.
I don't ever recall a time when a web page that I was loading pegged my CPU.

I see this occasionally due to browser bugs. (This is tautological, since I define pegging the CPU as a bug.) In some sense Chrome is the first postmodern browser: instead of trying to eliminate bugs it lets you kill -9 tabs.
How about interviews? It should help with work stuff. References are good, too.
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And Opera?
Delicious support would really help make up my mind...
Okay, I’ll preface this with letting everyone know that I’m a part of the Philadelphia community, and I know a lot of the guys that were a part of DreamIt.

I am very familiar with many of these companies. I use Dropcard about a few times a week. These guys have made it extraordinarily easy to send a digital business card that you can easily add to any address book. Just try it. It will take you less than 15 minutes to get set up. I’ll certainly be using it at TC50 next week.

Vuzit is a great idea backed by great technology. Some people really are looking for a white label solution for viewing documents and don’t want their documents hosted at Scribd or Docstoc which have more of a YouTube model. They’ve also got some features you won’t find elsewhere.

Anthilllz also has some great potential. LinkedIn lets you recommend others, but this entire site is built upon your recommendations and others’ opinions of you. Imagine you’re looking for a new web designer. What is more important, a LinkedIn profile (essentially a resume) or a place that has truly honest reviews? If Anthillz is successful at building out its network through its “Trusted Colleagues” feature (which is a great viral feature), then you’ll find it quickly become a place where people’s reputations live and die.

I can’t really speak to the other companies as I’m not too familiar, and I think that maybe some of the ideas for some of those companies might be a little flaky from these summaries, but there are some very promising companies in the bunch. They may not ever be huge, but they can certainly be successful.
Zero risk is easy to understand and makes nice slogans, but there's money to be made in managing non-zero risk.
I think I already have. It's not really intentional. I just keep using it. Wish it had some of the extensions I'm used to though. I'm just keeping a FF window open as well at the moment.
I agree - If it was philanthropy, they would have simply plowed the investment and technology into something like Firefox (on top of what they already do).
Ask HN: Do you think there is room for mobile startups that neglect the Iphone?
Ask HN: Do you think there is room for mobile startups that neglect the Iphone?
That application is one of the dumbest ways I can think of to spend programming time. Pull my finger? How about if that developer pulls his head out of his ass? I'm sure I'll get modded down for this. Whatever.

I am by no means an Apple zealot. In fact, I think the iPhone is pretty lousy. But why is it that so many people feel like they have a right to have their application sold in the iPhone App Store? Store owners do get to pick and choose what they're going to sell. You can't just come up with whatever lame product, show up at Best Buy or Amazon headquarters and demand that they start selling it in their stores. What in the world makes this guy or anyone else think the App Store is somehow an exception?

They weren't jerks about it either. They tactfully told this guy that his app was worthless and explained how he could distribute it to friends and family. He's lucky an application called "Pull My Finger" was even reviewed in the first place.

If people are unhappy with App Store policies then maybe the conditions are right for a competitor to come along and open a store. Of course, there's the whole issue of lock-in, but that's a whole different topic. The last thing we should be doing is feeling some sense of entitlement. It's Apple's store and they can choose what products to carry. As consumers we can choose whether or not to buy their products.
Seconded. They say that they are working on a mac version.
Any operating system will do, in the sense that since the network effects of Windows client applications are no longer an overriding concern thanks to the web, consumers are free to choose an OS based on other considerations.
Of course there is. Not building for the iphone does not mean a product is bound for failure by any means. Whether it is an intelligent decision is another matter, but there will definitely be success stories for mobile platforms not related to the iphone.
One wrinkle in calling defamatory online comments slander rather than libel is that even though the comment is made offhand and then the discussion "moves on" (not formally thought out as a "publication"), there is still a written record left behind. So in that respect, it is more like libel, unless the record left behind is considered more like a tape/video recording than a written account.
Japan, I guess. They were fast to strike in Pearl Harbour (i.e loading speed). However, their extensions are lacking (nuclear capacity) and so they suffer for it.
I don't think it's a bad idea...I just want an alarm clock for my computer. Right now, I'm ambivalent about it being social.
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Agreed — it's linkbait, and not a great one at that.
Wow. I'm impressed someone could remember us for that long! Especially with such a terrible name!
> I think Google would like to make browsers into commodity pieces of software

But isn't what Mozilla is already doing? I honestly don't see the point of putting all this effort in creating something new to support performance and standards, when there is already something else in place achieving those very same goals.

Also, mind you that Mozilla is a foundation, while MS and Google are monopolies.
I wonder if this message from Apple is actually real. I did a quick Google search for other instances "limited utility" rejections and didn't find any. There's been plenty of instances of fake controversial legal threats/rejection letters/complaints that have been used to drive traffic or create a buzz about something. If this is fake, I don't see how this person will really cash in on the buzz though.
Considering that the mobile space was a billion dollar industry before the iPhone ever existed, I'm going to say yes.
This is one of the few times where the word "thorough" being used to describe a post is particularly apt.
> At least for me, threading makes me think "what can I peel off of my main task to run in threads"

Don't do that.

> "here are the 3 shared resources that I anticipate will be bottlenecks".

Do something like that.

The difference between threads and processes is in the mechanisms for sharing. While those mechanisms affect how you organize computation (different things are cheap), they don't mandate an organization.
Awesome & funny, this is why I love this site.
Gimp plugins! ROFL
This guy basically gives Google credit for both the internet and open source software.

Why not "How to Apache Your Industry" or "How to Linux Your Industry"?

Furthermore, he suggests that it would be somehow similar if Walmart were to build parks... That's a huge jump.
Some of the "loyalists" were risk averse. Chrome, since it's from Google, has a very different risk profile than all of the other "not IE" browsers.

Moreover, Google has much more ability to get its message to end users.
Has been for a while. It means "to plate with chromium".

</pedantic>
So was Fortran but I don't see anyone building web frameworks on top of it.
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As I wrote in the feature requests slinkset, I really need the opposite functionality: for all links/comments to be viewable by everyone, but editable only by invited users. The lack of this functionality is really limiting the userbase growth of one of my slinkset sites.
What the hell does this have to do with anything, least of all hackers? You could some up this whole blog entry with "Sarah Palin has an accent". Who cares? It's readily apparent to anyone who hears her speak. Do we really need blog entries and headlines here informing us of that totally mundane fact? There really isn't anything even remotely interesting about this.
ASK YC: Anyone in the TC50 demopit last year? What about DEMO?
Seems pretty pricey, just wondering what people's experience was. We weren't eligible for TC50 because we were public, but had considered the DemoPit just to soak in the experience.

Also, anyone pay up the big bucks to demo at DEMO?
TFA makes the staggering assumption that Chrome is in any way, shape or form a success.

That's quite a jump to make.
Don't see a reason to switch from FF and IE.

For lightweight browsing, K-Meleon or Epiphany do the job fine.

For lighterweight browsing, Dillo, lynx, w3m.

I don't see the problem Chrome is trying to solve.
aargh.

i don't know if there's already an informal policy about this. i'm new here. but if there isn't one, i'd suggest that if you post an nytimes link, at least post a username/password from bugmenot in the comments. best would be to post the google-affiliate version of the url that lets you not have to login. (i don't remember how to do that.)
Yes. Don't neglect Symbian, Windows Mobile or Blackberry though.
I work with many companies that make a killing in mobile and haven't touched the iPhone yet.
Need an Ubuntu version.
Yes, already made the switch on my work laptop (PC). Waiting for a mac version for home.
If you're focusing on Anroid, yeah. If you're betting on SMS-based services lasting very long, that'll be a losing bet.
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Good thing they started making computers black.
How do you fake your photograph though?

RTFA, you just don't get any photo ID for the identity until you sell that identity to someone - who you then take a photo of.
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And for a second I thought my old computers were growing some sort of mold... It never really occurred to me that it could just be plastic discoloration.

Interesting self reflection, in this case I happen to have blamed myself...I wonder what that makes me
However, a thought: the NOA rep said that they still used the same plastics for their newer products, just that the discoloration wasn't as noticeable due to their darker pigmentation. So what of the Wii, clad in (as of now) pure white?
Great attitude. I'm about to do the same in December.

jdennis at gmail if you want someone to bounce ideas off.