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And one word for you: Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is arguably the most bicycle-friendly city in the world. It has more bikes in it than people. The city is completely flat and designed for biking. Virtually everyone rides bikes. Bike lanes and bike racks are everywhere.

Bicycling around Amsterdam is one of the most pleasant activities I've ever engaged in. However, I wouldn't say that it makes for a nicer community on its own.

People are no more apt to socialize or feel part of the community if they're riding past each other on bikes at 10 mph than they are if they drive past each other at 60 mph or walk past each other at 3 mph. Though I suppose it is more likely that they'll stop and chat if they're walking or biking than if they're driving.
Open source really doesn't want designers.

They want people to make things pretty, and there's a big difference.

Bringing a competent designer on board means bringing a strong opinion on board.

Someone who'll probably decide to cut 90% of the features.

The problem with most open source projects is everyone involved has an opinion that they'll fight for, so you end up with 1000 features, designed by a committee of developers (see the Linux desktop)
A few other comments:

- You might want to drop object files, backup files and the like from your repo.

- The limitation to 255 chars is weird. Not sure if C was the best tool for this kind of job, but if you're using it, you might want to check getline(3).

- Maybe it would make sense to have a way to store the task db as a visible TODO file, and store it in a human-editable format? That way, people who aren't using tigger can just see and manage tasks with a text editor, and you're just providing convenient hooks and commands to edit the TODO file. It's probably a bad idea to use this name by default because projects tend to have TODO files already, but maybe it would be a useful option.
That's $12-$24 per year, not month. And they can do it simply because of sheer volume. Everyone has to deal with passwords so their market is humongous. If you sell to teachers that's not the case.
yup.
would be great if around hitechcity ...
I'm not vain enough to believe that my moral compass is The moral compass for all.

This is also not a community safety issue until I see the study that shows a statistically significant change toward aggressive/violent behavior in children who play violent video games.
I don't think SVG is particularly suited to animation, as it would require manipulating multiple DOM elements. This tends to be quite slow compared to redrawing the canvas.
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My understanding of copyright laws is that they only apply when the term is being used in the same space as another copyright. So if I made another cartoon character named tigger that would be illegal, but creating something completely separate (especially something like OS software where I'm not really selling anything) the copyright doesn't really apply. I'm gathering from HN that this is an incorrect interpretation, can anyone explain it to me?
Legally yes. Most stores have a voluntary corporate policy that limits the sale of R rated movies to minors though.
Another Vernor Vinge concept I love is the "software midden heap", layers of software standing on the shoulders of and papering over the bugs of earlier software. Will anyone be able to excise rotting middle layers without breaking software compatibility?

For example, Vinge's A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY describes a software system thousands of years in the future that still uses the time_t epoch (and none of the system's space-faring users know the significance of 01970-01-01).
When I learnt about the wireless sniffing, I started to have doubts about them. When I found out about how they avoid paying taxes in Europe, I had no more doubts.
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If a village decides that, yes, it is a good thing to prevent kids from this and you should all do your part to help, how is that different from a government?
I think this list is missing 2 critical people. Gurbaksh Chahal is building his third company, having sold the first two for a combined $340M. I definitely think having 2 major exits before you're 30 should merit inclusion in the list. Second is Mark Zuckerberg. Regardless of what you think about his company, facebook has 750,000,000 members around the globe. Which if it were a country would make it the third largest on the planet. Not to mention he's parlayed a website he built in his dorm room into a $13.5B fortune. And if that doesn't qualify someone for the list, what will?
But exactly this line of thinking WAS needed for Larry+Sergej to DO "build their own search engine".

It may taste vapid to you or not -- but it's entirely valid.

In fact, Richard Branson at one point was so dissatisfied that he DID "build his own airline".

Your point was?
I almost missed it myself, so I wanted to point out that you watch the second embedded video in full screen @ 720P ... very impressive.
I agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your metaphor.
I said nothing of the sort. Virgin should do whatever is in its own best interest.
Congrats to the Hipmunks and Dropboxes (and any other YC company on the list that I didn't realize was YC)!
There might be some good to it... Making drugs legal makes drug business less dangerous and risky, which in turns makes drugs cheaper, which in turn lowers the dealers margins, which in turn makes them less interested in selling drugs... Not saying that this will reduce the access to drugs, but it will probably reduce the active search of new users
"Fail fast" refers to projects.. i.e. you need to iterate quickly and figure out what doesn't work on your products. It doesn't refer to your company.

Justin.tv went through a pivot (reality show -> live platform), as well many attempts to add new product offerings, many of which failed (you probably haven't heard of them) and two of which are on the road to success (TwitchTV and Socialcam).
Nobody wants to buy RIM
That works well if your day ends at 11AM.
Is it the work "TODO" which has been trademarked, or just the graphic associated with it? If it's the word, I'm disgusted - words and phrases in common usage shouldn't be eligile for trademark.
Check: http://rpgjs.com It looks really great. I've played it to the cave.. but it somewhat bugged when I moved the rock and didn't felt like starting over ;(
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Benford's Law predicts the first digit will be 1 about 30% of the time, not 50% of the time.

Your method also seems to depend heavily on the choice of starting and ending points. If I chose 1-99, then only 1/10th of the numbers in the interval will start with 1. So why choose 199 and not 99?
So if you wanted to add a task without using the command line you just open up the .tigger file in the project directory - maybe I should make this visible to the average user?

I literally only chose C by looking at what Git is written and deciding that I wanted to try going back to C after a few years away from it. I'm curious what you think would have been a better choice and why?
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I think John's post on the modern perl blog is the most rational dissection of this "problem" that is plaguing the perl community.

Few people outside the perl community see "Perl 5" and "Perl 6". For most people referring to the language they simply call it "Perl."

For marketing to developers specifically, I think the biggest hurdle isn't the name but the stigma attached to the language. Most developers I talk to outside of the perl community still see perl as a "write only language" that consists purely of "line noise." They don't specifically say whether they are talking about Perl 5 or Perl 6. To them there is no distinction.
A few days debugging? How could this possibly take any more than 5 minutes to work out on your own? If it takes a few days then maybe you are in the wrong job.
Zed, are you going to be writing any other books for Python, like Python 3 or more advanced topics? Maybe "Advanced Python the Hard Way?"
"You own your code and its effects - you design, you test, you code, you monitor. If you break something, you fix it."

I couldn't agree more. The more I work with code and people, the more I realize the importance of this statement. Having separate roles for "Architect", "Programmer", "Tester" and "Support" is excellent if you want to introduce bureaucracy and process into the work place and consider programmers as just "cogs in a machine". It's also excellent if you want to see how work can grind to a halt.

Let people own their work and they will only produce things that they are proud of.
I think we could have made something happen with Kiko if we had stuck with it. However, I honestly don't think we were ready as a team to make it happen -- we didn't really understand the market (two kids right of college who never used calendars!). We spent a lot of time trying to come up with ideas for how to make Kiko work (one of those brainstorming sessions led to Justin.tv), but just couldn't think of anything we should was compelling.
Yes, it's wrong to vote on someone else's commerce activities when they do no physical harm and themselves don't require coercion.
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I am curious as to why you think that Benford's Law in intuitive. I certainly would not have expected it. Could you explain your thinking in more detail?
It might be helpful for developers to have a better idea of the type of design they need for their project. In my experience, when most people talk about designers, they are talking about visual designers. Open source needs help with visual style, layout, graphic elements and branding, but I feel that UX/interaction design is needed much more. Designers are rarely masters of both disciplines.
PS - Prism includes some separable components that could be use in applications other than radiation therapy. There are a server and client for DICOM, a network protocol for images (from CT and MRI scanners etc.) and other medical data including radiation therapy prescriptions and treatment records. There is also SLIK, a GUI toolkit for Common Lisp and X Windows.
Trademarks and patents are totally different protections.

A trademark simply prevents competitors from using your name in their product. For example, I can't call my tissues "Kleenex" because that name has been trademarked. I can still make tissues, however. If Kleenex had an active patent on tissues, I wouldn't be able to make and market tissues without infringing on their patent.

That's a substantial difference. At worst (for competitors), this trademark will prevent apps being named something like "ToDo List" or "Mobile ToDo". It won't actually prevent todo apps from being sold.
You probably can't afford to be right, their lawyers however can afford to be wrong.
Dutch parliament passes Europe's first net neutrality law
...again, I am not saying Virgin is inherently evil. The original post suggested that an employee on strike might go to Branson thinking he is a friend and not part of the "evil company". My point was that Richard Branson is the founder & the president of the company & has sided with management already in his open letter. That is what I meant by "he is the 'evil company'". I would hold little hope that a pilot is going to have much sway with Mr. Branson.

Now the conversation has veered off into if Branson is a friend of his employees. It sounds like he's partied with employees during the good times. But it's physically impossible for him to be a true personal friend with all his employees. While it's good to be on friendly terms with the founder/president/executive team, you must always keep in mind their position of power & what their motivations might be.

Good companies probably do layoff people. But there is this concept that if you fire someone on a friday it's better for them, or right before their weekend or you give a bunch of employees free travel bonuses while sacking 7% of them. It's slight of hand.
I think it's pretty much just the first reason you list. Firefox has been trying to move in this direction since the introduction of the horribly named AwesomeBar, which was intended to be a DWIM button for Web navigation.

The conspiracy theory doesn't really hold up, since as far as I can tell, pleasing Google doesn't affect Mozilla's bottom line either way. The value of Google's happiness to Mozilla is substantially less than $9 million per year. The important metric isn't happiness — it's the binary "Have we avoided pissing Google off so badly that they're willing call off the deal and give up all those Firefox ad clicks to Bing?"

To go beyond the call of duty and actually try to make Google happy by making Firefox worse would be a stupid move — it would only weaken Mozilla's bargaining position with Google.
"I agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your metaphor."

Why? When a rape victim commits suicide, is that somehow worse than when someone who was dosed with drugs without their knowledge or consent commits suicide? E.g. Alan Turing, Frank Olson, etc.
I'm excited by OnSwipe's potential and I'm optimistic they're going to get it right eventually. For me, the biggest problem has been that OnSwipe makes no attempt to handle URLs correctly. URLs from the desktop version redirect to the TOC on iPad. When you visit articles on the iPad, the URL bar is not updated, so you can't even bookmark or share what you're looking at. Once they get this right, I think a lot of the grief expressed on HN will fade away.
If the seller chooses to. The MPAA rating system is voluntary, not a government mandate.
That's cool but I don't care about that at all. I wanted him to not waste my time in the interview.
Rubber dog crap is a bad example; how about orthodontics? There most of the value is in increasing your "prettiness rank", but there is a positional externality in that you necessarily decrease someone else's rank.
For the numbers 0-100, only 10 start with 1, exactly as many those start with 2, or 3, etc.
This is a real problem reading the submitted entries -- each snippet has a horizontal scrollbar and needs it even for ordinarily-formatted code.
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I think they have.. AirBnB like sites have existed for a while: http://www.flipkey.com/?utm_source=ta&utm_medium=foot...
Another suggestion:

- one should be able to reference tasks by multiple means: full text, short text, numeric id

- also vote for transparent TODO support

- integration with github issues and milestones would be amazing. But probably very difficult.
Well, you obviously do, but for the rest of us not intimately familiar with the trails situation in Minnesota that's not a very useful comment.
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git ask?

gittask seems a better idea.
any 3d on canvas?
I think folks like Zuck graduated beyond such lists a few years ago. At least a partial goal of these lists is to introduce fresh faces and find the "next" Zuckerberg. Otherwise we'd be seeing the same people for a decade.
By force!

This is the thing you're not getting. It is not moral to impose morality by force (except if it is being imposed on you by force).
Is this idea really worth leaving school for? I know of at least a few competitors in this space, so it seems like a pretty big risk (even with $1M in seed funding) to drop out.
I hope this doesn't mean that you're claiming one can't be a good parent (and raise ok children) in a shitty community...

I for one don't agree with what most people do in my community, and most everywhere around the world. Not that I'm a saint who never cheats, lies or steals, but I am true, I don't pretend I'm someone I'm not, and I don't much care about looks, money, fame and other irrelevant things in life. Most people around me do the opposite, and care only about their perceived status in the group, would sell a friend for pennies, and pretend they care, but never really listen. I filter most of these people out of my life, and don't have many true friends that I would spend a lot of time with.

This only makes me more motivated to instill really strong moral values in my future children.
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I don't mean $1/month as a cheap promo, I'm referring to a situation were the costs of running your SaaS is very low, were you can break even with a few hundred customers a month. And adding new customers doesn't significantly increase your cost. In this case you can afford to charge $1/month and take advantage of the volume.

You can provide limited support for basic accounts and charge much more for full support like $5-$9/month. The idea is to give your customers the only-pay-for-what-you-need model which is very realistic on the web.

If your cost increases significantly with each new customer you acquire then find what will increase your costs and charge extra for it, maybe bandwidth, computation, disk space etc.
I think anyone talking bad about the government is deviant.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2747/does-giving-sw...
Matt, I'd love to if I could. My issue is not from living in an unsupported country, but that Google Authenticator requires Android 2.01. However everywhere mentioned on the 2-step authentication site "Android 1.5" is blared at me.

As a 1.5 user there is nothing that hacks me off more than getting my hopes up at an app my phone can actually use (a rare occasion these days) and then having it snatched away. I don't blame Google for supporting 2.x and up, but lies are unacceptable.
In the 1930s to 1950s, anything starchy was bad for you (Ask your grandmother) - In the 1950s - 1980s fat became the new evil. Then it was cholesterol, and saturated Fats. Then Transfatty Acids. For a small period of time there was a niche rebellion against all things carbs, and now it looks like we're coming back against refined sugars (or all things refined white)

After reading a bit of anti-carb propaganda (Taubes) and being drawn into the "Wow, there are really bad things that you can eat" worldview - I decided to educate myself, and wget downloaded about 16,000 journal articles from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (They let you do this for $25, with the only request being that you put a 3 second delay between requests. Some awk/sed skills required to parse out the URLs, but not much. Totally download time was 39 hours)

After reading through 40 or 50 of those articles on topics like "metabolism", "glycolysis", "diabetes", (btw - can anyone recommend a good PDF index tool - Lucene is really not easy to plug/play install - I ended up using recursive grep -il on the pdftotext versions to track down docs (very 1993) - but surely someone has solved the problem of indexing 16,000 PDFs in a directory - google fu did not yield much, surprisingly) - I realized that I needed to pick up more education.

Two books I'm making my way through:

o Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition - $7+shipping.[1]
o Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Fourth Edition - $14+Shipping. [2]

Plus, the one I really, really want - but used 2004 editions are insanely expensive, and there has been a lot of useful developments in nutrition and metabolism since 1999

o Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism [3]

Thank goodness for a generous "Amazon.com Look Inside" allowance - I've probably spent about 10+ Hours perusing this book.

My takeaway, after admittedly putting only three or four months into this topic, is the following:

o Very little has been donein the way of double-blinded,
placebo controlled, rigorous nutrition studies.

o The few that _have_ done these studies, have usually
come in with an agenda (Low Fat, Low Cholesterol, Low
Carb).

o For how important this whole field is, it's amazing
that we've invested so little.

So yes - most cereal (the exception potentially being anything your Paleo ancestors would have recognized as cereal) is probably bad for you. I'll go farther than the OP and say you're probably kidding yourself if you think that "Corn Flakes" or "Crispy Crunch" is significantly better than "Fruit Loops" - it might be marginally better, but none of the refined stuff is doing great things for the western metabolism.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081533480X

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0716743396

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-G...
For movies it's like the ESRB for video games: a voluntary system, but pretty universally adhered to.

I'm not sure about porn, but I skimmed this ruling and it makes frequent reference to how obscenity laws are a special case where speech may be prohibited, so it might be different.
Consider: even if your interpretation were legally correct, what matters is your ability to convince a court to say so when Disney sues you.

That's probably an enormous expense that you'd be better off avoiding altogether by changing the name. Rebranding is also a lot easier now than once you've grown large enough to have shown up on Disney's radar.
Remember when Catcher in the Rye was going to pervert and corrupt America's youth?
For anyone else wondering what it's about:

http://data.worldbank.org/about - "The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog."

It apparently focuses on ending poverty and the sharing of data is a big tool for that.
There is no such thing as a healthy cereal. There are only less unhealthy cereals.
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It is a tough issue, but I think setting some clear requirements for owning a domain name could go a long way. Restricting domain owners from placing parking pages and requiring them to actively work on an online service, be that a web app, web site, blog, or other online medium which provides sincere value to users. Obviously, these guidelines will go into greater detail and be adjusted as time moves on, but it's better to try to resolve this issue than allow it to continue to deter start-ups.
> However, when you look at cities that do this right (Portland is my go-to example always) then it's a very different picture.

Ah yes, Portland, where diversity is the guy with a tan.

Oregon exports folks who tell us how wonderful things can be, but Portland is significantly less dense than other US urban regions.

> I think the issue with urbanism is simply that most people don't have the option.

Of course they do - they can move to urban areas. Heck - they can even build new ones. There are plenty of places in the US where you can build whatever housing/work fantasy you'd like. If you're correct, folks will pay to live&work there. If you're not ....
You're thinking of trademarks, not copyright.

If it has potential to cause customer confusion, it might be a trademark violation. A company is required to defend their trademarked terms, otherwise they may become generic terms.

(Standard I Am Not a Lawyer disclaimer. Go talk to a real one if you're worried.)
Endless URL Shortening Redirection Loop
I wonder if its possible to use 10+ url shorteners in an endless loop of redirection. Can this be abused to cause increased latency to one of the shorteners across their network? I wonder.
I wouldn't say intuitive as much as "not totally surprising". I meant "more intuitive" in relation to those who think it is non-intuitive.
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Look at the site - he's looking for volunteers to help get that functionality in.
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A great example of how sticky this can get - the nissan.com domain name. Nissan Motors and Nissan Computer have been fighting over it for years now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Computer
As someone running a personal .net, I much prefer the $10/yr I'm paying right now. I might be able to afford $200/yr now that I'm working, but I certainly would not have been able to keep that up in college. I don't think cutting students out from being able to have personal domains is at all a good solution.