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I think you guys are falling in love with a clever narrative about voting and comments and socialization and aren't remembering all the pointless and objectively stupid arguments we were having about transient down and up fluctuations in comment scores when we could see them all.
Well, Steve Jobs is remaining on the BoD as chairman.
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Well, if our local transit company has a GPS module in every its vehicle on a route and can watch all of them nearly real-time ("nearly" is something like updates every 30 seconds), and we are in Eastern Europe, then any transit authority can. There is no need to "crowdsource" it.

On the other hand, they aren't very good in communicating the information they have. The best thing we have is this: http://idsjmk.jrbrno.cz/ and Google Maps.

There are another problems that are not mentioned at all in the article. Service irregularities, either planned or not. There are frequent tram track repairs, street closures… So, what changes are there on my route, if any? Was the stop that I'm planning to get on moved behind the corner? Where exactly can I get on? And exactly means exactly, cellphone GPS can't tell you decisively if you are at the right side of the road, for example. And that is a crucial difference if you are planning to get on a bus.

And what if I'm waiting for a tram, and there was an accident somewhere and all the trams are delayed. What now? Was a reserve bus dispatched to replace it? When will it arrive? And where, if it's a segregated tramway and the bus can't use the stop?
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All I read was, we are still alive and after your money for providing a better alternative.

I am surprised that RealNetworks is still here. That software was so bad!
They're not dead, they're just buffering? </obvious>
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"If I Launched a Startup - in the US" this should be named.
how about Indonesian?
I don't think that select and three-finger-tap is anywhere close to obvious- doing anything with more than two fingers is already pretty rare on iOS.
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The book was originally set to arrive in 2012, but this month its release was bumped up to Nov. 21, 2011

That's ominous.
I can understand why Microsoft would not want Steamworks integration.

Steamworks is a direct competitor to Xbox Live -- achievements, friends list, chatting with friends, update delivery, etc. By allowing Steamworks on Xbox, it dilutes their own service and would confuse some customers ("Why do I have two friends lists?", "Why do I have two profiles?")

That being said, I really do want Xbox live to open up more. I think it's ridiculous that most Xbox games can't talk openly to the internet -- this prevents me from making an Xbox port of my game.
Why I haven't seen more user-focused applications of graphs is really beyond me (PersonalBrain being a rare, if woefully inadequate, exception). Despite how much effort is expended in the infrastructure, I really don't think we need to build out the semantic web before people can benefit hugely from creating personal ontologies, organizing their thoughts and lives without the useless intermediary of linear text.
Actually he did hand-pick John Sculley. And Sculley failed spectacularly.
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> What are Gates crimes? Screwing over some competitors?

Yup. Go read up what happened to Go Corporation. http://bit.ly/nsNkIY

"The lawsuit also claims that Microsoft stole Go technology, that the company threatened Intel, which had invested in Go, and that it used "incentives and threats" to coerce Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba and other computer makers not to use Go's operating system."
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There was a tremendous amount of work done that morning to keep the site up. Basically the site went static for long periods, which was the only way to save the poor database servers that were screaming and bleeding from their eyes under the load. If I recall correctly there was an after-action report posted later about the technical aspects of keeping the site working that day. Slashdot had nothing near the infrastructure that many "medium-sized" websites have today, which was bad: didn't have enough hardware to survive, but also good: the bosses were close enough to the metal to make immediate programming changes to reduce the site loading.

So it's really the opposite: Slashdot was unprepared for bursting of this magnitude, but able to react reasonably quickly to combat the unpreparedness. Other sites were probably more prepared (CNN.com) but once the load exceeded their preparations, it took them a while to, you know, get permission from the big boss to make the site static and otherwise react. CNN and other major sites did get their act together in fairly short order, actually - it's not at all the case that they were down for an extended period - they figured things out pretty quickly, just not quite as quickly as Slashdot.
Sometimes, while on HN, I miss the playfulness that made /. a true joy in the past. If we cannot scorn ourselves, we run the risk of taking ourselves to seriously.
I'm having a similar thought, there may be a UI fix for such things. While I dislike reddit, one of the features I miss is the 'collapse thread' - sign. Once I realize a thread is unlikely to contain useful info, I collapse the whole thing and move on to the next thread.

On HN, i have to scroll past the rest of the thread and do visual/mental work to figure out where it ends.
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This looks like some interesting research in the right direction for debugging lazy programs, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.4706v1. Which goes to show, people need to be looking at Racket a lot more then they do - including Haskellers.
I can't honestly see passengers paying extra for this. I see the transit company/department as the customer. In reality they already gps track all their fleets in the US, its just a matter of exposing the data in a digestible format.

If they opened up APIs, some enterprising individual could build apps on top of it, and sell the apps or run ads across.

Sidenote, what about the security issues related to sharing this data? Are there any?
No, actually. My recommendation to Tim Cook is to not lead like Jobs. There is only one Steve Jobs, and the world knows it. Tim Cook will need to evolve his own leadership style, and the company will need to trust Jobs that he has passed the baton onto the right person.

There's no point trying to replace Jobs, because that's impossible. What's possible is for Cook to become someone different, someone, dare I say it, even better than Jobs (ie less of an ass or a douchebag, but just as exacting when it comes to high product standards with the global business acumen when it comes to supply chain management) - do you see it? Tim Cook now has a chance to make magic happen - He's worked so hard over the last few decades just for a chance to stand in that CEO position - and now that he has it - he better make the best of it.

My prediction is that Apple will radically change in the next few years - it has to - in order to say goodbye to Jobs, and welcome the new king - Tim Cook.
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I'm voting you up.

"Fanboy" is the most destructive meme to rational discourse ever to emerge on the Internet. In a single word we reduce any debate to YouTube-style mudslinging. The concept of "fanboy" has some limited utility in that people do clearly blind themselves to flaws in products (or ideologies!) in order to avoid cognitive dissonance and protect their own identity, but any tiny value in expressing this concept is overwhelmed by the destructive nature of its use in discourse. The fact is everyone has blind spots, and "fanboy" is just shorthand for "your opinion is meaningless noise, but I'm going to respond to it anyway with my own meta noise." Furthermore, the word is most often used by people who are equally as irrational as the one they are accusing.

Downvoting any comment calling someone else a "fanboy" is a good idea, and I think one concrete action that can help HN if only in a small way.
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Ooh, thanks for that, c/p malfunction.
The one I really meant was:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925845

This link is also interesting.
Mirror? It's down for me.
Maybe. But maybe not. I started my startup in Canada and still incorporated in Delaware. Very glad I did.
A screen scraper for ikea.com built with less than 200 lines of ruby.
If IE had 99% market share today, it would presumably have been because Microsoft's plan to proprietize the web was a success. Dependence on ActiveX, VBScript, and whatnot would have made non-Windows web gadgets technically infeasible.
The same thing happened to me a few months back. I was just told I am "not passionate enough" and although I am not sure what that means but I understood that I didn't have anything "new" to bring on the table. Perhaps something similar happened to the OP?
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"It's all about perception and stereotypes. From the clothes you wear, the tone you speak, the way you shake hands, and the amount of smile you give, etc etc."

I totally agree with this - some stereotypes are GREAT for your image. For example, being viewed as a "Smart asian" gives you credibility when talking about science/math, while a "Smooth talker" has more ethos when talking about consumer relations.
This is why I love HN. Thanks!
When I saw the headline, I thought "Real is still around?"
The guys at http://jumpmath.org/ have had some successes at teaching math in a way that involves and advances the kids, who were deemed to be bad at math.
Since the site's up & down due to load, here's a picture showing that Socialize increases app sessions by 21.8%: http://go.drod.io/pwaqd5 -- video at http://vimeo.com/28162089
Fascinating! I certainly like the idea of "crowdsourcing" the gold delivery by just opening up a window in the Bank of Venezuela in Caracas, and asking that people turn in gold for a modest bounty (2%). That might be over-estimating the amount of gold that people in South America have on hand, but it's certainly creative!
My point is that "native contacts" should be irrelevant soon.
There's a great passage in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon about the problems of moving pallets of gold that are sitting undefended in the middle of the jungle.
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While I have only discovered the awesomeness that is GNU/Linux approximately a year ago, I feel at home like it's been forever.

Happy birthday, Linux, and cheers to the best kernel in the world!
Parsec looks pretty similar to python's pyparsing or Pysec.Pysec is a "Monadic Combinatoric Parsing" library in python, so i think you could do monads in python.
Well, they did cost him enough for him not to be able to buy a house.

I can't believe something like this is happening. It's not like RealAlternative stole their code. You don't see Apple griefing about QuickTimeAlternative, and that uses it's full name.
Groupthink is a consequence of karma based non-anonymous discussion systems. You can't do much about it.
And here's a cached copy:

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I am working on a video bookmarking site http://mytubemarks.com (beta) and examining the possibilities for a new type of a classifieds website.

What are you working on?
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For everything from applicant tracking systems to databases, I often think "at least it isn't an Oracle product." Seems like some other company could use this given enough of us already think it.

I know this will be down-voted for being a Reddit-esque comment, but it was worth it.
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Weird! :) Me neither.
According to thenextweb.tumblr.com, Wozniak also said this during the interview:

"Steve was very fast thinking and wanted to do things, I wanted to build things. I think Atlas Shrugged was one of his guides in life."

My own personal experience is that there are some very powerful ideas in that book. It's gratifying to see that great people like Woz and Jobs also think so.

Edit: Why is this being downvoted? It is an actual quote from the interview with Woz, with attribution. It's on-topic, and it helps complete the picture of what he actually said. How is that a bad thing? Why bowdlerize Woz?
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Must say I feel a swell of pride today! I had no idea Cook was gay.
Jake from Verbling here. Thanks for this feedback. Really appreciate it. Many users are reporting switching from other sites once they've gotten the first few phrases down and want to practice with real native speakers. Talking to real people seems to serve as an extra injection of motivation.

Re. abuse: Verblings make accounts and that carry a crowdsourced reputation. We can see how well-liked our users are based on how their conversation partners rate them. Users with serious abuse reports filed against them are investigated and, if substantiated, kicked out.
Maybe. I skimmed the article and it seems he has to provide a lot of money upfront.

No idea about the dutch legal system, but it seems that the loser pays for the legal costs of the winner (as it should be in my book). So - since the claim ist totally bogus and idiotic, I'd expect him to get all the money back and RM to pay for it.
Chat roulette is not as successful as you think it is, and no - if you just say it to anyone on the streets, no one will understand what "chat roulette" is - it has a connotation of gambling or being very risky (ie the roulette thing billions of people understand conceptually, so your "analogy" will be hijacked)

Is it a platform for gambling in different languages? Is probably the response you'll get from "chat roulette for languages"
I was just thinking yesterday - what ever happened to flash? Glad it's dead and (almost) buried. That said, it's still surprising how fast a dominant technology slips away into oblivion.
I'm amazed you're still around! I actually used Multimedia Fusion too. Legal purchase and everything. At the time I couldn't find any kind of export like that. I also didn't have an internet connection, so maybe it just wasn't up to date.

Great products, by the way.
> Sadly the flag link seems to have gone away

You have more karma than me, and I can see it.

Speculation: it may have been taken away for "abuse", either automatically or by an editor who disagreed with too many of your flags.
If you were to act like doubles are (optimized) thunks, would that ever trip you up? Haskell's strictness means that its abstractions don't leak as much. If I'm able to pretend that everything is a function, and doing so won't lead me astray, I don't see the point of caring that some things are really values (for some definition of real). That seems like the sort of detail that Haskell makes a point of protecting you from.
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"But here's the thing. It's a big world. Like a democracy, you have to go along with where everybody goes."

I don't agree with how this sentence is formulated. Most of the time I haven't personally really liked to go in the same direction as everybody else. It's just boring. Most of the time I prefer to take a path that hasn't been walked by anyone else and discover something new for myself.

Of course, in the context of the article the sentence is to be regarded narrower and the point is illustrating is to have a HN Community that's organized and follows some rules.Which I agree with. But the way it's formulated illustrates this mindset that in this big world we should all embrace whatever the crowd likes, which IMHO is just wrong.
Kubrick had worked quite a while on "Aryan Papers," even casting the female lead: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/03/kubrick-holocaust...
I still remember the first time I commandeered our one and only phone line for an entire weekend to download the Slackware ISO. Version 7, if I remember correctly? My parents were pissed.

I was so excited to have a "real" C/C++ development environment for free, after years of using a pirated version of Visual Studio. I installed Slack, and within 45 minutes I had totally hosed the system and had to re-install. Then I did it again and again and again... those were the days :)
Medtronic is a local company in my town, and I know a LOT of people (including at least one other HN participant) who work there. It will be interesting to see what further follow-up there will be on this story. I wonder what form of authentication of signals to devices will be required by FDA regulation after this issue is explored in depth.

Note: one person I know in the medical device industry in this town points out that the whole medical device industry has a completely different orientation to bugs and hardware failures from most other industries. He used to work in civil passenger aviation avionics, where even one failure in millions of flights is unacceptable. The same point of view pervades the medical device industry--although sometimes more as an aspiration than as an actual accomplishment. Software writers for medical devices can expect full code reviews before a regulated device is approved by the FDA. Time to market is MUCH slower for a new medical device than for most new electronic products, because of all the regulated testing each new device must go through.
I guess they still have some money flow due contracts sold in the 90ies. In Germany they sold many long term licenses to radio/tv stations - which is why you sometimes still can find real media links if you want to listen to online radio in Germany.
After reading the problems, I expected we were looking for dynamically generated transit maps (excluding all lines/stops that aren't directly between you and your destination), coupled with a statistical curve of actual arrival times at each stop.

GPS is useful, but when planning a route in advance, I'd prefer to know the above.
Why do I need to sign up? What service are you providing? You don't give me any hints and these types of tell me nothing sign up pages are getting old. Give me something! That's my gut reaction. I reached for the back button. Sorry if this comes off as harsh. This was my honest reaction.
Alternate moral: Gall's Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%27s_law
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Toronto has this for streetcars and buses. It's run by NextBus, which seems to run GPS for a bunch of cities (http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/agencySelector.jsp).

They offer open access to this information through an API (see toronto.ca/open). I built something to watch the streetcars on a map using that API: http://totransit.ca/

My coworker and I were talking about letting people "check in" to specific streetcars, and tag variables such as "how full is the streetcar?", but I can't see many (any?) people actually doing that.
The DART in Dallas allows you to look up the real-time location of the next bus inbound to your station.

Combine that with a public transportation system that actually goes somewhere useful in a reasonable amount of time at useful times, and you might have something interesting.
That you can buy a non-Windows computer or device and still do most of the things anyone cares about doing on a computer is exactly what Microsoft didn't want to happen. Now they are competing on a level field, and not losing ground too fast, but their reign of total domination of personal computing is over.
> I can't honestly see passengers paying extra for this.

People whose jobs are relatively inflexible when it comes to arrival times would pay. My girlfriend basically has to guess and hope that the train runs on time in order to make it to work - it would be super nice to pull up a site when we wake up and see the current locations of the trains, and an estimated arrival time based on actual data, rather than the MTA's dreams and wishes.

It would also be great to know whether a train has recently left the station at night - should I wait 2 minutes for the next train, or should I just start biking and arrive at my destination before the train even shows?
There's really not much to say, it's the same as all the others except for the background image.

"Feedback on my startup" is far more interesting than these landing pages.
Well there's a difference between giving money and running an organization. Using money intelligently is more important than just donating it.
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First, all conferences are expensive in terms of time and money. That's a given.

> just to watch Zuckerberg reveal something I won't use

I think you're overlooking the value. It's not about going for a keynote or being entertained/catered to; its about the interaction. The ability to talk to the people that've built the tools you are using is extremely powerful. Would you rather talk to an expert on a subject matter, or post a question on SO and hope someone has had a similar experience? This is just one of the reasons why conferences like this are "worth it".
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http://hea.thebus.org -- honolulu does it! Try stop ID's like 2088 or 297 (right by the university of hawaii)
Sure, it happens all the time and has happened since before humans existed. The concern is about how much extinction humans are CAUSING. Given that extinctions can impact entire ecosystems, we (as a species) should be worried about the impact we're having on other species, if only for our own selfish reasons.

The fact that there are species that we don't even know about means there is still a lot to learn about life on Earth. It is generally a bad idea to aggressively mess around with a system that is not well-understood, that is what we're doing and this news items demonstrates how little we actually know about our ecosystem.