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I think the problem is that people are looking at this backwards.

The vast majority of people buy the iPad not because they want a tablet, they buy it because they want a really big iPhone. HP, RIM and most of the others seemed to not understand this and attempted to build a really big iPhone... without the iPhone ecosystem. Surprise, surprise they failed miserably.

Apple did a very smart thing, they took a product that was selling like hotcakes, and they introduced a product that was identical save for the form factor. Every iPhone user (which is a whole lot of people) was suddenly an expert iPad user! They felt at home, they felt safe, they got what they wanted: a really big iPhone.
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With "2" the only way to get money is to either close part of the software,

Or, as in our case (x264), you keep everything open, but open source version is GPL, thus limiting its possible use in proprietary software packages, whereas the commercial version is not (despite them being line-for-line identical).

This only works if the project's license is copyleft, of course.
Even if they did have a public email address [pitch@venturefund.com] or something like that, chances are slim that you would get a reply from a cold email/deck. This isn't specific to LV but true of most, if not all, venture funds. Ask a random VC what percentage of their investments in 2010 came from a cold email/deck and I bet it would be less than 10%. That is why incubators/accelerators - YC, etc. - have gained such incredible traction over the past few years. The model encourages applicants with no connection to the fund.
That is also true. You can use that version for as long as you want! The company I work for uses a newer stable version of nginx in production, but I think I actually make use of a directive that was introduced after the 0.7 series. Even so, as a small company with only a few customers, we're okay sticking a little closer to the edge. At this point, there's no compelling reason for us to upgrade past where we are (I think 0.98) unless I want bug fixes for things bugs we haven't seen.
Indeed, the application form has a few tough questions, that I assume many startups don't like to face.

It is a very worthwhile exercise to try and answer them, even if you are not going to apply, for some reason. We have shot down several ideas now because of them.
I think this would be a great time for Facebook or some large company who is interested in music identification to start using the MusicBrainz database. They already have a huge database and most of them have an acoustic hash as well.
On your serious note, you'd have to build an app with enough of a forward-packed pipeline that would unlock timely student assignments on a regular basis, yet be updatable through the App Store without much fear of rejection, adjusting the content as the class progresses +/-. Just like the Angry Birds franchises do. They ability to synchronize all of that may be difficult at first, but the platform is here.
> Also, people seem to have no problem doing exactly this with propane tanks (in the USA) for their BBQ grills. The tanks you exchange are definitely not as nice as the ones you can buy new and get filled but the convenience of being able to exchange a tank outweighs a lot of people's desire to get their tank refilled.

Except that no one cares what their tank looks like - they only care about how much it holds, or rather, how much gas they're going to get out of it, and whether it leaks.

The same is true of batteries, and that's the problem if batteries degrade with usage, heat, deep discharge, and so on.

Oh, and I do try to get the nicest propane tank when I exchange. I'm not the only one.
I always found status reports to be very annoying to write. I mostly just rephrased my commit messages and major emails.

The good(bad!?) news is that I've stopped sending them in long ago, and nobody has ever complained.
No, the issue is time, specifically, pg's time; using callbacks takes less programmer time than manually building every URL statelessly. Yes, it could be done another way, but it wouldn't exist at all if he'd had to do that for every link because it'd have taken too much of his time.
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It's worth pointing out that there's something in Jewish character that produces revolutionaries and anti-establishment types who rock the boat. The anti-tsarist intelligentsia, the 19th century anarchists, the Bolsheviks, Spanish Red Terror, German 1918 revolution, Alinksy-ite 60s radicals, Neo-Cons -- All these movements and more had very identifiable Jewish leadership.
Cool, if status reports are your thing you might want to check out Thinkfuse (http://www.thinkfuse.com). We've built an entire app around making status reports more useful (like sharing reports with your whole team, archiving them, and being able to follow other teams you might need to know things about).

Interestingly, we've also got quite a few startups (a couple dozen that I know of), using us to send monthly or bi-weekly updates to their investors as well.
You're right. But that doesn't make sense to me. I do the same thing. The point is that I would end up clicking on the search result anyways had the paid link not been there. What am I missing here?
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If you wrote something in your journal/status report that was useful it probably would have been more useful in your bug/task tracker or wiki or somewhere else that your colleagues could find it in context.
Agree all round; it will be great once his fund is up and running. The key thing about it is that they will be doing seed investing, and that's where the greatest need is (and he would argue, the greatest returns). It sounds like they intend to be quite innovative in terms of how they assess deals as well, presumably the intention is to comb the whole of Europe for the best unfunded startups.
Can this overcome some of the soft blurring media companies/journalists use to hide naughty bits and to protect identities?
The user-experience of a workstation is something that I wish were economically viable to provide.

One of my dreams is to make hardware/software systems like NeXT did, designed for people who use computers as a tool to compute. It's a bit tough to sell hardware/OS design as a fundable startup, alas.
Regarding, TwitLonger and Google+ - yes, the distinction is not strong. We've built a POC but want to add features that make each post more "special." Because we're divorcing posts from blogs, each post can look different :)

I hear you on the antidote, but I'm not sure it will work for most people. In fact, many people don't have an "expertise" to share and are looking to post thoughts about non-work-related material.
I do find an irony that the 0.1 specification of Perl is worst than the 0.1 specification of Dart.

Why is it surprising that a language designed to occupy a niche between shell and C in 1987 had a spec faster and looser than a language designed from (let's say) 2009 through 2011, based on an existing, popular, and well-understood language with well-publicized flaws?
Someone should sell a usb dongle with an ARM chip on it that can run android using the emulator on your dev machine for display and input.

Debugging on a phone is not so bad, but it's not quite as nice as the iOS simulator experience.
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I've abandoned several blogs. No, I'm not happy about this.

Why abandon a blog that I've put a great deal of time, even years, into?

For me, it comes down to few things, but mainly a work vs reward measuring. Doing a good (or even decent) blog takes a lot of work. I'm honestly not the best writer in the world, and creating a blog that's on topic consistently and creating that amount of rich content is just hard.

I found my traffic was always good if I could blog at least 3x/week, but really 1x/day was the very best. Even if you're doing that by sitting down and queuing up content for the week, that's a lot of effort (generally an entire day) just to blog consistently.

What I always wanted to do, was to get together a group blog with 5-10 friends, which we could all contribute to on some semi-consistent topic (like Mashable, Techcrunch, etc but smaller in scope and goal). Then each person doing 1-2 things a week would be totally sufficient and keep things interesting.

Yet, the reward for this was always pretty low. I didn't like putting ads on my site. Amazon referral links were pretty good on occasion, but if you don't have a product oriented blog (or huge traffic) it still barely paid for hosting. So 1 day/week (15% of your time) for that much coming back to me was pretty low.
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Neither is Opera. IE 9 gets a 4. (suprise?)
Silly question, but, if HN is purportedly open-source where can I download the source code?
> What good are standards bodies (think SAE, ISO, DIN) in the automotive world if they won't solve this?

Which standards in the gasoline world are comparable to the standards that you want for electric vehicles?

SAE has standards for lubricating oil properties, horsepower measurement, etc, but nothing that will let me move significant components from one gasoline car to another.
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This is a great concept... I think where it could differentiate itself is by aggregating posts by topic. If I'm searching some topic on the web, I often come across blogs that are out of date or orphaned, and they might provide me with some of the information or links I am looking for, but not all.

If Postary lets me find several such blogs on its site, organized into blog threads by topic, then it fills a need on both sides: the author gets to broadcast to the web without the pressure of maintaining a blog site or Twitter feed, etc... and the reader is able to find information or commentary on a topic of interest.

It could be almost like a message board, instead of thread topics there are topics (several of which might apply to any given Postary post) and instead of responses to that topic, a threaded view of Postary posts. The threaded view would be composed on-the-fly and would vary depending on what you search for.

To make it more interesting and engaging, each Postary could have the option of being maintained as a blog if the writer so wished... and further, each Postary could allow comments from readers.

So you could post your thoughts about Haskell the day you discover and get really excited by it; and that could be tagged under topics like Haskell, programming philosophy, programming tips, etc. If somebody searched Postary for Haskell, they would see your post along with all others on the same topic, plus comments, plus follow-on posts (if any) by the same author. Threads could be auto-composed based on any number of criteria (newest first, most-responded-to first, etc.)

In this way, the site could serve both the "web archaeology" and "latest and greatest info" niches of search, and could create a lighter, less pressured form of engagement with authors and readers. Isolated, sporadic posting by authors could be organized into a coherent, constantly-updated site on any number of topics.
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Chrome 13 scores 2.5. I thought Chrome latest was 14, which definitely addresses some of the missing points from 13.
Funny how I get the annoying hit-backbutton-twice effect ... Always the hallmark of a good website ...
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What a load of garbage

"Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that protect against arbitrary data execution?

Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that randomize the memory layout to make it harder for attackers to find their target?"

I got a checkmark on both those. Yet I'm running Mac.

I also got an "X" on "Does the browser help protect you from websites that are known to distribute socially engineered malware?" yet I'm running Chrome, and little do Microsoft know but Google keeps an entire db of "socially engineered malware" and disallows you to access it.

Good old Microsoft trash browser stats, just like the old IE is the safest browser one.
Yes. That's what makes the weird motion seem so fake. I expect random movements from a hand-held video, but this really, really had the feel of pseudo-random, repetitive motions that I've seen in CGI effect demos.
Definitely a revenue generating opportunity. However, there is just also a great deal of interest, and as long as they have quality content I'm excited to see it.

And yes, I imagine they are contractually obligated, like Mike Rowe, who they've over used so much - plus they probably wanted someone more geek for the special.
The demo doesn't necessarily look fake, the video looks fake.
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Gathering status is important. Rands explains that engineers are typically using other tools in their job that can do that kind of reporting. A manager's job is to synthesize status from your distributed journal of bug closures, emails, wiki updates and notes from the 1:1.

For looking back at what I did in the past, personally, I've started doing this: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/08/18/the_trickle...

That's because I find it very hard to read through weeks of my written status reports from my past. It's easier to scan the Trickle List.
Hopefully the choice in host will result in a focus the documentary on "garage" days with Woz.

On the subjects of cable specials, I REALLY hope TNT will make a sequel to "Pirates of Silicon Valley" soon!
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How did you manage to get into these events for free? You mentioned that you got sponsored, but what does this mean? Can you provide some tips?
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Again, I'm not questioning the demo, I'm asking why the video has so many very strange traits.
This is actually the same issue ISBN faces - it does not refer to a work, but a specific printing, binding, etc.

It is the reason xISBN exists.
http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp

Ideally an ID cross-reference would be an open dataset, but it is difficult to achieve that in the market. A proprietary xref is better than no xref.
All the studies I've seen either have to do with safety, perceived benefit (self-evaluated), or effect on attitude (openness) as measured by a survey. Do you know of any studies which identify an objectively measurable positive benefit to the subjets? For example: decreased risk of suicide, decreased risk of divorce, increased likelihood of solving a long-standing problem, increased success at work, etc.
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blahedo's point was that the technique was not fundamentally a problem from a robustness point of view, and I disagree with that point. It is a problem, and I was pointing that out.

Your point seems to be that since Hacker News is a "hobby project," that we may forgive sacrificing a bit of robustness to make the programming exercise more pleasant. That point was not clear to me from your original posting. Rather, the point seemed to be that the technique was good because it was clever and fun, and I disagreed with that sentiment.

PG seems to be saying elsewhere that it was used as a rapid prototyping technique. That seems to be a fair justification of the technique, in my estimation.
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Sounds like a business opportunity. Oh, wait, that's what Echo Nest is doing. :)
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That's fine.

I'd like everyone to know I'm at -53 just from my few comments alone (which most maxed to -4). Apparently the karma system on HN makes no sense as you can keep ghostdownvoting someone without reason, even after they've reached the lowest threshold of -4.

There also seems to be people that have a problem with someone pointing out reasons for modern day antisemitism. As my comments were definitely relevant I'd like to ask: what are these downvoters afraid of?
I wonder if this is exacerbated by people enabling the aptly named "noprocrast" setting in their profile, not knowing what it does...

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In the language of sales reporting, 'in channel == sold' is not strictly a lie, usually. We can get an idea from http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... - 1.8% of Android devices accessing the marketplace are Android 3.x.
When the iPad 3 is introduced, the iPad 1 will cost $200 (or less) and will compete with the Kindle Fire on the low end of the market.
> Jews were seen as people with divided loyalties

But they very often ARE people with divided loyalties! Several folks in the Obama and Bush administrations have had Israeli passports. To me, that's completely crazy.

Henry Kissinger, a patriotic American if nothing else, talked openly about how the US relationship with Israel makes no strategic sense. His fellow Jews viciously attacked him for the most part.
Racket has support for serialization of closures and continuations, which it's web server makes extensive use of. It seems like it'd be possible to expose the relevant functions to make that happen, though I have no idea how large the closures actually are once serialized.
Apple actually generally reports channel numbers as well, as far as I know (except for their own retail operation, which is substantial). For tablets, these numbers are likely to be closer to real sales simply because the iPad tends to sell quickly. If this wasn't the case, we'd see dropping-off of iPad 'sales' numbers as the channel backed up.
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He made many points, Javascript not having great tools and IDE's is only one of them.

It's a valid one though, the Javascript IDE's out there aren't very good. However, that's a function of community support, not language quality. Personally, I don't use an IDE for javascript or RoR programming, I just use Textmate.

I use Eclipse for Java programming, and I don't think I would want to program in Java without it. Maybe it says something about the languages themselves that they require an IDE to develop in.
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Paul, I really do not mean any disrespect here because you are truly a class act and first rate player in the start up world. You are also a great hacker that loves to push the limits. You've created an amazing community here that I have been able to learn a ton from.

I have to ask, and I'll probably get down voted to hell because I'm naive or something, but what is so elegant about a coding technique that breaks under normal usage conditions? If I put out a customer facing piece of code, especially after 4 years, wouldn't it make sense to use an "uglier and less flexible but more efficient alternative" that doesn't break?

I understand your previous explanations of why this happens and of rapid prototyping etc. But at what point does the architecture actually get changed to eliminate this bug?
Because I realized that 99% of what I want to write about is textual flatulence to the rest of the world, and I got tired of the narcissism inherent in that 99%.

I do keep 3 bloggy things, but 2 only get updated with useful info, and the other is where I mumble about my personal life (which no one but me cares about generally).
This isn't reddit, and it definitely isn't /r/politics. Your tone is out of place on news.yc and people are downvoting you because you're diminishing the quality of the discussion.
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Curious - how badly blurred were your images?

When I tried InFocus, I used them on some shots where I blew the focus at wider apertures (now that I'm using a camera with better high ISO performance, that kind of defocus is rarely an issue, because I have the luxury of stopping down), and I couldn't get adequate results and I wasn't willing to spend a lot of time tweaking sliders.

I am totally with you on the idea of taking better pictures though. The more you can reduce your effort in post with technique, the better. A lot of stuff is unfixable in post.
Glad you like it. Feel free to pimp it/use it whenever you want :)

Anyway - if we can find the time, we may release new features in the near-term that will make it even more interesting! Or we might just procrastinate and not do anything...
I think the problem of Dart and Google's many strategies in web application developer tool area is the belief that the current state of web app development is in a very serious terminal illness that requires chemotherapy, with a complete change of how we do things, while many others - notably the CoffeeScript camp - have shown that we are still essentially in good shape and all we need is some herbal tea to help the immune system. I am not discounting the value of the bold move of Google, but I am very disappointed to see a big negligence of the good parts of JavaScript and other dynamic languages and a blind copy of Java (mis)features. I have not seen Google contributing to the common and popular JavaScript frameworks like jQuery (and Microsoft did... what a strange world). Maybe it's NIH syndrome at play.
Was just asked that question on the original post, our response:
We applied to each of the conferences directly. At Disrupt, they liked what we were doing but weren't 100% sure about putting us on stage. We were persistent and they offered us a cocktail table. For Launch, Marc responded to Jason Calacanis' post on hacker news looking for innovative companies and we applied directly to the DEMO scholarship program. During our interview with DEMO we told them we were bootstrapped and couldn't pay for even a partial scholarship.

A big part of it this of course is selling your company's vision to them when they are evaluating you. If they get excited by the vision, they'll want you to come to their conference.
Are they, really? I find it to be surprising.

To begin with, that's not a lot of money, unless you are counting on 1-being funded by YC and 2-getting VCs to invest quickly.

I'd think that the boost of morale would be enough reason to apply.
Most Android tablets are the same price as the iPad or a little cheaper (with the exception of the hilariously expensive 3G/4G Xoom). Honeycomb, however, is rather buggy still, and the app ecosystem really isn't there.
This is getting a little ridiculous. Especially now that I'm at -53.

Why would I get downvoted into oblivion for merely stating two relevant reasons for modern day antisemitism? These are facts.

If you don't think AIPAC or Zionism could lead to more antisemitism, I don't know what to tell you. What are you people even arguing against? Just being pedantic? Or maybe ghostdownvoters are downvoting anything that seems critical of Israel? Wouldn't doubt it.
JavaScript was stuck in the mud before Chrome or V8 even existed. Before Google, Microsoft and Yahoo got the blame.

Regardless of who the actors are that are most currently gumming up the works, all of this just proves the point that standard bodies are not an effective tool for actually creating useful technology.
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Georgie,

I just joined recently, but I have been a lurker for a long time.

Did you find the article interesting?
This is like a web-app focused "Oblique Strategies". Someone should make cards! I printed them out and taped them on my wall.
The results are so close it is almost scary. It does make sense that the most popular candidate will get the most searches.
Thats not the point. Its Microsoft. Why do you think they care if you run any operating system other than theirs? The point of the website. is: If you are running windows, see how safe your browser is.