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You're completely missing my point. I'm actually sort of agreeing with you -- but I'm also saying you don't really need (want?) to duplicate Hypercard.

Let's just say that considerably more than "thousands" have written BASIC programs that were real useful applications in their day. I would not argue that people have not done the same in Hypercard.

There's nothing special about hypercard. What's special is having an easy-to-use beginner programming environment that you could create fairly good small programs in -- in comparison to the commercial offerings of the day. BASIC was that, Hypercard was that, but that only partially exists today as the web stack because of it's baroque nature.

"Foundations matter" is really a tautology. I don't think the problem is the foundations. We build on sand all the time. Certainly without a foundation, you're fucked, but you place too much importance on it. Saying something like "Foundations matter" is pretending to be profound without substance. I might just as well say that "Input devices matter" -- and they do -- but how much do they matter? Is everything fucked because we all use mice & keyboards?
Combo boxes don't work at all on the iPad (or, presumably, iPhone). Long ones such as in the welcome demo page select items instead of scrolling on drag. Short ones on the combo box page close as soon as they open.

The landing page made a big deal out of supporting touch devices and being a HTML5 app framework; I wouldn't build anything on a framework whose own demos don't work on the most popular touch devices in the world.
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There's a link to the NHTSA pick-a-checkbox data finder, but here's the link to the FTP site for the raw data:

ftp://ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov/fars/

Maps like these are visually interesting, but I think a stats analysis of the many characteristics the data include, such as previous DUI offenses and weather conditions, could be even more fascinating.
How is it "more prone to issues"? Have you have significant experience in an indentation-significant language like python? As someone who has written 100k's of lines of code in python, I'm surprised how rarely issues arise in practice.

The thing is, indentation needs to be correct in "brace" languages for them to be understood correctly, anyway. The famous "dangling if" problem for instance:

if (condition)
x = 1
y = 2

The better objection to indentation significance, in my opinion, is that it makes it very difficult to find an acceptable syntax for anonymous blocks (which is the main reason python doesn't have them, I reckon).
> Text editors will convert spaces to tabs and vice-versa.

Get a good text editor?

> HTML rendering eats whitespace.

Except when you tell it not to, of course.

> Python has had this problem since its inception.

problem being mostly encountered by those who never use it, interestingly.

> If you're editing a Python program in emacs python mode and you hit TAB at the wrong time you can inadvertently change the semantics of your code.

So can you if you hit "}" or ";" at the wrong time in a braceful language...

The primary (and as far as I'm concerned the only significant) issue of significant indentation (it's not even significant whitespace) is auto-generated code (which is why Haskell has a braceful syntax and an indentation-based transformation of it), as giving the right contextual indentation to a piece of code may make the code generator much more complex (codegen targetting Python should probably generate python bytecode, rather than generating code).

And to support my claim that significant indentation is not effectively an issue, I will use Haskell: Haskell can be written using both a brace-and-semicolon syntax and an indentation-based one. Both forms are perfectly equivalent and can be translated into one another without loss of information.

I do not remember ever seeing a Haskell piece of code, article, demonstration or example which used braces except when the article was about the braceful syntax or about auto-generated code.

If significant indentation was such a crippling problem, would Haskell users not have coalesced around the "less problematic" braceful syntax?
I'm surprised that they didn't include a motion to declare the contract invalid on the grounds of duress. I'm not aware of any precedent for a threat to withhold medical care being considered duress, but it certainly seems to satisfy the "no true meeting of the minds" test.

(IANAL, etc.)
That sure looks like a straight forward question, but it actually isn't. Business is an abstraction. We do the work we need to do wherever we are, but the business lives elsewhere, while our primary market is global, such that one of the countries with our largest sales (prior to recent pivot) is a country we've never visited.
In your last example, `.find('.more_stuff')` works on the value returned from `.addClass('other')` (or so it'd seem), so it behaves differently.
Seems to be a trend to wrap a lesser known commandline tool in a cocoa app and knock it out for a couple of quid to arts graduates. Someone did a cocoa version of guard recently. That other guy tried to make a system preferences pane for the hostfile, but apple wouldn't let him. I'm sure there have been others.

At least this guy has the decency to point out that it's already built into OS X right there on the landing page ;)

If you need to do this stuff to a saturated gigabit pipe in both directions, then may I suggest the superbly named 1U Network Nightmare, yours for only $9999.

http://www.gigenn.net/gigEnn/
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>buying for their young child a so-called "mini-laptop"

They're great devices. They can reach kids for education and let them learn in a format that will be useful to them going forward. I wouldn't buy a young child a full-fledged laptop, it'd be a waste of money and that's too much freedom to afford a kid if you don't know how to lock it down for malware or scams.

"I saw in the supermarket the other day a group of parents buying for their young child a so called "army man" and I realized how difficult it is for a 5 year old to join the military."
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Not if they are patented (and you reside in a country where software patents are valid).
Can't agree more. I joined a game company a few years ago with zero graphics experience outside of writing a ray tracer in college and it was grokking the math and gaining an intuitive understanding of the transformation stack that was the hard part. Once you do though, man, you can't help but marvel at the beauty of it.

I also started with the fixed function pipeline since we had to target OpenGL ES 1.1, and I have to admit, it's a great starting place for a newbie since you don't need to know everything up front.
It's not exactly a one off comment. There was an article posted, I believe here, about the state of startups in Canada. I can't seem to find it at the moment, but I do remember a few examples from it:

* iCraveTV, a Canadian online video service, saw the government cave from US pressure to change Canadian laws regarding online video, which ultimately put them out of business. Later, a bunch of US-based startups entered the same space.

* OpenText, a Canadian search engine, was unable to index the general web due to the law in Canada. While still successful in the corporate space, they could have been a player against Google and Bing if things had been different.

* ZENN, a Canadian automobile manufacturer, is unable to sell their cars in Canada due to legislation. For comparison, Terrafugia, US-based company building a car/airplane hybrid has been able to change several laws in the US to allow them to enter the market.

You can attribute the position these companies find themselves in down to management, but the political climate does not help matters. You can still build a decent business in Canada, but building something revolutionary is more easily accomplished by people of other countries.
> If I type "blabla" into the url bar and press enter it
> still goes to google

It goes to a search engine defined in user preferences, actually. You are correct that this search engine is not correlated with the one selected in the search field.

> 'safebrowsing', the anti phishing detection thing?

That's carefully designed to not have to send the url to the safebrowsing provider. The browser has a client-side database of blacklisted urls, and there is also a mode where a one-way hash of the url is sent to the safebrowsing provider. In no case is the actual url sent.
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To me pivoting implies #1. You're pivoting around a problem to attack it from another angle.

If you're doing #2 then you're not pivoting, you're walking away to a different place entirely.
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You are militantly missing my point. There is no evidence that they are seeing message contents. All we are going on in this thread is the supposition that because they're getting "10 gigabytes a day", it must be message contents.
Sounds like a victim of his own fear of failure. Knowing you're about to start an endeavor that will truly test you is overwhelmingly scary for someone who isn't ready to be tested. I've watched a lot of people (myself included) give up before starting instead of risking a chance of actually failing and facing their own limitations.
thanks for the kind words and feedback.

on the roadmap are two features that will approximate "cloning": let users customize the question and the template of the daily emails, and categorization with #tags.

you'll hear about it when we implement and deploy those.
Sure, but that was a world where a new computer cost $1000. Right now that price is more like $100, and if Raspberry Pi works soon it will be $25. Any interested kid could easily earn that much in a month mowing lawns...
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Is that harder to prove in a class-action suit? Unconscionability is probably an easier road than duress. I am neither a lawyer nor a dentist.
I spent a weekend in Chicago and saw more pedestrians in near-death situations than in the rest of my life, cumulative. Where on Earth does that come from?
Cheap labor isn't necessarily a win. It means the best engineers will use NAFTA to go work in the USA where they will be paid 2-3x as much. The last startup I worked for in the Bay Area had over half its engineering staff from Canada.
Does not "accidentally" contain such material, e.g. unrestricted web browsing, explicit lyrics, unfiltered collections of books.

Is that still true? That is, they will still reject a new e-book reader because it can read the Kama Sutra, and they would still reject an app that allowed the user to navigate to a porn site? I have the Wikipedia app installed, which I think would violate those terms.
Higher resolution screen, 4G, open architecture, larger screen, NFC, mobile hangouts, faster phone, better memory, cutting edge OS (ICS)...

These are literally all the reasons I didn't get the iPhone 4S and decided to wait for the Galaxy Nexus.
Yes - the public would be better off with no SEC.

The agency has undergone "Regulatory Capture" and therefore does nothing to stop insiders like Madoff and hassles law abiding companies. The fact that they exist gives people a false sense of security that anything you can buy from a stock broker is not an outright fraud. Without them people would do the due diligence on their own. Any outright frauds could be handled by local police or FBI if it crosses state lines. Again, the whistle blower in the Madoff case thought he was done by sending info to the SEC; he might have gotten farther with a local DA or the FBI
How about right here?
Sounds interesting. Will definitely try it out.
"""So you can feel safe, but only because your platform is not popular enough right now, or useful enough for anybody to bother"""

That's a stupid fallacy. In the 90's the Mac had a tiny marker share, nothing like the near 10% it has today, and it still had tons of viruses. And even platforms like the Amiga and Atari had viruses, while having insignificantly less market share than PCs at the time. The OSX Macs, on the other hand, has only seen a few trojan horses and no actual virus distributed outside of some lab or something.

So, it's not just numbers or units, or relative percentage of market share. Other things count, stuff like the UNIX like permissions OS X had from the start, compared to the silly Windows 3->XP user being automatically admin.

"""Statistically? I just gave you as an example a freaking website that can do whatever the author wants on your iPhone and you're giving me statistics?"""

I'd care about that website when ACTUAL iPhones in the wild ACTUALLY VISIT websites such as this and are hacked, in large numbers.

Until then, I could care less.

It's the difference between being scared of violence in a seedy neighborhood and being scared of being targeted by a serial killer. Yeah, they do exist. What are you chances?
> "Foundations matter" is pretending to be profound without substance

Please take the time to read my article. The kind of pieces you get when something breaks or needs reworking does matter.

> Is everything fucked because we all use mice & keyboards?

I do not myself believe this, but there are those who do, and their arguments are worth paying attention to.
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Looks like just what I have been looking for. Finally.
Especially when apps like Square's Card Case have proven that there is a better system.
No. Lotteries are not cons either. In the US the rules are published on every ticket and are upheld.

Not that I buy the comparison to lotteries. I'd say startups are much closer to poker. Some people have no chance at making a living playing poker -- other people could almost certainly do it if they tried.

I bet Bill Gates could have been a very good professional poker player.
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Or how about if you don't think that this thread is contributing anything to what you think HN should be, you stop yelling at everyone posting in it and go back to "building things"?

We get it, you don't like this thread. You don't need to respond to every comment with a pedantic "fuck you, shut up, and get off my lawn, I have a billion comment karma because people upvote snark so now I'm going to act like a dick
" comment of your own.
>I'm surprised that they didn't include a motion to declare the contract invalid on the grounds of duress.

success of such motion would destroy all the "pay for the service" system as you do agree to pay for the service before it is rendered - otherwise the doctor willn't provide the service. To my understanding the ER is the only place where medical care muct be rendered without any pre-condition of entering into any contract.
It's a worthy goal, but missing it still doesn't cause rejection. BTW, I do include "don't leak memory" in my general-purpose template for testing (as opposed to submitting) iOS apps here: https://ontestpad.com/library/200/ios-app-testing-template
I think there's serious security implications here.
> Whitespace isn't significant in C.

As demonstrated, it is.

> When talking about programming languages, I don't think whitespace refers to spaces between tokens.

But that makes no sense, it is whitespace, and it has semantic significance (hence being significant). Whitespace was not significant in older versions of Fortran, and that allowed you to write

DO30I=10,100

which was interpreted as

DO 30 I = 10, 100

that is non-significant whitespace.

Ruby has long struggled with how it interpreted its whitespace, for a long time

sin (x) + y

would be interpreted as

sin(x + y)

for instance, rather than

syn(x) + y

how is that not significant whitespace?
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Sure, but it's determining what is "correct" that is the hard part. You could use a majority-rule if you have three or more sources, but the more additional sources are required starts getting into pretty niche territory and it still remains possible that the minority source is the most faithful one.
What did the "4" mean in the iPhone 4, then?
I'm in the middle of a pivot. I think that the difficulties described in this article, while totally possible, are more a result of doing it backwards. Before we pivoted, my co-founder and I had very long discussions. As we brought our employee aboard, we made her aware of the pivot. IF we had external investors, they would be aware of the need to pivot at least as early as us (in fact one of the arguments for external investors is that they'd hopefully have made us aware of it earlier... I wish we'd pivoted a year ago.)

I'm sure the larger your company is, and the more staff you have and the more money you've taken the harder it is to pivot.

I think the lean startup methodology and pivoting itself, is more focused on a way of doing things before you get all that.

Keep things really small and nimble and don't spend years on something before pivoting. OF course this is useless advice to someone whose spent years on something that looked good and now needs to pivot. But I think that this is an indication that they weren't ready to pivot more when it was easier.

In fact, isn't the whole goal to pivot when you're small and its cheap, and easy?

So, I think the lesson learned here is to be really focused on the metrics & nature of your business so that you know really whether you've got a viable business before you hire people, raise money and get a lot of emotional and other investment in that business you need to pivot away from.

Maybe the lesson is not that Pivoting is hard, but Pivot Early, Pivot Often.

(Not sure about that. Doing my first real pivot here as we speak.)

I don't deny the momentum.... in fact, the momentum of the old product is such a pull, even though everyone's fully committed to the pivot... its a distraction at best and at worst, we spend some work maintaining that product (which is where our funding is coming from now) that could be better spent on the product we're pivoting into.

Just some thoughts, apologies if they're a bit all over the place. Pivoting is hard, I don't deny, pivoting early and often, I think, is the approach that will make it easier, and make pivoting later, when its hard, less needed.
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It is time I ask for help.

After years of failed website ideas (not startups), I realize I desperately need someone who is willing to guide me in implementing small niche websites. (I typically find niche opportunities than disruptive game changers). By reaching out and asking for help, I am realizing my limitations and hopefully I can learn the skills I currently do not have. If you have been successful in testing ideas, from squeeze page to paid traffic testing, I would love to chat, pick your brain (I hate that term, sorry), or bounce ideas off.

In my line of work, I constantly spot small-time opportunities, but just can't seem to get my ideas tested and the lo-fi version implemented, so I can scope out the market to ultimately decide to stay or move on.

About me. I work from a home office making digital maps for clients. I have been pipe-dreaming of internet startup since 1993. I have some decent technical skills, meaning I can create basic websites, blogs etc. and am savvy with various tools of the trade (Spyfu, Compete, Adwords, affiliate, html/css, php, etc.). I am a hard and sometimes smart worker. My background is actually in environmental conservation and mapping. See my profile for a LinkedIn link.

If you are willing to serve as a mentor in this regard, please contact me at christen.erichsen via gmail. I would be immensely grateful!

grazie mille (a thousand thanks) -Chris
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This brings up troubling thoughts of how the web (as well as personal choice and a growing economic disparity) is being eroded by the senseless advance of technology.

Recently someone's start-up website refused to work on my Android phone because it didn't support WebSockets. I thought, "Wow, what a bunch of dicks. Now I have to get a better phone that can run Firefox Mobile or something." But I can ignore that one website.

Imagine every popular website requiring technology that only expensive cutting-edge devices can utilize. At some point you'll have to have a certain amount of disposable income just to browse the web. This should not be the case; everyone on the planet should some day be able to use the internet to the fullest given the most modest means. Even if you stick to non-mobile surfing, is your current computer's operating system modern enough to run the latest and greatest web browsing app? If you wanted to upgrade the OS, would you be able to, considering how old your computer is?

The World Wide Web is not meant to be a platform for an operating system on top of an operating system. It's meant to provide formatted data with inline images and hyperlinks. A ubiquitous, universal, cross-platform resource for information. I wonder if people consider accessibility anymore.
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I remember when zuckerberg called users of facebook "dumb fucks" for trusting him

http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...

those words will haunt the world some day
Regardless what my assumptions are it's not a matter of "Right or Wrong" because if there are 100 immigrants, there will be 100 paths/experiences :).

Your path is different than the path of these people who come back home because they have better opportunities there than here.
Can somebody explain how this is any better than Yahoo Pipes? Pipes has yql, along with a lot of other features (plus an online drag-and-drop editor, seems easier to use).
Disclaimer: the site is down so I couldn't try it out.
If they're only saving, say, online searches and the resulting ip address from each visit, that might be doable, and it seems like the best way to get info passively, and in small sizes.
I still remember reading how Zuckerberg lied to a competitor he was working with when Facebook first started and later even hacked it.
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Option (3): require both braces and indentation, with a syntax error when they don't match.
It's hard to argue because I've seen many companies/businesses that start that way back home or in Asia.

Only later on when they're stable enough to hire smarter people then they start to delegate.

YMMV. As I said it before, it's one of the reason why people want to go back regardless whether I'm wrong or you're right.

It's the worst place for you but not necessary for other people.

Different culture but I haven't seen China nor South Korea fail so far :).

UPDATE: Since I can't reply any more (for whatever reason). Sure, innovation might be lacking, but meh, most people come back because they want to create a company/business. This isn't a debate about USA vs the rest of the world in terms of innovation. It's about "why" people left US.
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Does anyone know if their are any positive merits to Medical Justice?

I always (possibly wrongly) assumed these agreements were an attempt by doctors to "level the playing field" since they would be unable to counter any negative feedback by a patient due to HIPAA.

Seems like the wrong solution to me, but I can see why doctors think they are protecting themselves from phoney reviews.
Very impressive. Very cool. I assume this will eventually extend beyond concerts to all kinds of other live events (sports, plays, etc). This is going to be big.

What's also interesting is how much the effect of SOPA will have on such an awesome service like this. So disappointing to think about how the copyright holders would rather shut you down then come up with a great way to enhance the service and share revenue with you.

Best of Luck. We'll all be rooting for you guys.
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