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Indeed. Consider how many layers of buffering exist between consumers and makers in traditionally financed projects. Not only do you have a convoluted connection during creation (capital investments, layers of management, etc.) you have an equally convoluted connection during production (retailers, distributors, marketing, management). All of this blunts the strength and the edge of the consumer-creator feedback loop.

That's not only a huge efficiency and effectiveness difference (how do you tell what someone really wants when there are N levels of bullshit between the creator and the consumer?) but it also makes for a much stronger emotional connection.
Disclaimer: I run mygola.com, a travel planning startup where you get your own personal guide who does all the research & bookings for you.

fwiw, there's quite a bit I would agree with David on, particularly around how limited the use case for pure social travel is. But let me go a step further.

I'll claim that we've been led to believe that the hard part about travel planning is what to see and where to stay. I think there's plenty of room for improvement there too, but increasingly on the margins. Instead, the hard part is:

1. All the logistical glue in between (how do I get from the airport to my hotel? should I take a stroller with me to Zurich or can I rent one?). This sounds like something Mozio is working on

2. All the time-sensitive stuff (what's the best place for jazz in Paris on Oct 17th that's not ridiculously far from from my hotel? any genuinely good car rental deals for my dates?). Good luck with your friends helping you on that

3. Hyper-personalization (wife hates museums, loves outdoors + I have a conference near Union Square and only 6hrs on Sunday we can roam around, what's an "authentic" place to hang out?)

And the biggest of them all - a service that can guarantee that you'll receive high quality responses to all of these (whether using your friends' graph or foursquare tips, Mozio or whatever behind the scenes), regardless of what trip you're taking.

Each of these pieces individually might not be difficult but taken together, seemingly impossible for a single company to answer. That's why most services won't even let you express your trip needs like a human - they'd rather say "you better choose from our dropdowns and go around pushing filters until we'll deign to respond with dubious accuracy to a tiny part of your overall problem".

At mygola, we're trying to take on the whole beast of travel planning in what would appear to be a completely high touch and hence ridiculously unscalable way. But we've invested a bunch in making this scalable, and I think we're beginning to get there after almost 2yrs of effort.

A big reason why we're even beginning to crack it is because we TOTALLY rely on innovation coming from startups & big companies alike - using Oyster for 3-star+ hotel recommendations, Trustyou for hotel review analytics and Room77 to recommend the best room - but the whole sausage-making operation is invisible to the traveler. As it should be. So more power to the awesome tech innovators here!
If they keep the 17" as the only thick and beefy model, I'll be contented; that seems like a reasonable compromise. It's insane to go Air-thin on that one: clearly anyone with a laptop that huge is more interested in power than portability. But now that Jonny Ive is at the helm... well, let's just say I don't think the man really gets us any better than Steve did.
Seriously, what has the pre-WhatWG W3C done for us that wasn't in "HTML 3.2"? I can't think of anything better in html4 than before, and plenty of things that're worse. As for CSS, it's evolved so slowly and refused to implement such basic features that people now use preprocessors to generate it, defeating the point entirely. (Not to mention that the most W3C-ey version was 2.1, which has still never been implemented).

So what has the W3C actually done for us? XHTML?
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IE6 sucks now. But when it came out it was one of the advanced browsers out there. And it was the first browser to support shadows and opacity.

- Shadows with: filter: Shadow(Color=#999999, Direction=135, Strength=5);
- Opacity: filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='image_name.png', sizingMethod='scale');

It even has support for javascript in css:
left: expression(15+((e=document.documentElement.scrollLeft)?e:document.body.scrollLeft)+'px');

And I remember you could even give your scrollbars colors.

How is this different from webkit shipping browser with cool new features now? Similar to microsoft right? They also wanted to show how cool their browser was back then. If Microsoft never shipped IE6 with these extensions we would have a lot less issues a few years ago.
Exactly how it works in Belgium too.

Whenever I ask my accountant if I can expense something to the firm, the answer is "We can try"
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I always figured that to be true. Any thief capable of using the internet to expose a location and put in the planning to base a robbery on it has already graduated to much more rewarding and less risky crime than breaking and entering.
> "sophisticated symbol shuffling" is sufficient to beat the world's best chess players

Try to beat even amateur players in 19x19 go. Von Neumann machines are inherently stupid, the domains you mention have very simple rules which allow symbol shifting systems to succeed. You may be able to convince a gullible person of the intelligence of a machine, but that is just cheating the test.

> Oof. You're talking about machines with less processing power than an iPhone.

I tend to agree with John McCarthy that "the computers of 30 years ago were fast enough if only we knew how to program them. Of course, quite apart from the ambitions of AI researchers, computers will keep getting faster." [1] The computers of the late eighties were a sufficiently fast platform for AI if just knew how to program intelligent behaviours in them properly. As such, the Lisp machine hardware was adequately fast, and since the software on them had considerable advantages over what we have today, they were able to do many things at about the same level as modern computers.

> The fact that people can think proves thinking is possible for mechanical systems; in the worst case we'll re-implement a human brain without understanding it.

The human brain has over a septillion atoms [2]. Someday we will duplicate the behaviour of these atoms in a computer, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. In general, I highly doubt there will be significant technological progress well our system of production for profit continues to produce recessions, depressions, and winters.

> Given how pathetic the Lisp machines were compared to what we've got now, what makes them so impressive to you?

The Lisp machines had a consistency and clarity of behaviour that resulted from the use of Lisp all the way down that is absolutely unmatched. You could modify the behaviour of any object in memory down to the machine level using just Lisp. Every object was stored in a single address space. What modern computer system compares to the Lisp machines in these respects? I would love to know, I will be the first to adopt a sanely designed computer platform for my own uses.

However, what I have seen so far is that companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google are actively trying to replace the programmable computer with displays for external cloud services. The prevalence of these private corporations which are devoted to the pursuit of short-term profit, as opposed to government research agencies such as DARPA, has significantly held back technological progress.

[1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html

[2] http://www.quora.com/Human-Brain/How-many-atoms-are-in-the-h...
Here's the previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2446316
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> Native Client is built on Pepper, a proprietary Chrome technology

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ppapi/

Why are you ranting about things you clearly know nothing about?

> The NPAPI port for other browsers was abandoned

You're bitching up and down this thread about standards, and now you're defending the ancient, non-standard Netscape plugin architecture? Do you have any clue what you're talking about, or are you just here to be anti-Google?
You think that's scary, the Internet just yelled at me that "The life of SWIZEC TELLER IS 32.17% COMPLETE"
This seems pretty alarmist. More than ever parents know where their children are(I don't think its a good thing). I also don't particularly care if anyone knows where my daughter is. There are plenty of children just like her that a predator could kidnap. If someone was specifically targeting her this wouldn't help them at all. Nor would a location services policy be a deterrent.

There are only so many things a parent can worry about. This isn't one of them. I can imagine the kind of parent that would implement a family "location services policy". It's the same kind that installs NetNanny for their 16 year old, reads their kids' emails, checks their cell phone logs, records their mileage every night to make sure they go where they say they're going, doesn't let them go outside alone, etc. The world is not such a frightening place. Let's not make it one.
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wonder what this will do to the noise these things make. I had the 2011 Macbook Pro 15" i7 with dedicated graphics and under heavy load it was as noisy as a vacuum cleaner :/
Cant see how that gets any better with even thinner devices, despite the fact das Ivy bridge might improve heat a bit.

But still for power users doing graphics intensive stuff, the noise is an issue.
Do you have a collection of links to things people have made? I'd love to see them!
I was poking around a botnet today and saw that the particular one I was looking at was just DDOSing DNS (port 53). Could you just use an /etc/hosts file and turn off UDP entirely? My understanding is that part of the problem is that the reason 53 is so vulnerable is because the OS sits there waiting for any UDP replies from DNS on it.
So, it makes sense that he actually quit and then distorted the story to make himself look more special.
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What makes a domain very valuable if it had not been registered to another person at all? For example, let's assume a TLD .er exists and someone registers hack.er , will it become intrinsically valuable?
i.e. combining it with the TLD, if it is a dictionary word, then is it valuable?

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This seems to be a recurring phenomenon on HN. Why is the timestamp given so much importance?
I concur with your sentiment but I think informing people/kids about how much information they're leaking is A Good Thing.

Unfortunately, most folks (including the kid in the story) have some expectation of privacy even though they've unwittingly given it up. Especially when fragments are given up in seeemingly separate places, yet reconstructing them is as trivial as a Google search.

That kid in the OP is probably going to get quite a surprise when his Dad asks him about the message he sent.
Another source of information leakage is his DNS records. Either he hasn't been keeping up to date or you just found out the riverside street in Slovenia where his parents live. ^_^

That one's more pernicious; top-level registrars usually demand that it be accurate and might threaten to take your domain away if someone reports that it isn't. There are whole companies which specialize in the service, "we'll be your official DNS contact so that your personal data isn't leaked through the WHOIS database," but the last time I checked was I think two years ago, and at the time the service-providers for this were either (a) really shady or (b) really expensive. It looks like the prices have come down a good deal from where they used to be, though.
"It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone".

That was sensational enough for me!
>But still for power users doing graphics intensive stuff, the noise is an issue.

Think of the poor people trying to write music...
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One problem is that even with a good knowledge of these terms you are agreeing to a lot of stuff that is far to vague, sure they will tell you that certain things will get your banned but it is up to their interpretation of these things.

As many in the comments have said, bans have often come from AdWords either misunderstanding or disagreeing with them on the nature of their business.
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Let me get this right, you signed up for Adwords with $100 free credit they gave you, used this credit not to advertise your own website as intended, but to advertise another businesses affiliate link for your benefit. They then cancelled your account and you're complaining?

The whole point of the free credit is so that businesses can try our their service with the possibility of buying their own credit afterwards. You're not using it as intended so they would appear to me to be well in their rights to block you.

There seem to be a lot of 'horror stories' cropping up, most seem to be from obscure blogs or websites, where they are going against the TOS or abusing the system to some degree. As someone who spends money on Adwords I like the fact they are filtering these types of users out.
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What was the content/urls of the ads? Hard to gauge if you actually have a legitimate case of complaint without seeing them.
There was a rumor about a high density display similar to the iPhones with more than 300ppi. That would be the best and most important improvement, since OSX has to be adjusted heavily. I dont get it that we still use displays with 100-130 ppi like 10 years ago.
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> they're only hurting themselves by not throwing a bone to customers with more specific needs

Do you have any clue what it costs to do a low-volume custom build of a product? Apple's margins would vanish in a puff of irrationality.

> The Air itself finally satisfied the sub-notebook market that Apple all but ignored for a decade, and it was fantastic for their bottom line.

You presume without evidence that a MacBook Air made with 2000ish technology would be wildly successful. I have no reason to believe that to be true, particularly because sub-notebooks were very much a niche product until the netbook fad, which is pretty much over.

> power users will cling to the last generation as long as they can, hoping in vain that Apple will eventually come around

And eventually the power users will come around. They always do. The cycle is quite predictable.
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After noticing a long wait for a 'bundle install' I checked here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/rubygems.org and noticed it was down.

With this site down, it makes doing Ruby development pretty difficult! Is anyone else seeing the same thing?

Update: I also thought that GitHub was down, but it seems like GitHub.com Ok, but GitHub.org is not up. Then I found this link: https://github.com/blog/1036-about-this-week-s-availability which seems to indicate that there's been some DDoS shenanigans going on this week.
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If you look at the ipod, where the ipod classic has maxed out at 160gb and hasn't seen a refresh for 2.5 years you can see that they don't cater to the top 0.1% of users.

What they might have a problem with though is convincing the average user that their computers with 256 gb are actually better than the really cheap windows machine with 750gb, to a user that does seems like it's 3 times better.
As always depends on what you are doing. I have a 13" air (2011) and it just flys. I use it for programming (PHP,nginx,mysql,memcached,...) and some photoshop now and then (loads so fast I though at first that it was broken:)). The only issue I have with it is that some badly programmed flash on web sites will spin my fan like there's no tomorrow (really loud). Oh that happens when playing games too, but that seems reasonable to me. All in all this is the best computer I have owned or used (and I've never used OSX before).

The most surprizing thing was that I came from a 15,4" laptop to a 13" and I don't feel being cramped at all, I can work on my stuff easily, which I wasn't able to do on my old laptop. The resolution is just perfect (at least for me).
He doesn't mention using an adwords coupon. The mail from Google states that some of the accounts advertising dropbox did that, but not necessarily OP.

He also doesn't complain about it, but explains how it makes sense from Googles point of view.
Thanks! UI is based on WebKit. Pandoc's license is GPL so I don't think I'll be embedding it.

As for Markdown parts – Texts 0.3 supports only blocks of plain text, headers (setext), unordered lists, code and math blocks (pandoc extension) and intervals of bold, italic, code, math and links. Only simple links (<URL>) are supported for now.

The idea is to expand syntax gradually, focusing on simplicity of user interaction. There are too many flavours of Markdown out there and several ways of writing the same structure in Gruber's Markdown is not a good thing, IMHO. There is no real need to decide between _italic_ and italic.

The object model of the text that is implemented is as simple as possible: blocks and spans (without nested spans). It shouldn't be a problem to implement essential parts of AsciiDoc and other plain text markups. When these formats get into the product depends on the interest from users. I'm planning to expose an API to allow implementation of formats as plugins.
Because things change fast in the industry.
To disrupt? I would say HP and Dell are already that much behind that there is nothing much to disrupt anymore..
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There are quite a few companies that provide online activation service (just search for "software license management"), but the other features you list aren't as common. I think you'd need to spend some time Googling related phrases and do your own analysis to get a better feel for the market.
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Just getting rid of spinning HDDs makes cooling easier. They generate an insane amount of heat.
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I talked to the Dad earlier this evening and the kid had NO IDEA that this info was leaking out. This issue isn't about being a helicopter parent or about being paranoid. It's simply about being aware. You tell a teen to put their wallet in their front pocket and you should tell them to click off on location services. This is just one of a thousand life lessons.
At those critical moments in a startup's life Conway responds quickly -- and so do those in his network. There was the time when a top executive at Tellme Networks, a telecommunications startup, e-mailed Conway in desperation at 11 p.m., as a business deal with Verizon (VZ) was falling apart. Two minutes later, Conway's reply came, in all caps: "AM ON IT." By the next morning Conway had arranged a meeting with the Verizon president, which led to a nine-figure contract with Tellme. Microsoft eventually bought Tellme for $800 million.

That's pretty badass.
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You really need to list the benefits if you're going to make a statement like that. The benefits of people driving are clear to me but the benefits of mass-encryption are not. (hence what the OP is asking)
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Namecheap offered me one year of WhoisGuard with my domain, and now it only costs $2.88/year. Gandi seems to offer it for free, and so does Google Apps if you get a domain from them.
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It also reminded me of various devices related to recording/illustrating the passage of time.
I will second the recommendation on python for a beginner. It is my favorite language to teach to people coming from a non-technical background, as it has a very small number of syntax rules. I'm currently attempting to teach ruby to a crop of students whose backgrounds range all over the place. While I love the language, I'm constantly butting heads with the 'beauty' of ruby, which was traded away for consistency of syntax. You _can_ use explicit parentheses and return statements in ruby, but I challenge you to find any instructional text which does. Python will give you fewer headaches to start.

That said, I'm going to disagree on the recommendation of starting a university course. We have to be clear: programming is not computer science. Some of the best computer scientists often write programs with poor implementations, and some of the best programmers I know have no formal computer science education (they tend to pick it up along the way, though). You should absolutely engage in structured learning, but understand that university-level CS may be not be in line with your goals.

Don't take this as a condemnation of CS. I have a background in it and enjoyed it immensely, but after four years of it I decided I simply wanted to be a programmer instead.
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> Or think how ridiculous it sounds to think of a "standard" definition of Python or Ruby.

There are ongoing efforts to standardize a quite sizable subset of Ruby in Japan for later ratifications in ISO. Ruby is also de facto standardized by the test-suite RubySpec.

It is not ridiculous at all, in fact reference documents such as RubySpec have been one of the main reason for which you can move from a Ruby implementation to another without many issues and without having many compatibility hacks included in each compiler/interpreter.
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I didn't say that all innovation is exclusively top-down. I just said that I couldn't see why it couldn't happen. For example when a client gives you a design brief for a system that's a limited type of top-down innovation.

W3C do appear to create some standards before there is a working implementation too.
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13 year olds can't get on Google Plus. I think all these accounts where fake, and make to catch his attention, possibly an covert smear campaign by Google's enemies. The attack is faux-childish too, children don't read Brother's Grimm these days.
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