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"... name, say, 1,000 applications where this would be acceptable...what else?"

Image processing is already a large market but it is constrained by the fact that doing image processing on today's silicon is expensive.

If instead of 1000 faster you read "1000 cheaper to do the same thing" you can imagine lots of computer vision / pattern (voice) recognition / noise reduction stuff that becomes viable and the market will be huge.
I actually purchased Sparrow, but I don't use it.

It was slow and had some UX quirks/bugs.

For a time I fired it up every once in a while as an email-backup solution, but I got lazy so I don't even do that now.
I’m fearing this will going to look like a personal ad, but here we go anyway.

Who am I?
I’m Dirk, a 32 year old Dutch jack-of-all-trades. I have a background in communications/PR, taught myself to hack (PHP mainly, Python OK too) some 7-8 years ago. I’m not the best designer in the world, but I know when something ‘works’ or not and know my way around photoshop/illustrator et al.

Our family dog (I have a wife+2 young kids) is a lab. As with most dogs, his owner has similar personalities: easygoing, playful, more intelligent than you’d say at first sight, and a puppy-like naivety well into adulthood. Oh, I’m housebroken, too.

About my project: No paint just pixels
Two years ago I started No paint just pixels: a project that will disrupt the art world. A lot of media have made the transition from analog to digital, from offine to online. This is clearly not the case with art. I made an online marketplace where digital artists and art lovers can buy, sell and display their art. The project is written in PHP and is about 75% finished. Check my YCW11 appliation pich here:
http://dirktheman.posterous.com/private/oDCxnvrzme

Who am I searching for?
I’m looking for someone who is a jack of all trades like me: part hacker, part design guy/gal, part marketer, part sysadmin. If you have strong coding skills but lack a sense of design or marketing that’s okay, but coding skills are a must. Personalitywise: if you’re easy going, love art and/or photography, want to make the world a better place and have a sense of humor contact me! The one thing I can do without is a big ego though.
If you’re already based in California that’s a plus, but by no means a prerequisite.

What’s the deal?
For sake of equality, 50% of the company and its proceedings.
Good idea, but I personally don't want to have to download and process terabytes (petabytes?) of data every day in order to be able to read a few kilobytes of my own email.

Maybe in a few decades time when it's normal for people to have static IPv6 allocations and permanently online machines in their homes, it will be trivial for people to run their own mail systems using existing protocols.
E-mail is stagnated not because of technologic restrictions. Beautiful UI though!

This is a people problem, not a technology one. Sorry, just don't see it 'fixing' a problem.
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Common Crawl is a non-profit that maintains a big crawl dataset.
Very inspiring. If you watch the video interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFaCkCRhl2I) she talks about generating traffic and using inbound marketing (including some sneaky tactics!).

They are doing 350,000 uniques a month now with ZERO paid marketing.

Rand from SEOmoz would be proud.
But it's no the same as the European Union which is the economic and political union. The correct label would be "Europe".
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"Europe" would be correct. EU is wrong since it's the economic and political union.
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Size is unfortunately completely unimaginable....

A small marketing firm I happen to admin the email servers for... sends 15 million marketing emails per month (all opt-in, CAN-SPAM / Australian Spam Act compliant). This alone is nearly 1.5TB of data. We only send marketing campaigns for about 8 national brands and about the same number of regional brands to a country of twenty something million people.

Now It might be suitable for a conversation or private chat room. It would work really well in an IRC / small group situation. But I can't imagine a single global system ever scaling past a few dozen people without some significant hardware.

As far as deleting things, the problem there is who is responsible for deleting and what if I don't? The number of bounces we get from campaigns from defunct mail boxes that have filled to quota is quite high. Who removes this email that no one reads? At the moment the storage problem is isolated, but a central chain makes it impossible.

The more I think about this makes me think you might get it to work with a block chain per domain... but then whats the point over simply setting up your own email server you trust and using encryption?
NA, SA, EU, SEA

EU can be used to describe the continent and the union.
It's telling that the conference is being held in Dubai, UAE, which blocks Skype because it competes with the incumbent monopoly telecommunications company, Etisalat, which is majority owned by the government of the UAE which is an absolute hereditary monarchy.

Remind me again why people like this should have any say in how the internet is run?
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I'm all in favor of making the passwords as secure as possible for your users, but I hate it when I'm dictated how my password has to look. For less than critical accounts I always use the same password, which is easy to remember to me. If any account is hacked, it’s not a disaster. I just hate it when I sign up for something the website throws back ‘your password should be at least 8 charachters long, contain one of the following characters: @!#$ etc. etc.’. From a usability point of view this is a nightmare, and it will cost you users.

In the end, the user is responsible for choosing a secure password. You can only direct.

On a side note: the 'unbreakable' Enigma cypher was cracked (partly) because the German re-used part of the encrypting key, for example, one operator often used the name of his girlfriend as a key. These easy to distuinguish words were called cillies (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Ope... ).

My point is that you should do everything possible to encrypt the passwords of your users without sacrificing usability.
Once someone who worked at cuil told me their index got corrupted the day before launch was scheduled.
why

1.

for what? for what reason, cause, or purpose? [1]

I am talking about cause and you're talking about purpose. I think we can both ask why

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/why
I must admit I am quite shocked to see that there is now a new account on HN called Comantra advertising this "service". I am also quite sure that no one that reads this site would fall for this scam.

Edit: spelling and punctuation
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I get that what you're trying to do is keep it syntactically correct javascript, but just in case, have you looked at HAML [1] and/or Jade[2]? Both templating languages that allow you to write HTML in that kind of way. Even less syntax than what you're writing there.

I guess you have the overhead of the template language and rendering them though still.

[1] http://haml-lang.com/

[2] http://jade-lang.com/

EDIT: Added links.
Oh and I forgot to mention this is horribly expensive to scale.

We calculated that it cost us about 1.20 euro do keep this up per user per month. And mind you these costs were primarily network bound so it doesn't matter if you have faster hardware.

There are some optimization techniques you can do to bring this down (for example use imap push) but with gmail you are looking at about 2K connections per IP, you do the math.

Actually you can do this (and we are doing this through partners) on the cheap but the experience you can provide will not be appealing unless it is an add-on experience on an existing product.
afraid I get an internal server error when trying to upload my opml
I'm not so sure. Wikipedia doesn't show it as a disambiguation for the continent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_(disambiguation)
To be totally frank, I don't really understand the legal requirements from this. Do I really have to comply with all of a country's laws in order to allow its citizens to purchase electronic goods from my online storefront (assuming I have no physical presence in their country)?

If so, why? And what possible sanctions do they have against me? Logic would dictate that the country would be responsible for barring access to such resources from within its borders - not individual foreign bussinesses.
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Wow, I can't believe this is the first I've heard about this. Any discussions over internet control that give China a say will not end well. I don't see how any regulation can improve the internet. All the government influence we have seen this far has only tried to hurt it.
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Nice to see that a web.py site will be Twitter's search partner. Looking forward on how they will scale it. webpy.org
Actually if you go with the concept of pointers to messages detailed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615862 you enormously cut down on the size needed to store those messages (one message with a million recipients is just one message + a million recipients, not one million copies). Also with regards to deletion you could leverage the economics to pay for size, for example a user with a 1tb mailbox store will have to pay more mailcoins than a user with a 200kb mailbox store.
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The diploma and $5.00 will get you a mocha at your average coffee shop. Seriously, the question is too general for a specific answer. Best I can come up with is the classic 'It depends'---specifically on the details of the degree. Is the emphasis on programming? Algorithms (care and feeding there of)? What approach does the degree take towards hardware? Given advances at the quantum level this last takes increasing importance. What does the degree holder plan on doing with same? Will the details attract those who are hiring? Those are just a few of the questions that come to mind without really getting into the problem posed by the question. Think of it as a crap-shoot and roll the dice---see what happens...
Your way sounds great. Unfortunately, in practice this system is usually used to raise prices outside the US for countries where the public is used to paying more for stuff - not the other way around.

Anyway, I was mostly referring not to price differences but to availability differences. You can argue for or against price differentiation, but I challenge you to provide one good reason why I can purchase a movie on a DVD in my country, but not watch it on Netflix - or why that movie would become available locally months after its US premier.
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Equating EU with Europe is a common fallacy.

EU is a political entity (recent), Europe a geographical entity (ancient). There is an overlap of people who live within both, but that's not the case with Russia.
Yep. Audio matches written quote.

Kudos Ben on your quick rebuttal of the misquote claim. And for an article full of links to all the companies and technologies you're writing about.
Do we need another setting for "no, really make my default font Arial"?

A setting is a setting.
Microsoft provides a blacklist that the users have to install manually. This list blocks the cookies, not access to the websites themselves. And doing this through AdBlock Plus is in fact more user-friendly, so I don't get what's new about having this option, other than Microsoft making a statement (which is good, as Google does have to be more careful about privacy).

Also "the war is on"? Like really? And this is news?

I would have guessed a war was on ever since Google partnered with Mozilla, or ever since they launched Google Docs or Chrome or Android. I would have guessed a war was on ever since Microsoft created their own search engine. But noooo ... a stupid blacklist is far bigger than that.

This is sensationalist yellow junk and I'm not sure why some people upvoted it ... aren't you tired of articles like these?
Here's a fun fact. There are approximately 365 * 24 ~ 10,000 hours in a year. If he can pull this off, then problems which currently take a year of CPU time could be solved in _one hour_ with the proviso that your results can be off by up to 1% (assuming that the error can be tracked and doesn't compound over the lifetime of the calculation).

I can think of a lot of data mining/machine learning applications for which that would be a huge benefit.
I'm just excited to have ajax on https://beta.fastmail.fm now.
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And what do you propose us David's do to defeat this Goliath?
Wow, the interface is really nice. But I don't think it would work for my daily mail use. I'm too familiar with my mutt setup.
I imagine load time hasn't improved so much because that's not really what they are optimising for.

You could of course still run an old version of Photoshop on a modern PC if startup time is really that important to you.

I think it would be interesting to compare performance of Photoshop CS5 with Photoshop 6 (the first version I used) on a modern PC.

I would expect of course that PS6 would start up almost instantly whereas CS5 would take a few seconds.
However it would be interesting to also take a relatively large image file of the sort of size that a graphics designer might actually work with (let's say 500MB or so) and apply a bunch of the same filters across the whole image (in such a way as to produce an identical result) on the same computer and time them both.

My guess would be that CS5 would be significantly faster which may be partly due to optimisations made at load time. Not sure if anybody has actually measured something like this though?
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Hi! Since we figured that at some people here ought to be from somewhere, germany, we thought a bit about starting a hn-meetup in stuttgart ( which should be well reachable for most people in that area ). We would like the meetup to take place around the end of march.

The intent of this post is to find out if there is any interest in such a meeting, and if, how many of you consider joining us. So please, vote with yes if you want to take part.

As far as the meetup is concernced, we'd suggest some lightning talks ( e.g. about the highest voted submission of the speaker ) to get to know each other, but it's just a suggestion.
Depending on the count of participants, I'd organise a suitable venue. For free, of course.

Edit: I put up a small page on my blog for the meetup http://tinyurl.com/hnstuttgart

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Totally going
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Considering
As an attempt to make this interesting (by completely ignoring it):

It turns out that, by employing quantum mechanics, it's possible to encode data and then later answer the question "has anyone looked at the data yet"?

Let's say you're a secret agent. You get your instructions from shadowy figures in paranoid places. And, being a secret agent, it would obviously be a problem if anyone were to eavesdrop on the instructions sent by your employers. Quantum entanglement allows you to check: has anyone already looked at this message?

Pretty neat!
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Anonymouth is way too complicated for an above-average user to use.
Can anybody share any "Aha!" moments coming from crunching big data? It would be interesting and useful to know how you went from theory to actual validation, especially if the result couldn't have been obtained any other way. Thanks
Yes, part of the problem that Photoshop has is that it is seen as the "go-to" tool for doing any kind of graphics work at all.

Many people install pirate Photoshop to resize and put a few filters on their photos and complain that is it too slow and complicated when really they could have achieved the same result from either a freeware program or a significantly cheaper commercial one.
I get the feeling that governments really, really want to see mass protests and rebellions worldwide over the access to Youtube and Facebook.

Wait - are you saying that things like the "Arab Spring" were actually protests over access to Youtube and Facebook.

That's... umm.... a bold, unconventional view.

(While many credit Facebook & Twitter with a role in helping to co-ordinate protests I am unaware of any claims that the protests were over access)
This is what I don't like about the startup community. I love making things but hate talking about them.

Of course I want my startup to get publicity, I just don't want my name attached to it. Solution?
Oh shoot... well... I guess you can still count me in
Too easy answers would be Facebook.com and Dropbox.com. There are plenty of others(umm color.com ...)
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Can you provide a source for the claim that hunter gatherers were much happier?
Hi bad_user and thanks for your comment. I don't really know why you're calling it "sensationalist yellow junk". In my eyes its news and therefor worth beeing on "hacker news".
Have a nice day.
If you're interested in more info, here's Ilya Segalovich's talk about the journey of Yandex: http://www.seedcamp.com/resources/the-yandex-story-with-ilya...

(Ilya is the co-founder and CTO of Yandex, and a very nice person).
The only thing I feel is broken about [web-based] email right now is that it can so easily be snooped on.
Governments want control over Youtube, Facebook etc. in order to prevent these kinds of uprisings.

People weren't rioting over access to Youtube and Facebook, but access to them did fuel the riots and help coordinate them (hence they were shut down).
You can give a try at hn@wiredcraft.com - we'll update the page later on today / tomorrow. Hope to see you there!
Is charging for each 'international' click even possible? What if I'm using Tor?
Quietly ignore them and provide workarounds and carry on being naughty citizens until they are an insignificant legend.

Fighting them makes only them stronger.
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'Allow foreign phone companies to charge fees for "international" Internet traffic'

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It is extremely commonly used shorthand, though.
Do they copy the images, or hotlink them? If they hotlink, some evil minds might come up with other "workarounds".

No way I am going to add some meta tag just for pinterest. Not that I have anything I don't want to be shared yet, but still.
coffescript's sugar is pretty nice (haskell inspired)?
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becomes
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Hopefully in harmony we will see a shorter function syntax for environments where CS isn't an option
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Wish I could make it. Unfortunately, it would require a train trip there and back for Friday :-(
Governments get sick when they hear 'freedom' in any form, especially if they cannot shut it up at will. So be prepared to more fighting over the years, as the stake - the amount of free Internet users - grows every year.
pretty much, I am going to go with BIL conference. It is an Excellent Adventure... :)
Because it's the UN, theater of the absurd, where Gaddafi was invited to speak about democracy, where every dictator has their day.
The traditional way has "IEEE 754" as a standard. Is there any such document for "physics-based" floating point? I'd rather call it "log-based" by the way.

And is this really floating point? As far as i understood, it is fixed point. So integers, just not twos-complement or unsigned interpretation.
I've done similar, although I didn't go as far because I got bored quicker.

In the end I asked the guy how he felt about scamming people etc, and the discussion that ensured convinced me that he didn't actually realize what they were doing. He actually went to get his boss to convince me, and I half heard an argument before someone hung up my phone.
Much as this sounds amazing, languages are pretty uniform once you know the basics much as once you get the basics of programming, your knowledge is portable across other languages. The majority of a language is working out how the basic structures apply and learning local variations and nuances.

I'd be more impressed if he had some eastern languages which don't follow the usual structures. The languages he has learned are all similarly structured. Hebrew is possibly an exception.

The BBC are also notoriously impressed with anything that people can do if it's a slow news day.
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I think it would be difficult to write a photoshop clone that loads in under a second and provides the same level of performance when dealing with advanced filters on huge images with hundreds of layers.

Anyway I doubt that all of that stuff is loaded at startup anyway.
I was impressed at how many people I met in Luxembourg spoke French, Portugese, English, German, and Luxembourgish. Almost 100% of the native population speaks Luxembourgish (which they learn in dedicated kindergarten years, and then never again), French, German and English. Luxembourgish is like their secret language - spoken universally by the native population, but by almost nobody who didn't grow up in the country. It's useful for them in business meetings, when they want to discuss something among themselves, without being concerned that the visitor actually speaks german/french.

I wonder if there is another country where the vast majority of the native population speaks four languages?
I learned Hebrew when I was much younger, I'm no longer even remotely functional in it but I can tell you that it has a lot of patterns that can be carried over from other western languages. The primary novelty in it would be the K-T-B [1] vocab patterns and the occasional quaint idiom.

[1] K-T-B referring to how nouns/verbs with the consonants K, T, and B in them tend to refer to libraries, books, or reading. This is true in both Hebrew and Arabic. IIRC, Aramaic shares the same families of concepts but isn't as directly portable like Arabic and Hebrew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-T-B
That's great, i'll wait for that :)
His Afrikaans sounds a lot better than his Dutch. With a little bit of work he'll be able to speak Flemish too, as that is about as similar to Dutch as Afrikaans.