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Who is LegitScript - they do not appear to be an arm of the law of any jurisdiction or even a state-recognised watchdog?

Is there any reason these registrars should act on behalf of another private organisation, especially one that is not even directly involved in the business which they seek to effectively regulate?

Beyond those responsibilities required by law, I do not see how it could ever be the responsibility of ICANN (or its delegates) to act as the enforcement arm for the globes enterprises on the Internet...

This is a restart of the whole RIAA/MPAA/SOPA nonsense all over again but applied to another industry. The laws already exist to pursue claims, even globally. What is really being asked are the transfer of costs and risks, including legal to ICANN or any other organisation that would act in its stead.
>no good reason for mouse UIs

As someone who frequently uses applications like Illustrator, Autocad, Sketchup, etc. I'd be very interested to hear how you'd qualify that statement.
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> What would happen to these people, then, if copyright were abolished and the studio incurring the expense of that production could no longer claim exclusive rights to the creative product on the grounds that there is a no-cost distribution system intact for generating as many digital copies of that product as anyone cares to make?

In the worst case, the studios wouldn't make as much money, and those people would get paid less (or some would lose their jobs). Of course, this is no different than if a studio makes bad films that people simply don't want to see, but that doesn't mean that we should have laws saying that movie-goers must pay to support all those people working on the bad films.

What you're implying is that simply putting time and effort into something means that you necessarily deserve a certain amount of financial reward. I disagree. I think the financial reward you deserve is equal to the amount of money your customers are willing to pay you.
good points,

#2 may be difficult for certain uses, since it's the system that displays the pop-up notification for push notification. But I agree it should be removed if possible.

#6 can be done with how multitouch is handled, like the wrist guard feature in note taking apps like penultimate. In most cases, just allow multitouch interactions with objects on screen.

#7, question for parents: what's the monetization policy that would work for you?
- one free app from the developer, all others cost money
- free app with in-app purchases, tucked away somewhere for parents
- no "sample" app, all apps cost money
I don't have examples, but I would think so.

In terms of product-market fit, great fit in a small market still limits potential success of a company in the absolute sense. (i.e. "dominating" the now-$5M a year "pog" milkcap industry)

That's why VC's sometimes look for startups that have seemingly strange ideas to "normals", but the potential to address problems in a massive market. Achieving product-market fit can take time, but doing so in a large market can mean more in the end. (i.e. Spanx - a "minor player" in the womens underwear sector when compared to Victoria' Secret)
You want $100 a share at 10 million shares? I don't understand.
You say that in YC you "see the same style of companies and no big winners cause its only selected by a few people" and that they "probably look for the same traits of people"

As well as these points, I will also be addressing some of your earlier points including the fact that you claim YC lacks diversity.

First of all regarding Ivy league schools, computing/engineering degrees and the fact it lacks diversity proves that you are not aware of Y Combinator or its investments. Y Combinator have funded people from 17 years of age upwards and have funded people from the likes of Spain, Netherlands, England, Canada, India and teams with mixed nationalities etc. The founders come from different backgrounds and schools including both Ivy Leagues and State schools. Y Combinator have also funded MBA's who have taught themselves to code.

Secondly, now we have addressed the parts regarding schools and diversity we will cover "probably look for the same traits of people" well they do. Y Combinator look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful[1] I'd advise you to read the essay by PG linked below so you can see what YC actually looks for.

Now regarding, "see the same style of companies and no big winners cause its only selected by a few people" I think you are also completely wrong here as well. For instance, you are forgetting that YC's investment is around ~$17k for around 6% of the companies they invest in and this is extremely important when considering some of the exits they have already had, and will have in the future.

By exits they've already had, I'm referring to the likes of:

Heroku which was acquired by Salesforce for $212M which gave Y Combinator a 400x return! [2]
WooFu to SurveyMonkey for $35M
CloudKick was acquired for $30-50M by Rackspace
BackType for $50M by Twitter
280 North (Motorola, $20 million)
Omnisio (YouTube, $15 million)
Reddit (Conde Naste, $12 million)
AppJet (Google, $10 million)
Rapportive by LinkedIn for $15M
Project Wedding for $4M
Movity by Truila for $15M
AdGrok - Twitter $8M

Even as recent as today, Posterous just sold to Twitter!

To be honest I could go on for a while, there has been a lot of acquistions in the several million range for YC Companies and this is excluding other companies which haven't had an exit.

For instance;
AirBnB, DropBox, Stripe, SongKick, Bump, Disqus, Webly, Wepay, Justin.tv, Heyzap, rethinkdb, DailyBooth, wakemate, carwoo, 1000memories, Hipmunk, GoCardless

Again I could go on here but these companies are all different and are becoming huge companies in their own right.

Sure, Y Combinator might look for a particular type of founder/founders but to say they're all the same and aren't successful is completely wrong.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/relres.html
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-exits-heroku-mov...
You can scroll with the wheel or by pushing against the sides of the screen, as well as the scrollbar (which btw makes it easier to jump to another part of the page than it would be with touch).

"swipe-in from top/bottom" = right-click, and "swipe from sides" = swing around the corners.

In general the design philosophy for mouse in Win8 is that it shouldn't be used to imitate the touch controls, but rather it should have its own independent set of controls for the same actions, that better fit the mouse.
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Definitely awesome. I'm surprised that all of my bookmarks say "This bookmark is being indexed". Surely you've already indexed a lot of them as they probably overlap with other Hacker News users. Do you index every bookmark for every user or can you detect dupes?
You're right with hardware there are end of life notices that extend for several years. And even third parties that support the equipment. (Of course the software or OS might be a different story.)

But more importantly there is an ongoing concern that has a reputation (not the same with an entire company folding) and the product killed is just a part of many products that are offered. And of course they are charging for something whereas in the case of web startups what they are giving you is free. So there is no "consideration" and as a result I would think they are not subject to any class action lawsuits. How can you sue for something you didn't pay for?
I don't see a problem with giving homeless people jobs it seems nobody else will.
I'm kind of surprised people are surprised that upgrading to 3.x has gone slowly. You can't upgrade a major installed base overnight unless there's incentive. Windows Vista, for example?

Additionally, it has stumbling blocks towards achieving the upgrade. Packages you're using aren't upgraded, you have a lot of code dealing with strings, and so on. I worked on a project that tried to use Python 3.x and it was a nightmare in both regards.

In my view, Python 3 doesn't offer any major reasons to upgrade other than we've been told to. Someone tell me: what is it that's so compelling about Python 3? For instance, when you click on "What's new in Python 3" on this page, the first thing in the list is "print is a function". Seriously? The FIRST thing in the list is something that breaks code and has very little impact. Unicode has a lot more impact, breaks a lot more stuff, and is doable in 2.x anyway, yet is the 5th or 6th thing in the list.

So I'm not really sure what the devs were thinking with Python 3.x. It broke a lot of stuff but didn't break enough to make Python notably better. I was around and a heavy Python user for the 1.x -> 2.x upgrade. That was far easier, had some features I could really use, and there was a much smaller installed base. This time around, I just don't see the reason I should upgrade. Eventually, I imagine I will when support is so far gone that there's no choice, or there's some amazing feature that requires it.

For those of you who will respond: "So don't upgrade, or switch off Python". One of those is mission accomplished. The other one remains to be seen, though if Tiobe is at all believed, Python is declining sharply in interest.
Well, there is lots of silicon lying around at least.
No he isn't preaching, just stating common sense.

If you supervise your children, they won't swallow marbles or anything else. There are many vendors of wood toys (usually European) that are meant for small children. An ipad, is in the same realm as TV -- not meant for small kids.
agreed. Django is a major reason why adoption hasn't been quicker up to now.
Hmm, I think of the iTunes interface as an affordance for the awkwardness of the wiggly icon interface, rather that its discoverability. But I suppose it is more discoverable as well.

The old MacOS eject behavior was indeed horrible. It was a miderable design. I can't understand how anyone ever thought "throw the floppy away" was a reasonable abstraction for "eject".
adoption hasn't seemed slower than reasonable to me. there's been steady progress in porting packages over to it, and until the packages you need are there there isn't much point in using python3.
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> What you're saying about the VM is a software problem, not a hardware one.

The strict conceptual partitioning of software problems and hardware problems is quite passé these days. In the last 10 years, Intel and AMD have added a tremendous amount of very CISC-y functionality into x86 (e.g. string search instructions), in recognition of the fact that exploding transistor budgets make hardware the right place to implement certain things.

> but there was no reason why the GC couldn't have been moved into kernel space before virtualization extensions came along.

GC couldn't have been moved into kernel space because of the second part of my argument: UNIX hides hardware features not necessary to run C programs. The MMU can do quite a lot that is obscured behind the very limited mmap() abstraction.
The primary advantage for me is that purchasing a MacIvory gave me a legal license to run Genera. This is important to me because I work for Microsoft, a company that pays my salary by selling licenses to software.

I've also been told that a lot of things didn't work or were missing in the version of Genera that people can find online. I can't speak to the validity of that statement though.
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As interesting as Marco's discussion points are, his writing style makes me imagine him frothing at the mouth and spitting his words.

He never takes a marginal approach to an issue. There's a clear line down the middle and he is well and truly on one side.
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Hey! Don't be down on your family...

My dad is utterly overwhelmed by a computer with a mouse and keyboard. We could never email pics of his grand kids and family events because even something like the gmail login page (that users like you and me take totally for granted) was too much for him.

He'd fish out his login details from the desk drawer, hunt and peck them in and finally gain access (sometimes) only to learn that there is no new email waiting for him. At which point he'd throw the desk upside down and start kicking the computer to shit.

Contrast that with simply tapping the envelope to retrieve email and I say retrieve not check because the badge notifications mean that he never even has to tap the envelope unless there really are emails waiting.

You simply cannot underestimate the value of this for people on that side of the digital divide.

He now has a Facebook account, he messages us from that and uses regular email, he has access to family pictures, groups he shares interests with and generally does have an authentic slice of the digital age of his very own that he greatly enjoys.

Even hunt and peck typing is a more fluent thing on a touch screen... Who'd a thunk it?

My whole point is this: horses for courses.

You and I have no frame with which to reference the massive value of a 'Luddite' device just as my dad has no way of understanding the type of functionality guys and girls like us require.
The article annoys me a little bit because of the use of terms like "scrambling to explain itself". I don't think that's the case at all.

To be clear: it was organised with the the guy that runs the shelter. The homeless people themselves seem more than happy to do it. So who is complaining, exactly? People that decided to be outraged on behalf of homeless people? If the objection is that we are treating humans like objects then I have news for you- that is not even slightly new. Have you ever stopped to think how dehumanizing a department named "Human Resources" actually is?

On one of my more adventurous (and, admittedly, drunken) evenings I ended up sitting down with a group of homeless people on a street in New York. It was fascinating for a huge number of reasons (that I'll skip past for brevity) but one thing that really struck me was how ignored I was. When I initially sat down I imagined that people would be staring at me because I was well-dressed and well presented in a group of homeless people. But no-one even looked down to notice.

So even if it does nothing else, this project gets people approaching a homeless person, talking to them, making a business transaction just like 'normal' people... I imagine that will be a very welcome change for the wifi carriers, and one that might make them feel a little more integrated.
The gilded elite that trapse around SXSW need to get off their high horses and appreciate a persons position that is not their own. The truth of it is they would rather not come face to face with the homeless which forces them to think about those still waiting for the elevator to the ivory tower. It's much cleaner to tweet their concern and feel good about their twactivism.

“Everyone thinks I’m getting the rough end of the stick, but I don’t feel that,” Mr. Jones said. “I love talking to people and it’s a job. An honest day of work and pay.”
I haven't written any code that doesn't run on Python 3 since 2010. I'm in the comfortable position of generally getting to use Python 3 for new projects (my library dependencies are met), and when I don't, the shared subset of Python 2.7 and 3 is useful enough to get the job done.

There's lots of reasons I find coding in Python 3 more enjoyable and productive. Unicode by default, removing x*() functions and returning generators where appropriate instead, removing old-style classes, improved consistency in standard object interfaces/protocols, standard lib cleanups, etc. Yes, even print() - keyword args are a lot nicer than the old hackish syntax for things like the output file.

These are often called minor and "no compelling reason to upgrade", but I'd submit that when a language does more often what you expect it to do, when the number of gotchas you need to keep in mind is reduced significantly, that's not minor. It might not be a reason to switch a large existing codebase over, but it's certainly a reason to write the next large codebase in it, and that's what Python 3 aims at: The future of Python and its future users.

No, that doesn't make for a fast transition, but indeed, it was never expected to be ("five years" is the plan, we're not there yet, and things look to be on track). Eventually, there just won't be any reasons left not to use Python 3, but plenty of reasons to do so (the better core language, the sum of improvements in the standard lib, the continued maintenance), and then it'll be done.
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Is it for the entire day, or just during the times when people are most closely crowded into an area? (I don't really know how SxSW is scheduled.)
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I did exactly that. It wasn't very helpful. One of the things that would bring shell into the 21st century is a decent discovery mechanism for new users. Learning shell by immersion in the oral history of *nix just isn't a scalable way to teach. No matter how enjoyable.
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The real insult here is that other people seem to think they can speak for these particular homeless. I see no reference in the article to the people working this job that they were insulted by it, felt demeaned, or interviews from other homeless people that turned it down.
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I know some of my iPadless colleagues would love an iPhone version. Any plans to add universal support? Or even a separate version?
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Honest question though: do you think that, given all of the breaking changes and toughness of upgrading, _even more_ should have been broken in this release to improve the language?

I guess that's my most major beef with it. The upgrade has been tough, and a lot of the most inconsistent aspects of Python weren't fixed. (A good example: "len()")

BTW, I tried using Python 3 on that project in 2010, if that helps anyone gauge my opinion on it.
I am not sure about now, but another point is that when Python 3 was released it was slower as well, so there was hardly a reason to swap for very minor changes and no libraries. Python 3 should have been something radical like PyPy or large changes to the standard library.
Posted ^^this before I was reminded that Github released their own iPhone-only issues app. Thanks for giving the iPad some love though!
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"nudges me slightly more to consider open-source alternatives"

Right. While it was certainly unfortunate that Posterous was acquihired the impact from a saas/paas closing would be magnitudes more disruptive.

Everyone comes across as a winner and doing well with no chance of going under until it happens. Imagine building something using mailgun,appfog, engine yard or (pick whatever you want) and then having to scramble (even over the course of several months) to try and replace the functionality.
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I'm kind of surprised people are surprised that upgrading to 3.x has gone slowly.

I'm kind of surprised that people think people are surprised that the upgrade to Python 3 has gone so slowly. After all, Guido himself has stated on numerous occasions that the migration would take many years to complete. The time to complete this transition is not so much of a problem for a language that plans to be around for the indefinite future. After all, the future is much longer than the past.
"hit a nerve among many who said that turning down-and-out people into wireless towers was exploitative and discomfiting"

Ok. I think I've got Aspergers because I cannot believe I just read that.

Giving homeless people a temporary job, money, hope, and making others aware of their situation is exploitative? Then why don't these warm hearted humanitarians against exploitation do something about it?! I don't see them making a difference or a change.

As someone who actually donates money to homeless on streets and intersections regularly. I can't help but feel really extremely angry at that statement. I bet you the same people who find this "exploitative & discomforting" are the same people who never donate money to the homeless in the first place. Let alone actually stop to talk to them, listen to their story, and try to understand their situation.

"$20/day is exploitation"

THEY ARE FUCKING HOMELESS. They have no home. They live on the streets. And you're worrying about them getting minimum wage? They're worried about staying alive. These aren't people who need a union and a minimum wage law to protect their interests. These are people who are at the very end of their rope who are begging other human beings for money so they can eat. Getting $20 a day for walking around with a wireless transmitter doesn't sound discomforting. What does sound discomforting is hanging out at polluted intersections breathing carcinogenic car fumes all day while baking in the sun with a sign asking for money so you can eat a meal that day and not die. Damn absolutionists.

Their problems (survival) and your problems (minimum wage) are completely different. I'd like to ask these "humanitarians against exploitation" where they were yesterday when those homeless people didn't get $20.
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