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A bit off topic - I find it surprising that the animations don't work in IE9. I'd've thought that the Microsoft user base is one Apple wants to get buying Apple products, and the iPhone is a good entry point.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtml

Good place to start exploring the economics of scarcity v. abundance (from a fellow economist) and how the content distributors are freaked out about how to deal with it (which, in simple terms, describes the legislation's origins).
Oops, Coursera.
Amusingly that's not a bad argument that we're living in a simulation. Disregarding any particular human, humanity itself has done remarkably well against the odds in the same sense that story-book characters do remarkably well against the odds and that, at least when they're on a winning trend, player-controlled populations (whether in Populous, C&C, etc.) do well against the video game's odds or against other players.
Blogs are like the "Hello World" of dynamic web apps. No one is implying that this is where web dev ends at.
Though I find these contests very interesting, I can only wish that as much resources was spent to develop a viable alternative to C++ that would make many of those vulnerabilities impossible. Languages like Rust, ATS and BitC come to mind.
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Thanks for the reply. It would be really cool, when you guys are ready to go public with the product, to post a youtube video of a split screen of your app and gmail; going over killer features that might get people to actually sign up and try it out.

I think many people need to actually see it first and then be motivated enough to play with your public beta. If your want lots of people to try , keep the video as simple as possible.

You can't explain the iPhone with words, to someone who never seen it before. They just wouldn't be interested.

Good Luck.
I don't want to install the client on my work computer, so it's nice to have the web site.
Unfortunately, there's little incentive to do so. In fact, Mashable is likely better off if this generates a mini-controversy bringing more people to their site and generating more ad impressions. If, at some point, it were to become a problem, just slap an update on the post, and cash the check from the traffic.
A recent blog post that didn't get enough love here: (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/03/08/halls-law-the-nineteent...) seems to suggest that we are probably at a point where the new "Moore's Law" (or new new Hall's Law) is soon to be discovered.
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It seems like a lot of people disagree with you, but I agree with this viewpoint. That the Luddite fallacy will be a fallacy forever is a fallacy in itself.

I've said this before, but I keep repeating my viewpoint. At some point, we will have automated too many of the "useful" things to do for there to be enough work in the private sector for everyone. There are only so many cars, houses, gadgets and foods humanity needs, and the efficiency in producing these things just keeps growing. I'm not saying that we are headed for a dystopia where no one has a regular job - quite the opposite - but during a transition period a lot of people will be without work. Arguably this is part of the reason joblessness is so common in the US today. We will have to find some sort of tax system that makes it possible for those who can't participate in the elite to also live their lives, and hopefully contribute with some creative pursuit.

A lot of people will find this transition difficult, because a lot of people simply have no direction in life and just keep doing rote work. When the rote work gradually disappears, they will have to find something sufficiently engaging to do with their lives.
It's really not Apple's fault that this animation won't work in IE until IE 10.
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There are a few metrics Pinterest has that others similar don't have.

In no particular order,

i) The name is a genius combination of the primary action, and the primary purpose behind it + it's highly brandable / memorable

ii) The facade of exclusive club via requiring an Invite / being able to Request an Invite

iii) They're scraping the web's content, and putting on their own site, thereby reducing / eliminating traffic leaks; I'm undecided if I think it's fair, something doesn't feel right about it - because where some may benefit from their content being copied (you could argue copied->stolen, and probably show damages), many more I believe will not benefit and those are merely feeding the Pinterest ecosystem.

... a few more that I understand but keeping to myself. :)
Task management apps like Asana probably let you do stuff like this. Email is just for messaging. Nothing is stopping people attaching a to-do item as a file that gets opened in some to-do app, just like attaching vcards or calendar items.

Its just that very low percentage of emails actually map to some associated to-do item. And in most cases you really just want to set up a reminder.
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Pretty poor analysis to mention Apple switching, but not mention the fact that Android is the primary competitor to Apple's biggest platform, and that maps are one area where Android has been consistently ahead of iOS.

Apple could afford to pay a lot for its maps, but with Google there's a direct conflict of interest, and Google will always drag their feet in helping Apple create a great maps experience.
That's basically the way to make such apps.

However, for this particular service, I think that you could get away with much less by leveraging existing work: modify an OpenVPN client so that it has an additional listen socket; then, use a websockets-based relay to link the OpenVPN client's listen socket and your OpenVPN servers.

A nice thing about this setup is that the webpage with the websockets relay can be dynamically generated and point to any server of your choice for quick load-balancing; it would also make it difficult for carriers to block any single server. The biggest problem would be scaling, since OpenVPN might load a server with just hundreds of active clients (http://forums.openvpn.net/topic9148.html), in which case a custom solution might be better...

Regardless of how they did it, very clever workaround!
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Similar to how some OSX binaries are protected against running on Hackintoshes with a rather simple plain text key... that when extracted is a poem telling you not to pirate Mac OS: http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/binaryprotection/
I second this. We can either destroy our-self or become a more vibrant, multicultural civilization. See Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg
What exactly do I need to type into a console to run this?

I've taken step #0 and installed ghc, but I don't actually know Haskell -- so what else?
The fact is that it is on workstations, I'm simply judging what Microsoft has put before me. Telling me to ignore Metro if I don't like it is like selling me a muffin filled with chunks of pickle and suggesting I eat around them.

I would assume if Microsoft didn't intend for Metro to be used on the desktop then there would be no Windows 8 for PCs and it would be a dedicated tablet OS (like I suggested).
Honestly, so far none of these have been the major performance bottleneck on my Macbook. For me, it's been RAM. Even though I have 4 GB of RAM, I have at least 3 GB wired or active at any given time - Chrome alone takes up roughly 1 GB of it, with all its helper processes. But unfortunately I really have no idea how to bring my RAM usage down.
I don't see the point. Flash is bundled and enabled by default in Chrome. As long as Google doesn't drop Flash (and they've made it clear they're not going to do this on desktop), Flash security is very much a Chrome problem.
Ask HN: Any other devs seeing decreased android downloads from March 7th on?
I'm assuming due to the new PLAY icon, app and format that downloads are down.

Users are not used to the new icon and have trouble accepting all the new agreements that you have to accept before using the new play store market.

This is my only guess of a sudden drop in all downloads. I'm down about 50% of what my normal download rate is.

Is anybody else experiencing the same problem?
> viable alternative to C++ that would make many of those vulnerabilities impossible

Could you explain this a bit more? Is there a vulnerability which is specifically due to a C++ quirk?
Personally, I don't see what Wave has to do with email, it's a completely new protocol that wasn't integrated with email in any way and that's why it failed. They should have done this from the start: http://code.google.com/p/wave-email/wiki/Outline

Google wave was also horribly complex. Email needs to be simplified, not just added to, which Google keeps doing with Circles and other stuff that they keep bolting on to Gmail. Reminds me of how MS used to do stuff.
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I think the problem is that it's not obvious that (in Python, where I saw this first):

datetime( now.years + 1, now.month, now.day )

is a hacked-together solution. You have to really design an API very carefully to suggest that this is a bad thing to do (I guess you could make now.years + int yield a type that datetime won't accept as the first argument, but I'm sure I wouldn't think of that before the fact and I consider myself a relatively competent API designer.

Not excusing MSFT here, as they have the resources and experience to get it right, but in general I think that following the rule of "don't DIY" won't solve the problem.
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While I partly agree with with your argument, I disagree with you conclusion.

Linus then goes on to say:

Even when Linux was young, the whole and
only point was to make a *usable* system.

Which I think is accurately summed up:

Linux exists to be used

Which is still suitably philosophical and is easily and acceptably expanded to:

Programs exist to be used
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It is not their program, they can't do much about it and everyone else has also Flash installed. In reality this vulnerability is present on 99% of all devices and not just chrome. Compare Flash having a sandbox, to all the other browsers who don't have one. In the end, Chrome is by far the most secure browser.
If the CG doesn't make you squirm then the subject matter will, so it may not have been the best choice for demonstrating the absence of revulsion.
Seems like a trap backfired -> https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=687...

BTW I have to agree if vulnerable flash is included in default installation of chrome that is essentially the same thing as pwning chrome.
Neat script, thanks for releasing it under an MIT license!

Cool to see support for FF 3.6, though for me the demos rendered nicer (and faster) using Chrome (Safari, Opera on Mac seemed to work as well from a quick check).

Why are the fonts thinner in the rendering sometimes, is this a limitation of canvas-based font rendering?
The article I linked references lots of research that had shown measurable results, including research on stimulation of large brain areas, which is all that you'd be able to do with this $99 kit.

I was looking for something, anything, that would tell me if there's significant research in the area and if simple procedures that could be carried out using this kit would work.

(Also you might note that the Nature article was linked 9 hours after my post :) In some ways it does give a better overview of the technique, I'd link it if I had found it.)
I'm not ruling them out, I'm just saying that they invest only the bare minimum into their own platforms. Not a single pay app?

Look at what Microsoft did when they created a gaming platform. They bought Bungie.

Then look at Google and Chrome OS. They created 1, 1 new app for it (Google Talk), the rest were all existing applications built for backwards compatibility with older browsers.
I liked the comments in the video more than the presentation itself. "What, you can't do online corruption?!" stuck with me as an :D face moment.
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Fascinating.

I thought this was going to be a site about couples dating couples, like how Lily and Marshall in HIMYM were always trying to find married couples to hang out with.

I suspect this is also an interesting idea to a lot of people and might look very similar to Howaboutwe -- 1. couple dating ideas, 2. monetize by freeing couples up with babysitting.

Howaboutwe is "keep your love life fresh"

Coupledating helps married couples find similar people to hang out with. The site can help introduce couples (match.com), or keep feeding them ideas for things that 4 people can do (Howbouatwe).
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Hello HN, I'm a physics student diving into his second year and in 1 year I'll probably start my bachelor thesis. The topic I'd like to dive into in more detail is Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems (for my bachelor thesis and my future in physics). I think it has a lot to do with programming and finding good algorithms.
I have some programming experience (PHP, Javascript, little Python) but I would not call myself a good programmer. I just lack too much knowledge about computer science. I'd really like to change that and prepare for the future with 2-3 books on the topic so that I won't end up as a physicist doing his programming stuff in Fortran.

Right now, I'm attending the Stanford "Design and Analysis of Algorithms I" online class to get a first introduction to algorithms, but that's not enough for me.

I'm asking you what is the best approach in my case to become a better programmer with application to physics, especially nonlinear dynamics and complex systems?
Your judgment that present technology is inadequate is based on the assumption that computers need to learn to read the human thoughts.

What about the inverse, that the humans learn how to think in a way that a computer understands? That will be much easier, as humans learn much better than computers, and also much safer - I will have complete control over which of my thoughts the computer can detect and interpret.
Google offered to sell to Alta Vista (for somewhere in the 1-2 million range) if I recall correctly and they were turned down. Sometimes the giants don't see change coming.
Is all about primary dependencies when it comes to large disruptions, so any ideas that target the primary technologies, hierarchies or costs associated with the agriculture, energy, manufacturing, telecoms, trading and transport sectors.

And the really ambitious ideas are the ones that simultaneously target as many of them as possible.
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In re #4, I'd suggest that your biggest hurdle isn't movie studios (as we often like to suggest here). It's Comcast. It's Time Warner Cable. It's AT&T. These companies exercise an oligopoly on most people's internet connectivity, TV UI and UX, DVR experience, etc. They also set the terms, with the networks and studios, for what you actually get to watch on demand. They pushed their crappy DVR onto the masses, effectively killing off the far more innovative and superior TiVo, because they offered their boxes at point-of-cable-hookup to consumers. They control so many strategic channels in the TV business, on both the B2B and B2C ends, that they're basically running the industry. (They were also the prime movers in the PIPA/SOPA legislation, and they'll be back with another attempt as surely as the sun rises in the East.)

Netflix, Apple, and Amazon look like compelling alternatives to the cable oligopoly. Unfortunately, studios are deathly afraid of handing over monopolistic control of their distribution to a single player like Netflix, so they're fighting with Netflix and trying to push their own alternative onto consumers (Ultraviolet). Meanwhile, they remain relatively oblivious to the real snakes in the grass (Comcast, et al.) -- an obliviousness that's going to get even worse, now that Comcast owns a major player in the production system.

To beat Hollywood isn't to beat the studios. To beat Hollywood is to beat cable. This isn't a war over content; this is a war over distribution. Technology vs. technology. Content producers will go wherever there's distribution to be found, and money to be made.
It's a small/non-doorman building and I got it in late 2009 and the landlord had just remodeled, had a number of vacancies in the building (coincidence, not a building problem) and really wanted to rent it. I got a good deal on it but I've talked to other people in the area with similar apartments in the $1800-1900 range. If I were closer to Central Park or the river, the price goes way up.
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I wonder if PG would create more value by doing one of these ambitious startups than he is by running Ycombinator.
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Your answer seems correct. Moritz and Sequoia invested allot of money ($10 millions) over 10 years ago into Green Dot. 'Sequoia Capital owned about 30% of the company during its over $2 billion IPO last year.'[1] Needless to say Sequoia and Moritz have allot of power at Green Dot.

Now if we ask ourselves if Loopt was not a Sequoia company, would Green Dot have paid that much money for Loopt's people and technology. They could of easy got a better deal somewhere else.

However I think Sequoia needed to save face on Loopt. They needed to make sure it had an successful exit. The more successful company's in Sequoia portfolio the more investors are willing to invest in them right?

[1]http://www.quora.com/Green-Dot-company/Why-did-Sequoia-inves...

I don't know why PG is trying to hype this up. I see ycombinator becoming more and more like a old boys network.

If your doing a startup don't get discouraged. The reason you should be doing it in the first place is cause you truely believe in the product and the business and not looking to flip your startup for quick cash.
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al would be a good place to start if you're going the theoretical way. Very mathmatical and not so practical - I read this myself at uni and I learned a ton.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...
Probably not. Y Combinator is an entire startup ecosystem. It is a convening source, and inspiring source, for a multitude of startups. Any single company -- no matter how grand its ambition or its achievements -- offers less scale and less total value than an entire ecosystem of potentially big companies.
Interesting, I just did a grid layout in Twitter's Bootstrap framework and thumbnails look exactly like that. Looks like Bootstrap thumbnails is a Reform Revolution clone :) Oh wait, this reminds me of Polaroids ...
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Maybe it's not as bothersome as it sounds. Donald Knuth said the two biggest problems in Computer Science are searching and sorting.
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In my Master's work I'm using NumPy and SciPy, which are Python packages to do very fast numerics, but there is indeed a lot of Fortran, and there's also a lot of Mathematica.

It's not completely related, but the idea of expressing complicated physics ideas in simpler code form has been handled in Scheme in the book Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, free to read from here:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/book.html

You might also look up the textbook Computational Physics by J.K. Thijssen (full disclosure: I am working underneath this professor at the TU Delft), but it's not quite for your particular niche -- I don't think in my physics education proper I was ever really taught about chaos or bifurcation diagrams or solitons, except to mention that it existed.
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"Mobile AI robots do all the work autonomously. If they are damaged, they are smart enough to get themselves to a repair shop, where they have complete access to a parts fabricator and all of their internal designs. They can also upgrade their hardware and programming to incorporate new designs, which they can create themselves."

Okay it's too soon to talk about self-programmed robots. But I think it could be interesting to think about easier self-programmed things. They may not be too far away from now.
You missed OP's point. He is not bashing IE9 for not being able to run this animations and then blaming Apple for that.

He is wondering why Apple didn't make the animations with something that would also work on IE9 considering that that are the users they want to get.
RPi is the antitheses of bloat removal, it is desired because it brings enough horsepower to shift "what you want"+"the everyday bloat that needs", in a small package.

Things like ddwrt on a netgear router are anti-bloat. Usable networked Linux in a 4MB image with 8MB RAM.
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Eventually, far out into the future, the trends might actually reverse.

Fundamentally, robots are made out of expensive stuff, metal, earth minerals. It can be recycled, but it's expensive, and not 100%. Humans, on the other hand, a pretty cheap, we run on carbon, oxygen and water.

In the future, it might make sense for robots to do stuff they're best suited for (e.g. very hard, dangerous work in human-unfriendly conditions (e.g. spaceship repairs in outer space)). However, unless we discover a way of making robots dirt-cheap and 100% recyclable, it will probably be humans cleaning the ship from the inside, no robots.
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This is a nit pick, but much economic activity these days is nothing to do with alleviating scarcity and everything to do with introducing artificial scarcity where it didn't previously exist. See e.g. Intellectual property.
Hmm, but if Mashable is immune to this its only because they can disavow the actions of their journalists.

Sarah sadly has likely just made Hackernews readers, and the next couple batches of YC companies wary of ever cooperating with her in the future.

For a journalist, a taint to your personal integrity can be a career killer.