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Even in the face of a highly devalued dollar, the US is simply no longer equipped to shift to a manufacturing base. The cost structure for any manufacturing company that relies on labor is too high for any margin of competition due to current laws.

If the dollar dies, especially if doing so removes its status as a reserve currency for much of the world's economies, the US economy/nation-state will be in for a long time of restructuring.

The only part of the economy I see any potential real growth is the creative sector. That too is in some serious trouble with the number of science/engineering grads decreasing and the test scores for science and math being as dismal as they are for high schoolers.

That's why I like gold ;-)
Oops - spoke too soon - without checking the link on the same page:
https://payments-sandbox.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=pa...
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In that case, the scale should be tougher. It isn't very useful when most are clustered at the top.
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He seems to be in the mad scientist category. Apparently he didn't go to college. It could be that he was so far beyond normal schooling that he decided it wasn't worth the time. But as do many exceptional people, it becomes hard to communicate and appeal to normal folk.
Once again - I didn't understand, why is Donation restricted to 'Non-profit 501 C3 organizations' only? What if I create an online free service, and want to accept donations?
its hard to know the right answers here. life-ling entrepreneurs have lots of stories to tell.

I do feel that "access to capital" is the thing that makes or breaks most. I think this is a good part of the OP's opinion.
The current Tk (8.5 and above) looks a lot better, using native widgets where possible, and Starkit makes deployment of Tcl/Tk applications a breeze.

Those who forget history are doomed to reimplement it.
Really - adding a doctag is faster than not adding it? That seems incorrect to me.
I think you are reading too much into my comment.
it strikes me that it would be pretty trivial to implement such syntax in smalltalk seeing as whitespace is not an issue and you can implement operators how you please per class. Or even better yet an "array based language" like Nial would be a good fit as well (think apl/j but with out the "thats just noise" readability issue)
Wow, this guy manages to profoundly offend more sensibilities than I would have thought possible in a single article - yet without being gratuitous or trollish. I am impressed.

Edit: there is something gratuitously provocative about the headline, but I'm assuming he didn't write that.
I think that he missed one big problem he had... timing. All of the ideas that he listed, based upon the dates he gives, were well ahead of their time. Meaning, while they were technically possible, there was no market for them, or the scale wasn't there.

For example, he lists a CCTV DVR in 1997. There simply wasn't a market for DVRs in 1997. DVDs were just coming out then, and most people had VCRs. If you wanted to break into the video recording market, you had to unseat the VCR. Good luck with that. Then on top of that, hard drives cost many times more than they do now ($/GB), so in order to have any sort of usable hard drive space, you would effectively price yourself out of the consumer market. Now, fast forward a couple of years, and you suddenly have a lot of people without VCRs who would like to record shows and lower hard drive costs. The market was primed for a TiVo to show up (actually, I'd argue that TiVo was still a little early and just barely survived, but that's my unfounded opinion).

Of course, the other major problem that he alludes to was that a lot of his technology was designed for the adult industry, which may be somewhat difficult to put on a resume or get investors to take seriously.
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I am most curious about GNUstep (gnustep.org). GNUstep is similar to the Window Maker window manager on Linux, like Cocoa uses Aqua on Mac OS X. From what I've seen, GNUstep and Cocoa are very similar (both Objective-C, both using the original NS* classes, etc.) and the project aims to remain compatible with Cocoa where possible. I've used both Window Maker and Aqua, and I like both GUI styles.

Apparently GNUstep is usable on Windows, but I've never tried it.

At least in theory, the same Cocoa-like source could be used for a GUI app on all 3 major platforms.

Objective-C isn't as simple as C, but it's pretty simple, and fully compatible with C. It's also been bound to every major scripting language I can think of.
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This page is a superbly clear summary of the service. Someone at Amazon should be proud.
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Also, wearable computers with VR goggles in 1984? I find that hard to believe, unless it was so primitive as to be almost useless. I suppose you could have used a TRS-80 with a B&W LCD display, but the resolution would have been really poor, and functionality limited. I'm not saying he didn't do it (who knows?) but it's hard to believe he had a practical product.
I find these kinds of comments hilarious. I'm scanning the comments, there's a 3, there's a 4, oh, there's a 7. Ho hum, 4, 3, 37, 2...37, wha!?
This goes for any hosting service and not just AWS as long as we are not talking about VPSes though.

I just did the math on what using S3 instead of my current business class shared hosting plan would cost me for one of my audio streaming sites.

I have around 10-15GBs of data which gets rotated regularly, so nothing is kept around for longer than around two months. With the amount of traffic I get, around 70GBs per month, and the number hits I get, I still pay less for my business class shared hosting plan than I would pay for S3.

And I also have full shell access and scriptability.

To top it off my plan actually covers 1TB traffic a month, so my site could scale up to 12 times traffic-wise before I would need to upgrade my account. At that cross-over point Amazon S3 would still be 54% more expensive than my current solution.

This might not apply to everyone, but in my case getting S3 would be plain dumb.
I have used R for a number of minor projects. I really like its functional programming design, but its syntax can be obtuse. It's preferable to MatLab, IMHO. What do you consider to be the legacy aspects that weigh it down? What do you like better about NumPy? While I'm asking questions, have you tried Sage? If so, what do you think of it as a meta package of mathematical software?

Also, here are interesting links I've found comparing R and similar statistical programs. Sorry, don't know much about Numpy's capabilities.

R equivalent in speed to Matlab:

http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html

Someone's research for a good data analysis language:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/which_language.html
"Best practices" have no intrinsic value.
I agree, and I think the author of that comment agrees as well. If anything, he's arguing that even waving a magical "execution" wand around isn't enough for success, let alone just having a valuable idea. I wrote that title because the context of the discussion is a student worried about having his ideas stolen.
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I still don't get it. If the author is scared of possible problems accompanying death, he just needs to make sure he has a ready supply of tranqs. What is it that scares people, rationally, about death? I think the irrational fears can be countered in various ways.
No citation, and googling the details yields no corroborating source. I think this guy is cheating at more than poker.

Besides, the scam he describes is a variation of a well-known trick, e.g. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4555
Of course you wouldn't follow a non-profession's diagnosis withour further support or verification. But I do think that crowd sourcing would probably be able to find and identify the correct solution faster a few experts. As long as the process allows the views of those with higher levels of knowledge to predominate then it would work. In this case I believe there would be many professionals who would devote some time to look into the matter.

Apart from you privacy the worst you are risking would be to waste some of your expert doctors time in considering some additional possibilities.
What would newspapers do without provocative headlines?
Not flagged, but only because of the Kids in the Hall head-crusher reference in the banner.
Patent filings require a proper grasp of language. He's apparently self-filed quite a few. Surely he should be able to understand basic English?
You're not a Tron fan?
Publish good articles that speak for themselves?
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I love you, Amazon. If the integration on this works fairly decently (at least as well as Paypal's) I think I'll try that for my upcoming SAAS project.

Things I'll be looking at:

* Do you require customers to have an Amazon account to use this? (This is the #1 gotcha with Paypal recurring payments.)

* Is it easy to modify a subscription midstream? Can I give customers free months, discounts, etc?

* Administration tools? Administration API? (I want to click Refund on my site, not your site.)

* Can I conveniently work with multiple price points at once?

* Reporting: can you make my bookkeeping/accounting less painful?

* Migration: here's something Paypal has never done right -- suppose you sell the website or, for another reason, need to change what account receives payments. Do you have to cancel all subscriptions?

* Rails integration: can I get out of actually writing and testing as much of this as humanly possible?
'GTK...Doesn't look enough like MS Windows on MS Windows.'

GTK apps for the most part look exactly like other Windows apps [1], and have for the last threeish years. Some, however, still use GTK style File dialog boxes, rather than native Windows ones.

Alas I haven't written any GTK for Windows, so I'm not sure what determines the File dialogs.

[1] Per poster below, I mean Microsoft apps included with Windows XP or Vista
"He said he'd never even heard of Twitter until he saw someone mention it on YouTube."

Classic
I personally wouldn't pay because I'd be surprised if there wasn't a similar community effort very soon, as there is for Python modules and Java classes.

Better for the company to market themselves with - create their own repo, but Open Source it and make sure their URL appear in every aptitude run.
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Sell "Supporter" accounts. 16x16 pixel marking on your user page, now only $24.95. We'll color it gold if you chip in $49.95 instead.

(And because I enjoy flailing at equines which have ceased to be, charge money for value.)
his post is reminiscent of captain crunch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
The differences between countries' marking and traffic laws are small compared to the broad commonalities. Close countries tend to harmonize. And a network of interlinked but mildly competitive roads in a single country would have even stronger incentives to harmonize.

But also: a trend in traffic control is to reduce the markings, so that people pay closer attention, using their innate intelligence to drive cooperatively. (The idea goes by the names 'psychological traffic calming' or 'naked roads'.) Speeds go down a little; accidents go down a lot. It seems traditional markings lead to overconfidence -- a destructive abdication of personal responsibility to the authoritative sign-makers.

So even if a patchwork of private roads couldn't agree on any signage standards, and just tore out all the signs (as the safest, liability-reducing option), we might wind up better off. (But of course, freeways and major thoroughfares/intersections would just work the same as they do absolutely everywhere else, under any ownership system.)
Judging from his home page, he doesn't have any taste. I know that I am preaching to the choir, but success in business is about making something people want.

I think that if he found himself a designer to partner with, he would have been far more successful.

Disclaimer: Yes, I know my own homepage is hideous, so I am a hypocrite. At least my blog has a standard Blogger theme and my resume is attractive (currently Facebook-style because I was considering applying last year).
...I'm not sure how I feel about this...
Patience, and actively seeking people out. I have no problem now asking people what their entrepreneurial dreams or ideas are. More often than not, people are willing to share ideas, but stall on commitment of any kind (even part-time).

The hunt continues.
Is there a step-by-step guide by a former person like this on how they obtain funding?

I (and a few co-founders) could set up gas->electric vehicle conversion centers around the country and rake in the dough for this amount of money. How can someone like this get sixty million!?
This is a very real concern, however it is significantly less likely for such a horizontal attack to succeed. I recommend the grand parent post's solution for startups who aren't yet approaching critical mass and only require protection from the vertical.

Small user sets, such as the Twitter admin accounts, would not be large enough to be successful with a horizontal attack. Provided, of course, that every user has a minimum password complexity, which they did not. Even without complexity requirements, the list of simple words is still prohibitively large in most cases.

That said, if you have even one user among millions with the password "qwerty", he is certainly at risk. However, once you are at a scale prone to this kind of attack, a more sophisticated rate limiting scheme is probably required even for regular web requests.
"Other Windows apps" is itself vague.

There is an alternative style for Qt which can be configured for ".NET application" or "Microsoft Office" looks, which are not the same as the default "Windows" look which call into the Windows theming engine.

http://doc.trolltech.com/solutions/4/qtdotnetstyle/qtdotnets...
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wxWidgets is "big" because it has features. Considering it meets all your other criteria (aka features), in addition to ones you'll only find out you need halfway through a project, I would look closer at it. Use wxGlade and wxPython if you want easy, C++ if you demand compiled. Use dabo (http://www.dabodev.com) if you are interfacing with databases.
More of a Bladerunner kind of guy ;)
As a Christian I think this article is lacking; it doesn't belong here. While it has plenty in feel good 1st hand experiences, there's just no objective data to analyze or think about

[Update] Just so that I'm not a hypocrite (based on my past posts) I'm going to post a counter argument (though the article doesn't give you much to argue - it is mainly a personal account).

For every feel good subjective article, you can always find one on the opposing side (though this one is less subjective and it has things relevant to YC - things like facts and data): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...
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"Sure, I am too intelligent for the God delusion. But those Africans, they need it.."
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"Do you require customers to have an Amazon account to use this?"

Certainly looks like it.

"Administration tools? Administration API? (I want to click Refund on my site, not your site.)"

Curious, why? I'd rather avoid integrating one more API.
the thing is, GUI is often connected with some messaging system like D-bus or WM_XXX, and that's platform-dependent. And also API for C/C++ is so different. Some may relate to performance demanding 2D even 3D features. The expansion list goes on and on.

The true thing we need is a minimal & native implementation of cross-platform GUI kits.
I see that knee-jerk downmodders came out in force today. Welcome (back) to Slashdot! :-)
And Germany, too. And they have a really self-righteous collection agency for the fees.
>> * Do you require customers to have an Amazon account to use this? (This is the #1 gotcha with Paypal recurring payments.)

Step 2: Subscriber signs in to their Amazon account
I give two thumbs up for Shoes - I'm learning Ruby just so I can use it. However, running through the list of GUI kits the poster has assessed, Shoes differs significantly in that it incorporates web-style widgets on the desktop. It is much more suited to graphical applications and games than native desktop software.

Two thumbs down for wxWidgets. I used the wxPython port to prototype a not-too-complex desktop application, and found it tediously cumbersome (not to mention ugly). I would've been better off coding it natively in Obj-C and then porting it down the track.
You forgot Swing+Java/Jython/JRuby/Groovy/Clojure.
Please god don't make yet another GUI toolkit. Pick one and start coding.
we can intuitively identify almost every single object in this world as designed (or not)

The economy?

It's also pretty clear there are

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I can't agree with the novel concept angle here.

There is no need for analogy here. This is precisely getting a new version of software, which is not in any way novel.

A better physical analogy is paying shipping and handling for mailing in a DRM'd CD that won't play on some of the players you own for a DRM-less CD.
In a nice table through the years:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
Lush is a LISP-style environment for scientific computing:

http://lush.sourceforge.net/
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And here's the javascript trick:

http://forums.devshed.com/html-programming-1/how-to-obtain-t...
I don't understand how he thought hi-jacking Obama, Britney and Fox News twitter accounts wouldn't make headlines.

He was hijacking a random account on some totally unknown site called twitter.

I know this is hard to grasp outside the valley, but most people have not ever heard about twitter and will probably assume it's about as important to the internet as zombo.com.
Small note about Qt being for C++: There is Qt Jambi which is Qt for Java.

http://doc.trolltech.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/com/trolltech/qt/q...

http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/webstart/
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There is also a handy pub density map of mainland Britain on that site: http://www.frisnit.com/pubs/index.html
I think of religions as instruction manuals for running societies, similar to the McDonalds handbook for running a McDonalds joint. So it is not surprising that different religions have different outcomes for societies.

Apart from the lack of data (the article is all just anecdotes, and I am also skeptic because Africa is so big and diverse), I refuse to belive that Christianity is the only way - there must be alternatives... And Christianity might have it's downsides, too - if the author is right maybe it would bring Africa out of an initial inertia, but at what cost for the long term?
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How I wish I could forget Swing.
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Hacker news tends to focus on Adam and Eve but Church and the Bible is more then a few lines about "creation". It is more about banding together in the local community for a common cause which is to empower the community, provide support for each other, and those far away.

I could write pages, but will leave one example for each.

Empower the Community

The church I attend has 50 people who volunteer at least once a week in one of three different local grade schools that are low performing schools. These schools do not have many (to none) parent volunteers. Members also have donated 3 new books for each child in the schools, along with providing items that the school needs but are not budgeted by the State.

Support for each other:

About 8 years ago when I was between jobs we did not have enough money to buy any presents for our children that Christmas. Someone found out and the church we attend came through with 3x what we would have spent if we did have the money. The kids would have been happy enough with a few things from the dollar store but they were much happier with an amazing Christmas.

Those far away

Last year our Son (age 12) was able to help put together a large play structure for an orphanage in Mexico. It wasn't some cheap Chinese plastic play structure but one that was solidly hand-built to last and handle the use by 30 orphans. This was a good experience for our Son as well to go out and see first hand that there is a lot of need out in the world that is unaddressed.
I thought inline styles are a web standard (not sure about Javascript, but there are standards for it, too).
Never noticed it - maybe the white margins are intentional? I just assumed they are.
We have come to expect nothing short of magic @ Macworlds. Sure it was lacking in this one ...
That Garageband 'Learn to play' and 'Learn from Learned' was super cheesy - though I can believe there are suckers who will throw $4.99 to learn Proud Mary than downloading the tabs from zillion free websites!
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The punchline's very good: "My television is now an effective Canary Wharf detecting radar. Probably the most interesting thing I've seen on TV for a long time."
Yea, right - and why should we (not that anything wrong with that)? On this forum?
He disagreed and responded to your comment -- I don't think he's reading too much into it. Your reply is being downvoted because it's an ad hominem and it adds nothing to the discussion.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
What this guy REALLY REALLY needs is a "Steve Jobs" friend. I think he is technically brilliant, but so was Steve Wozniak, and Apple was really built through the marketing/business/social skills of Steve Jobs.

Ultimately, for a successful technology company you need both kinds of personality. Those who can schmooze AND play hardball and those who can invent brilliant things.

Just my 1.44346 cents (US)