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That's the gist of the argument. I'm not going to pretend to know where the line between Objectivism's general ideals and economic ideals lies.
Why do you slap me in the face with a full page sign up form, without giving me any clear benefits to signing up?
Ahh, early adopters, you can always rely on them.
When you take a first aid course they often give you cards with these kinds of instructions to carry with you so I don't think there would be a problem liability-wise with the app itself.
The App store is the best thing since sliced bread.

The App store is integrated into iTunes. When I was building white label digital music download shops, iTunes was constantly the thing that haunted our every move.

The seamless iPod -> iTunes integration is a killer feature. While I think it's not an insurmountable barrier I think it's definitely a factor. They don't just have to beat the iPhone they also need to beat parts of iTunes.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43262
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That is a fantastic post and thread. Thanks for linking.
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The candy bar mobile phone has dynamic Quad Band connection. It has sleek look. This is not all. You would enjoy a lot via purchasing this mobile phone. It is 12mm thin and incorporates all supreme features.
Essentially he's saying he likes the Pre because its imagined features are better than the iPhone ones that he hasn't tried. The article is about pitting an ideal vs. a bias. Who will win?
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Ask HN: How do you create a "limited fixed div"?
I feel a bit embarrassed asking an HTML/JavaScript question, but this is tough because I don't know exactly how you'd describe this effect easily.

What I'm looking to do is create a div that moves along with the user's scrolling - exactly how a fixed div does - but that only does so within the confines of a certain space. I have a site design that's split into two pieces. I want the div to move within the top space, stop when it gets to the bottom space. After that it quits moving down.

How would I get this to work? The problem is, I'm not at all familiar with using JavaScript to manipulate physical location, so I'm not certain how exactly I'd make this solution. And, to the best of my knowledge, this isn't something that HTML/CSS can do on its own: fixed is all-or-nothing.
I understand what you're saying there, but I feel that small companies are worse at setting performance goals and reviews than large companies, simply due to the fact that the "boss" is pulled in so many directions. Can a software tool make that easier or more transparent?
I thought the 'ruled out' could be a little more prominent so I could see my progress.

This is totally important. This is why almost all shopping carts these days use 1-2-3 style steps. The technical term (from User eXperience) is scent, and it's what gives the user a continued incentive to keep going.

I almost quit the StyleEngine until I saw that, but I almost didn't see it at all.
I like the business - help people figure out what to buy, then make commissions on $1,000 furniture. Brilliant. And I like the approach a lot. So you're in the top quartile, for me, of Ask HN stuff here. Praise aside, let's get to the helpful specific crits:

You really need to Photoshop the pictures in your quiz to make them as standard and innocuous as possible. Telling people to ignore the floors, walls, etc. is just impossible. Ideally, you'd be able to stage your own photos.

Also, the interface needs to be 1) consistent and 2) less cluttered. I'd recommend really blowing it out with whitespace to figure out what you need and don't, then incrementally making it tighter. CrazyEgg might be super-helpful to you given that you have a very visual site.

As for "going viral", having quick page loads is necessary but not sufficient. You can make the page load quicker.
My wife points out that it would be interesting to do something for couples because she likes radically different stuff to me. So something that could marry (boom boom) our styles would be helpful.
And yet, I still can't figure out what's so good or new about the App Store. Sure, it's a centralized place to get mobile software, but it's not hard at all to find software online for other platforms (Palm, Windows Mobile,etc.). If anything, the App Store with its renowned restrictions, simply limits the number of interesting applications released for the iPhone. It may be good for the developers, I can't argue that point, although I don't understand why it would be.
And about "success." The Razr had enjoyed more "success" than the iPhone by how you must be measuring success. I measure success by how satisfied I am with the phone, even if no one else bought the thing. I'm not saying the Palm Pre will be great, because there's no way to know.
I was disappointed the author flaked out of drawing his own conclusions. I felt that he raised some reasonable, if obvious, points about the dismissal of new mediums throughout the history of art.
One thing I can say is that in my previous startup we did not do co-founder performance reviews, and it hurt us immensely. I haven't been able to figure out how to do appropriately critical or praiseful performance reviews, but I think that it is tremendously important.
I did the quiz but stopped short at entering my details. Then I came back and read all the comments here and decided I did want to create an account after all.

Kudos for using cookies and keeping my quiz results; I would've been very irritated if I had to do it again just because I didn't sign up at the same time. :)
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If you told me concrete things that you have done as a direct result of reading the book, that have improved your life, then sure, I'd take notice.

FWIW, building a self sustaining income isn't that hard. Buying and selling traffic and making a nice profit in the middle is simple to do, and once set up, it takes nothing to maintain, but it's a bit soul destroying and boring TBH.
Do you agree with that quote? Do you think "less distortionary taxation" is a reasonable price to pay for, say, no public grade schools, especially in at-risk communities?
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Speaking of Rack ports... a JavaScript one I just started a couple days ago, called Jack of course: http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack
Interestingly I think this article misses a fundamental point.

I have a dear friend, a long time artist (who went to Goldsmiths and the Royal Academy) and who paints 8 paintings a week, rain, snow or shine.

He has always talked about the need for art to emote, or at least provoke thought in (in the case of much modern art) the viewer. His art, he says, is trying to capture a moment in his life and display that in a way that others might glimpse his life even though they could never be him.

By these criteria perhaps video games present the most formidable medium in order to achieve the lofty goal. While one cannot directly control the exact interaction a good video games can steer a player in the same way a good director or leads the audience or an author leads her readers. By setting up scenarios and situations which create the opportunity to feel or think an idea that is entirely novel to us because we have been guided to it.

The power of interaction can bring this to a new level over traditional mediums because of the exploration of the player. In basic computer science we are taught about the difference between data, information and knowledge. The knowledge being that information which a person is not only able recollect but also directly apply. As an IT trainer I know from experience the way people gain knowledge is by taking an abstract piece of information, and discovering how it works. The phrase "let them work it out for themselves" is common, because it reflects the simple truth.

If art is about experience, emotional or cognitive, interaction offers the most concrete vehicle of human learning to reach states of exerience as never before. I would contend that video games are indeed art of the highest order.
I think it's important what kind of inequality we're talking about. Are we talking inequality between two people with similar opportunities and education, one lazy and unimaginative and the other a creative risk taker?

Or are we talking inequality between joe the dock worker, son of a dock worker, working the dock reasonably well, but never looking beyond, and jack the corporate lawyer, son of a corporate lawyer, working the legal docs reasonably well, but never looking beyond?

Inequality throughout history was rarely down to merit. I very much sympathise with Rand's point of view, but after having lived in one of the most run-down parts of the UK, I know that poverty breeds poverty.

Yes the superstars rise from poverty through their own work and they should not be punished for it. But for every superstar there are 100 joe/jack pairs and the difference between their income is based on little else than class.

[edit] Jill the waitress might have been a better example since dock workers have a powerful trade union in some countries.
I don't think thats a good approach. If you contact them - you are starting a trail. You are letting everyone - especially them - know that you are infringing their patents. You are closing a big door for yourself for when they do end up suing you.

You don't want to approach them blind without knowing what kind of licensing agreements they've draw out for others. You don't want to be extorted.

Its best you start out getting a lawyer.
I like it. To me it seems more obvious to do this for clothes rather than interior decorating. Are you planning on applying this to fashion?
Also, once I save a room, it would be nice to have the option to share it - I'd like to be able to email a link or something.
>> "The iPhone’s call quality is notoriously abysmal"

I've heard other people complain about call quality with the iPhone, but only people in the US. Is this a US only phenomenon?

Surely this is down to the network, and not the handset. I know that doesn't help much if you don't have a choice of network, but I haven't heard of any UK users complain about call quality.

All in all my experience of call quality in the US on any phone has been abysmal, including land lines...

Also I think you place way too much importance on the app store. I doubt that many people buy a phone based on the apps they can install on it, obviously to hackers it's important, but for most people I'd say the app store is a sort of bonus they didn't know about.

I tried out a G1 yesterday, and although it looked quite nice, the keyboard is so small it's impossible to use :( Still thinking of getting one sometime, wondering how it stacks up against the iPhone.

Great to see some more competition though :)
Agreed. I had my iPhone for about a week before I actually used it for a voice call. It's a portable macbook really. As you say, the browser is ridiculously good.

Reading about the Palm, it looks like it's insanely based around the web, which is awesome.
20 damned minutes? That's what it takes him to bang out "a couple of pages"? It's easy to be productive if you're frickin' Superman.
I love my iPhone to death - and despite a few features I would love in the phone (such as copy/paste and possibly a physical keyboard) the phone does exactly what I need it to.

I spend a lot less time talking on the iPhone because I have the ability to use txting/email/twitter/facebook much more easily (I know other phones offer these features, but the interface is nowhere near as intuitive). I barely surfed on my old phone and I feel I would die without a 3G network and Mobile Safari now.

I live in Canada so I am with Rogers/Fido - and to be honest, even though we get screwed on pricing most of the time, I haven't had any problems with network coverage. I get awesome 3G speeds at home and all over the city (I live in Vancouver).

I really like what the Pre has to offer, but I can't see myself moving away from this iPhone. If Palm brings me an unlocked quad-band GSM Pre I would likely drop the cash, but that's extremely unlikely so I'll just stick with my iPhone.
That wouldn't do it by itself, actually.

Let us examine the Village of Virtuous Women, where there are 100 men and 100 women. 99 wives are faithful to their husbands. All the men are unfaithful with the 100th wife (except, of course, her husband -- who I really feel for).

Average number of partners per man: (2 + 2 + 2 + ... + 1) / 100 = 1.99

Average number of partners per woman: (1 + 1 + 1... + 100) / 100 = 1.99

You can also justify this with "Sum over a gender of number of sexual partners equals the sum over the gender of sexual partnerships, and if we only consider heterosexual partnerships, then this must be symmetric for both genders. Thus, since number of people in both genders is approximately equal, average number of sexual partners must be approximately equal."

So what actually causes the disparity? It has to be either a) untruthfulness or b) unsampled outliers. For example, if in the Village of Faithful Women the unfaithful wife got missed in your phone survey, you'd blow the results completely now wouldn't you.

But in the instant case, it is highly likely that the answer is in fact untruthfulness (both overreporting and underreporting).
I find the call quality great over 3G, or good enough for my standards at least. I have yet to experience a dropped call or bad connection, but that's more about the network than the phone.

Looks like the main problem is AT&T
Maybe, but I think the bigger issue is that the left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing. Microsoft has a viable bit torrent surrogate which would allow them to force a EULA up front:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer...

"Version 3.0 (November 2007)
Adds peer caching which allows users to download content from peers and also serve content to peers [...]"
http://www.gardenweasel.com/News/AUGUST2006Newsletter.pdf [PDF]

In [Dean, of Segway fame] Kamen's opening statement he noted that some people might call him a "Patent Troll" since he now limits his activities to developing product ideas with the sole purpose of licensing them, but doesn't try to manufacture or market them. He believes that large companies are much better suited to manufacture and market products than to develop new products. He is better suited for developing these new products than manufacturing or marketing them.

He made a very strong point that the larger companies had most of the resources in his business dealings and didn't really need patent protection. On the other hand, his patent for his intellectual property was the only thing that he had on his side of the table. He concluded his opening remarks by saying, “ . . .the patent system was intended to help everybody to be able to participate in innovation."
Matt, white on black is really tough on the eyes.
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I did the same thing. So either there is some merit or we are two dingbats.
While not a cure, you should try using a RSI recovery help software which essentially forces you to take breaks and also tells you of exercises you should do.

Check out Workrave ( www.workrave.com ) which I personally use and have found quite useful.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated to workrave in any form except as a user
Oh, don't interfere with the beautiful ways of ideology ;-)

But seriously, government programs are in great danger of failing because _all_ big projects are in great danger of failing. I think you would easily find evidence of that.

Taking a centralised decision on how to spend over a trillion dollars within a year or two, allowing no time for readjustment or seeing what actually works, is a very high risk business, no matter if it's government or anyone else who does it.

Granted, a lot of that money is not going to be spent on new projects but will be used to speed up existing ones.
Good point. If you read Rand in that spirit, it makes for an interesting point of view. The important thing is to avoid getting caught up in it and think that "Objectivism" is a sensible or even possible way of running the world. People are neither 100% collectivist oriented, nor 100% individual oriented, and going in either direction too far is to go against how we function (but please note that I'm not arguing for splitting the difference right down the middle - obviously modern capitalist societies are far better than various attemps at communism).
Same deal with me.

We go through this on nearly every review. I think that instead of a day of coding, the team should sit around the table and bang out a list of reasons why people should sign up to their service right now.

This is critical: if you are launching a site, spend hours and hours and hours thinking about this. You know why you started the site, you know why you've been working on it so hard, but we are all busy playing minesweeper.

Tell us why we should spend 15 seconds checking it out.

Its the difference between gaining some traction from a YC! "review" and getting zero traction and having no clue why.
Yeah, but there's this other, manual filter that gets kind of impatient when people waste its time with these tricks.
I think you underestimate the importance of his items 1 and 2 (call quality and email/SMS) to the business population.

A dropped call at the wrong moment can cost a sales guy a lot of money; and a hard-core Blackberry user is not going to give up that keypad for a nice browser. For them, the importance of reliable, rapid communication with business contacts outweighs the pleasure of a good browsing experience.

With the Palm, you theoretically will get to have a keypad, a choice of carriers, and a nice browser (assuming the fact that it uses the same HTML rendering engine as the iPhone means the browsing experience will be equally good).

Hence his assertion that "Apple’s strategy has worked well, but it has major holes, and this Palm unit looks like it exploits them".
I think public schools are obligated to publish some of this data by law, but we really should get some from private schools too. Should it become a widely available data set, you'd see a few wikis/apps/startups/etc overnight.
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Two things I don't see on your list:

1. I do finger, wrist, and forearm stretches regularly. For me, they prevent RSI and even get rid of it when it's starting. I don't know if this would help for chronic pain.

2. Chronic conditions can sometimes be alleviated by hypnosis. Here the challenge is finding a skilled practitioner. I know one. I can put you in touch if you like (email me).

I suppose these are long shots. Good luck.
Well, shoot, I wanted to see the little guy walking around!
...laser therapy, break timers, ergonomic devices...
Thanks, yes, I use Workrave and it has helped. But it's not a cure. I also use MouseTool (also free) so I don't have to click - just dwelling over an area causes the mouse to click. That's probably the biggest lifesaver I've encountered. I also use AutoHotKey to eliminate the alt-tab, ctrl-w and alt-f4 combinations which kill my left forearm. Another big help. As is Dragon NaturallySpeaking whenever I have to compose a long Word document or email. But, again, not a cure.

Not to be too demanding, but I'm wondering if anyone has found a way to overcome the problem entirely or if I should only hope for incremental improvements.
> I tried out a G1 yesterday, and although it looked quite nice, the keyboard is so small it's impossible to use :(

I have to completely disagree with you here. The keyboard is one of the G1's redeeming features. I type much faster and make much fewer mistakes on it than when typing on my iPhone. It's especially better than all those phones with physical keyboards with weird non-standard layouts. YMMV...Just thought I'd offer a counter example to yours :)
I did this in jQuery at one time. Hopefully this is helpful.

$(window).scroll(function() {
var offsetTop = $(window).scrollTop();
$("#target").css({top: offsetTop});
});

To explain, whenever the viewport is scrolled, the offset of the viewport to the top of the page is set (offsetTop). Then the #target element is moved to follow the viewport. That will give a fixed effect, so what you need to do is set the max offsetTop to (max depth - #target height).

Note: Dimension type calculations vary widely among browsers, so using a library like jQuery dimensions is quite helpful.
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Surely then if you're looking at the corporate user, the Palm is a "Blackberry killer" rather than an "iPhone killer"?
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If clicking the mouse is painful, try switching hands. Using your mouse other handed will feel very clumsy for a few days, and you probably won't ever want to play a game that way. But it does give your other arm a break.

I switch between left and right once every week or so.
Sure, but I think there's a big difference between an innovative company actively designing and licensing technology–and a company being formed solely for the purpose of sitting on patents until they can sue a company for infringement.

Maybe I'm incorrect, but in the web 1.0 days, it seems patents were approved which are overly-broad ...

when you're simply conducting industry-specific business over the internet using standard technology and media, how does that pass the non-obvious test?
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>> In the United States, Gladwell is sad to report, cap rates are really low owing to poverty, stupidity, and culture.

Yes, that would explain why we're one of the wealthiest societies that have ever existed. </sarcasm>

As for stupidity in our society: there are many Americans who like to publically preen with a statement of the form "In our culture, we are so " + <negative social attribute>. The clear intent is to make the speaker seem simultaneously knowledgable enough about other cultures to make a fair comparison and slightly daring -- nay, a latter day Solzhenitsyn, such is one's daring.

That's not the stupid part, just boring vanity. The stupid part is those people who buy into it. Few of these people have ever lived in other societies (I've lived in two.)
Palm’s embrace of “developer friendly” open platform philosophy for its new handset in development, in constrast to the decidedly unfriendly sandbox approach Apple has taken, certainly must be applauded. And a flock of delighted developers are cheering them on, as indicated by the cited article discussion, as well as tech sites across the net. However, I see no reference to a factor that looms larger than software platform — quality of the hardware.

Palm devices (PDA and their foray into mobile phone market space) are notorious for their unreliability and low quality. Historically, they are poorly made and break rather easily. Back when I toted a Palm PDA in my work travels, it frequently had to be replaced. And I remember giant pallets of refurbished PDAs in Fry’s Electronics, where devices would be recycled for second and subsequent deaths.

Experience with Blackberry devices, I do not have, but my iPhone performance and reliability (other than on OS upgrade days) has been stellar. In fact, the iPhone is more solid that it was nearly 15 months ago. I have not even witnessed battery degradation yet on my first generation model. Yes, I realize there are iPhone lemons, but I’d assess the iPhone defect rate at a fraction of all those Palm products.