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HTML is machine readable it just has problems with the machine understanding it part. I think you are asking more for a semantic web which hasn't been particularly successful so far. People mostly struggle to just put together a web page that people can understand. Getting them to build diverse information to standards machines can reliably understand is hard. XML has mostly proved this.

I'm not necessarily opposed to their being attachments sitting on Twitter's servers that I can access if I'm interested. I just totally dont want them bombing me with it and sending with the message by default. Their messages are already too bloated. And as I said the fatter the data is the more problems you are going to have with copyright, legality, offensiveness and security risks both for the service and end users.
Why would I want a native app when Web apps are so much more awesome? After using Google Docs with multiple users I can't go back to Word (which is only available on systems for which I have license), Google Spreadsheets with multiple users (which again would also need a license).

There are certain apps like Photoshop, After Effects and Lightroom that still need native. But most of the rest, not so much. I still use a native code editor but I can see that disappearing soon.

I suppose one problem in discussing this is the image of 'native' app each of us has in our heads. Is it 'iTunes'? No longer need that. Google Play or Amazon Cloud music let met access all my music everywhere. Is it Office? For some users they probably still need it but most of them will have a better experience with something online.

Is it iOS apps? Which ones? Games? There's a few high-end iOS games. Most of the rest are available as web apps though or certainly reasonable clones. Is it all the native web substitutes like the G+ or Facebook app, the Twitter or Forsquare app. The Yelp, Amazon or IMDB app? All of those are a waste of bits. Frustrating because in their quest to simplify they always leave out important features. Waste because their mobile websites provide the same features.
The only thing hobbling those apps are a few more browser features and ability to put them in the app stores even if they happen to just be bookmarks.
Seems like you have a vector of functions and a set of control functions. Each control function resolves dependencies, in such a way that the vector of functions can execute parallely while maintaining a "correct" order of execution.

It's definitely clever, but I can't believe they were granted a patent for this. It would be like patenting the map reduce framework. :|
Ah, you learned a little french! Good. Have you read or listened to, for example Brel?
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I am from Russia and I've spent 4 month in the US.
My observation is that americans in general are not fatter than russians.
But the fattest people in the US are twice as fat as the fattest people in Russia.
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I'll join the question - have any of you ever had any experience with seedcamp?
Matt Cutts and the Google team themselves have publicly said that they tried looking at user data for rankings and determined it just wasn't a reliable measure. Think about stuff like finding addresses.. it's GOOD if a visitor spends 5 seconds there vs. 5 minutes because it means they found what they wanted. Sometimes usage data is misleading.
Illegal in some major US cities I believe. At least that is what my university used to claim to students every year around Halloween.
Why? Religious people commit less crime, get and stay married more, use less illegal drugs, donate and volunteer more... It would make more sense to fear people becoming less religious.

Source?
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Very unique HP and nice redesign! Personally I would add a little more space between the sections if the page. Just feels a little cramped to me.
Yeah. How can the US be exporting more culture than any other country, yet, have less of it? Something doesnt add up.

There is lots of influencal US culture. From rap to mcdonalds. We may look down upon it now, but all of tat will age into cherished cultural relics when they stop being relevant.

I think the point the OP wanted to make, is that the US has less dead culture, compared to say Europe.
This is my new favorite article, or opinion piece ever. I actually wrote something similar recently and submitted discussing my goal of having nothing but free time which falls inline with this very much http://tortillasinbed.com/post/26229642463/free-time-is-my-g....

This obsessiveness with appearing as you are always busy is kind of sad. I think it's largely an age related thing. People in their 20's and 30's equate their worth, or value with how much stuff they are doing or making. I'd love to talk to an old friend and ask them what they're and have them say, 'nothing much, just hanging out'. Thats usually my response.
Well, for one thing, you could put the exit nodes on such devices.

One of the advantages of such devices is being somewhat proof against search warrants. (To use one café's Wifi, you might be next door or around the block on the next street.)
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> When I moved to the UK, most people I met didn’t believe in God or Christianity. The UK is largely a non-Christian country.

No, you've went into a field whose practitioners are largely non-Christian, and since you've probably acquired most of your social circle directly or indirectly through that you mostly meet non-Christians.

If a kid who grew up in a religious family in London and went to a religious school most of his life where almost all his social group was religious left the UK after school and moved to Seattle to work for Google or Microsoft, he could reasonably blog years later that the US is largely a non-Christian country based on his experience.
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> it means the output of one command goes to the input of another command as "objects".

Only if both commands support objects. If one of them doesn't then PowerShell just deals with text. I've sent the output of PowerShell commands to perl scripts and GNU utils without any problems. It just worked. I'm still a powershell newbie, and this has made it easy for me to learn it while still using what I know.
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Considering the largest social network in the history on man tanked their stock price right after their IPO, I would venture to guess that VCs aren't answering emails from 17 year olds wanting to start a social network.

Is it what you want to hear? Probably not. Is it reality? Yeah. Does it suck?cjust wait until you have to pay your own bills and your parents don't throw money at your ideas.

My advice? Restart that business you created that had 100 paying customers in the first 7 days. Seriously, you shut it down to focus on school but took money from your parents to start your own social network? Seems silly from where I'm sitting.
This is related to what Apple apparently calls "macroscalar architecture." Here's an excellent writeup and collection of links on what is involved: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/asampson/blog/macroscalar...

(Someone previously posted that URL to HN as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3887700 and it received little response. Maybe the title wasn't sexy enough.)
Yes, we've done quite a bit of work since the initial launch just on that. It should be WAY better. Please try and let us know.
It's true that in the US, rich people are really rich. But would he have been able to afford to study in the US?

The science says that social mobility is much higher in other countries like Denmark than in the US:

> Several studies have been made comparing social mobility between developed countries. One such study (“Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults?")[5][15][16] found that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom had the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation. The four countries with the lowest "intergenerational income elasticity", i.e. the highest social mobility, were Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Canada with less than 20% of advantages of having a high income parent passed on to their children.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#Country_compari...
The /concept/ of God runs through a lot of European institutions too (for instance, the UK Queen is the head of the Church of England - no separation of church and state). However, in the US, the line gets blurred when people start to talk about /actual/ God.

The idea that someone can claim some benefit via allegiance to actual God in a political setting is pretty scary, IMHO.
Most Americans believe in the provincial caricatures of the other cultural regions of the US with which they have no experience. It is not just other countries, Americans are like that in their own country. And in fairness, the US is a large, populous country with diverse regional histories. Most Americans would probably be very surprised to learn that the "sagebrush culture" (red) states are the least religious or that the western mountain states are the second most urban outside the NYC area.

There is a considerable amount of cultural distance between, say, one of the Cascadia cities (like Seattle), and Mississippi, and Boston, more so than you often find between different European countries. What deceives people is that Americans nominally all speak the same language despite the stark cultural and historical differences between regions.
You can't really conclude much about atheism from /r/atheism. That subreddit is an embarrassment to atheists who are capable of arguing above a junior high school level.
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The roadmap is fairly clear. You would first have to set up an ATS (which really doesnt require too much, but it does involve regulatory and paperwork hurdles)

The main advantage is that you can disrupt the exchange business. The disadvantages are many, including having to deal with SEC etc.
If your laptop is far away enough to need this app, I think it's a reasonable assumption that it's plugged in (or else you could just bring it next to you and use the media buttons or space bar to pause the music).
@alttab - thanks for your view point. We meant to say that we will add enough utility overtime. Interestingly enough 80% of our downloads are also non-us so may be it is a wide spread problem. Thx!
The detail you add here is interesting, but not substantial to the point Techdirt is making.

Regardless of how much money this guy made by parallel importing, no one should have the ability to control the sale or distribution of physical property rightfully owned by someone else. He did not steal the property before re-selling it (did he?) -- so your point adds no critical dimension to the problem at hand.

Unless of course you believe that some times some people should be able to control others' physical property, you know, for the good of us all, of course.
Most of your points are sound, but I think you are too pessimistic about them being interested in us. Mightn't they be just as desperate as we are to not be alone?
I think we are missing a larger question: how can we use existing web protocols and technologies to allow link able and discoverable social interactions?

Wordpress does a pretty good job of this. Open source web apps is probably the next revolution for social. Diaspora had the right idea but execution was slow, insecure, and Facebook derivative.
I live in LA, and I can tell you it is huge. Huge in terms of area and huge in terms of population density. Follow any of the police scanner-reporting or neighborhood Twitter news feeds and you can count the crimes as they happen on a minute by minute basis. It's not hard to find crime in LA, and even after being exposed to these feeds I can tell you where to find something going down. But the most puzzling piece of this is how do you measure a reduction in crime? A criminal act that didn't happen isn't a crime and can't be counted as a "missed opportunity." They mention in the article that they have witnessed "double-digit drops in burglaries and other property crimes." Nine burglaries this month compared to ten last month is a double-digit drop, so can you really attribute one "missed" crime as a success? Or how about a reduction of 2 out of 20? (This is a valid example as property crimes in various police districts here rarely go into triple digits monthly, or even on a six-month basis, look for yourself [1]). Why would you assume that 1. the number of criminal acts is near-constant and 2. that your system was the actual reason for a decline? To me this feels like trying to predict roulette wins by looking at the historical numbers - it's pointless. If you can't measure your success with solid numbers, then it sounds like the only thing this system does is compile and report crime info faster than previous systems. And then someone got the bright idea to send officers to "hot zones" where they have been told crime will happen. Something happens - they were looking extra hard for crime and they found it - win, or nothing happened and they called it a "prevention" - win.

[1] http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/
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Install server. Wait a few months. Start publishing. No one is holding onto records that long and even if they do no one is going to go through that much video to find you. As long as you disguise your plugin server as something common no one will think to unplug it. Add a fake wire going behind something big for extra effect.
What about incubator or accelerator programs? I see you've gathered a freelance team, but do you have any plans on bringing in another founder soon?

Honestly, if your idea solves a real pain point, it shouldn't matter that much that it's a social network. Also, I see a trend in the popularity of niche social networks (Instagram for photos, FamilyLeaf for family, Badoo for sex, Pair for couples, etc).

Before jumping straight to seed money, have you also considered freelancing yourself for a few hours a week to help keep your project afloat for a little while?
Thanks! It was partly inspired by Watchmen but I guess print design rarely translates well into web design. I'll work on it.
Let's consider two options:

Don't deploy this and let crime continue to be fought traditionally --this results in more neighborhood crime victims and continued view of this neighborhood as crime ridden.

Deploy this technique with a long term result of decrease in crime such that it's less than that of places which did not implement this prevention technique. Once that is achieved, there would be no inclination to treat people in those places differently.

So, given those scenarios, would a neighborhood accept different treatment knowing that long term crime would decrease and thus obviate the need to be treated differently, or would they prefer to continue the status quo knowing this would allow crime to continue as it had but getting to keep their current level of civil liberties?

I know those not the only options, but given those two, I wonder what a group might choose?

Also, we do not know how this technique would affect people's civil liberties. We only guess that it would.
> and I'm thinking 'this is because the parts I can't see are just as sloppy as the parts I can see' I totally realize that's not a fair assumption to make but I can't help it

It's very accurate assumption in my experience.
I suppose I looked at Facebook's suffering stock situation a bit more optimistically (at least in the eyes of potential competitors), as I figured it would've opened new doors for competition.

In regards to the hosting business, I was a freshman at the time and didn't have the same opportunity I now have to be an early graduate. If it had been up to me, I definitely would've kept it going, but at this point, that market is far too saturated.
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1. Wrong. Completely wrong.

He's talking about prices ISPs pay, not prices consumers pay.
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Sure, probably a bit too early for us to get interns. Thanks for actually commenting not just downvoting.
>Having an architecture where your Play actions send Akka messages to a cluster of computational nodes/actors requires about 3 lines of code and 5 lines of config. Ridiculously scalable.

Scale what?
Why not take the fingerprints of citizens, too? There are lots of unsolved crimes with fingerprints filed away. If we made it mandatory for citizens to submit their fingerprints, we could punish many people for the crimes they've committed.

Actually, why not mandate a video camera in every home? That way, the government could know about and stop any crimes you were planning. They could also give you sex tips to ensure that the next generation is numerous enough for the conquering we need to start doing!

Do you see where I'm going with this?
Thank you - completely agreed!
Can you elaborate on what aspects of European culture you think are dead?
Since I wrote this post in 2009, my opinion changed. You're better off letting the web act like the web, and leave app interactions for native apps.

I've updated the preface to say as much.
exactly.

> Extra terrestrial life that is more advanced than us has no reason to go on a suicide mission to come see us (a bunch of war-mongering primitive hairless baboons)

Just as advanced western scientists have no interest in going on biology field trips to remote parts of the world to study lesser species.
I was also running Ghostery, so that explains it.
> Religious people commit less crime, get and stay married more, use less illegal drugs, donate and volunteer more... It would make more sense to fear people becoming less religious.

Citation please.

"A 2001 review of studies on this topic found "The existing evidence surrounding the effect of religion on crime is varied, contested, and inconclusive, and currently no persuasive answer exists as to the empirical relationship between religion and crime." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_and_religion

The Nordic countries regularly feature at the top of the 'Best places to live' and 'most atheistic countries' lists. Correlation doesn't imply causation, but that should be enough to at least question your assertion.
In my experience, rails has a better community and gems are plentiful. Python is great for certain things, especially larger infrastructures and applications that run outside of a web request cycle.

Rails, once learned, is so fucking fast at developing applications it should be illegal.

Right tool for the right job, for sure. Generally, rails works great for web apps and is releasing versions faster than companies can keep up with it.

I highly recommend rails. Django code base is a mess the last time I looked at it and rails has more industry cred and can get you out of client work and into product development easier. Just my experience anyway.
We have found planets that may support life 20 light years away. Recent evidence suggests that most stars around us have planets and a significant percentage of those stars have planets that may support life. It's just that resolving a planet at those distances is hard, let alone radio traffic. So while we have little chance of contacting life 1 million light years from us there is a chance intelligent life with technological civilizations could be within as little as 50 light years of us. And even if they exist we would probably have not noticed them yet.

We might never have physical contact with civilizations a 100 light years from us we could have meaningful if high latency conversations with them at reasonable costs.

PS: It's hard to talk with Voyager 1 a mere (1.8x10^10 km) from us at 50 light years the signal would be 1/700,000,000th the strength. So, the only way your talking out to that distance is with a dish that's pointed in the right direction and even then if the signal was not 1 million times as strong there is no way in hell we would notice it.
No I don't. I don't know enough. And you are right. It's only a feeling --but one based on my experiences compared with other people's experiences.

I think the big knock on the US, deservedly, is the undue influence of PACs on our politics. That said, in Japan, PACs are less necessary because of the business <-> gov't relationship (i.e Japan Inc.)
Same, clicked the link but closed the tab as soon as it wanted my email address. Would definitely have loved to give it a try without signing up :)
>"Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion."

Except perhaps religion meddling with the national government?
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Also analytics will be very difficult in a P2P architecture. That is the power of twitter: you only need to analyze the centralized firehose.
Great call on Inspired. Hands down the best Product book out there...haven't heard any others even in the conversation.
I think GDP might be a proxy for education here.
A graph of educational standards vs religion might be even more revealing