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Let's not forget: AirBnB isn't helping either. No, not the AirBnB employees; but the loads of people renting out their spare rooms, when earlier they would have taken in a roommate. I just checked, and 2300 listings came up for San Francisco.

Plus, SF Tenants Union is very powerful. Once you are a renter, you can basically do anything and the landlord can't kick you out. Consider this example from today's paper: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Landlord-nightmare-in-... . As a result, some people are leery of renting.

In other words: while the demand has gone up, the supply seems to have come down.
I'm sympathetic to what you are saying, but the DoD bit is the worst part of your argument. The DoD wasn't trying to profitably conduct (or fund) research.
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"Write once" is nice, but the real advantage of web apps is that the author has complete control over their product.
Assuming the system sysem maker wants the philosophy to get taught. But what if only non system makers what that teaching to happen?
>>> How do I rename a file in the GUI? (right click, select "get info", change the file name in the box, etc.)

you can just press the Return key to rename a file.
Taleb has an exact translation of what Paul is talking about -- Taleb would, and has, described what Paul is saying as "construct a portfolio of cheap high-risk long-dated options, each of which has a high probability of losing all of your money but also uncapped upside". "Uncapped upside" being the key, of course.

Taleb's new book coming out soon will describe all this in a lot more detail -- should be very interesting.
Come on bird brains, cough up what passes for thinking in your flock of losers.

"Losers"? Sure: As the limited partners know all too well, the returns over the past 10 years from the 'information technology' venture capital 'asset class', in highly technical terminology, just SUCK. And PG's essay provides more evidence of the struggles to make money.

Bluntly, on average, even including the big winners, the HN flock is losing. So how to pick winners is a pressing issue with good answers not yet widely implemented or known.

So, I give some answers with rock solid foundations, and you HN bird brain chickens attack with votes but no thoughts. WHAT a flock of losers.

And since only a tiny fraction of users can downvote, no doubt the down votes are from mods. WHAT a bunch of yellow, brain-dead, bird-brain, head in the sand, chickens.
These were not intentional omissions. 3.0 was a complete rewrite and there are still many features that we know we need to add in order to be on par with the web experience.

I strongly encourage any users with feedback or feature requests to hit up my ask box: http://blog.bryanirace.com/ask. We really are listening and plan on providing the best mobile Tumblr experience we possibly can.

Edit: Worth noting that we added post sharing options in 3.1 (long press on the 'Like' button).
"Such freedom in turn requires a liberating education, one centered not on indoctrination or social conditioning."

And yet, it would be easy to consider the education the author envisions as indoctrination and social conditioning itself.
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scpécifications the change so quickly, and to adapt to the largest number of users, I think it is preferable to use a wide range of syntaxes..
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I still prefer native over the web. Some examples:

Gmail on the web feels a bit slow and sluggish vs Apple Mail is fast, all attachments are there, and it just feels better.

Google Calendar is a pain to use - again slow and sluggish. iCal is fast and feels like what a calendar should feel like.

Address book the same.

iPhoto/iTunes as well.

I think if Hacker News had a good native client, I'd prefer that over the web.

The web is definitely impressive... like Trello. Trello feels fast and it's super versatile. But if Trello had a native app, I'd definitely prefer that (of course it's got to be done well).

But I understand the development costs of supporting multiple native platforms. It's also the loss of focus because you need to have your team separated out vs focused on one platform (ie., 37 Signals).
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I spent a few months evaluating a few of these chairs after I started feeling pressure points in my legs. My pain is gone, but no chair will ever replace stretching every hour or so. Here are my short reviews:

Herman Miller Embody: The chair I like the best and bought for around ~$850 here http://www.businessinteriors.ca/. More details about the deal here: http://forums.redflagdeals.com/herman-miller-embody-841-a-11.... Everything about the chair is adjustable, which I think is very important for many reasons. People tend to shift sitting positions after a while, one size never fits all and the chair must adjust to fit the table. The full mesh construction and deep recline are also important if you are sitting for long periods of time.

Herman Miller Aeron: Only tried this in the store for a few hours. Very comfortable. Same pros as the Embody except for the full back support and a few adjustable features like seat length, which was important for me because of my leg pain.

IKEA Markus: I've heard good things about this, but I had to return it after sitting on it for 2 weeks. My leg pains got worse and I suspect that is because the seat was too hard and long for me. The price was right, but the lack of adjustable features meant it was no good for me. Also, why make the back out of mesh, but not the seat? Our butts are where we feel most of the pressure.

Humanscale Freedom Chair: Only sat on it for a few minutes. I felt they might have compromised on comfort to build an easy to use chair. The lack of mesh also makes me sceptical that I could use it for long periods of time.

tl;dr: The most comfortable chairs that fixed my pressure points were fully adjustable, were completely constructed out of mesh and had a deep recline.
What you've said about Gurksy is fascinating, especially with regard to N-dimensional spaces. I think it would greatly help to see it in person to appreciate the details.
I can see now why the Gurksy photograph has sold for more than any other, or at least why it is appreciated, because at first glance, it looks incredibly ordinary.

As far as Prokudin-Gorsky goes, you're saying these reconstructions of his photographs exhibit a lot of local contrast, is that correct? How can one quantify these effects? I don't think a histogram will do it, since that's global. How can I use digital tools to determine whether these procedures have been used on an image? My guess is that these images weren't tone mapped and the local contrast isn't boosted, but how can one say for certain definitively. Here's an example of the type of post-production I'm referring to. http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/10/in-the-gallery-mar...

I can't remember the name of the photographer who started this fad in portraiture, but you see it everywhere now. An artist I know calls this kind of look "crunchy". I like this terminology. It does seem like the photographer is giving you more to chew on. There seems to be more detail, and I see this employed a lot when the face has some character.

This is not what I see in these photographs by Prokudin-Gorsky. What I see is the most direct interpretation and insubstantial modification of the source material. Could you direct me to what I'm missing?
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Couldn't disagree more. I greatly prefer native clients and will be way more inclined to use a service that offers/allows them. Here's why:

1) I don't like having all my eggs in one basket. I have multiple browser windows each with multiple tabs. Things simply get lost in the mix. My OS has always had a better task switching UI than my browser.

2) Web browsers crash. So do apps of course but the damage is localized. When a browser goes down hard I lose everything. Doesn't happen very often but definitely more often than a kernel panic.

3) Web apps tend to still be slow and clunky. For example I get scrolling lag on the G+ page. I would use it more often if I just had a G+ app available.

4) Native apps can be segregated. I don't really trust companies like FaceBook or Google not to spy on every bit of data they can find via my browser. It seems to be totally acceptable to them. Less likely to happen with native apps.

5) I want the best integration possible with my OS.
Wow. Great commiseration. We should share notes sometime to co-write a comprehensive labview nags blog post :)
You are, perhaps, reading too much into the word "winner" to mean "automatically succeeds" rather than "is unstoppable and bowls over obstacles that would stop most people".

Have you never met anyone with an unusually high mix of intelligence, determination, focus, and charisma (to randomly pick a few traits)? If you have, are you more likely to bet for or against them in their chosen field?

If you haven't, that is entirely possible. Such people are, by definition, rare.
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>Now I hear people saying things like, 'yeah we went through this already with Japan, and the US is still the largest economy'.

It's not just Japan, it happened with the Soviet Union, Germany, Japan (and other Asian countries with fast growing economies), The EU, and now China. If you haven't read it before there's an old Krugman article that's relevant.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/b8268ffe-7572-11db-aea1-0000779e2...

When I was a kid in the 90s we were all terrified of the talk that we'd have to go to school on Saturdays to keep up with the Japanese. When my parent's were in school they were worried about the Soviet Union and their unstoppable command economy.

People have been predicting the end of US dominance since the beginning of US dominance. It will happen at some point, it's inevitable. Obviously the fact that China has more people than the US means that eventually, all other things being equal, they will have a larger economy.

However, they cannot keep up anywhere near the growth rate they've enjoyed over the past decade, which means it will take significantly longer for their economy to overtake ours than is popularly perceived.

In the time span we're talking about, who knows what may happen--what new technologies may be developed. That many extra people may prove to be less of an advantage with the increases in automation we'll see over the next 50 years.

My point is that history shows that basing our future decisions solely on what seems "inevitable" today, is folly.

In summary, don't worry about learning Chinese because you'll have to know it to transact with our new overlords in 2050--come the middle of the century, you might realize it wasn't necessary after all.

Learn Chinese because you want to learn it, because you find it interesting, or learn Spanish, or German, or Japanese for the same reason.
I just skimmed Anki & mnemosyne as well as MemStash. Early constructive criticism: I think all of these tools would benefit from a web-based demo that doesn't require a download & install or a signup / login.

As an example, I watched the Anki intro video http://youtu.be/c0dI2VyLDWw and I found myself wanting to try my hand at state capitals immediately, but not enough to download and install the software.

Building a quick web playground that lets the user try quick quizzes may capture people and hook them in -- at least it would for me.
For the US, I thought the converse was directly provable with empirical data. Don't you have a far sronger argument than you are using?
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"As best I can tell, success = luck * skill."

The actual formula that academics use is Performance = AMO, ability * motivation * opportunity. I think there are a couple of modified versions but I can't remember what they are off the top of my head.
If by <C-w> you mean control-w (I'm a vi user and don't know!), also take a look here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4497258
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Wasn't it like only one developer that wrote the facebook iPad app way back when. It certainly isn't a team of 30+ developers working it. I don't buy the "cost" of having a native client as the main reason.
"their marketing budget is extremely low compared to others in the same industry"

Any pointers to the figures?

Apple's marketing seems unlike any other hardware manufacturer I can think of. But maybe that's just my perception. When you're watching a film and the camera makes a special pan around a laptop to show the Apple logo, it's hard not to think "This hardware company really puts a lot of effort into marketing. This is not your ordinary hardware company." I have seen Dell do this sort of product placement on occasion, but nobody seems to do it to the extent Apple does.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. To discount the amount of Apple marketing and its effects as "standard for the industry" or even below standard seems a little like willful blindness.
> I'm not a big user of Python, but it seems to me that any language that requires you to embed a different language for performance is inherently broken.

It seems like you imply both of those things, though perhaps not as explicit as "Python is broken because ctypes are required", which you did not say.
> Tokyo is dense

Tokyo has about the same density as San Francisco (6,000/km^2), though maintained over a significantly larger area. The main thing that's interesting about Tokyo is that it's medium-density but very large: http://marketurbanism.com/2012/06/28/tokyos-surprising-lack-...

> How does NYC, Tokyo, MDF, Paris and so on deal with this?

Paris has taken a split approach, where high-rises are banned in the city center, but a new high-rise-building space was set aside in the suburbs. When Tour Montparnasse [1] was built in 1972, it was so unpopular that further such buildings in the center were banned. New high-rise construction is therefore moved to a few km out of the city center, to La Défense and the suburbs. An analogy might be allowing high-rise construction in Oakland or Daly City, but not in SF proper. The mid-rise buildings are higher-density in Paris than SF, though, typically 5-8 stories throughout the city center.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Montparnasse
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There's even a (1990) film, _Pacific Heights_, about the nightmare of being a landlord.
I think you might have not been down voted as much if you had written less sarcastically and with more practical solutions (versus ideological). The solutions you are offering are so general that by following this high-level point of view we can solve world peace, world energy and world poverty and still make the evening tea.

You see HN is mostly a community of "doers", and though the ideas you presented might have merit among circles of people who.. discuss big ideas (for the lack of a better description), a community of doers says and does things they can actually attempt doing today, tomorrow, or in a week with a reasonable probability of success. I am not attacking you, just trying to explain why I think you're being down-voted.

These might be helpful, specifically the comments section: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish the iOS reviewers were this clear and concise. Their rejection information would be something like: Your book has been rejected because it doesn't comply with App Store Review guideline 123.a.2: Apps that are like something else on the internet will be rejected, apps that may contain other things from other people may be rejected, apps that provide limited value when they imply they provide substantial value may be rejected.
I think technically you are not wrong but actually depending on how angry the media corporations are you can get your assets frozen or be extradited like a criminal.
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Once you are a renter, you can basically do anything and the landlord can't kick you out.

People seem to think that this is entirely independent from the evil tech firm seducing naive owners into believing 40% utilization of a room non-regulated beats 90% utilization regulated.
If your finances can't stretch to $700-$1000 for a chair I can thoroughly recommend the Ikea Volmar [1].

I had the previous version and just replaced it with a new one. The old one gave me 10 years of great service but the seat padding needs replaced and re-upholstered, and there's something gone a bit shonky with the backrest adjustment.

I work from home and after using it for 8-12 hours a day (with usual sensible breaks) my back and backside feel just fine. It's a pretty comfy chair, even for a big lad who's enjoyed too many pies, like me.

[1] http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S59896332/?query=...
There's a big difference between making your own choices and forcing other people to make your choices, which is what density restrictions do. Housing markets reflect the collective desires of people that live in an area, and SF housing markets are begging on their hands and knees for density. It's the urban planners that are standing in their way.

The most maddening thing for me about this issue is that removing density restrictions in inner cities actually makes it easier to live in a detached single-family unit with two cars, since more people living downtown means fewer people competing to use space and freeways out in the suburbs.
So, if you randomly decided which startups to invest in, would you be more successful? Can you really predict anything? If you randomly invested in 100 startups, would your returns be better than your screening process? Can you test this?
FWIW the IKEA Markus is really nice. I previously had an Aeron and if I had to choose today I'd go with the Markus.
You mentioning rock stars make me wonder if being a scout for a record label is similar. A band that's going to define a new genre or movement will sound nothing like anything currently popular, so it seems you have to identify the things that sound nothing like what's popular but that sound like what will be popular.

The returns aren't as dominated by just a few big successes, though. Although I suppose one-hit wonders are a manifestation of something similar: All the returns come from one song out of who knows how many dozens a band or artist may have come up with.
Oh wow, I didn't know what it used to be. I heard a couple people who liked it last year (McKeown was one of 3 teaching it). It sounded like it wasn't all lit review (unlike 240, which had literally nothing but paper discussion). They had several projects using OpenFlow to explore various topics, the last of which was open ended. But sounds pretty different than what they're describing.

See http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs244/2012/index.html
Maybe it's just that OS X is not a big enough market to justify the development costs of a native client. The cost/benefit for native vs web is surely quite different for iOS vs OS X.

I think a lot of these native vs web debates tend to be too black and white. The right solution depends a lot on what you're trying to build. If you're building something very content-heavy and broad distribution is more important than optimizing for any single platform than the web is probably the way to go.

If you want to present a very interactive, media-rich experience or you want to try to make money directly from the app itself then you should probably go native.

Native is going to be important. The web is going to be important. Mobile is obviously growing but the desktop is not going away either.
Why was it rejected?
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A small amount (and I mean small as in anyone can afford it, something like $5 or $10) should be required in escrow to make the report. If the report was valid, there is no contest and the content is taken down, your money is returned.

If the takedown is challenged, and turns out to be false, the money is split between the hosting service and the poster of the content you tried to have removed.

People will try to game the automatic detectors to get false positives (and some $ for themselves) but for some time, this will be a feature, not a bug. They'll get real accurate, real fast, even if it means human review of every takedown.
This would be an excellent application for a Pebble e-ink watch. I would kill for something like this for motorcycle trips. The usual Google Maps on cellphone navigation isn't very useful, but having a small device strapped outside my jacket wrist with simple a nice big glove-usable button would be great.
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That's only true on iOS. There is real competition in the browser space on Android and the Mozilla Betas are actually very good browsers. But of course that's kind of a moot point because the mobile web is only as good as the lowest common denominator.

But to give Apple credit mobile Safari is a better browser than any but the most recent alternatives.
The human ability to generalize concepts is amazing, watch—I'll swap out your of matter for of quantum information and suddenly you're up to speed on subject of discourse: "The teleportation of quantum information." Magic!

Your language gives you away, you've already done this process in reverse to make your case, so I know you have the power to understand this concept.
I am not a late adopter. I do have accounts on Facebook and Twitter. I will not sign up for your service if I have to use one of those accounts to do it because I don't want either one of them becoming my identity online.
Aren't notifications a big feature for Twitter? If you have to open a browser or keep it open and keep refreshing or clicking on the "x more tweets" buttons, how is it attractive?
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Interesting, but am not sure it'll work from a marketing/founder-motivation perspective. There may be a segregation VCs can see, but it is not clear what effects it'll have on the company/founder's future efforts/commitment to the startup business.

The group-think effects are to be considered, before adopting this model. Am obviously not predicting anything, except perhaps this move might make the Black swans even more unpredictable.i.e: if you look at the Tableau of payoffs here(http://edge.org/conversation/the-fourth-quadrant-a-map-of-th...). this move can push investments from complex payoffs to very complex payoffs easily.
Personally, i am likely to even shoot for the YC Classic group deliberately or in rare optimistic moments, the Black Swan group.