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One way to help is to ask for lower level OS apis to be exposed by browsers, so that the open source community can do the rest:

1. Ask for UDP to be exposed to trusted web apps installed by the user. This will let the P2P community race ahead without having to wait for WebRTC to get released and then fixed.

2. Ask for TCP to be exposed to trusted web apps installed by the user. This will instantly enable things like SMTP clients running in the browser without the need for WebSocket proxies/proprietary gateway servers.

3. Ask for POSIX to be exposed to trusted web apps installed by the user. This will lead to an explosion of database innovation in the browser. IndexedDB is design-by-committee. Insist on proper POSIX not the FileSystem API. Borrow from the Node API. Impedance mismatch is crippling browser storage.

4. Low-hanging fruit: ask for LevelDB to be exposed directly (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128865). Most of the browser vendors are using LevelDB underneath IndexedDB, and just exposing LevelDB directly would already be a huge leap forward. No need to wait for the many IndexedDB bugs to get fixed by browser vendors.

Browser vendors are trying to do too much. Innovation needs to move from top-down to bottom-up. Browser vendors need to provide just basic access to bare metal and let OSS do the rest. UDP, TCP, POSIX would be a great start.
Congratulations on your success. The overwhelming majority of people will never run a hosting company. Of those that do, many of them will be unable to sustain it to 2k customers and run it profitably for half a decade.

With regards to the new knowledge that 20k customers is possible, that just gives you something to shoot for next, right? There's something you can do that starts at 2k users today and gets you to 20k users. You know that is possible, because other people have done it. So work on that. (Knowing from previous conversations that you're rate limited on customer acquisition by processes other than marketing I'd suggest, as the Slicehost guys did, "automating the "%#)(% out of everything" and then focusing on customer acquisition as your primary job, if that is a huge priority for you.)

More broadly: philosophically, if we consider ourselves failures for not doing things other people have done, then we'll all be failures essentially all of the time. That strikes me as an unhappy bit of philosophy to adopt then.
I hope you someday want to start a business and find out the domain you want is held hostage by a squatter.
Simple: Because googlers all hate IDE's and use vim.
Google Aurora hackers AT LARGE, launch 0-day bazookas
I usually say "Today is the 10th/tenth of September".
Open-access research ‘catastrophic’ for Reed Elsevier
Hot Air Balloon tourism in Vilnius is gaining popularity due to relatively low price and the unique opportunity to fly over the city. Only two more cities in Europe allow Hot Air Balloon flights over the city - Helsinki and Stockholm. It’s a very rare occasion that flights are allowed over the the international airport, not only Europe, but probably anywhere in the world.

VNO approach Air Traffic Control (ATC) has special arrangements with balloon pilots allowing them to fly in one flock, they have to take off within 10 minute interval and all the communication is done with the leader of the group. Once the balloon is right over the airport territory, it has to ascent to 1km height in order to allow planes to go under, while in the close proximity it’s opposite, they go down allowing planes to fly over.

In general, such flights are possible only because of good relationship between Hot Air Balloon pilots and ATC who have full control of the situation, so it happens even when some planes approaching the airport. Every situation is handled individually.
What is so great about the OS X Desktop? (Honest question; As a long term Mac OS (X) user who switched to Linux about a year ago I am really wondering...)

Also, has a heavy computer user I mainly switched to Linux/FreeBSD because of the much improved customization possibilities. While the default OS X experience might be superior to GNOME/KDE, I now get a lot of things done a lot faster since I could make my machine exactly fit my needs. I really cannot imagine why any (not platform depending) programmer would ditch Linux for OS X just because the defaults work better.
I claim no privileged position for my preferences. I was just stating what they were. :-)
How Qihoo 360 Won the Browser War in China
I'm pretty sure you'd get a positive correlation - but a worthless one.
Am I the only one who finds the title "The Toyboy Manifesto: Why Older Woman Plus Younger Man Is the Relationship Model of the Future" presumptuous? Young men dating older women, like any other type of relationship, is fine because the particular persons involved like it, not because of some inherent supremacy.
PostgreSQL 9.2 released
From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global Internet giant
No they aren't, they use hooks to native phone functions. You can't write once, run everywhere.

They're native apps written in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. That doesn't mean they're web apps.
I'm sure there were companies that were doing the same thing as Dropbox at the time that Dropbox was released. To name one example - Microsoft's SkyDrive (apparently called Windows Live Folders at the time), released either around the same time or prior to DropBox, depending on your definition. It's been a while since I've used it, but I remember the functionality being roughly equivalent between the two products (in that they fulfill the base use case of silent synching between two computers)

That isn't to say Dropbox didn't blow them out of the water in regards to execution, but it wasn't an idea that was completely without precedent. Ideas rarely are, even if they seem like that in retrospect due to one company out executing everyone to an insane degree.
Great article about the best "hacker" movie ever made.

Wish there were more like it.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq

It's not 'anything goes', however.

This is a close call, but I agree with the closing in that the post conflicted with the rules. It's possible it could have been worded better to avoid being closed, but even general employee retention strategies don't belong on that site.

The problem isn't that they don't allow discussion, it's that the range of topics allowed is so narrow. There are many (I've lost count) StackExchange sites, and each one has a very narrow, well-defined (but, importantly, poorly-communicated) breadth of allowable topics. And, if you get the wrong bucket it's closed and that's that.
The reason dropbox wasn't an obvious winner was that it had so few features.

"I can't sync more than one folder? It syncs everything to every device? (not anymore). It doesn't use WebDAV? Oh well, at least it's simple. I'll just use it until something better comes along."

And they win.

Of course they have plenty of features, an API and much more flexibility that before if you want it, but none of that complicate the core function - a directory that syncs.
I am subtracting, but your point is valid.
I was thinking about developing something a bit similar,but was more focused on chip-tunes (8-bit)music and beats creation.A sort of Amateurish fruity-loops clone.Any pointers on sample code and tutorials would be much appreciated.
The cameras of the time required longer exposure times, so peoples expressions are (most often) natural. (Try genuinly smiling for a minute.)
On HumanamuH I'm using "yyyy-mm-dd" or "mm-dd hh-mm" wherever several dates are displayed in a column (e.g. chat messages or notifications). I think it's easier to see where the day or month changed and it's sorted intuitively. But...

Several people who registered from the US stumbled over the form that lets you enter your birthday in "dd-mm-yyyy" format. Even though the format is explained right behind the form field. They were probably just as irritated as the majority of the world is by "mm-dd-yyyy". Not sure if using "yyyy-mm-dd" for birthdays works better internationally.

Maybe changing the format depending on the IP address would reduce confusion. Of course, users could also have an option to localize their date formats, but I assume most wouldn't want to bother.

By the way, the article contains Wikipedia's map of "Date format by country" which answers your question why nobody is using the ISO format for dates (some do):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map
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Traditionally, East Asian languages and Hungarian (I don't know about Lithuania and Iran), that use the YMD format have an overall "big endian logic". We say many things backwards compared to the rest of the world. Our names are also in reverse order, for example.
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It does not rotate. It just scrolls the texture without any deformation.
Please delete this garbage troll article from HackerNews. My children use more logic and intelligence when trying to convince me of something. This is the weakest bunch of BS I have ever read. I think that my 8 year old could poke holes in every single one of the arguments presented. Do intelligent humans really buy a single word of his three reasons why child porn should be legalized. He is clearly into child porn himself. let me say that I started watching porn at age ten, as did most of my friends, and I enjoyed it. I actively sought it out and kept seeking it out (as I still do).

Let me sum up (for those of you who could not stay awake through all the waste of bandwidth you just spent pulling up that article).

Here are his reasons.

1. The ban prevents catching/jailing child molesters.
He claims that everyone will be wearing Google glass type devices in the future and recording everything so if they see a kid being raped in the park that the rapist will just laugh knowing that they cannot go to the cops because they now posses child porn.

Is he really serious? Yeah cause this happens all the time. I can see my grandma brought before a jury and convicted on possession of kidde porn cause she had her Google glass on during her stroll in the park.

Discretion is used by any DA or investigator. I could never see this happening in a modern society. Even if the prosecutor was a complete buffoon and arrested my grandma for this, no jury would ever convict her and that prosecutor would soon be out of work after the media got a hold of the story. I am sure that (worse case) this would take about one time and the law would be changed slightly to protect my grandma (similar to the now infamous "stand your ground" law). Funny that the author wants to make kidde porn legal and not change the law to be more discretionary (quite an insight into his morives).

2. The laws brand a whole generation as sex offenders.
His argument is that teenagers who have consensual sex sometimes record it and they will be arrested as sex offenders and prosecuted. If this is the case they why has there not ever been a single case of this happening? He is again trying to invent an imaginary problem as an argument for legalizing kidde porn.

3. The free speech war is won/lost at the battle of child porn.
Another joke of an invented reason. Abe Lincoln once said "Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins". This is true for the freedom of speech also. Our freedom of speech ends where someone else is violated or their rights infringed on. This has been the pattern throughout the history of our country. This is nothing new. He tries to make a point that we are losing our rights and if we don't make kidde porn legal, we will lose more and more rights.

Clearly a logical and convincing argument by the upright and honorable MR. Rick Falkvinge... hahaha

I actually am really disappointing to find such tripe floating around here, I really am.
> How quickly these bugs (and perfomance issues) get fixed
> will have a huge effect on HTML5 vs. native adoption.

Hardly. I say that as a guy who've spent more than a dozen years making web. HTML does not scare me, I like CSS and can do fancy stuff with it, I have no problem with JavaScript.

I am moving however to Objective-C and Cocoa world. It is so clean and tidy compared to the mess the web technologies stack is. And no matter how great support for HTML5 will be, no matter how performant it becomes—it will be well adopted and very performant mess. We can bring in frameworks and libraries, duct-tape things together, but we are long past the point where we could get rid of all the ugly heritage.

My feeling is, that web technologies will be used mostly for the content leaning apps, and for "apply" the native will be a clear choice.

Then there is this "cross-platform development" thing. Well, not sure about this one. I guess we are bound either to have mediocre solution for all, or bite the bullet and do native for each platform if best results are desirable.
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Isn't this article implying that it's awfully hard to find success in the VC model as well? With the traditional funding model, you're either an AirBnB, DropBox, or someone who ultimately isn't going to make much of a lot of money at all. If you're lucky, you'll come out of it with something that maybe makes up for the blood and sweat equity you put into the company for little or no pay.

Ultimately, I'd agree that successfully getting a 37 signals, Balsamiq, or Fog Creek off the ground is difficult, but compared to the VC model of "DropBox or bust", it seems like a much more attainable goal.

I think the main lesson is that there's really no free lunch in the startup world - we've all heard it a hundred times before, but there's no silver bullet that guarantees success, or even a decent chance at success in this business. It's not quite the lottery, but a 1 in 50 shot probably isn't unrealistic odds.
How to create triangle shapes for your web designs
What seems to be the Problem, Solution?
Pilgrimage
Heh, I'm completely baffled why it has Finnish text on it.
From the blurrypic I can make out "Laite on liitettävä suojamaadoituskoskettimella varustettuun pistorasiaan", which basically means "Device must be connected to grounded outlet"
His decision to make the web free and open rather than seeking royalties or other payment for it was vitally important. If he hadn't have done that I can't imagine it ever having taken off and it would be a very different world we live in. Then again, someone might have simply reverse engineered the technology and released their own free and open version.
> I'm not debating the correctness of your statement,

Actually you are.

> but when you start out with something as mindblowingly
> pointless as "Android's browser is even worse" it's hard
> to take the rest of your point seriously.

It is not pointless. Don't pretend to be silly as not to understand what "Android browser" is.
Slowloris is also the name of a deny of service tool: http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/
Hello Ronald Weasley! Fancy meeting you here!
I agree it's a silly ordering. What dialect of English do you speak?

> September the Tenth

Even this sounds a little funny to my ears. In American English people say almost exclusively "September Tenth" in that order without any prepositions.
Physicist Derives Laws of Thermodynamics For Life Itself
Virtual Child Porn is not illegal(in America) but obscene material is. Obscenity charges are rare and would only apply to hardcore porn if someone ever is brought up on such charges. They are a hard sell so it's not really perused by law enforcement. There is nothing wrong with it. If VCP was to be made illegal, violent video games should be made illegal too. America should follow Finland's footsteps and not makes laws on anything that does not harm someone physically or psychologically.
Yes, but Apple being sued over patents is OK, it's only when they sue somebody else that there's a problem.

It's just like with Chinese labour. Everyone else uses them, but Apple using them is wrong, even if they pay more than everyone else and the workers prefer to work in the Apple device factories.

Didn't you get the memo?
> 6. Country code top level domains give context

However, pay attention to the fact that "top level domain" does not necessarily have anything to do with language.

For instance, .it = Italian, right?

Wrong. There are German and French language minorities here, amongst others. Other countries are even more confusing/problematic.
+1 for shurane's explanation.
I often hear about Google's custom hardware. Are there any other large tech companies (who are not hardware companies) that build/design their own hardware to run internally?
Another lesson that might be useful is not to assume that the week starts on a particular day.

I live in the UK and the general convention here is the the week on Monday. In find calendars (presumably designed in the US) that start on Sunday particularly frustrating and error-prone. Not being able to customise this is uncultured.

Different cultures have different conventions, and if a seven-day week is the norm then it start on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday [1]. And, of course, some cultures don't use a seven-day week.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#N...
Is it possible to setup a turk where an ad is submitted to a message board? If so how?

Thank you
Does Google have a data-center in Finland?
It's a bit more than that, I know advpng is also used somewhere in the process.
actually, the final argument isn't so much about galaxies forming. for a civilisation to have formed early enough to affect all of the observable universe without time/ftl travel i think that they would have to exist before atoms existed (ie when the universe was still a primordial "plasma", during "inflation", assuming, of course, current models, although this general constraint is fairly strong, given the microwave background uniformity, although(!) see below).

now you can argue that the idea that atoms are necessary for life is an anthropomorphic bias :o) but really the problem is that very little of anything had structure at that point. and for life i think you do need some kind of order.

this is related to why the microwave background result(s?) with large-scale anisotropies was(were?) so weird (and, if i understand right, have since been discounted) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_rad...
I concur. At least if the person is not saying something along the lines of

"On this date, the 10th of September, Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve..."
I have a macbook air and have some projects where I write cross platform C and C++ libraries (Linux/OS X/Windows via mingw), currently using Makefiles and a text editor. I use and like IDEs when programming python, C++ on Windows and javascript and certainly wouldn't mind a powerful C IDE. Can XCode help in this case or do you have to basically be writing Mac/iOS apps to access that power? Also can XCode work nicely with Makefiles or do I have to buy into a special platform specific build system (again a problem with the whole cross platform thing)?
Nikola Tesla: The patron saint of geeks?
Agreed and most Aussie addresses I see are .com.au
Agreed. And most porn is not even made to resemble reality, like sex scenes in most other movies usually are. It's crudely, unabashedly fake.
I don't understand your comments vis-à-vis Cindy Gallop's views. Her position, which I gather from her TED talk, is that it's increasingly easy to get access to hardcore pornography, which gets more people to believe that what happens in hardcore pornography is the way to have sex. Moreover, we live in a puritanical society where parents and schools don't talk with children about sex. As a result, she believes that hard-core pornography has become de-facto sex education.

As a specific example, many of the 20-year-olds she has had sex with believe that coming on a woman's face is part of normal sex. She's fine with telling them that she does not want that. Her concern is that a young woman who does not want that, but where her boyfriend does, and where "hardcore porn has taught her that all men love coming on women's faces, that all women love having their faces come on, and therefore she must let him come on her face and she must pretend to like it."

She explicitly states that this is not a good and bad sex view, and indeed asserts that sex "embraces the vastest possible range of proclivities." Instead, she says that hardcore porn presents a "one-world view" and she wants to say "not necessarily."

Which means that no, porn is "not real" in that regard. The "makelovenotwar.com" site has examples of "porn world", where women have no pubic hair, and "real world", where some do, some don't, some men actually prefer women with hair, and it's a personal choice. In "porn world", "women come all the time ins positions where nothing is going on anywhere near the clit." In "real world", there needs to be something. In porn world, "all women love anal sex." In the real world, a lot of women are not. In the porn world, camera angles are important. In the real world, one of the pleasures of sex is the full body skin-on-skin contact - which would make it hard for the camera. And so on.

(Yes, porn is vast, and there are niches with all of these examples. That's not part of mainstream porn.)

So yes, the sex shown in hardcore porn is real sex. But so is a lot of other things which makes for great sex but boring porn. Do you really want to watch the foreplay of a couple, naked but under a warm blanket, talking about how their day went or the frustrations at work while enjoying the nearness of each other? And then stopping for a moment to look something up in the dictionary? No, no more than you want to watch video of most real families going about their lives.

There are many other ways to learn how families work than by watching TV. Where does one learn about how sex - and I of course mean more than the mechanics - works? Her argument seems to be that porn is not diverse enough, and that instead viewers are channeled into a certain set of ideas of what sex is.

This is nothing to do with kinky. This is nothing to do with boring sex. Hence I don't see how any of your comments apply.
Noez, mine is on that list :(
We're uncultured.
I've read all the Comments and at the time I'm writing this, I'm scratching my head because I don't see a single mention of Open webOS. Have all of you written it off or is it just too early to be on anyone's radar?
Oh no, how can I change mine?
Isn't the link saying that web dev is a more free and cross compatible environment because no one organization controls it? I thought it was sort of relevant. Basically a reason to do web Dec.
This is so silly. You don't have a startup idea until you have a product that you can sell to Grandma, that will work for her on a standalone basis. It can't require an Act of God to take it market. It has to be cheap enough that Grandma can buy it, and it has to be simple enough that it can be built by 3 guys in a shack in Palo Alto.

Often this means taking stuff that exists already and chopping off the most expensive features, even if they are the best features, to make it cheap enough for Grandma. Whole books have been published on this; lookup "The Innovator's Dilemma".

This is a completely different goal from the goals of research, which has to be new to be published. Taking an old idea, even which was impractical to build/deploy, and productizing it, is a very hard sell to the professors and very difficult to get published papers out of.

(Some academics just do not care about practicalities, no matter how hard one tries to persuade them.)

Both these situations are also completely different from the military, who care about maximum effectiveness even if it means throwing money at problems and even if it means redeploying the very oldest ideas. If a ceramic capacitor works, instead of a funky DSP algorithm, they'll use the ceramic capacitor. If it somehow proves necessary to defend against a nuclear attack, they'll switch the ceramic capacitor for a solid gold ingot in a heartbeat.

The incentives and goals are not aligned.