skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, during the development of the iPhone, Apple was very much aware of the history of multi-touch, dating at least back to 1982, and the use of the pinch gesture, dating back to 1983. This is clearly demonstrated by the bibliography of the PhD thesis of Wayne Westerman, co-founder of FingerWorks, a company that Apple acquired early in 2005, and now an Apple employee:

In light of that one might conclude that while multi-touch might not be new technology, the specifics of Apple's patent claims may very well be.
>The only person who has ever had that vision, consistently, is Alan Kay.

Don't forget Ted Nelson, whose book (which I bought YAY :D) Computer Lib/Dream Machines features the slogan, "You can and must understand computers now!"
People tinkering with programming don't care about APIs, they don't even know what an API is. Have you seen how much code is required for a Hello World application for the iPhone or how many people there are complaining about Objective-C's syntax?

BASIC on TI calculators is very popular among kids because they can figure out how to write a program during their math class. You don't need much reference to write a text-based game or a program to help you cheat on a geometry quiz.
Sometimes I wonder what would've happened had corporations actually found the commercial paper markets totally frozen (as opposed to mostly frozen) and themselves unable to finance daily operations. Would they really say "Okay everybody go home, we have no money" or would they say "Well fuck, nobody knows if hey're gonna get paid, but we got nothing better to do, so we might as well continue doing business."

The economy as a whole seems remarkably resilient considering that it's all built on confidence. In cases where trade completely collapses, firms often "evolve" an alternative currency - scrip, cigarettes, foreign currencies, paper ledgers. I wonder if established firms with longstanding business relationships would've just said "Well, nobody can get cash right now, but I'll make an entry in our Oracle database and we can sort out the mess later."
_why's made significant inroads in this area since this posting, though. Sure, there's definitely a ways to go, but Shoes is one of the best toolkits I've seen period, regardless of being aimed at children.

On the subject of game consoles and development, the PS2 did have a version of Linux where you could use it to run various things (games, scripts, programs, etc). Granted I never got to use it myself, but I recall reading that the reason Sony didn't push it too hard is that there was little to no interest in it, at least compared to the overall market.

I actually reviewed a couple different programming environments for kids about a month or two ago, over on Linux.com (http://www.linux.com/feature/155203). Bit of a shameless plug, but I figure it's somewhat relevant to the discussion at hand. shrug
Isn't this what Squeak guys are (kind of) aiming at? OLPC comes with Etoys, in which children can easily write and modify graphical apps.

What's interesting is that their environment inherently supports concurrency. If kids learn concurrent/parallel programming from the beginning, maybe they'll make better software suitable for this multicore/cloud age later.
in a private school this might survive and thrive

in the public system this will be scrapped in a year, two at most
I was wondering how the post and comment values were calculated.
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I second netbook OS suggestion. They should port Haiku to popular netbooks e.g. acer aspire one, asus eeepc, MSI wind, so that anyone could run it without any problems.

This way there is no hardware hell(at least not that big) and you get usable system for the masses.
I think I help to sellore close to 100 cars through CL. Fast.
Multitouch means that I have to be holding the phone with my other hand. No thanks!

I'd rather do the whole thing with my single thumb, unless I'm typing and then I'll use 2 thumbs.
I think google could fake it enough with twitter RSS feeds and by aggregating RSS content from other souces, call it "real time" and provide an integrated platform that piggybacks on what people already use. It doesn't matter that it can't keep up with the "real time" that twitter provides, people would clammer to be part of google's real time offering.
the market substitute for [Lipitor] was [...] death.

What about red yeast rice extract? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_yeast_rice#Modern_Medicine Or, better yet, a healthy regimen? http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/oct2005_cover_arteries_0...
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Can we do anything other than video at Posterous? My cofounder and I are distance-separated, and I don't know how we'd make a video like that. Could we do a two-person audio conference, for instance? And if it turns out we're not able to submit something like that, would you say that puts us at a disadvantage versus somebody that's sending in a good relaxed video?

I've waited a year to apply, though, and this is an utter thrill! I got such a such seeing the applications open this morning.
Yes, Clicky is more visitor centric, including tracking custom data per visitor, but plenty of good overview data as well. Plus the whole thing is real time, including goals and campaign tracking. Plus a very powerful API. Check out the Spy feature too.

GA does a number of things that Clicky doesn't, but the opposite is also true, as you can see by the handy dandy matrix you mentioned.

Disclaimer: I am the developer. :P
Much of Alan Kay's vision in this department was inherited from Seymore Papert. </pedantry>
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Well, the SDK is 1.75GB... so if you're on dialup or something it is pretty difficult.

Why it's so big, I have no idea. A few months ago it was only 1.25GB. Maybe they're including complete copies of the iPhone OS.
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It's a common pattern in Objective-C (all of the "collections" classes are the same way), but not obvious if you've only seen NSString and not NSMutableString mentioned.
I'm not sure, but I do know that when I read most food blogs, to me at least, it seems like a fetish, and it grosses me out.
a two-person audio conference, for instance?

How about a Skype video-conference? http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/videocall Some angel investors use it to attend far-away board meetings from home.
AKA thinkcomp, as seen commenting elsewhere on this post.
_why on löve: A+
http://hackety.org/2009/01/29/loveInTwoDimensions.html
Huh! That's a very definite possibility.

Of course, that lacks the personal feel of an in-person film: maybe we'll both try and long-distance to New York City for the occasion.
Update: I guess Skype-to-Skype video calling is limited to just two participants, for now: http://support.skype.com/en_US/faq/FA661/How-do-I-start-a-vi...

Video calls are only possible with two participants. Unfortunately, video conferences are not possible at the moment.

So, you could "conference" between two people (or two locations), but that's it (which should be enough if it's just two founders).
No. You submit one for your team. However, each member needs a Hacker News username.

Good luck!
Yeah, I don't know why people a scrambling around for all these crazy systems.

The newspapers are just going to do the obvious, they will have free and premium content with a monthly subscription.

The big media companies like Fairfax will bundle all kinds of premium content under one subscription. I guess it will be like a pay tv model.
True. But I would highly recommend that you consider "how to sell a B2B product" before considering legacy segments like ERP. Its non-trivial to build a new product from scratch in these spaces but there is an opportunity to build SaaS version of ERP products for small and mid-market customers. See these examples: http://www.coupa.com and http://www.nurturehq.com. Both are good products with large markets, are completely hosted and don't involve any legacy integrations which can be a killer.

However, all such products do require a systematic sales team/plan/process including inbound/outbound/inside sales kind of approaches to build revenue.
Hmm, _maybe_ Javascript. You really need to be able to jump in and see results - visual results. The visual feedback of Logo was definitely instrumental in getting me into programming.
"Pop genre" is mostly things that would get their own section at the record store.

Country / western and pre-pop jazz aren't new, but they're definitely pop. Pop became jazz and country came around about 90 years ago. Broadway's even older. The rest on your list I think non-controversially have African American roots.

Probably a reasonable definition of "new" is everything post-widespread-phonograph since genres started working different culturally once the primary way of listening to music shifted from live to recorded.
I use statcounter and Reinvigorate. I only need analytics for my blog so these two suffice.

I tried woopra for a while but it was crap. Never updated any of the stats and many of the charts always showed as loading
Interesting. Looks really nice. I'll give it a shot..
Thank you, I'll be reading all of that later today.
What a non-story. Dan Lyons can't make money at blogging (not a big surprise), so he gives up. Mike Arrington, who does make money, takes a vacation, and this guy describes it as if he's quitting. There is no pattern here.
The average user won't pay no matter how high the quality is if they can get it for free otherwise.
Unless they disallowed vendors from charging for games made by the "open" dev kit, thereby preserving the licensing fee.

Or just eliminate the fee in its entirety and take a slice of the revenue (or marginally larger slice).

I don't see how lowering cost of entry could be anything but advantageous to console makers.
Come on, sure it would be hard on people, but it would not mean a civil war. --Exactly who do you think would be fighting who? The government would be doing all they could to get people access to their money, and while there will always be idiots out there, the population isn't quite as stupid as you might like to believe (even though a majority technically voted for Bush once).
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That is my understanding as well, although I haven't had to worry about doing it myself yet.
Some links from indeed have affiliate IDs in them, so there are definitely some partnerships involved for some of their sources.
A couple years ago the developer of this and his patient did a presentation at Pop!Tech.

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail763.html
Defending the app/site split notion here...

While this is obviously not the entire case and Django is a fantastic general purpose web framework, lemme just say this:

When using much of the django middleware, django.db.models, generic views, django.contrib and quality third party "apps" ( http://djangoplugables.com/ ), it's pretty close to the perfect "CMS".

And that's not a bad thing at all, it's just not the direction Rails has ever, or probably will ever, go.

Also, let me reiterate what I said above: this is obviously not the entire case and Django is a fantastic general purpose web framework.
Hah, I'll give it a shot. It looks really cool.

The matrix isn't that helpful, though. It's pretty big and uses a lot of clicky-specific phraseology.
Not a great deal of content in this message. It comes down to "This will be a paid gig", "kyro@kyrobeshay.com" and "dating site". The rest is just plain weasel speak.

Hopefully you express yourself more succinctly in the spec.

However there are some things that a potential coder would be interested in that it might do for you to answer here.

1) What are you plans for hosting this site
2) How do you intend to promote the site
3) Given that coders are crap at graphics do you have a designer to make the site attractive
4) What is the timescale

And as a side note any competent coder can do this, the rocket scientists are capable of developing it for themselves and cutting you out of the loop. Thats if they would be interested in a dating site.
I agree with you, but I wouldn't mind having an automatic right now. I've been spending ~2 hours in traffic for the last month.
Also they only studied people who got rich by having rich parents. It would be more interesting to study people who became rich through their actions.
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Definitely. Aside from that I'm not a big fan of BASIC as a starting language any more, the syntax is weird and inconsistent etc etc. Although I really like Python I think Löve (Lua) might be the best place to start now.
32-bit and 64-bit confusion and the .NET Framework and CLR
I am not sure if we humans can really help being impressed by looks, no matter how smart we are.
" I think approachability is absolutely key. Kids wrote programs on their Commodores, Ataris, and TI calculators because the environment was already setup. You could type in a few commands and instantly have something running (a program that solves the area of a triangle or one that plays a cool sequence of tones). There's only one editor and one language."

I agree. If Commodores or Amigas were available today, I'd buy one for my 5 year old nephew so that he could fiddle around with it, play some simple games, write some small programs and so on.

Maybe there is a market for a small computing device that has the "instantly have something running, but is completely hackable" characteristic.
How does Reinvigorate work? It looks like it just streams activity to you? Is it real-time only or is there more to it?

I find real-time stats are addictive but ultimately counterproductive. I just refresh, refresh, refresh all day long.
It's interesting that folding your arms when faced with a difficult problem can make you more persevering.
http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=fb05abc6-149...
but you're still basically a software developer (or designer, not sure what you mean by 'front end dev'), no? You could call it an extra step on your career, but I don't think that's a 'career change' (you didn't go from designer to lawyer - or from consultant to enterpreneur, like the example given)
It would be awesome if this started to catch on across the country.
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Back in the '80s I was the first person in my CS dept to champion the idea of OOP. It wasn't some conspiracy to make money (not a bad thing) selling a fresh set of buzzwords (that would be a bad thing). My views were strongly influenced by the views of writer Michael Jackson, who pointed out that every program contains a model -- at varying levels of explicitness -- of its domain. OOP just seemed to make the model clearer by creating a more explicit mapping between the objects in the world and those in the program. Grady Booch and Bertrand Meyer later made similar arguments specifically about OOP.

What happened next was that an idea that worked well in a few contexts (discrete simulation and graphics/GUIs) was expanded to almost all kinds of programming where it didn't work as well. That's because a lot of the world-to-be-modeled is more verb than noun. That in turn means that functions will make better models than objects.

I now think that Lisp-class functional languages (using, say, Clojure) are better for most programs. The reason, as pg has pointed out, is succinctness. The problem with OOP is that it's hard for it to be succinct because new data types are constantly being created and new methods added to them, all of which requires extra code.

All programs are programs about a particular domain. Programs become succinct when the language being used can be sculpted to the domain at hand. That's best done in languages with macros and a simple (e.g., s-expression) syntax.

One last point. I've looked for many years for the One True Programming Paradigm. I no longer believe that any such thing exists. Different classes of problems simply require different approaches. What I've come home to is using a language that allows easy creation of DSLs and controls side-effects, while still allowing them. A wet clay language that allows experimentation and sculpting to the domain at hand. Lisp-class languages do this best, with Clojure at the top of the heap in my opinion.

I still think that OOP is best for GUIs, where state is inherent in the domain and inheritance can pay off big.
I actually went the other way around and used both Django and Rails as means to learn (or get deeper) in Python/Ruby languages. Both frameworks do a great work on abstracting bits of the language, which IMHO made it easier to start (I tried getting Python a couple of years before but gave up since I didn't have a good 'hello world' idea to keep me motivated - being able to build some useful web app also helped, when learning along with the framework)
In Spain, the ESO (a high-school reform) implemented a system of no grades. The only grades were "needs to improve" and "is progressing fine".

Guess what, it didn't work: they did away with any incentive for students to really improve. Overall knowledge and performance of students went down.

I conceptually agree that grades are not proper for an evaluation system. But the alternative can be worse! I hope they really, really worked out and tested an alternative that wasn't just politically correct or fair (ugh) but rather, a proper, better evaluation system.
I would think the stigma of your friends moving up and your staying behind with ever younger students would create the social imperative to learn.
They're kinda trying to accomodate 'web sites' on the framework on the latest releses of Rails...
I'm afraid this effort on 'covering all bases' is getting RoR a little too bloated, a little too fast...
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I think he is refering to open classes...?
I'm not saying it doesn't make sense given the environment that they work in.

I'm saying that the environment that they work in doesn't make sense.
delicious changed their name after they were acquired by Yahoo!. This was in July 2008, five years after they launched.

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I posted it so that entrepreneurs would understand that fees in excess of this range are clearly out of line. You have to draw a line somewhere. The reputable Silicon Valley Angel groups I am familiar with don't charge for you to present (e.g Angels Forum, Band of Angels) but there is a screening process.
Only a sith lord speaks in absolutes
I'm still old school in that way. I use awstats:

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

I really should be using something more sophisticated. But to keep things simple, awstats is just fine.
I used to believe that too (and there are dozens of books that actually say the same) - but what I've noticed for quite some time now is that this little bit of posture doesn't play that big of a role, after all. Probably because everybody has read the same best-seller 'mastering body language' books.
Spend some time building Xbox Live Achievements instead :-)
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I agree, I would recommend paring it down to the most important features/differences than the other offers.
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We empirically have on average 70 builds a day. The number is higher than your calculation because we don't all work 9-5, we're commiting frequently from around 8am to 9pm. We also run builds repeatedly overnight to flush out any intermittently failing tests we may have recently introduced. We'll run the builds as fast as they can go from 2am-4am.
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Yep, that IMVU. Here are a few more staggering statistics that we've published: http://www.vator.tv/news/show/2009-01-22-recession-not-affec...
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Nairalists.com is a lot more better and Smarter

Visting Nairalists.com and see that its a lot more better than Nairalist
for iPhone: pinch analytics (http://www.pinchmedia.com/). friend formerly worked there (full disclosure, really. :P) which was the main reason for going with this choice, and I tried to be fair when taking a peek at Medialets' Medialytics (http://www.medialytics.com/), but I kept returning to pinch media - both are super simple to get started with though. either way I think those two are the big ones for iPhone..there is also admob but they're more advertising-focused than anything else. apploop was another but they went out of business fairly quickly..
I think this is just another "micropayment dream", and will not work ultimately. Internet just doesn't work this way.

The only thing I can imagine could save online newspapers is, that they will become better and better in quality, that will attract many visitors, and the website will survive by ads revenue.

IMHO the core problem is, that the World Wide Web was not created with the intention that it should provide business opportunities. It was mainly established for free exchange of information between scholars and scientists.

Later on, some people and companies discovered that Internet has monetization potential and so the .com companies emerged. Some were successful, other weren't. But nobody said every kind of business can survive on the Internet - WWW has it own principles, and if you don't play by it's rules, you might not survive. And, one of that core principles which lies in the very heart of WWW is that information is passed for free. I don't think any company has the power to change that.
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dupe and linkjack:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476641

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-add-your-l...
Doesn't it need to be "fixed" - i.e. in this case recorded - to fall into this category? I doubt reading out loud would qualify as fixed.

This probably falls afoul of anti-discrimination laws - i.e. speech readers for the blind.
Discussion with Corey Oordt talking OpenSource Washington Times
I am quite sure Python allows monkey patching. It looks ugly because, perhaps, it's better that way.
Relational databases are so overrated.
This is a good point. Rails has a pretty ad hoc way of dealing with static pages - throwing them in /public mixed up with everything else. Cached pages get thrown in there too, and sweepers need to be able to delete them. I don't like the mess of permissions that arrangement necessitates so generally redo it.

Rails is also by nature a one-app pony - many web pages have more than one app that could reasonably be called "discrete" except they share users. Setting up something like that in Rails is messy no matter how you go about it. Further evidence would include the "REST everywhere" approach, which is wonderful if you're focussed on a full blown machine-accessible web app but a waste of time for something simpler.

I'm not exactly a Django expert either but I've heard that ones runs into limitations there quickly too - as you'd expect, no free lunches!

To sum up, both frameworks are good for what they are: a starting point. Any large project is going to find itself doing a lot of custom work anyway. So pick the language you like best, basically. For me that's Ruby but I have nothing against Python that goes much beyond the level of "I don't like the way it looks".