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I'm not sure where you're getting your 3x income numbers from, but they're simply ludicrous. With a mortgage of 3x your income, your mortgage will be less than 20% of your salary. For example, with an $85000/yr income, you earn about $5300 post-tax per month, and your mortgage payment is only $1350. If you consider home owning to be important to you, surely you can afford paying more than that for your mortgage.

Furthermore, it is impossible to find a home in the bay area for under $600,000. I'm certain that those starter homes are not being occupied by high net-worth individuals with $200,000/yr salaries.

I have been told that your monthly payments should not be more than 45% of your monthly household post-tax income. That comes out to a mortgage that can be about 5x your income. With those numbers, the lady in the article should've had a household (her + her husband) income of about $150,000/yr.

I'm a recent buyer of a $625,000 home with a $85,000/yr salary and I have no problems keeping up with my payments and establishing an emergency fund.
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Output all the data as lists and wrap it in IUI:

http://code.google.com/p/iui/
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I've always liked StumbleUpon and, with no offense to Twitter, I think the concept is far more innovative. More importantly I think it does a lot more to make it's users smarter. So I'm always annoys when Twitter gets so much digital ink while StumbleUpon gets almost none.
not sure what else you need.

If the user agent matches an iPhone, then make the borders a few pixels wide and make the content stretch across the screen. Then it would be pretty much perfect.
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In order to remain dynamic,a business has to constantly question it's systems and processes.

It is the developers - the analysts (why don't we hear more about that skill area these days?) and the programmers who are the agents of such change. If they approach their task appropriately then they will be the catalysts that generate the questions "who?, what?, why? and why? again" that ferment change that will be aligned with the true direction of a business. Indeed that can actualy re-direct the path of a business towards it's goals.
This topic was discussed 3 years back in http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.302825....
There is a demo video of Subtext here: http://www.subtextual.org/subtext2.html. It looks like it would be fun to play with. Too bad we can't download it yet.
No - not tail call - event driven callback model I/O is continuation-passing style (CPS). The two models are equivalent. Code written in the thread idiom can, in principle, be mechanically transformed into CPS and thereby use the event-driven callback model.

In the event callback style, the state that would otherwise be on the stack is held in the callback closure.

In the .NET space, F# does this transformation automatically with what it calls asynchronous workflows (http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2007/10/11/introducing-f...). It uses the 'let!' assignment as a dividing point between the call to the asynchronous method and converting the remainder of the method body into a continuation that gets passed to the asynchronous call.
So arc has finally got beyond the stage of initial hype (remarkably fast), and simply continues happily evolving. No need to feed the novelty crows. Please keep up the nice work!

[Edit: and nobody forbids me from using clojure, which is a great way to deal with tones both nice libraries and legacy applications.]
He's right. The traditional guideline is that you should pay about 30% of your net income on housing. You're right that the bay area is "different", but that doesn't mean it's different in a reasonable way. Most people really can't afford to own property here, by traditional standards.

Also, I'd like to point out that this woman took out an interest-only loan for the bulk of her debt, skimped on the deposit, and secured with another loan. Even if we use your standard (45% of net income), there's no way that she could afford the property.
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I am using IUI on a site that I developed for personal use (I use the RSS feeds from some of the sites that I frequent and display the news items from them).

IUI is good, but, the only problem that I have been having is that it doesn't retain browsing history after I visit an external link.

There are some other good libraries that can be used for HN. Please have a look at this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/215390/available-iphone-w...
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It's tough to provide a good incentive. I think your idea of initially targeting zip codes not covered by craigslist is good, but then your problem is marketing to thousands of local, semi-rural areas. Very tough...

Perhaps a way to break into the market would be to find an esoteric genre of items to trade with a very devoted user group - these people generate buzz for free. Then, when you have a group of users, slowly expand into more mainstream categories that have some relation to the original base. For example, you could start with car stereos and speakers, then slowly expand into other car parts, then into everything. I realize this may require shipping and isn't CL-like, so it may not be what you are looking for.

I think the most important thing for me that Craigslist is missing is user profiles of some sort. When I am going to drive 30 miles to some guy's house to pick up a widget, I would feel much more comfortable if other users said he was on the level and dependable.

Feature-wise, I'm unclear on what your site offers that Craigslist doesn't, other than a more web 2.0 interface. If anything, I think a simpler, quicker interface would be better for something like this.
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There are some Craigslist iPhone apps - try http://www.pheedyou.com/ (I've not tried it myself)
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They 'live' in a time before the web. Yet the characters from Mad Men have active online lives, sharing their thoughts, even their recipes. Viral marketing? No, it's fan worship in the Twitter age.
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Because it still does not delete *.sol files. These can be written to and read from via Flash. So everywebsite can track the average user ad infinitum even when you clear cookies and everything else in firefox.
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Even 37signals is reffering to you now...

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1561-why-you-shouldnt-cop...
I think it's a shame many new developers will never see a mainframe environment (I barely did)... There is a massive amount of things that are just "done right" (and plenty wrong) that are great things to learn from.

So even if the technology is "legacy" - there is a lot you can bring forward to almost any domain.
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How do transcoders affect HTTPS?

http://blog.masabi.com/2009/01/how-do-transcoders-affect-htt...
I know you're trolling, but what do you think it actually means?
I think you are right - all that we have now is ultimately derived from the structure of the underlying machine and that model has not undergone any fundamental change since the earliest iterations.

For a truly transformational step we need a new machine.
I prefer Black and White as http://mobify.me/ does.
You might want to look into this firefox plugin which allows you to delete flash cookies:

http://objection.mozdev.org/
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any chance you could get it working on the Wii?
Sometimes I like to sit back in my sofa and browse HN from the Wii. It renders ok but could do with a few tweaks. I usually use the Column mode for browsing where the width of the page in made to match that of the screeen i.e no horizontal scrolling needed. I don't think I'm the only one accessing HN from this console?
What infuriates me most about this situation is the implicit presumption that she deserves the home because she got there first. She took out the biggest loan, therefore she deserves the property now, and we should forgive her debts so that she can stay.

I'm sure that Half Moon Bay would be a nice place to live. Personally, I'd like a bit of land on the Colorado front range -- maybe something next to a creek, with a view of a beautiful valley. The difference between this woman and myself, is that I know that I can't afford it. So I think of my dream property, and work a little harder, save a little more, and hope that someday I'll be able to buy something that approximates what I desire.

Apparently, this woman missed that memo. She went out, took a series of ridiculous loans, and now she's the "owner" of a bit of property that she never had any reasonable ability to afford. And now that it's all gone pear shaped, she thinks that she should be allowed to stay.

Well, that's nonsense. There are thousands of other people just like me, who have been saving and living responsibly for years to afford the things that these lunatics bid up into the stratosphere by taking out massive debts. Now is the time for irresponsible people to suffer, and for the things that they "purchased" to come down in value to levels that the market of reasonable people can support. We shouldn't rescue this woman simply because she was willing to take out the biggest loan in 2006 -- and right now, that's her only argument.
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Are functional specifications and design documents any use to anyone?
You can't kill Craigslist with that UI.

What makes Craigslist "just work" is the simple, bloat-free interface. It makes it easy to view large quantities of data on a single page, and doesn't make it a "chore" to browse through the site for stuff.

Your UI is really way too bloated. Cut down on all the "web 2.0" look, focus on what your customers need rather than making sure your design screams "I'm a Web 2.0 Startup!"

Cut down on the graphics, the crazy whitespace.

Just my two cents.
Has anyone ever tried Adobe Kuler. It has a lot of themes put together by I guess designers. I admit some of them are awful but it gives one an opportunity to see how different colours complement each other...
this so reminds me of Terry Pratchett...

Amazing story, not too sure what the hacker link is but I found it a quite interesting read, thanks for sharing!
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The sooner patents are abolished the better.

That said, as long as they exist there are situations where patents make sense. If developing your product takes a couple of millions of dollars and it is truly innovative then it makes sense to take out a patent because the overhead is relatively low compared to the potential benefits.

For instance, the Dyson vacuum cleaner was protected by a patent and it helped them in going after Philips who shamelessly cloned it.
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You say "evolution" as it were a fact -- but it isn't, it's a theory, I hope you know this.

Everything that exists must have its cause, and in history it never happened once that something less intelligent caused something more intelligent.

No single human understands his own brain. That fact already tells us that there must be a cause outside of humans. So, the "creation" theory make more sense than the "evolution" theory.
When did Hacker News turn into twitter?

Submit an article or ask a question.
I cut my programming teeth writing apps to run on a network of PDP 11/70s running RSTS/E. Fantastic fun and a remarkably flexible set-up despite the lack of virtual memory.
This has nothing to do with the iPhone.
They do affect it but we'll have sufficient support for it! There's a large amou.nt of customization allowed with the system.
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Kind of neat.
Heres an image of the solution, for anyone who doesn't want to try it themselves.
http://i43.tinypic.com/mjmi47.jpg
the name of the .wav gives it away, and I visualized it using one of foobar2000's default visualizations. A more advanced tool would probably give you a better resulting image.
Reminds me of aphex twin putting things in his tracks (http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php)
He means that the shanty town is a great model for urban living for you and me - not for him of course.
Thanks! Actually the lower tier would be something like a pizzeria and a higher tier - a publisher with 500k uniques a month. We will ofer a wide range of pricing options to serve both.
If you're going to AJAX, what about just going all the way and never showing a 'loading' page? Just cache all the pages and all the item listings in memory so that its zero cost to browse around fast?
I agree, flash cookies should be cleared with this feature as long as firefox is shipping with flash.
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The x86 may live for a good while, but within a couple years there will be far more "computers" running ARM processors than x86.

I expect the CPU architecture landscape to change most radically as the lines become indistinguishably blurry between telephones, computers and entertainment consoles.
Another problem (besides for python errors if comments > 50) I have (with icombinator.net) is that after reading comments when you click back to go to the home page it scrolls you all the way up top so that you lose your place. Annoying if you're reading the 60th story and have to "load more" again just to get back to where you were.
This has got to be some kind of test: Who's up at 2:00 AM on Saturday morning and willing to donate modified HTML/CSS to HN?

Is the winner going to be a new moderator? Get a HN T-Shirt? Get a 7x7 pixel image of their face hidden on the site somewhere?
It looks nice. Just my 2 cents (I am not a USA citizen so I don't know the exact conditions):

Marketing in small towns is going to be difficult. A lot of small towns lags behind more urban places in internet adoption. Their population are also generally older and less tech savvy than cities - so you should plan for this group (simple interfaces, etc...).

You also get small towns that are relatively near each other: if a person wants to buy something $200 + he will happily drive through to the next town. So if you implement a type of map and list nearby towns it may be good.

A lot of selling over here happens with small regional papers – a regional paper will cover one or two towns and will be filled with regional news (stuff like school performance, local politics, etc...). Those papers also contain classified advertisements. If you can maybe link up with one or two of them to put those advertisements online – or provide a system in which they can put advertisements on your system (e.g. show on their website and redirect to yours when a user clicks on the add) it would be great.

Most of those papers are usually a one or two man operation without much of a website – you should check if you can get a system in which you supply a CMS type system with your advertisement system to them. You provide the website framework and advertisement system and they fill it with content & advertisements.
Instead of zip codes, why not do closed, individual communities? I know there are a lot of forums that have a closed buy/sell market that could use this application. Some guys recently were trying to buy/sell on HN and this would be a good opportunity to expand.
She's looking for a handout. The sense of entitlement of some people in this country is sickening.

"I want to ask you to re-finance my mortgage at the current value of my house at a 4.2% rate, like everyone in Congress is suggesting."

Oh, come on. That's ridiculous. Basically, everyone that didn't go out and upgrade or buy a big house gets shafted because those that bought big houses would get bailed out to the tune of the current market value and at a rate way below market value for their loan? That's just foolish and sends the wrong message.

I bought a house in the San Francisco Bay Area in the east bay for about 450k in 2001. The house is still pretty well above water but I have that thing on a fixed rate loan at 5.5%. I've managed to pay off a decent chunk of the house as well because I stayed conservative. And because I decided to stay put and not upgrade even though money was cheap I would basically be told to piss off because I did the right thing. No, no, no.

Luckily she has it wrong anyways. The law being tossed around would only be for people in bankruptcy if I read it correctly but then again it changes every day.

I really hope none of what she is hoping for comes to pass. And if, for some reason there was a relief bill passed, there should be some sort of payback clause in it where they government would be entitled to a portion of any "profit" on the house when values start to rise again and the person sells it. Think of the way affordable housing works where the buyer can't sell it at "market rate" - they are only entitled to a certain amount of appreciation each year. They can even add in credits for capital improvements so the owner still has incentive to maintain the house vs. letting it go into disrepair.
both these are outgrowths of C++ features - templates and rtti, which I saw first in the early 80's but were probably around earlier.
Paul,

What you actually want is a mobile projection of the HN site! iPhone is the dominant device in the US but I am sure you want to open up to Asia's Nokia, Google's Android and the BlackBerry as well.

We launched Mobify.Me in a post earlier today and here's a mobile version of HN done in around 5 minutes (as it's very late here in Vancouver). All you'd have to do is point a DNS entry for m.ycombinator.com to:

http://yc.mobify.me

Hope you like it!

Team Mobify.Me
These are exceptions. Companies who carry low-tier items will do well in this economic climate; however, retail is still shrinking.
type inferencing as used in haskell et al, that's a fairly recent development - early 90's/late 80's?

Category theory is another perhaps - it's from the 40's but it's application to programming is new - 80's perhaps?
The implementation that Ashwin from Buxfer built for the iPhone was great. Simple, fast, and already tested. Maybe you can use it, or borrow parts of it.
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I hate it how everyone focuses on Amazon's Kindle. I think it's one of the weakest ebooks out there. And certainly the most proprietary.

There are tons of ebooks out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook_reader and I think the iLiad should get more headlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILiad
Remember that the secret of creativity is how well you hide your sources. ;) Most creative works now stand on the shoulders of giants.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415244
What is the point of all the AJAX? All your content is virtually invisible to google, and given that you're looking for ways to get traffic i would have thought natural search would have been very important.

I think you need to think a lot more about your urls - make them friendly for people and search engines, so instead of:

http://www.menkle.com/BrowseCategory.aspx?c=3

why not:

http://www.menkle.com/categories/electronics

and instead of:

http://www.menkle.com/ShowClassified.aspx?id=847

why not:

http://www.menkle.com/items/dvd/american_pie_2 or

http://www.menkle.com/washington/georgetown/dvd/american_pie...

some well thought out url rewriting will go a long way + will give the benefit of obscuring the fact you're using asp, which might help with security.
I think before you want to make something like a CL killer, you first need to understand what is CL, why is that so popular as it is - essentially what is the primary driver of business for CL.

As other would have already commented, it seems that the simple interface is one of hte biggest drivers for CL. You would find the same if you dig through tons of forbes/media articles. I think that is not the case. That is just post-facto insight - something which gets generated a lot in the media.

The primary driver of business for CL afaik is data and the people who already use CL. If I want to sell something I go to CL because it offers me the most amount of buyers. If I want to buy something vice-versa. It is a self-fulfilling loop.

The only way to beat CL is to figure out how do you overtake CL in its primary driver of business. It will not be easy - I dont know even if it is possible. But what I do know is that anything else (neat UI, AJAX) is just inconsequential.
And before joining Mozilla, the same guys who work on ubiquity worked on the similar product "enso launcher" for desktops which you should also investigate:

http://humanized.com/enso/launcher/
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Nice thing about the Iliad:

"Developers and users wishing to create or run third party applications can request shell access from the manufacturer."

Thanks for the pointer.
Surprisingly good, though feature requests abound: format comments pages, colours (!), unicode support.
Isn't the "[insert huge company or product] killer" phrase incredibly cliche at this point?
Hmm, I can use my physical strength to build an engine stronger than myself...

Are you aware of the empty rhetoric?
What about javascript's dynamic object model, where the objects can be changed at run time? I don't think this was possible earlier on, can't remember if this was possible in smalltalk or self?

The idea of the DOM?

Both mid 90's
Is there any place to publish and sell your own eBook online? I've had this idea but the PDF creator seems like it'd be difficult to code. The iTunes App Store type business model seems ideal for this.
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Agreed. I wonder if there's a correlation between the rise of "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" and the shift from Sonatra to Britney Spears. If the geniuses are entrepreneurs, who's left for the arts?

And the line between graduate school and consulting is getting way too thin. One of my GRAs required that I spend time on-site with the customer -- sorry, "corporate partner on the research grant."