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I daresay the power/space ratio of computers increased dramatically from 2000 to 2010 (ipad release), allowing much more elegant designs, not to mention the absolute transformation of computers from a moderately expensive specialty tool with side uses to most definitely being a common household appliance worthy of design.

For comparison, here's apple's powerbook g3 from the same era:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=powerbook+g3&hl=en...

(herp derp I R dell computer!)

Or how about the disgusting early powerbook g4s?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:15-inch-titanium-powerbook...

Looks just as tacky as apple imitators today.

I'm always surprised by the lack of humbleness that apple fanatics display, forgetting apple's own history.
Personally I wrote my own markdown-rendering static blog because it was something to do. I've stuck with it because I prefer the workflow to a more dynamic application.
The idea that cracking down harder is going to work is just a complete fantasy. It will just mean that the supply side becomes even more violent, aggressive, and smart.
> On the one hand you have an annoying man who isn't doing any genuine harm

The subjects don't know this. Because his behaviour is so unusual, and because he does so little to explain it, it raises questions about his sanity and future intent.

If I get in an elevator with you and start staring at you, I may not be doing anything illegal, but you would be foolish to wait until I actually do you harm before securing yourself.
Siemens is known to the public mostly for the cellular phones it builds

Siemens is known to the public for (once upon a time) powering everything from consumer hardware, marine current turbines, to Irans nuclear program. The company is massive.

They probably built this more for themselves than anyone else.
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For me, it's a way of avoiding having to trust / pay for someone else's server, but also avoid worrying about keeping my wordpress install up to date.

I had a little blog I posted to every few months, and one day I found it vandalised from my out of date wordpress.
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I have a Cintiq, I always somehow end up using my PC, because I need to still use my mouse to get certain things done precisely (For example compound Boolean operations for Logo designing). But hey, yours is a very good point, but it is rather very specific to a certain type of artists (In my opinion).
What thing did you build? I'm not gonna click on titles like these.
Another case in point: the Polgar sisters[1][2][3], raised by their father[4] to prove the point that "geniuses are made, not born".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
They have security staff to separate the performance artists from the crazy stalker killers?
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This is a great idea. It looks like there are at least two plugins already that claim to validate the new HTML5 attributes: [html5-form][1] and [h5Validate][2]

[1]: http://www.matiasmancini.com.ar/jquery-plugin-ajax-form-vali...

[2]: http://ericleads.com/h5validate/
While not outright legalizing, Portugal's massive decriminalization applied to heroine and cocaine, and their problem seems to have gotten better rather than worse.
Hi, I am trying to port some of my Rails and Node.js projects from my computer / Github. So essentially setting up instances and running the respective webservers on these EC2 instances.
Our web app has recently been hit by a Google algorithm change. Search traffic has fallen off a cliff. If it continues, it could be a threat to our business.

We have never done any underhand SEO. We haven't done any SEO at all. People love the app but now, alas, they can't find it.

Ironically, just before we fell out of the search rankings, a Google developer evangelist got in touch to say how much they liked our app and that Google would like to partner with our app on an upcoming initiative.

If there are any Google engineers here who would like to help, I'd be most appreciative.
You are absolutely right, on HN upvotes counts, I too upvoted all those who actually offered help.
I agree, an 11 year old device with 32 MB RAM is nowhere near the experience of the iPad, IMHO
Thus the implicit meaning is that Android is "open", which we all know not to be true.

I don't know that at all.
I don't know about you, but I only do cocaine to help the poor Columbian farmers.
nice post BUT: i brush my teeth because i want to keep them clean, minus the tingly feelings since my tooth paste doesn't have the chemicals, and according to your technique, you are reducing us to this reward model which actually is detrimental to our psychological progress as human beings, i don't need a cue to depend on when i want to do something, i know what i want to do and i go do it, using your technique you are perpetuating distrust in our own minds and un-confidence in our thinking process by relying on placing cues in our immediate environment to trick us into doing things, i sense a habit of distrust of our abilities coming on and slithering through our psyches, you want to make people feel confident about their decision processes not insecure about relying on external cues, i mean i tend to think we are slightly more advanced than lab rats, but then again that is why advertising is so successfull, because we really do operate on this reward model and most of us don't know what we need or want and think some third party might
I wasn't communicating well, what I'm on about is that knowledge flow in large organisations is not always (or even often) through 'official' channels. I'm thinking of Etienne Wenger's work on situated learning, especially the insurance office example in Lave and Wenger's book.

It struck me that datasets from email, and from sharepoint like systems might help people identify the 'betweeners' in their organisation.
I'd say a VPS could nominally be called part of a cloud, but most serious deployments, pre-cloud, were some sort of colo arrangement where if a hardware part died you had to either drive up to the DC and go swap out for a new one, or else call up the DC staff and ask them nicely to fix it for you. Your hosting wasn't a black box.
Court rulings can violate the law. Wickard v Filburn is a perfect example. Everyone can read Article 1 Section 8 and know that personal property does not fall under "interstate commerce." That doesn't stop the Supreme Court from ruling that way.

In the same vein, we've now reached a point where the Supreme Court's decisions are increasingly (if not all) unconstitutional.

The problem is that there's no 3rd party to settle a dispute with the government. If you and the government have a disagreement, the government decides who's right.

If the Supreme Court ruled the sky was red, the sky would still be blue.
Yes I have a T61 which reliably doesn't hibernate or sleep properly in either Debian or Ubuntu...
Buddha had summarized that very succinctly "What we think, we become " :-)
Aww, I thought I was gonna be the guy who talked about my server-side static site generator first. Haha, anyway, what I like about generating static sites on the server, at least for my situation, is that you can hand over control to anyone and they're immediately familiar with how it works from having used Wordpress or some such for years.

I won't like to mine because it's still full of code written for the original use case but mine started as a blog engine for a few of the non-technical people in my department. They needed a blogging engine but because of some stupid beaurocratic reason we couldn't use a database. So the options were to add blog posts manually and fake it, teach them to use Jekyll (that would never happen), or, what I chose, a static site generator on the server that no one would ever think is a static site generator. They love it and think I'm a genius (and it only consists of like 3 files which I think is funny).
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I don't understand how such a company could be possible even in theory. Seems like an oxymoron to me.

It's company growth that causes it.

Once the overhead of managing the admin side of employees becomes sufficiently large centralisation is a common result.

Getting that up and running right is hard - especially since the hard bits are often outside of the skill set of the folk hiring the people to run that new department. Take too long to do get it right and a good company can go bad quite quickly.
Legalization would stop the flow of money and jobs away from this country and would also remove the main reason these cartels exist.

Legalization of marijuana will allow buyers and growers to come together in their communities. It allows buyers to choose local farmers instead of those in foreign countries. Legalization would remove the cash source that causes people to want be part of these cartels.
Rather than make me define the submit handler, I would prefer to define "onValid" and "onInvalid" handlers. That would make the code more DRY, since that's code that will get duplicated on every form.

I also like the idea of using HTML5 attributes (see this[1] tutorial for a starting point). I could easily see a place for a "add html5 validation to every browser" where your plugin provides the backwards compatibility. In fact, I might prefer to be able to use standard markup but not have to worry that I'll get different behavior on different browsers.

1. http://www.the-art-of-web.com/html/html5-form-validation/
Yeah, but you can play on foreign sites. Just use BTC and you should be safe.
Thank you very much, if you can drop me a line at j@ww.com I'd be obliged.
There were windows slates available in the same time period, like the Compaq TC1100. iPad -like in the overall form factor but very far off in terms of price, weight and simplicity.
How do you justify your bias toward specific drugs?
Why should alcohol and oxycontin be legal and cocaine illegal?

What gives society the right to choose for me what I may consume for myself?
Heh, both of your juxtapositions are a lot closer than you seem to think.

Drug prohibition is actually based on tax laws. The bulk of federal drug deillegalization will not even take an act of congress - they'll just start issuing tax stamps.

Seat belt laws are based on the idea that government/society has a financial interest in the productivity of your well functioning body. This analysis essentially treats us all as mild slaves. The conditions are certainly better than the racial slavery of yesteryear (although I'm just repeating the groupthinkline here; I don't have a time machine), but the ideology is not.

Pooling money for common purposes and avoiding free riders has a moral leg to stand on. However, the current system has massively outgrown this philosophical justification, using the sheer majority of revenue collected for maladaptive antifeatures.
I think the PC you are referring to is more close to the IHC he is talking about than his version of a PC. Remember the PC back in 1993 was two big gray boxes weighing 20kg each. Not a slim 13" macbook pro laptop.
I know the title says EC2, but if your just looking for a Linux box at roughly the same price, then linode is also a very good option. Railscasts has a couple of screencasts that deal directly with setting up a linux box with Rails and Postgres that I would highly recommend to someone just getting started. It is a pro cast, so it would cost 9 a month, but definitely worth the price.
If somebody is all passion and no skill, well that's a total wild-card. They may or may not ever be productive. I do think people like this exist, but only temporarily. If they are truly passionate, they'll get good at their work. If not, then they are just all talk and not really passionate.

A person with great skill but no passion - I'm not sure that person exists. I don't think you can get to the level of greatness without some form of passion. If you have zero passion the you are probably going to top out at "adequate" and your skills will diminish as the industry passes you by.

I would bet that every on this forum has some passion. It wouldn't even make sense, why waste your free time reading tech forums? All of us here have at least a little passion for the field.
However, I do know that lack of degree is always weighing heavily on the individual who doesn't have it. This further leads to compensatory behaviour

Care to elaborate? I was unable to obtain my degree, and maybe it is that weighing on me, but it feels like people with degrees spend a inordinate amount of time justifying their accreditation to deal with their own insecurities.

Since I did not have the opportunity to go to college, unlike my friends, I received a lot of ribbing early on about how their are getting their education to get a good job. Once I finally revealed how much I was making, I never heard another word of it.

I never felt the need to make fun of them for going to college though. In fact, I fully supported it. Education is amazing and it truly saddens me that people have to justify it with prospects of future employment opportunities to even justify going.
Now, Jacques and Daniel are well-known HNers. Would this same level of support be extended to less well-known HN-ers?
Ah... I accidentally rounded to zero decimal places. Looks better now.
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Previously on HN about 195 days ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877954

But why the repost - I ask? The last time it was arunoda, who seems to be a friend.

As somebody who'd love to post a pet project on HN sometime in the hopefully-not-too-distant future, I sorta get that you might want people to try your software and that maybe you'd like more eyeballs than you got the first time around; but couldn't you be explicit about it? I'm sure that something like "Guys, I know this has been posted before, but I'd like you look at it once again" would be more welcome and transparent.

Update: I read through the comments on that thread. THAT was a repost. This is the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862269 (199 days, poster: you)

Whats going on? Have you changed anything since then that you'd like to highlight?
A firmware upgrade could probably decimate the OP's business, but the whole value is that this service may be a lot cheaper in terms of mental effort and stress for many landlords.
My point is that a company with a bad HR department seems to me to be a "bad company" no matter how good the rest of it is.
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Not a good idea. Most of these lawyers are incompetent or are freshers with little experience. Good lawyers are hard to find and they go by references.
To the many talking about legalization in favor of this kind of approach, I think you're missing the point. I am entirely in favor of legalization, and I think it is a necessary component of fixing things, but things have gotten seriously broken. The drug trade has built massive criminal enterprises which have built themselves infrastructure and organization and connections that can be used toward ends other than just shipping drugs. It keeps pouring money into these enterprises, and making things worse, but if we turn off (or down) that spigot we still have to deal with these organizations. And as someone put it, they're not in drugs because they have a deep interest in agriculture, it's just profitable, and their competitive advantage is that they're willing to do illegal things. Most of them already deal with other things as well, and I'd expect them to try and ramp up income from those to supplement a loss of drug related income.

All of this to say, we have a problem we need to deal with. An important part of that is to stop making the problem worse, but then we still need to fix it - something like this could be valuable to that end.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't fight to right a wrong. When a large number of people decide that they've had enough of it, change happens.

I'm no history buff, but I'm pretty sure that rampant taxation is at least part of the reason that the USA exists in the first place.
"You'll go where you're looking. Don't look down or you'll fall over."

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Yes. This was not actually a project announcement, but a tutorial published on Appliness.

Of course, there had been lot of new features and changes to the process since the initial release.

Also, it's up to you to decide whether to vote it to the frontpage or not.
i'm a undergraduate, working as an engineer. i have worked with one of the major brands like Dell. i see no difference between a graduate and an undergraduate these days. All have the right to study and work hard and internet has been a of great help.
I'm not associated with this project, I just found it and thought it looked interesting.

It seems it was previously the work of Motorola Mobility, see previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4225335

There's a lot of competition in this space (Derby, Meteor, etc) and I'm dying to try out one of them, perhaps Derby since it looks like Meteor has a ways to go.

Though I think my ideal solution would involve integration with AngularJS which is my favourite framework by far.
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To be fair, everybody who makes hardware makes some software.

I think the difference is that Apple does it not just as a side-project to make the hardware turn on, but as a serious and well integrated part of the holistic device production.
More to the point, the PC of 1993 had almost all its data and functionality stored on its internal disk while a current PC relies far more on data and programs stored and running remotely. In 1993 we would be having this discussion through software written by AOL communicating with servers owned by AOL. If we decided to use software provided by different companies we'd not be able to even have a discussion.

Now, if I want to do something computationally heavy, I wish a computer (or a thousand of them) into existence, built from pieces I rent from a company such as Rackspace, HP or Amazon. My data, while existing locally, is also mirrored on several different places, accessible by almost any computing device connected to the internet, regardless of maker or software. Last time I lost a notebook computer, I was able to restart working on the next business day from the point I left (minus one commit I failed to do before leaving the office).

This is not your 1993 PC.
Bloomberg is not a Republican anymore (He's an independent), for the record.
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Go call up steelcase, I've recently learned yea the make office furniture but they spend a LOT of time and energy working on and thinking about how to set up offices. Read their 360 magazine which talks about office space setup you'll get some great ideas.
I agree the tooth brushing example was detrimental to the point of the post.

You could also say, I put on my underwear after drying off merely out of habit and the underwear cartels make their cottony underwear so smooth merely to provide a pleasant reward for my ass cheeks. But, in fact I put on my underwear for a variety of practical reasons and the smoothness is not really a reward.

The snack break example was more to the point. That's a voluntary thing that becomes routine, but could be skipped with no social repercussions.
This system can only open the street-facing gate, not the front door.
I am not sure if this http://www.vakilsearch.com ('vakil' means a lawyer in Hindi/Urdu) can provide lawyers to represent in a criminal case but you can just give it a shot for initial representation
"Pure capitalism represents voluntary interactions"

The "truly free market" can never achieve the "pure" capitalism you propose in practice, then, because deregulation involves a great deal of involuntary choices forced on the consumer (as opposed to being forced onto the business.)
Good point. There are services that specifically provide for encryption and import, requiring a private key that only the user of the info has. Of course, the encryption can be cracked with time.

However, my main concern is not so with no one reading the data, but with data being taken and not returned.
"Are you sure it wouldn't be some kind of private arbitration circuit?"

So pretty much the current system of mandatory binding arbitration that we're all being forced into. It's a libertarian's dream!
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This would have gotten very interesting if he had tried his experiment on the sidewalk outside of a schoolyard or daycare playground.

Unfortunately his experiment has a confusing methodology because he is introducing himself as a variable in the testing. And barging into closed rooms completely complicates the point.

Then again, maybe his objective is simply to stir up some discussion.

I'd like to see this tried with some less irritating filming method. Perhaps a small camera mounted to a moveable remote control device with a sign on it indicating that it is conducting random anonymous surveillance.
jm2c.

Why not remove your uncle's contact details from here and PM to OP, rather!
Last weekend I went to an AT&T store and got a 'post-paid plan'. I just asked for a SIM and they gave it to me. No one forced me to purchase a carrier locked phone.
Arguably having a "correct" winner matters the least in tight elections. If the margin of victory is as-low as 1% then it hardly matters which candidate wins - that election is already subject to the influence of weather, chance, accident and human counting error.

There really is no supernatural magic to democracy that invests within the winner a moral or judgemental superiority. The ceremony and culture we surround democracy with can create that illusion. In an almost holy way, we anoint the winner and assign to them a minor god-like status. Their choice is said to reflect the will of the people, to be the personification of a mandate. But rationally, we should realise that a candidate who wins by 1% is about as likely to lose if the election was run the next day.

What's scary about e-voting is that democracy is really only very good at preventing complete tyranny. Potential tyrants are unlikely to gain enough votes. But with e-voting, errors of 50% are as easy and as likely as errors of 1%.
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What if Google Play could produce various scaled versions ahead-of-time? Then you'd have smaller downloads for smaller devices!
Which is not any better for the detainee, because he still gets treated badly by someone who thinks he's entitled to doing so.

A police officer is not qualified to determine who is guilty. Only to determine who is suspect. All suspects are to be treated alike. And of course, we can all come up with blatantly obvious cases where someone is guilty of some heinous crime. The point is that there are many more cases where the crime is less noteworthy, the guilt is less obvious and someone still gets treated badly before his guilt has been established.
Heroku might be what you need if you don't want to work on setting up all the server side details.
Personally it sounds like a damn effective heuristic to me.

I've found the folk who have a passion for their work are the best employees. Technical ability isn't the only factor in being productive - or hiring. Caring about your work is vitally important too.

Ideally what I want is ability and passion of course - but the world isn't an ideal place.

A technically excellent employee with no passion... well.... in my experience they tend to coast. They do what they're told, and do it well, but they're not the ones who bang on your door first thing in the morning and go 'Have you seen this?!'. The folk banging on the door are the ones that make money.

Give me a passionate employee with a clue and I can coach them into technical excellence.

I've yet to figure out how to coach passion into somebody who doesn't really care.