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There's many reasons this didn't happen. Some of them Adobe's fault, some not.

The main thing to realize is that Adobe based AS3 on many leading proposals for Ecmascript 4. Ecmascript 4 would lay the groundwork for future versions of javascript, etc. Flash would still be closed source, but the language would be useful elsewhere in the browser. Several people have described the political issues surrounding this ES4 situation in far more detail, and how we arguably ended up the worse for it:

Resig: http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-harmony/
Canasse: http://ncannasse.free.fr/?p=82
Mike Chambers: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/14/actionscript-3-a...

So, why didn't Adobe just open source the flash plugin? One main reason not to was Microsoft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#...
Another reason was, naturally, control. Both for Adobe and for user development. The Flash player was quirky, but incredibly consistent with decent performance. There really was no other option... js, java applets, activeX, they all had significant weaknesses due to differing availability and performance.

If you wait around long enough in web development, you will have seen this type of situation many times. Haxe is a "free agent" that can break this cycle imho. It is not tied to a company like Typescript or Dart, nor is it tied to corporate controlled committees like ES4. It has an incredibly gifted language author, and a great team of developers. It's also very mature at this point (> 5 years old).

I've used Haxe professionally for just under 5 years now.
The market definition has another substantially big segment other than the ones concerned with "pay" - the ones who are paranoid about keeping their repositories outside their company firewall.
I noticed that too. For a good, similar website, try http://www.adioso.com/ which is also an Australian startup, Melb based I think.

(I'm from Brisbane)
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Can't find the channel. :) Is it empty?
Google Tasks supports sub-tasks. I use "Tasks" on android for phone sync (weird that android has no native task app to sync with google tasks -- atleast I've not found one)
The problem was solved by Google Docs years ago. It already gives me access from any browser and all my devices via Drive. Just import your todo.txt as a Docs document and your done. Full change/revision log. Completely free form - zero imposition of a format or task flow beyond what you impose on yourself, which may be nothing more than dumping down your thoughts and reviewing them occasionally. IMO its the only viable solution and i wouldn't consider using anything else.
If the placebo effect is superstition, as most comments in this thread seem to imply, how come pharmaceutical companies are finding it increasingly hard to beat?

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...
Hi, basically they redirect "you" (as a client) from client's page to their own servers and there run all relevant stuff, like authorization, for instance. Don't forget they monitor all your(client's) actions and keep the history. If something abnormal happens the Hollywood principle begins to work. However, I think you wanna see PayPall API first. Cheers,
Oleg.
It occurs to me that the value of YT today is primarily the network effect / discoverability. Between the video tag, availability of cheap flash video players, and CloudFront/S3, the cost to create YT has fallen dramatically, and there are even things for ordinary people to self-host like VideoPress.

My suspicion though is that robustness to DMCA complaints is an "unfeature"--you don't need it until you do. Like an insurance policy or backup equipment, you're convincing people to pay now for something they might need later, which is a hard thing to sell.
There's a famous quote along these lines: "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."
Landing page doesn't help much.

Web search engine I presume? What do you mean by "covers much more meta information"?
I totally agree and personally love using -> and ->> but I've heard people say that the idiomatic way is to use let instead:

(let [fortythree (+ 1 42)
foo33 (foo 33 fortythree)
bar12 (bar 12 foo33)
baz33 (baz 33 bar12)]
baz33)

I understand the logic behind preferring let and a lot of times it really does make things clearer to have everything named and explicit, but especially in prototype code, I find the need to name things to get in the way. I would prefer not naming things over badly named things, for example, and that's usually how I decide between let and thrush (all things being otherwise equal).
Pretty much everything in the Penguin (Modern) Classics series.
I was going to read through your comment, but it was too long. Is this an example of the pretentiousness and snark that people complain about on HN?
The few apps I've granted access to my Dropbox always get (or take) full access to all my files, which is disconcerting. Is it possible for apps to be granted access to only the certain directories or limited areas of my Dropbox?
Really creative! Big props, super geeky but guaranteed to be a winner.

Money quote:
"...giving his girlfriend a big surprise when she imaged his electrophoresis gel."
> Maybe it would be better if all humans were to become recruited as a hive of unthinking automations, like the borg, where we submit our will to others, and human potential to explore the universe increases.

If you're part of a collective mind you are part of something much larger than yourself, kind of like a voice in a forum, but a much larger and better integrated forum. How great is a neuron in comparison to the brain? I don't think the neuron relinquishes its will to the collective, but rather, only inside the collective does it really shine.
Breaking news.... HN abuzz with 2.5 year old story...

Hick's work was published via New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16585-amazing-mirrors) in February of 2009.
To BLOB or Not To BLOB
What took them so long to move on this?
OffTopic: Any recommendations for a small, good UK based ISP?
HACID: A lightweight transaction system for HBase
Mobile sites suck. I often change the user agent so I can see the desktop site on tablet or tethered laptop.
Your "original idea" was probably thought of by one of the pioneers of computing in the 1970s, if not earlier.

The real question is whether you should develop something that is a feature, not a product. And as per Betteridge's Law, the answer is no.
Pirate Bay uses cloud servers hidden behind a proxy and a load balancer. The cloud servers are encrypted both in disk image and TCP traffic. The load balancer and the proxy are stateless machines that have no HDD. They keep no traces.

Add these front-end proxies hosted in various permitting jurisdictions and it's almost impossible to track or pull down. Good job of providing a technological-legal fix to a legal attack!
Indeed there isn't. VC returns are incredibly power law driven - i.e. they come from the 10-15 companies per year that end up being monsters. The valuation that you invested in is (almost) irrelevant - either you are part of the big successes and have a business as an VC or you didn't participate and don't have a business.

That is yet another very counter-intuitive thing about the startup world. In basically every other finance vertical, terms matter greatly. Not so much with VCs. That's why a lot of finance guys make poor VCs, they fundamentally misunderstand the game.
Build apps not businesses
>As to immigration a lot of the work done by immigrants would simply disappear without immigrant labor because it's just not worth minimum wage and or could just as easily be done outside the country.

But a lot more of it would still need to be done, and people would get paid enough that going off public assistance made sense.

Also, don't conflate illegal immigrants with legal immigrants. Sergey Brin didn't slip over the border with a sixth grade education and no ability to speak English. What we lack is jobs for people on the left half of the bell curve. There's plenty of room on the right half.
No affiliation, but you know there's a Github enterprise that's self-hosted right?

https://enterprise.github.com/
May be, you can start off with drop shipments like someone mentioned, and probably go for further integration down the line? I feel that any idea that has a physical or offline component has a higher barrier to entry and thus has a better chance of succeeding if you get it right, or are even able to provide some incremental benefit compared to existing options. I look at this way - if I don't want to touch something because it's too complicated chances are others feel the same way, and vice-versa.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do! :)
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>And so long as the pie is growing, it is always possible, in principle, to allocate the gains in a Pareto-efficient manner (that is, in a manner in which everybody gains) through the political process. Therefore many economists consider the "distributional" question, concern about who gets what, to be of secondary importance to their field.

Somehow I think economists will weigh in on this question if we phrase it as it really is: capitalism versus feudalism versus socialism.
I know this is a generalization, but I think his comments about commitment are spot on. I would expect that high valuations decrease investor commitment and involvement because they reduce ownership in the outcome.
It's an observation. I'm not sure what other proof I need.
With so many people willing to contribute reviews, I see no reason to allow either anonymous reviews or reviews from people who have no direct familiarity with the product. Can there be some value from these two sources? Perhaps. But there's a lot more noise generated than value.
One of the niftiest features on Amazon is the ability to view the "most helpful" glowing and negative reviews. Frequently, you only need to read 2 reviews. The glowing one will highlight the product's best features, while the negative one will clearly outline its flaws. After that, you have a pretty clear picture.
Same here. My travel agent can always find me cheaper international tickets than what I could find on the internet. Does anyone know exactly how this works?

The best part is they can put me on a wait list for cheap tickets!
My point was more that it's not hard to manage ruby versions. Certainly not for someone who plans to run their own gitlab instance. I think there is a very small population who are going to go through with downloading and preparing to self host a mini GitHub and won't Google how to manage Ruby versions...

I guess either way it turns into a moot discussion of, are they turning 90% of people away, or are they targetting the 10% since the other 90% don't/won't care or have the ability to maintain an instance.
I like to use todo lists also for a sense of achievement. When I cross something from my list I feel i got something done, even if it was trivial , it gives me positive energy to get more done.
Also I agree that when I am most productive, my list grows instead of shrinking.
Facebook now shows you your own search history
If you go to your Activity Log and check the box that says "Include Only Me Activity", all your searches will be displayed. Personally, I'm scared I'll forget to log off my facebook account one day and that someone might get access to which of my friends profiles I've searched for. What are your opinions?
i use bing flights for my flight needs, and probably that's the only MS service i ever use/used. I like bing flights just because of two checkboxes, and nothing else; the checkboxes to search nearby airports on departure and arrival destination.

I also found cheapest or next to cheapest flights on bing for some reason.
Who said they haven't improved themselves? Today's low-skilled worker has a BA in English from their state university and lives on Avenue Q.
It depends strongly on the person. For some people, checking stuff off a list is a carrot, not a stick.
Just curious, but why does Github only have ~84% availability? Do they not have the resources to get >95% (or 99% for that matter)? It seems once every couple weeks it goes down for an hour or more.
Making graphene with a DVD burner
$ cat ~todo.txt

Things to do:

fill out this list

everything else

$
A future where machines displace most of what we currently think of as blue collar workers is a future where most of the things blue collar workers currently produce are much, much, cheaper than they are now. This author worries whether blue collar jobs will pay "subsistence" wages. They will, because the cost of subsistence [and indeed, the cost of a fairly satisfied life] will be lower.

This was the entire thesis of the neoliberal project. Over 30 years of implementation, it has never once come true for basic subsistence goods.

Rent is not cheaper. Health-care is not cheaper. Energy is not cheaper. Food is only slightly cheaper.

The primary good that has become massively cheaper is electronics.
I looked into this and I was actually mistaken - I was referencing SES, not SNS. Apologies!
Oh, it has to be Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky). Blew me away. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2554

For lighter reading, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661
If there's a war, it's between people and other people.

Because pointing out the existence of class war is politically incorrect. Most people would sooner admit to a race war than a struggle between the capitalist class and working class.
I'm from Ohio, a poor and rural area (not quite that bad buuuut)...I work in startups now. Even have a few side projects rolling around.

I'm incredibly fortunate but the people I encounter in the bay area who are completely oblivious to what poverty really is do a lot to dishearten me.

Good to know somebody from the sort of place I'm from made it out here.

Cheers.
Somebody posted "100 greatest books of all time" to HN just a day or two ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Best_Books_of_All_Time

From that list I would personally recommend a number of titles, but I would also run away screaming from a few. Can you give more information about what interests you? For example, with Kafka, are you reading the shorter stuff, or "The Trial"? Do you like it or not? What are you looking for?

By the way, if you find something on there you like, then go give an upvote to ekm2:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955541

From that list, I would recommend the following to anybody:
(Achebe - Things Fall Apart), (Austin - Pride and Prejudice), (Laxness - Independent People), (Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera), (Gogol - Dead Souls [translation by MacAndrew is the most fun one I've read]), (Twain - Huck Finn).

From that list, I would recommend the following only if I knew the person's tastes better:
(Cervantes - Don Quixote), (Dostoevsky - The Idiot), (Kafka - The Trial), (Orwell - 1984), (Rushdie - Midnight's Children)

There are many other books I love that aren't on that list, but whether they would float your boat is anybody's guess. Personally I would read a shopping list written by Per Olov Enquist, but he seems to be an acquired taste, because nobody else I know digs him as much as I do (and only his "Royal Physician's Visit" seems likely to achieve "classic" status).

If you only know "The Three Musketeers" (Dumas) from movies, then you don't know them at all; the book is, for me, central to the idea of reading. If you liked "The Three Musketeers" then you might also like "Kidnapped" (Stevenson) and "Watership Down" (Adams)-- although probably few would consider that a classic.

"Catch-22" (Heller), "Mother Night" and "Slaughterhouse Five" (Vonnegut), and "The Little Prince" (Exupery) are all "classic" books I've read many times over. I was not a huge fan of "Les Miserables" (Hugo) before I read it out loud with my wife about a year ago, and it really grew on me then. To Orwell's "1984" I would add "Animal Farm". "My Antonia" (Cather) has something great in it, though many probably would consider it slow. "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Lee) deserves a call-out on any list of classics, especially if you're American. If you like Mark Twain, and want to read something really different by him, then have a look at "Joan of Arc."
There is Checkvist. Not as pretty, but more functional.

I'd also love the ability to attach media and clips in workflowy as I use it for notes and research.
Also, it would be fairly easy to switch to a different cloud provider with a similar interface, i.e. monitoring your filesystem.
I like the idea of Workflowy, but it really needs offline support. I can't even realistically evaluate it without that. Last I heard they were working on it.
The notion of "selling with restrictions" is a contradiction in terms. If the property is transferred to a new owner, then there can neither legally nor morally be any restrictions placed by the previous owner on how the new owner may use the property.

There are ways to shift custody of objects that would honor such restrictions that you speak of - but they are not a sale, nor are they exchange of property.

Cheers,
Rick
I'm curious what actually went wrong.
> No good source for mutton

Got a halal butcher near? They might have mutton. I was in the same boat as you until I found out that a muslim butcher a couple of suburbs away sells it. (Actually,it is what we call "two-tooth", hogget, instead of mutton, but better than nothing.)
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Yeah, I agree. One interesting thing is that their JIRA is really popular as an issue tracker to the point that more than a few organisations I've seen are using JIRA as a tracker and github:enterprise as repo. Github really needs to up their game on this part.
This is indeed a hard problem to solve. Glad to see someone attempting it.
I think partnering with one of the major insurance providers should help kick-off the product at great scale and learn a lot.

All the best!
I have what I think is an effective strategy for evaluating product reviews. I ignore the five star and four star reviews. In fact, I go right to the one and two star reviews. If most of the bad reviews are well-reasoned, thought-out and coherent criticisms of the product, then I consider competing products instead.

However, if the bad reviews are predominately written by morons, then I remain interested in the product. The more "bad" reviews I see with dumb complaints, bad grammar, ALL CAPS and irrelevant whining, the more I'm likely to buy. These are the anti-reviews, and so far, I've used them with great success.

EDIT: By the way, this also works well for picking movies on IMDB.
Just installed Gitlab successfully on RHEL6. Some modifications to the installation steps:

- I used RVM to install Ruby 1.9.3. This should be fairly straightforward.

- adduser command has a different interface on RHEL, but it shouldn’t be hard to figure out.

- I used Apache ProxyPass instead of Nginx. unicorn.rb needed to be updated to listen on a tcp port instead of a socket file.

- Supplied init.d script did not work out of box. Some modifications were required.

- Redis server was installed from REMI.

Let me know where you’re stuck and I can try to help you.

I agree that Gitlab is not very easy to install, as there are many complicated steps. The benefits of having a free private GitHub, though, were totally worth it.
Hard to get and update from your phone, though. That's where I usually want to get my todo list together.
I had the pleasure of seeing Dr Crandall give a few intimate and very memorable physics seminars while I was attending Reed. He will be missed.
Vapid and hollow. An anecdote about one particular "developer" CEO's style compared to one particular "Sales" CEO's style.

Thanks for wasting my time.
My company wasn't able to raise much money, but the money we did raise was from people who, luckily, have turned out to be amazing. We've gone through some really terrible things (my submissions will point you to some details), but they've stood by us 100%. Even though we had to shut down 3 months ago, these guys are still trying to make connections for us that would allow us to restart. You can't put a price on that, especially with the importance of not dying.

Everything is going to go wrong: optimize for having people around you that are going to help you out of THOSE times, because when it's going well help will chase you down. When it's going bad, you better have backup.
Do you sense the big Google conspiracy to deport all US HN-ers out?
Chris, if you are reading this, how did you find your investors? Say, that specific person you met in NY layover.
Anyone using Amazon Glacier?
Hello,
I've been searching to find more information on this subject, and most of the search results tracked back here. So I decided to ask my question here maybe you can help me find.
What are you using to upload to the glacier cloud and how?
There is Arq for mac and Cloudberry and recently stumbled upon Zoolz for PCs, any ideas regarding these solutions? what would you recommend?

I have a small photography studio and glacier would be the best solution and the most affordable one to upload my work.
Do you have Lisp code that can download data from a URL?
Cane - Ruby code quality thresholds
Amazing Visuals, But Lack of API Imagination
I already have to go very far out of my way and pay a huge premium for getting an unlocked Android phone.

How is that the case? I pay less for my Nexus devices than I'd pay for any locked-down phone (either up-front or given the increased cost of a subsidized-phone plan).
It already exists, and it's called Drupal. It's entire goal/purpose is to allow you to do everything through the user interface. There is a very large group of 'Drupal Developers' who build entire sites solely through the admin interface. It also has different install profiles/distributions for pre-built niches.

I used to be want the same things as you do, but it has taken me many many years to internalize the lesson that somewhere, somehow, you WILL need to write code to reach your goals. The more you try to dodge and dive around that core truth of all software, the harder the code that you will need to write ends up becoming.
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They have no obligation to give you a tl;dr summary. Expecting users to be educated and be able to consume information is a reasonable expectation in a civilization.
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It's ##holiday-hackoff on Freenode -- there's about 10 of us or so. Two pounds
As with all things Google, it's an order of magnitude beyond what hipmunk does. If you keep the window open long enough you will actually see flights disappear if they fill up.

I still think the hipmunk interface is more humane.
Rubbish, no flights coming out of Singapore
In that case I don't understand your argument.

You don't want to use full site because it has too many features and have, therefore, too big size.

You also don't want to use mobile site because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles.

Chose one :) ... or use Opera Mini and/or ziproxy on your server
Verizon denies hacker’s claims of swiping customer records
See flyertalk for more details and potential fares. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals/454485-welc...
Usually a large part of a ceo's job is human interaction. While it's not strictly necessary to have strong social skills to be a CEO, it sure is helpful.
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I do those too.

And no, a nootropic is not necessarily amphetamine, or is otherwise required to have some heavy comedown. Some are neuroprotective.

IMHO, you are almost spreading FUD.