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i'm riding the thermal drafts of HN comment hot air right now, dude.
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Could people making things like this make it more accessible by, say, hooking it up to Google Docs? Or some other web spreadsheet? "Point us at your data and watch us do cool stuff with it."

Forcing users to create a specially formatted CSV from scratch just to try something out is asking for low participation.
Web Pries Lid of Censorship by Iranian Government
Not for skin tones it isn't. The last remaining slide film for people is probably Fuji Astia.
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Even if the loophole for books is smaller, the point is, it only has to be applied once by anyone anywhere, after which it can be shared freely like any other non-DRM'ed file. I'm not convinced that the total amount of internet sharing of a work is decreased too much by the fact that is was in a physical form to start with.
Sounds interesting. However, what's the value add here, and to whom?
On the note of cappuccino looking awesome (which it totally does) this kind of shows how GWT could look: http://demo.vaadin.com/sampler/#Components/Forms/FormBasic (haven't used it myself though).
Hrrm I tried importing my wordpress blog and just got an error. Any tips for this? Does it import comments also?
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I think the key to write fast code is to compartmentalize. Write someting crappy but that's walled off into a class, or file so that it can be thrown away later on.

I'm a bit tired of the notion that all code needs to be ready for a mission to the moon, or needs to be reusable. It doesn't -- it just needs to do the job. If part of the job is to be the foundation of years of work to come, then yes, it needs to be brilliant.

If the code you are writing is a quick hack to generate some images or to present some data on a single web page, time matters more than that is can be extended ad infinitum. Write something quick -- and maybe you can have the time to write some tests as well.
That implication neither confirms nor denies the "difficulty" of deleting your search history; three clicks means it's as difficult to delete your search history as it is to move a file to the recycle bin in Windows and empty it. Fact is, you can't confirm that it gets deleted, whatever that exactly means, no matter what the UI is, but that has nothing to do with the ease of finding or using the delete functionality.

However, does the fact that a cosmetic delete function exists say that Google wants to allow you to actually delete something or just wants you to think that you are deleting something, and is this better or worse than Facebook, which doesn't even have a cosmetic interface to do so, other than perhaps removing your account all together, and has established and known TOS that say they can do whatever they want with the data you give them?
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Somewhat surprisingly, you can reproduce part of this result at your desk. (In a hilariously non-controlled, do-not-quote-me manner.)

Rest your right arm on your desk with your palm facing upward. Touch the inner side of your elbow and the tip of your middle finger, using your left hand. At this point, I thought "Wow, my arm is longer than I would have expected it to be."

Now, take a pen in your right hand and use it as a pointing device to follow the words of this sentence. Still holding the pen, replace your right arm on the table in the same position as you used before. Touch your inner elbow and fingertip again. (At this point, my first thought was "Oh crikey it got bigger." Its funny, I actually perceived extra stress in my left arm, as if I were stretching to cover a distance that I had had no noticeable difficulty with 15 seconds before.)
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Wind power is only available in certain parts of the world. Distribution would be a massive problem. Thousands of miles of cables and transformers are not easy to maintain.
Another way to look at inheritance and composition
Dude, that's one of the funniest and wittiest comments I have read in a while. Cheers!
I met an innkeeper in Alaska once. He and his wife had both once worked in technology in Silicon Valley. When they got married, they agreed that they'd live like grad students. That doesn't mean they were poor, but it means they'd forgo the extravagances like a big house and meals out and exotic summer vacations.

Then, when their son was 15, they bought a sailboat, and sailed around the world for a year. When they got to Seward, Alaska, they decide they wanted to stay there, so they bought an old abandoned building, fixed it up, and opened an inn.

What struck me most about their story was how ordinary they were. They did not win the lottery. There were no hot startups or million-dollar buyouts for them. They had a kid to take care of, and seem to have had him fairly young (the innkeeper was in his mid-40s and the son was in college, so they must've been about mid-20s when he was born.) They just decided what they want and then worked hard for 15 years to make it happen.

There're a few things that really are out of reach for us normal folks - most of us will never have our own private yacht, or race fighter jets, or sail in America's Cup. But spending a year traveling and relaxing and having fun is probably not one of them. Or maybe it is now, but with a couple years advance planning, it should be more than doable.
I felt comfortable with Google up until the Reader fiasco and how they dealt with it.

That said, I'm significantly less comfortable with Facebook.
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An interesting idea I just had while reading this, just wondering if anywhere in the world does something like this. What about selling cards that are like game cards are for access to online news where newspapers are currently sold.

A lot of the general public would be against having to signup for a subscription to a newspaper online with a credit card or other online payment. I think a lot of papers online to are structured toward a model of drawing people in story by story from places like Google.

I a non tech person who still has an interest in a physical newspaper would go for a scratch card activated subscription service to an online paper structured more like a regular newspaper.
An article about the problem that this update solves was posted here several days ago, with much discussion. One assumes that if a portion of the HN audience found the problem relevant to their interests, then they would likewise find the solution relevant.
One loophole is that the contents for most books is plain text.

I remember having read that within days after some Harry Potter books were available in bookshops, they were already available in electronic form, retyped by dozens of volunteers. (for example: http://chrishall.wordpress.com/2006/03/17/link-list-reading-...)
"Magic solution"? Having to quit doing the job you used to love for 8 months does in no way sound like a magic solution to me. Taking a pill and go to work the next day, all refreshed, that would be a magic solution.
The numbers are probably generated using the time as the "random" seed. A lot of twin numbers have probably been generated but until no one noticed because they didn't win.
GWT is just html. There are plenty of frameworks out there to make designer->programmer workflow work well.

It's like saying that rails doesn't look good. Taking cappaccinos style and porting it to gwt would only be a couple of days work, if that.
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"If you have two seven-digit numbers with an identical sequence, the probability is [...] roughly one in 282 billion. And when you factor in [...] the probability approaches zero"

I would say that one in 282 billion is already damn close to zero ...
Start now. Continue R&D and funding. In 10 years, the technology will be dramatically advanced and scaling will be far easier.

Just because it's hard doesn't mean it isn't worth doing anyway. When the Manhattan project started, they had no clue how they would come up with the theoretical quantity of nuclear material they needed. It was impossible. They went forward anyway and in the process invented the methods they needed to make it happen. Now we have nuclear weapons coming out of our ears.
Heidegger vindicated at last!
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Thanks a lot for that link and the idea. It looks very easy to implement a tower defense game with this framework. That's a good idea for teaching, I think. The real problem with noob coders is that most easy problems are not very interesting to solve while learning, but the interesting ones are too complex for beginners.
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I don't see how that is another issue. Either they get rid of your data or they don't. If you've ever worked with data at that scale, you'll know how hard it is to keep any sort of promise to actually purge it from all systems.
Right. The point is whether someone would register the company only after revenue starts pumping in, which looks odd to me now.
It's also what, for better or worse, keeps Apple playing as a niche luxury item rather than being able to tackle the corporate world. You can't tell a global IT department that they don't get to know when your next updates will ship or if you'll be able to fulfill orders on time.
I think its more complicated than you make it sound. Though, Cappuccino is, as far as I know, the only open source web framework that has professionally designed graphics which are also open source in their PSD format for anyone to use and learn from.
Or shrink the size of the global population.
Sure, but what value is it?
Not a whole lot of discussion here, is there?

There are Apple fans here, yes. There is much to discuss about Apple and its products that's relevant to Hacker News. But getting notified about a firmware update that affects a tiny portion of readers isn't. I do not come to Hacker News to get stories about extremely niche hardware issues and fixes. I do not want to see the front page littered with stories of this type.

That "a portion" of HN readers found something relevant means nothing with respect to its appropriateness for HN. All of us have many interests and concerns which are not relevant to HN. When we start loading this site with anything and everything of tangential interest to any reader, the primary value of this site as a source for news about hacking and startups diminishes.
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Yahoo Will Never Recover
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I wish I could do something with some sort of like button (or even with the addition of the omnipresent up/down arrows)

Even better, I wish there was some way to automatically separate "boring life-y bits" and "interesting hobbies" out. I care about the boring life-y bits from people I know but not from people I follow because they have done cool things professionally.

But honestly the voting burden is too high to make it work I think. Also, I really wish things were like the 2ch/4chan model, where I could evaluate the quality of content on its own merits instead of on who said it. But that might just be too much.
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They did a preplanned thing in Sweden when they built warships and planted trees suitable for new warships.

Now those trees are ready to be used -- but those pesky iron ships, from the 1860s onwards, got between. :-)

Check:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

Will they work? We will know in less than ten years. If they work, the money would be better used in battery research, to run cars on electricity.
http://www.croczilla.com/bits_and_pieces/jssh/

Edit: Just realised that this is pure javascript, making it a lot easier to deploy than jssh, and also a lot more extensible. That is awesome.
I am under the impression, that it is only a badged Lotus form with M-B providing function.

Public risk, private profit. As it has been for a while.
Good point. The paradox is not the math per se, but rather that the rules the host follows are unintuitive not to mention unrealistic. When these rules furthermore is not stated explicitly, it is not surprising that even seasoned mathematicians gets tricked.
You're gonna have to pay me more than $200 to risk a possible stabbing to retrieve your iPhone, in which case you should probably just go buy a new one.
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Thanks.. I'm working on some visualizations of this twitter stream, so will throw these points of reference in there. Theres been over 1 million tweets on iran in the last few weeks, over 95% of it total nonsense..
Once again, and this story is yet another example, poorly implemented DRM frustrates and alienates legitimate users, and doesn't do anything to stop a determined pirate who will almost always find a way to overcome the DRM.

The best DRM I've ever experienced is Steam, it takes away your ability to resell games, but gives you quite a lot of features in return. In fact until it was pointed out to me on HN some time ago, I didn't even notice that it was a form of DRM because it never gets in my way.
For a look at what we have done with GWT, check out TeamPostgreSQL (http://www.teampostgresql.com).

It is a fairly complex web application both in terms of UI and functionality, developed and maintained by essentially one guy, which IMHO speaks volumes about the power of GWT to produce and manage AJAX application code. All of the code base contains zero lines of Javascript - it is all regular Java classes.
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Summary: Yahoo! doesn't have the profit margins nor the cash to be able to make aggressive maneuvers. Google and MS on the otherhand can.

Makes sense, but I won't go as far as saying Yahoo! will never recover, but it's certainly very difficult.
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> Yahoo! has not developed any effective strategy to have any presence in the fast-growing social network sector.

Fast-growing in buzz, slow-growing in revenue.
It is possible to use a lowercase title: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=669937
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iSquint is known as its fast conversion speed, easy-to-use interface and totally free. It supports batch processing for multiple files. You can convert video files in batch with iSquint. Moreover, iSquint provides with quality setting, and you can get the quality you want by moving quality bar. Easy enough, right?

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Under the British / Canada / South African / Australian model the whole article is bulldust. It may be the practise in America to yield to an all powerful CEO / Chairman but CEOs are mere 'hirelings' and it is the board legally runs the company. The board set the strategy. The board is the company. In the spirit of Louis XXIV of France, "Nous sommes la compagnie"
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I read that in a "get off my lawn" old mans voice.
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The piece on AutoblogGreen was a somewhat different (and more neutral) account. In case you missed it:

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06/23/autobloggreen-qanda-...

I have an impression of Elon Musk as a self-aggrandizing money guy, but I admit that it may just be my prejudice showing.
Woops! Should be Louise XIV not Louis XXIV
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Another one worth mentioning is qooxdoo, which I'm currently evaluating. I would probably go with Cappuccino if I had more experience with Cocoa/Objective-C. However, qooxdoo seems more approachable if you don't have the Cocoa background -- it's surprisingly well documented. Although it doesn't look as visually appealing out of the box, you can create a custom theme.
Yahoo! is just less useful, I think in the future people won't ue its mail system, search and hosting. Even the developer zone will be replaced by other growing third party services like nettuts.

Will never recover? May be if they start something new and small that can grow in the future!
Looks interesting - anyone watched it yet and care to comment?
What I don't understand is if Microsoft was this draconian and paranoid about controlling the spin on new products, people would be up in arms about how evil the company is. But, since it's Apple, people shrug, and say, "Yeah, but they build great products."
I didn't realise styling a website is difficult? Are you saying you couldn't style a website to look like cappacinnos given firebug and a few hours?
I think you are mixing runtime scalability with the actual complexity. Big-O definition from Wikipedia: Let f(x) and g(x) be two functions defined on some subset of the real numbers. One writes
f(x) = O(g(x)) as x -> infinity
if and only if, for sufficiently large values of x, f(x) is at most a constant times g(x) in absolute value. That is, f(x) = O(g(x)) if and only if there exists a positive real number M and a real number x0 such that
|f(x)| <= M|g(x)| for all x > x0.

In the above case M = 32, f = mergesort and g(x) = x because no matter of large input you have mergesort will always take less than or equal to 32n operations (since log(n)<=32) .
Single page:

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/apr/16-could-dose-ether-con...

A friend of a friend is an extremely senior anaesthetist. Extremely senior. When asked what she does for a living she looks very serious and says "I poison people until they're nearly dead, and keep them that way for hours. Then I bring them back to life."

Cool trick.
Well, since there is the need for this work to be done, it makes sense that someone gets trained to do that work. I remain skeptical though whether a university is the right provider for such a kind of education.

I'm from Germany and we do not really have an equivalent to US college education. Secondary education is partially integrated in our equivalent to a high school and you go to university after that. Alternatively, there is another path of secondary education/apprenticeship where you split your time between working for a company to get hands-on experience in your chosen line of work and attend classes the rest of the time. Such apprenticeships are also available for IT and software development related work.

Nevertheless, a lot of people believe that programming a computer is a sufficiently complex activity which only people that have attended university are capable of. That may be a part of the problem that the guy in the original article was complaining about: although people can acquire the skills needed to be a programmer elsewhere, they still go to universities in order to secure some credentials that will increase their chances of employment.
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I concur with your proposal and suggest fleshing it out by having 4 directional modifiers:

UP for agree (Propably the most common action)

LEFT for good contribution / insightful / well-constructed argument

DOWN for disagree

RIGHT for bad contribution / troll

This would enable rating of votes in 2 dimensions and may possibly map to a page layout (ie agree+good at top left, then the not so good but still agreed being placed further to the right)

Could alternatively have the comments coloured based on good/bad value (probably some sort of logarithmic scale) and sorted vertically by agree/disagree value, which would still allow conversation threads...