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Yes, you are right. to access local file system. But if you read the porting guide of native client, you know there is not local file system any more. The only data they can access is same origin files.

And it seems there is no reason we need to keep files in the long run, if you buy into the hype from cloud computing.

But I guess that will be another 20 years...
Yes, Blu-ray contains extra snake oil. However, the stuff mentioned in the article (managed copy, analog sunset) is present in both formats.
Are we really that small of a market that we're not worth considering even after several years?

I think it may be more about how hard it is to get set up in Canada and deal with local laws and regulations. If it comes down to two countries of equal size, the one with more restrictions will have to get in line behind the one with fewer. Too far down the queue and the product just never comes.

I have very little experience or knowledge when it comes to international business. I do know first hand that its quite a bit easier to send goods to Australia than Canada from where we are. I thought NAFTA was supposed to fix this.

As the roman poet said, "If you want to be loved, be loveable."
"In 2009, Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC, a thoroughly modern, orthogonal web framework supporting the most up-to-date understanding of how to architect well-factored, scalable web applications."

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What I'd like to know is how easily you can browse (78 chars wide) code on a Kindle DX? I'd like to replace print-to-read.

Make notes/small changes on the code? Sync contents with CVS?

(I could generate PDFs of the documentation, so that isn't a problem. Code is harder to reformat for PDFs.)

Edit: Syntax
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And enormous debt to boot."

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After reviewing some of the comments, I've made the "Try Trendly Now" link a bit more "clicky".
Hmm, I disagree. I have no qualms about rebasing my own public repository, although I wouldn't want someone else to do that. This seems like it is "approved", as git has code to handle a pull after a history rewrite... so I am not worried about it.

There are few things more cumbersome than sending patches via email, especially when you have git.
The guy who did this research was probably the best professor I've ever had. He taught a negotiation class in my MBA program and for every single negotiation tactic you could think of, he had a movie clip that demonstrated it. Class was always entertaining.
I'd like to see some images of the Kindle DX rendering ACM papers. Specifically the two-column format.
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>>our technology rarely if ever approaches being as good as the biological equivalent that it seeks to improve on

Well, in just a few decades airplanes will be faster than birds... :-)

Integration tech/biology is a problem still, for a while.
This is a great addition. Thanks for providing so much for free
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I suggested using it for OpenID IDP discovery. e.g. if a site knows that you use Yahoo, it could show you a "log in with Yahoo" button.
This article (and the comments on it here) is a pretty classic illustration of the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation Microsoft (and any other company that at least attempts to preserve backwards compatibility) inevitably ends up in.
So let's say you enjoy this sort of thing. What is the appropriate forum? (Are you saying there are just some things we shouldn't talk about or say? Really?)

Anyway, why are programming conferences considered "professional"? I don't consider programming "a profession". It's something I do for fun. I chat with my friends, I write some code... sometimes people give me money, but that doesn't really matter to me, it's a secondary aspect.

So if you consider programming something fun, I don't understand why programming conferences are supposed to be "professional".
What would hell breaking loose look like? And what is it breaking loose from? :P
Probably the most glaringly bizarre and horrible example is the lack of Mint.com in Canada. This is strange and aggravating for two main reasons. Firstly because Mint.com has been around since 2006, which is a very, very long time in internet years and they should have expanded beyond the USA by now. Secondly, because many Canadian banks, for example TD Bank (TD = Toronto Dominion), have large presences in the USA and you can use Mint.com with them. The fact that you can use Mint.com in America with a Canadian bank but you can't use Mint.com in Canada (which only has like 6 banks) is so bizarre and arbitrary that it feels offensive.
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And I thought that the 80+ people on digg were too much
That is true, but I would imagine crypto-centric email software would have a timeout feature or similar to mitigate this.
About the actual technical root of the issue - does anyone else find it surprising that twitter is actually using integers for each status update added to it's database and incrementing as it goes? It seems to be this is particularly bad form for a number of reasons: not only does it lend itself to overflow issues such as this - it allows competitors to easily gauge twitter's usage.

I would of had a generated pseudo random sequence values from the start - it's not like having a simple integer buys you anything in this case.
I couldn't care less about my IQ number and I don't see why anyone else would.
"Basically, as I remember, I registered for the site through a Windows Live hotmail address, and very early on in the process it asked if I would like to send along a similar message to every contact in my account."
Of course I have the technical ability to write C bindings (or whatever it is) for $arbitrary_library. Your whole thesis, however, is "crypto is hard, so don't try to do it yourself", so I asked for suggestions on how not to do it myself.

And I only mentioned "Bouncy Castle" because it was suggested in the article.
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how about finding a copy of OSX leopard and install it on the T40 to make it a hackintosh?
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Any other interesting applications of topology to physical phenomenon? I can only seem to find applications to other areas of math.
Ask HN: Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN?
A friend and I are sitting on tailrecursion.com wondering what to do with it. I suggested it would be a cool name for an HN-like site that catered specifically to those who spend 8 hours a day behind an emacs or vi session (and no less!), rather than the marketing/sales/non-hacker-founder types (which HN perfectly addresses). What do you guys think?
Did you write that first and then look it up to see if it is correct?
Even with the Pentium M in the Thinkpad, can I run Netbook Remix? Their documentation states an Atom processor.
you mean employees of startups / non-founders? Or founders of startups for which marketing is irrelevant?
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I quickly read the whole document. It seems cool but I was originally thinking that the computation of the tasks would happen on the Google App Engine but it appears that it's just the triggering of the execution of the tasks which is not as cool. Am I understanding this correctly? At some point I wanted to run an analysis of tons of web-accessible files I have and I wonder if I could have done that with this.
Mint is just a user-friendly wrapper on Yodlee, which integrates directly with the banks to get the data. The amount of data slurped is incredible -- basically, an RSS feed on your financial life.

Your government, in its infinite wisdom, has seen fit to protect you from unscrupulous American companies which could possibly record your data without complying with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. (Never heard of it? Your bank has.) This strengthened existing legislation, such as the Bank Act (never heard of it? Your bank has.), one section of which "requires banks to maintain and process in Canada any information or data relating to the preparation and maintenance of bank records, including customer account records".
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I would enjoy an HN-like site with a greater focus on algorithms and other more complex material.

HN sometimes gets these posts on things like closures, functional programming, monads, y combinators, etc. A lot of these are just posts from Wikipedia or such, but they're interesting and generate a lot of discussion.

Similarly, I enjoy the more physics and chemistry oriented tech articles.

To summarize: I'd love an HN for theoretical CS, physics, chemistry, etc, more focused on the actual sciences than on marketing, sales, deployment, etc. I'd be there in an instant.
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Either. Just wanted to emphasize that the discussions are going to be deeply technical in nature and not business related in any sense.
I don't actually know for sure, but isn't this what reddit programming is for?
Exactly! The closest I have found to this is reddit.com/r/compsci, but the comments are nowhere near as valuable as when those threads make it to HN
It was for that, but it's caliber has definitely lightened over the years. Compare:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080123104208/http://reddit.com/...

http://reddit.com/r/programming
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I think what's important to remember too is that investment flows like water in the Valley. In places like Texas for example, we're not that lucky so 'startups' (which half likely never make it into CrunchBase), typically turn into very profitable small web-businesses because we don't have the same access to capital to go after the 'long tail'. We're forced to find revenue early, often at the expense of rapid & insane growth that results in big liquidity events. (usually b/c consumer web guys here are bootstrapping or operating on small angel money)
Absolutely. I'd even expect some cross-pollination as well.
Last week I went to a "tweetup" (yes, I'm an idiot). Believe me, there are people who would probably break down completely if something happened to their beloved Twitter.

EDIT: admitted the fact that I'm an idiot.
You /can/ use arbitrarily named URL routes in Windows; Rails runs fine on Windows, after all. It's ASP.NET that doesn't allow you to do it.
excuse the poor lighting and crappy photo quality

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It's quite readable. I've only seen one pdf that had any rendering glitches.
It always irritates me when people say "Y2K was such a non-event". It was a non-event because a whole lot of people fixed and tested a whole lot of code. If they hadn't, the world would have been a pretty miserable place on 1/1/2000.
Does anybody know how well it renders books from Google books? For example: http://books.google.com/books/download/An_inquiry_into_the_n...

I've been holding off on an e-reader until one is good enough to display scanned google books. E-Ink reader + Google Books = the Great Library of Alexandria in my backpack. I can't wait.
Good idea...but its been done already by Academic Hacker News: http://www.cs.toronto.edu:40106/
It seems to me that, with business, things are constantly changing, thus making it suitable for "news", whereas programming itself is a slow-moving craft. I mean, your text editors are from the 1970s.
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It is awfully tempting to start reviewing products with glowing praise in hopes that you will soon start getting free stuff in the mail.
Yes, please!

I crave programming news, and I find none. Proggit is full of Techcrunch-esque crap these days, and meme threads dominate the discussions. HN is food for thought, but it caters to a broader audience these days. If you can build and maintain a community with the same standards as HN, do it.

Since I have too much free time on my hands, I'm even ready to lend a hand :p
The problem is that not much is being posted over there and even less discussion.

Edit: I would be all for a more active site. And good discussions of technical issues a step above, "how do I fix this problem?"
Do you have to ask? The tenth result was posted 88 days ago. Clearly not active in the slightest.
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Immersion-wise, I find that realistic sound, a la EAX5 with accurate direction, occlusion, reflections, etc, are much more important than the quality of the graphics. Something about the fact that I look at a monitor makes it clear that I'm not in the environment, but sound does not have that limitation. (Relatedly, if you've ever seen the effect of using Fresnel lenses to project the monitor at infinity, that makes the immersion much more deep. Then you're essentially looking through a window, into another reality.)
agreed, although it seems to have not deteriorated to the same degree and the main Reddit
Not really, no. Programmers deal with tools. Programming languages, IDEs, text editors are all tools. Hammers haven't changed much in the last 100 years, so why should our tools change radically? There are people who have been using Emacs for 10+ years. Making radical changes negatively affects programmer productivity.

Hackers embrace new programming paradigms whole heartedly. Learning new programming languages or grokking a new library/framework is fun. Suddenly replacing the tools that have become muscle-memory with something completely different is definitely not fun.

IMO, revolution is favored when it comes to programming languages, frameworks and libraries. Evolution is favored when it comes to tools of the trade (text editors, commandline tools, etc.)
This strikes me as utterly hilarious.

Is Internet Explorer so reviled that Microsoft must resort to emotional blackmail to get people to use it?
Ugh, this is such a web1.0 problem. Instead, why not write a greasemonkey plugin that cross-submits posts to Academic Hacker News when you upvote them, and only upvote academic articles?
Anyone here planning on registering under a username/alias rather than your real name?
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Absolutely. Build it, and I will come. HN is awesome for its variety of startup/programming related news but I would love to see a site dedicated to nothing but programming, front-end(html/css/javascript), and science news. Would you even consider curating the content somewhat? Definitely have a voting system in place, but be compelled to remove content that doesn't match the purpose of the site.
Also, are you planning on putting a dot in it? first.last vs firstlast?
agreed, also reviews for free stuff have extra bias compared to stuff you paid your own money for
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MS doesn't need to.

1) C# is a standardized, open spec language. Mono is an implementation of that open spec. The development of that specification is driven by MS's .Net platform.

2) Here's a crucial bit of patent/IP law: by releasing the specification of the language to the "public", MS is barred from suing over it in a court of law. So again, there's no need for it say that it won't sue, since it's already prevented from doing so.
My first attempt will be only my first name.

If my 3 letter first name does not catch then first initial then full last.
For the sake of contrast, here is how the presentation was described on the Flashbelt website:

In life we seldom encounter a blank canvas. Starting a new job often sees you filling another's shoes, ice skating means crossing over the scars in the ice left by others, and even tagging a blank wall means working with the imperfections of the builder and painter that created your canvas.

This indirect contact with others creates an often subtle, but uniquely human experience - a shared narrative of being that provides a life enriching subtext.

Hoss exploits this shared narrative in his work to great effect, and will use his inaugural Flashbelt presentation to analyze a series of projects that build on each other's successes and failures to deliver increasingly rich experiences. And he'll say ` Fk ' a lot.
We plan to aggressively (but openly) moderate submissions. Another idea we were kicking around was instead of using forms to submit comments or stories, you would do it solely via the API.
Which articles currently on the frontpage of HN would you not include?
From the Facebook blog post:

> "Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (".")."

Might be better to go for your latter option first.
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You know, I actually feel the contrary: Hacker News has gone the way of more hacker than startups. shrug
I know that amazon is concerned with their bi-modal review distributions (most people review a product because they love or hate it for specific reasons, rather than because they are interested in reviewing-as-such). That might be what amazon is trying to address.

Traditional reviewers always get free stuff.
It's actually not terribly hard. See this article for some pointers on how easy it is to work with AMQP from Python:

http://playgroundblues.com/posts/2009/may/20/working-django-...

Meanwhile, I think there's nothing wrong with people distributing tools which integrate queuing solutions into specific libraries/frameworks; such things can often be quite useful and end up offering more natural interfaces for the task at hand.
Dude, there's no point asking them. They don't know the answer. The only thing is to do it and see how it goes.
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--I would exclude these:

Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About (jonbischke.com)

Facebook | Username (facebook.com)

MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought

Does It Matter If The Future Isn't Available In Canada? (techvibes.com)

Authors, poets replace reporters at an Israeli newspaper for one day

All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours (techcrunch.com)

Heyzap (YC09/USV) looking for a flash contractor.

Humans prefer cockiness to expertise (newscientist.com)

Should you move your startup to the Valley? (tonywright.com)

Atul Gawande: University of Chicago Medical School Commencement Address (newyorker.com)

All my games are now free (toucharcade.com)

How to find new startup ideas? The answer is in the question. (dashnine.org)

More Ways to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock (wsj.com)

A post college memorandum (alexjmann.com)

The TV industry is where the newspaper industry was five years ago: In denial. (businessinsider.com)

The Economics of the HDMI Cable Ripoff (marginalrevolution.com)

Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming [scribd] (maps.org)

Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website (time.com)

--I would include these:

Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC

The hairy ball theorem

Celery: A Distributed Task Queue for Django

Linus Torvalds on some good git development practices

Offline Processing on Google App Engine [scribd]

Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey.

What is RubySpec?

Great talk on the Python GIL [video][slides in comments]
Have your read Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit? I'm partial to the first edition (1996). It's mostly conceptual stuff: design rationale, OLTP vs OLAP, fact vs dimension, type II SCDs (very important), surrogate keys, aggregate navigation etc.

Most code in a data warehouse is ETL code, and much of that is obscured behind the interface of big-name tools like Informatica. I don't think you are interested in that. People who roll their own have typically rolled with Perl. Try a search on Perl + ETL and you might find something.

Other items of interest:

* Pentaho, an open-source BI suite. Includes ETL, reporting and multidimensional cubes.

* Column-oriented data stores like Vertica, Sybase IQ, MonetDB, and Infobright. MonetDB and Infobright are both open source. Infobright integrates with MySQL, so that might be up your alley.

* SSDs may or may not turn data warehousing on its head. Yet to be determined.

* schema-driven ETL is very powerful: define an input view/function, a target table, a few naming conventions, and generate your ETL code directly off the system tables--ETL with opinions, as it were.

EDIT:

For online resources, I used read intelligententerprise.com. Can't vouch for its current quality. Back then it was hit or miss, and promotional items frequently overshadowed substantive material.
The dot shouldn't matter. As with Gmail, it looks like it treats it the same way (try going to Facebook.com/z.uck vs Facebook.com/zuck)
I think there are a lot of reasonably smart cocky/arrogant people. I think there are hardly any extremely smart ones. But there are plenty of ones that people think are extremely smart, due to the phenomenon this article describes.

Arrogance hinders people from getting smarter.
I'm planning to try for my full name, there's a couple of significant people on the web with the same name as me so I'm hoping to get to it first. Also have an extra browser open with my wifes account loaded up, hoping to be first to get hers as well.

We're both going for firstnamelastname without periods, hyphens etc (although we're using the 'short' version of our firstnames - Andy & Steph - rather than the full version.
It makes perfect sense, hacker news should be more for startup/business news than really hacker news.
Hell, yeah! I'm sold. Not only do I hope you build it, I also hope it lasts a long time without declining in quality.
Agreed. I'm a biologist, but my project has a lot in common with a startup. Back in the Startup News and early Hacker News days, I felt I had something in common with the community, and I derived inspiration and consolation from it.

I still visit HN a lot but get something different from it: closer to early reddit.
That's a bit of a disadvantage for people with short first names, but I can understand it. I wonder how many names will be mike.the.great and so on
Tagged is good. It reminds that still there are idiots in this world & I should be careful with that.
google is still available, although I wouldn't register that since I doubt you'll get to keep it long
Can you actually register under a fake name now, or just have a different one publicly viewable? Back in 2006, I got kicked off of Facebook for registering as the pseudonym I used on the internet. It wasn't anyone else's name, but there'd be no way for them to know that. Have they changed their policies?

Edit: their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (TOS) says you have to sign up under your real name (section 4.1): http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf