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It sounds like your default state is "Full Confidence", and so Confidence is 'eaten away' in your description

The better definition concerning Linux is that Confidence is "Built Up". Linux started as an unknown and has forced itself into people's confidence.

Linux operates well 24x7x365 in many places, and that
rate of Confidence build up is way more than any rate of loss due to Steering Committee squabbles.
> Microsoft does not enter a market unless it’s important, huge and on the way to becoming even bigger.

Wait? So they've only just entered the search market? hmmm.

Ramblings methinks.
like this ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=onreact-com
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Image is a huge selling point for most consumers, though they may not acknowledge it.

Agreed. I mean, look at Macs. Granted, Macs have technical merit, but how many people who use Macs actually bought them for technical superiority and how many others bought them because Apple makes them look cool?
FWIW, "loading commit data" is one of the most annoying things about Github's interface. I don't mind making the loading happen in the background, whatever, but there is no need for an animation. (Look at how Gmail does it.)
> The kernel API and libs should be stable, predictable and well documented. There should be no hacks to support odd behaviour because odd behaviour should not be specified.

There should be a pony too.

How can the kernel not have lots of hacks? It deals with hardware, which is often weird.
will paginate & authlogic definitely.

HTTParty is a gem if you work with outside resources.
NetBSD comes with a Pony :)

POSIX rarely changes. They should start there and work backwards.

UNIX nearly died because vendors wouldn't allow interoperability. Don't let it happen again.

Look at Win32 - still works like it did back in '91 (with Win16).
Because over there, fanny means your arse. Not your minge.

Hearing/seeing "fanny pack" still makes me snigger like a 10 year old. I agree though. Both look stupid.
This is awesome. This scratches an itch I always felt I had but never consciously realized. The combination of saving your list, with the discover feature. Good job.

Edit: also plus points for being dutch (I'm flemish).
Free Bikes are cool an all, but they tend to all get stolen in about a week. Or better still, you end up with "Velib Extrem!":

http://road.cc/content/news/2223-velib-extreme-hits-parisian...
Wow, you've got to love the internets. This reads just like a highbrow version of one of 4chan's "for great justice" campaigns. Surely the BCA must now be regretting the day they picked a fight with Singh. As Simon Perry noted, chiropractors were largely left alone to the back pain business by the sceptics, who were far more interested in exposing other alternative therapies. Suing Singh for the "bogus" remark was like posting a video on YouTube of a bunch of chiropractors abusing a cat. By the time they win their battle - still a possibility - they'll have lost the war.
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I'd like to see someone translate that to english.
I don't think cell networks are dead meat. They will be, relatively soon, for anything but data carriage yes. But everything you want to get: voice, messaging, web, whatever else; you (and I) want it over the inet. They're (cell nets ops) problem is that inet access is just one product. They got quite confy over the years selling all kind of products and product levels enabled by their cell nets. Inet access is only one product, and in the long term, tends to have only one level: fast, no limitations.

That is a big problem for them I think. No room for up-sells, no room for fudging price plans. It's going to have to be fast and with no limitations or someone else will provide something that will get you closer and closer to that. And the natural advantage of having those towers is not going to last forever (think WiFi, WiMAX and what comes afterwards) so they will have to reduce their expectation and be contempt of selling plain, unlimited inet access. I'm eagerly expecting that future.
In traffic, making space in front of you usually creates safer distances between those behind you as well.

You slow down a bit so the one who drives behind you gradually drives closer until he notices that you slowed down. Then he realizes he must slow down as well, making space between you and him, and the safe distance propagates further backwards.
At FOWA Edinburgh, Stefan Magdalinski mentioned that MOO had moved their hosting to the US (from the UK) in order to improve google rankings. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it.
Do you know much about the tobacco industry?
Certainly you understand why Win32 still runs old Windows 3.1 code from 1991? It does so because of countless little hacks and "compatabilty mode" switches in the OS that emulate old bugs that existed in old versions that badly behaved software was taking advantage of.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

That's a good overview of how much "Maintaining weird legacy bug-compatibility code" you need in an OS with any history whatsoever.
I suspect they had to, initially, and the only terms they could get were for several years (basically until now).

Every US phone is aligned with a carrier. It's not immediately clear to me why that is, but there you go. When the contract is up, Apple has a serious opportunity to shake that notion, but I'm not sure if they will.
What you say is correct, but has been known for some time and has nothing to do with the thing proved being here. This new result is quite theoretical, and I fear that I can't explain all the relevant definitions in a few sentences. QIP = IP basically means that quantum computers are not much better than classical computers -- if both are attached to an implausible theorem prover.

Since those theorem provers don't exist, I'm not sure if there's any practical insight to be gained from this, but nevertheless it is a surprising result.
Something like Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?

It's a transhumanist future with no scarcity and a reputational economy. I am certainly afraid that the corporations will run the world enough that even after (practical scarcity of energy for the average person) that consumer goods and necessities will still be kept artificially scarce.
How would this be anti-competitive? Imagine the following scenario, I invite you over for dinner regularly. One time, afterwards, I suggest that we have dinner at your place instead. You say no. I stop inviting you over for dinner.

Is that anti-competitive? Then why does Google have to serve map tiles to someone that won't let them write an app to dial phone numbers?
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Going online and downloading the unlocked ROM image?
>>Also, did you use your front brake?

I used both but only the front worked. So I landed on my helmet, bike on top. Quite the other way than you, I tend to use mostly the rear break. Not being used to rely on the front, not in a "to the floor" way anyway is what got me. That and the lack of proper adjustment tolerated to the rear one.

Also, nice link. Thanks.
yep, let's call the 4chan guys up!
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What Apple has done it the past with Mac OS X (the desktop OS) is that they go and buy the product from you.

Examples:
* Coverflow(first standalone app by a developper) was bought by Apple.
* The new iTunes visualizer was also first developped and then bought by Apple.

We'll see how Apple handles it with the iPhone
I'd stop peddling your HotOrUnderaged app here since your other links were already killed.

Granted its not your fault but sometimes that just how things are.

If you want to promote it, I'd recommend spamming myspace or something, its the more appropriate audience.
If this is a clear cut case of an innocent victim why not call the eff this seems like it is right up their ally?
Lack of a good idea.
You have to use them both and learn how to apply more or less of one or the other depending on the circumstances.
You mean Frets on Fire?
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Why can't bands sell their song maps along with the music CDs. This will give the fans an incentive to buy the CDs instead of download them.
In a sense, yes, it does work that way. There's no way to say "Please block all popcorn from entering my vicinity." You can keep it out of your house, but you're still going to have to consciously not reach for it in the grocery aisle or the movie theater lobby (or fair ground booth, etc.)
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The majority of your grammar and spelling is nice, but I have to ask: why did you have to throw in "str8" in both this post and the original?
Some of the (extensive) reddit comments on the story cast a reasonably amount of doubt on his claims. Unfortunately there's just too many of them for me to be able to quickly summarise the various bits and pieces.

On a side note, I only stopped by to see if reddit had reached digg parity - not there yet, but I'm increasingly glad that I left.

(I nearly used "e-migrated" instead of "left" - and that's just from 5-10 minutes of exposure)
The flipside of human enhancement is human dehancement, right? What is to stop your favorite totalitarian dictator from taking cheap and durable genetic modification and using it to cow the populace? I don't mean "cow" like "make them quake in terror", I mean "cow" like "make them herd animals who cannot even conceive of threatening him or forming bases for wanting to do so in the first place".

Think of a technical caste populated by people with a 100% genetic disposition to high-functioning autism: they're perfect for using for the Great Leader's projects. They're smart enough to do the work, totally dedicated to the task at hand, don't ask for pay or object to abuse, and if you work one until he dies well, hey, human life is cheap.

For a moderately less dystopian future, imagine a future where genetic modification is hella-expensive (lets say $1 million to play design-your-baby) but fairly effective (a designer baby is guaranteed to look as good as the prettiest girl in your high school class and be about as smart as your valedictorian). Economically rational parents unconstrained by moral qualms would fall over themselves to buy this procedure: after all, it is just a pre-emptive and expensive version of college.

Why is this future dystopian? Because access to the $1 million design-your-baby technology is highly differentiated across class lines, and the designer babies are essentially designed to roflstomp over any sort of meritocratic competition. It would be a virtually permanent caste system -- 25 years after introduction a natural-born human (and there will be a word for them, mark my words) would be at Harvard as either a curious fluke or, more likely, an affirmative action sop to the little people.
My bad. I hadn't considered that for some, it was an emotional experience. My relationship with HN is purely informational: I go here daily to find some interesting technical stuff and read interesting discussion. But the names behind the submissions and comments are purely words.

There have been internet communities that I've been a part of that I have been emotionally bonded to. You get to know some people well and suddenly it's more a social experience than intellectual. That's a completely different story, and you'd need more than self-control to stop going there if it was becoming a time-suck.
tangental - Simon Singh (the guy being sued) is the author of this excellent book on cryptography http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography...
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with us. I shuffled through a couple of your most recent posts. Your writing style is honest. I feel like I struggle with you! Glad to know we are not alone.

Keep up the good work. And yeah, make sure you tell that girl she makes you happy!
> Most, if not all, mobile devices will be doing what the iPhone can do now in about five years.

I'll concede you that. But (if S. Jobs is still in the saddle), can you imagine what the iPhone might be doing in five years? [I, personally, am not able to.]
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I used HNs built in productivity features (No procrast, min away) during exam days it was quite good.
Grats on the coverage guys! I blogged < http://paulstamatiou.com/first-impressions-jamlegend-it-rock... > about JamLegend almost a year ago after I heard about it from a cofounder (Andrew Lee IIRC) and I didn't think much of it at the time as I wasn't huge on gaming/GH/etc. And then the comments on my post started trickling in.. my readers LOVED it. I ended up giving out some 4,000 invites (http://www.jamlegend.com/user/PStamatiou)

JamLegend is a LaunchBox Digital (DC incubator) startup for those curious.
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What ever happened to linear increase and exponential backoff?
I've seen most of them in other "creative" business cards posts which are quite common these days.
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What Apple does is no mystery. If you really want to know how to do good design delve into design methodology; it's the basis of the study Industrial Design.

One of the key factors is creating a rigorous set of criteria for your product, including emotional criteria. Then diverge with a plethora of ideas that meet all criteria. Evaluate each idea, select a number and develop them into concepts. Evaluate the concepts and select a product. Refine the product.

The naive approach to design is starting out with something and altering it until it looks good. However you should start out with multiple designs and improve all of them, then select the best. It's called quality through quantity.
Actually this is a method that can be applied to any type of problem, not just design.
I do not agree at all with your definition of startup. I would just put it under small bussiness too. Yes, they have the intention of getting big, but everybody has that hope.

pg puts it well in one of his essayes: a startup is a company that solves a hard technical problem. The techical part is essential, not an afterthought. A fast-food chain would use tech, but it would not advance the art.
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Yeah, but roofed cities doesn't mean the city is a huge building like you probably imagine but the idea behind it is the ability to stay dry when it rains etc. So maybe we should talk about roofed sidewalks instead.
Yes. Why is this option hidden by default when I'm logged in?
"All I do is work here"
it's at the bottom of your profile page, the 'submissions' link.

glad to be of service :)
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Ask HN: Had an original idea for a start-up...but
Hi, long time reader (I always save it to last when I'm reading through all my RSS feeds because it's my favourite), but first time poster. I am an eighteen year old Australian guy halfway through my first year of university, I am studying a bachelor of IT and Systems with a major in security (thinking of changing that, will see what happens). Because of my fairly poor background and current tight budget (university -> eep.) I have become a very resourceful person with allot of time on my hands (can't afford to go out now much can I). Usually I spend it reading all sorts of ebooks and papers and trying to learn new skills.

I have always admired the people I read about on HN talking about their start-ups and ventures into exciting projects and business. Last night I had a fantastic idea, something I really believe would be worth my time to give it a shot, but I am totally inexperienced. It might be childish but I would rather not go into detail about my idea, just know it combines some e-commerce with some social networking concepts. I want to code the site using PHP and a bit of Java-script, but my skills with these are not exactly up to the job yet.

So I ask you HN, will you point me to-wards what you believe to be the best of the best resources for:
PHP,
Java-script,
web hosting,
texts on starting your first project,
and e-commerce

I would also welcome any and all input from you guys, don't feel like you have to play nice, I am very open to you poking holes and learning about how the "real world" actually works.

Thanks for reading this.
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A couple of weeks ago in Paris there were a dozen or so people riding black Segways near the Eiffel Tower. Must've been a meeting of the local chapter or something.
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I would like to add in that it also works in the latest Safari (which the author forgot to mention)

Time to draw the tiger for me with Safari 4 was: 1.695 sec
Sitepoint.com is aimed pretty squarely at the group you're in, and covers pretty much everything you'll need. It's even an Australian site :)
That's just bullshit. They produced their products like everyone else, and as a result built thousands of little innovations into it. Windows is not a cheap OS X clone (and thank god for that, here's to choice). Yes, they also copied successful concepts. So does everybody else.

If Microsoft is so bad, why is everybody buying it? The "shady business practices" theory is just too easy. And even if that was the only reason: I guess then they innovated in the sector of "shady business practices". They certainly did not become so big through sheer luck.
That's why (for example) Windows has compartmentalized and "pluginized" its AppCompat infrastructure. ABI compatibility trumps almost every other concern, IMHO.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for the shout-out on your blog / twitter.
Did you try it in other browsers, just to compare? I get lower times in chrome (2.212 seconds) and firefox 3.5 (9.405 seconds).

Just curious to see if safari is really faster, or just you computer.
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Your university library might have a lot of books on these. Get a couple for PHP and JS and read them through simultaneously. That way, even if one book misses something you get it from the other one and the best part is, it does not cost anything.
PHP is pretty easy to get in to, I asked about js frameworks here a while ago and pretty much unanimously got jquery back so that's what I'm using myself now and so far it has been very easy to use and does what I want it to.

Build a small website or two using PHP and js before you go for your major idea, that will probably save you a rewrite later on. PHP is a strange platform to develop for, the language has its shortcomings which makes it very easy to make a mess of things but with some discipline and a good plan on how you intend to separate your business logic from your presentation layer you should come out well.

Have a look at templating as well, no point in reinventing the wheel there, at least not until high performance becomes a real issue (using a templating engine adds some overhead).

good luck !

And about keeping the idea secret: Before you execute do some really good searching around to see if it isn't already out there, also not sharing your idea with other - not neccesarily the HN crowd but in general - is an excellent way to get into 'island mode'. Get early feedback that way you can tweak your idea while it is still just pencil sketches. Later on that gets a lot more expensive.
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Thanks all, your input is very much appreciated.
I was in the exactly the same situation as you. Learn PHP first because it will give you the logical framework for understanding how the web server interacts with the browser. I recommend Rasmus' book: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-PHP-Rasmus-Lerdorf/dp/1565... - it's the best text book I've ever read: he gives you exactly the right amount of detail.

Later you can pick-up Javascript. There are loads of resources for this, but learn PHP first.
Wasn't it a similar bug that facilitated the first successful software-only Wii cracking attempt?
Javascript: Start with Douglas Crockfords "Javascript: The Good Parts". Excellent, terse primer on safe Javascript development.

Startups: Read content by people like Peter Graham, Joel Spolsky, Rob Walling, Guy Kawasaki, Bob Walsh, Andy Brice - just to mention a few of my personal faves. Skim around, there's lots of great free content out there on software startups!
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Call it $12 million with benefits. Plus, they all have stock options in the new comapny

Sounds like Techcrunch could use some of those editors.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598385

In addition to the book on cryptography, Singh also directed the film about Fermat's Last Theorem ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermats_last_theorem

... first transmitted by the BBC as part of the Horizon series, subsequently aired in the USA as part of the NOVA series. He also wrote the book that followed. Both have been mentioned here before, both are most highly recommended. The Wikipedia article references Singh's book copiously.

The Code Book, mentioned elsewhere, was his second book.

You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Singh

I know Simon quite well, and am following the libel case with interest. (The wikipedia article also references John Stillwell, whom I also know. This is slightly worrying ...)
learn some low level php to get you familiar with it - then switch straight into a framework.

I use KohanaPHP - kohanaphp.com (dont go with Code Igniter, not any more)

I've heard CakePHP is pretty good too but never actually tried it (have a play and see).

A really good "dip into" resource once your familiar with PHP a bit is the documentation pages on www.php.net
My favorite part of the article:
"Professional complaints followed in May, mostly about individual chiropractors’ claims. Then, in June, blogger Simon Perry found the BCA database of 1,029 members online, containing 400 website URLs. He wrote a quick computer program to automatically identify all the chiropractors in the UK claiming to treat colic, locate their local Trading Standards office, and report them (more than 500 in total) automatically, followed up with printed letters."
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