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First off, congrats to the team. Has anyone on HN used the framework extensively to give an opinion and compare experiences with other frameworks?
">>How can I bring you proof that a theory (btw. which one exactly?) can do this or that

So you don't have an alternative, but are only complaining that the present system isn't perfect and countries do realpolitik?"

There are plenty of alternatives around, but I don't have to propose alternatives to be able to criticize something. This way you can shut up everybody, but "unfortunately" we have free speech. You don't post from Saudi Arabia or something, do you?

Now that you ask: Parecon is a whole system based on participation. It sounds quite feasible.

"As you wrote, you don't have an alternative, either."

See above.

"Which, counted as percentages, is arguably better than ever in history. And is getting better ever decade. [Historically, where I grew up, the child mortality was around 20-30%... and large families.]"

Again, that's due to medical and technological progress which does not depend on capitalism. It's the other why around: You have a better healthcare in Cuba than you have in the US that's why US citizens visit Cuba for surgery etc.

"I am all for attempts to try other economic systems, but not inside 10000 km of where I live. Continue writing your political faith then, if it is so important to preach..."

No, I didn't say there is no alternative and I didn't preach. You preach the gospel of realpolitik where there is no alternative. Are you a fatalist?
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Thirdly, your use of 'want' and his use of 'want' may be different. In 'ye olde English', "having want of something" means: needing it. For Russell, want and need may be more synonymous than for you.

Great point! I completely missed that reading the piece, but you're right: the evolution of "want" from "need" to "wish" was far from complete in 1932. A famous example of the older usage is "That soup wants salt". It also survives in proverbs like "Waste not, want not".

In this case it's not just a linguistic curiosity, but affects the meaning of the whole thing. Edit: it also provokes thought as to what the difference between the two really is.
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For me there is no question of whetehr to go ahead with the start up idea or not in fact we are laucning our first version later this week. My concern is whether Y Combinator would be able to objectivley review our application. Thank you for your feedbacks however.
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Surely the Cadillac thing is not just clever marketing, though -- there have also been vast improvements in Cadillac's actual products. They combined a marketing push for younger drivers with an actual product (the CTS) with genuine appeal to younger drivers. Marketing alone couldn't make me want a Mercury Grand Marquis.
Exactly. People have been going on how much the Chinese owe the US but it's that old classic line about "if you owe the bank a billion dollars".

One of three things will happen:

1. A US president will stand up in front of the people and tell the country they cannot have schools, health care or the military as they must pay back the Chinese (and other creditors).

2. The US economy will grow faster than the debt.

3. The US will devalue the dollar through printing money until the debt is serviceable (perhaps in combination by some economic growth).

Scenario 1 seems absurd. 2 has been the stated approach to debt to date but is no longer reasonable. 3 seems almost inevitable.

The Chinese leadership wouldn't much care about the money since it's been an unwilling participant the whole way through, however they do fear the wrath of their people which has the potential to be cataclysmic. And seemingly being played the fool by the US will cause a huge loss of face indeed. It'll be interesting to see how they try to spin it internally.
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Yes, even the guy in the video looked wobbly.
nuweborder: good luck with your startup with or without YC ! :)
Great, but I would not like to be seen on one.
I would disagree. If he had done the update then it would have been obvious how easy it is becoming with each release.
Or uphill.
Supporting evidence: Homeopathy in 2005's list

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things...
The perks of the Yike (I feel funny just saying that) are the weight (20lb vs 45lb) and size. I see lots of business people here (London) on those little fold up city bikes. The Yike seems more targetted at those customers than the traditional cyclist.
One would think that with the pervasive growth of PC usage and internet penetration, people would reduce their TV viewing. The article brings out some interesting facts.
Alternative hypothesis: Religions evolved to take advantage of natural human tendencies.

PS: There are a wider range of religions than just those that have a God.
So... I'm unnatural, and should be put down?
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Regarding your comment about the stylus, which was relevant: Any system that doesn't require an extra, easily-lost piece to use is good; I type faster than I handwrite; bullshit re:typing faster. It's far more efficient to use two fingers with no disconnect from your muscle memory than it is to use a single digit that's got a few inches disconnect.

As for this little snipefest:

Look, dejb, it's not that we don't understand where you're coming from about the animals. We do. The problem is that rscott is using bacon/balogna as a comparison, and you're taking him literally. Want me to take your counterpoint literally? When I see a stylus, I see electrons. Fuck this argument, fuck this site, fuck this existence, it's electrons. You can't argue, you're a bucket of electrons. There. Now I've shat on this whole debate. Let's all go home rather than contemplate the cognitive dissonance that humans experience when you point this out.

"Bring it on"? You're a fucking commenter on a fucking Internet thread on a site that's about discussing fucking technology! I'm sorry, but I don't give a shit about your stance regarding animal rights when it's not relevant to this thread. Want my attention? Find a good article about what you think is interesting and submit it. I'd love to read more about this. I don't know a thing about it. But right now, we're discussing the iPhone, not fucking animals.

For the record, I have no cognitive dissonance thinking about bacon. I've never seen a dead pig and so the concept is abstract to me. I don't care to make it any more physical because first off, I don't eat bacon, and second off, I don't really give a damn about pigs. It's not in me. Perhaps I'm a psychopath or some shit. But you're either misguided or trolling, and either way it's irritating and a teeny bit hurtful to the community. Cut it out.
I am formally trained as an architect and I believe there are plenty of overlaps between architecture and programming. In fact, it was a series of computer science programming classes in college that reinforced my desire to study architecture. I found the problem solving and methodology very similar in both disciplines.

I now split time between the two domains (programming and architecture) and find that my work continues to overlap, but that's what makes it enjoyable.
I disagree -- I don't know how to find reliable statistics for how many, but there are a huge number of free Windows Mobile apps to suit nearly every need. I have a Scheme interpreter with a little IDE on my HTC phone+, and a GBA emulator for it too. I think that the relatively large number of iPhone apps are a natural consequence of the big userbase and are in spite of their App Store model, not because of it.

+ http://www.mazama.net/scheme/pscheme.htm if you're interested!
> The app store is only a PR disaster for the 200 people who read HN.

You are underestimating the HN audience by quite a bit.

Then there's reddit, digg, slashdot and so on.

Not to mention 100's of articles in the mainstream press, including business week, the Washington post etc.

http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en...
Yes, except that a language created for a small group of users to fulfil a certain purpose needs only to worry about being "good".

Obviously a language for which a design goal is "popularity", the design parameters are quite different, but I think the basic principles hold.
Oh, come on. Not everything done on schools is a conspiracy to keep pupils in check.

Teaching the students to respect their teachers is useful and without doubt it's taught in schools. It helps students to absorb the knowledge from their teachers without the teacher having to prove every detail, which in turn helps more to be taught. (Some things really don't need a proof until you're working in much more detail. Most people don't need to know why 2 + 2 = 4, they just need to know that it's true.)

Really, if indoctrinating them would be the point of cursive writing there'd be much more effective ways to do it.
You've been upvoted everywhere. Hacker News has some assholes who like downvoting, but there's more of us than there are of them.

We do like downvoting people who complain about downvotes, so I hope you don't mind my bumping you down here.
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Maybe 3/4 of it is from just liberal arts. My degree is in philosophy with concentrations in peace studies and religious studies. As much as I loved the experience, it was certainly not easily monetizable. The remaining 1/4 is from taking computer science classes after struggling to find interesting work with a philosophy degree. I love the structured nature of coding, but the world isn't always so black and white. Liberal arts teaches you to explore and analyze the fuzzy, murky, gray areas.
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Looks pretty interesting, combining mature Apache stuff like Hadoop and Lucene.
Calculus isn't the hard.
...why is this on HN?

At any rate, I don't think our evolution specifically oriented us to a belief in God; rather, we're optimized to think in narratives, operate in groups, and seek purposes higher than ourselves. The God meme(s) are an independent development that happen to conveniently satisfy all three.
> What if there was a vulnerability in the emulator which allowed somebody to remotely run basic code, which sent your entire contacts list over to them???

What if such a vulnerability existed in any other iPhone application ?

Or does the review process includes a line-by-line code audit and sign-off ?
Perhaps it's not evil so much as it is difficulty in making decisions? Everybody has good intentions, and most people fuck them up at some point or other. The difference is that when large companies fuck up, it hurts more than when individuals do, and it's more noticeable.
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Show me how that's impacted the iPhone's sales.
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Some architects do. There is an old BBC (I think) broadcast showing Christopher Alexander building a house. He goes to the site with the people who will live in the house, asks them what they have in mind. He has a scaffolding built, then asks the people to sit on the scaffolding in different places and talk about how it feels. Based on that, the rooms are decided, and so on. The house is built incrementally using feedback; there is no up-front plan. Admittedly, Alexander is far beyond the pale of mainstream architecture, but this is way cool.
For that you'd have to have access to an alternative universe where all this had not happened, so you are asking something that is not really possible.

But the Google voice fall out went so far as to get the FCC involved, surely that would have some consumer effect ?
> Open up your MacPorts config file located at /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf. Around line 59, find the section that has the build_arch and set it to x86_64.

You don't need to. Here's the default value:

# CPU architecture to compile for. Defaults to i386 or ppc on Mac OS X 10.5
# and earlier, depending on the CPU type detected at runtime. On Mac OS X 10.6
# the default is x86_64 if the CPU supports it, i386 otherwise.
#build_arch i386

Note the comment: if your CPU supports it, the default build_arch will be x86_64 anyway.
Apparently the latter. HTTP has no standard for reporting "this request is on behalf of n users". Some RSS aggregators have started kludging it into their User-Agent header, but some don't, and abandoned subscriptions are still counted for a while, and nobody's auditing them, so all these stats are wrong by some unknown amount anyway.
Google/Feedburner (an RSS filtering service) would track FriendFeed (a Twitter-like service that lets you subscribe ot others' content) subscribers as a part of your total subscriber count. Now it appears they don't do this any more. This guy had his displayed subscriber count drop by over half as a result.
When a psychologist uses the term "religiosity", they don't mean "belief in God". When a neuroscientist makes a "God helmet", his tongue is firmly in his cheek. And, when an anthropologist is quoted making psychological arguments, the journalist couldn't find a developmental psychologist to support their thesis.

I'll agree that a sort of naturalistic spiritualism is innate in some people, especially children (one's grasp of reality develops much later than one's imagination), and the human brain does tend to think rather superstitiously. But, it's a big leap to say "we are born to believe in God".
You can also do this with "cd -"
Consumers don't really care about legal issues. I'm at a school with a lot of geeky people. They all use iPhones. We sometimes talk about how much we like them. Nobody's mentioned the FCC before. I doubt most of them know what Google Voice is.
OTOH if software developers had to work like architects, you would need to have a degree and several years of experience making coffee for more senior engineers before you were even allowed near a text editor. After that, you could write your own programs, but to actually run them through a compiler you would still need someone who has passed the bar exam, and you'd have to give them a cut of whatever you make off your software.
I've been using Homebrew for about a week. It reminds me of the early days of Gentoo, a very simple system that makes it easy to add your own packages (which is good because the current selection is fairly slim compared to the alternatives).

It's basically a nice way to manage locally complied packages, but it doesn't do a lot for you. For example, once you install MySQL you'll have to do any post setup yourself, like adding a mysql user, creating the initial database and setting it to start on boot.
What is the difference with :w! ?
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Sadly, I'm sure they spent a lot of time on the design. I think they're just solving the wrong problem. The lack of storage space limits this to joy riding. You can't buy groceries, commute with a laptop, etc. etc.
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One of the little things that it took me a while to find out about:

echo '2^16' | bc
65536

'bc' is a complete calculator language interpreter that also functions quite nicely as a simple calculator. If you need to do any heavy lifting check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_programming_language
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Atlas got tired of his job. He was replaced by a bunch of turtles.
First thing that came to my mind as well. I like the foldable functionality though. In Amsterdam there are a lot of people using folding bikes. They commute to Amsterdam by train taking their bikes and then use the bike to get into the city. Works pretty well, but it still looks kind of silly.
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I've been admiring fish shell for a while, but use too many computers to justify trying to use it. As a result, I use bash, despite its shortcomings for the pure reason of portability. I can rest at night knowing that the next unix machine I use, will almost certainly have bash installed somewhere, and a version that's compatible with the minimal customization I actually do for it.
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For me, when someone point me an iPhone the first association that comes to mind is a brilliantly implemented concept of a deck of cards. This is an essence of iPhone - not only touch-based interface, but this touch technology along with carefully designed properly sized, cached content with fast possible switching between "cards". The concept of card tricks. That sells.

There are the second part - implementation - OSX based kernel, llvm-gcc, webkit-based browser, but all these techniques are ordinary.

And of course, they have their sales and marketing. Together that won.

btw, N900 is an very interesting move. It could be positioned as a "standard mobile computer" or "just a hardware". In that case community will write everything, like it was in the story of Linux.
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Depends on the pressure when the tires are fully inflated.
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I look forward to being able to replace my legal pad and notebooks for a properly useful tablet. Until then, I use pen and paper every day.

After then, I'll likely still be using a tablet pen to write every single day. When diagramming, or editing, it's just too easy to jot out notes in handwriting rather than calling up some on-screen keyboard.
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According to their FAQ:
Speed limited so that it can never go faster than 20 km/h even down hill.
"This guy had his displayed subscriber count drop by over half as a result."

I think there is other stuff going on as well. he only has ~3400 friendfeed subscribers.. that doesn't explain going from 30,000 subscribers as reported by FeedBurner, to 11,000 overnight.
they got a patent on THAT???

It took 10 years to get the patent so it's been rejected several times. My guess is it's become fairly specific and would be easy to sidestep if you are not already using their product.
From the FAQ (I swear I'm not from YikeBike PR): It is likely that you will jump off the front of a YikeBike in an emergency braking situation - this is very easy as there are no handle bars in the way.
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This is an interesting concept because in life we often focus our attention on everything that stands before us and potentially miss the opportunities that are in our peripheral vision. Although I might be looking into this too deeply, this reminds me of the philosophy that states, "When one door closes, another will open." But we often need to look outside our narrow focus in order to see the endless opportunities that stand before us....This is an augmented reality browser!
A welcome contribution from the inventors of ajax!

It is interesting that when our applications were desktop-based, we could put up with a lengthy installation process and long loading times each time we ran programs. Now that applications are moving online, and the web browser + internet is now our OS, our impatience is measured in fractions of seconds.
mkdir -p (create a chain of directories in one call)
An interesting note: The Apple ][ OS was 411 KB.
I admit that my tongue was planted rather firmly in my cheek when I made my remarks. However, neither your assertion that "Not everything done on [sic] schools is a conspiracy to keep pupils in check" nor the claim that there are more effective ways to indoctrinate pupils are actually arguments against my conclusions.

My recommendation in this regard would be "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence". It avoids having to explain why one would want to teach joined-up handwriting, and has the added effect of doing down the school system—something that will almost always make one popular here.
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For now Apples app store acceptance policies have given it the biggest PR headache in years.

Nothing a couple of Tylenol won't fix, and when said head is ensconced in a hat made out of money the headache is easier to bear. It's time to invoke the Law of Logical Libertarian Indifference, which goes thus:

Nobody gives a fuck about software freedom.

What they care about can fit into two broad criteria:

* Does the damn thing work? (i.e., does it fulfill the job I expect of it?)

* How useful/easy/fun/cool is it?

In these -- all-important -- respects the iPhone passes with flying colors, and is over 9000 times better than its nearest competitor, Android.

Look at game consoles. The publishers are losing money on the most open game platform -- Windows -- but making it hand over fist on the closed console platforms. Sony offered limited software freedom with Other OS on the PS3. They stripped it out and cut the price. PS3 sales doubled. Because nobody gives a fuck.
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What I meant was you can write/compile/execute scripts from the commodore 64 emulator, whereas that is not possible with an app that does not run code not written by the app developers themselves.
why not - just $75/h.
I'd even say MBA's are often detrimental to those entering startups.

1. It's expensive, increases the need for a low-risk/ high-pay job (i.e. consulting) once you graduate

2. As the article says, it increases expectations wrt. compensation, but also authority (most MBA's wouldnt want to start out as entry-level biz dev as a startup).

3. You don't learn enough about technology businesses.

Overall, an MBA doesn't help you "get" startups, but often convinces you that you do.
1) Advanced tab completion

2) History-based autocomplete (type and press up)

3) Optional cd (.. to go to parent directory)

Zshell has these, although the second two might be options that need to be enabled (can't remember). I have both of them on my shell.
Valid question. IBM lost control of the PC market because it gave away the rights to the two most complex parts of the architecture - the processor and the OS (to Intel and MS respectively). Hence, any other manufacturer could easily build a PC using the products of those two new companies.

On the other hand, Apple successfully controls the key interface to its iPhone platform (the OS) - so the centralised app-store approach will probably be around for a while.
Brightstorm (http://www.brightstorm.com)recently raised $6 million in Series A for a similar concept. I think the educational video online sector is really starting to heat up. I'm still not completely sold on the YouTube for school concept...there needs to be an added element of interactivity.
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It may be that the older you get the more oblivious you are to sales-marketing; since you can point out several blatant sales-marketing techniques, you fool yourself into believing you are safe from them all. Don't become too overconfident or you'll end up buying something ridiculous and not even know it.
At 20km/h it might not be so easy after all.
Why wouldn't a backpack work for carrying things?
The Unix way is based on file(1) and magic(4), not filename contents.