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beautiful, beautiful piece of art and engineering.

Id seen some of the RaphaelJS demos, so I knew this was coming.. but honestly was expecting this stuff to become a product in about 2 to 3 years time... and this guys integrated the whole shebang.

I just want to see the same thing happen with data - people will realize that most data is a graph and not a table, when and only when we can demo something that's fluid, has the same qualities of immediacy and usability and solves a real problem [for which the spreadsheet is the current workaround]...

Each component of this might have been done before, but the combination is a new new thing we all knew was just around the corner.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809181 for a discussion about other HN on the iPhone solutions.

My version is at http://mobilehackernews.appspot.com/

It uses iUI for the list and if you click on a story link it uses arc90's Readability to make the site you visit easier to read. The Readability script also puts a button in the top left corner of the page to revert to the original version.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
If I were to pay money for my HN, I'd want at least some of it to go to the actual HN team.
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That's not true. While we'd prefer someone with experience in these areas, when we say "you're not afraid" we really mean "you're not afraid".

Hacking Linux really isn't that hard. I implemented two kernel-level projects - a stackable filesystem that gives you an assurance your files haven't been tempered with, and an "object orientation" system that lets processes modify and inherit their syscall vectors. Each project took about four days and I never looked at the kernel code before. I had pretty good access to a Linux expert who pointed me in the right direction, but I didn't ask that many questions. It wasn't the caliber of code that would make it into vanilla, but it was very useable.

The idea that hacking the Linux kernel requires superhuman abilities is a huge misconception. I can assure you that I'm as far away from being a genius as anyone. If I could do it, any reasonably competent software developer can. And the complexity of MySQL codebase pales in comparison to Linux.

We want some degree of experience hacking high performance low level systems, but we care about competency, determination, and ability to ship working code far more than experience in any specific area. It's Linux and MySQL today, but it could be FreeBSD and Postgres tomorrow.
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Actually I hope Apple take an enlightened approach to this, and see it as a valid migration/coexistence/hybrid strategy, rather than get heavy. Its the ultimate complement to them.
ok thanks now I got it.
This isn't the full postcode database. The full postcode database maps postcodes to actual addresses instead of co-ordinates. You could map these coordinates to addresses but you'd need Ordnance Survey data which you've also got to pay for.
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This article is about solutions to diabetes much more than its about "dangers of high animal protein diets"...
Uhhhh, we don't have insurance in the UK.
Basically the NHS is your fallback, it will (more or less) treat anything that: "negatively impacts your quality of life". However it may not be the very best care and you may have to wait for it (depending on the contention for services in your area and the treatment you need).

If you want quicker service then you can go private and pay for it.

In terms of experimental treatment I know the NHS may suggest it if they are unable to effectively treat you.

Basically the UK system is the American system (e.g. you can always go private) without the suck (if you're broke you still get fixed, just on a slower timeframe).
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Leonardo da Vinci because he didn't limit himself to the art/science divide.
Thank you for your kindness, but I'm not brave. Guys like Hal Finney - in the original HN post that I'm ashamed to have drawn attention away from - are brave. I was just persistent...and then very lucky.
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Emmeline Pankhurst, because without her activities, and their effect on society, I would never have had the chance to achieve what I have. Also my grandmother; entrepreneur, politician and pillar of her local society.

(I felt this list needed more oestrogen, though both of the above are completely genuine. I'd add Thatcher, but I don't think I could survive the pitchforks - nevertheless, I do admire what she achieved.)
Yeah, first thing I did was wonder where the undo button is. Still, looks amazingly useful.
Most people seem to forget that the origin of the term cloud was networking. You just shove your packet into the internet and it magically comes out where you want it to. Because you don't know what is going on inside you just draw it as a cloud.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K52n2Jkv5-I/SYbEngJYXbI/AAAAAAAABV...
How many Rails apps run on an OSX server?
I don't believe so, though the web implementation of Latitude (http://maps.google.com/maps/m?mode=latitude) for iPhone and Palm Pre does.
So in short:

- Online resources for real stuff (things that cost money) experience drop of visitors in recession

- Free, recreational and bitching-about-life sites show increase in visitors in recession
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If you set the Microsoft .net tools side by side with Emacs, gdb et al, I don't think that it's the Microsoft tools that look like forks and baseball bats.

This coming from a guy who after 20+ years still launches Emacs as my first app, but even I have to admit that Visual Studio is more productive for slinging typical .Net code than even Emacs, at least for me.

(And yes, I understand your point wasn't specifically about tool UI and developer productivity exactly.)
Yeah, £1.19 seems a bit too steep when I can instantly fire up Safari on my iPhone and view the full hn for free.
It's also worth pointing out that a compiled GWT application can be deployed entirely statically. The Java RPC system does require a servlet container, but there are lots of other ways of talking to servers (JSON[P], XHR, etc).
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EveryDNS is DOWN [Edit: DNS works now, could be a DoS]
[Update! DNS is resolving but their site is down. That's good.]

EveryDNS has been down since god knows when. Plan B, everybody! [Edit: It's only been down for 33 minutes and now its functional as a DNS host, but not as a site.]

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=everydns

[Edit: Earliest report

http://twitter.com/lifeeth/statuses/4706860288

]
You could keep data in ram and dump it occasionally to disk (which is way faster than committing every transaction for itself). Replicate among few machines to deal with failure scenarios.

But RAM is still more expensive than Flash.
I think that, until you see a populated StackExchange site (with content you understand), it's not really clear how useful it can be.

Non-technical people pretty much just have moms4mom.com to look at right now.
There's something that really bothers me about this:

"The best of the ideas will be buried in a time capsule, to be opened in 2020."

Who decides which ones are the best? Adults. So why have children draw them at all? Don't go to children for their childlike viewpoint if you're just going to filter it through your adult viewpoint.
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How is the content available for free? That's what I don't get.
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I think it's a bit high, but I bought it to give it a run. From the screenshots, it seemed decently full featured. The only thing I wish it had was AT least the upvote capabilities. I never really comment from the iphone, since I know ill limit my comments. Give me a few days of waiting on line with nothing to do and checking HN via my iPhone to give it a final verdict. .99 seems like a better price than 1.99
That'll work for a while. Then the kid's going to be up half the night recompiling his kernel.
if i had the money, i will increase my hiring spend as you can get much better people because number of new startups reduce and also less competition in hiring
Ah, it's not open-source.
You know... Not everybody has iTunes on the computer... Or even a computer where iTunes is willing to run.
Part of the reason the debate is muddled is that TDD forces one to use unit / regression testing. People promoting TDD often take credit for the benefits of those, when evaluating TDD alone concerns whether writing tests upfront as a design technique is actually better, provided tests are still written.
The traffic lost by the brand sites may not be the same traffic gained by the social networks.
monos - if you log into your Google account and then use Trends for Websites, you should see the y-axis numbers. The numbers are not shown when you're not logged in.
none of your screenshots actually show a story. does that mean it just shows the webkit view?
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http://www.icombinator.net/ works great for me, and costs nothing. Also has nifty instapaper functionality which I've grown to live on.
- I don't think someone who has equity relatively close to the other cofounders should be called an employee. I don't think this is a controversial stance, no?

- I don't think it is fair to expect your 1st employee to put in 15-20 hour days consistently. Even if the 1st employee did put in such effort, as Rethink guys point out, they would be putting in almost the same effort as them and thus calling him/her an "employee" would be wrong.

- A big objection you seem to have relates to how long the company has existed. You think that 3 months is a long time for a cofounder to come in. If you look at the longterm roadmap of a startup, the initial 3 months hardly register. Do you think 10 years from now the new cofounder will look back and feel inferior to the other founders? With each passing day the 3 month thing becomes less significant.

Your disagreements are not so much about semantics as your lack of understanding between the possible difference in pay, expectations etc. between a cofounder and 1st employee. It might be subtle but it exists.
Luckyly I have plans B to D already deployed right in my domain records ;-)

It's clever to put secondary, tertiary and quaternary DNSs in different providers
That actually seemed awesome until i started getting this on pretty much every page:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 507, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)

File "/base/data/home/apps/mobilehackernews /1.336829969607358575/main.py", line 137, in get
html.head.append(cssCode)

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append'
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For a low quality scan (resolution about 1/3 what you get in the US). A 2 tesla scan (what you get in the US) will cost the same as in the US (though the government may subsidize it).

I've heard it suggested that Japan got "scan-happy" (patients want a scan, kind of like how US patients want antibiotics for their virus), so they built cheapo MRIs to give them what they want.
This is basically my favorite thing about Linux. I can install almost anything I could possibly want by typing one command.

And for users of lesser interfaces (GUIs):

sudo apt-get install lighttpd

A lot easier than navigating a list.
How many sips of beer is that? 1.5?
The screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day.

Why do you think this?

If by "corrected" you mean the user will get their stuff back quickly, that isn't so in my experience. Sometimes, some stuff will be restored quickly, but it might take days or weeks for some of it, and chances are that you'll never see some of it back. I'm not sure how they do logging, but such delays imply that it must be pretty human-intensive to get a record of what's been taken and restore it.
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Reverse debugging, awesome! http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/news/reversible.html
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I quite agree, but as you point out we don't have a lot of choices here. That's the best proxy I can think of.
I think most of the reaction to your response was due to your tone. I've seen a lot of blog posts where someone was mind-bogglingly astray* , and coming in saying "You're all wrong, you idiots, they solved this problem in the 70s, ..." just makes people ignore you. I think suggesting leads for further exploration (in this case, libevent, nginx, etc.) is more helpful, without being a slap in the face.

* Whereas this series seems to be people getting excited about using Unix syscalls from their preferred scripting languages, probably for the first time.
> "Technology should not be used to strip rights from songwriters, composers and music publishers"

Technologically stripping rights from music purchasers, on the other hand, is a sacred right?
I bought it and it looks good. Though I mostly bought it because I noticed that the author used to be my project manager. :) Best of luck with the app, Kevin!
In that case then, this app probably isn't targeted at you.
I find it funny that a community of people who make their living off selling software are so averse to paying for it. How much of your hourly rate is the cost of buying this? How much time do you spend on HN daily? How much percent better does reading HN does this app need to make, for you to be ROI positive in a week?
> "teh Unix turned up to 11". zOMG!

Yeah. Ruby people suddenly feeling all hardcore after touching Unix syscalls for the first time. Ick.
So I stopped by to talk to someone at the Scholar's Pub yesterday. They are having a Trivia Night on Sunday, but there should be plenty of space for us.

The only deal they seem to be willing to cut is an all you can eat buffet sort of thing for $7/person. Personally, that seems like a good deal - but I don't think that everyone will want to be forced into participating (I was hoping for some sort of 'half off food with password' sort of deal, but apparently they don't do that).

So let's just show up and have a good time. The food/drinks are fairly cheap (by Cambridge standards) anyways.
I've used this method a few times at public internet terminals hoping it would work, but in the absence of evidence that it really would work I got lazy and haven't bothered most times. Good to know it's an effective extra preventative measure.
Me too! Thanks, much more readable than in Safari.
Also, I couldn't tell from the screenshots if the app allowed users to view comments on a submission. As we all know, the discussions can be as good as, if not better, than the articles.
All friends listed were hypothetical. I might be able to get 10k from my closest friends and family. :-)
The major new features are:

* Python scripting support
* Reverse debugging, Process record and replay
* Non-stop debugging
* Multi-architecture debugging
* Multi-inferior, multi-process debugging

It also features many enhancements and bug fixes, including:

* GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation
* Tracepoints may now be conditional
* Multi-byte and wide character set support
* New /r and /m modifiers for the "disassemble" command
* Automatic retrieval of shared library files from remote targets
* Inlined functions are now supported
* New remote protocal packets
* GDB is now able to read compressed debug sections
* Thread switching is now supported on Tru64
* Ada task switching is now supported
* New features in gdbserver, the GDB remote stub
* New command to stop execution when a system call is made
I was double checking I'd put the right IP in for a new master about 3 hours ago when it went down. DNS was responding ok so I figured I'd skip harassing David given it was ~03:00 on that side of the pond.
You should definitely try fasting (no food, water only). After a couple of days there should be visible results (You will feel Yourself different).

Another possible advice is to limit carbohydrates (partually replacing them with fats). There is a whole host of possible problems from excess carbohydrates (starting from diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight).

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Indeed. I'd buy this instantly if it provided an iPhone-friendly interface for reading the discussion, but I can't tell from the screenshots. Also, if there is a story view --- reasonably sized up-down voting arrows alone would make it worth paying for.
It's not about excluding features to make people happy, it's about designing something right from the ground up.

I didn't take a mental image of a time tracking app and then remove stuff. I started from scratch.

Different groups of people have different use cases, and different needs. It's a fallacy to think you can design one thing for all people. It compromises your vision.

Make sense?

And yes, by the way, there are lots of things we are able to do with Freckle because we have decided paths that we do not want to tread. For example, project creation is always on-the-fly. It's so elegant I could cry.

But if we added permission restrictions, based on who could create projects, that would take away the elegance, and add confusion.

In the end, our approach -- which is awesome for our desired audience -- would be totally compromised by the additional error-checking and rigamarole if we were to add this as a feature.

Thus, we won't do it. There are plenty of people who don't need or want that, who are our potential audience. And people who do need it, won't like the other assumptions our app makes. They will be better served by more traditional products.

To my mind, this is win/win/win.
Just use this 1 weird old tip.
It's not the problem of spending $2, it's the question of if that $2 is going to the right people.
The reverse debugging is built on http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ (if I recall correctly). It's really neat technology
"The item you've requested is not currently available in the Polish Store"

Did the developers place geographical restrictions or is this a bug in the iTunes store?

Dear developers, please make sure the app is available everywhere.
At the same time, medicine has come a long way, even over the past century.

My academic background is in history, with a focus on the history of science and medicine, and it's an excellent foundation for optimism.
Odd, I saw that few times just now. But I can't reproduce it. The error suggests that when BeautifulSoup parsed to the contents of the posted article, it found a page with no head node in the HTML.
He says that for the same reason newspaper articles are written that way - not because people won't scroll, but to capture their attention so that they WILL scroll to follow the article, rather than move on to something else.
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edw519's informal rule for giving advice:

If you have suceeded once: "Here's what I did."

If you have succeeded several times: "Here's what I did, and here are the patterns that I have noticed."

If you have succeeded many times: "Here's what I found that works and may work for you too."

If you have never succeeded: You should be listening, not talking.

No advice should give the "rules" (there are none) or claim to know "everything" (you don't).
I do, however, have an iPod and an iMac. I just happen to use Linux for work.
It doesn't even seem to have a way to log in, getting to comments is awkward, and threads are flattened to an iPhone list.
Has anybody switched from a Linux distro to OpenSolaris as their main OS? Experiences? I'm contemplating it...
A bit offtopic, but does anyone know how long Google usually needs to get back to you when you apply for a position? Also, do they notify you if you've been rejected, or does your resume simply disappear into a black hole?
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Very good comments too.
Someone inside Google might be able to correct me, but I believe that both 1) you won't be notified if you aren't a current fit (they'll put you into a resume database) and 2) if you are a fit, you'll hear back relatively soon - I've received replies from Google recruiters about a week or two after the online submission in the past.
One might think that the developer of the application is the right person to pay for the application.
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I don't know, but something I read a few months ago (can't remember where) and one of the comments on the linked article suggested that it is because of the way cell phone fees are structured in Canada; Amazon can't afford to download books without charging extra, and isn't interested in the hassle of changing its system for a minor market. I have no idea if this is true, but it fits what little I know.
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I see only the apache "its working" page.
Very nice link - many thanks!
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Why is $2 going to some ppl who made something which provides you with value >2 everyday,(or some random value), the wrong people?

Extend the analogy only a little, "I dont buy anything on the internet as I want some of it to go to Tim Barnes Lee."
Let me limit this to web applications.

To me this discussion sounds like an argument for user controlled scripting languages in web applications.

This is needed since web applications which use lots of Javascript can't be automated by normal web scraping libraries with no Javascript/DOM emulators (they support cookies, etc so they can do sessions etc).

Something like the classic Applescript, for user control. (Or maybe the latest web frameworks already have that?)

Edit: Reformulated sentence for clarity.

Edit 2: I think the plugins for Firefox etc are too hard to write? Maybe you could add scripting languages to them?
Same.
If you just go to http://addthis.com the site works, though judging from the url posted on HN, we're probably meant to be seeing something different.
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If open source and stats is your thing, make sure you have a look at R.

http://www.r-project.org/

Google use it, Techcrunch use it (no really they do) and many, if not most, academic statisticians.
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