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Why is that? convincing banks to give you money will be much harder, at a high interest rate, and you have to give the money back whether you're successful or not.

Can't see much in the video, and all I can hear is a couple drunk people talking. Not worth voting up, wait for node summit tomorrow instead.

From the source code: http://www.focusontheuser.org/dontbeevil/script.js

if (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent)) { alert( "Unfortunately, this tool does not currently work in Internet Explorer. " + "Please try another browser such as Firefox, Chrome, or Safari."); return; }

That's not very nice. Surely this can be made to work for at least IE9 :)

To be fair, they probably could have found the same performance problem profiling using chrome or firebug

I was also hoping to see some mathematical insight that allowed them to prove the minimal sudoku problem. The problem with a brute force solution is that it only applies to the 9x9 sudoku. It would be interesting to see what the limit is for larger sudokus and what correlations there are between their dimensions and their minimal number of clues.

Those are "writes" from the users perspective, it doesn't take into account writes due to index updates. So that's 1 write multiplied by however many indexes that need update.

There are definitely serious applications and businesses built on appengine, mostly started before their price hike coming out of Beta last November. http://www.optimizely.com (YC W10) and http://shoesofprey.com are two notable examples.

Slightly off topic, but I'm sick of post titles that start with "A Redditor's ...". A title like that is just going to encourage comments and culture from reddit which is usually inappropriate here. "Redditors" are mostly normal people, "An insightful message for discouraged students" would have been a perfectly good title to this.

This has nothing to do with the discovery or existence of the Higgs boson.

I applaud the initiative, but this has a long way to go before it adds more value than the effort you put in to set it up and switch over from your existing editor. By far the best python/django IDE is pycharm. It's free for open source developers, and a small price to pay for anyone serious about python based web development.

"You might be thinking that you can use some trick (referencing the GAC library instead of the compiler reference or using reflection to get to private APIs, or P/Invoking into Win32). But all of those uses will be caught by AppStore review application"

I'm curious to know, how will the review application be able to catch your use of the private API through reflection? It seems like a pretty hard problem that could be a big security risk if done incorrectly.

Thanks! I'm on HN from China and facebook is completely blocked (There are vpn/proxy options, but not worth setting up for a short stay).

"Intel follows in the footsteps of HP and IBM, who also fund open source software collaborations with university researchers"

IBM is consistently #1 on that list too

Don't forget to use a rainbow terminal when you're hacking together your retro 90s site https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat

When was this? I'm able to visit developer.android.com fine here...even go to my android market publisher profile to publish apps.

The maps app is blocked/isn't available in China, so it makes sense to replace it here.

I was using Xiao Mi as an example of a great Android product from China rather than a comparison to Baidu (though I didn't know about Baidu's search result practices).

My question still stands though, is it much more of an Android "fork" as what the modifications that Xiao Mi is making?

I'm in China now and see Android phones on sale. A lot of google services are blocked, youtube, plus, the maps app, and others, but Android is alive and well.

Is this much different from what MIUI (Xiao Mi) did with their android ROM, they replaced a lot of the default android services as well? They're also releasing an android phone soon [1]

Any distrust of chinese technology aside, I'm actually really looking forward to what this OS will be like. imo MIUI is the most usable android ROM around, and it's much more stable than cyanogen. It proved to me that Chinese startups are capable of producing really awesome products.

iPhone currently has the biggest smart phone market share in China by far, this looks like the beginnings of Android taking over China like it did the rest of the english world.

Ah you're right, edited

This is great, it's like Google's compiler library[0] but with run-time checking! Coffee script is still very hard to debug, this should help avoid about 80% of the mistakes I normally make when coding.

[0] http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/

No, if you read the article, contracts are enforced at runtime!

I'm actually getting one hoping that android will be ported to it soon. Then I have a cheap tablet with great hardware. Sure webOS is decent upon release, but it'll take a long time to achieve the kind of open source dev community that android has if it was open sourced, so there'll be an initial slump in development efforts. Plus, without official support (nor commercial success), the market place will be a ghost town.

Every time I hear someone argue that the mouse or keyboard is going away, I'm reminded of Chung Lee's ignite talk about why that's not the case. http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/07/myth-of-dying-m...

There are human computer interfaces for different computer sizes. The mouse and keyboard are good for "human scale" devices like the desktop and laptop. Touch is great for pocket sized devices, and motion is good for even larger devices. The mouse and keyboard aren't going away, it's just that we'll have more non-"human scale" devices.

One of the most important things I find in html 5 is not mentioned very often is the media capture API[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/ that allows you to add video and audio as input. Combined with the audio and video tags will let us implement video/audio chat features without using flash.

Not only that, but it can also bring speech to text to the web[2], potentially add motion gestures for navigation, games, etc. Imo this is the last piece of the puzzle (along with websockets, bytebuffers, etc) to making the browser a full OS from a user's perspective.

[1] I would have said the devices tag, but that has recently been dropped from the html5 standard. Ericson labs had some really great demos of it on a modified webkit engine)http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/, too bad. [2] see x-webkit-speech attribute of the input tag for chrome's implementation

I somehow wish Linus would be so pissed off at these interfaces for linux that he goes out and writes something totally awesome like he did with git.

If you define a startup as a company still looking for a business model as Steve Banks might, then twitter very well fits in that definition. It's also easy to label companies with a startup culture of moving fast, raising capital and innovating a "startup".

search.com came up first for me

Did anybody else read the factory factory story analogy and thought of the genie/meta genie analogy in Godel Escher Back?

Facebook didn't start that way. Everyone had a wall and could upload photos, and only college students could sign up. That was pretty much it.