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I am becoming quite frightened with the direction that, seemingly all western nations (USA, Canada, UK, Eurozone, Australia) are heading toward. All are implementing authoritarian fascist policies on their communications simultaneously in what I think is an effort to pre-empt or be able to crush any sort of "Western Spring" revolution.

If this continues we are definitely heading directly into a Orwellian-style dystopian future, where a World Government is capable of spying and controlling every action of society.

This is not hacker news.

No, infinite scrolling can work. The problem is Facebook and other sites aren't doing it right. As you scroll the URL should update with corresponding hash tags for how far down the page you went (eg /#20 /#40 /#50). Then if you go forward and back the correct block can be loaded. Facebook is the best example of a poorly implemented infinite scroll.

Huh? It was standard practice at my home to buy every property you land on no matter what. Nothing ever went to auction ever.

  Most permissive licenses need attribution (in form of leaving the 
  original header comment etc) which lets the whole world know

If the code is being used for commercial and propriety purposes then the code is never seen, never attributed. Attribution in the form of source code comments is really only valuable in other open source projects.

The real reason permissive licences are preferred is developers are greedy. I know, I'm a developer and I'm greedy. I don't want to admit I'm using other people's code to do my work. I want to silently include that code and pretend that I did all of it myself and impress people with my amazing programming skills. If I have to buy a license I have fess up, and admit to myself I need their code, whereas if I can just use it freely there isn't that moral barrier to cross.

By encrypting the data before turning into a URL neither the server, nor anyone who obtains that URL would be able to read the message without knowing the password.

Take a look at this:

http://www.vincentcheung.ca/jsencryption/

A lot of ciphers have been ported to JavaScript now:

http://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/

BBEdit has one feature that I love, that nearly every other text editor in existence fails to get right -- open files are in vertical list, instead of tabs. I hate tabs. I regularly have 25+ files open at a time, basically every file in my project. I can also use swipe gestures on my Macbook to switch files. Tabs I always end up driving nuts.

However BBEdit is not a good code editor at all when compared to a proper IDE.

Can someone explain what kind use-cases there are for a database where the client can read and write directly against the database? CouchDB could do this (via CouchApp), but I bet not many people do this because it's bad from security and scaling standpoint and I think there aren't that many types of apps that can be created without a proper back-end.

This is a gimmick and there's no way around it. NFC, once widely supported, will make this obsolete.

Now.js uses socket.io and doesn't provide much additional functionality.

That's a long list of open source projects. I wonder did Instagram contribute to any of them, or help out in any way?

That's an awful lot of money for a business that had no revenue and had no business model of any kind.

http://windonaleaf.net/post/20464525754/instagram-perform-ad...

  5) IOS4 vs IOS5. Come on Apple, I am begging you to not
  turn IOS into the next Internet Explorer.

They've guaranteed this by refusing to support iOS 5 on older devices like iPhone 3 and iPod Touch 3.

I didn't hear anything about SOPA on cable television news.

  Yahoo has talent, and YUI was the best library out there

No not really, and not it wasn't. Yahoo's UI library didn't really offer any radically new concepts. It was a recap of other libraries. For example instead of TinyMCE you could use YUI's editor which did almost the same thing, instead of jQuery you could use YUI's dom code, and so on.

I didn't really expect anything amazing from Yahoo. They'd need to come out with something truly extraordinary to make me pay attention. And given their webpage hasn't changed since 1998 I doubt that will ever happen.

I primarily use a web browser. To me an "operating system" is just that thing I need to use to access the internet and run my web browser.

I flagged this because HN isn't a job board. There is a thread once a month for jobs:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783657

If you only have one element, then why does it require jQuery?

Is learning this one simple API call too hard for people?

  document.getElementById()

It's great, but I wish I didn't have to do this in CSS. When you look at the source code, it doesn't look like styling at all, it looks like programming. As soon as your start calling bezier functions in a static styling language, you know something's not right. This type of coding would be much easier to do in JavaScript.

The way the baby boomer generation has raped our society of wealth by piling on debt to be paid by future generations is an abomination. To me, it is concrete proof that democracy doesn't work. How is it possible make things fair in a popularity contest when you're outnumbered?

I honestly don't know why everyone under the age of 30 isn't rioting and burning down the system right now. They got dealt a shit hand.

If I'm going to invest my time and money into a hardware platform I'd rather go with the company that is on the leading edge. Blackberry's offer no advantage over Android or iPhone for me, they're old-fashioned. It appears that RIM still hasn't caught up to the iPhone v1 released in 2007.

At this point I think RIM would require a paradigm shifting new technology or something radically new to get me to buy a Blackberry. And Apple is already pushing forward with voice-activated controls with Siri. Why isn't there that type of innovation happening at RIM?

For what purpose?

Well it better have a Linux client, and not require a web browser to be logged into Google+ all the time. Otherwise it'll be another G-fail.

Backbone invented nothing, it was not even the first MVC JavaScript library.

Blame the carriers. That carriers lock their phones, and customize the OS with spam. Google offers them this "free OS" they can't refuse, then they lock their phones, and don't keep up to date with anything. Why would they care, you already bought the phone, they already have your money and you are forced into a 2 year plan. You'd have to be nuts to buy into a mismanaged nightmare like this.

Most startups avoid these markets for an extremely good reason, they are well protected from competition. Every company that's tried to enter the regulated Canadian markets gets shut down pretty quickly either by bankruptcy, lawsuits, or forced acquisition. It's particularly brutal here. What we have in Canada can no longer be described as capitalism. It is totalitarian corporatocracy.

To sound like a researcher: "those are just implementation details".

Well the Canadian federal and provincial governments are basically just a collective cartel in control of every regulated industry in the country. They really only exist to protect the existing monopolies and oligopolies around banks, oil, electricity, telecom, tobacco, agriculture, alcohol etc. This leaves no money or interest in sponsoring new industries, and helps encourage anti-competitive behavior to crush small companies before they can grow.

Nearly every technology company leaves Canada as soon as they can because they know the Canadian business environment is hostile to startups and small businesses. Canada wants innovators to leave their monopolies alone.