Re OLPC: The Ceres computers built at ETH by N. Wirth between 1985 and 1990 came close. They weren't laptops, but had been designed from the ground up (i.e. hardware, operating system, programming language) to be fully understandable and teachable. The OS was booted from ROM and took only a few seconds to show up on the screen. Project Oberon was documented in the book http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/books/ProjectOberon.pd...

To build native Windows applications in Oberon 2 (later extended and renamed to Component Pascal) check the free and open source BlackBox IDE and runtime environment developed by Oberon microsystems http://oberon.ch/blackbox.html#Free_Download

Why using face recognition on witnesses to get them to tell what they know? If they do want to help the police, they will, if they don't want, how can that help?

And what else than "potential witness" will you identify? None of these pictures could be used as evidence.

HN is definitely full of capitalist muppets if you're downvoting eff privacy. WTF is wrong with you peoople?

+1. Using Unicode in URIs is a very bad idea. It's essential that an URI can be written by hand on a napkin and entered into a computer again later, without any ambiguity.

Nice! Have been waiting for that since the tragic loss of AppJet. Do you plan to provide some sort of paid hosting in order to prevent going broke due to hosting cost?

AppJet is being hosted at http://apps.jgate.de/.

We also launched Erbix a few days ago: http://www.erbix.com

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938066

A possible solution to make a work station, mobile or embedded device accessible (over HTTP) without a public IP address is using a relay server like http://yaler.org/

Yaler, a high performance relay server implementing HTTPS with Java non-blocking sockets, hierarchical state machines and design by contract. Written by Marc Frei (Oberon microsystems).

http://hg.yaler.org/yaler/src

Is this an AppJet clone? I'd be so happy to have AppJet like functionality again...

Yes, this does look like an appjet clone. Not to take anything away from this implementation, however, because it looks like the author didnt know of appjet.

Appjet had the same concept: server side js based on rhino, persistent js object store, etc.The concept, however, was a little bit rudimentary: one app consisted of one js "file". You had to write every possible interaction as functions within that file. It did have an interesting function call based templating mechanism, however, something like so:

  print(DIV(
    FORM({action:"/", method:"get"},
      SPAN({style: "float: left;"}, "Show"),
        INPUT( {name: "count", value: count, size: "2", className: "in_box"} ),
      SPAN({style: "float: left;"}, "items"),
        INPUT( {value: "Go", className: "in_box", size: "1", type: "submit"} ),
      DIV({style: "clear: both;"})
    )
  ));

Appjet the company had made the source available for download a while ago, and it seems like these folks have run with it:http://apps.jgate.de/

I never used AppJet, but according to its wikipedia page Akshell provides its functionality.

AppJet open sourced some of their code and JavaScript libraries. They don't seem to be online any more, but if you want them to see whether and how they could be integrated with Akshell, let me know.

Surely I want! Please contact me at anton@akshell.com. Thank you!

ETH Zürich (http://www.ethz.ch/) for Bertrand Meyer (Eiffel), Ueli Maurer, ...

EPF Lausanne (http://www.epfl.ch/) for Martin Odersky (Scala), ...

We provide an open source version of the language (Component Pascal = Oberon V2) and a runtime environment (BlackBox) running on Windows (http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html). Regards, tamberg