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I really don't understand why Apple would decide to do this. It would seem to make more sense for Apple to tell the complainant to sue the competitor directly and get a court order to remove the app from the store.
The side-by-side screenshots http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8122/comparisondw.jpg don't really help their cause. It does indeed look like they took another app and made a screen by screen rip-off of it. It's even been bitten by the same ugly bug that that bit the original.

Copy or not, I don't think Apple should remove them though.
I've been looking at buying a folder, and the main draw to the Brompton is the size of the folded bike. The minimum price is about $1000 though, and the cheaper folding bikes, usually American or Taiwanese brands, only fold in the middle so are not nearly as portable. I looked around for a cheaper bike with the same fold as the Brompton, and found one made by a company called Flamingo Bikes, but haven't been able to find a source: http://www.flamingobike.com/products/products_show.php?pid=5... .
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The funny thing with personhood conferral is that it was an obiter dictum (sort of non-binding comment made by the judges that is not part of the official decision) that was interpreted by the court stenographer in the 19th century Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (whose case was ruled in favor of Southern Pacific on a technicality rather than any explicit ruling on the personhood of corporations). So now with Thursday's Citizens United ruling, it will be interesting to see whether corporations will have to be federally chartered and thereby be revoked of constitutionally protected status or whether this case opens the door to potentially unfettered powers granted to corporations, now that campaign finance is protected "free" speech under the 1st Amendment.
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NetFlix offers what .. a million dollars for their data mining contest, and their revenue is in the millions.

Something doesn't seem right.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in Rails 3. The architectural changes are widespread. Things like routing and generators are straight replaced with much more powerful versions. both those things need to be rewritten on a completely different API. The layout of the API docs is dramatically different with components shifted all over the place. This may well be frustrating to existing app developers who have a more modest pace of development and just want to focus on incremental improvements. However if you look at the modularity and flexibility these changes bring, you'll realize that Rails 3 is now several orders of magnitude more flexible and it becomes viable for a much larger set of problem domains.

The Rails core team is not content to dramatically slow down improvements to accommodate an installed base, they want to take advantage of good ideas and keep Rails at the forefront of web development--and this is not change for change's sake, all the deprecations and outright replacements are well justified.

There's no doubt this will wreak havoc with traditional teams maintaining mature apps that don't have the budget or interest to spend time refactoring existing code. I do feel their pain. But old code still runs. You have the choice of sticking with 2.3.x or else capitalizing on powerful new improvements. The only choice they've taken away is the ability to sort of putter along on a series of bland updates to a mature framework. Maybe that's where Rails will be in another 5 years, but not today.
I'd like to see it draw its own code.
"10+ mil a year, which is like 5 years away"

Hockey stick hockey stick!
"What's the risk in trying out a new language? In reality, there really is none, you've just got to fight past it."

Counter argument (more something that popped into my hard than something I firmly believe, but plausible): As you get older you get a different perspective on time. You increasingly ask yourself, Is this the best use of my time? Are there not other things more deserving of my attention?

I do think that people tend to get a fear of failure instilled in them, and that contributes to lower motivation to try things, but adults also have different responsibilities than five-year-olds.
LuaJit is so fast now, why not LuaJit + C where needed?
I have converted to the Dvorak in Aug 09, to see if the Dvorak suits me. I averaged about 70 words per minute on QWERTY and got back to this speed in Dvorak after about 4 months. I don't buy the claim that a person can switch to the Dvorak in 25 days. Took me almost that long just to be able to type with the Dvorak without looking at the keyboard. The DVAssist program for Windows was very helpful in the transition stage.

Wikipedia claims the fastest typist in the world uses a Dvorak.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard so you draw your own conclusions about speed from this

I am sticking to the Dvorak because I don't feel as much strain on my wrist as compared to using a QWERTY. I have had a pain in my right wrist which hasn't occurred since I started the Dvorak. (Note: It could also be due to the slowdown in speed during the transition process).If I get an increase in speed it is a bonus.

A small bonus on using the Dvorak is that I don't need to bother about people looking at my keyboard when I am typing my password.

Cons:
1) Pair programming is a pain if the other guy doesn't use Dvorak. Having to switch keyboard layouts often isn't fun, unless of course your workplace allows you to install DVAssist
2) When using outside terminals, such as Internet cafe, it is highly unlikely you are going to be able to switch keyboard layout.
3) On a Mac, the shortcuts still follow the QWERTY keyboard, so the Apple-C key is really an Apple J key.

Signed
A QWERTY keyboard typist for 25 years
That's a mouth full.
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It doesn't really matter if they made a copy of it - they didn't steal the code . They copied functionality ok, they may have done that but it's like : Let's pull OpenOffice because they copied MSOffice . It's ridiculous .

They definitely shouldn't have removed them.
Ask HN: Do you read newspaper/newspapers everyday?
I have been reading newspaper everyday for as long as I can remember. I am thinking of canceling my subscription( I read Hindu in India).
Reasons to stop:
1) By the time I get the newspaper next day most of the news I had already read on line.
2) Most of the news is not useful or uninteresting to me like crime, bad road, CM inaugurating a new flyover etc etc.
3) Too much paper to handle, I live in a small apartment, clean it once in a week and I have paper scattered all over my place by then.
4) The time I spend reading can be used to read something more interesting to me.
Reasons not to stop:
1) Will miss out the editorials.
2) Will miss out the weekly magazine and monthly literary review.
3) Will miss the daily cartoon strips (Calvin n Hobbes fan).

All of the above can be still read on line but I don't think I will be really doing it. There are more interesting things(like read Hacker News, reddit etc) to do on line :)
I can understand why my comment has been downvoted, but to clarify and save face a little bit. . . .

I would feel insulted if, after corresponding with a company with that much effort, the result was a big fat nothing.

To me, the 100 dollars would be trivial. I have an interest in keeping a good relationship with everybody, even companies. It doesn't feel good for a situation to have an outcome like this.
A couple questions:

1) The phones listed are iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows mobile, Palm & non-smart phone. Which category does symbian fall under?

I have already been informed by email that there will be a s60 app.

2) Premium analytics?? I was under the impression that the entire analysis would be made available as a service that came with the device.

The site, as far as I can tell, does not mention that some of the analysis is only available on a subscription basis in addition to the initial purchase price.
This is well written. And the free membership into the premier club is a great low cost way of rewarding people. Making hardware is freakin difficult, and the margins are always thinner than you want in the beginning.
Their actions come from their values. And they happen to value an open web and free software.
So yes, it is actually useful.

And then, how would you qualify apple by not supporting theora in safari? They are keeping their users from watching videos from wikipedia.
You still end up with a big mess.
This is a funny webzine I found about Dvorak: http://DVzine.org/zine/01-toc.html
Ok, how about this for poor food choices. US bound flights from Dublin Airport pre-clear US immigration in their own mini-departure lounge which has one wee cafe. Last time I was there I went to grab some sandwiches to eat on the plane. The only choice they had were egg or tuna.

Egg or tuna on a plane? Sheesh, give me a break, both will stink, and one will make you fart. Now who thought that would be a good combo for people getting on a plane?
In order to compensate for this delay, we will be giving everyone who pre-ordered one month of Premium Analytics Features FREE for EACH month their delivery is delayed.

EACH month? That doesn't bode well...
From my first impressions this looks like another REST API that does the same thing to every kind of model you have based on the HTTP request you make (create new row, delete row, etc.). However, sometimes when I get a DELETE I want to remove an attribute or something app specific rather than the row. I really enjoy the unfortunately now defunct django-rest-interface http://code.google.com/p/django-rest-interface/. Simple and does exactly what I need it to do.
Agreed, there is no mention of additional fees or subscription services on the site. I will be really disappointed if that is the case (maybe it some extra analytics that they haven't yet revealed to the world that they would charge for?).
What about the poor staving traveler stuck behind security?

If you have an hour or more layover it's nice to have a decent meal if your hungry. If you have to leave the departure area and then go through security again, a meal may not be possible.

The last thing I want to deal with is hungry cranky travelers.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin wearing...suits.
A fun article, but Peter Norvig of Google has said he feels like it severely misunderstands his work.
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world are having a strong spiritual connection with this place. Every morning is a soul-wakening day because of the breeze coming from the beach and the smell of the water is enormous.
someone is carrying the torch

http://code.google.com/p/django-rest/
I had a similar experience. I was beginning to experience pain in my fingers from typing on QWERTY. Since making the switch, that pain has completely gone. My typing speed remained about the same but I am very glad I switched.

It took me about a month practicing 30-60 minutes per day to make the switch.
well, how am i going to compile forth into my iphone app? it usually comes down to something like that.
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Ask HN: Cheapest place to buy a .com domain
Where is the cheapest HN approved place to buy .coms?
I still read a local paper because I get to reading reddit and HN and never get to local news.
I've been having some of the same problems making new friends since I've graduated college and started work. I have a subset of my old friends that I am still in good contact with, and have made some new friends at work, but not really much outside of that.

Sorry I don't have any advice, hoping that other people can help.
Here at a university campus, part of my daily routine is picking up the New York Times and making a mess of the papers because I never learned how to properly read and fold a newspaper.
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My personal peeve is door handles.

You know what I mean, you come to a door and you don't know if you should push or pull. It happens to me almost everyday at work when I'm deep in thought.

"The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman, nicely sums up a lot of design problems. Even tho the book was written in 1990 or earlier, we're still facing many of the same design problems.

Everything2 sums up the book nicely:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=140365
yep. it's a politico-deflection tactic
looking forward to it! thanks for the update guys
Keeping in mind Timothy ferris' "low information diet" I wont mind missing out mundane local news and any important local news will appear on google news in couple of hours anyway.
The man behind the fraud was arrested yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476381.stm
I realized when I got this email this evening that I have pre-ordered both the WakeMate and the FitBit. When I get both I shall have to run side-by-side feature comparisons, seeing as I've blown the money already anyway...
and thats the reason I don't like anyone else to read my newspaper before I do :)
I kind of wish I could get the newspaper delivered here, local or more probably the new york times.

However if I am ever staying at a place that has the newspaper delivered or available I will pick it up and read most of the front page articles (from each section) and flip through the rest for interesting things.

The newspaper really is a different experience from other ways of getting the information many times you can read articles and editorials with a good amount of thought put into them (depending on the quality of the paper) and in general is a nice form of entertainment for an hour or so.
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try www.godaddy.com , it's very easy as well, just monitor the next offer they make. you can get a .com domain during promotion time for ~2$ otherwise, make a google search for godaddy promotional codes, before buying one.
I wonder why I didn't get this e-mail. I pre-ordered one some time ago.
Perhaps they should have announced the monthly fees before the delay. I'm more than a little disappointed to find out that I'm not getting it on time, and that I might unexpectedly have to pay a monthly fee once it does ship.
That reminds me an anecdote when I moved to Paris. I wanted to get DSL, the standard over there with quite many operators to choose from. I choosed Free, because they are cheap (30€ for ~18 Mbps at the time if I remember correctly, TV and phone), and the most innovative player. They also have a reputation of extremely bad customer service...

Since I didn't have a phone line (yet), and the previous tenant didn't have a phone line either, the process seemed to be a tad more complicated than usual (for them). Anyway I ended up on the phone with one of their sale rep (obviously not French, my guess would be someone based in Marocco), who told me that it was going to take roughly 4 to 6 weeks to setup the phone line, and then everything would be fine. That's a very long time... but what do you want, they are cheap, and it's France, never expect anything to come fast.

2 months later nothing, not an email, not a phone call, nothing at all. Considering their completely useless customer service abroad, I decided to just forget about them (without canceling anything) and called one of their competitor (Orange, formerly known as France Telecom) : the most expensive, but 1 week later I had phone, TV and 8 Mbps internet for 44€ euros a month. 14€ more than Free, 10 Mbps slower, but at last I could stop "borrowing" my neighbor connection.

I never heard about Free again until one year and a half later, when I received an email roughly stating that "there had been an issue and consequently I won't get DSL from them". I will never know what went wrong, but I'm amazed that they reacted after such a long time.

I mean, one year and a half... I wonder. After such a long time they should have guessed that I don't care anymore ? What were they thinking ? It was way too late not to look completely ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense to me.
You do not remember that whole thing?

My memory is coming back now :) I wonder if San Francisco will see anything similar.
Dealing with corruption
We have recently been approached by a huge client in India which looks really promising. One of our distributors has told us his experience in India is that all dealings are done with backhanders and it's all corrupt. Does anyone have any experience with India? Is this the norm or the exception? I wouldn't feel comfortable doing business this way even if it was the norm.

Maybe I am just naive, but I refuse to believe it's this way everywhere. Any relevant experiences would be appreciated.
I agree and this is the reason I didn't cancel my subscription yet. The newspaper I read(Hindu.co.in) is one of the best one around. Gets editorials from NY Times, Guardian and other Indian intellectuals.
Several years ago I stopped reading newspapers (paper versions, on the regular basis) and watch tv. And I have a feeling that I am now better informed -- from the Internet.

However, I make a point of monitoring a number of sources, to avoid the echo chamber effect. Many of these sources, like news.google.com, drudge report etc, are essentially news aggregators. Others are typically social networks like LiveJournal where I can sometimes find eyewitnesses. I still look at newspapers (online versions), mostly when someone points to an interesting article.
There's also Piston: http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home
Ruby might just need a better implementation with more time spent on optimization...But also, Lua was always designed with cleanness and simplicity of implementation in mind

Ease of implementation has a multiplier effect with Open development effort. Not only do you get more of "more eyeballs," new contributors can ramp up faster. There tends to be a better effort/ fun ratio.

Even the Ruby lexer is full of weird edge cases.

Actually, the lexer sets state that changes the operation of the parser and vice versa.
I've been using a Dvorak layout for about 7 years now. I converted for efficiency; at that time I had no wrist or hand problems. Within the last couple years, intense typing sessions have give me lasting pain in my hands (mostly emanating from my pinky fingers). The Dvorak layout actually seems to be worse in this regard (pinky strain) than Qwerty, so I've switched to using a Kinesis keyboard, which has helped somewhat. Though nothing seems to help like backing off of typing for a while, and avoiding long laptop typing sessions.
I do think it is recognized.

The biggest problem with these things is not parsing source code and output something else; you get the real pain when you're going to debug. :)
customer service reps with the power to send out goodies = scam target.
"EACH month? That doesn't bode well..."

Yes but otoh

"We've tentatively planned for the first batch of WakeMates to be shipped as early as next month, but we'll keep you updated every step of the way. The next message we'll be sending out will include when you are getting your WakeMate and a link to finalize your purchase."
It is certainly the most talked about at this point in time because of it's active competitive development and distribution.

But popular? In what definition?
"Any mammal or bird can be eaten"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venomous_mammals

...some birds are poisonous to eat or touch, such as the pitohui, the ifrita,
I was about to say I want Altavista taken down for being too much like Altavista but then thought the joke may not be understood except by old timers.
the joke at end is because his post tries very hard to pass this impression. Doesnt it
I use 1and1.com. They charge $9 per year for .com domains.
The guitar-as-master-control system is beautiful, but it makes me wonder what kind of UI he has set up to select instruments. It's too bad the video didn't show much of the tech behind the amazing suite, though there's also something to just seeing it work like magic.
I want my money back, and I'm going to request it till they do. I feel cheated - fitbit is shipping, and what the hell is this bullshit about premium analytics?! When I pre-ordered there was no indication that there was going to be a monthly fee - and now they are delayed and can't even say when it will appear. And they are talking of MONTHS of delay?

I was really impressed when I first saw the company, but my mood has swung the other way entirely. I do not think they ever had a product to begin with. I want my $5 back and my fitbit will only cost $94 and not $99.

YCS09? That's more than 10 months ago. If they can't ship till now, then they will be slow and not add any features to match the competition. Sorry, but if you are in a business with good competitors and you have already collected your customers money, you just don't do this.
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48% is still a majority vote. Only a small percentage of non-institutional shareholders actually vote.
This isn't a court of law, it's a court of What Apple Says Goes. Their garden, their rules.

I find it very easy to understand why Apple doesn't want to allow a culture of crappy rip-offs to take root. Basic quality control.
Fitbit had a shipping delay of about a year. Check their blog: http://blog.fitbit.com/

Granted, their preorder was free.
I'm pretty certain that godaddy either sells your customer data to spammers, or makes it trivially easy for spammers to access it.

How do I know? Because years ago I registered a few domains with a godaddy-specific address (godaddy@myhost which was an alias for my real account), and I can't tell you the unbelievable amount of spam I got through that address over the years that followed. And godaddy was the ONLY site I ever gave that address to.

I don't care if they are the cheapest or not, I will never use them again.
heh I know...here is hoping :)
I actually see more differences rather than similarities.
And, like so many others, they don't ship outside the US. You can read about it on their FAQ: http://www.fitbit.com/faq#shippingoutsideus
I had bad RSI, then took a couple weeks, and switched to Dvorak (it took a bit longer to get proficient in Vim again though). Anyhow, RSI problems were gone, and never returned.

So, regardless of any debunking myths, it prevented my pain from ever coming back again.