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> The store may not be open, but the iPhone/iPad platform itself could hardly be more open to tinkerers of all ages.

Really? Can I install an iPhone/iPad IDE and emulator on my Ubuntu workstation?
I thought due to the headline indicating java, that maybe it just wasn't about MySQL, but I too find the lack of mention quite shocking. I don't use MySQL, but if I did, I'd be concerned about an upcoming lack of support for the platform. I wonder if Oracle will replace it with a free version of Oracle.

I like Oracle. Lots don't, but I find it to be quite scalable and robust. I don't like it's lack of support for database standards though.
Here's David Attenborough narrating a modern-day persistence hunt. It's fascinating stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8
Looking through the comments on this article, it seems like there is more to the story. Looks like the OP has been having a lot of issues with service, CS response time, and cooperation when dealing with security issues.

I don't think it's RS's responsibility to figure out what's wrong with your application, but I can understand the frustration one would have when confronting a breach and not having the tools to deal with it.
"So it won't kill programming."

Since no one said it would, you are knocking down strawmen. Nothing Apple could do, now or in the future will kill programming. That is obvious.

"This article was submitted three times; the first time I asked that it be killed and the submitter graciously killed it for me. This is not of a tone appropriate for Hacker News."

This is fair. And very gentlemanly of you to ask that a submission be killed for inappropriateness. I read it as a submission on HN and in the context of HN it certainly sounds trollish.

as is "If you're so obsessed with tinkering that you think it's worth fucking around ". On Hacker News, you call people who love to tinker with computers obsessive and label what they do "fucking around" and "non meaningful" (as judged by your Omniscient Wisdom?) and still claim not to be trolling?

Interesting.
This article suggests that perhaps the way to get out of the recession is to force people to accept reality:

"Workers whose entire occupations...are disappearing (think: auto workers) will need to start over and find a new career path. But the new skills they will need take a long time to acquire."

Reality: auto work was not highly skilled labor, and it just paid as if it was skilled due to union coercion. This turned out to be unsustainable. Former auto workers must now accept low skill pay.

"...some workers may need to move to new places in order to start a different career....Homeowners who are “underwater” ...may not be able to sell their house for enough money to enable them to buy a home in a new area."

Reality: you speculated on real estate and lost. You can not afford to own a home anymore. Rent.
"Instead, they will go to the carefully-screened App Store, and they will search for “How do I make video games”, and they will find a little button that teaches them and gives them a run-time environment in which to tinker."

A small problem: run-time environments are not allowed in the app store.
Evidence against the conspiracy is actually evidence for for the conspiracy. In this case, They charged him because he was right and they felt threatened by him.
I'm not defending Apple here. I'm explaining why people don't like Microsoft.
The singularity is near: http://codeforfood.org/2006/03/19/the-razor-blade-singularit...
I believe (naively) if Google knew about my technology we may be able to talk business...

I suspect you will find that if you are not capable of making this a PR issue for Google they have absolutely no desire to talk business with you, because you have nothing to offer them. (An example of someone who could make it a PR issue: 37Signals, when Google duplicated the core functionality of one of their products as a tech demo.)

Google is not a kind or gentle corporation. They're a huge multinational whose business is built on a combination of pixie dust and the ground-up bones of folks whose business models came into contact with Google products.

That said, if you're serious about contacting someone, find someone inside the Googleplex (cough if only their were a site where you could get LinkedIn in with professional peers cough) and get them to make an introduction to the Product Manager for Reader. This is essentially the way you do inbound contacts targeting any large corporation.

Again, just telling it to you straight: it is vanishingly unlikely that you're going to succeed in this.
It's kinda like the firehose drink, the language and compiler are changing rapidly, but I think what's described in Stuart Halloway's (excellent) book is still applicable, except for some very small number of bugfixes and breaking changes in 1.1 and 1.2. The next release of Fogus/Houser's draft "Joy of Clojure" book should be butt-kicking, don't know when that's scheduled tho.

Also, installing swank, slime and paredit, and getting one/more of leiningen/ant/maven to work seem to consume a lot of bandwidth (this might be one of the times that the MS windows install is more straightforward).

just saw this for Debian:

http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-new-clojure...

the IRC and google group are very friendly, ask questions!
Thanks, I was thinking of using Qt, but I'll look into the others too.
Ah. So if I provide evidence that you are wrong, really I am providing evidence that you are right. Because I wouldn't bother presenting the evidence that you are wrong unless you really were right and I felt threatened by your rightness. Never mind the evidence itself.
"Another note on the approach—a resume attachment is fail on delivery."

Is this true? Have I been screwing myself by sending a resume with all of those emails?
Yes, that's very true. I wonder why they even sell those with a rotation capable stand, it makes no sense.
FPGA Cluster Demonstrates Hardware-Accelerated DES Cracking [pdf]
It would be nice to get back on track looking for the real cause(s) of autism.

Our son was diagnosed and has received intense IBT/ABA therapy (along with spech, OT and PT). It has been fantastic. Total turn around.

No low gluten diet, Jenny McCarthy BS, just Cognitive Behavioral Therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy .

Sadly as of the latest information I have, we don't know what causes Autism and CBT is one of the only effective means for treating it.
So here it is, the most plain, powerful, single word you have to know, and use when managing a project: NO

If you aspire to mediocracy in an enterprise, then this may help you survive. Otherwise, it's horrible advice.

If you have serious competitors, then you have to find YES.

If you are attempting to do something extraordinary or for the first time ever, then you have to find YES.

If you are building a startup, then you most certainly have to find YES.

I am not saying that all things are possible. I am saying that you need to find YES. Once you get into the habit of saying NO, you forget how to find YES.

A simple (and timeless) example. Your customer wants Deliverable X in Time Y using Resource Z. You know it's too much and will disappoint. So instead of saying NO as OP recommends, you find a way to do what can be done. It may have a few less features, may need an extra resource, or may take a little more time.

Or better yet, you analyze the constraints long enough to find methods or tools you hadn't considered to say YES to all of it. (We never would have found Framework ABC if the customer hadn't forced us.)

I have often been to only person finding YES when I was surrounded by others preprogrammed to saying NO. That's how they survived. Usually in an enterprise or institution. That same thinking is a disaster in an achievement oriented environment.

Finding YES forces you to stretch beyond your previously perceived limits. Settling for NO dooms you to mediocracy forever.

Some may call this a semantic argument. I call it state of mind. How badly do you want it? Find YES.
Our brains have two dominant operating systems: sequential and associative
Can someone describe the editorial policy of The Lancet, given that the doctor in question rose to prominence on the strength of being published there?
I think it will be more closely tied to progress made in identifying preventable root causes of autism and the diagnosis rates start coming down.

I actually doubt the illnesses of other people's children will register as loudly as the autistic symptoms of antivax advocates' own children.
Leak the expenses, then we'll talk.
While this book will help improve your Ruby (which will help improve your understanding of Rails) the two are not one in the same. RBP won't answer any direct questions about Rails for you.
If education is a commodity, the university system is doomed. It faces a fairly severe challenge even if it’s not a commodity, but the headlong rush to uniformity and scalability is incompatible with the posh role of the prof.

And I doubt research is the answer absent an intense corporatizing influence that would functionally turn the university into a research arm of industry, which will leave little space for education.
That's the fallacy of sunk costs; the last time I checked Constellation was pushing back its schedule a year for every year. I gather there's been a bit more progress since then, but the Aries rockets are thoroughly misbegotten and killing those projects off won't hurt one bit in the long run, I suspect.

And NASA has been a public works project ever since the end of Apollo, there's nothing new there.
This is a plausible proposition. As the author argues in the article, most of the functions of universities can be covered more efficiently and more cheaply online. For example, lectures are obsolete. You only need a handful of really awesome lecturers on each topic to keep the entire world supplied with fresh and exciting undergraduate lectures. Currently, every university has its own set of lecturers, even for basic things.

It used to be that Higher Education was not something that everyone did. I think that top universities need to migrate back into that space. It could, and maybe should be that students will self-teach (using online resources) undergraduate materials that are essential to "have a degree" and only then join a University if they really want to continue their study of this subject. This will also allow people to progress at whatever pace they're comfortable with, rather than being forced to slow down or speed up to the pace of a specific university.

Undergraduate degrees have basically become a job requirement, something everyone has or should have, when they used to be something that only the elite would have. It's hard to reverse this process, but maybe top universities can retreat one stage further and let the lesser universities fight for the scraps of the undergraduate world.
It's a big help if you have a baseline ability to read Java, as it's likely the example code for libraries you'll want to use is in Java. You don't need to be able to create a baroque class hierarchy yourself as long as you can navigate one well enough to figure out the library calls you need to use.

Clojure is a fairly gentile introduction to functional programming, I think. You can do imperative-style things with the reference types, so you don't need to completely learn how to structure the logic of a program.
Subversion Obliterate: Progress so far on "Obliterating" Tool
I strongly recommend Stuart Halloway's book, Programming Clojure.

http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure

Mark Volkmann also wrote a pretty good article:

http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

Stop by the Google group with ANY questions. No question is too silly. We're all dying to help.

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure

Once you get the basics down, and you don't mind some shameless self promotion...

http://vimeo.com/channels/fulldisclojure

SFD
Not to get into a pedantic argument with you, friend, but the generally accepted definition of "model" in the MVC pattern is "the place that holds your business logic." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller, for example (the article uses the term "domain logic," but it's the same thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_logic).
Row 2, Column 2: I know it's blurred, but come on, it's not very professional.
Oath Flub and Other Must-Watch Obama Videos
Funny Clippings of President Obama
Why is that hard?

I have something quite close to that here and was actually surprised how easy it was to get it running, including CUDA support and 3D acceleration.
Not really. I added a cheap $29 nVidia 8400GS PCI card to my aging P4 3Ghz setup a couple months ago and it runs my 22" and 17" monitors with ease in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04). I think if you stick with nVidia graphics cards it makes it a lot easier. All I had to do was install the drivers and run the nVidia X Server Settings applet.
Vaccines don't cause autism.

That should be the first sentence of every story about this topic. Many people will die because of this bullshit.
Here's how you can get involved: http://en.flossmanuals.net/write

I was part of the Intro to Command Line sprint and it was a fun experience. Any contribution is welcome; iirc mine was only 1.5 chapters. You just 'reserve' the chapter you're writing to prevent duplicate work, clarify the goal of the chapter, and off you go.

If you're worried about the quality of your writing, rest assured an editor will come along to clean things up. It's a great way to contribute to Free Software, given that documentation is considered by many to be its main area of weakness.
Don't forget #clojure on freenode. I've lost count of the number of stupid questions I've had answered there. Rich Hickey is active on the channel and may even be the one to answer your questions.
> a single "Menu" entry that popped up the other menu items as an overlay menu would be great for me and would allow me to ditch the menubar

Among others: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455
Perhaps you're also describing why people will come to dislike Apple in the future?
Cantor Crankery and Worthless Wankery
Sorry, my bad. I didn't bother to research, just pulled that from the article.

Pico Computing has announced that it has achieved the
highest-known benchmark speeds for 56-bit DES decryption,
with reported throughput of over 280 billion keys per
second achieved using a single, hardware-accelerated server.
They find it useless until that tinkering discovers something magical that they can't live without!

Tinkering is just play. Play has useful evolutionary purposes to the individual and the group. Consumers not finding such stuff useful isn't any indicator of it's actual value to society.
The other problem you're going to have is that there are a lot of small sites out there that are doing similar things... I know of 4 or 5, and that's without really looking for them.

As an aside, I feel your pain - I've been working on something pretty similar to this as well; unfortunately the change detection piece is pretty simple to implement so it's easy to duplicate.
Ask HN : Could someone send stats about noprocrast?
I'm just being curious because I began using this feature and wonder what are the settings of others.
But no, you can't re-hash with a new salt without access to the plain-text password. If you could, so could the bad guy :)

Yes you can, if you believe this: http://benlog.com/articles/2008/06/19/dont-hash-secrets/
This is exactly why HMAC is more complicated than just:

hash(message+secret)
Why haven't you linked to them?
For some reason, the word "ouch" came to mind :)
emacs is an extensible Lisp runtime, and Apple has shot down all such applications in the past. I don't think they're going to change their tune for the iPad.
That's what I did to learn Clojure.

The only problem with starting off doing GUI is that you will be in javadoc hell learning swing (or whatever) at the same time as Clojure. But it is nice having GUI essentially baked into the language.
That's running 10 times faster than this rig:

http://www.copacobana.org/

And it cracked DES in about 9 days iirc, @35 billion keys / second.
As far as I know the allies used to spot the plaintext word "EINS" in the Enigma ciphertexts. This was helped by the omission of numbers --- or anything besides letters --- from the Enigma's alphabet. They did not even have a space key.
No. There's nothing wrong with attaching a resume. Charlie's got this one backwards.
I would recommend trying to contact Matt Cutts and see if he can point you in the right direction.

Not to sound discouraging though, I am sure that Google gets hundreds of calls a month from small companies with products that the companies feel Google should either buy or do business with. As such, you may be climbing a very steep hill here. If you truly believe your products offer value to the Google platform, I would recommend building some PR buzz around the products first. Since Google is developing something similar it validates your product and with some clever marketing skills you should be able to get some of the bigger blogs to at least evaluate your product. My plan would be to make Google come to me instead of trying to get into Google. I think your chances are better of getting them to come to you, especially if you already have an active and growing user base.
"Normal YouTube style videos" are a historical target. The quality of video the end user is able to produce is progressing at a startling rate. Go to and see what even amateurs are doing, it's not just "My face in a small window with a bookcase in the background" anymore.

In general, I've been disappointed with theora output for very high def stuff.

What's more, the video standard affects more than just what software component you load. Vendors like Apple have devices which must support video playback in hardware. Without a very good solution there, theora is basically a non-starter. And people who complain that Apple should support Theora because it is free need to consider that, moving forward, mobile playback is extremely important.
Article from 09/1991 helps understanding iPad potential
There is a direct analogy to creative writing.

The publishing equivalent of Apple would have stifled e.e. cummings for his abuse of punctuation. You wouldn't have Jabberwocky because it contained imaginary words. You wouldn't have Joyce because the App^H^H^HBook Store reviewers decided that it made absolutely no sense.

The examples above are all of writers tinkering with English, tinkering with writing, hacking the language to accomplish things that otherwise would have been impossible before. A closed system takes all these away.

You shouldn't dismiss the effect of walled gardens on hackers just because you can't or won't empathize with our bit-twiddling.
In 2001, I bought my first LCD, a 19" Princeton Graphics monitor for $1200. In 2004, I bought two Dell 19" for $600 each to replace the original LCD. In 2007, three Dell 19" LCDs for $400 each to replace the two Dells. Now, I can buy six 23" LCDs for approx. $200 each for a total cost of about $1200. It's funny how the number of monitors continues to increase while the total nominal investment remains constant.

I had been talking on and on for years about getting a 6-LCD setup and I'd even predetermined what I'd do with each LCD in a 3x2 layout (top1: IM/Chat, 2: Graphics Editor, 3: Putty/Shell, bottom 4: FTP/Explorer, 5: Text Editor, 6: Browsers). My techie friends laughed at me but at a resolution of about 2048x1152/LCD, I would have ample resolution for just about everything and I wouldn't have to alt-tab at all. My productivity in web-dev would absolutely sky-rocket. And since could rig my own stand instead of buying a $600 one, I could get my dream-setup for about $1500. I had built my workstation in 2007 to easily handle 6 DVI ports when the time was right. Now all I needed was an excuse to splurge.

Last month, two of my Dell 19" died, leaving me with just one monitor. My wife joked that I needed new monitors because she didn't wanna be married to some one-LCD guy. She practically kicked me out of bed and told me to find my 6-LCD X-Mas gift. I spent three hours surfing Newegg, Dell Outlet etc. and finally found my dream setup. Right before I clicked 'Place Order' I yelled out "Honey if I click this button, I'm never leaving my computer room." I don't think she heard me but I clearly did and for some weird reason I didn't like it. I cleared my cart and started looking for a laptop instead.

I've always been anti-laptops because come on, how can you even compare a 3 or 6-LCD setup to a laptop with a tiny screen, tiny keyboard, and crappy batteries. However, something went off in my head at that point and I realized I didn't want my perfect 6-LCD setup even though it was right there in front of me. I have wanted 6-LCDs every single day for the past decade - ever since I started making web-apps. But it was when I yelled that I don't want to leave my room that I realized that I actually do want to leave my room. Now I take my laptop with me everywhere I go and program whenever/wherever I want to. It's a very big change for me and my productivity has definitely taken a hit. However, my desire to code has risen and that is important. Who cares if I'm capable of being highly productive if I don't feel like it most of the time? I guess the take-home lesson here is that it is not the specs but the environment and experience the setup fosters. I still might buy my 6-LCDs someday, if I ever have a crazy do-or-die startup idea, but for now, I'm just happier with a laptop.
Agreed. All of this focus on vaccines has put quite a lot reputations on the line, on both sides of the debate. Once the matter is settled (will it ever be settled?), I'm concerned that we'll have autism burn-out and it'll be nearly impossible to get the funding and minds needed for further research into causes and treatments.
Thanks, I've already put out an order for Programming Clojure. I'm going through the Mark Volkman article now.
I originally wrote this in response to Alex Payne; I emailed him an off-the-cuff response, then decided it might be worth revising a little and publishing. He wrote: Perhaps the iPad signals an end to the “hacker era” of digital history. I disagreed with the sentiment. So, not killing programming, but killing the hacker era.

On Hacker News, you call people who love to tinker with computers obsessive and label what they do "fucking around" and "non meaningful" (as judged by your Omniscient Wisdom?) and still claim not to be trolling?

I'm in the community because I think people here know what they're talking about, not because I agree with their life views. In a past life (by which I mean last year) I got engulfed in a huge and marvelous debate here over that. I don't like the hacker mindset here and I think the entrepreneurial one we see here is sadly limited in scope. A lot of the things HN really enjoys I find a little disturbing and sad.

I'm not pretending my opinion is Omniscient Wisdom. Your saying it makes the both of us looks silly. I don't come from quite the background a lot of this community does, and my worldviews are slightly different, but I don't lash out at people that disagree with me — unless it's a debate happening about something I wrote, in which case I maintain the tone I started in the article to help and elucidate things.

If we want to make this a discussion of the worldview in question, and of exactly what I believe about what, then by all means we can have that, but the fact that your attitude's more snark than it is polite engagement suggested to me that you're more into shooting me down under false pretenses.
He posted the videos to YouTube? How can someone possibly be smart enough to hack a cable modem to spoof its MAC address, while simultaneously being boneheaded enough to post fraud instructions on YouTube? Shenanigans!
Get real, geeks – The iPad is the Apple for Mum, not you(by swombat[HNer])
Central Limit Theorem, prevalence of the normal probability distribution
Actually I'd say its a brilliant point. Hit people where it hurts the most.