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I believe improvement is valuable for the sake of improvement. I don't believe competition is the only reason for improvement. See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213199
While busybox is running, if /proc is still there, you could probably use its file descriptor to get it back.
There's a good contingent internally that haven't drunk the kool-aid, Brad's just the most visible externally. It's a reasonably huge effort just to keep the hubris in check internally, and it doesn't always work out.
I didn't know about it. I had Opera Mini on my old ADP1 and had no idea it was acting as a proxy viewer. Or maybe Opera Mini on Android isn't the same as the one currently submitted to Apple?
http://kissmetrics.com/ is the most similar product.

R is a programming language with huge number of data analytics libraries. It's not really an alternative any more than, say, Python is an alternative.
I hate all design-pattern gobbledygook, but Singleton actually has some use in C++ when you want to control the order of constructors for global things. Otherwise you're adding single and double underbars on everything.
I was actually echoing Tim Bray's use of the term "sharecropper" (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...), and the historical sharecroppers could choose their location and move onto other areas and indeed were often forced out when better use for the land was found.

I accept the use of plantation is confusing, given its association with slavery, though I believe tenant plantation was an actual historical term. I mostly used it because of plantation/platform similarity of sound.
If someone was found showing child porn on the net, arrested, and put in prison -- which does happen, even if those children are anime characters -- is that not censorship? What is the difference between putting someone in jail for producing a particular type of content and censorship? The FCC fines television stations for saying "fuck" on the air or showing female nipples -- is there a difference? I'd rather my fuck be censored out than fined for it. If it is censored, I don't lose anything.

Frankly, if I was producing some kind of illegal content that today would land me in jail, I'd rather the government just censor it and leave me my freedom to walk around and produce other types of content that aren't illegal.

I don't see a lot of difference between censorship and threats from the secret service for putting a picture of gwb on your myspace page with a knife stabbed through his hand. If that poor teen had simply had her photoshopped image censored she'd probably have had a less traumatic experience with the whole thing -- she'd still be livid -- but she wouldn't be afraid.

The point is that censorship does happen in the U.S. Playboys have black plastic covers on them in the convenient stores here, but not in Switzerland. Why is it okay for our government to censor some types of things and not others? Where do we draw the line? Perhaps it is being drawn between what most of us find acceptable and that which we don't.

Perhaps China is drawing the same sort of line in what they require Google to filter? Perhaps the stuff they censor creates a social environment that most people don't appreciate just like fuck and nipples in the U.S.
You wouldn't expect a competing store in a Barnes and Noble because that's their store; they own it.

However, if Apple is going to sell me a phone, then I own the phone. I should be able to install the apps I want on it, regardless of who wrote them or sold them to me.

If someone sold you a house, but with the restriction that you could never sublet, could only ever use approved furniture from Ikea, and you had to give them regular access to inspect the house to make sure you're not violating their rules, would you buy such a house?

Why are we willing to buy phones with such restrictions, then?
Sometimes I wonder how much more I would get done if I didn't have the internet, but I would properly just have a clean apartment.
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Better as a black comedy, methinks.
Compare Apple to Microsoft and IBM... Apple don't have the slightest on these mammoths.

Microsoft indirectly funded legal attacks on Linux; Apple is seeking to destroy Android entirely by abusing the patent system. Microsoft made it slightly more inconvenient to run competing browsers; Apple bans them altogether. Apple may not have the market share of that MS or IBM did, but they certainly have the attitude.
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"It seems like if you won a million, you can continue living the life you have now plus $1 million in CDs or something."

Maybe if nobody knows that you've got the million (not the case here.) Otherwise the money may draw unwanted attention - "friends" asking you to lend them some or even criminals trying to convince you to part with the money.
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If the melatonin isn't being secreted earlier, no, it wouldn't. If the melatonin isn't there, it isn't there.

The only way willpower or just going to bed earlier would help is if he had used the willpower to go buy some melatonin supplements* and then went to bed earlier.

It only takes a few instances of going to bed early, moping around for an hour or two, and still not getting a good night's sleep, before one rationally decides to just stay up later.

* or similar technological hack, like blue glasses
They are, but those are the terms we have been given. Opera could have complied with them, but instead they have decided to make a scene.
I'm totally with you. The title was tongue in cheek.
Steven Chu on small modular nuclear reactors
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Everton won. Last week, one of my clients and I succeeded in getting our site listed on Google News (I know; you know; but in their infinite ‘wisdom’, this represented A Big Thing). I finally created a logo worthy of my big ambitions for the non-profit I’ve been crafting on the side for a while seemingly longer than eternity.
> As a a result, the elementary school may start at 9 AM, but that pushes the high school to 7 AM. And you don't really want to reverse it.

Why not? I'm one of 4 children; every single one of us in elementary school would get up on our own ridiculously early. We would wake up and eagerly watch _Pokemon_ at, IIRC, 6:30 AM. Waking up in the 5s wasn't unheard of. It wasn't until high school and getting up at 6 AM that an older kid would finally start getting up before the younger kids.
There is other work besides mathematics.
Of course. The commenter did not affect my vote, but did cause me to spend more time reflecting on it and to post a comment. I mentioned that it was interesting that I paused at all because it shows that the commenter does matter, particularly when (s)he is a prominent figure.
Did anyone else notice the ridiculous number of typos in the article?
edit: it now works after a few retries

This looks intriguing, but I keep getting an error when trying to git clone it:

error: Unable to find 2b61a053b1b0953b321d8d86bfbfaa7cc7cfffe4 under http://github.com/eandrejko/RSense.tmbundle.git
I don't believe kiss lets you import data either but maybe there's a way.
I'v been using http://wingify.com/ and have been quite happy with it. It's by a fellow HN member. Not sure if it fits your exact needs, though.
In my high school we had "late" days once or twice a month, where the school day started about an hour later than usual. Also, seniors could schedule their classes so that they could either be done for the day an hour early or show up an hour late.
Years later, I still remember the euphoria of waking up at 7 only to realize I had an extra hour to sleep.
Fixed link : http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/po/Chapter10.pdf
> Based on this sample set

A sample set specifically chosen for the intersection of 'weird' and 'famous' (for productivity). Would anyone else but an eminence like Victor Hugo get written up for telling his valet to take away his clothes so he would write naked - or get written off as mad?
My guess is that it won't be approved. AFAIK, the only browsers approved so far are ones that wrap the built in WebKit engine. Although Opera Mini probably isn't violating the no interpreter rule, I doubt Apple will want to have an alternative rendering technology on the iPhone.

Let's see...
Microsoft loses appeal in Word patent case
Huh... where do they say this? I assumed it was a normal browser.
I have also disabled all my IM accounts for the same rasons but I did open one new one where I have only non-human contacts. I use it for receiving alerts from different bots and some tests (My work involves a lot of XMPP stuff).

My point is that IM only becomes a distraction and a timesink when you have human contacts (especially ones with too much free time).
I'd love to see the example displayed in vimdiff format. Many good looking themes become unusable when vimdiff highlighting is applied.
Either that, or one that opens the datepicker, but remains focused on the input, and hides the datepicker on blur.
You know there was a time when slavery was a "traditional business" too. There was a time when democracy was considered a weird and new thing that would destroy society (mostly by the rich established aristocracy) I bet United Fruit Company totally agrees with you that corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want in order to maximize profits.

I think it comes down to, are you a baby or an adult? Because the baby doesn't know much about the world, and wants a strong authority figure to guide and protect. The adult needs independence and the ability to make his own decisions.
First specified back in 2002, border-radius was already supported by Firefox 1.0 in 2004 as –moz-border-radius. Almost three years later, Safari 3.0 followed with –webkit-border-radius. In December 2009, the specification became a Candidate Recommendation. A few weeks ago, Opera’s 10.50 release was the first to add support the property without a vendor prefix.

This kind of wording continues to perpetuate that vendor prefixes are bad. Opera should only have implemented the property without the vendor prefix (although, technically, there's no such thing as a "property without the vendor prefix" and "a property with the vendor prefix", they are really two different properties with, by design, potentially different implementations) if it conforms to the agreed upon standard (I don't know if it does, Opera is good about that, so I assume it does). I don't expect anyone else to provide a bare border-radius property that doesn't conform to the standard, if they can't conform to the standard, they should be using vendor prefixes.

You know what we haven't seen enough of is vendor prefixed property names that provide different implementations so that developers and designers can try out different things in the same browser as a way to move towards a standard. -moz-foobar-a and -moz-foobar-b could be two implementations of the same property, that perhaps render differently based on an ambiguity in the proposal and which one gets picked for the foobar property is based on actual in-the-wild-use based on developer needs.
It is the Mac OS vs Win 3.1 history all over again.

But this time there are Google and not Microsoft the ones who steal the thunder from the Jobs god.
Before I get asked to sign up for something, at least give a little bit of value proposition information on the landing page. Use visualwebsiteoptimizer.com to a/b test this and track conversions.
I'll bet you $1 of paypal monopoly money that conversions will increase with the added info.
Well since I am in an "out of the box" thinking mode today, here is my idea for you based on that. For me it’s all about the folding green.

First off, I’m not a fiction reader at all. I only read technical stuff, but I do not believe this specific idea is being done in fiction works.

Why not offer to work with an already successful best-selling fiction writer and automate one existing bestseller work. Turn the book into software and have multiple paths through the story that vary depending upon user input. Let the reader modify the character names, and put in some random paths that auto-generate depending on the readers choices. Have the ending be totally random from a choice of 10 endings.

Instead of a single story, the reader would be buying a set of random stories with a common thread based on a best seller. You could try selling it through regular book channels like Amazon and Borders and let the reader have 3 complete reads for X dollars plus the ability to recharge the number of available re-reads via a website generated password for X dollars.

Offer a 50/50 split on the net profits with the author on the shipped software.

The benefit to you would be starting out with a product that already has a proven demand—more likely to have cash flow. Plus you can learn the business somewhat.

The benefit to the author is additional income and lots of media exposure publicizing the book.

If this is popular, every so often the scenarios, paths and randoms can be refreshed online for an additional fee.

The interactiveness of the story may draw additional new readers (buyers) plus re-sell to those who bought the hardcopy. A lot of new books come out every year and from a money in pocket standpoint not very many hit a home run. It seems logical that piggybacking our type of technical expertise on a proven winner might make you a lot more money than trying to go it alone.

Note: If you do this and make it big, you owe me a pizza for this. (I’m serious)
I hope some of the system biologists are seeing the light. (But that's only because they are getting colonised by mathematicians.)
Possibly moving to the UK in a year. Tabloids are the thing I'm most looking forward to.
Mac vs PC spoof 2: Brown vs Harvard ... and Cornell
Why not? Just because the business failed doesn't mean the source is not valuable. As they mentioned this could be a feature someone wants to implement in an existing tool then $25K may be a steal for what they're providing.

I'd want a lot more details though before purchasing.
Apple allows, where "allows" means both "by the terms of service" and "exposes APIs to make that possible", apps that modify the way Safari works and the Safari web browser experience on the iPhone? (I'm asking, I honestly don't know).
To me it seems more the Lotus Notes and Win 3.1.

Ie: a company is deliberately not allowing someone else's software to run on their OS even though it would benefit their users.
some of them just changed the urls.

i.e. "BLUEMOUNTAINARTS.COM" is now actually just bluemountain.com not a #9 site...but still not 18 million either
Read the article. It isn't inflammatory, and the title used here isn't the original title, though the phrasing is indeed used in the article.
Someone surely did read the comments: the recruiter and/or one or more members of the HR department.

In all of the companies I have worked in as an employee or with as a consultant, the HR department always has by far the weakest staff. I have also observed that the number and degree of problematic staff in non-HR departments is largely correlated with just how weak the HR department is. This makes complete sense, of course, since it is the HR department that is supposed to address such problems and it is the HR department which usually plays the largest role in disciplinary decisions and firing decisions. The department holding onto firing decisions will always have the weakest staff, and for the simple reason that they aren't exactly going to fire themselves, now are they? :) The rest of the company's staff problems simply fall out from that. Not that I am suggesting that Google has notable staffing problems, rather simply that no matter where you go, even Google, the HR department (or whichever department in reality owns hire/fire, usually HR) will necessarily be the weakest in the organization.
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How exactly do you do the backlinking thing? Do you literally create supposedly related sites with 'rehashes' of your same articles and place a link on one to the other?

There was a story on here a few weeks back by someone leading the 4 hour work week nomadic lifestyle and it in the comments I think it was hinted that was the case.
Plenty of people accept similar restrictions to live in gated communities or in exclusive apartments with tenant associations.

That's what Apple's offering: A gated community. Businesses have to play by its rules to get in there. If you too want the benefits of living in its world you don't get to paint your house pink.
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Android, WinMo, and other smart phone platforms allow the installation of arbitrary software, including browsers that compete with the vendors.

iPhone OS does not. This hurts consumers by removing choice and the economy by removing competition.
As far as I can tell (based on the yearly-or-so "are you sure you still don't want to relocate to work for us?" emails), most of the recruiters at Google are contractors and many of them, in fact, are fired ("contract not renewed").
Its an interesting problem. From the software developer's perspective, I see this as a free speech issue, in much the same way that an artist would feel harmed if his/her work was forced out of circulation. The iPhone platform is the quintessential place to be for mobile applications, and to not have access to the platform is certainly a huge disadvantage with reaching an audience. Disregarding the technical issues at play, as a developer, I would feel violated if my application, that I poured hundreds of hours into, was summarily denied access to the market.

On the other hand, I understand Apple's perspective. They are product zealots who want to control the user experience much more-so than most other companies. They built the product, and should reap the rewards of their innovation. They see the user as their customer, and they are ultimately responsible for the complete user experience. That is their right. Also, its a dog-eat-dog market, as the various players maneuver to either protect their established markets (Adobe), stay relevant (Opera), or try to gain market share at Apple's expense (Google). I would not expect Apple to invite something like a Chrome runtime onto the iPhone. That would be tantamount to Google providing a version of Chrome that disabled all Google ads and tracking. In Apple's case, allowing completely open access would go against everything that Apple stands for as a product focused company.

As a developer, as painful as it is, those are the ground rules. The only ways the rules will change are either via competitive forces or government regulation, the latter of which I hope we stay away from.
We learned a lot through these 3 years and it has its value. I could talk about it but it's more or less what we see each day on HN. We lost our clients because, like we said in our post, our heart isn't in it anymore.
That's the thing though, yours is an edge case. I see the value of utilising IM as a communication method for keeping an eye on things.

However, I think that in the vast majority of cases, people will have people on their IM clients (which is why I said generally) and that is when things go pear shaped quickly.

It just seems like the idea was poorly conceived

Anyway, I don't mean to take too much of a jab at the OP. I have one of those ideas turned into products under my belt that turned out to be a complete wrong fit for what I was trying to achieve.

I think its best to just move on.
All I can think of when I see this list is massive missed business opportunities. Quite a few of those business have absolutely no excuse for squandering their first-mover advantage (mapquest, altavista, etc).

Which is great because it makes me more confident of being able to overcome an established player in the market today.
One of my clients is working somewhere in this field; they're having a much easier time recruiting new scientists and other personnel, and they are well funded.

An NDA prevents me from saying much else, but I think I can say that the field is better developed than many people realize.
the restriction that you could never sublet, could only ever use approved furniture from Ikea, and you had to give them regular access to inspect the house to make sure you're not violating their rules, would you buy such a house?

Those are common restrictions for renters (except for the Ikea part).

Why are we willing to buy phones with such restrictions, then?

You purchase a complicated package. Many people have decided that Apple's is more appealing than the others. You certainly can't fault Apple for making something that people like, so why are people so upset over small things that don't seem to bother most people?
Competition is why we're walking, talking, and building tools, instead of being one-celled creatures without a nucleus. The question of which state of being is better is left as an exercise for the reader.
Would You Pay a Girl to Play Halo With You?
Opera Mini is a great product, but they could (and should) make it perform direct connections when in https mode.
Ask HN: How do you build a self-serve ad network to compete with Google?
Can anyone point me to good resources online to read up about the intricacies/challenges/opportunities of starting an ad network?

Specifically, would love to hear about:

1) How to initially sign up advertisers
2) How to initially sign up publishers
3) Technical challenges

Also, the question is posed in the context of local, self-serve ads (so signing up small local businesses rather than a Toyota or United)
Actually, let me raise one caveat -- asking a journalist what their "angle" is might not always be the greatest idea. Especially if you use that word.

The underlying idea is a good one, but "What's you angle" -- those words -- can come off as hostile. It's kind of a cliche question that we associate with the sleaziest of PR people. It seems to say "Hey, I know you're a hack looking for spin -- what kind of spin are you looking for?"

Every good story needs a fresh perspective on whatever topic, and if you help lead us to one we will be grateful. An "angle," though -- maybe it's just me, but that word makes my toes curl.
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We do not protect it, we just want our buyer to have complete freedom and to give us freedom in return. Keeping TimmyOnTime is part of this.
No, you can build a new application using the engine that powers "Safari". This includes page rendering, and more importantly JavaScript execution. The latter is important simply because the terms of service only allow 3rd party code execution using Apple's "interpreter".

[ http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=138409 ]
Going from the Game Boy Advance to the DS, adding a second screen and resistive touch opened up a new world of gameplay possibilities, even if only a minority of DS games have really made good use of this configuration. But I can't really see how 3D paves the way for anything gameplay-wise.

You can have in-game cues that make use of depth perception, but how much use can that be when you're still only interacting in 2D? I could see something like MotionPlus working here to allow the device itself to be tracked in 3D space, but that gets problematic when the screen is attached to the user's spatial input device. And this is to say nothing of players with limited depth perception.
A tremendous article, thank you for the link.
Anecdotal evidence: I can't ever remember being as exhausted as I was having to get up every day for high school. I think my body has adjusted better to less sleep now, but I just remember it being awful.

I felt even worse for the kids who came on the bus. No wonder many of them couldn't stay awake! They probably had to get up at 5:30 every morning just to go to school!