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my 10.10 beta

I assume you mean 10.04 beta. If not, send me a copy!
Can you redirect the comment link for each summary to comments over here?
What double standard? I agree with you. This isn't news.
Gruber's argument isn't an argument. He acknowledges that Doctorow, Pilgrim, and Payne have a point and then fails to address the real issue: Apple's veto power over apps on its devices.

His answer: Be happy you can write Web apps.

That's like saying freedom isn't an issue in China because Hong Kong has freedom.

There's simply no rationale for Apple to reject apps based on content that's not illegal, like political speech.

The car analogy fails because cars are not useful for content creation, the way computers are.

Gruber suggests its a trade-off, in which something is lost and something is gained. But that which is gained -- an effective online market for apps through iTunes -- isn't necessarily linked to what is lost -- Apple's dictatorial control over its hardware and third-party apps.

There's no reason it can't just be something gained and nothing lost, at least with regard to content approval.

Access to hardware is a related issue and there Apple could afford to be open too.
I am thinking of trying DuckDuckGo for serious use, but I have still never seen it mentioned outside of HN.

It may not be fully rational, but think it is a method many of us use: When you hear about something from two completely independent sources, then it is probably worth checking out.
eMusic distributed DRM-free MP3s for artists that most people didn't care about.
I've been using DDG as my primary search engine for the past three weeks. The author here doesn't discuss the downsides, and I haven't found very many either.

Occasionally (say, when searching for specific error messages and things) I still find Google to be better, but for most things I prefer DDG, and I'll be sticking with it for the forseeable future.
Nudging may be a bit brute force, but I was definitely thinking about the live search -- primarily as a mechanism for preventing you from entering duplicate todos -- could also effectively be used as a search that way.
I wouldn't base it on demographics, either, just personal credit history. If you don't want to let people borrow themselves into servitude, then people without reliable credit history shouldn't be given credit cards. If you can't get a creditworthy person to co-sign liability for you, go without. There are other sources of credit if you really need them, and yes they are expensive, but they have a limited impact.

Conversely, if you do give credit cards to just about anyone, then you shouldn't have sympathy for them if they borrow themselves into servitude.
Most banks pool their ACH transfers at the end of a business day. Then the ACH tabulates the transfers for the day and sends them to the destination bank.

There is usually a hold when receiving funds for "security reasons".
What you said is correct. There isn’t much new stuff to be found in either Gruber’s or Cory Doctorow’s writing about the iPad. You can safely and happily ignore both of them, just what the other comment you are referring to pointed out. Doesn’t mean the whole thing is completely uninteresting. I don’t see the double standard.
Hot damn, congrats Sam, Paul & Michael!
The essential service is universal mail delivery for a uniform (not cheaper to mail something to Chicago than Bumblefuck, WY), reasonable cost. Could/would private companies do that? Reply hazy, try again
Congrats Sam!
Some of us are old enough to remember when assembler was supposed to rot your brain. When BASIC or COBOL or another compiler was going to make you stupid. When new tools and new abstractions were viewed as scary by some folks.

Who said stuff like this? The outsourced-java-monkeys of yesteryear?

I doubt many computer scientists said this.
There's been some discussions about it over on reddit, if that means anything to ya.
This is great news. Congrats to Sam and the team.
My understanding is that if anyone else wants to embark on a similar endeavor they will have to make their own settlement with the copyright holders. Which mean google gets a special legal advantage that it shouldn't.
Can a 13-year-old legally be an Apple developer? Doesn't one have to be 18 to be bound by a legal contract like the Apple Developer Agreement?
No intention of ignoring you. It was fixed the other day, but it seems the fix isn't active due to us toying us around with a new feature/product that heavily plugs into search/querying. Should be gone soon enough. Thank you again for pointing it out.
I'm starting to become a defeatist on open platforms. I'd love to see them succeed but it just doesn't seem like the quality and usability is there. If it annoys me it must drive the average person totally insane. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go back to trying to figure out why Dolphin on my Android phone crashes on startup and how to restore the original built-in browser which I must have deleted.
Totally agree with you -- I was just pointing out that the model in the article was never blind tested. It's not clear that it even works within its limited domain.
How about the dark twist at the end?

--
"Or your new house in the Chicago suburbs seems absolutely perfect for you and your family—till the first hot day of the year sets in and you turn on the A/C. Some sinister combination of ill-conceived vents and over-tall foyer begins to rope together winds—pulling in air from the living room, from the basement, from the kids' bedrooms—and within a mere twenty minutes a tornado-strength twister takes visible form.

It then spins for days, suffocating the residents in their sleep by robbing them of oxygen, and lifting their limp bodies into the air, where they turn in lazy circles like pirates drowned at sea. Their bodies dance aloft, as if caught in an aero-spirograph, eerily lit by dim suburban lamplight and visible through the front door windows—a vision of the vortex—accidentally killed by HVAC."
--

This is why we can't have nice things.
Well, I agree, of course, it's hard to say that we don't do better than Billboard. That was a little bit of hyperbole. But consider: People upvote things for a zillion reasons.

Because it made them chuckle.
Because they agree with it.
Because it shoots down another submission they really disagree with.
Because the post wasn't very good but it had a link and the link was really good.
Because the author came and posted in the comment thread and said something interesting about it.
Because their buddy posted it.
Because a minor HN celebrity posted it.
Because it's all about banana-flavored threadsafe data structures in Erlang and they did their Ph.D. thesis on banana-flavored data structures and nobody ever posts about them anymore.

Most of those barely correlate to what we mean when we say "quality" at all. The people who upvote only things that are "high quality" probably upvote much less, in fact, than people who upvote for other reasons. So that's why I would not expect upvotes to correlate with quality.
Mentioned that below. Though not YC funded, it's basically Etherpad and wanted to include it as a "YC" app. I'm emotionally tied to Etherpad, so yeah, subjective call.
Quake 2 is so old that it had a software renderer as well as support for 3d graphics cards. So they might just run everything in software on the user's CPU?
Nice man!! I've been following your progress for a while, congrats congrats congrats! Very curious to know how you made out...
The source is good for a laugh:

http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py
I have been using DDG as my primary search engine at home for several months and I've been happy with it. The !commands are of little utility to me, since my browser supports search keywords and I use them extensively. There's a couple areas I can think of that I wish it would improve:

1. Its ability to intelligently bubble up semantic information is very impressive but not as broad as google's, I think. For instance, it is very good at providing an info box saying 'So and so is a rock band from the UK', but what Google can do that DDG doesn't is provide several related youtube videos at the top of the search, because they've proven to be particularly relevant.

2. It doesn't have any way to quickly put the current search terms through image search. It feels very natural in google to click 'images' if I want to learn more about a topic, and I don't have that option in DDG.

3. Its arithmetic and conversions (I believe it uses Wolfram Alpha) are not nearly as reliable as google's. Google is almost scarily good at figuring out when I'm asking it do some math, or to perform a conversion.
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Congrats to the team! Also, thank you for featuring the reddit logo on your homepage. ;)

I think we can now conclusively prove that having a reddit logo on your homepage leads to a successful exit.
Mainly because Martell is an investor and it's fun to mess with him a little:

oneforty is also looking for a front-end/UI designer/developer, and we have fewer hoops than Ethan: https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/onefortyinc/frontenddesignerde...
I don't have an iPod, and I don't use CDs anymore. I suppose it could have been MP3, BitTorrent and cheap external HDs that killed CD binders, not iPods per se.
No, he doesn't. But I thank him for the nice write-up!
This is exactly my complaint. I think everything about the iPad and App Store is brilliant and the closed defaults make sense. But preventing everybody from opening the device because most people shouldn't/won't is the problem. This is not a necessary trade off. If I want to run my own code on my own device, make me jump through a hoop (so I know what I'm getting into) but don't stop me from shooting myself in the foot (and don't make me pay you a $99/year subscription).
"Enterprise-class centralized version control for the masses" is the right way to go for svn IMO. With fast reliable networks, if svn implements the said roadmap features then existing organization probably won't need to move to DVCSes.

Distributed model works really well with open source. So I suppose svn has chosen its niche. I know I would have been happier using svn over ClearCase so many times.
I have been reading Daring Fireball since 2004 or so.
I like music, just not when I am traveling outside. But granted, I don't commute much. I tend to bicycle, where iPods would be hazardous. Also, I don't want to blank out my environment.

I listen to a lot of music at home.

As I said, I can understand if somebody has to commute a lot.
In a sense, this makes credit cards even worse than the Mafia. If you borrow money from the Mafia and don't pay back, they will maim or kill you, but they probably want to avoid that as it is expensive. If you borrow money from the credit card and don't pay back, the credit card gets to garnish your wages for life, which is a pretty nice deal for them. So the Mafia actually has its incentives better aligned with their creditors.
When trying out a new search engine, who here searches for their blog name to determine the "quality" of the engine? It highly ranks both of my blogs, whereas cuil did not.
That does make sense (though I still think its strange that Shuttleworth hasn't mentioned this), as a 9.04 user I've found the notifications problematic for that reason.

Wouldn't the obvious answer be to move the notifications down to the bottom right, like windows does it? I mean you'd probably have to move the system tray down there as well, but really, it makes more sense.
You don't have to wait to interact with anything underneath the notifications. When you move the mouse over the bubble, it blurs or goes invisible, and you can click avay at things underneath it without worry.
Congrats Sam, Paul, and Michael!
I'm actually Christoff's UI guy...
It is also illegal. If Apple didn't go to pains to prevent jailbreaking (and therefore make jailbreaking the device a violation of the DMCA) Doctorow's entire point would be moot, IMO.
Are your rsync transfers slow?
Facebook Acquires Divvyshot to Improve Facebook Photos
> underscored_names may be easier to read but camelCasedNames are easier to write

Code gets read more than once. If it makes code easier to read, I'll do it, even if it takes me a tiny bit longer to write that extra character.
I admire Google's ability to provide so many specialized views to GMail. There's one for the Android application (which, realistically, just syncs information and store it locally for display), one for the iPhone/Android in a browser, one for desktop Browsers (+ basic HTML), one for mobile (non-awesome) browsers (+ basic HTML), now one for the iPad, and of course POP3 / IMAP for use with native mail clients.

They've really covered all the bases here.
It's amazing how I can watch CNN for 4-5 hours and get almost no information at all from the broadcast.

At least with Fox, I can see how somebody who's into that kind of thing can feel like they are getting information (even if it's usually wrong or overblown).
They work great in the short term. Over the long term though you create fear fatigue in people and undermine credibility. It also tends to alienate people who are undecided or sympathetic to your argument but informed enough to see the tactics.
I've been using DDG since the new privacy policy. There are two points I frequently bump into:

1. DDG has a spellchecker, but not a good one. For example, DDG correctly guesses "hcker news", but unlike Google it fails to correct e.g. "hooker news".

2. DDG is relatively good on general queries (like unique names), but not on specific ones (like phrases). Recent example: searching for "r6rs vote" on Google gives ratification votes as the first link, DDG can't find that link at all.

So while I'm not too dissatisfied, I'm not too impressed either.
Ask HN: Writing an iPhone dev book for teens -- would love to hear thoughts.
I submitted a proposal to write an iPhone book for non-devs (or novice devs). I am targeting it to teens (thinking about the kind of book I would have wanted when I was a teen and hacking my C64). I have spent some time watching _why's videos and playing with HacketyHack, but ultimately, I have to explain iPhone development (although I gave some thought to making a super-simple app framework, that's probably not going to fly as a book).

I expect to supplement with a website that would point to more information -- the book is about teaching concepts and getting a few simple apps done and explained, not being an exhaustive reference (or even a very good one).

Would love to hear any thoughts people have had on this topic.
Oh cool, tell him Ethan from Flowtown says hi!
Omg, yet another YC startup has been killed^H^H^H^H^Hacquired ? Oh well, hope the team has been offered something little bit more material, beside "the resources and freedom to build cool stuff". :-)
Thank you. In this day and age, I think we should all be a bit skeptical of glowing reviews.

Thanks for taking the time to post this.
How electricity doesn't work
And, because Apple actively tries to prevent jailbreaking, these kids will all be breaking the law (DMCA) to hack their devices; which is a real shame.
"It says if a man is a good man and conducts himself exceptionally during courtship and marriage, his wife is almost certain to be quality."

No; you've misinterpreted Dove's point[1]. Let me clarify:

The amount of effort it takes to ensure that one marries a "quality" person is very small compared to the amount of effort the other stuff takes. One does not need to pick the very most perfect woman in order to have a great marriage, only to pick a woman within the set of "quality women".

Put in the 20% effort to restrict your search to quality women. To optimize further, focus the rest of your efforts on being a quality person yourself and on treating your wife well, instead of focusing on finding "the best" of the quality women.

It is dangerous advice to ignore the character of your spouse. Pick someone of good character. But honestly, that's easy in comparison to living a life of integrity and treating your wife appropriately.

[1] as Dove's husband, I have additional insight into her intended meaning.
Founder / Life Balance
You are being a message board geek. It's ok. It happens to all of us. But:

(a) We don't need to be omniscient to know that giving a no-doc zero-down mortgage to someone making $30k a year is a bad plan, or that it makes no fiscal sense to let people take out HELOCs on their houses that can only be paid back if the house appreciates 5+N% year over year.

(b) In the real world outside this message board, lenders are actually employing intelligence in the exact opposite direction, optimizing lending to capture people who will pay more in interest and penalties than they will in principal.
I am going to google it after posting but I have to say I have no idea who this person is.

I am sure after reading the wikipedia entry I will weep for my loss of innocence on this subject.
DDG is a sometimes affair for me, too. I really like to use it for all those queries where I would get tons of spammy results with Google. DDG really works great for that kind of stuff!
Why the heck did they do that? I mean, congratulations to them, but they just released an amazing rewrite of their product that kicked Facebook Photo's ass. I wonder why they didn't go through with it. Sad...
And let's hope they're kids under 18, since doing what you describe will probably be a federal crime (see DMCA) in the US, and probably most other nations.

The fact that it will be proven jailbreakable doesn't mean we should all accept being criminalized for doing what it's our natural right to do (take things apart that we own).
Hi everyone,

Thank you for all the congratulations. We're thrilled to be joining the Facebook team. Frankly it's still taking time for everything to sit in.

I'll admit that it's bittersweet. When you spend 18 months obsessing over your company it's hard to see it go. It ultimately came down to the decision that we could touch more people's lives at Facebook...and that's what we've been in this for all along.

<shameless thread co-opt>

Since this post is going to get a lot of eyeballs I want to take this chance to solicit any suggestions/feedback/complaints HNers have for Facebook Photos. I can't comment on exactly what we'll be doing at Facebook, but I can promise whatever you tell me will get in front of the "right people." :)

If you want you can email me directly: sam@divvyshot.com

----

Since their legal department might read this: I'm not yet a Facebook employee and I'm not speaking on behalf of Facebook, anything you tell me is going to be placed in the public domain, you waive all rights to ownership over any IP that Facebook ends up implementing, etc.

</shameless>
If you're going to go to the trouble of doing the witty ^H thing, you should at least delete the correct number of characters.
no worries :-)
Another fix for the midpoint issue would be to create a dead space threshold -- for example, if the threshold is set at 5 pixels then any area where a 5 pixel movement would change the bubble target is turned into non-clickable space. Possibly all potential targets could be highlighted in a different color, to indicate that the system isn't sure where you want to click.
Hopefully facebook will let them open source, just as Google did for EtherPad and Remail. It always feels regretful when a service gets bought up and shut down but I hope open sourcing becomes a common mitigating factor.
My understanding is that if anyone else wants to embark on a similar endeavor they will have to make their own settlement with the copyright holders. Which mean google gets a special legal advantage that it shouldn't.

What? Wouldn't that just mean that if somebody wanted to do the same thing that they would have to...do the same thing?
"Necessary existence" is a property of my ideal wife. Step one of the proof complete.
Google brings Quake 2 to the browser with HTML5
Sorry to hijack the thread, but randomly anybody strong LAMP guys in San Diego looking for an actual 20 - 30hr/week job? If so drop me a line zackonvacation @ google's popular email service :)
Lakein's Howto Book...
'How to Get Control of your Time and your Life'; can anyone recommend an equally wonderful book -- but for personal finances?
I chuckled at the function that takes an object as an argument and returns the same object as the result.

Yes, I know it throws an exception if it's null... but when your id function has side effects, it's a sign that your language is Just "not that great".
Very cool research. Not exactly the same, but somewhat similar to what the sikuli group at mit (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/) is doing regarding visual programming. They can take their code, but they can not take their output.

The future is bright for post processing programs that modify one programs output in some way. Note greasemonkey that modifies html/dom within a browser, this research which modifies drawn pixels, sikuli which does programmatic image recognition and the new javascript audio research within mozilla which allows one to create and record audio within the browser (http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=974). How will music labels react when it becomes easy to record audio output to mp3 from html5 video within the browser via a javascript library?
An easy fix would be a speed threshold. Studies show that most movements to targets involve a high speed phase and then a deceleration phase near the target (example from the original Fitts law studies if you read up on that). So simply set a threshold for movement speed. If the mouse is moving faster than X, don't use sticky controls. Once the speed drops below X, turn on sticky controls.
The same people who learn arcane vi/emacs/cli syntax complain about moving their mouse to the opposite corner - please!

I use vim, but the arcane syntax makes using it significantly faster. Moving buttons doesn't do this.

I'm glad you always use keyboard shortcuts for window control, given that can you see perhaps see that your point of view on this feature as being inconsequential is not very relevant due to the fact that you do not use it much at all?
> ... And it would receive much less than that if the USPS wasn't mostly a delivery network for spam.

A few years ago, I lived in Boston and traveled a lot of short trips for work. When I'd get back, my mailbox would always be crammed full of junk, crushing my mail.

One day, I ran into my postman, and I said, "Hey there, I travel a lot, I'm not gone long, but my mail gets crushed. Can I just leave a sticky note here and ask you not to deliver the ads to me? I don't want them."

He said, "Sorry, the post office is paid to deliver the mail, and that's what we do. We deliver all mail. You can ask the post office to hold your mail for you and go pick it up at the post office when you get back from traveling, though."

I was kind of stunned. Can you imagine a private business delivering you junk that you don't want and you can't refuse it? How outraged would people be if FedEx dropped off samples of cleaning products and miscellaneous junk and refused to stop, thus damaging your regular packages in the process?
Nothing that can't be done already, assuming the attacker can run code on your computer, in which case, controlling where you're trying to point the mouse is the least of your problems.
What happens when DDG gets more popular? Google or Yahoo (or whatever APIs they depend on) could pull the plug, and then what?

Interestingly, DDG (as it is) could never replace its "competitors."
blink twice to click?
I've thought about that. If I see interesting comments I may work it into the summary with a citation. My first choice would be to direct people back to HN for the article discussion.
"...we’ve received an offer we can’t refuse."

Translation: $

Plus, Facebook is an awesome product with millions of users. Now they can help Facebook Photos kick its own ass. Sounds like a win-win for everyone. :)
... They give you a newly refurbished iPad and then swap out the battery in yours, refurbish it (a new housing perhaps) and give it to someone else. It's not like they are chucking them out the back dock.
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