skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more than willing to learn the basics - my fear is that the basics simply aren't good enough. I can be confident in the things I have done but being unaware of thing I should be doing and not is what would keep me awake. I totally agree that most vulnerable attack vector is the app itself but that, I feel, I have control over. This is why I thought I'd hand this part over to a professional.

If Elance is not the place to go does anyone know of any reputable companies or individuals who would be able to offer a service like this? Surely I'm not the only non systems administrator that has faced this issue - or is it as simple as following the steps outlined above and that's generally enough?

The reason I don't want to go with Rackspace is that I've been having intermittent problems with them on Rackspace Sites for a few months. I know their Cloud product is not the same but my experience of their support and the fact that the technical issues haven't been ironed out in a few months hasn't given me a warm and cozy feeling.
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Android is neither as easy to use or as sexy as the iPhone. The dismal sales of the nexus one despite it's superior spec sheet and androidness are proof of this.

But I do agree with you, most people buy things out of which they get the most utility, and ease of use an sexiness are a big part of that. But the person I was responding to mad the claim that people won't buy the ipad because it is closed. It would only be possible to believe this if your head was buried deep in the sand.
After reading this book about Commodore: http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/d...

and a few other good accounts of the period, it really annoys me that Apple get the credit for inventing the personal computer. They were not even the most popular personal computer of the 80s (or 70s). I have a hard time finding anyone who own a Apple II but most of the people I work with were Commodore 64 owners.
The Space Shuttle is glorious, but it's also an example of how even a bad idea can be made to work if you throw enough cash at it.

Do you know what percent of the weight of the shuttle is cargo?

2%.

It makes zero sense to loft tons (literally. tons.) of ceramic tiles, wings, engines, control surfaces, hydraulics, and more into orbit, just to bring them back down again.

Small capsules with ablative heat shields can ferry astronauts down from orbit for a trivial percentage of the price.

You're looking at all this cool technology and thinking it's a win, but it's not. It's a cost. It raises the cost of spaceflight to the point where you and I will never be able to afford it.

Kill the Space Shuttle and develop something more efficient. It might not stroke the egos of the engineers and the NASA administrators as much, but it will make space more affordable.
Thanks for the link - makes for a good practical starting point if I decide I need to do this by myself.
The 64 appeared much later.
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I sent this to marco's email address, but Harpers.org has a "Weekly Review" every Tuesday. Example: http://harpers.org/archive/2010/04/WeeklyReview2010-04-06
> Wozniak, an inveterate prankster, ran an illegal "dial-a-joke" operation

"illegal"?! I am not aware it would be illegal to run such a service at that time.

> the Macintosh was a radical innovation in its own right, being the first mass-produced computer to feature a "mouse" and a "desktop

Lisa? Star? Although that last one was not "mass-produced", at least it came out of a factory.
“… they can make for a nice GUI”

That’s your progress, right there. You know, that’s enough sometimes.
But in case of a legal dispute, it may be that only certain contested claims are ruled illegitimate. So it makes sense to have many claims ranging from less to more specific, instead of having a few specific claims, so that maybe a somewhat wider claim will make it through a legal dispute.
I can't speak for where you are, but here in North America (well Canada & the USA) to go from [cell phone customized for service provider] to [cell phone customized for you with apps that you selected to use] was never a simple process - perhaps easier on a blackberry but not simple.

The device makers simply didn't have enough leverage to make the process simple.
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iPhone market share is respectable but hardly dominant:

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/the_truth_about_apple...
San is the man, great guy to work with and very connected in the ny startup scene!
That's until they get sued like HTC. Apple's has that ace it it's bag. I guess they don't have a monopoly worthy of getting DoJ attention yet.
I did some reverse-engineering and built a Twitter trends reader on top of PastryKit a while back.

http://michaelgrinich.com/pastrytweets

Code: http://github.com/grinich/PastryTweets
What's with this constant invoking of the 'faithful'? I work at a place that sells the iPad and I've had a lot of people ask me about it. The people who are buying the iPad aren't exactly fanboys, who have been slavering over anything that Apple would put out. They're normal folks. A lot of them don't know any real specifics about the iPad, but they have the feeling that it would really be more enjoyable to use than their netbook. The notion that these Apple products only have niche appeal (because normal people value functionality and openness over prettiness) is kind of bonkers in the face of the extremely strong mainstream popularity of the various iPods as well as the iPhone.
Corona SDK http://anscamobile.com/corona/ is Lua underneath, and has been used by quite a few (at least 20) approved iPhone apps.
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> So hypercard is out of the running.

Unless you reimplement it in JavaScript
Granted, but irrelevant to the claim I was making. Also I'd like to point out that that's one device on (normally) one carrier per country, being pushed by only one company. The others are all being pushed by consortiums or multiple phone companies and are available normally on all carriers yet they still lag behind.
I think the effect is real, but of course it's not as direct as this. Now that the iPhone has a viable competitor that's more developer friendly, it seems likely that apps will start to appear first on Android, and then only later on the iPhone. I think that might effect consumers' perception of which is the sexier device.
It's not as if this is a recent idea Apple's had.

No Macs ever prevented you from running and distributing whatever software you wanted. And while there wasn't a command line before OS X, there were a great deal of opportunities for hacking via extensions, ResEdit, HyperCard, etc.
It's you that pointed out that we're on the cusp on NoSQL convergence. I'm sure the end result of that will be better than NoSQL today, but any project merge or convergence of this kind is going to be pretty painful for those using the product along the way.

In the meantime, there's at least 3 promising projects that have announced (FathomDB, VoltDB, Drizzle), and I know of a few more as well that aren't public. My decision would be to wait, others may decide to place their bets now.

I meant it as a sincere complement - it's good marketing to draw attention to your strengths.
In all likelihood both will continue to be part of the mobile ecosystem for some time, or until Google gets tired of throwing money at the problem.

But as I said to another responder, the iPhone is one device on one carrier per country, and Android is many devices on all carriers. They are hardly on equal footing for a purely numerical battle for superiority, but still iPhone is winning.
Seems like if that were going to happen it would have happened already, or we'd at least have seen some sign of a sea-change. Yet the ports still flow in the opposite direction (when developers even bother). Maybe because Android appeals to the spendthrift, and iPhone to people more open with their wallets?

The other explanation is that iPhone is plenty open to developers who make the types of apps people want to buy, and closed only to the tinkerers who would not have been making salable apps anyway.
At 3 cents a message, my freemium service would go bankrupt fast. Twilio has way overestimated the value they provide. My guess is that AWS will be much cheaper, like 100x - 1000x cheaper.
"Because people will install apps that don't work and then blame their iP(ad|od|hone) for misbehaving. If they could figure out a good process for it, I'm sure Apple would certify their developers before letting them develop applications."

I don't buy that. What seems much more obvious a reason is that, they can't make money on selling applications outside the "AppStore"
I am in the USA and IIRC there was no "process" with my T-Mobile Blackberry; I could install any app I wanted directly from the Web browser. Maybe that's some kind of exception since T-Mobile is the least evil carrier.
They're certainly fairly big reasons not to use Cassandra, and as such I'd put them in the objections bucket. If you're objecting to the fact that I phrased them as questions, just pretend we're on Jeopardy :-)
? Huh. Not necessary. Don't equal programing = server side = free only sites. Some of us are actually building products that people are paying money for, with no ads. supported model whatsoever.
Android is neither as easy to use or as sexy as the iPhone. The dismal sales of the nexus one despite it's superior spec sheet and androidness are proof of this.

It's silly to use Nexus One sales as proof of anything because it's had almost no marketing. The Droid has sold far better: http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-v...
iTunes seems like a very practical solution to me. Why confuse people with different apps? It would be more elegant, it makes people who love the compartmentalized UNIX philosophy happy and it just confuses everyone else. For most people the iTunes feature set: syncing, backup, restore, updating, organization, etc is a good thing. Having this process be mostly automatic is a big plus. I just can't imagine many people running iBackup on a regular basis to backup their device or iShare to put files on it, or iStore to buy music then opening iTunes to listen to it. Who has the patience for that?
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Adioso maybe? YCW09
I'm currently starting an iPad web app - does anyone have any advice or recommendations for using PastryKit (or another js & css framework) for building native-looking iPad apps?

I'm guessing PastryKit, JSTouch, etc could all be reformatted for iPad but wondering if anyone has already tried this?
There's a US edition as well:

http://theweek.com/home
The lack of a CPTableView is why I ultimately decided not to use Cappuccino for a back-end project I was working on recently; looks like the wait was worth it -- what a beautiful implementation.
The iPhone OS 3.2 SDK (which is used to build iPad apps) provides explicit developer support for detecting the pinch gesture, in the form of UIPinchGestureRecognizer:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi...

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Gene...

We don't know the whole story here, but those saying that this rejection happened because Apple only wants its own apps to use the pinch gesture clearly have no clue what they're talking about.
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I wonder if there's any more "social" that could be put into GitHub's already "social" platform. For example: I always thought it would be nice to have a forum system (separate from the issue tracker) so that each repository could have a discussion forum.

I guess in general what I'm saying is it'd be nice to have some facebook- or forum-like ways for developers to chat amongst each other (either in the context of a repository or not).
I'm not a big plane or car nut, but the SR-71 just emanated cool. Having a modified carbon copy as the X-Men's "Blackbird" certainly helped...
Agreed. I never implement ideas by others, like "I want X" ideas. I prefer to experience the problem I'm trying to solve, and the solve it. I'm my own costumer.
We have very good ways around this crap - Google, for example, will not surface this crap (well, it does sometimes), and the networked/social nature of the modern web is intrinsically some kind of quality filter (or at least, relevance filter).

If some guy creates a crappy website full of information nobody wants, it will never get visited.

If some guy creates a crappy iPhone app, it gets a disproportionate amount of exposure compared to good apps people actually want to use.

The problem here is the with only a single portal that serves as both sales and marketing, the wheat mixes with the chaff and you don't know which way is up.
Don't forget the B-52, still the core of the USAF's "drop lots of explosive stuff at once" fleet.

That doesn't mean we couldn't make a better B-52 or U-2 right now (and I don't mean a B1 or B2, I mean a big dumb cheap subsonic bomber), it just means that we couldn't make one sufficiently better to be worth the replacement cost. We could also build a better Brooklyn Bridge, but the existing one works just fine for now.
The speeds mentioned in this article (Mach 3.5+), are significantly higher than the official airspeed records, set by the SR-71 itself (about Mach 2.9):

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

Fascinating.
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True, but the Commodore PET was released in 1977. No assembly required. Another example is the Tandy TRS-80 Model I, also released in 1977.
Based on your last line, I am 99% certain you are male.

I'm much the same way. It can make relationships hard. I have to remember that women typically get mad at me if they tell me of troubles and I try to help them solve them. I have to remember they only want sympathy, not a solution, no matter how simple the solution might be.
"Bill! Bill! Are you there?"
"Yeah, George. What's the matter?"
"Thank God! I thought you might have left."

The rear cockpit of the SR-71 has no forward visibility--only a small window on each side--and George couldn't see me. A big red light on the master-warning panel in the rear cockpit had illuminated just as we rotated, stating, "Pilot Ejected." Fortunately, the cause was a misadjusted micro switch, not my departure.
Interesting that you should mention the "everything is a problem to be solved" point. I had always considered that to be just "an engineer thing," but now that I think about it, most of my male friends are engineers, and most of my engineer friends are male.

Also, are you implying that you'd like to work out a solution for your broken fishing boat? :)
I'm halfway through this post...and famished.
We're still shipping updates to the Atlas beta. Not quite sure when a final release will be ready. In any case, we're continuing to write code like mad men.
Because there's no Flash for Linux and a Mac is out of question in a third-world country.

I tried to emulate it with Wine and others, but they all failed miserably.
Ask HN: How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post?
Do you like it? Does it sound condescending? Do job descriptions that have those terms tend to be for particularly good or bad jobs?
Couple of things for you to try:

* Copy-paste anything from the browser to elsewhere. You see how you have to go two-deep into a menu? For iPhone users, they just tap the text they want to copy, the drag to put the bounds at the right place.

* Try copying anything out of a received gmail message and pasting it somewhere else.
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This is pretty interesting. I did some reverse-engineering and built a Twitter trends reader on top of PastryKit a while back. I'm guessing the two frameworks are very similar.

http://michaelgrinich.com/pastrytweets

Code: http://github.com/grinich/PastryTweets
> iPad's got very viable rivals such as WePad, ChromeOS, MobLin

N.B. Moblin merged with Maemo to become MeeGo -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
True. But if you compared those numbers to the sales of the iPhone 3G or 3GS, they would look less rosy. What you've got there is a non-smartphone without an app store on a smaller carrier being compared with a smartphone with an app store on a larger carrier that's famous of not having many options in the phones you can select because of its CDMA network.

Anyway, the whole discussion of which is doing better is completely unrelated to my original objection to the top-level poster.
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I was going to say "The Economist" as well. They do some breaking news on their web site, but not much, and I wouldn't really go there for that. By the time I actually get the print edition, it's usually a bit stale in terms of the absolute latest, but the analysis and commentary is usually interesting to read.
IMO, those terms are grossly outdated and are/were often representative of companies that are a little too full of themselves.

It sort of reminds me of the "Everybody is a winner" method of child rearing. There is quite a wake-up call when you realize that everyone is a "ninja".
I think you can have an interpreter underneath, as long as it can't obtain code that isn't shipped with the app.
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Let's say SendGrid did get blocked, despite their work to make sure they don't (they have more of vested interest than Amazon do).

If it was costing them serious business, presumably they would change their IPs, etc. Where as Amazon are unlikely to because sending email isn't their core business.
I've loved this plane since I read about it in popular science as a grade school kid. I still remember this line from the article, "after it lands it so hot you can fry an egg on the fuselage".
"any project merge or convergence of this kind is going to be pretty painful for those using the product along the way"

Only if you're using one of the non-viable products. So don't do that. :)

"there's at least 3 promising projects that have announced (FathomDB, VoltDB, Drizzle)"

Drizzle's idea of scale-out is writing a Cassandra backend, fwiw. http://drizzle.org/wiki/CassandraEngine
You might remember BluWiki from an Apple censorship lawsuit a few months back. More info: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/apple-backs-down-blu

Of my web projects, BluWiki is Divvyshot's ugly sister. The site has always been much larger but has received a fraction of the attention. This would be a great move if you're looking for an instant source of traffic.
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I've always had the feeling that those companies have bosses dedicated to plenty of duplication and little innovation.
No, this device meets a real need. Not everyone is buying it because they are easily-duped consumers (whereas you have mastered the fine art of seeing through marketing messages...).

Specifically, those friends and family who constantly call you for tech support are friendly enough when they see you, but they deeply resent having to deal with you every time their computer breaks down. It's not personal. They just hate that it's "their fault," or that they have to lie because they really were surfing sketchy porn sites. The iPad solves that need.
I can't seem to draw anything. I'm on an Android phone (Nexus One) using the built in browser. When I move my finger on the screen it attempts to scroll the window.
It's worth noting that Papillon is a novel composed of the real life stories of several people, rather than a true memoir.

Great book.
How Will You Use The iPad? Media consumption it seems
That is primarily because they couldn't. But note the distinct lack of hardware expansion on early models: [ http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port.txt ].
I once got worked up about the subject, enough to write a blog post for CIO.com, back when I still worked there (http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/rockstar).

These days, it's a little bit of a turnoff. At a minimum a job ad including "ninja" or "rock star" communicates to me that you can't otherwise quantify what you want, so you use a vague description that doesn't help a prospective candidate judge whether she's suited for your company.

I'd rather see a job ad that's much more explicit in what the company wants, whether that's technically ("5 years of Python"), attitude ("We want someone so passionate about chocolate websites that she'll jump up and down on the conference room table... but please, don't, it cost us a lot of money for that table"), or in visibility ("We expect to recognize your name; this is a job for someone who probably needs no introduction").
There's some interesting stuff on that site, thanks for the link. I read their bedmaking article last night and put it into practise this morning. My bed has never looked better.
I've been shooting for 20+ years.

IMO, I'd only look at a camera with a full-frame image sensor, but your budget may limit you to less expensive bodies.

Half of the equation is the glass (lens). The XSi is an overall unremarkable camera body, but it gets the job done. You'll notice a big difference though between a low-end lens and a quality lens on almost any camera body.

Don't invest in the EF-s lenses, they'll only mate with APS-C sensor bodies. Go with the standard EF series lenses so that when you eventually upgrade to a higher-end body all your lenses will still work.

I tend to recommend the craigslist route to many friends looking to get into photography. There seem to be a lot of people who upgrade for no good reason, and end up selling their old bodies for a good price with only a few hundred to low-thousand shutter activations (practically new).

Canon and Nikon gear both hold their values well. The Canon gear is generally considered to be a little better than Nikon, but that is kind of an "emacs vs. vi" argument... Everyone has their own religious preferences.

If you must compromise on the price, get a good lens and a decent body. Upgrade the body when you have some extra cash.
Don't you usually pay more for the "professional" cameras or the "professional" phones. Apple seems to play it the other way. Charging more for the dumber hardware.
I couldn't see anywhere that the emails would be 'white label' - thus appropriate to replace SendGrid.

It seems to me to be more geared up for machine-to-machine notificaiton, although granted that would make email a less efficient way of doing this instead of http
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I'm in Barcelona until Monday morning.

Let's pick a cafe to meet this weekend.

Reply to this post or email me and we'll figure out a time.
Having a platform that's easier to develop, publish and distribute software for is only half of the "developer friendly" equation. The other half is having a user community that's willing to spend money on that software.

Are there many Android developers who've been able to quit their day jobs and make a living from app sales? (That's a serious question, not a snarky one -- I don't follow the market closely.)
"In the long run, we're all dead." :)
The Kindle app is pretty much on par with the iBooks app, but with more portability (iPhone, Mac versions) and more selection.