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I'm having a hard time understanding what the Bespin license and structure is. More to the point, this "release" seems to point towards a "server-only" update, which doesn't seem to have a source code repository.

So -- they are releasing an open-source thin client but keeping the server side closed-source ? That doesn't sound encouraging...
Ask HN: CA Taxes for a DE C corporation?
If my company is incorporated in DE,
but I live in CA,
yet I only sell iPhone apps,

do I have to pay CA corporate taxes?

[Does selling iPhone apps count as doing business i CA?]
When I do that, I can only see French as an option.
Do you get other languages?
Problem: 1 in 9 black men are in jail, 1 in 3 will wind up an ex-con. What's a black lady to do?

Solution: Stop being a friggin' racist and try dating men who aren't black.
A letter to "a letter to Steve Jobs" letters

Yeah new policy sucks, Steve won't change it even if you send thousand of letters, sometime he might bother to answer, but it'll be the same thing.

Although if he answers, that's great, because then you can publish it again and HN can be flooded with more "letters to Steve" and "Apple stole my teddy bear" stories.
I played the adventure game based on this book. Disturbing and intriguing and highly recommended (it runs smoothly on dosbox). On my To-read list.
health outcomes for people working in factories is still superior to the ones doing back-breaking rural farming which is the default.
SERIOUSLY people, stop all the freaking letter to steve jobs post.. It's really overdone and doesn't get you much other than this response, sorry I just had to, go ahead and down vote me.
I would say the article is aimed at people who have achieved a certain level of competence. This would be the entrepreneur that has already made a rather significant sum of money. For those still struggling, it doesn't offer much wisdom.
'American' is understood from the context of national incarceration rates which are by definition nation specific. So you're choosing between 'black' or 'african' and black is the more appropriate term and what the incarceration statistics refer to.

>"African-American is special in that it does not imply any link to Africa at all."

It does and\or should. Continuing to propagate unclear vocabulary does a disservice to language.
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there's a german equivalent of the daily show? :)
This looks to be a great tool, a creative writer's dream.

I'd like to see a terms of use statement, a privacy statement, and some controls as to what's private (ought to be the default) and what's open (everything private is fine). Using google and/or twitter creds is nice for the weak of memory, but it means revealing username and passwords for those sites, which in many users eyes is a security breech. It would be nice if you had a username/password for the site itself so that the paranoid can indulge in application isolation.

I suspect you'll get lots of people suggesting enhancements but, if I were you, I'd reject them. What's nice is the total simplicity and the daily reminder.
Yes, it references past ties. But how far back should we go? Most blacks in America are here by way of slavery, which happened over 200 years ago. As metamemetics said, if we go back far enough, hell, everyone is African.

Another reason is that the Black-American (due slavery) people have become genetically distinct from their west African ancestors. Many of us have a significant percentage of non-African genetics, through inter-marriage and other happenings. If we want to reference past ties, then why ignore that?

Black-Americans (due slavery) have been here since there was an America, so no need to create the distinction of an African American. The term is meaningless.
Twitter, the Company, Recognizing the Potential of Mobile Apps
We have known it for some time now, the mobile apps industry is where the future is. The numbers are not showing any indication of slowing down. Steve Jobs, at the iPhone 4.0 announcement, let us all know that the App Store is thriving with over 185,000 apps and 4 billion downloads. He also mentioned a few iPad numbers like 300,000 iPads sold in the first day and 450,000 sold until the day of the keynote. He also told us that over 250,000 iBooks were downloaded in day one and over 600,000 until the keynote. First day over 1 million app downloads and over 3 million by the keynote. These numbers are nothing short of insane.On a little bit of a lower scale, the Android Market benefitted from over 9,500 new apps last month alone.
That'd be cheating... besides Google advertising is pretty much synonymous with the entire internet which makes it a good metric for comparison (although the numbers I suggested are questionable).
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Well Akami is, for the most part, static content. So it's "cheating" anyway :) to compare the two.
I've actually found the opposite to be true - reading on the iPad is atrocious in bright light because of the glare (probably would be alleviated with an antiglare screen protector), while pleasant on the kindle. I like the slight glow and lack of a need of external light convenient in near darkness.

Overall I end up reading a lot more than I normally would regardless of the device, mostly because I have some combination of {kindle|iPhone|iPad} with me while I don't often like to carry around books for weight and inconvenience stuffing into my purse. I daresay the convenience of my iPhone was what prompted me to really start reading a lot daily, whereas before I wasn't such an avid casual reader because I always found something else to do. My kindle then made it a little more convenient to read newer mainstream books, and then the iPad made reading all sorts of books possible.

While eink is convenient and vastly superior for outdoor reading, the benefit of a full color display means there is so much more to read now that needed a higher resolution and/or color display (see: many textbooks, graphic novels), not that it's only for games or whatever else I want to do. If I decide to go check my email and play We Rule instead of reading, blame my ADD, not the device.
Completely automated updates for Firefox might be better for security but they will hurt end-user experience, mostly by breaking add-on functionality.
Long-term, though, it was arguably the wrong decision. Hindsight is of course 20/20, but they've had 14 years to revise their decision, based on clear evidence that Apple was re-emerging and growing rapidly. And yet, no change... until now. And Adobe is surprised that Apple doesn't care to support them?
The phrase I would have liked to see there is Black-American.

Language by definition is unclear. For example, "Caucasian" originally means people from the Caucasus region, but it has been adapted to refer to the american racial construct of "white". If you look at the biological definition of Caucasian, it's very different from the general used U.S meaning, in that it includes indians and somalians etc.

So you can't attack "african-american" as a word but find all the other vague and misappropriated words like "caucasian" okay. And if it actually happens that all basterdized words are removed from language, we would be left with only grunts.
I've seen Solver used by a number of accountants to say 'I need my profit to be this number, what figures do I need to change to hit that?'. Solver is a life saver for those looking to cook the books (sadly far too many people).
I think it's important to blame Greenspan for everything he got wrong, especially after the embarassing "Maestro" - http://www.amazon.com/Maestro-Greenspans-Fed-American-Boom/d...

TV pundit ripping Greenspan: http://www.youtube.com/v/f4abaHBbMJM&hl=en_US&fs=1&#...;
More like 1775
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> I don't think the staff working in bars in and around the RLD in the Dam care too much about the health sex and drugs tourists who pass through.

Most do; or at least the majority do in my experience. Firstly because it's their revenue stream and secondly because there are quite strict laws for proprietors there.

I looked it up with a friend who goes to Amsterdam a lot more than myself and what they sold you was "against the rules" - there is (or at least was) a limit to 2 servings per customer. Im not sure if that is a law or a guideline (of the kind that if you break it and someone gets hurt your in big trouble).

(I myself love absinthe - but the strong stuff you just have to be moderate about, because it is quite dangerous. One of my friends has a favorite story about a trip to Poland where they drank absinthe and one guy had so much he hallucinated, thought he was an apple (or something) and tried to peel himself. Not nice)
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If you are interested in rule of law, it's pretty risky. You need to decide who has the power to decide what a company can and can't do. In this case, the only way to do that is with fairly arbitrary power and that is bad for rule of law.

They would need to be able to scrutinise then change Apple's appstore approval process/policy and make sure that it is indeed being followed. Apart from affecting their macro policies, this precludes that Apple's ability to decide arbitrarily which is pretty important to what they are trying to do. If you do take a more general/macro view, which I think you need to, you need to take into account how this affects Apple's behaviour and the general effect on the market.

The idea that apps need to be babysat and approved is controversial, but worth testing. This is what APple is doing right now, in the market. They are testing a hypothesis: 'An authoritarian marketplace will result in better apps and a better user experience.' Other hypothesis such as: 'some babaysitting is good but we should let people opt out and install whatever they want' will also probably be tested.
I'm guessing the same applies for C#, does anyone know if there are language supported features for lists like the new java ones for C#?
If there had been a whitelist in place all along, none of these cross-compilers would exist. A whitelist would stifle innovation as much as a blanket ban.
Familiarity, most likely. Support and QA likely play a role as well. If you have one code base that targets web users on Windows, OS X, Linux, and any mobile platform that has Flash, creating a completely separate code base for a single platform is something you don't do lightly.
It can't do either of those things yet, but they're both great suggestions for future improvements.
Adding restrictions to your development platform is hardly akin to highway robbery. I may not agree with what Apple has done (despite the fact that I do know ObjC and am familiar with Cocoa, I won't be writing any iPhone apps), but it is indeed their choice to make.
“Find me a rock” problems sound dead simple, but in actuality have requirements that are poorly stated or unknown. You never know what you’re looking for; you only know that you’ll know it when you see it.

Even better perhaps: "you only know that someone else will know it when they see it".
Sure, I'm just thinking of options that Apple might approve of.
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Haven't got the numbers on hand, but the most common interacial relationships tend to be between white men and asian/oriental women followed by black men & white women. Followed by black men and asian women.

At the bottom of the pile are black women and asian men, who are the liest likely to marry or have a relationship. From this data black women are the liest....attractive(is that the correct term? maybe popular?) ethnic grouping of women.

Number one are white women followed by asian/oriental women.

I'm married to a Chinese woman(living in China), and I'm white Irish(actual Irish, not "American Irish").
Freud wrote that to be civilized you must also be a hypocrite
Click "translate captions (BETA)" and select English. It worked surprisingly well.
More style than grammar... the sentence is mostly grammatical, but could use a couple more commas and be a little clearer about what the pronoun "it" stands for. Not to mention that "turn around" is two words.

Anyway, though, a critique on grammar and style is hardly the best way to evaluate its message... which I think was a good one. The cheap shot at the end was unfortunate, but the rest was reasonable, I think.
#5 makes a lot of sense and is often overlooked. The argument often is that it is not the tools that determine the quality, of the app, but let's see: Adobe CS5 Flash2iPhone is developed without iPhone OS 4 in sight. The main target users
for it are those who are not familiar with iPhone OS and frameworks and would enjoy just pushing a button and letting the tool to do the rest. The timing is such, that a flood of apps developed this way would arrive just in time iPhone OS 4 comes out. End user does not know and does not care which tools the App was developed in. No surprise this does not look pretty in Apple's eyes.
I and cannot imagine Flash2iPhone style of app producing anything about mediocre. If it targets Android too — even more so. This way all you can get is unisex, unisize sportswear. Apple wants tailor suits and designer dresses.
I think the only way that computer software is going to get radically more secure is if software creators can be sued for negligence if they create secure software.

This would mean a fairly big change in the process by which software is created, but if OpenBSD can do it why do commercial companies still have problems.

Do I think this will happen? No. Will security improve much with out it? Google Chrome has some decent mechanisms and Windows 7 appears to be better, but without some kind of government legislation or regulation designed to protect John Q. Citizen, I doubt much of substance will actually happen.
Direct link to 0.7.1 announcement:

http://mozillalabs.com/bespin/2010/04/07/bespin-0-7-1-bryce-...

Mozilla, please let people test Bespin without login. Or at least provide a way to recover a password, and let us login with an email.
I think the article is unduly harsh but I think it makes a valid point. It's sort of a live by the sword, die by the sword thing.

I disagree. To me, assuming that the situation really is as described in this article, Apple's response come across as petty vengeance. Holding grudges. Childish and spiteful.

That kind of behaviour is of very limited use in business.
Yep, very true. With the huge number of free apps with similar features to many of the paid apps, it sounds pretty hard to make it big in this space. And despite all the buzz and publicity the iPhone gets, it's still not the dominant mobile platform by market share.
For colour e-ink follow
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=mirasol+qualcomm

I've been pretty disappointed with mainstream media ignoring the not-e-ink problem with the iPad.
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Yes, I know there are differences, but many of the principles are similar. I decided not to write a treatise on GC ^_~.

So this is more of a internal vs. external state thing. Refcounting breaks the purity of the interface and requires you to think about memory management. Sure, I can see why you'd find that unacceptable and would break this model of programming. But I'm a C guy, so that doesn't really bother me, I guess ^_^.
An outstanding read (or listen if you have the audio CD), IMHO. The technological basis is plausible and the conflicts within the plot are engaging. I did not find it prescient as I did Snowcrash, Enders Game, and some of Gibsons darker books, but it did get me thinking.
The problem is that the article falsely connects the two (as though somehow Apple screwing over Adobe is justice for Adobe screwing over Apple historically) when it's just companies acting in their own self-interest each time.
We go to the park every week to play kick ball. Besides the fresh air, it's a great venue to exchange ideas with other people in the company.
in related news, the newest version of opera desktop definitely took a note from chrome and is pretty minimal\awesome.
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You have all of the events correct, but a few details, and the order of events, are somewhat misleading:

1. The Apple v. Microsoft suits began in the 1980's well before Apple ran into trouble. They finished in 1994, 3 years before the Microsoft deal. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...) The dispute settled in the Microsoft deal had to do with Microsoft stealing the source code to QuickTime. (http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/5F0C866C-6DD...)

2. The history of Final Cut is tied into the history of Macromedia and the Quicktime dispute--Macromedia focused on developing web tools like Flash and Dreamweaver, and Final Cut was held up by demands by Microsoft not to ship Quicktime-based video editing software on Windows, so Final Cut was shopped around until Apple bought it, mostly to bolster Quicktime. Apple released Final Cut Pro in 1999, four years before Premiere Pro and two years before Mac OS X. At the time, Final Cut was intended to compete with Avid instead of Premiere.

3. Apple did not "flounder" continuously from the moment Steve Jobs left in 1985 to the moment he returned in 1997. The early success of the Mac platform came with models like the Mac SE and Mac II, which had fans, hard drives, and even expansion slots--features Jobs had personally opposed. It was relegated to a minority market share due to early decisions made by Sculley to keep prices high and not license out the operating system, but Apple was still a very successful company until the early-to-mid 90's.

4. Mac OS X was released in 2001. In 2005, Apple announced the transition to Intel. That's four years, not three--and four years in which Apple had gone from simply profitable to astounding levels of growth. Whether or not Adobe was smart to bet on Apple failing to survive the OS transition (or to bet on graphic designers leaving the Mac en masse), it was monumentally stupid to bet against Apple in 2005. It's also important to point out that Apple didn't switch processors just to switch processors--Motorola failed for years to keep PPC performance competitive with Intel, and IBM failed dramatically as well.
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Foaming at the mouth? I don't think so. I am just reminding people of how Apple harms them.

Now, I agree that I comment on way too many Apple-related articles, but since HN has recently become "iPad News" and I haven't found another site to read, I don't really have a choice.

I would love it if Apple was never mentioned here again. Who cares what they are up to?
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As an artist I always find it difficult describing to people what it is I do. Do I tell them I’m a graphic artist or a graphic designer? An illustrator perhaps? I do create things that go on web pages, so does that make me a web designer, too?
Then he launched into his canned opener: Did they think reality shows were “really real”? Sure, two groups of females on whom Bashev tried that line rolled their eyes and smirked, but three bars (and the same routine) later, he was relaxing in a lounge chair reading a shapely brunette’s palm... Within minutes, Bashev had not only number-closed but gotten a date for the following Wednesday.

If, by "it's all true," you mean - if you try the same dumb thing on 6-10 women over the course of three bars in one night, you might be successful with one, I'm very sad about your little faith in the entire female population.

If I as a woman did the reverse - approached groups of men throughout the course of a night and tried the same type of "canned opener" or "pickup artist" moves - how quickly do you think I'd lose every single bit of respect in the male gender? Probably faster than you lost yours.
I switched to chrome only because firefox became unbearably slow over the last 2 major updates.
I interpreted this as meaning "it's obvious that it's wrong but since it's hard to directly connect with the victim the threshold for doing it is very low". I agree that it did come across a bit ambiguous as to his actual meaning. The perennial Simpsons quote "Shoplifting is a victimless crime...like punching someone in the dark" would've been a more direct illustration, at least if the author meant what I think he meant :)
What an amazingly insightful article. Props to the author for speaking up. Yet, slightly dissapointed that he did not leave out of his own accord, but waited to be laid off.

In his own reasoning "I’ve come to the conclusion that having a father who can pay for a top-notch education outweighs the disadvantage of being raised by a hypocrite."

Acting as if financial success equates to dishonesty.
While in the very same piece the author praises free market,
and money in exchange for true value does not compute. Does he believe, or not believe in the power of a free market,
or has he come to develop a disbelief in honest trading?
Mostly off-topic anecdote:

In high school there was a girl in my class that preferre to do everything in excel. And that included writing papers, because it made the formatting easy.
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Given how aggressive Apple has been in the mobile phone patent space as of late, that would actually make a lot of sense.
Google picked up doc for restful_auth pretty easily: http://wiki.github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/

That said, Ruby can be quite opaque to the newcomer due to the use of method_missing. It can make Ruby code exceptionally powerful, but it does effectively obscure the traditional stack trace, which can make trouble for people that don't understand what's going on. I landed in the Ruby camp (and honestly, I think I prefer it a bit to Python, just personally), but they're both great languages, both have strong communities, and will both serve you well in a number of ways.

There are lots of people that are professionally successful in both Python and Ruby. Both have vibrant communities, lots of supporting frameworks and libraries, and lots of success stories.

My personal observation is that Python tends to lean towards structure and convention; Ruby tends to lean towards flexibility and malleability. One of Ruby's biggest claims is that it's mindblowingly easy to write your own DSL in Ruby. Things like rake, rspec, cucumber, and the like are exceptionally powerful tools that aren't easily replicated in Python. This can lead to extremely readable, usable code abstractions. The price for this is that the underlying implementation can be somewhat hard to follow until you have a good grasp on Ruby's various tricks. In short, Ruby is far less principled than Python is, but that grants it an agility that Python can't achieve. Depending on what you need, either may be the right tool for the job.