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I think it won't happen, at least for now. The strength of the user experience and the seamless integration of iPhones with the app store is what is luring users and developers.

Android can win on Apple Flaws, but it has to become better, in my opinion. Only then it will be able to force Apple out of it restricting decisions.

I hope it will happen someday. Unfortunately I don't think it will happen soon.
Is this a de-evolution experiment?

What makes HN valuable is the community. Smart, relevant and immediate conversations. I dare to say this idea exploits, over-extends and misappropriates what value is present here.

The intention to contact all commenter's of 80+ vote stories is ... let's say typing is easier than doing (see: google buzz debacle).
you feel that there is a set of people out there incapable of making decisions for themselves

Not exactly what I said. I think it's disingenuous to say everyone is capable of making informed decisions; either through laziness, lack of understanding or purely out of being mislead they can make a poor choice with consequences they don't really "get".

In the choice you highlighted a commercial drugs firm could play the risks up and down to get someone to buy the more lucrative (or simply their) drug. I realise this happens already but organisations like the FDA limit this practice - mostly by banning drugs with serious side affects.

But if some people truly are incompetent

I believe I am talking about the majority here. I'm a smart thoughtful and cynical person but I am not sure I would be able to make an informed drugs choice in many cases. This applies in all sorts of aspects of our lives as well; I think we do need advisories and regulators in some areas to help us with these decisions.
Chiropractor, Hand Surgeons, Acupuncture, Massage... what's missing here is a physiotherapist. My girlfriend suffered from career threatening RSI (though RSI is actually a pretty useless term, since it works as an umbrella term for dozens of completely different possible problems). We found her a physio but they didn't really help. Then we found her an excellent physio (recommended by numerous friends) who spent 6 months fixing her. She can now type for 7 hours a day, provided she has at least one day a week with no typing at all. That's going from being unable to type for more than 5 minutes without searing pain.

We've referred a bunch of other friends to that same physio, all with excellent results. If you're anywhere near Brighton, UK drop me a line and I'll send you her details.

If you need to find your own physio, be aware that just like anything you should be ready to shop around for one. Personal recommendations from fellow RSI sufferers are incredibly useful here.
htop and atop are my top two top tools

http://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php

atop uses color to show when a subsystem goes over warn/critical threshold. it can be run in present time, or can be used to go back in time and "play back the tape"
I think ultimately it comes down to how much deregulation occured.

If you go all the way and the FDA was replaced with companies who offered to test and "approve" drugs for profit then I think it is difficult to establish a full trust relationship with those entities.

You mention the FDA becoming advisory; that could become a good compromise. However there is a danger that people would simply ignore the dangers and, at some point in the future, suddenly realise they had done something terrible to themselves :D

A balance is crucial; I think we actually have it in the drugs industry, but perhaps there is room to make modify as well...
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I certainly hope that this will cause more outrage than there's been so far but this action is a completely consistent application of Apple's draconian tools policy and that is a natural result of the walled-garden model.

see:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Sorry if it's been seen before...
Does anyone know if there is some sort of contribution-friendly eBook store with high amounts of visitors? In a way like the App Store, just for eBooks (of course with less visitors)?
Htop is really useful, you can hide or show userland threads, switch to a tree view, etc. I use it daily.
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Was aware of the concept if not the name. Sometimes the best analogue is also a cliché.
...And by "stand a chance," I mean "stand a chance of succeeding, or getting acquired, or having a core feature appropriated by Twitter proper."
I too, encountered crippling RSI pain, and eventually switched to a kinesis keyboard (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com). While the keyboards are crazy expensive, and a bit flaky, they completely cured my carpal tunnel.

The downside is, I'm now stuck hauling around this weird, non-standard keyboard. :)
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Yes. It's so easy to forget that some 180 000 apps were accepted.
It's not actually about "How the technique works", it's more "This book worked for me, but I'm not going to give you even a slight hint about how so go buy the book".

Anyone have a link to the actual "How" part?
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ClearSilver
EZT
This article basically describes my experience exactly. If you have been told you have RSI, do NOT ignore this possibility.
It seems that in the underlying concepts that show that this device can work are already well known. That is, it is known that vacuum suction helps wounds and there are already existing approved devices that already do that.

So the only think she was testing is whether the rather simple mechanics of that particular device will work as expected.

So it does not seem to be something especially dangerous.
Amazon link to book:

http://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pai...
The difference is that the rules are rendered using actual CSS syntax, rather than the section heading control.

This makes it very easy to scan because as a web developer, your brain is already trained to parse CSS syntax easily.

The controls in the webkit UI may seem richer, but they aren't actually as efficient as the simple code view that Firebug uses.
What has helped me is Yoga.
No doubt. I had RSI start to creep up on me when I was 25 and the first thing I did was get a referral from my HMO to a physical therapist. I got some simple exercises with a band, and I was cured entirely for a couple years. These past few years it's come back a little bit, but at worst it's mild discomfort, and I keep it in check with weight lifting and mountain biking. In my case I'm entirely convinced that building wrist strength is the key.

What this guy experienced definitely sounds different though, but it's shocking that he never tried one of the most basic solutions.
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Jinja2.

Quixote, ClearSilver and Cheetah are quite dated - ClearSilver IIRC was used in Trac, I think it's replaced by Genshi now.
Do you want to pay your mouse 200 € ?

I submit you do not.

That's why companies like Microsoft work with companies like KYE.
Im still sceptical :)

Less, though, than when I opened the article; I have independently noticed my RSI worsens when stressed. Im not sure I buy the mumbo jumbo about the solution as much as I buy the explanation of why stress could affect it.

I use a powerball daily which has really helped. Saw the same issues with massage that the article writer had (short term fix) but it feels really great so I stuck with that=. But the powerball seems to really keep it in bay (I think it is the rotational stuff that helps).

When really stressed I do pull ups and press ups to stretch the relevant muscles.
if that is really a huge problem for you, then you can use Infix readmacros for arithmetic expressions.

Something like this:

http://www.cliki.net/infix
I wonder, are the reporters here genuinely concerned about improving workers lives, or are they mostly enjoying having some leverage over a mighty, powerful company?
Exactly. And when they are nicely concentrated under the .xxx TLD, they will be easier to filter, no pesky URL lists that are difficult (=expensive) to maintain.
Same here. Had nasty pains in both wrists and tried a lot of things until I finally purchased a Kinesis (the current model is this one: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage_pro.htm ) and a Kensington Epert Mouse trackball. I had to learn to type again, but am now faster and completely pain-free for about 6 years.
I believe stereo vision provides little 3D info at long distances.
Sweet Minerva, this is super cool! I hope this technology matures.

This is one of the promises of sci-fi, right? It seems a heck of a lot easier to do right than flying cars.
What super-successful entreprenuers had a first time failure
A friend and I were going down the list of technology companies which we consider "super successful", google, facebook, microsoft, ebay, apple, twitter, paypal, skype, oracle, amazon etc.

In all of these cases, for the founder of the company, their first attempt at starting a company resulted in a "success". It may not have been the success that was their super success but it was still a success.

Can you come up with any counter-examples to this phenomena? ie: a "super-successful" founder who's first venture was decisively a failure?

If not, what does this imply for all of us who have already had a first time failure? Are we destined to never become "super successful"?
The Django engine would be the simplest to use with App Engine by far given that it's native.

If you're interested in baby steps I would (and did) start with Django and migrate to Jinja2 (it's a simple migration, Jinja2 is almost syntactically identical to the Django engine).
In my experience Django takes no effort to make immediate use of but has several weird quirks that drove me away from it into the loving arms of Jinja2. On the other hand Jinja2 takes a little more effort to setup (and is slower, unless you pre-compile and cache your templates which is an extra step to worry about).
Well, we could afford to pay more for our tools. And would be willing to, if it came with a fair trade label associated.

That's a business model which works well for the food industry, both with fair trade and organic production.
I have tendinitis in my wrists to the point that I need to wear braces whenever I use a computer.

I'm pretty skeptical of his claims, though I too agree with what he notes as useless.

The only thing that has worked for me has been strengthening my wrists. I do about 600 reps a day (variety of axes and loads) and it has stabilized my RSI.

Oh - and I make sure that my keyboard is rather low.
This is called "sending them to Coventry" in the UK.
People buy Apple products because it gives them what they want
So are you saying that people don't want to see content from Pulitzer Prize winners?
I parsed the FAQ as saying he is choosing only comments with 80+ points, which would take a lot of comments out of context. There are only 12 comments in the past week with 80+ points--enough to populate a faux-"letters-to-the-editor" column but not quite enough to capture the community.
Indeed, no games (I missed this the first time I read the article):

'None of the apps that will be provided on the Windows Phone 7 App Store, which will debut this fall as well, will be able to run on the Kin without Microsoft recoding them, said Paul Patinios, Microsoft's brand manager for the Kin.'

I think that's a big mistake - MS now has a compelling game case with XNA studio for Windows Phone 7. Stopping their own customers from playing them isn't wise.
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Ah, perhaps I should have been more specific. Through Neuromancer, Shadowrun, and other Cyberpunk works, I'm familiar with Black ICE.

But what's $EIP?
http://podolsky.everybody.org/rsi/ has a summary.

The book is worth reading. It worked for curing similar wrist pain that I suffered starting about 1.5 years ago. I actually managed to cure it just by reading about Dr. Sarno's ideas online, as unlikely as that sounds. I bought the book, after, though, to get more details. I think he takes it too far in terms of the types of ailments to which he ascribes a purely psychological origin. But I was definitely impressed with how effective his explanation/techniques were for wrist pain.
Yeah, that's good. A lot of people want to filter them. There'd be no way to keep pornographic or sexual content constrained to a .xxx domain even if regulations were implemented to try to make it so. I see it as a convenience for consumers, not governments; if we get to the point where the government is censoring the internet, I don't think the fact that there's an .xxx TLD is going to be that big of a deal. They'd all just bleed over into .com space again surreptitiously.

See how well they're doing stopping piracy of normal media? They'll do even worse stopping pornography. There's nothing to fear from a .xxx domain.
So what's the harm in that?
Iam using it so much.
I like the graphs which gives me on a first look a faster overview about cpu/ram.

If you got a SMP system every core got his one graph, which wasnt available in top.

At least, its the best alternative to top, in my opinion!
Apollo 1 should count. Gus Grissom had been to space twice. Ed White once. They were the top candidates in the program at the time. The accident was clearly related to space exploration and the Apollo program. When we lost those astronauts it directly effected the outcome of the Apollo program since they were going to continue to actively participate in future missions. [1]

As for the space shuttle, it is a failure of both complexity and the inability to adapt. Had it been either less complex or more adaptable it would have had a different fate.

All of that being said it was designed to last 10 years or 100 missions[2]. That should be read whichever comes first. So all the reliability engineering that was run on the parts in the 70s did not assume the same parts would still be in use in the 00s. Such an accident should be expected when using hardware that was designed to have been retired over 10 years ago.

My own take on it is the Apollo program was more dangerous and we were relatively lucky. Meanwhile the shuttle program was safer yet we didn't follow our own rules and got burned. Whether it's launching outside of recommended temperatures or running shuttles for twice as long as they were designed for...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program
sacrifice of a few chickens will also help
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actually, Apple asked for, and received, permission to use the Xerox PARC interface. It also received about $1 million in funding from Xerox along with a reasonable number of engineers, glad to see someone finally understanding what they were doing
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Evan Williams (blogger,twitter) tells it differently. As I remember it, there was a web consulting company when he lived in Nebraska that ended poorly.
as far as I know, it's not particularly clear yet (surprising, since Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - NPWT - has been around for ages. The USSR had some guys working on it, inc. Bagoutdinov). Possibly, it's just vacuuming up nasty crap, keeping the wound moist but not covered in pus. alternatively, it's directing the growth inwards. lastly, it might be creating conditions unfavourable to bacterial colonisation (low pressure, low oxygen, etc)

I was reading up about a patent dispute involving precisely this type of device (connected to an active pump, not this accordion) and the innovation there was a big of sponge placed in the wound (and then the lot is wrapped in clingfilm). The pressure it applies - evenly - also seems to help wound healing, especially by preventing overgrowth, and keeping the clingfilm off the wound itself.

Just something to note if you want to try this at home.

sterilise everything, kids!
yup. this will get patented. the cost to make might only be $3, the cost to buy will be much higher.
Well it's nothing new that the mind can cause injuries and even diseases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosomatic_medicine
I can't seem to find it now, but there was at least one experienced kernel dev in one of the threads or discussions somewhere who seemed to think merging something to accommodate Google's concerns was possible, if they were willing to make significant changes. I wish I could find it, but it seemed to be proposing that Google would have the best luck if they could pare down their patch to a set of base functionality that the existing power-management API doesn't support that absolutely needs to be in the kernel for what they want to do; and then have the rest done in a daemon outside the kernel.

I can see why Google wouldn't want to do that also; sort of a collision of interests. Google has a solution that works today, and works fine for Android. But the mainline kernel is trying to maintain a general-purpose API. So the best solution for Google is to make a simple, clean, but special-purpose hack for Android. But the kind of solution mainline would like to have is for someone to factor out a minimal set of general hooks that need to go into the kernel, and then farm out more specialized needs to system-level daemons or userland. But factoring stuff like that is always harder.
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Yes there are chips for VP8 decode and they're very popular. They're called ARM.

VP8 was specifically designed by On2 (in collaboration with ARM) to be decoded easily on low powered ARM chips. They take advantage of various ARM features such as NEON acceleration and are intended to work well even on lowly ARM9, and the codec has built in scalability that lets low-powered devices show the same video file that everyone else gets with less quality and power if needed.

The hardware argument was basically an excuse for Apple to not have to do something they didn't want to when talking about Theora. It's been shown to be irrelevant, or even a benefit to Theora when sending video to people who don't have state of the art laptops. To apply it to VP8 is just ridiculous.
This rule excludes a slew of apps from the app store – not just satire but definitely also satire (satire is usually aimed at public figures and as a consequence includes representations of them, getting consent for those representations would defeat the whole purpose of satire). I don’t see how a rule that indirectly excludes satire is any better than a rule that directly excludes it.

Free speech doesn’t seem to be very important for Apple and that makes me pretty sick. iPads are supposed to be the places where we read our newspapers tomorrow, we as a society should only allow that if we also force Apple to put everything in the App store which is covered by free speech. (I do believe that free speech should limit the rules a private company is allowed to make. ISPs, for example, shouldn’t be allowed to filter out whatever they want.)
Typing in dvorak decreases finger movement significantly. I recommend it.
I'd suggest the valuations are based on perceived value by the investors. That's how we get insane valuations of $15 billion for Facebook when they were hemorrhaging money (not the case now of course).

Either way, I suspect its part voodoo and part negotiations when you're talking about speculative valuations like this
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What goes in the .xxx domain? Who decides? One man's pornography is another man's art, unless you have a burning conviction that you should decide what other people get to look at. One woman's abortion advice is another woman's gross obscenity.

At first glance, it seems like a great idea, but as soon as you get into the details it's a nightmare. What .xxx and similar proposals mean is that someone, somewhere, possibly in another country and with values wildly at variance with yours, gets to censor the Internet for you. It's not a service I consider worth having.
Http://opentuition.com/
If you're interested in this sort of thing, may I encourage you to watch a 3 part BBC series "Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts".

It follows 6 young fashionable Brits as they travel to India to spend 3 weeks living and working (almost) as the Indian people who make the clothes they wear. It was made in 2008, but is showing now in Australia on ABC2
Doesn't work with Vim as well though.
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I think the future of news will be a two tiered system. The daily "news in real-time" will be handled by entities like the one the article talks about. Then there will be a second tier made up more traditional news organizations. This second tier will either get out of, or decrease their focus on publishing day to day news (perhaps even syndicating it from the first tier companies) and instead focus on deeper analysis and long term investigative reporting. Basically the 'why' rather than the 'what'. Think the Economist and similar magazines.

At the end of the day I think the web will, more or less, kill of the daily newspaper, and the daily newspapers will become weekly newspapers. And I think it will be a win for everybody, especially journalists who now don't have to be sent to cover every minor event, but can focus on the deeper stories, which is where their strength and interest ostensibly lies.
Very smart move, though I'm not sure if the demographics of ning users (As I know them) are a good fit for posterous.
Jinja2
Thanks. I added Jinja2 and Genshi
Genshi
agreed. makes a change from the screeds of anti-Apple vitriol that seem to make up the bulk of posts lately.
Not a very in-depth review.

The consensus seems to be that if you're ever on a really low bandwith connection, or you need to watch your usage because you're roaming or whatever then it's great.

I think people are confused and think they're running a platform that lets you replace the main browser. Instead you can only complement it which, e.g. in the situations above, Opera clearly does.
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I had some RSI pain just yesterday (in forearm/wrist) and I use dvorak (even in Vim ;)
You are right about the community, but many articles submitted to HN and many comments are also valuable in and of itself... it all depends on how he will execute the editorial part.

What I am surprised about is when he says that he obtained permission for at least 50% of articles to be reprinted in his Monthly (if I understand it correctly). So some professional journalist or blogger toils for days to produce some article, and then just allow someone to reprint it without compensation? Moreover, if the article was printed in some commercial media like NYT, shouldn't also NYT grant the permission?
Excellent point about why terms and conditions agreed to online are not as a rule legally enforceable.

You may be able to withhold service from people violating your T&C but you will not be able to go much further than that.

More reading on this:

http://www.wilmerhale.com/publications/whPubsDetail.aspx?id=...
I generally have one terminal open with htop as well. It's awesome for finding out which of your processes are battering your system