skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering what kind of experience Apple wants iPhone owners to have, they've extended an enormous amount of effort to help developers.

1) The existence of the App Store and its one-click purchasing, for example, has created business opportunities and revenue that are unprecedented for the amount of effort it takes to enter that market. Guys are making tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars by coding up games on their couch. That everyone is now taking this for granted means one thing: Apple's execution was flawless.

2) The protection of the market so that it remains an impulse-buyers paradise relatively free of buggy software, and completely free of malware, requires an enormous investment in hiring and training reviewers. Sure, developers hate the wait and the uncertainty of approval, but this process is what has made the market as profitable as it is. I can buy an app without fear that it'll steal my bank account #, which apparently can't be said for everything in the Android marketplace.

As you've said, the process has greatly improved over the last year. Consider the fact that this is the first time Apple has done this, and the first time anyone's done it on this scale. That the process has improved even as the submission rate scaled up to thousands of apps per day is incredible.

3) The controlled deployment of APIs, released when they're ready rather than when developers whine for them. This requires restraint and planning that almost no other vendor can pull off. Anyone who's had to re-write entire codebases because Microsoft couldn't decide if today's flavor was COM, DCOM, ActiveX, or .Net can appreciate this.

I doubt that any of the crybabies will appreciate the above, because they think it's all irrelevant if they can't port their Flash game with a mouseclick or write in C#. But they're also only seeing it from their point of view. In the dozens of outraged blog entries that have ascended HN's front page this week, very few show any evidence of looking at it from other points of view, and arguably the most important points of view: Apple's and their customer's.
Both are just enhanced Linux. Let's call the tablet Linux-based.
Me too, Chrome in Windows XP
Laying the foundation for a new Google Docs
Seems unlikely. It's awfully difficult to integrate an acquisition like EtherPad so quickly. I've read that they've been working on a real-time architecture from the ground up for a while. Plus, I think the Etherpad team joined Wave, not Docs.
Nitpick:

AFAIK, the game of life (as a mathematical concept) is in itself a turing complete automaton, you don't need to explicitly simulate a turing machine with it, in the same way that you don't need to implement a turing machine on top of the lambda calculus to be able to express algorithms with it.

In practice, since all computers have a limited memory, they are in fact deterministic finite-state machines. So the size of the board/RAM/whatever constrains what you can do with it, but it is as true for Life as for any language or computer system.

From a practical standpoint, watching a board of Life is indeed about as interresting as watching a random memory block rendered on screen while your program is running... It's sometimes entertainging, but usually boring.

I'll admit I actually have Life on my iPhone :D
I'm hoping this means we'll see a Ruby API soon ...
Couldn't agree more. The last 2 years, I've used iPhone, Android, and for the last 2 weeks, WebOS (Pre).

WebOS is limited in some ways but the entire package comes off well for the end user. I find it a refreshing alternative to Apple and Google's platforms. It would be nice to see WebOS survive.

An alternative to buying Palm as patent arsenal might be to go the other route: buy it and open it up more...maybe see if NZ is serious about eschewing patents and move the HQ there. Sure, that's dreamy talk, but I hope an acquirer thinks a bit more outside the box than just accounting for patent war. Even though Android is open, its complex. WebOS seems to strike a nice balance.

As far as needing to jump platforms again. It seems that Verizon and a few smaller distributors are in process of pushing out the excess Pre/Pixi inventory. The reason I bought my Pre is because Verizon was giving them away, 2 for $49 (plus $29/month data plan for 2 years). For what its worth, Verizon is locked into providing support for this new set of users for the next 2 years.
Jesse Ruderman's zap colors bookmarklet (https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html) cleans it up nicely as well.
Do Smarter Workers Work Less?
This link says it's from YouTube but it's not
My guess (sure, I'll add to the noise): he's designating successors for the care, feeding, and future development of TeX. He's "retiring" from TeX. Hence the lead in to the panel session that follows.

But that's just a guess.
I did not have any luck with it finding my name 'hockeybias'.
FWIW, the reason I choose Django for my latest project is the admin. For a lot of internal facing stuff, I am running it off the admin framework and it has saved me a lot of time from writing html and JS template/code. I do not know much about .NET.. but if there is such a functionality, I would suggest got for it. What you know is going to make you more productive.
I'd be happier if Titanium started up in under under five minutes. Something is seriously troubled in their linux version.
This time I'm half-anticipating a flood of articles about Apple banning Erlang from the iPhone.
I just got a pre based on some advice here about WebOS and it's a beautiful system. I haven't started developing for it yet, but it handles javascript websites great and the interface is great. I'm excited about it. I think time will tell, but I'm happy with my decision. I see people with their iphones and their blackberries and such and I know i am going to have a much better experience.

Plus, I feel free with the phone. Not locked in like with Apple and not spied upon like with google.
The new editors look stellar!

However I really think they need to give the folders a bit of TLC. It's the worst part of the google docs interface :(
Perhaps I am too used to non-book reviews (I generally just go by what I've heard is good, with books). It read like a summary. I stopped reading halfway through because I was pretty sure I was getting spoilers I didn't want to get.

Is this really what a good book review reads like? I couldn't even spot a firm recommendation before I stopped (although implicitly the reviewer seems to have enjoyed it).
More like force-feeding your dog food to potential customers.
I find that the founders who have ambitious goals rarely express them by numbers of digits, which are extremely hard to predict, but more often by how much they want to change the world. For example, the founders of Reddit, which was a disruptive innovation of the classic type, had as their slogan "freedom from the press."
Or just an HTML version from the start, for the entire world, regardless of what/where/who.
Not a nitpick at all, we are in agreement. I appreciate that in theory a GoL program is a turing complete automaton, just as in theory Apple could use one of its legal clauses to reject a GoL application from the App Store.

I was trying to hint that someone in practice writing an App using a GoL as a platform running a turing machine running an app is about as unlikely as Apple actually rejecting a GoL implementation for this reason.

Or in more pithy terms, "The gap between theory and practice is narrower in theory than it is in practice."

p.s. Speaking of theory... One of my favourite books is "The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge," wherein the Game of Life is used to discuss complexity, self-replication, and other fascinating topics:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=...
Ask HN: Any forums/blogs where advertisers hang out?
I think this is a long shot, but do you know of any forums or blogs or online communities where advertisers hang out?

I'm trying to generate some/any early interest in an advertising experiment.
It doesn't need (seq accounts).
They've been Flashizing their entire web site for years; their online store has been Flash for a while.

And, yes, now we can all see why we hate Flash so much.

Adobe's attempt to create a proprietary web platform is destined to fail.
I agree it's a useful tool. However, I'm usually choosing a bunch of colors, and it helps if you're seeing the colors in context.

What I'd really love is a color-dropper plugin that lets me choose a random color on a webpage, and change every pixel of that color to a different one specified by me.

SASS does something close with its CSS variables, but it lacks the real-time interaction.

Sorry this is so off-topic, this seemed so close...
It's an alternative title for the HN link.
I'm more interested in this Adam tablet (also based on Android). It can do BOTH e-ink (best feature of the Kindle) and full color LCD:

http://www.notionink.in/adamfeature.php
Atlassian Stored Passwords in Cleartext?
I can think of hundreds of evil uses for this service, but I cannot think of many good ones.

I'm sure there's lots. What are they?
I had an empty dialog box pop up on load that just had an "OK" button. No text ever loaded so I finally just clicked it.

The whole page took like 20 seconds to load and I can't use my scroll wheel. How annoying. And yeah, I can't use the back button.
The only time an agreement like this is standard is when you know you're doing something you shouldn't be, and you know you're about to lose your legitimate influence over people who could out you, so you try to buy their silence because to you the cost is cheap.

What country are you in? In the UK this is pure boilerplate text.
Also:
Python web "framework" in 705 loc: http://github.com/breily/juno
Not sure when they switched to a Flash-based store, but when CS4 was released the store was so overloaded you couldn't load the site. If you disabled Flash you could visit the HTML version just fine.
I have tried Chrome, FF, IE, Opera and safari on windows, none of them give me flash page.
More like: a company's use of its own product to do something on its website demonstrates how poorly the product is suited to that particular activity.
Org-mode is my zen master.
I'm still waiting to be able to create a new document directly into a folder.
On a related note, I have always found this fascinating: How many n * "great" grand parents do you have? Up to 2^(n+2) (Assuming an ancestral tree (as opposed to a graph) (i.e. no inbreeding). Assuming a 20-year generation length, that means that you have somewhere on the order of 10^6 great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grand parents, all of whom were frolicking all over the world in the 1600s.
Right now I'd say that Apple has fantastic library support behind a language that's a huge pain to use. Android has weaker libraries, but uses a language that arguably a bit nicer to use. If Google could put out some official support for something like Ruby it could be a huge boon to the app market.
Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant
http://twitter.com/raganwald/status/12056378037
In search, Google was not first - yet most people use Google today. Gmail was not first - yet I'm sure it's got a decent slice of the market. Chrome was not first - yet it's been gaining steadily. In a few years nobody will care who was first, just who is current.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s speech at ASNE
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I think it's more likely these are the results of the Neil Fraser acquisition: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/11/01/
> Letting any of these secondary runtimes develop a significant base of applications in the store risks putting Apple in a position where the company that controls that runtime can cause delays in Apple’s release schedule, or worse, demand specific engineering decisions from Apple, under the threat of withholding the information necessary to keep their runtime working.

Boy does that bring back memories, from the late 1980s, of various Microsoft products running on MacOS. Apple had to bend over backwards to make API improvements, while not breaking Excel (and others). IIRC, there were various kludges that Apple finally removed, causing much distress to the average user. This wasn't about frameworks per se, but it was about the MacOS toolbox during the 6.x and 7.x era.
Also today, F# 2.0 has shipped for 3.5/VS2008 as well. So you don't need to use .NET 4 and 2010 to get it.
C# is compiled using msbuild which is distributed with the .NET framework. So you don't need any VS at all to compile .csproj
Impressive 37 signals pitch video explains the problem and solution
He illustrates his perfect use case that everyone can relate to, and then explains how the product solves it.
Agreed, but my comment wasn't really aimed at dissing MS specifically for not not showing the regular web page when using an iPad, but rather the bigger point that mobile web sites, in today's age of powerful mobile devices, are just out of place. This is amplified by the iPad's 9.7" screen, but is equally true on an iPhone, and would hope on a Windows Mobile device as well.
Perhaps, but that's probably a good thing.
Study: Google, Amazon topping Microsoft in pay for engineers
It's vital to their future. Google sees mobile as the future of computing which means if they don't make it big in mobile they will fade away. Just look at what Steve Jobs is doing to Adobe--Google doesn't want to get leap frogged and then left for scraps.
Well if I remember correctly at the time when Final Cut Pro came out Adobe had let Premiere Pro for Mac lag the Windows version by quite a substantial amount and Apple was rapidly loosing video market share to Windows. So Final Cut Pro was Apple protecting what was left of the Mac video market at the time. Eventually Final Cut Pro running on Ti Powerbooks proved to be a big hit with broadcast crews and video production houses and was a big part of the Mac resurgence especially in video. As for Photoshop even before and during the transition to OSX the Mac still accounted for at least 50% or more of Adobe's photoshop revenue. So the decision by Adobe not to port Photoshop to Cocoa early on is frankly very hard to understand considering the fact that a substantial portion of Photoshop revenue was still coming from Mac users.
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Actually, Clayton Christensen is my great-uncle (my father's cousin). I've only met him once though.
Copenhagen Suborbitals - nonprofit working towards launching a human into space
This reminds me of the buggy-whip analogy. Cryptography vendors will be screwed. Security vendors might have a chance.
Atlassian Security Breach -- copy of email just sent to customers
Darpa Chief Testifies That US May Soon Face Critical Nerd Shortage
And riding your bike into the woods is like meditation.
Jesus christ! Something in the order form wants to chat with me!
Android is for touch screens. Chrome OS is for netbooks. A Chrome OS tablet would be a bad idea. An Android netbook would also be a bad idea. They're built around different input methods.
The slight change in political climate that justifies empirical observation is very hypocritical to be sure.
I think the motives behind prohibition of these substances is interesting, and is quite telling in regard to our society.
One under appreciated aspect is the overwhelming religiousness of psychedelic experiences, with history as long as society itself.
Such that it presents a problem to any religious philosophy that will not accept "drugs" as genuine supernatural tools, because psychedelic effects can therefore be understood through science or objective observation. And therefore all human spiritual phenomena is subject to that same scrutiny.
I think this creates an unconscious dichotomy in the mind of the average person. In my personal experience this was a profound disillusionment, and well worth the perceived risk 'recreational' use implies.
I wish "pick another color" put a second color to the right of the first instead of replacing it.
This title makes me definitely not want to click it.
I like the idea and the design is great. Any plans to monetize it or is it just something fun?
Conan Signs With TBS - good biz move or big flop coming?
You're right.

If the future of computing is Apple's locked down iPad and iPhone platforms, Google will lose big time. Google therefore needs to prevent that future from happening.
Is anyone going to tune in 2 TBS?
Post-f8 hackathon for Facebook developers
It is technically a YouTube link, but it is redirecting to securitytube.net. I know this because the Internet I am on blocks YouTube, but not SecurityTube, so going directly to the redirect link works, but the YouTube link does not.

At least that is what my browser says:

http://www.youtube.com/redirect?username=digitalhook&q=h...

Looks like someone found a YouTube exploit.
Wow, I don't like this. My usual tactic of looking for the / after the .tld isn't a general solution anymore. I hope my bank doesn't implement this functionality.
Yeah, it's a misleading HN title. I thought the page was from a disgruntled designer too.

Though -- why does the source of their page start with 100 empty lines? Do they think it'll stop people from scrolling down and seeing the source of the page?
This reeks of wave arquitecture to me
Can you suggest something better?
As a side note, you could run Emacs in daemon mode and connect to it with the client. See http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-daemon.html for more details. This way you only have to pay the startup cost once.
Steven Weinberg's A Designer Universe?
I'm not convinced the difference is that pronounced.
Nitpick: You will probably not have enough RAM to make your GoL simulation an acceptable Turing machine.
Yep, my T61p worked great with the fingerprint reader in Windows XP. Of course the rest of that machine was pure crap (software/driver wise). I had more BSOD's on that one laptop then all of the Windows machines I've owned in the past 15 years.
Short summary of an adventurous journey in the NOSQL world with Redis
That page crashed Firefox 3.6.3 on OSX 10.5.6! You need to have some ridiculously embarrassing development skills to build something like this.

Learn to use Flash, Adobe.
This cannot be emphasized enough-- Google does not want a future where their entire business model can be effectively turned off by another company. This is why they fight for openness in platforms, and for net neutrality. For Google, playing nice in those ways isn't a moral decision, but a business decision that has served them very well.
Looks like we're going to launch tomorrow afternoon PST. We'll try to get an early look for HN folk. Community is really important to us and to our journalists, so we'd love you guys to stop by and set a great example.
had to dig this out of my twitter timeline :)

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/25/crossroads-vikram-akula-sks...
correct! Basic idea is to show how easy it is to use this simple redirect against users of social media sites. Most people on HN would have seen this link and trusted it to be from YouTube.
I agree, you shouldn't have to, but there are what we think the world should be and the facts on the ground. For whatever reason, Google doesn't care to expand their checkout regime
The standalone drawing editor may be really significant. It fills a gap that isn't really met very well in the MS Office suite - a lot of people use PowerPoint for these kinds of drawings, flowcharts, and posters, but it really isn't ideal.
Think of the poor devs.

"Hey, guess what part of the site you AS3 guys are going to be working on for a Q2 launch! Yes, technically it does involve animation!"
As a rule advertisers use agencies if they are slightly larger, the smaller ones you might find on the adwords forum.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords?hl=en
Exactly! Imagine if your bank had such a redirect URL available, Phishing would be so simple.
If you are going for popularity in HN circles, I don't think .NET is a particularly hot shot. Fwiw, I just remembered Loopt (a YC startup :-) used to be on a .NET full stack, but they are moving towards Rails for frontend (http://www.loopt.com/jobs/web-developer-front-end).

In general, Rails seems to be really popular. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the right tool or the best one.
This is why redirect links should limit themselves to relative URLs, or limit it to a whitelisted set of domains.

(Can anyone think of downsides to limiting yourself to relative URLs or a whitelist of domains?)

It is very interesting that Youtube has this vulnerability. Almost every time I implement something like this, I double check the domain name. (This is really easy in PHP)
Yes. I also never understand the reason behind poison pills (part from shielding management). Why should shareholders limit their own rights to sell the company to somebody who wants to run it?

`Corporate raid' is a term as backwards as `piracy' for copyright infringement. Those `raiders' buy a company with their own money (or money they borrowed) from shareholders willing to accept their price. They should be allowed to do whatever they want with their newly acquired company.
Mhm, do you have Flash installed?

I just tested in IE (in VMWare) and it gave me the flash page.

edit: maybe a/b testing?
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I was blown away by this. I have used all versions of VS and always worked at places that provided it or were gold partners or in the MSDN subscriptions. The cost of one copy is MORE than a MSDN subscription. Seriously what is up with the pricing? This is waaaaay too much for an IDE these days. I could buy both Maya and 3dsmax cheaper than that.
Or Bottle: http://bottle.paws.de/
I know of a bank who did something similar several years ago. They layed-off all their computer challenged employees saying that that was very unfortunate but that the environment changed and computer knowledge was now needed for the job. They just couldn't employ unskilled personnel.

You had people who worked there their entire life. The bank made them work monday to friday, 9 to 5 and they didn't give them any training. not a single day whatsoever during their entire career.
And then they came and said thanks for working hard all your life for us but we just can't have untrained people like you with us.

I remember a 5th grade teacher telling us that working is like being a lemon. They squeeze all the juice in you and throw you away when empty. He was a bitter old man near retirement :).
Under assumption P=NP, a polynomial algorithm is already known (!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_%3D_NP_problem#Polynomial-tim...

The problem is: will humanity find a feasible algorithm?
I don't know a single non-technical but non-internet-ignorant user who wouldn't be suckered in by this. I've taught people how to scan for valid links, and now they can't even trust that.
They support some of C99. LMGTFY: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146381/visual-studio-supp...
Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy
Wadda – Image Zoomer With HTML5 Canvas
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When you change the first value from "Full" to "Upgrade" or vice-versa, an empty dialog box pops up, with no text and a Ok button. I have to clcik on it twice to dismiss it. IE on Win XP!
I like the plot of the immigration data. Immigrants are people with initiative, and they bring up the level of the people they live among.

It's good by they way to see these data presented as a scatterplot rather than just seeing the correlation number, which is much less informative.

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