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I don't agree that iPhone development isn't open. There are free tools and free documentation readily available, albeit not for all platforms. This is of course no different than many other developer environments, such as the tools for Windows 7 Phone will be.

So open would mean "if Apple was forced to lower the demands on the applications submitted to the app store" in this case, I guess? To which I would say, "Quite the contrary." I think Apple should enforce higher requirements when it comes to human interface guidelines, for instance. But it's of course a process that's evolving, and it will take some time to get it right.

One could argue that the demands put on the Apps in the App store is increasing competition, since it encourages developers not wanting to be subjected to them to develop for alternate platforms. I just hope the courts will see it that way, if it comes to it.
Replying to my own post I know :)

Remember Apple are attacking this market in multiple directions: The have the ipod touch, iphone and ipad. Most applications written for them run across all devices. They are using a cunning take on cross-product economies of scale to further distance themselves from the competition due to lower costs and market saturation (ipod touch now outselling iphone for example). An ipX in every pocket? That's the dream.

Taking this into account we now have an 88% market share.

So apple have larger economies of scale which can drive profit high while keeping prices low.
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I see the TED talks are spreading :)

We will have our first ever TED in Montevideo, Uruguay: http://www.tedxmontevideo.org/

If you understand Spanish, I really recommend Nicolás Jodal who is our most influential enterpreneur and gives great talks.

Miguel Brechner will probably speak about the OLPC project (which was at its most succesful here in Uruguay) as he did in Buenos Aires: http://tedxbuenosaires.org/?page_id=11
I think the iPad (at least iBooks) is best for people who have no interest in investing the time in perusing book stores or buying a device just to read books. But now that something you wanted has a nice book reader inside of it, you might as well check out a copy (maybe just a the sample) of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
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On the other hand - if you've got the Armani suit, the Tag Heuer or Rolex, and drive the Porsche, you can only be 'faking' so much; obviously you've had some financial success.
Unfortunately for your argument, they do not have a monopoly in the smart-phone market. They do have a monopoly in the iPhone market, but then again regulators don't look so narrowly when determining anti-competitiveness.
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Some really interesting ideas here, especially coming at it from a Django background.

Flask embraces thread locals - Django tends to pretend they aren't necessary at the user level, even though there are a few of them lurking in the core framework. Flask's request object is thread-safe global, and Flask encourages you to put your own per-request global instances (such as a database connection which is opened at the beginning of the request and closed at the end) on the special flask.g object. I've always disliked this kind of approach because it makes it hard to run your code outside of the context of a web request (e.g. in a cron script), but Flask deals with that by providing a clever test_request_context method:

from flask import request

with app.test_request_context('/hello', method='POST'):
# now you can do something with the request until the
# end of the with block, such as basic assertions:
assert request.path == '/hello'
assert request.method == 'POST'

Using the with statement here is very smart - Flask seems to get a lot of mileage out of both context managers and decorators.

I'm looking forward to seeing how Flask shapes up - it feels like a very modern attempt at a Python micro-framework, with some pleasantly unconventional ideas.
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Before considering changing the allocator to improve performances, review the way you consume memory.
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Before you begin to write you should decide on two main things: what your paper will be about (concerning the topic); for whom you will write it (your audience). Usually, the audience of such kind of papers consists of people who are familiar with the general study area but not with the definite topic.
Is there some reason a wallpaper site is on the front page of HN?
I think what he was looking for was the link between the rules Apple uses to accept/reject things from the store and the SDK agreement... but yeah, it seems to be a moot point.
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Exactly.

A good consultant could probably retire at 55 having set up his family well, private education for the kids, a bit of a trust fund, a comfortable retirement and bit of an interitance and so on. But as I say, this is not what most people would consider "rich". There's a good bit in Wall Street where Gordon Gekko is trying to explain this to Bud Fox. $100k salary and flying business class everywhere is not the same as $50M in the bank and a private jet.
I would love to see RIM adopt WebOS—the current BlackBerry OS is a disaster, especially in the apps layer. How would this work out with the QNX acquisition, though? I don't know enough about QNX, but is it primarily the kernel?
I'm Black, and I'm engaged to a Filipina, and my brother married a Mexican woman. I think the stereotype of the "Angry Black Woman" is partly responsible for scaring off men of all races. Just hear what this vocal minority of Black women have to say about themselves: http://theangryblackwoman.com/about/
With equal or roughly-equal populations of men and women, the means should be the same for both, but the medians needn't be. Thought experiment: 100 men, 100 women; there are 10 women who have sex with all the men, and no other sex is had. Then the mean number of partners is 10 for both men and women, but the median number is 10 for the men and 0 for the women.

You can get a similar result even with means, if for some reason your sampling procedure doesn't catch the outliers. (For instance, if they're very rare, or if they're demographically different in a way that makes it harder for your sampling to find them.)

Having said all that, I suspect lying really is the main contributor to these differences.
I don't know how significant a factor it is, but on Linux distros where Firefox comes through the package management system, there tends to be a lag in upgrades.

I'm still running Ubuntu 9.04 at home and I had to break out of apt to get past Firefox 3.0 (I ended up using Ubuntuzilla, which works surprisingly well).
because he spent that entire article telling us how great he was at rationalizing selling out. he pretty clearly had enough practice that he could've handled one last rationalization.

as far as judgment, i don't consider attempting to predict someone's behavior a judgment. i didn't say "he is an awful person". that'd be judgment. i was implying, though, that you shouldn't be impressed by his turning down $16k. the only thing that tell us about him is that his price is above $16k, and below $200k/yr.

and, there was no giving up of his job, in the end. i quote: "I was not surprised the day I lost my job."
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You need a piece of paper (degree) from an educational institution to make these claims. Otherwise you get arrested/have serious problems. Shaman/Medicine men have been having visions for years and using substances to get closer to nature since humankind started - agree with your point about "rediscovery".
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I don't think proving N = NP would necessarily give us an easy way to transform any NP problem into a P one. It could be a nonconstructive proof. You would know that a given encryption could possibly be cracked, but not how.
"I know a lot of people who are over 60 who are quite capable of using Facebook and Twitter," [the computer expert asked about the move] said.

I would hope MI5 would have higher requirements on their cyberterrorism-fighting employees.

"A six-year-old can use them, so I'm sure a 60-year-old can."

That's hardly a relevant assumption. A six-year-old of today most likely grew up with computers and knows nothing of a world without them. A 60-year-old might very well have not seen the point of computers and resisted using them for their entire adult life. Just because an average 60-year-old person has the cognitive abilities to learn to use computers, doesn't mean that they want to.

Granted, if they were kicking people out based on the assumption that if you're over a certain age, you can't use a computer, that would be one thing, but it seems to me that they're checking employee skillsets and then letting people who don't have the skills needed go. Isn't that basically a good thing?
Lisp S-Expressions would have worked, and they've been around forever. JSON is basically a more-verbose sort of S-Expression.
"Not only to lessen his work load, but also to keep him motivated."

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Rather primitive typesetting on that. I wonder if anyone ever thought of a better way to typeset technical documents.
Ask HN: Review my copyright protection webapp datetimesign.com
Visit the site at http://datetimesign.com

Another side project, this time after friends noticed the amount of not very helpful websites out there that offer copyright protection for a large fee... and you get little protection ;)

It's not a new idea, using trusted timestamps to prove that a document (via its SHA-256 hash) existed at a particular time and date. I'm not sure if there's anything out there nice and friendly for normal users though.

I would love to hear your comments about the site design and concept. If you want to try it out (haven't yet written this promotional give-away part of the code yet) then register for an account and then send me an email with the details, I'll update your account with a couple of credits.

Thanks,
Tom.
Nope, now they have to learn C and how RAM actually works, and what a fucking pointer is

Those topics are really important in Objective C..
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Previously posted, twice:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179970
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1185195
"Here's what the video didn't mention: you can't animate these."

http://es.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bbg9c/unlimited_detai...
We are in the process of Negotiating to get the Commercial version of Unlimited Details SDK built.

pedant that i am, random Capitalization in supposedly Important Ad-Copy infuriates Me.
Move to a city with a substantial immigrant population and date women who were born outside the US. My girlfriend is Filipina and she's not like the Roissy/SatC stereotype at all. She has actually said that Sex and the City set feminism back 20 years, and I agree.

I'm 26 and have had a pretty solid dating life, but I've never dated an American white woman.

It takes a lot of time to meet good women, though. You have to be extroverted and make a lot of friends, who will introduce you to their friends. Don't expect results for at least a year. Even in Manhattan, I know some beautiful 22+ women who've never had a one-night stand.

Also, some advice: take a 3-to-6-month hard-line break from dating. You need to purge yourself of the misogyny that combat dating creates. I took a total break after I found myself, to my horror, behaving like an asshole to perfectly nice women. After that shock, I stopped dating entirely for 3 months, and met my current girlfriend after that.
I think this might be dead in the water to begin with. Apples new TOS state that their new OS is only allowed to run C/C++/Objective C and Javascript as interpreted by Safari.

So it would seem that Opera won't be allowed to interpret Javascript, making it pretty useless as a general purpose browser.
Well, what's irritating to me is the reason they've had to "rediscover" it: the prohibitions our government imposes on what private individuals do to their own bodies.
I agree with you. I just have never really thought of entrepreneurship as a way to climb the ladders. I've always viewed entrepreneurship as a much purer meritocracy where the idea/product is more important than the degrees/employment history of the founders. Maybe I'm being a bit idealistic or naive.
I saw this a few months ago and (after doing some research and realizing how infeasible it is for what we're doing today) forgot about it largely. However, the Fairlight/CNCD demo that took 1st place in the Breakpoint 2010 demo compo uses a pure pixel cloud approach: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54603

Not sure of the technology underlying it, but it's damn impressive.
You can autopost from posterous to a lot of different blogs, including wordpress, tumblr, blogger etc., all of which will allow you to have ads.
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Re: "effective monopoly". Your comment reveals that you do not understand how antitrust/competition law works.

In order to define a monopoly, you need to define a market. In your comment, you define the market as "mobile mini-computers". I have no idea what this means. Do you? I mean, are you able to articulate your definition of the market in terms that a court would accept?

Short version: Apple doesn't have a dominant position in any market other than the market for Apple products. That is not an antitrust/anti-competition scenario.

You need to read up on this subject.
Not really - the suit and the watch would fit onto a fairly normal credit card, for example. You'd be a fool to go into debt for them, of course, but people do, status symbols, even misguided ones, can be powerful lures. Rolex and TAG in particular are now almost anti-brands for that reason (same with Louis Vuitton luggage, Porsche, Burberry, etc).

The guys who signal to each other with these accessories are subtle and understated - their messages are intended only for others of their type. Anything a rapper would wear is out! Think Pierce Brosnan in Thomas Crowne or James Bond. He's a actor who is "faking it", playing the role, and doing that on screen takes a wardrobe professional who studies this full-time and the budget to spend not $2000 but $20,000 on a suit (really, that's what Brioni costs, and what the production spent) and I'm sure there are real "upper class" people who glance at Bond and spot all the little mistakes straight away.
"the short-statured, the homely, the paunchy, the balding, and the sweater-clad are, if not turned away outside by the bouncer, ignominiously ignored by the busy, beautiful people within."

As a short statured, homely, paunchy, balding sweater-clad person, I guess I'm dead :P (I wish I was joking... I don't use sweaters all the time, but I guess that's my only saving grace.. )

The article has a point about Roissy's blog, which someone here on HN pointed me out: it's darkly fascinating.
Bullshit. At least half of pick-up artistry is seeking out the kind of trashy girl who is receptive to it. There are a lot of women who don't fall for it, including pretty much everyone one would want in a long-term relationship.
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Hah, every newbie analyst thinks he or she is sure to make partner. Maybe 1% actually do.
In practical terms, if you want it to look-and-feel like an Android app, you have to use the Android SDK; but what language you generate those bytecodes and method calls with, and how you compile it, well, why should anyone care?

I think this is the perfect summation of the entire issue here.
You have a choice not to develop for the iPhone OS. Who is twisting your arm?

Give the rhetoric a break. It's you who is being contemptuous.
"...what people have >>known<< for years"

Well: some people. And "known" from their own uncontrolled (in the scientific sense) trials.

Seems to me that the important thing in this report is the systematic research using controlled studies.

Perhaps most helpful was the evidence that side-effects or negative reactions were quite infrequent and were manageable by attendants (aka "guides" in the 60s). Those types of findings might eventually open the door for public funding of research (note that most studies were funded by psychedelic-sympathetic agencies).
A love the "A" notation, and the definition of "O" in terms of "A". But I'm sorry to say that I don't follow the definition of "o" (little-Oh). Can anyone help me here?
As far as drugs go... Our bodies belong to Pfizer/Merc. Commercialization of drugs.
Palm is up for sale, HTC and Lenovo showing interest
Its been 20 days, and Apple still hasnt approved the Opera Mini browser app
Thanks for the comments, I do appreciate the input. A couple of advantages over pgAdmin for an offsite database is that it will not drop connections, and it can easily be configured for SSL using https. Also, clients don't have to install anything.

Feature-wise the focus at this point has mostly been on powerful data navigation, i.e. you can do a quick search for a customer id, click the reference to the purchase order table, click to download a pdf contract directly from a binary field (just an example). The tool provides significant time-savings for these tasks, though you may not discover this unless you delve into the product a little.

More generally there are many little productivity improvements and details that support the user that all add up to provide value, which may not be noticed at a quick glance. I hope to be able to communicate these as efficiently as possible.

Going forward there is a lot of room for the kind of analytical features you mentioned. This is still an early version of the product with focus on core administration tasks. In fact management of running processes is due in the next release.
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Adding support for attaching an optional component is hardly the same as having a device where said component always is available.
Providing 3G in the subway does not appear to be a problem in cities like Tokyo and Helsinki. Big City, USA will figure it out soon.
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It's the same everywhere. For example, people who are reselling SAP in, say, Russia, are doing exactly the same thing - tuning numbers and telling lies. The better you're able to lie the better SAP consultant you are.
There are no project with was completed on schedule and within budget.
Same with the Platform Preview 9.00.7745.6019
If they have solved the problem of scaling a "Search algorithm like Google" to infinitely large data sets, why are they using it to draw 1999-looking graphics with lots of geometry instead of eating Google's lunch?
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I figure this can help a lot of other startups, so check it out and please share your feedback.

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Somehow I predict Titanium's Android support to improve greatly once they lose their primary mobile platform. Then we could write Android apps in JavaScript (yay!)

Currently it's kind of a tack one.
Could this be Python's Sinatra?
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Is it just me, or is this yet another 'gap filler' that Fred Wilson was talking about?

TweetUp combines sophisticated relevance algorithms with a bidding system to raise your best tweets to the top of search results and make it easy for you to acquire new followers. No longer worry about your important tweets being pushed down by the noise and disappearing into the ether.

This sounds like it will be nothing more than someone going to google and checking the 'only show me sponsored ads' checkbox. Where is the value to the consumer in this product?
Why would I want to use a service
(Mind that this is my experience only, so I don't pretend to be right: don't get me wrong on this one)
I've been travelling quite a lot and I've been hitting on pretty much any kind of woman and the scary thing is the consistency of the response, regardless of looks, ethnicity, social and relationship status.
I've discussed the matter with other guys and there are some arguing that if the woman's married/engaged it's even easier, because of the novelty factor involved.
My thoughts come from the reality i've known and experienced, if you wanna call it mysogyny i guess it's fine by me.
I think this is the reason why MBAs find it difficult become entrepreneurs.
Apple patents 3D glasses for the iPod.
WebOS is certainly better than Windows Mobile. Microsoft has utterly failed to make a good mobile OS. Maybe they should just buy one.

The problem is, they wouldn't have the vision to isolate the solid WebOS development team from the rest of MS. They would tangle it up in departmental meetings and company-wide politics and cross-market product ties ('search your phone emails with Bing Mobile Edition Professional Basic!'). And then, besides being the underdog, it would also suck.
"very powerful mechanism that is deeply and unavoidably bound into women's brain"

Oh, do tell? What part of the brain? Please refer to the relevant studies.
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I think Microsoft is understandably hesitant to buy another creative cellphone design shop after the "synergies" failed to materialize after their acquisition of the maker of the Sidekick, Danger Inc.
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You can go a long way with a SQL database too. I'm writing up an article about getting the two billion words of Wikipedia into an inverted index in a SQLite database entirely in memory, and that's another other order of magnitude bigger.
False distinction. The GP is saying that economic systems are moral systems. He even says why, and cites examples.

He didn't miss your point. He saw your point, and thinks it's wrong.
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I doubt he'd wait until the TeX speaking role to announce that.
The point of the article was likely only this Thrush feature, and not the problem of implementing accounting systems.

For a small list like this I would use a fold function and accumulate up savings account amounts, all in one pass, all functional.
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USTR is going to use every shred of leverage they have in these negotiations, and as things stand, that includes Europe's desire to have the proceedings opened up. In other words, they don't really care so much about openness (otherwise they'd have taken a harder line against it), but they will trade it for a better position. I think things should be more open already, but given the current reality, this makes a lot of sense for the USTR.
Given the bargain price of Palm right now and how much it could cost fighting a legal battle for years, HTC could probably end up saving a lot of money simply by buying Palm right now.

Apple was deterred enough by Palm's portfolio that they made little noise even as Palm launched their platform with features clearly covered by Apple patents. Engadget had a really good look at both arsenals last year: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/apple-vs-palm-the-in-dept...

If HTC suddenly had those onboard, I think we'd see Apple drop their suit in pretty short order.