skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thomson Reuters and Palantir Technologies Enter Exclusive Agreement
I think the reason there has been so much analysis is that not having Flash on the iPhone affects the end user dramatically, and Apple is all about user experience. If Apple wanted to "keep development and apps locked in that platform", they could do so with their app store and still show Flash content on the browser, in theory, to keep the end user happy. The meta-argument here is twofold, really: 1) Does Apple have the "right", as a business, to ban cross-compilers, which can be very efficient for developers and not necessary lower coding standards, and 2) Does this represent a reckoning for Flash, which has always been CPU-intensive at its own peril, when the GPU was the proper place for its vector calculations, and will Flash/Adobe lose marketshare and CS5 purchases as a result?
Are you an 15yr old girl??? Your website shows a much older guy :P

Microsoft has made a point to make this phone totally unlike iPhone with the Physical keyboard and Smaller form-factor and even going with Verizon rather than AT&T and the first two might attract the younger crowd.
If you meant the "platform" in your Apple section to be iPhone/iPad SDK don't they require you to be on their expensive hardware and software platform (Mac and Mac OS X) too?

Adobe doesn't even force you to have its free flash runtime to use its products (that page degrades nicely for me without flash). Apple expects you to use their expensive Mac and Mac OS X to be able to build products using their SDKs. I don't see how Adobe is worse than Apple here! And there are flash sites with great user experiences too; so great user experience has nothing to do with just using Apple's SDK.

I'm by no means a Flash lover but this idea of making Apple the David and Adobe the Goliath is pathetic.
this is not completely true.. when google first released their search application, they were allowed to use an undocumented api (at the time), that detected when you moved your phone from your ear, and was allowed. Not sure if this is the same as a private api, but in general they do reject the use of private api's.
Neat, easy to understand instantly, and I like that you've already added social/viral features (stamps).

My question is, how do you plan on gaining traction for the site? Are you going to pay for content/routes, or... ?
It's related to acquisitions in a different way. That was mostly an attempt to put Docs(Writely) and Spreadsheets on as much common infrastructure as possible.

You will remember that the original versions of these products were independently developed and then acquired by Google.

Still haven't seen the results, but I assume they threw in a few features on the way also. Docs had seen no interesting additions in quite a while despite the very capable team. So now it is coming out of maintenance mode and will hopefully add features and stay relatively responsive.
Special exceptions aside, of course. That follows with his other point about big players, which I agree with. They get to do things the little guys don't.
I been saying this ever since I first got wind of the new TOS. We went away from Windows because MS was holing a leash on us with their API lock-in. Now we're 1-up ing that with Apple's new TOS which takes the MS lock-in to a whole new level.

People say "oh but it will keep the already crap x-platform apps out" to which I say "Yes it will keep the would-be flashy x-platform POS games/crap apps out, but it will also keep out the apps that let me do my business better that run on Android / WebOS / iPhone because the developers of the TOOLS had to cater to a larger market share."

If I am making a tool that takes pictures and uploads them to my website for special needs of people running on the BlackBerry, Android, WebOS, iPhone because it has to be a compliment to my web tool there is no reason why I can't write it with minimal effort and use the iPhone store to distribute it for free with that exact goal in mind! Its not about making a wonderful iPhone app, its about doing my damn business and giving a business process convenience using the iPhone.

Not every iPhone app has to be a super innovative new way to run the world, sometimes its just a piece of crap complimentary tool that's just needed to do some grunt work easier.
Microsoft Kin UI walkthrough
I like my pseudo-anonymity here, so I'll respectfully decline.
"You get one, it interrupts what you're doing, and if you get ten, you only see the last one and there's no way to review the other nine."

Not the case, in my experience. Generally, they pop up one after the other, right when you're about to tap on one, and then you have to either dismiss each one separately, or open the application responsible for the most recent one and hope for the best.

Notifications on iPhoneOS are the single worst user experience, and I can't understand why Apple hasn't yet fixed this ridiculous and annoying problem once and for all.
Yeah that is a killer feature and SharePoint won't give you that type of collaboration.
Twitter purpose was hidden but not absent. MSN messenger has always had a feature letting you change your display name. Naturally people started using this as a status message. This has been the case since the early days of msn messenger well before Twitter. Just because someone doesn't understand a disruptive technology doesn't mean it's need or utility can't be simply explained. It just means he or she has a poor grasp on the idea's utility.
Well, he makes one useful point at the end. So why are turing machines allowed in the app store?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/turing-machine-simulator/id30...
There is tons of real competition. There will probably be 50 Android smartphones on the market by the end of the year, if not sooner. RIM and Symbian are still ahead, even if you see them as waning.

Yes consumers have no idea what any of this means. But that actually works in favor of Apple's competitors. When an average consumer looks at the smartphone market, Apple may stand out, but the iPhone is still just one among hundreds of smartphones. There is tons of competition on features and price.

Finally, Google doesn't need to kick it up a notch. Android is doing extremely well. Keep in mind that Google doesn't need Android to make money. Google doesn't care if Nexus One sales are sluggish. They are in the market to change the game. And I'd say they are succeeding with that.
Are the things that US is asking for good of bad?

Because if they are good, it might be worth the tradeoff.
iPhone apps with Unity or LUA
I fail to understand the need.

GMail has a lab feature called "Canned response", it does exactly what you do and its integrated into Gmail.

Also, search-and-forward would work just fine.
No, not in any way. I believe the techs are unrelated.

However, it's nice that google puts this up 2 days before they take Etherpad down. I'd be lost without it.
It is not flash-only. It degrades well to a HTML page if you don't have flash.
But how does it compare to the gold standard, the IBM/Lexmark/Unicomp Model M? IMO no keyboard review is complete without that comparison.
Yes. It's normally only the case when the company asks you to leave. If you google for "non-derogatory statements" you can find plenty of discussion about such clauses.
The title doesn't lose much pull when changed to
"Apple is Tightening its Grip--Not Gonna End in Gentle Snuggle"
Architel Acquires Applied Resource Technologies
Google is taking the shotgun approach where Apple is taking the sniper approach. Either can hit the target.

If my toaster did run Android, that wouldn't make the HTC EVO any less appealing. The apparent lack of focus on the Android front isn't because Google's unfocused -- it's because there are a lot of companies besides Google working to make Android happen (Sense UI in particular has been great for Android).

With the rapid releases of Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1 in the past year, I'd say Google has been kicking it up a notch. The problem is that the carriers wait for way too long to push the updates out to their users. What use is progress if many Android users still can't check out Google Goggles?
Our customers do things like the following:

1. Monitor online ad distribution

2. Build directories of people on the web

3. Check for IP violoations (digital watermarking, etc.)

4. Build niche, localized search engines (picture searching, regional searching, etc.)

5. Collect information on product pricing, retail data, etc.

Crawling gets a bad rap. It's useful for a bunch of stuff.
Forex Trading - should you invest?
A tale of two search engines
I don't know anybody with an Android phone, so I will ask: so you can have a phone experience without ads all over the place? I just assumed that you might have ads here and there, since that is Google's business model.
Yes. Previously, phones such as the "tin can with no string" only enabled conversations with oneself. The addition of "talk to someone else" technology was truly a revolution in social networking.
The Step of the Conductor
I tend to look at the front of the laptop while I'm working on it. The logo on the back of the lid doesn't bother me that much from this angle.
The Ruby API is still on the to-do list! Note that a Ruby API is in the works, but Ruby 80apps are not.
Ask HN: Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions?
Apple made a business decision, and the development community needs to make theirs.

As we have seen, there have been good arguments both for and against. Developers will vote with their feet, and I’m sure Apple thought through that risk. No matter how many posts, upvotes, downvotes, etc. I don’t think Steve Jobs is going to change his mind. I feel we are missing other good submissions with all the focus on things beyond our control and which are becoming philosophical discussions.
Indeed.

For example, if you just looked at the fact that higher-income states tend to lean Democratic politically, you might conclude that higher-income individuals lean Democratic. But nationwide, and in each state alone, higher-income individuals lean Republican.

These potentially-counterintuitive results are examples of Simpson's Paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

It's possible the same effect is present in hours worked: that even though high-income/high-education states work fewer hours on average, in each state individually higher-incomes/more-education is correlated with more hours worked. More detailed data would be required to know for sure.
It seems there are fewer and fewer reasons for Google Wave. Maybe that’s the better strategy anyways, bringing Wave tech to Gmail and Docs seems a lot easier than swallowing Gmail and Docs whole as Wave seems to try at the moment.
Giles "Goatboy" Bowkett:

I even say (sic) DHH enter the fray, which is absurd hypocrisy, given that the first time I ever saw this guy, he was putting a giant "Fuck You" slide on a screen and explaining how he wasn't going to add features to Rails that he didn't agree with, because it was his framework, and he didn't believe that anybody who disagreed with him on that merited any other response but "fuck you". What kind of response does he think he merits from Apple?

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-his-platform-no...
"I haven't heard a good case that developers are born with an inalienable right to write any code they want for any platform they want."

Probably because I can't think of a single time when this has been an issue. The argument isn't over what Apple can do. It's that Apple is dictating how developers are allowed to develop their applications. This isn't about writing Java apps that will run on the iPhone. It's about writing Objective-C apps using whatever tools we want that will run on the iPhone.

"As is whether the change is distasteful or offensive."

One could argue it's both. Either is fine by me.
What's u/l? What camera? i don't even understand that question.
But did you think about asking on superuser.com?
The existence of a restricted marketplace doesn't mean the greater internet must become just like it, as if through some kind of relative application of logic.

The internet--and the real world in general--can host a million restricted marketplaces, each designed for specific interests--and still be free in general.

Your reductio ad absurdum is suggesting that the presence of a gated community in the Hamptons means that every neighborhood ought to be gated.
The fall back works fine - I didn't know what was going on.
They're probably (almost certainly) bad. They're representing the RIAA, MPAA, etc. But without openness, who can know?
AT&T's EVDO Man-in-the-Middle Javascript injection
I am the same way. My fire extinguisher is "Dual Bios".
I like it, it is an easy way to organize a set of links for others. I think it could possibly be used in How To sites when multiple sites are needed (e.g. getting a webserver up and running) or replacement for other sites who have top sites of the day (wouldn't have to click back page(s) when you want to go to the next link... like an extension for digg or something)?
I've seen many people print out 60" science presentation posters drawn in Powerpoint.

Not that I'm endorsing doing such, only that it's possible and common practice.
The World Would Be Better If Everyone Watched This Video - Pale blue dot
Spa Treatments
Spa Treatments
James Gosling (Java Creator) quits Oracle
These are rational arguments for non-ObjC developers to be pissed at Apple. None of them are arguments for APPLE to change its policy. In the medium term it is clearly better for Apple's interests to implement 3.3.1, to maintain control over platform and encourage differentiation of its hardware (the way it makes most of its money!). In the medium term, they have more great developers than you can shake a stick at, so they won't cry about losing a few thousand more.

The only real argument that makes sense is that long-term, enough developer goodwill will be lost that they will go flock to a better platform and eventually tip the balance against iOS. That certainly will not be for the next 3-5 years, which is an eternity in tech.

I am not an iOS developer nor do I own Apple stock, so I'm just calling it like I see it. In short, it's a great business decision for them and I really doubt developers will make them pay for it, either short or medium term.
I, too recommend the books by Mark Murphy. You can get the uptodate PDFs/mobi/epub versions at commonsware.com.

Real books on Android (or any other fast moving technology) tend to be outdated when they reach the bookstore. For the price of one book you get three (the fourth about the ndk is due late april) with a one year update. Mark does more than one update in a year.
Do you mean the Eye-Fi?
GAO: Postal Service business 'not viable'
Yes I have flash installed. Also, on latest Chrome builds Flash is integrated into Chrome, so even if I didn't have it should have worked on Chrome.

Its possible they are doing a/b testing, obviously some of you guys are getting flash.
A fast disk is a worthwhile investment. My builds have gotten about 30-40% faster after switching to an SSD.

That said, I was surprised that it wasn't a bigger bump. Turns out builds are more CPU-bound that I thought.
Isn't this what SSL is for, proving identity? In this case, even a cursory look at the URL would indicate that something was up.

Sure, this makes fishing a little easier, but users need to watch out for themselves. It's a big bad world out there :)
You're taking Apple's domination for granted. How did they get it? There were half a dozen smartphone platforms before iPhone OS, but all of the devices had lousy quality, lousy user experience, and a lousy marketplace for third-party apps.

If you read the rebuttals to the complaints, you'll see that there are several practical, quality-oriented reasons why 3.3.1 was a smart move. It's just one of hundreds of quality-improving measures that Apple has done to make the iPhone "have no real competition".
It does seem like they integrated the faster refresh rate so you can see what your collaborators are doing in real time rather than every 10 seconds.

This was one of the features of EtherPad that the EtherPad team considered "a hard problem."
Thank Jobs we are cleaning out all those garbage games. They should have used Apple's clearly superior game dev framework.
Canned responses work pretty well, but still not as tight of a workflow as I'd like.

Also, I'm working on a premium version where you can track Opens and click-throughs on the links you share -- helping you A/B test and see ROI of your pitches.
isn't that the guy who likes to say "f*ck you" to the developers who use the OSS framework he created and still manages?
CSSDesk - A Dynamic CSS Sandbox
>The cost of one copy is MORE than a MSDN subscription.

That's because it includes an MSDN sub. Still astronomical, I know.
I know a guy who used to work on Microsoft's web site, and they were actually pretty determined about making it work on all the browsers they could. I don't think this is something they would just gloss over or forget about.
git clone rails
What about an article about how you can't use erlang to write iPhone software?
I forget his name at the moment, but the author of "The Management Myth" retired early from management consulting to write a book on philosophy.
Exactly. I made 0to255 to solve the "I need a slightly lighter color" problem, which is actually a really frequent one. There are already really awesome tools for color inspiration like those on http://www.colourlovers.com/
Flash CS5 allows you to export your flash to html5 canvas so in the not to distant future it will be a reality.
I disagree about Objective-C being a pain. When I was doing osx development. Desktop and iPhone, I liked it.

You do not have to use Eclipse at all! I use maven and the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA. But I could also use Netbeans. Or a simple text editor. For the GUI you can use DroidDraw.

And you do not have to use Java. You can use Scala. Although I would recommend using Java until you are familiar with the APIs and concepts.
Apple's focus is and always will be: 1) Apple, 2) Marketers, 3) Users, 4) Developers, and #4 has always been a distant one at best (anyone remember the Rhapsody fiasco?) Keep that ordering in mind, the latest changes make perfect sense.
Is the fixation on this topic a bug in the HN software or in the people reading HN?
Those shareholders being Page and Brin in majority until very recently.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/22/technology/Google_founders_s...
Even after the sale they are still 48%.
Tell/Ask HN: A year ago I tried to start an HN for design
Tell:

http://designthought.org

Ask:

It seemed to have energy (and submitters besides me) early on, but it's fizzled out. I want to get it growing again.

I used reddit because it took 5 mins to setup, but now I'm wondering if reddit aversion could be keeping people away who would normally be interested in the content there.

What do you think? Should I try customizing the presentation (away from the reddit default) or should I move it off reddit entirely?
Jaron Lainer on Microsoft (and a 1993 letter with plans to take it down)
Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat on MapReduce
Yes, very disturbing game. Fun fact: The sinister computer is voiced by Harlan Ellison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scr...
Jolly good, and I'm all in favour of better tool support for contracts, but that still can't "ensure quality code".

(If whoever thought my comment needed downvoting would like to explain why -- because it's too obvious? because it's wrong? because there's nothing at all wrong with a major software vendor making totally false and unreasonable claims in their promotional materials? -- then I am, seriously although not literally, all ears.)
Puppet vs. Chef
Except I have Click to Flash installed in Safari, and it still insists on that full screen flash monstrosity.
In case you are serious, that quote is out of context.

He said "fuck you" in a presentation on Rails where he tried expressing that Rails is opinionated and that if Rails doesn't suit your style you're better off choosing something else instead of trying to convince core devs to switch directions (or something of the sort).

Say what you will about the guy, but he's a great salesman.
Personally (as a designer) I don't think its the right approach for a design community/news source.

If you look at dribbble.com - they're clearly onto something for designers.
Hmm, that's a good idea. I'll play around with that.
that doesn't seem to solve it. the youtube redirect also has a signature, but generating a signed link is trivial.
Standards and Intellectual Property
I don't know why you're talking in the past test ... like those platforms are dead or something.
Facepalm. :|
Well, they could also have been using unsalted hashes, and they're afraid someone might use a rainbow table to find out the original password. Still bad, but not nearly as bad.
Opera 10.50 on Vista worked fine. You have a problem with your flash.
I think it's just that plenty of people so far on the fence or on the side of apple in all the app-store and DRM conversations have suddenly 'seen the light'.
I dont know why you're getting downvoted. Hallucinogens make many people question their environment. When someone starts asking questions they are harder to control.

For example, if everyone started asking themselves why they are chasing the American dream or what it really is then our economic landscape would look very different.
Apple's move seems to be based partly on the success of the iPhone but partly on the fact that they can't make a cheap, intel netbook without destroying their brand values, and can't make an ARM netbook without breaking compatability. (The latter applies to Microsoft too).

The fact that you can buy an external keyboard (a very un-Apple move) suggests they'd have shipped a conventional laptop form factor if they could get away with it.

I'm hoping the Apple ARM tablet leads to Android tablets which will then open the door for those ARM netbooks we've been promised for the last couple of years.
Yeah, but those cause brain tumors I hear.
I think I missed the part where he had the leverage to make that kind of demand. Perhaps even the brand-name consulting firms have figured out that ridiculous severance packages don't make a whole lot of sense.
The Cherry Blue & Brown switches are damn close. I don't have an IBM to compare with - but this switch set is the first keys I've been happy with in probably a decade. They're built to be reliable, consistent and last FOREVER, like the Model M.
So Apple is also an "opinionated" vendor, so what? Not happy? Try developing for Android or something else. Really, what are the merits for this guy to complain about it given his own stand regarding Rails?
The post you're replying to specifically said that it "worked for the web". Nobody's trying to take away the open web.
no no, it's a YC company. You can upload from your camera directly using the web browser to the site.
Too much conjecture, not enough fact.
"iphone..not best selling smartphone..blackberry"
this claim is meaningless, and probably irrelevant, without defining your terms and supplying data
I'm not sure I follow... What code? If, while relaxing and reading news, I come across something I absolutely must run (a pretty unlikely scenario) I can simply email paste it into an email to myself.
In my city Vodafone has said it's going to start shipping Droid and Nexus One. They are already shipping some Android-enabled LG model.

And they have a big marketing machine ready ... its competitor (Orange) has been shipping iPhones for a while, but I haven't seen many around (mostly because people haven't jumped on the smartphones wagon).

And I think it's the same situation in the rest of Europe. It's the carriers that make it happen ... and Vodafone is a huge player.
And how do we know if it's good or bad? The details are unknown.

Well, there is this: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5425059/ACTA_Agreement_leake...
Nice try, but I am not going to fall into that circular reference trap again.