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>They do own the phone, right?

That's just a technicality.

They own the phone but for Apple it's more like a subscription: people will buy apps from Apple's AppStore, buy accessories that need Apple's approval (and where Apple gets a cut) and after maximum 3 years upgrade to the next Apple piece of hardware.

So the phone purchase isn't an atomic purchase, it's more like the first downpayment to "the Apple experience".
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I would guess they're using more of a common sense standard than an absolute standard. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine can be found on any newstand and I don't think it carries any age restrictions (not sure though) and the Karma Sutra is widely stocked in libraries. They are both examples of sexual content that has a broad social mandate to freely exist. There's the issue of quantity of these apps which I think is probably along the lines of a newstand that stocks a few porno magazines is very different from a porno shop.
Ok, edited. I wrote the title with the problem I found in mind, which lead me to find that discussion. Anyway, in the discussion the problem of closed tabs' processes not being released is treated.
Random comment on the title (as it occurs in the original post) -- is there anyone in the universe that is actually less offended by "sh!t" than "shit"? I've never really understood why on earth someone would bother obscuring potentially offensive word choice by such silly techniques. Either rephrase things in such a way that they do not contain such words, or just write them out...
Considering Palm is looking for a buyer and their chief developer just resigned, does it really matter that a dev account is now free ?

I looks to me more like a sign that the whole thing might be discontinued shortly so why would anyone invest their time in something that looks like a dying platform ?

The $99 wasn't a problem, except for people that just wanted to make some free apps.
FYI Douglas Adams is, alas, deceased.
I agree. In hitch hikers the world is about to end because some one wants to build bypass and earth in in the way. No four horse man of the apocalypse, no wrath of god, it's a planning issue. To make it worse, we (the earthlings) didn't read the planning notice and lodge a complaint.

If only we'd read the little laminated form they stuck up.

Maybe this is just an English thing but I suspect it isn't.
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What do you get when you multiply six by nine ?
It's just a question of distribution. Even if someone likes porn they may choose to keep it stashed away safely and separate from their other magazines and movies. (Mobile Safari) They would very likely object to to someone setting up a make-shift newstand in their front yard to sell porno magazines. (AppStore)
Having enjoyed an outstanding ski season in Scotland this year, I'm VERY happy about this ;-)

For a a wee taste of Scottish skiing at Nevis Range: http://vimeo.com/10797924
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It's worth noting that this Clay Shirky quote is a modern retelling of a classic Upton Sinclair quote from 1935:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

(I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked, p109—available on Google Books.)
7 == representation of divinity

6 == what comes short of divinity, i.e., humankind (the number of man)

666 == emphatic rejection of the influence of the divine in humankind's affairs

42 == 6 * 7, the product of interaction of the divine with humankind, being the most elevated object in creation -- the understanding of this interaction is the ultimate answer, Douglas Adams stumbled on it
I would be more surprised if someone did _not_ try to hack the Google login system. I'm assuming they're under constant attack from hackers.
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I bet that the guy that lost the wallet, the stranger that found it and the guy that put the picture of said girlfriend up on the interwebs, are now having beers in that very same bar payed for by the girlfriend.
OK: from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270978

I'm looking to organise an event in November and I'm looking for easy ways for people to pay. One is direct deposit into the company bank account, another is by check. Yet another is cash.

What are the pros and cons of setting up a business PayPal account? I've found precious little that seems authoritative and unbiased, so I would appreciate any pointers.

Other advice and comments also welcome.

Thanks.

PS: The event will be announced here, but is likely to be of interest to only a small proportion of HNers.

PPS: We're in the UK.
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If Apple lets their prototypes out of the house in conditions that are 'real life' then they have to live with the fact that in 'real life' phones get lost and get stolen.

What bugs me is that I can't imagine that every phone that is lost or stolen makes it's way to gizmodo, so how on earth did they find out that that phone was a prototype? Or did they really have a bunch of 'misses' before this 'hit'.

Apple should do exactly nothing about this, unless the prototype iphone was taken off their facility without their permission. If it was then the risk is theirs. Every day there must be thousands of phones that are lost, and it's not like it's a big deal anyway. Just another incremental upgrade to a consumer device, who cares.
I have no real hangup over porn (indeed, I spend days looking at it for work..) but I can see his point.

Apple, understandably, don't want to be in the minefield arena of porn distribution via the App Store - it's a smoking gun in a sense.

This is just a closed product of the App store.

Though it appears Jobs also considers it a moral imperative; which is wrong.
No, it would be disgusting; you're showing both your age (young) and your gender (male). When you get a little more maturity under your belt, understand the interrelatedness of the world's problems a bit better, maybe have a son or daughter to guide in this world you'll get it then. Or, you won't - and you'll buy an electronic device solely to access pornography.
Apparently Apple is feeling the heat, if he feels compelled to publically denigrate his competitors that way.
Isn't the only account of exactly what happened based on hearsay from some guy who sold lost/stolen property to Gawker for $5,000?
I had a look at the Haskell Prelude code: http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/standard-prelude.html

Lots of good code in there, especially in regard of simplicity and beauty. If you're diving into functional programming, be sure to have a look at it, even if you're a beginner like I am.
Functional languages can do even better, however.
We may have problems with the quality of those interpreters. Are they developed with an Open process?
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Doesn't support game developers how? The largest category in the App Store is games. Regarding OS X, then I would agree it might have something to do with the size of the market.
What I find even more amazing than Gizmodo publishing the guy's name is Gizmodo feeling free to post pictures they found on his phone. What's privacy?
Curse those evolving languages!
All the ask hn's are now grouped together and linked from the top of every page. It's actually much easier to find them now because they effectively have a longer life than they ever did before.
From the Chicago Manual of Style, the authoritative source of rules on such editing matters in the United States:

"7.16 Use of apostrophe

"To avoid confusion, lowercase letters and abbreviations with two or more interior periods or with both capital and lowercase letters form the plural with an apostrophe and an s. See also 7.63-65."

The term "G.P.A." has two or more interior periods, and that is why the apostrophe appears before the letter s that forms the plural of that term.

There is an online version of the Chicago Manual of Style, which you may or may not find behind a paywall depending on what subscriptions you have.
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Um. 54? Am I missing a joke here?
Time will tell, but I think that at least the present is hinting that people want the iPad.
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Other things being equal, I bet smarter and/or harder-working kids end up at private schools.

I would bet differently, having checked the evidence.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_27/b3840045_...

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp0621.pdf

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ff0615S.pdf

http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/carnrose.pdf

http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/kahlenberg-affacti...

http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/05/a-thumb-on-the-scale.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200511/financial-aid-leveragi...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510012

http://www.equaleducation.org/commentary.asp?opedid=1240

http://www.jkcf.org/assets/files/0000/0084/Achievement_Trap....

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123910.html

The most disadvantageous position to be in, in United States college admission, is to have little money. Low-ability, high-income college applicants fare much better in the application process (they end up with more and better choices of colleges) than high-ability, low-income students.

P.S. The submitted article, contrary to the HN submission title, refers only to grade averages at college, but I think there is also considerable evidence, for which I have fewer convenient citations,

http://www.amazon.com/Wad-Ja-Get-Grading-Game-American-Educa...

that higher-income, lower-ability high school students tend to enjoy better grades than their lower-income, higher-ability classmates. Teachers respond to signs of wealth.
I know a tiny bit of German and I'm learning Japanese (in Tokyo) right now. I can say that one of the advantages of a language like Japanese is that it really gets you thinking about languages in general. You have to learn to think a different way which is quite interesting.

I guess its sort of like if you learned C++ first, then your next language to learn should be something totally different like Scheme, Scala, Prolog or Erlang - not C or Java.
Um, most porn is nothing like sex.
We looked around for this kind of thing for some events we did. Nothing was really very nice. In the end we got a credit card merchant account (also for billing for our service) and knocked up a very simple booking system which takes people's details and makes them a nice invoice.

(Tip: make sure it's easy for people to register multiple attendees in one transaction!)

PayPal scares me, as it's not a bank and the agreement you 'sign' effectively says they can keep your money if their automated systems don't like the look of you. This may be inconvenient.

NOTE: We're in the UK, dealing with UK organisations.
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The stuff he's talking about is mainly algorithmic e.g. pricing, the sort of stuff that you could easily write in vanilla code (e.g. no platform specific libraries).
It doesn't "wreck your network", rather, when it keeps its DHCP lease beyond the allowed time (due to being in "screen off" mode during the expiration) it wrecks things for itself and whomever is unlucky enough to have gotten reassigned the same IP address.

Not a security hole, just a "doesn't play well with others", and I can't think of a way to avoid this without going outside of DHCP (e.g. assuming bad behavior and therefore using a big enough pool and not reassigning IP addresses for a long time).
54 base 10 = 42 base 13. To quote Douglas Adams, "I may be sad, but I don't make jokes in base 13.".
The consensus seems to be REST all the way (and not to implement multiple interfaces to the same API). Thanks everyone for the feedback! We're building this web service for people like you so your opinion is invaluable :)
In the original radio series, they found out in the end what the new Earth computer had calculated the question to be: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" :)
It's from the HHGTTG.
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So you're saying the sale was basically yours to lose? I would think that if the results of your tests say it was significant (assuming you ran them correctly), then it probably was. If you have data, then you should use it to your advantage. What exactly makes you not trust it?

It sounds like the question you mean to be asking is more like: Do I have bigger fish to fry than playing with the color of the buttons on the site?
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Is the "slight upside" good enough? Apple might be less likely to let him go because of media coverage. Or maybe more likely to let him go because of media coverage.

In either case, this article is going to be the #1 Google hit for his name for years or decades. A smart manager would realise that this was a honest mistake, and he admitted to it and got Apple to remotely wipe the phone the next day, but I would not hope that most HR employees are as understanding.
Sounds interesting. Is this event in the UK? I might want to attend (of course depending on what it's about).

If you are mostly expecting local people to attend, why not just ask them to register online and pay at the door?
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I would love a cite for this. It seems plausible, but if there's a cite, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks for that very useful. I've added the note that we're in the UK.

PayPal also bothers me. If they think something is suspicious then they just freeze everything and hold your money, and it's your problem to sort it out. I don't like how that can work, especially since the detector is probably automatic, and sensitive. The horror stories are, well, horrific.
"Macintosh Keyboard (M0110): Introduced and included with the original Macintosh in 1984, it debuted without arrow keys to control the cursor nor an integrated numeric keypad." [1]

"Few will remember, but, when the Mac debuted in 1984, there were no arrow keys on the keyboard. That was a big deal. Almost every application then in existence depended on the arrow keys (then called cursor keys) for navigation. With that one stroke, Steve reduced the number of apps that could be easily ported to the Mac from tens of thousands to zero, ensuring that this new computer would have a long and painful childhood.

Steve’s button mania, which grew from his earlier parts-count mania, was already in full flower, and many have ascribed this crippling omission to some sort of self-destructive obsession. It was not. It was one of several strategies specifically designed to ensure that existing software would not run on this new machine because existing software, in Steve’s eyes, sucked (an opinion I share). The absence of those four keys ensured that any developer who wanted to have software appear on the Mac was going to have to start over and write software that conformed to the Mac interface, not the keyboard-oriented precursors to MS-DOS.

Steve’s fearless crippling of that original Mac saved that computer and saved the graphical user interface." [2]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#History

2: http://www.asktog.com/columns/082iPad&Mac.html
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It's exactly my point. When these "authorities" profile for terrorists, they are looking for middle eastern Muslims. The idea that they justify to themselves mistreating these people because of their ethnicity bothers me a lot. I point out that there are terrorist Christians, too.
All else aside, calling the person who turned the phone over to Gizmodo a thief might amount to slander, so Craig should be careful. This would be something for a court to decide: e.g. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/6/45-6-302.htm . Note "permanently".
Aside from the spaghetti code that my predecessor wrote, I've been reading a book called "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert C. Martin. The code in the book isn't always interesting for content, but rather for style and craft. He does a great job explaining industry best practices, along with How and Why they are used.
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"Someone even suggests that Google uses Chrome to use our computers to calculate index of cache in the background then send the results back to Google... Don't be evil? What do you think?"

Someone suggests it do they? Must be true then...
There's a big difference between 'monitoring' the personal voting record of users and being able to look it up in the server logs to back up a claim. I doubt that pg would carelessly disclose the voting records of users without their permission (or even with it).
I actually quite like XML-RPC.

SOAP is too complicated for simple services and from everything I've seen REST only defines the URL layout while the format of the data is up to you. So you end up sending some XML-RPC like thing over the transport.

Then there are issues like GET requests getting arbitrarily limited in size, character encodings, and stuff that makes it not even worth trying to do function calls (even idempotent ones) with anything but POST.

I wish it were otherwise.
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In latex source, I write each sentence on a new line. This makes the diffs in source control very clear. It also makes me conscious of very long sentences.
Well, thanks for the tip. Will do.

But what's really amazing about that guy is that he is apparently unable to understand the difference between a thing and an explanation of that thing. He has banned (or rather censored) a dictionary on the grounds that it included the words "fuck" and "shit" after all.

OK, it was fun writing that, but I actually don't believe it. He does understand that difference. He just thinks keeping the utmost distance from anything "dirty" regardless of the type of connection is beneficial to his franchise.

We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out in the market in the long run. Whilst waiting I'm going to buy an Android phone for hacking and other types of pleasure ;-)
Except porn isn't allowed in the Android appstore either.
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I think we've already established your level of reading comprehension, so I won't argue any of your points, except to say that publishing photos from someone's stolen iphone is absolutely an invasion of privacy, and how you can think otherwise beggars belief.
Yes, bottled water or bust is the standard mantra in the developing world.

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Just to be clear. The Android marketplace doesn't allow porn either.

But due to the open nature of the iPhone a company created a "pornstore."

IMHO, the browser has been a pretty good porn marketplace for a long time - I don't see the need.
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I'm currently reading "The Ruby Programming Language" (coming from a C/C++/PHP background). I'm looking forward to write my next web app using RoR.
On the other hand, what if I told you to use supported hardware? The same way you have to buy supported hardware for OS X.
I would bet it's a cultural leftover from posting in forums and chat rooms with naive profanity filters years ago when the Internet was young.

There are likely still places where sh!t will get you past someone's laughable idea of a profanity filter.
They're actually pretty bad, but at least they only meet half as often.
I'm up for it. Are you organising?
Seems a bit late now. They should have been encouraging people to write apps for their struggling platform and made it free from day one.
I think he doesn't really believe it, except in the sense that he wants to avoid the brand being tainted by identification with porn.

That is, he doesn't want to see something on the TV news about how high schoolers with iPhones are watching porn in the cafeteria.
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And 4 == number of corners in 4 corner simultaneous world time cube. Or something.
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Maybe the intent is to beat clbuttically retarded Internet filters?
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