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The founders killed lala.com because they sold out to Apple.

Just like the founders killed Jaiku, MeasureMap, Dodgeball, etc. and any number of other web services we've used and loved... til they got bought.

If you want to be angry at somebody, be angry at the founders for "selling out" - for going for the big payday.

That, after all, what most people here on HN are aiming for, right?

So how can you begrudge them for getting what they wanted?
And better products and better design
The Live CD wasn't working for me but then I realised I downloaded the amd64-alternate version not the amd64-desktop version. The desktop version is a LiveCD whereas the alternate version is not. Don't know if the same applies to you.
As PC-DOS was better than CP/M. The point of 123/G and Excel is that Microsoft let the market go in the OS/2 direction by publicly saying Windows was a transitory, doomed environment, while they went secretly in the Windows direction knowing their move would doom OS/2, along with their competition.

There is a gray area between "clever" and "dishonest". Lotus trusted Microsoft, as did IBM. In retrospect, we know nobody should trust Microsoft.

Frankly, I am surprised that, at that time, IBM trusted Microsoft after the PC-DOS/MS-DOS PC-clone thing.

Not many people can fool me twice.

And, I have to say, Apple did fool me once: http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/i-really-want-to-lik...
Microsoft's keyboards are much better than Apple's
Right. Like that monument to best-practices software development, iTunes for Windows.
Eh, depends on the person. I prefer smaller keyboards like the happy hacker keyboard. Apple has a bluetooth version of it which I love. I prefer keyboards that are laptop-style (shallow key depth).
are you like a startup? if you are, you're the first one who ever thought exhibiting is worth more than presenting. is hilarious to see you stick up for calicANUS. paying to exhibit is far less valuable then preseting
Can ARM stand up against rivals Intel and AMD in the server market?

Wrong question. If they're pushing into servers, I'd expect ARM to worry more about two things:

- Sun/Oracle Sparc doing DB/web server loads at low power (with IBM Power playing the high-VM-capacity game).

- It's not so much the core CPU/ISA, which ends up being a small portion of the chips. It's the expertise in multi-core buses, caches, and all related paraphernalia. Not exactly where ARM have been playing ...

Might be that ARM will be happy to let Google/Agnilux work on that, and cooperate on CPU tweaks, keeping the license revenue.
What do you think of PR?
What do you think of PR? Necessary part of your business? Or is it all fabricated junk, and a hindrance to creativity?
Interesting read but the headline is a misleading, very little of the article is in relation to the Apple vs Adobe debate.
"creative artist" my arse.

As Bond became more obsessed, Katie became increasingly annoyed. They argued over filling in a form for Ivy’s nursery. “They can use this data for God knows what!” Bond yelled. “I thought, for God’s sake, no one else worries about this,” Katie remembers. “Why do we have to?” She tried to reassure him: “It’s fine. They’re not going to do anything weird with our data. If some kind of weird government comes in, we’ll opt out.” He wasn’t convinced.
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Now we all pray Apple doesn't buy ARM
The concept of trying to evade detectives you've hired to track you down is vaguely arresting... but has nothing to do with the surveillance issue he is trying to highlight, as others have pointed out here.

To be honest, it sounds really lame, particularly his freaking out and so on, given the entire thing is contrived for a TV show.

Plus I would say - wtf disappearing for a month with his wife heavily pregnant. Bullshit "work commitments". What on earth could have prevented them doing it in 3 or 6 months??
I accept your point about the cameras. The movie in question also covers other kinds of privacy leaks.

Another way to research a documentary about privacy, or lack thereof, would be to go do a bunch of interviews with detectives, police, and DB admins at Tesco. Yawn. This guy chose to live the experience of trying to hide - he's not pretending to be a spy, he's pretending to be spied on. As another commenter said, this is his job, it's how he supports him family.
rbanffy is an Apple shill.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rbanffy
The OP essay has about as much logical integrity as a damp paper towel. It's semi-transparent and will fall apart the second you poke it.

All you young people crying "monopoly!" and "anti-competitive practices!" could really use a dose of history.

Just like a blogger removing your comments is not censorship; just like Apple refusing your app is not censorship; Apple refusing to accept cross-compiled apps is not censorship, anti-competitive, or monopolistic.

Apple does not have a monopoly.

There are many, many other smart phones you can use and develop for. Apple does not control them at all, in any way, and has no agreements with their manufacturers. Apple has no exclusivity agreements with telcos, either, as to which phones the telcos will sell in addition to the iPhone.

Apple has nothing to do with twisting the arms of third-party companies who sell computers. There is no illegal monopolistic action going on, like charging OEMs for Windows licenses per computer sold - regardless of whether Windows is loaded on the device. Safari can easily be deleted and replaced with any browser you like on the Mac.

If you want to look at a company that is gunning for Microsoft-type monopoly, look at Google with their Android and their questionable licensing scheme for OEMs.

Blocking programming languages is not the same thing as blocking a competing browser.

Apple does not have a product that competes with Flash in the world. They are only disallowing it on their platform. That is their prerogative, and completely legal and ethical in every way considerable.

Furthermore, Apple and Adobe do not compete head-to-head on the products in question. Don't tell me "They would compete if you could use Flash apps on the iPhone!" because that argument holds no water at all. You'd still be using the iPhone, is the point.

If you don't like it, you are free to vote with your wallet and your code. Develop for Palm Pre. Develop for Windows Mobile. Develop for whatever the hell Blackberry runs. Develop for Android. Or how about Symbian?

Did I miss any?

This choice, by the way, is how you can tell it's not a monopoly.

Just because you WANT in, on your terms, and Apple says no, doesn't make it a monopoly. Just because it inconveniences you doesn't make it wrong. And just because it's happening to you doesn't make it important.
That possibly makes them more dangerous.
In the case of Jaiku, at least they open sourced the entire application. Can't even begin to describe how much I've learned from the Jaiku source code.
BBC has government funding. That's not independent.

News reporting can't possibly be completely "unbiased". You have to choose what to focus on and how to report it.

I think the state controlling a big media institution is terrible.
I want to vote you up, but there's no up arrow ?
As much as I dislike Apple's current philosophy, most of Jobs' complaints are on the money.
I too had my identity stolen and had the hassle of cleaning my credit history. But that's a separate problem.

The problem wasn't my privacy, the problem was that I moved out of an address, some junk mail came for me after I'd left, and so the new resident used my name to run up some bills.

You can steal identities by simply knowing a name and an address such is the broken credit check system.

That's not proving that things need to be stored and secured better. It's showing that credit agencies need to actually use some common sense. (In my case the fraudulent entries didn't even match my date of birth).
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The part of the nappy company getting your details could be emphasised more. Some people are against supermarket loyalty cards, but the "nappy company" can be even worse.

They'll ask you all sorts of questions, and since the parents are all happy about their new baby they'll comply without a second thought. They'll then sell all this data to a data trading company. It's valuable because the nappy company has verified the data, and also having a baby is a major lifestyle change that other companies are keen to use. For example you might need a new car that's family friendly with more space in the back for the kids.
I don't mean to suggest that it should run smoothly on any of today's smartphones (though some N900 users commented that it runs well for them). I just take issue with the "nearly impossible" in the parent of my original comment. But I suppose I may have interpreted that to mean more than was intended.
What's the best lightweight Linux distro?
In 3 or 6 months his wife has a small baby to deal with. As far as I can tell (I'm not the right gender), babies are easier to deal with while they're still inside.
That's why they always have 1 or 2 checkboxes on anything like that:

"Are you happy for us to contact you with special deals etc"

"Are you happy for us to pass on your details to other carefully selected partners"
I don't know if you've used Opera, but it's by far the geekiest/most customizable browser, IMO. Total remapping of all shortcuts, ability to reconstruct the interface however you like from primitive controls, built in support for content (ad) blocking and mouse gestures, user script (Greasemonkey, sorta) support also built in, etc. I've never used Fastmail, but as you describe it, they couldn't have picked a better browser to sell to.
I think that intentional temporary disappearance sounds like a fun challenge.

This seems like something we'll be seeing more and more of. No, not the surveillance (though that's probably true), but rather the idea of disappearance as a game. Kind of like hide-and-seek for wealthy adults. Another recent example: Evan Ratliff (of Wired) and his efforts to evade discovery.

Maybe an opportunity for a startup? Maybe an idea for a TV show, like Big Brother meets The Amazing Race?
How would you feel if lala had failed and closed up shop, taking with it your $100 and 75 streaming albums?
It's aiming at the same people who'd otherwise use java applets - i.e. web based applications that need to do stuff flash can't (e.g. file system operations or just use an exiting java lib or even just more easily communicate with a java-based back-end system) or for stuff flash is simply too slow for.

You see it a lot in the enterprise world.

Facebook also has a couple of applets I think.
I would love a "Natural Happy Hacker Ergonomic Keyboard".
Sometimes I, a long time Opera user, just don't understand them. From outside it looks like they have hard time keeping focus.
Evil and competent make a potent mixture...
Yahoo Publisher Network, Facebook (for the first 6 months) and a few other networks have had US only policies, partly due to advertising restrictions (tobacco, pornography and such) but partly to handle the inventory and scaling.
I am pretty sure that's because they couldn't bother to port Cocoa to Windows.
First reaction is this sucks, second is I hope iTunes.com is HTML5, else I'm screwed.
"Begging the question": we have answers
"be evil" could be quite a fun motto
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Exactly; all the companies who make goods that might conceivably qualify for an exemption start spending a lot of their focus on getting that (since it's a big discount if they do) instead of focusing on providing the best product/best price/whatever.
I was being sarcastic with my colour related remarks. The point being that a "new" dimension can feel pointless initially. Its as strange to think of 3D as a "new" dimension as it is to think of "colour" as one.
I'm only sure it isn't c++
The low framerate (24fps) became very noticeable for foreground objects for me, I think because their apparent velocity caused insufficient overlap between successive images. But I haven't noticed this in conventional movies - was it due to 3D, or was the shot chosen to take advantage of 3D when it would normally be avoided?

My favourite 3D sequence in Avatar was when the heroine dropped-in on her dragon, falling away from us. Very cool and effective. I think a skateboarding documentary would be awesome in 3D (or any activity that is intensely 3D from the POV of the performer).
The sample provided is too short for me to figure out if this is any good or not, but I think "a cheat sheet for The Four Steps to the Epiphany" is a great idea. I'm a big fan of Customer Development and of Steve Blank, but I think the methodology would benefit from a different presentation.

Is this any good? Can anyone post or point to a review?

Two things struck me as funny about this:

1) The title, "The Entrepreneur´s Guide to Customer Development for Tech Startups". Isn't that exactly the target of Blank's book? Virtually all the literature on CD is aimed at entrepreneurs, this is hardly a point of differentiation. (Versus, for example, books one could write such as "The Product Managers Guide to Customer Development" or "The Guide to Customer Development for B2C".)

2) The sample has something I've never seen in book before: "Tweet this" links that I guess allow you to share key points to your followers. For example, one such link tweets:

"Differentiator is not your compelling reason to buy, the benefit the differentiator provides, is." #CustDev

along with a bit.ly link. That quote a little awkwardly phrased in isolation, but I think this is a really interesting idea, I wonder if it will take off. Per the bit.ly stats (http://bit.ly/info/a11ib5+) the link hasn't been followed much yet, but I don't know how long this has been out there.
I think they are considering doing to x86 servers what x86 servers did to RISC servers. They grab the low-end, get volume and become more competitive. x86 competes by going further in the same direction it is now, which is by becoming faster. Like RISC, they will ultimately be reduced to a niche if they go this route.

And that would make me happy. I never liked the 8008 and its offspring. The ARM is much more elegant.
That's not necessarily true, because the RS Cloud rates don't include any bandwidth while the Slicehost rates do. Depending on your usage, Slicehost can be cheaper.
Silverlight provides DRM right? Somehow I don't think Netflix is going to stream you a straight h264 stream?
This may be true, but how sure are you that the proponents of the FairTax will keep control of the process to ensure that outcome?

The income tax gives politicians tremendous power over the entire above ground economy and almost all the population, why would they give that up?

Since when have tax reforms in the West resulted in a wholesale replacement of one type of tax by another, instead of a layering? If you could point to a few exceptions I'd be interested.
Big companies seem to have to start prototypes and follow various paths, maybe Opera are just bad at not telling too much, too early or at killing the ones that don't stick.
I disagree. Microsoft is a company that is about saying yes, to everyone. Apple is one of the few companies which says no on various subjects to reduce the problem space. Eg apple strategically obsoletes stuff like Carbon. I think this has a dramatic effect on the companies involved. Microsofts feature + backward compatibility matrix is so huge (theyre supporting applications that were written for Windows 3.1) that theyre stuck solving an unsolvable problem. Actually interesting anecdote - Simcity depended on a bug in windows 3.x for correct operation, the bug in question was fixed in windows 95. However in testing Microsoft found that simcity breaks and added code as a special case to emulate the bug if simcity is run. (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html).I am not favoring either approach, just saying that there is a big difference. Those that favor backwards compatibility have their adherents (big businesses etc) and those that stay nimble because of periodically cutting dead wood have their own followers (early adopters, technophiles).
Did you read any of those comments you linked to? Perhaps you missed these:

Microsoft's keyboards are much better than Apple's

Every single computer I installed Ubuntu,
since the 6.x releases, has worked flawlessly ...

and so on. No more name calling please, ok?
Apple already rejects several applications submitted. If quality is the reason they want to avoid flash apps, let the reviewers check it for quality irrespective of how they are written.

If flash not utilizing the latest features of iPhone OS is a problem, market will kill apps which don't use them (assuming they are worth using) on its own.
> BBC has government funding.

Not strictly true, altho depends on definitions. It's funded by a licence fee which anyone who owns a TV has to pay, about £150 / year I think.
THIS JUST IN:

The future of HTML4 is HTML5.
At Broadcast Asia 2008, I saw a football game displayed on a multi-HD resolution screen (I think 12x HD, but not sure) @60fps. I should say it took the audience to the game. You can tell individual faces in a packed pavilion. Its all moving in the right direction - more fun.
Have you ever actually listened to an interview by the BBC of a government minister?

Have a look at this classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BklT7Qy07Is
Of course we're ready. Not knowing about a disease risk doesn't make it go away. Yes, some people will be saddened by new knowledge of their genome. But in the cost-benefit analysis, that downside is overwhelmed by the massive improvement in medical care. Customized medicine. Preventative care. Screening embryos for diseases. Etcetera etcetera. So many lives will be saved. So many lives will be improved. So what if some irrational people feel bad?
IPad outshines Kindle for e-books -- and why Amazon should be happy
Bonus URL, on parameter tuning: http://www.hvass-labs.org/people/magnus/thesis/pedersen08the... (PDF, Tuning And Simplifying Heuristical Optimization (PhD thesis)). Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization

Someone may want to "cross-breed" those papers. I found Pedersen's interesting thesis via the picture he kindly contributed to that Wikipedia page (thank you; I used it for harmless, I hope, pedagogic purposes).
Ask HN: Web apps source code?
Can someone point me to some web apps source code? (in as many languages as possible)
Skyfire brings Flash video to Android
First they came for the Happy Meals...
Really? It's news when a VPS provider adds a new image? Heck, in that case... http://blog.linode.com/2010/04/29/ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-lyn... was announced yesterday.
Sort of but not really -- the entire article is in relation to the Apple vs Adobe debate. But it's about what's driving the conflict rather than the particulars of the current imbroglio. His analysis is pretty dead on.
"notoriously unbalanced" - care to cite some examples?
Ebert is kind of missing the point.

This discussion shouldn't be about 3D, it should be about motion pictures more closely approaching the experience of reality. Sure, 3D technologies today are kind of crappy, but it's part of the technological evolution process. Eventually, we're going to have movies that feel so real you can't tell the difference between the movie and reality. That is the goal. Fake 3D is just the first step, I think.

(When the first motion pictures were displayed for audiences on large screens, they also caused nausea and dizziness. In some theaters where the images projected were exceptionally large, people were even provided with vomit bags like on early airplanes. The technology improved and overcame these drawbacks.)
Wasn't the cause of humor... oh wait, I was going to spoil the story. Here's a review (with spoilers): http://www.helium.com/items/1714669-jokester-by-isaac-asimov
I am a huge ARM fan (am currently building a handheld based on the nvidia tegra developer devkit). However I feel sceptical that ARM will go anywhere on servers. Just like VIA didnt go anywhere when it was the only mainstream SOC around, just like ARM didnt go anywhere in netbooks and just like AMD has yes to penetrate significant market share inspite having a huge performance lead for ~2 years in the pentium 4 days. Intel is the big gorilla in the room and are very adept at coming up with solutions that get 80% of the way there (like atom) whenever a new market niche opens up. Then they use their marketing muscle to make sure that the new niche doesnt get exploited by an upcoming competitor. So ARM might make the best performance/watt chips out there, but if they dont have the muscle to get design wins and ship in actual servers then sadly they will continue to remain a fringe player in the server market.
TDD love it or hate it, a question for HN Users
Assuming you are making an effort to do TDD or at least create unit tests once happy with a library, model, controller or just a script.

What methods do you employ to make sure the above stays in sync with the unit test.

Im sure, im not the first person to think about this, yet there is not any "best practices" I can find.

At present, im thinking.

db containing:

hash_of_the_file

name_of_the_unit_test

Then built into the test, or called ( not sure yet )

A way to check the db to make sure the hash_of_the_file still matches that in the db. Otherwise fail.

Any thoughts, or links would be well recieved.
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I think things have changed since clayton christensen wrote his book on disruptive innovation. Intel is very much aware of disruptive innovation, and is really trying to compete on the low end, see the celeron processor ,and the efforts intel is putting into lower cost, lower power atom processors .
I heartily approve and endorse your downvote of my comment. I posted a knee-jerk response and I paid the price for it (PWNed like a n00b in a first-person shooter). Nevertheless, it was satisfying to call some one a "shill", and I DO detect traces of shillery in every Apple-vs-Adobe polemic to be waged on this site in the past fortnight.
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What if We Made Each Decision as if it's Our Last
Making an easy way to pick a course is a tricky problem, one of the things I wanted to do is make it very intuitive and easy to explore but I couldn't find any better way of doing that than a cloud. The alternatives I thought about were using a drop-down or a search box with auto-complete, neither of which seemed better.

Letting users search/sort by fields definitely makes sense though. I'll add it to my todo list.
Great ideas: check.
Decent writing style: check.
Spell check: Houston, we have a problem.
Microsoft’s mice certainly are.
Important to note is, that MacRuby is supported by Apple, and Apple employees are working on it.
My point is that, as you’ve ably demonstrated, there are innumerable sites I can go to to indulge in juvenile tech tribalism. OSNews used to be a cut above these sites but it doesn’t seem to be any more. I think that’s a shame.

With regard to the author’s points, they may be sincere but I don’t find them convincing. For example, no matter what you think of the quality of Windows iTunes, the idea was never to commodotise the underlying operating system. A calmer and more convincing argument against Job’s statement would simply be to ask what if Microsoft decided to “preserve their UX” by banning any agent that rendered HTML5?