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"But they're not willing to actually pay those taxes, and so they just don't."

It runs deeper than that: Greece is the last Stalinist economy in Europe (despite never being behind the Iron Curtain).

The government is so massively bureaucratic and corrupt that most people there consider it foolish to pay taxes to such an entity.

This article goes into the background, and, on a hopeful note, suggests how that could change in the future: http://www.aei.org/article/101804
I have a few e-Tools too, but nothing like this. And the outdoorsman in me would really like one of these, versus the two anemic and subpar e-Tools I already own. So to all you guys who are like "oh yeah, just swing by REI" or "yeah I have one just like that" (yes, I'm hyperbolizing a tad) it'd be nice if you'd show us where we could get one that's more like this one and less like the ones you can buy for $50 at big retail sporting goods stores.

kthx.
I wish I knew why the concept of hypocrisy is so difficult to grasp that people are prone to apply it incorrectly. Maybe people just don't understand when someone is making a moral statement, and when someone isn't.

The claim here appears to be that since Apple ships Windows apps that don't use that platform to its fullest, Jobs cannot claim that least-common-denominator middleware is unhealthy for a platform.

That makes no sense. I could see how it would be hypocrisy if Microsoft forbade middleware and Apple complained about whether or not it was right for Microsoft to do so.

But it is not hypocrisy to enforce different rules for your own platform product than those for a competitors. There are no moral claims involved here.
True, that, but we do have empirical evidence that spacetime is not flat.
Unfortunately for Apple, the average user doesn't care about any of this. The average user just want to go to a website and have it work. IJW technology: It Just Works.
Apple had several failed attempts to establish new APIs/OSes in 90's (OpenDoc, Taligent). Why would anyone rational believe, that another project (OSX) is going to be success?

So during introduction of OSX, Apple had to include Carbon there, if they wanted to have ISV support for their new OS. Nobody was going to put significant effort to port entire codebase for new, unproved OS+frameworks+language put out by someone who has history of failures.

And do not forget, that Adobe CS is much larger project than Finder, iTunes and Quicktime together.
They are run by the same management, the money for MSR really comes from sales of Windows and Office, and most research done is to explore future features of MS products
Ya, seriously. I'm pretty sure most farmers, truck drivers, and police officers didn't start in lucrative careers first.
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Interesting question. Anecdotally, I believe Facebook recently took the position that robots.txt has no legal standing:

"Their contention was robots.txt had no legal force and they could sue anyone for accessing their site even if they scrupulously obeyed the instructions it contained. The only legal way to access any web site with a crawler was to obtain prior written permission."

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/04/how-i-go...
Yes. Lots of info out there. You can use our API at Grooveshark available here: http://tinysong.com/api

You can also bulk download Discogs here: http://www.discogs.com/data/

And MusicBrainz has one here:
http://musicbrainz.org/

You can also bulk download wikipedia, cross reference page titles with a set of artist names, and grab whatever information you want if your Regex skills are magical.

A general word of caution: User-sourced music information is very very messy. Be prepared for a lot of mispellings, bad metadata, missing information, etc.
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The only kernel panics I've had on my Macs in the past year have happened while loading or watching Flash videos in Safari. Of course this indicates that both Adobe and Apple have critical bugs to fix, since there's no way Flash should be able to take out the OS no matter how buggy it is.
iTunes for Windows is by far one of the worst pieces of (major) Windows software you can possibly think of.

I used to think Apple did this on purpose to spite windows users, but then I got a mac and discovered iTunes sucks on OSX too.

Damn you beach ball!
They're limited in what they can do if they want to maintain backwards compatibility.
We share common ancestors with houseflies who have a day to find a mate. We were at one point small furry proto-mammals who mated almost exclusively by smell and aggressiveness.

It no longer takes too long to evaluate intelligence. But when our mate evaluation systems were being designed, there were fewer available dimensions to optimize over. A woman's opinion of a man's smell still correlates strongly with both her menstrual phase and their mutual genetic suitability.
"Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit."

Oh, so Presto (Opera) and Gecko (Mozilla) are chopped liver.
I keep a Swiss Army knife on my key chain. I fly fairly often, and sometimes I forget to put it in my checked bag. Post-9/11 I've forgotten 4 times. I've only had them catch it once.
Yeah, I'm certainly not going to be calling my congressman and asking for France-style work week legislation, and I am a staunch proponent of freedom, including the freedom to be stupid and be separated from your money because of that stupidity.

I'm with ya all the way brother, just hoping to inspire people to reap the benefits of technology, and not get caught unwittingly in a rat race.
well... yes, hobbyists have more choices about what to use - a 555 or a PIC or a laptop - and there's more bang for the $ with the new arm cortex chips. But when it comes to products, there are some very serious constraints with pricing and power usage. you can run a 555 on a single AAA battery and draw microamps, costs pennies, have multiple suppliers and have less complexity too. there are plenty of times you'd want that over a microprocessor.

Interestingly, from discussions with toy designers (barbies and such, with talking or moving parts) they all use the same 4-bit processor core that has a crummy audio playback module, some i/o and sensors. 4 bit! but its dirt cheap and well understood.
"Selectable text" is an option in any Flash text field.

Is copying/pasting it to the OS (or app) pasteboard an option? If so, will it use the same UI as native apps have? Or will it force a funky widget of its own in the middle of an app that otherwise looks like the rest of the OS?
Maybe the 'Google leaves China' thread, which scored about 1800 points.
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Not really related at all to this discussion, and not technically the first line (though its on the first page), but this line from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was the most captivating book starter for me ever:
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

How could you not keep reading after that?
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Well, not exactly. Developers can make use of Scribe which is Facebook's opensource logging server, or roll their own dead-simple log server. Really its all about firing events everytime a user does something on your site and recording that data in a text file. Then you data-mine later.
The author's idea essentially equates to taking the proprietary-ness of plugins and expanding them to the entire browser application. Instead of having a Silverlight plugin and a Flash plugin, we'd have an Adobe browser and Microsoft browser (that's even more proprietary than the current one). At least, that's my idea of it. If the author is suggesting a proprietary application to represent a single web site, that won't fly.

I agree on most points - if we want to see really rich web apps, this would be the way to go, and despite existing standards every browser supports proprietary stuff anyway, so we might as well stop fighting it - but the main problem is that users will no longer have a single blue E or swirly red dog on their desktop that they can rely on to bring them everything on the web.

Couple this idea with some standards about how all of these different browsers will be made available and standards that require one browser type to be able to open another browser type if the target content better supports the other browser, and maybe we could get somewhere.
Have I missed a runaway profusion of investment scams targeting people with net worths between 1 million and 2.3 million? The perceived need for this just perplexes me.
Snappy HTML5 demonstration
"almost crashed Chrome"?
The GP meant not that it's physically impossible, but rather that it is a bad idea.

(I'd rather not get into an argument about the gold standard; except to say that almost every economist that matters thinks it is a bad idea.)
Ubuntu.com could use some work. "What's new?" link on the front or tour/product pages would be a good start, even if it's a LTS release.
What are the chances of a game studio getting VC?
Some friends and I have started working on a game. A social game some would call it. We got some basic game mechanics already implemented, but have not nearly enough art, and are still working feverishly away with just place-holder-art. Some funding would defiantly help, do VC's, Ycombinator, or another other investors ever invest in games?
While I do think that the Jobs letter is littered with hypocrisy, I don't think comparing iTunes to Flash is a fair analogy. One is a single self contained application, and the other is a framework/runtime.
Love this app, can finally use my iPhone at home. Never had a dropped call on WiFi and the sound quality is great. I know there are a few portable personal WiFi devices out there. Any recommendations? When my AT&T contract is up I'm thinking of just using my iPhone with a WiFi device and drop AT&T completely.
It uses this library: http://libimobiledevice.org/

So presumably, it's available to one and all, regardless of distro. (At least until Apple gets wind of it...)
Right, not using all the tools available in an OS is quite different than not being able to do so because of the development environment.
"measure twice, cut once"
Another way to lose weight would be to starve to death, which is what happened to many people the last time the Fed refused to devalue the currency (1929-1933).
<rant>I am amazed at the things people find important enough to take action on -- or not.

Seems to me, just guessing, can't be sure, but a bill that has these things in it should be the #1 item on HN, and we should be organizing as a community to stop it. I don't care what your politics are, this is a political thing that needs to be stopped.

Parallel Haskell is awesome and all, and goodness knows I want to hear more about Apple and Flash, or linux, or iPads, or Adobe, or browsers, or Jon Stewart's jokes last night, but this is real, live stuff that could impact anybody with a startup.

If the Philadelphia news ran a story "Philly on fire!" people would come out to try to put the fire out. HN runs a story "VC investing seriously challenged!" and you can hear the crickets chirp.</rant>
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The world sucks. It needs to be like EPCOT.
Managing memory in Objective C is pretty simple once you learn the rules - namely, if you retain it, release it. People who write bad code won't stop writing bad code just because there's GC available.

All that adding a GC would do is move the burden of releasing memory to the GC thread; what would result is that in low-memory conditions (or when the GC runs naturally), you'd have a sudden performance hit as the GC churns through the objects in memory looking for free-able objects. On the desktop, this might not be as much of a performance hit, but on a mobile platform I can see this being an issue.

Likewise, the GC can only do so much. If a developer creates an array and starts stuffing objects into it, but never releases/unreferences the array, those objects will likewise never be deallocated. The onus is still on the developer to write proper code, but now they've voluntarily given up control of memory to a separate process that may not understand the code as well as they do.

Besides all of that, I haven't found iPhone apps to be unreliable at all. The apps I use are generally polished and work fantastically, and crashes are extremely rare (and most of those are due to OOM conditions directly attributed to WebViews).
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Sorry, the pedant in me can't help myself. Sleight.
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Did they do that apprentices or were they using skills they picked up before starting?
Don't underestimate persuasion techniques. If they can convince an entire group of people to simultaneously commit suicide, they can probably convince them to eat Pringles.
I don't know. It may be better, I haven't looked at it yet. I wrote this implementation last December when redis didn't have pubsub yet. I thought it would be nice to share it as an example of the simplicity and power of node/javascript.

How can you state that the stability and performance are better? I've been running one instance of this node pubsub server for 5 months without restarting it. You may be right, but have you actually benchmarked it?
ORMs are like sausages. You really don't want to know what goes into them.
There's a slight misspelling in this headline (and in the article itself).
Yep.

Because either way they gained from stuff that wasn't theirs to begin with and that was taken with malicious intent.

I wasn't aware that TC was on the record for not having paid, but that, as I said in my eyes makes little to no difference.

I wish sincerely that TC will have a helping of their own medicine and we'll see how they react, judging by this 'poll' I don't think they'll be as gracious as twitter was.
Carbon = OS X + OS 9 native code. It has nothing to do with the PC version (well, it does a little bit, but that is irrelevant to this discussion).
Congress has not been friendly to startups this past decade.

A few results of their well-intended efforts:

1. Startups today have little or no realistic hope of gaining liquidity through an IPO, leaving them in a position where M&A is their only realistic exit, with the result being that valuations are lowered for founder exits (the consequence of Sarbanes-Oxley, among other new laws).

2. Startups today can't simply price their stock based on the reasonable business judgment of a board of directors, nor can they use a simple 10 to 1 ratio in pricing their preferred versus their common stock, but must instead incur significant expense in having to do independent outside appraisals just to take simple steps such as issuing stock options (the new 409A statute and accompanying regulations have brought this about).

3. The VC market has been all but dead for the past two years, owing in no small part to congressional actions that helped fuel the Fannie/Freddie subprime mess, leading to a financial meltdown.

4. Add to this the hammer that is about to fall on angel funding as reflected in the Dodd bill, and startups will not only have their VC funding sources largely dried up but will have far more restricted access to early-stage funding across the board. In practical terms, this will mean that funding activities will need to be based on: (a) having access to comparatively wealthy angel investors (maybe 25% of the current pool) while being prepared to incur significant delays in getting funds pending a minimum 4-month wait; or (b) relying on Section 4(2), which is the section of the 1933 Securities Act that offers an exemption from registration for private placements but without benefit of the safe-harbor approach of Regulation D and its rules relating to accredited investors (the equivalent of "walking on the high wire without a net").

Maybe any given point above is over-simplified or overstated but the broad pattern is clear. No individual item is ruinous but each contributes to costs and restricts options. It is not a good trend for startups.
I am downloading the ISO right now - I have a new hardware laptop that I have had problems getting wireless working, and I have happy expectations that 10.04 will recognize my hardware. It helps a lot to not buy the latest hardware to give the Linux community time to get drivers. Lesson learned.
True enough. And Cocoa Touch is not an 'open standard.'
But that is true for so many HTML/js sites too and nothing absolutely nothing prohibits people from playing flash games with a touch interface. Most flash games are point and click
Great video, great program. Thanks for posting! (Correction, by the way, not a Canadian company but an American one, FYI).
Why the down votes? Of course a native iPhone app can stream DRM video, what does this have to do w/ Flash or HTML5? Flash is still needed for DRM video on the web. Hulu can create a native Windows, iPhone, Mac, etc. app but how does that cure streaming video in the browser?

Quote from Hulu:

"We're keeping a close watch on video support in HTML5. While as developers we are
always excited about cool new technology, we always analyze it from the
perspective of the needs of our customers: our end users, advertisers, and content
partners. To serve these customers well, we'd love to see further support in HTML5
for features including the following:

- Quality of service monitoring (e.g. detecting playback glitches)

- Advertisement playback and reporting

- Secure content delivery"
And this fact was known when they picked KHTML to build on.
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Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
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I think people have a mistaken view of Gaza. There's plenty of technology. Most people have cell phones, and can call, text, web browse to the outside world if they want.

Computers are not rare either (10% of households). Almost all have TV's (although many local broadcasts are propaganda, about 25% people have satellite dishes).

There is plenty of contact to the outside world if they want it.

Source for numbers: http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView....

Nicholas Negroponte's quote demonstrates an utter lack of knowledge of what life it like there. "even when getting to school is impossible"? I guess that's true for his computer, but it's not really a problem is Gaza, education is universal there.

There is armed conflict occasionally which prevents school, but there is that in Israel too. Usually it's flare ups that last a day, and every couple of years a big war. But all that it true for Israel as well.
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Its mainly the language that makes the difference. By having such a strict type system, the language can know for sure that something is safe to parallelize.
The big difference is that flow of capital, goods, and (most importantly) labor between states is virtually unrestricted. In Europe, this isn't the case, which is a big reason Europe isn't an "optimal currency zone" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area).
Google analytics: http://analyticsapp.com/

Street view: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-maps-for-iph... (since 2008)

Hulu: coming as a native app (http://gizmodo.com/5506892/hulu-app-coming-to-ipad)

Aviary: neat app; there are image editors on the iPhone, but I'm not familiar enough with Aviary to find something comparable. Maybe there isn't anything.

Games: There are tons of games on the iPhone and iPad that don't need Flash. Command and Conquer is one of them, and Final Fantasy I and II are some of my favourites. There are also tons of independent games, like Implode, Tiki Totems, and MotionX Poker, as well as pseudo-indie games like Plants vs. Zombies and Peggle.

So, are you really so averse to paying someone for their time? Nothing comes for nothing, and if you're so broke that you can't shell out a few bucks for an app that makes your life easier, you probably can't afford an iPhone either.
"Unless we stop consuming a finite resource we will eventually run out, by definition."

Timescales matter here. If we're going to run out of a "finite" resource in 10 billion years vs. 1,000 years or 10 years it makes all the difference in the actions you take.

Also, when something is "harder to get" it may mean merely that we haven't developed the technology to extract it yet. Aluminum used to be more precious than Gold because it was "harder to get" than Gold, though it was not scarce. And today Aluminum metal is far from scarce and far from expensive.
See...in the subtext of your post, there is the ghost of a moral claim. † So now we're getting close to the requirements for hypocrisy. Now you would just need to create a closed platform and ship it.

† One that Jobs did not make, and that I do not agree with — I think any platform can make its own rules, and game consoles have set the precedent for the more closed model.
Netflix has a native app, and Hulu is working on one.
Notifo (YC W10) adds webhooks for notifications
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Not trying to pick on you, but what other motivator exists within the context of a todo list?
That's what I thought when I saw Webkit mentioned without KHTML. When you're standing on the shoulders of giants, it's only prudent to mention that.
Wow, the economy is stumbling and the only way out is innovation and now they are trying to make it harder to start a company. Just how do they propose we get the economy back on track? Sorry printing more money is not a long term solution to economic recovery. It amazes me that our elected officials have zero grasp of how the economy works. These are supposedly educated people and yet they consistently treat the economy like some grade school battle for teacher's pet honors. Sorry for the rant but crap like this makes me question the viability of our current governing system.

As @rmaccloy I'm not against the idea of bank reform but these types of provisions and attachments to bills are causing so much waste and then we wonder why we have such a huge deficit.
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They may be low power compared to other implementations of the same, but I'd be very surprised to hear that the same program written in html5 and JS didn't consume more power than an app equivalent. Ever use Meebo? Ever look at how resource intensive it is, vs Adium or a similar program?
I've met a lot of people who bought an Android phone because the iPhone 'doesn't support Flash', on the advice of friends or bloggers who complain endlessly about the issue, only to find that Android doesn't support Flash either.

When Flash is finally released and it turns out not to work on their pre-Droid devices, I wonder if they'll switch to the iPhone. I mean, either way, they won't have Flash to view MLB.com, but at least on the iPhone there are fantastic native apps to do things like that.
A large part of Haskell's strength in this regard comes because it is a pure functional language, so neither the programmer nor the parallelism library has to worry much about side effects. This both makes it easier to parallelize more code and it can make the parallelism more efficient in some cases (since Haskell isn't operating in an environment designed for mutability).
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Hopefully the Germans will be smart enough to force the scheduling of the bailout payments to be done in such a way that it pushes the Greeks to cut their spending. Maybe something like make the first payment equal to about 95% of what seems to be needed in order to cover their interest payments and then decline from there.
The only people I know defending Adobe and Flash are Flash developers and Adobe itself. Everybody else tolerates Flash begrudgingly. I miss a few flash games here and there on my iPhone. Beyond that, good riddance. Flash is the RealPlayer of the decade.