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The premise is that because Windows Mobile does not allow, and Android makes it very difficult to run C code, that therefore "C might be on a decline as the universal programming language." (He incorrectly states that the iPhone "only" allows Objective-C). That's not very convincing.

Until Apple, Microsoft, Google and others start writing their operating systems in Java/C# instead of C, I wouldn't worry.
tl;dr (too logical; didn't read)

Now if it had been punchy, amusing, and wrong, but on Powerpoint with the stereo on, I would have voted for that. Oh wait, never mind.
This is true, but not the whole story. Many, if not most, political decisions are not determined based on logic alone, but at least partly on values. Because of this, it's possible for two different, rational people to both reason correctly from the same data yet arrive at different conclusions.

For example, amongst economists there is no question that outsourcing work or production overseas is a net benefit to the economy. If this were the entire discussion, then we'd all go home now happy. However, there is an additional level of argument that can only be addressed through one's moral system and values, which differs from person to person. Some people would say that although this outsourcing does help society as a whole, it also harms a small number of people whose jobs go overseas, and that in recompense for this benefit to the rest of us, we owe the now-unemployed some help. The truth of that, and the size of any aid that it implies, is not something we can get to through purely rational argument.
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I found most interesting the bit about the states secrets privilege. Every time I encounter that I suspect that some bureaucrat somewhere is using it to cover his ass, and the government is likely in the wrong. Certainly my reading about the facts of the very first case where it was asserted, United States vs Reynolds, says that this was the motivation.

See http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Publications/Legal_Issues/the... for some of the background on that case.
Same here - I can really see myself turning to OneWay instead of Expandrive for a lot of those regular, simple little tasks.

Nice work , nrj.
A little of topic. I may need to dive back in C++. I knew the language pretty well (circa 1994), the STL was brand new and namespaces were experimental. I don't know what happened after that. Can anyone recommend any online resources to fill the gap? Thanks
The cost of development is a capital investment, not a production cost. You may or may not recover that investment, depending upon a whole host of variables, most of which you will have no direct control over, presuming you even recognize their existence.

Software does have zero marginal cost of production, so someone making an illegal copy of your software does not create any actual cost for you in the way that someone stealing your physical inventory would. So the impact of an individual using a pirated copy of your software is the same as that individual not buying your software for any other reason. The macro-level impact of piracy is the same as the impact of any other macro-level factor that discourages people from buying your product, e.g. a competitor offering an equivalent or better product at a lower price point.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't assert your copyright in the face of brazen piracy. But the best way to earn your ROI for developing the product is to maximize the value that it creates, and thereby maximize the number of people who will willingly pay for your product. Focusing on pirates, who are manifestly unwilling to pay you, is a dead-end. Spending money on DRM is a waste of capital that could be used to improve the product and attract more paying customers.
These are wall posts.
Because they couldn't care less about privacy.
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what dear Renee forgets is that all google's apps are web based.
Did those people grant your app permission to read their stream? This would be really messed up if they did.
Correct. I'm using two different words to describe a certain type of entrepreneur--but not using amoral to describe Aspergers.

That being said, I can understand that some folks might read into it that I am.
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Lastly, people use Facebook at work and at home, and they log onto it from their friend's houses, their phones, etc. If it's all on my "node" at home, do I have to leave my stuff running all the time? That's not very convenient or green. And I don't want my bandwidth at home being eaten up every time my friends want to look at my vacation photos.

What you really want is a central repository where your encrypted data can be uploaded to and only decrypted by those you choose (not the host itself).
I tried your app -- nice app. I like the idea.

A suggestion: One thing would be nice is the ability to have the url of the file copied into the clipboard once the file is uploaded. Like with TinyGrab, when you take a screenshot and it uploads the image. It would probably mean adding a new textfield (for the base url) in the form for adding a new bookmark. Might be useful for sharing files that you just uploaded.

Edit: i didn't think about when you upload multiple files, though. Maybe it would be the last file uploaded?
Has CJ found a new gig yet, or is he in need? I know there's a handful of companies out there that need bright engineers for their startup.
That makes more sense. Wall posts are meant to be public and apparently these people love to over-share.

What do the settings need to be in this situation? The recipient needs to have their wall set to "Everyone" and the poster needs to have their wall postings set to "Everyone"?
Ask HN: What's your opinion on "Launch: Silicon Valley?"
I got an email recommending I submit an application to "Launch: Silicon Valley" and since I'm not familiar with that event, I wanted to see what the HN community thinks about it.

Are you familiar with it? Is it something worth applying to?

I'm coming here for guidance since a Google search about the event mostly turns up their own website and calls-for-submissions by them, and not much in terms of third-party reviews of past events.
Samre reason Twitter lets you do this:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=rectal%20surgery

(there is a difference, I guess, in that on Twitter it is "common knowledge" that everything is public by default - whereas on Facebook it is reasonable for an individual to realise how public their data might be on their current privacy settings)
> I tend to fall on Apple's side when it comes to not wanting to be forced to support a technology that it is against.

How is that Apple's side? Allowing something to be installed is not by any means the same as being "forced to support" it.
Great post that brought back some memories. In 2001 I was hired by a startup that was in a very similar situation. When they ran out of cash 5 months later I could tell it was much harder on the founder than it was on me, since not only did he need to let me go but his startup dream was ending. He let me continue to use the machines until the doors finally closed, and I ended up landing a good contract position all negotiated from that very equipment.
Kinda like... a Tarsnap where you can share a "readonly" key with some people.
Nicely done. This is a clear, simple guide that'll be handy to pass on to small businesses/organizations that haven't ever gone through a Web development process.

However you might want to modify the end so that the business owners don't assume that the project is just "done" after launch. Rather, explain that good Web sites often need maintenance -- which could be as little as getting help making edits and inserting photos into a page, or as much as building out new features for the site and even doing a redesign based on feedback from visitors.

Also, it'd be good to better differentiate between who does the design and the development -- and let the business owner know that they can choose their own designer or rely on the developer to bring in someone (or do it themselves.) Each of those options has its own risks.
I would hope so ... I've not tested it though.
Picasa, Sketchup, Chrome, and Android are not web-based.
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But the ISP controls data transmission, not storage. The ISP can't go sell your private information to someone, short of logging packets and extracting the data, which they have no authority to do. The point of distributing social networks is moving control into the hands of users rather than big business, and this makes sense because social activities off the net operate this way.
It's very true for some things, and not for others. There's information asymmetry in both directions, things site owners know that Google doesn't, and things that Google knows that site owners don't.

The summary of the history seems pretty accurate to my perception of it, but I don't think it's hopeless from here. :)
And Kevin left and had not been at Digg for more than a year and yet nothing spectacular happened.
At the very least, FB should make a distinction between 'Everyone' and 'Public'. Where the former means everyone on Facebook and the latter means everyone on the internet.
Why in the world would you post about your rectal surgery on the internet using your real name or an easily traceable identity if you did not want the internet to know about it. Missing privacy education maybe?
Just to clarify. I don't have an app. I don't have anyone's permission to do anything. I'm just messing around with URL's in their search API: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

This is also what prompted my to try and start a discussion about privacy over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341227

From the search api docs:

You can search over all public objects in the social graph with https://graph.facebook.com/search. The format is:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TY...
We support search for the following types of objects:

All public posts: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post
People: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user
Pages: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=platform&type=page
Events: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=conference&type=even...
Groups: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=gro...
You can also search an individual user's News Feed, restricted to that user's friends, by adding a q argument to the home connection URL:

News Feed: https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?q=facebook
Thinking that having a strong business niche equates to "burying" the iPad is missing the whole point about as widely as is possible.
The correct question is "Why is the default wall post set to 'Everyone'?"

Searching public posts is just fine. I just think that people should be more made aware of who exactly they're broadcasting to.
> Really, what I need is my own personal secretary/intern to keep notes for me and finish the dirty work on my projects :D

Have you tried specifically scheduling some time for secretary/itern-mode?
Isn't Chrome, by definition, web-based?
Cool example, but you really shouldn't publish your access token like that.
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Along the same lines of what you're suggesting would be posting publicly-available information of other business and political leaders to give them a more personal understanding of this issue.

However, the problem is that business and political leaders are already accustomed to a higher level of exposure and scrutiny due to the nature of the positions they hold ("Welcome to our world!").

Another option might be to gain grassroots support by building a "shock" site to show the average person just how much personal information about them is available online. This could be a mashup of several social media/other sites, and could direct people to some form of action after revealing their data.

People interested in fighting the erosion of privacy could also support existing organizations focused on privacy issues.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7327393.stm
I guess, but that point applies to just about every other API as well (including Twitters)
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this will cause problems on windows.
Totally backwards in blaming the politicians instead of the consumers/fans of this entertainment/sporting event. If politicians started following his logical rules, the first person who came along and started breaking them would bury everybody else, because the voters would feel alienated and betrayed by logical politicians.

If, by magic, nobody in political life argued dishonestly, then the only politicians who reflected the beliefs and the emotions of the electorate would be politicians who were just as poorly informed and incompetent at logical thought as the voters. One thing hypocrisy and illogic buy us is politicians who are smarter and better-informed than the people who vote for them. Sarah Palin sticks out like a sore thumb precisely because she exemplifies the average voter instead of just pandering to them.
e.g. my old iPod nano in diagnostic mode: http://blog.jgc.org/2006/09/ipod-nano-in-diagnostic-mode.htm...
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Apple Killer, iPhone Killer, iPad Killer. Enough talk, let's see it. Until someone else comes along and delivers the user experience and hardware quality Apple is putting out-I don't want to hear it. No doubt the Android-based tablet will be great, but it's not killing the iPad.
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It is a wonderful step forward to be sure, and it is probably a great fit for your parents and numerous other uses. But can you please not bastardize and hollow out, in this "good journalist" zeal, the soul of the Dynabook ideal. Not reduce that concept in service of making sound better this product which uses, as fall-back position number one, in response to any criticisms, the line "but it is for content consumption". This device could have been, and still could be (if it were allowed) the embodiment of that ideal. But Apple has held it back from crossing that line.

Maybe I'm being crotchety here, I can see that possibility. Maybe this coffee buzz and this morning's urge to hold on to some piece of naïve idealism is leading me astray, but there was something deeper in the ideal of the Dynabook. Something noble and in line with the best of humanity in the intention to free every individual to use the computer as an expansion of themselves. Not just the narrower vision of the next step in couch-potato consumption along controlled and approved channels. Do the journalists' eyes not see the difference? Can't you?
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Facebook will be publishing it anyway next week :)
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I applied, but was rejected. It could be a strong bias against single founder companies, or that my application was written with black marker on cardboard. I fear I'll be driven towards re-enfranchisement.
4. For all the same reasons the Droid is shaking up the iPhone; touch screen tablets will wage the same war just on another battlefield. Google's Android is making headway because its available on multiple brands of devices and with multiple carriers. Apple let's you use AT&T, AT&T or AT&T on their hardware. Period.

Wrong, the iPad isn't carrier locked at all. Sure, they use microsims and only let you take advantage of 3G on att's frequency, but that's definitely an asterisk, not a period.
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Well, it might just be a coincidence that StarCraft 2 beta has just been launched, but personally, I'm thinking "Ender's Game". Damned Zerg!
It's weird getting a glimpse of people's lives, and the things they share opening with status updates to their friends!
google is better.
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Not until you can run it inside another browser (Google Chrome Frame excluded).
the content has some logical thought to it, but the title just makes me want to "this is sparta" kick my screen across the room.

1) google apps has great adoption and im personally all for web apps. iwork ipad edition might match gapps in revenue actually. it's about all the cloud apps, not JUST google's.

2) ebooks? okay, so what. that's like saying, oh it has an mp3 player or music store attached.

3) The large ipod touch thing doesn't work. tablets are tablets. if you say the ipad is a souped up ipod touch, then an anroid tablet is a souped up nexus one. oh, and ipad is getting more "computer" like processes with os4 ie- multitasking.

4) Actually the iPad can be used with any carrier (that's gsm sim i believe), no contracts. People have already hacked other carriers to go on it. its just the low profile sim card. scissors+normal sim = low profile sim.

5) the ups guy doesnt actually pick the technology. g maps and g calendar is available on the ipad as well. odds are ups would use a custom app. in that case, g maps is available as well via the api.

Seriously, i refuted this entire article in about 5 minutes while taking a shit because i was bored. I'm sure inc took a ton of time on this article (dont ask how) and paid good money. Google can certainly produce an ipad competitor(s), but this article isn't showing how.
What about allowing you to "link" with other peoples "appliances". i.e. family and friends. This way they can back up your information too (encrypted of course, so they can't actually read it). And you only link to people you trust, which should mitigate some of the risk.

It becomes a case of who do you trust more, your family and friends - or a company somewhere. Besides, your mostly only storing information you want shared with family and friends anyway - otherwise why are you putting your info on this device in the first place?

edit: if I wasn't clear, the backup would be an automated thing. Only backing up information on peoples devices who are allowed to see it anyway.
"...money does not make women happy." Oh really? Tell that to my wife.

Ha! I kid, I kid... ;-)
I would find this way more interesting if I could narrow this down to just people in my network. Knowing what everyone on the internet is doing is not all that interesting.
It's very remarkable, that; rock-band-like publicity for something that does not yet exist.
Debt is senior to equity, so in the event the company went basically sideways and ended up being closed down, holding legitimate debt puts you in front of, for example, angel investors holding equity.

In the success or spectacular failure case, I can't see that it gives any advantage. (In fact, in the losing case, you would presumably have to pay taxes on the salary you never received and then might get different/worse tax treatment on the bad debt. Even in the winning case, you'd pay payroll taxes and FICA on the "phantom" salary.)
It'll fail because the average person does not care about their privacy that much. What'll happen is Facebook will continually adjust their privacy policies watching the non-reaction and reaction from the public adding and deleting as necessary. They'll simple evolve to stay relevant.

What the average person wants is functionality, not some enhanced privacy. To succeed they'll need to offer enhanced functionality.
I'm glad to see such a good service finally start to get all the recognition it deserves. I switched to grooveshark from pandora about a year ago and have not looked back. By far the best music service available.
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I think that Apple should find a way to certify languages that expose all of the iPhoneOS APIs without an excessive penalty for runtime footprint. So long as all of the APIs are exposed in an easily used fashion, then it just becomes another way to code on the iPhone and Apple remains in control.

This would enable languages/environments like Scheme and Mono to operate on the iPhone.
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It's based mostly on intent, I believe.
If it doesn't take off as a service but stays as a looming threat to Facebook, especially being open source and impossible to entirely kill, it'll still be worth it, though granted still a disappointment.
Yes, but acceptance of obvious typos won't do anything to raise net culture's writing skills standards.
For those who have just purchased Transmit 4, it has been overhauled with many Applescript additions. Using that on Snow Leopard, it would be very easy to create your own contextual items with Automator.

That being said, if I didn’t already have a nice FTP solution, this would be a great little app.
Despite this article not offering much new info, it was worth it for the closing comment.
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That's basically what I'm saying too. The user needs to be in control, but this idea needs work. Simply going with the "node" route is giving ISP's too much control over the distribution, and hence, your data is still being "controlled" by a big corporation, just in another manner of speaking.
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If we look at the Nexus One, and how Verizon (and the other carriers slated to ship it) handled that situation, I don't think the relationship between Google and [insert carrier name] is anywhere near as tight as Apple and AT&T.

The carriers invariably want to assert their own will on Android to make it somehow more in line with their own business models . . . which is precisely why I bought the N1 direct from Google.

And speculate as we may about Apple's frustration with AT&T, they have been very loyal partners, validated once again with the iPad.
People (in general) started using CSS over table-based layouts way after it was pragmatically beneficial, because they didn't want to learn new stuff or were stuck in the old mindset (e.g. the design of Hacker News).

And all those people not using CSS layouts for non-pragmatic reasons actually held up progress because it stifled the market for tools (and skills and frameworks etc.) that would work in the new manner.

So good analogy, but I think it argues well for the opposite of what you intended.
I thought the same thing. For mother's day I got my 79 year old mother an iPad, and so far she really loves it. I don't think I've ever seen her this excited about a gadget. While I was at my parent's place for mother's day, I got a chance to talk to my other siblings, who called. Turns out my older sister also bought one and loves it. My mom and sister spent most of the call talking about it.
I very often get backlogged, but still try to keep up. I submit comments as distant as 2 days beyond the original submission date. I vote no matter the age of a submission or comment; if something is worth reading, age almost doesn't matter (excepting newsworthiness, etc.). I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that browses HN with a little delay.