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> he became concerned with being remembered as a merchant of death (being the inventor of TNT).

TNT != dynamite. TNT is an explosive compound in its own right, and dynamite is a stabilized form of nitroglycerin.

[According to Wikipedia: "The energy density (joules/kilogram or J/kg) of dynamite is approximately 7.5 MJ/kg, compared to 4.6 MJ/kg of TNT."]

Which is why I find it a little funny for him to be considered a merchant of death since the development of dynamite was prompted by the instability of nitroglycerin and the hazards of transporting it (which was usually a dangerous line of work). IIRC, it's main use was construction, mining, etc.
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For those who take issue with the author's claim that Android is immature, please read this comment first.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397398

Disclaimer: I am an Android user and I love it as a consumer. As a developer not in the list of 'blessed' countries, it stinks.
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Ah, got it. Google Books and Project Gutenberg are the only two non-commercial ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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You will find bad code in, say, the Linux Kernel that goes back through the ages.

It's somewhat irrelevant.

What is important is how the problems are addressed once found. Generally Microsoft are quite quick at it (as are other OS vendors)
>Even diehard Apple fans are not happy Flash can't be viewed on the iPad

Really? I'm not even an Apple fanboy (only recently started switching to the platform) and if it weren't for all the hoopla I don't think I'd have even noticed it wasn't there. youtube works. There are more free games in the app store than I would probably have time left in my life to play. I suppose now that you mention it, I don't see as many stupid ads when surfing.
"What to exclude and What to include in a product is part of making a product.That's what the customers pay us for, to make great products. If we succeed, they'll buy them. If not, they won't." - simple. I think the expiry date on the Apple-Flash press mania has reached and it's time to move on...
can't agree more. All these techniques focus on knowing what to work on.... but not actually working. And pretty soon your task list is way too long to even look at.

I did take the timer from pomodorro, that too in a very flexible way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4

yes, it's all still being improved and the engines will be a lot faster in a few years, but how about first creating a true alternative, then start bashing flash.

I don't mind getting rid of flash, but please, lets try to move forward with technology at the same time. Not two steps back, just to remove a competitor so we end up at the same point three years later...
I have only done a small amount of FPGA programming, so my comments may not be that useful.

I have only ever used a Xilinx FPGA or CPLD, so seeing how an app would compare on different FPGA's would be interesting, although for the apps that I have developed it probably wouldn't matter that much.

I do agree that the current suits are often bulky and take a long time to learn.

My comments may not be that useful, but I love seeing any thing that is related to embedded programming on HN. Great work!
"Argument from authority". If the point is true, then prove it.
The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing.
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Hey this peter.Would the down-voters at least state why? Is it forbidden to have a different opinion with examples?

Sure, the "pile of crap" was a bit juvenile. But that doesn't invalidate my point.
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Sounds a little bit like what Spotify does. OK they don't have all music, but it does have a fair amount. They also have a cross platform API (http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/), and while I don't think you can use the API exactly as you like, I'm sure if you had a good idea they'd be willing to listen. It's not quite your pipe dream, but it isn't too far off.
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Interesting - I wonder how they are getting people's identities. They gloss over it in the article saying they can subpoena for it, but I assume that is rather difficult with bitorrents and tiny pieces coming from hundreds of ISPs. How are they getting a list of people who downloaded a particular movie?
Thanks. I just found out there's a text abstract one can click to expand ... Snippets:

[...] The cores are our own design; simple 3-address RISCs with read- & write-barriers to support GC, hardware transactional memory, zero-cost high-rez profiling, and some more modest Java-specific tweaks. [...] history with designing our own chips (1st silicon back from the fab had problems like the bits in the odd-numbered registers bleeding into the even-numbered registers)[...]
How; normally I would agree but this is not exactly easily cite-able.... (i.e. how good is MS security...)

Tom would seem to count as an original/authoritative/primary source :)

(when the counter citation is completely off the point I think that says something important)
Well, authority doesn't necessary carry truth value if unfounded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

It's a shame HN users end up shooting down any contrarian opinion. In particular a piece of opinion like this one, there isn't an absolute right stance.

And don't get me wrong, I've been vocal about Microsoft working harder on security than, say, Apple/Sun/Oracle/Cisco. I just don't think they are "in fact doing a better job with software security than any other large company in the industry." That's a long shot. Google does their homework, to name one.
What Jobs says is totally consistent from his perspective (or if you will, from within his reality distortion field): In a world, where there is only apple devices, Flash indeed has outlived its usefulness because there is no need for multi platform rich application/content development/authoring when there is only one platform left. Surely, that is how Jobs would like to perceive the state of affairs. Given how well Apple is currently doing in leading the mobile device space, his vision does seem to to converge with reality. Unless of course, the competition will get their act together and do something with Android that will have as much mainstream-appeal as the iPhone.
I'd assume: start downloading the movie, and track peer IP addresses. Bully ISPs, nail users.
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The BitTorrent tracker contains a list of IPs of people connected to each individual torrent. Everyone that connects to the tracker obtains the list for that torrent so that you can find other peers with pieces of the file. All they have to do is connect to the tracker and record the IPs. Then they file Joe Doe lawsuits to find out who those IPs belong to.

{update} I assume that they have to wait for a connection from someone to exchange a piece of the movie though. It is possible to connect to a tracker, falsely advertise the percentage of the file that you have, and just sit there disallowing connections. Unless you transfer something other than communication w/ the tracker I don't know how they could find that you've infringed copyright. [Maybe someone should purposely do this to try and get sued by them.]

Is it illegal to set up a shop that purports to sell illegal devices, even though you don't actually have any illegal devices and never buy or sell an illegal device?
Without patents the only source for R&D is going to be universities. But private R&D made: the desktop, the mouse, C, Unix (do you think Berkley would have made unix without seeing what AT&T had?), C++, etc., etc.

They need to change. No doubt about that, but anything that causes even less R&D than is already going on is very short sighted.
Well, yes, ok the extent to which tptacek backs them up is a bit extreme (Im not unconvinced he is wrong).

Also; authority was the wrong word to use - experience is a better one. I'm generally inclined to trust his experience (especially as it partly matches my own observation too)

You're citation was not really proving a counter argument (I did downvote - but only after it was +3)
>He is providing work for a whole set of new lawyers and staff in his company.

So drug dealers and pimps are good people then? They do, after all, provide jobs.
This inflammatory title to the link irritates me.

A simpler explanation - Apple does not want apps to create a desktop like experience, because they want their OWN crafted user experience to be the dominant one. This leads to consistency, and not messing wit ha user's expectations.

Don't editorialize the link titles, please.
> The inability to have access to apps that steve doesn't necessarily approve of?

Can you imagine that have your own shop in which you want to sell a lot of toys to kids. Why should a local porn dealer have the right to sell the porn in your store?

Jobs has the right to select what he wants to sell. You have the right to select where and what you buy.

Whenever I hear such arguments they smell me to people who are actually porn dealers unsatisfied with their own shop who think they have the right to demand from a shiny shop over the street to sell their goods for them.
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benvolution makes some tweaks to ben in order to defeat it. :) It does have a reasonable chance of stalemating, and of getting overwhelmed if the starting locations are close together.

http://gitshub.com/swolchok/cells/blob/master/minds/benvolut...
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If you wanted to be able to drop your Flash plugin I could understand, but Chrome bundles Flash so...hm.
To start with, Apache default setup would bind to port 80 and switch to user 'apache' or 'httpd', whereas IIS (back then, that was IIS4/5 days) default and hard-to-change setup was that it was running with SYSTEM priviliges.

There had been security audits of the apache code base since its early dates (as NCSA Web Server), whereas IIS didn't (or, judging from its track record, if it did have they were done by incompetents who didn't notice the strcpy(host_field, ...) would overflow with a host name > 1024 bytes.

IIS had everything in the same process, meaning every thing exploitable somewhere would bring the whole server with it. Apache used a worse-performing but better compartmentalized process-per-request model.

Just to be clear, apache at the time was NOT a beacon of security or good design or anything. But it did follow standard Unix practices, which put it a significantly better place than the IIS of the time (which was written like a Windows desktop program). At the time, IIS exploits were being found at a rate of 4 remote roots per month, with worms actively exploiting them, whereas apache had one of these every several months, usually only exploitable if you knew the exact O/S version it was running on.
>Consider this, if Micron had decided to enforce their patents across the industry would that be bad? They technically wouldn't be a patent troll since they actually are making products. Now they would almost certainly be countersued for patents in their competitors portfolios, whereas this company doesn't work in the industry so has no fear of defensive patents.

But this is precisely why it's wrong. Micron made patents for things they made. Instead of using them to stop others from using their inventions they chose to use the patents to let them violate other company patents. This was their choice. If they had chosen to enforce those patents, maybe no other company would have violated them. Now someone who wasn't involved gets to flip the table on all those companies who played along.

Imagine being a co-founder in a start up where your partner said "I'll never screw you out of anything" and then promptly hires someone else to do it. Would that be cut-and-dry enough for you?
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The guy is celebrating mediocrity and claims he is proud of doing shoddy work.

I guess it's a sign the tech world has reached the mainstream though, the kids who used to make fun of or ostracize the nerdy ones with good grades are now posting "insightful" blog posts about how awesome it is to be average.

Yay?
We've no time to sharpen the axe, there's far too much wood to cut.

Its the most important race ever run. Its not against soviets or chinese, its against ourselves and our limited resources.

There's something else that won't be here tomorrow as well. All of the resources we have today. We might have centuries to go do the space thing later. We might not.

Right now I think maybe we could use some hope and few heroes that don't play with rubber balls for a living.

I do believe this is the first time I've ever disagreed with Patio. Much respect, brother.
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Just having builds go way faster would be awesome. Shove some static analysis in there for warnings, and maybe collect user feedback to feed into a statistical model of the likelihood that the warning was indicative of an error. Take real advantage of being a webapp.

I think you should run far away from emphasizing the matching of a core to it's most cost-effective target -- it's not something you need to do until you actually have something nearing the need to buy a shitload of parts and ship. You generally develop on one of several overpowered dev boards that you already owned. Pitch the multi-hardware parallel build as testing, not chip selection: 'what targets is my build not totally broken on'.

When I was doing some rather oddball FPGA development (trying to do Alan Kay style pedagogical CPU dev) I would have killed for this. I was attempting to build stuff with as little HDL as possible for clarity purposes, and would frequently fuck myself over when the Xilinx tools couldn't synthesize or place-and-route it anymore for my Spartan-3 hardware. Some of it was just their incompetence, where a hand-laid design could fit easily, but a lot of it was just classic traveling salesman problem woes. It would have been a lot easier to see what the real constraints I was hitting if I knew which chips it didn't work on anymore.

The vendor compiler toolchains are fucking dogshit. Just having that hosted and guaranteed not to collapse in on itself would be golden. You should also develop simple desktop software for flashing the builds for at least Linux and Mac OS X. At one point I wrote my own flasher from scratch that sucked but Xilinx's Windows flasher had shat itself on me and I couldn't get it to work again (the Linux stuff never worked at all, ever). Make a simple drag-and-drop flasher. You could even sell a rebranded USB-JTAG that's guaranteed not to suck.

Simulators are ridiculously awful, but you're not going to come anywhere near fixing that.

"that the user ends up buying and using the most suitable hardware" is a side effect of some of your features, not the real use case you should be selling. It feels somewhat greasy, because at some level you're just marketing hardware to me. Even if you do try to monetize that through some kind of affiliate thing, don't put it up front. You'll spook the engineers.
Yeah, I'm sure the powers that be at Google never thought about that. If interested parties are using off-the-shelf attack software, this gives Google a leg up, however temporary, because there is less off-the-shelf attack software for OSX.

So while everyone is scrambling to find holes in OSX to exploit in order to grab Google's data, Google secretly converts to plan9, never having intended to use OSX anyway. It's the greatest misdirection in history!
I second this. I'd really like to have Hacker monthly shipped to Turkey :(
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That was pretty helpful - thanks!

When you mentioned that it probably wouldn't matter too much for the apps that you developed, did you mean that they were too small/slow/<something> for you to care?

Thanks for the encouragement. It's great fun shifting a traditionally desktop-bound and kinda conservative application onto the web, and sort of distilling the bare minimum features required to make it work.
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From a video, it seems like the smooth application transitions/animations of the iPad is missing.
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>7:14PM Walt: Can I talk to you about a somewhat different subject, which is curation? You are a retailer of a lot of content, and of apps. And there's been a lot of controversy about your app store rejecting things, sometimes you backtrack. I don't know of any law that any merchant whether it's you or Walmart that says you have to carry something you don't want to carry. But isn't there responsibility with that? You become big, you have the most apps. You've talked in some things you've written about protecting the consumer... but isn't there a downside of you guys acquiring all this power and you saying no to some cartoonist or some political candidate? Don't you have a problem there?

>7:16PM Steve: Well let first say we have two platforms we support. One is open and uncontrolled -- that's HTML5. We support HTML5. We have the best support for it of anyone in the world. We then support a curated platform which is the app store. It is the most vital app community on any platform. How do we curate this? It's a bunch of people, and they come into work every day. We have a few rules: has to do what it's advertised to do, it has to not crash, it can't use private APIs. And those are the three biggest reasons we reject apps. But we approve 95% of all the apps that are submitted every week.

>7:18PM Walt: So what happened with this candidate?

Steve: We had a rule that said you can't defame other people.

Kara: Determined by your app people.

Steve: Yes... and political cartoons got caught in that. We didn't think of that. So this guy submits his app and he gets rejected. We didn't see that coming. So we changed the rule, but this guy never resubmitted... then he wins a Pulitzer Prize, and he says we rejected him. So, we are guilty of making mistakes. We're doing the best we can, we're learning as fast as we can -- but we thought this rule made sense.

>7:19PM Steve: We're doing the best we can, we're fixing mistakes. But what happens is -- people lie. And then they run to the press and tell people about this oppression, and they get their 15 minutes of fame. We don't run to the press and say "this guy is a son of a bitch liar!" -- we don't do that.

>7:20PM Kara: So in terms of publishing these rules more clearly...

Walt: I talk to developers all the time, but they express to me that they're confused...

Steve: 95% are approved within 7 days...

Walt: So you don't think it could be better?

Steve: I do, but I want to remind you.
Sounds like a reasonable amount compared to what RIAA is trying to get in a full suit.

Here the penalty for taking public transportation without a valid ticket is roughly 50 times the cost of the ticket (and the excuse that you wouldn't have bought the ticket anyway is not a valid defense here either), and this ($1500 vs $20 cost of a new movie) is of similar scale.

Perhaps this will encourage movie viewers to use alternative modern distribution channels a la Netflix. Personally I do not bother with full-priced DVDs; Lovefilm (netflix.eu) is enough for me, together with older discounted DVDs. There's enough backlog of good movies that I don't need to buy Transfomers 2 on DVD for a long, long while.
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Looking at the index of Hacker Monthly I've just realized how much time I spend reading HackerNews submissions but still miss much.. Maybe Some one should start a Reddit Monthly too.
If you're targeting professional engineers, I'd worry that A. They could figure out the answer to these questions on their own, or if not, B. one of the large distribution companies would only be too happy to send out a sales engineer to assist with the decision making process.

Are you targeting the hobbyist market? I'm not sure how much money they might have.
I was unaware of that, and would likely have remained unaware of it as long as developers outside those countries complained not about that very obvious and specific limitation but instead continued to make vague claims about "maturity" of markets.
Barcode versions of existing CC numbers would be a simple and direct port... but think of the possibilities where your 'card' is now an internet-connected app (rather than just an account number). Perhaps your phone receives (by camera-scan/bluetooth/etc) the payment request, then the app approves/records the purchase.
Something I just wrote that i think relates:

i wonder why they don't care to wonder

of what wonders i wonder

but i know

it's been ruthlessly sapped of them

never asked of them

so that we don't expect much of each other

and all the while i'm left to my doubts

left with useless drawings and plans

idea's drawn by my undereducated hands

billions of sharpie masterpieces, all with potential

across the many like me

squandered because we've no societal funnel labeled "fringe gold"

i'm not bitter, but hell yes i've been pissed about how rejection boomerangs

how the lack of instructions condemns my choice to be a mercilessly difficult one

i don't think i much differ from those treading well worn paths to solid careers

i think they battle with much the same feelings, fear much the same outcomes

maybe the difference

is that one of my greatest fears

is that i'll modify my dreams to fit everyone else's reality

i don't want to get comfortable compromising and call it maturity
Apple can't use a TPM without people going apoplectic, even now years later. After the first couple shitstorms when the Intel Developer Preview Mac and a few other early models had TPMs, they just stopped including them with any of their hardware, despite (or perhaps because) they're essentially the only outfit that could pull that off.

Only a few models had them, and Apple doesn't like to ship features like that, especially with the way they'd get shat on over it.
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