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Yes, 4G is really nice! But the 3GS and 3G were made to look much better than they really were. It's not so much the hype itself that bothers me, but that the reality was much less impressive:

- iPhone didn't have a flash until 4G and had a weak camera. I don't have a camera, I use my phone.
- no multitasking until 4G. I've used multitasking for a lot of time and run multiple apps at once.
- it was very expensive and not available in my country for my operator

With each iteration the iPhone has gotten better and better to the point where I would actually get one, if it weren't for two facts: I like to be able to run anything I want on my phone and I want to be able to program it.

I'm probably a very special case... I would not hesitate to recommend an iPhone to friends.
Nice animation, but I think in the last step when c² is mentioned (after "a² + b²"), the c-square should be restored such that it is again visible as square.
apperang.com pays users the price of the app plus a small incentive ~25cents to download iPhone apps. I have used this to discover many new applications.
I wish people would think outside themselves for a bit. Is every person who has self-diagnosed with Dr Google right? I am sure doctors have seen a bunch of people that are waving some printout that says "I have X, I need Y! Stat!" and are totally wrong. I personally don't blame them for wanting to go through the tests.
Hooray IBM names Firefox as its default browser
<sigh /> My ideas about how our legal system should change are pretty radical (anarcho-capitalist / libertarian here), so it's hard to say just one simple law without making it either something that sounds glib, or something that I actually consider fairly insignificant.

That said... As long as we have our more-or-less current government, I'd say maybe more term-limits at all levels of government. Something to try and prevent the existence of "career politicians." I'd like to cycle these folks through quick enough that they don't have time to become totally corrupt.

Edit:

Oh, wait, here's one I'd like to go with that could actually help. Require judges to inform all juries of their right to nullify based on finding the law invalid, regardless of the facts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
In that case it looks very very cool and I signed up for the beta. Great work.

But when I first read through I too was confused about the comparison to 37signals and their new draft app.
Though it may not have been as clear as intended, I "get it". And it's pretty cool—I've signed up for the beta.

Cultured Code (Things) has a competitor… good work!
And the reason is ...
Assembla's new standup report tool for coordinating distributed teams
I do.. I'm half deaf in my right ear.
Yes. The most parsimonious explanation for the NYT's war attitude is that the destruction of the twin towers recalibrated their ideas about justice and reasonable response.

This is in comparison to the data-free explanation of the article, that an unspecified conspiracy in the NYT sold out to an unspecified faction in the Bush 42 administration under unspecified pressure. It's not even a conspiracy theory. Rolling Stone and Drudge would require better sourcing to print such vacuous trollop. HN is a poor venue for politics, and an even poorer venue for empty political traffic-whoring.
I'm left handed and find it extremely awkward to hold the phone in a manner that would cause the problem. I understand that if you do hold the phone the "wrong" way then this would be a huge issue for you, but my gut still tells me that this isn't really such a big deal in terms of sheer numbers.
Google: Grandmother's guide to video chat
I don't think this issue should be made about the users and whether or not they need to relax.

It's just an issue with your phone. Fix it.
Julian Assange (Wikileaks) to speak at HOPE Conference in NYC in 2 weeks?
"Assange is scheduled to give The Next HOPE Saturday keynote on July 17 in New York City. To make things even more interesting, Lamo ["hacker" the April drone video was leaked to] has also been planning on appearing at the conference and may now wind up facing a hacker community who views his actions with, to put it mildly, disappointment."
Joystick Labs Launches Incubation Program For Game Developers
Not like that in the U.K. I think
I enjoyed that. One can learn much from watching good developers work - even when solving mundane problems. While I've watched many 'professional'-grade casts (e.g. peepcode) - I find it curious that there aren't more of this type of 'unpolished' casts.
Folder Printing Has Changed the Look of the Office 
The use of folders printing has increased in the recent years. It has become essential for the businesses now. It is also very useful for marketing.
What to do with this online desktop?
Will Mcgugan created locidesktop.com a free online virtual desktop app, and is now that sure what to do with it, what would you suggest?
The Key to Creating Remarkable Things
While I appreciate your thoughts, this seems like a pretty narrow perspective on the arrangement. You assume there is no benefit to intern and that it's "flaunting labor laws."

It's a legitimate exchange of services for something of perceived value to the intern. They perceive the value they are getting from the internship program as well worth the time and labor they are providing to the company. Nobody is forced into "free labor." It's purely voluntary.

Many colleges offer course credit for internships (this has monetary value to the student). Many companies offer incentives such as permanent employment for stellar interns. Regardless, those who show up and do great work are usually rewarded with a network of contacts, personal referrals, industry experience and other things that can help move them to the top of the job pile when they graduate and actually go out looking for full-time employment.

All other things being equal, as an employer, I'll hire the candidate who has the experience over the one who doesn't. I'll hire the candidate who's desire to work in this field is so great, they'd gladly give up a summer to work for a company without pay because the VALUE of that experience is greater to them than any minimum wage job they could get paid for. If they are excited about working in the industry without pay, think of how much more likely they are to value the opportunity when they get a paycheck.
I can afford that. But I retain my right to be pissed if it does not work as advertised. I may as well throw my money on the streets.

There should not be an ETF if the product has a major flaw (it is the iPHONE, so the phone part not working is pretty important imo).
Know your steroids. Especially if you're pregnant.
Correct,but twitpic shouldn't try to stop others that provide tools for the data migration
Perhaps the real attitude is summed up best by Fake Steve through satire (http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html):

"So some guy says his iPhone 4 is having reception issues. I say there is no reception issue. Now it’s his reality against my reality. Which one of us is living in the real reality?

There’s a two-part answer: 1, there is no real reality, and 2, it doesn’t matter.

The only thing that matters is which reality our customers will choose to adopt as their own.

Of course most people would rather live in a reality where everything works and there are no problems. And now, thanks to me, that reality exists. Because I’ve created that reality for them."
> Except where prohibited, a 10% restocking fee will apply to any non-defective item

If you can prove its defective, there is no restocking fee, alternatively, they'll likely replace the phone with an new one if it is just a problem with certain models.
Braid was one of the best games of the last ten years for me. I thought of it immediately when Ebert was saying 'games can't be art.'

I would guess that Braid is less evocative for those who didn't grow up with 2d platformers, though. The game persistently pulled out all the skills I honed playing Super Mario Brothers on the nintendo, crumpled them up, and gave them back to me as pterodactyl origami. I loved it. I imagine if you had little 2d platforming experience, you'd be missing something from the experience.
Ask HN: In JavaScript, changing the value of an array item not advised?
I'm reading through jQuery Fundamentals (http://www.rebeccamurphey.com/jqfundamentals/#javascript-basics.examples.change-array-value) and this tip in the JavaScript chapter surprised me: While it's possible to change the value of an array item as shown in Example 2.28, “Changing the value of an array item”, it's generally not advised.

I wouldn't think just changing the value of an array element could cause a problem. Is this truly inadvisable or was this written in error?
I'm actually on the same setup (Ubuntu 10.04 x64) and I haven't had any of those bugs. I didn't import bookmarks at all (using the same profile from Opera 10.11) and it's much faster than Firefox and Opera 10.11. Chromium is about on par in term of launch time but is slower in term of page load speeds. I've only been using this since yesterday when it was released but I haven't seen a bug so far.
It sounds to me from the blog post that the change hasn't been made yet.

We’re working hard to address this issue as quickly as possible and in a few weeks we will move encrypted search to a new hostname – so schools can limit access to SSL search without disrupting other Google services, like Google Apps for Education.
Any new law must wait 6 years after approving before going to production.

That way corruption and making holes in law on purpose will be less worth it, and people would be sure law won't change under their business in short term.
Tapulous acquired by Disney
IBM Makes Firefox its Default Browser
hi everyone ... i'm the creator of IncPy and pleasantly surprised that it ended up on HN :)

anyways, this is still an early-stage research project where i'm the only developer, so i can't make much guarantees about its robustness (i can only test on my own machine with my own research scripts).

that said, though, i am very interested in getting new users and feedback. please email me at the email address listed on the IncPy website if you have any questions. i am more than happy to answer them!
really? after they banned minarets that way?
I live in 98112 and nothing is showing the Tote button, even items with local same-day delivery available (another fine Amazon perk for Seattle residents). Where are the Tote-able items hiding?
thanks for such a great summary and 'sales pitch' of my project ;) i couldn't have put it any better.

if you have any further suggestions, please email me personally.
Twitter's Track for RSS feeds
I saw the name, and suspected immediately that you might be infringing on a Konami trademark. http://www.trademarkia.com/frogger-74652881.html

I dislike how the modern legal system has conditioned me. :P On the other hand, I didn't know about Trademarkia until a few minutes ago (since it doesn't look like you can link directly into the USPTO's TESS system), so I suppose that's useful.
Where does a tree get its mass?
Is he a journalist or is he an activist? He needs to pick one and stick with it.
great interview!
The flexibility of cron is pretty amazing, compared to other schedulers I've been forced to work with. It would be helpful to see some cron examples and their Clockwork replacements for comparison.
hi stevelosh,

sorry that it didn't work out of the box; as you can tell, it's still a research prototype :)

i'll add the Mercurial test suite to my TODO list of programs to try. in your experience, what kind of Mercurial operations do you think can be sped up by memoization?
Well, and there you have Gawker's great miscalculation in the whole ordeal - they expected Apple to react as a business entity rather than as a proxy for Steve Jobs himself.
He should go play Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

There's a work of art that simply can't be experienced in any comparable way in any other medium. He could play it in 5 minutes.
The system wouldn't require many people to read much. Some gadflies, lawyers, and think-tankers would do a deep pass in areas that concern them; a citizen bitten by a specific law would look at that law in detail and register support/disapproval.

Then, the areas of controversy or obscurity would start to stick out in automated/ranked analysis. Activists (of all stripes) would point out areas for a closer look with URLs.

It is a system for calling attention to things, in turn -- not necessarily forcing preemptive review of (or expertise on) everything.

It could also work if the only people who register support/opposition are elected legislators. In this variant, by default, if you've voted for a law, you're marked as supporting all its clauses. A legislator can then go in -- after the fact -- and remove their name from those clauses they don't specifically support. (When replaced, the new seatholder inherits the previous legislators' positions, until they choose to update them.)

If/when a clause has zero supporters -- no one in the current legislature is willing to go on record as sponsoring it -- then it enters a sunset period. If it doesn't get another on-the-record defender in 6 months to a year, it expires.

Thus, every law, when passed, has coverage for every clause -- but then legislator shame and/or turnover leaves the most embarrassingly narrow clauses with fewer and fewer supporters facing more and more negative attention.

Compare it with the "enforcement priority list" for crime concept about midway through this piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/business/economy/04view.ht...

By focusing attention on one egregious clause at a time -- as the 'least sponsored' or 'most opposed' -- the normal unaccountability legislators enjoy, because citizens are distracted and their concerns are diffused over the entire legal code, can be remedied.
In your experience, is it actually as easy to get unpaid time off as you make it sound? Certainly, not being paid for not working is entirely possible, but it's much less desirable if you lose your job for it...

(My job allows you to "buy" extra time off, so it's not an issue for me; but I figured this was uncommon, especially in the States.)
Google WebSite Optimizer does A/B testing and is free.
You have to have AdWords account though.
I recommend you to create AdWords account anyway and try to advertise your service that way.
You would have to spend some money, but not much, and the time you would save would probably worth it.
great point; the persistence of the IncPy cache is one of the biggest differentiators from an ordinary memoize decorator
Perfect setup doesn't exist
about time... google really does a poor job of releasing enhancements for their product lines.

their strategy seems to be to release a bare-bones "me too" version of whatever it is that's hot at the time.. absolute minimal functionality.. just enough to meet the most basic use case requirements and to keep people from making that leap to memorizing a new url string and typing it in when they need something beyond google's half-assed version.

eventually they get around to updating the interface or adding on a small set of new features and bam, it's front page news. "oh that google.. at it again, eh?". stock price doubles.

for all the resources at their disposal it's astonishing how little that company does.

i have to hand it to them though... it works. people are too lazy to remember new urls and if there's a google version that's a click away -- that's what they're going to use. and google knows it. their competitors are even more clueless, so i can't say that i blame them entirely.. it's not that hard to be #1 when #2,3 and 4 amount to your half-retarded cousins with drool dribbling down their chins at the family reunions.
I meant to indicate that it could possibly be profitable - not that it would be profitable. I'll refine my language in the future.
Braid has some good puzzles, but aside from the "plot twist" of the final level, its "art" aspect is pretentious and overwrought. Shadow of the Colossus was a good recommendation, though I'd pick ICO. Really, though, if he doesn't want to play a game, I don't see why he should have to. Just bow out of the conversation and leave it at that -- which is what he's just done.
For learning reverse engineering, I would recommend the book Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering[1] by Eldad Eilam.

I'm not sure what good beginner resources for learning assembly programming are, but either way, you'll probably want a copy of the Intel instruction set reference manuals[2] (and maybe the other Intel/AMD manuals[3]).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Ei...

[2] vol1: http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/253666.pdf vol2: http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/253667.pdf

[3] Intel: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/ AMD: http://developer.amd.com/documentation/pages/default.aspx
At least there's some connection. Poor taste though.
There is an easy hack, given a known list of RSS feeds that do not offer full content and that one desires to be searched --

Simply run the links in the original feed through something like arc90's Readability and produce a new feed with the output, ingesting this new feed back into Superfeedr.

If this hack is being used only for search-related purposes, then I would hazard that there is enough existing precedent here to claim legality.
I think a good engineer can do both roles. With enough experience, they know when it's time to refactor and build nice fresh code. Other times they will know when to just keep things running until there is time to rebuild properly.

Though, if I have to pick one, I would say #2. It's harder to understand someone else's code and to keep it running smoothly. Though a good engineer may not be happy to stick around in a company that refuses to invest in their code properly. But good companies can have old code that should not be heavily invested in. Likewise, I think young engineers that have never worked with old code under appreciate how it ages.

In comparison, my parents' have owned some very old houses. They have had handymen that install things like counters and cabinets. Every piece of wood needs to be measured in 3 dimensions. Decisions need to be made about which surface to make something parallel to. They operate in 3d and plan for eventual settling. Folks that only work on new houses may not think long term since they rarely need to live with their (or others') decisions.
Away with the "personalized" filler lines. I don't think people were ever affected by those.
Others reported that radioactive particles from Starfish Prime descended to earth seasonally and accumulated in terrestrial organisms such as fungi and lichens.[citation needed]

Major citation needed there.
Python's Tornado has swept me off my feet
This is the second time this week I've seen a blog post here on news.yc that was based 100% on a Quora answer.
I disagree with that: there are, indeed, many places that claim to house great code; indeed, these do not all house great code; indeed, user voting may (may!) help; but that does not mean that rating by (votes/time since submission) is useful - it's not a news site, after all, and showcasing some classics is at least as useful as showcasing the newest Rails trick or somesuch.
IPad flies past Android in Web browsing usage share
I think it's a great idea, but I'm not 100% sure the UK has the authority necessary to repeal the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/repealing-unnecessary-laws/rep...
There are three that come to mind right now, but I don't think it's appropriate for me to name them. Two of the three could literally double their salaries if they took crappier jobs, but they don't because they have great gigs and don't care much about making more money.

Getting people to perform always comes to getting them in the right mindset! The more complex and creative the task, the less money matters in doing that.

If your work is mind-crushingly boring and repetitive, you'll go to the highest bidder. (That seems to be pretty much how investment banking works). But if your work is something you love, involves intricate problem solving and creativity, it will take more money to pull you away from a good job.

And for some reason I don't know, most (but not all) the great programmers I've come across haven't been all that interested in money in general.

The sooner people stop equating money with compensation the better off we'll all be. Money is but one small piece of the the puzzle.

Also, I think you're right - it's not always best to hire a great programmer, regardless of cost. If you can't keep them interested and engaged in the right type of problem, they will underperform under the crushing boredom. Get the right person for the job.
IPhone Game Studio Tapulous Acquired by Disney
This reminds me of a snippet from Buckminster Fuller's "Critical Path". He's talking about specialists and generalists and how we rarely see the big picture of what's important.

"Nobody is born a specialist. Every child is born with comprehensive interests, asking the most comprehensively logical and relevant questions. Pointing to the logs burning in the fireplace, one child asked me, "What is fire?" I answered, "Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log. The Earth revolves and the trees revolve as the radiation from the Sun's flame reaches the revolving planet Earth. By photosynthesis the green buds and leaves of the tree convert that Sun radiation into hydrocarbon molecules, which form into the bio-cells of the green, outer, cambium layer of the tree."

http://www.maebrussell.com/Critical%20Path/Critical%20Path%2...
Leaked pics and specs of HTC HD3 (WP7 phone)
jesus what a terrible article. the quote is interesting, but the "perspective" the author provides is tripe
He was pretty attached to that missing iPhone4 prototype though...
Ask HN: A List of HN-esque TV Programs
I'd like to get a list all in one place. I'll edit this post with your suggestions as they come, then migrate to a google doc. I'll add my ideas shortly.
YouTube - AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON