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I kind of agree with you. Technically, Apple can stop accepting apps for any reason whatsoever, but I doubt they will do so for technical purposes. In my opinion, the #3.3.1 license thing was simply a way of preventing adobe from releasing their flash compiler, which would allow compilation of iOS apps in Windows.

My bet is that they're still even allowing flash apps in the appstore, like they were before Adobe announced the release of the app. I haven't heard anything, but I'll look for that.

I have written obj-c code as well, and I would have no problems moving to that language, but MonoTouch allows me to be much much more productive, specially when developing enterprise apps, which is what I do day to day. I have tried obj-c, and even tried porting MonoTouch apps to obj-c, and there's simply no comparison.
Yep, that's a major bug with the simple implementation.

The simple solution is to cap the benefit and and use a large enough pool that no single death ever makes a big difference on it's own. Which gives you something like "Long Term Care Insurance" is basic a bet that you will live long enough to need it, which is subsidized by those who don't. The benefit is also fairly small so a reasonably large company is not going to try and collect.
So you are correct about the original contribution thing. There is also an option to start early withdraws on investment appreciations as well. It gets complicated, but basically you can start making regular withdraws (once a month I think, always of the same amount) penalty free.
This post suggests they have autonomous down:
http://www.makanipower.com/2010/06/wing4e-test-june-18-2010/
I really don't get the confusion about clicking. For me, right-click as used in Windows and KDE (at least KDE3) enabled a massive amount of ignorance. I never know how to do anything and it doesn't matter. Want to know what something does and what you can do to it? Right-click and look at the context menu. Left-click doesn't do what you expect? Right-click and look for the command you want.

I swear that's all I ever knew about KDE3, and it was almost always enough. It usually works in Windows, too. Just right-click!

But, I tried to teach my mom about that, and it just never took. "How do I do open this file with a different program?" "Did you try right-clicking on the icon?" "Oh, there's the 'open with' command." "Always try right-clicking. Right-clicking is magic!" "Okay, I'll try that next time." "I'm not kidding! Write it down! It's magic!" Two days later, "How do I rename a file on my desktop?"

I really don't understand how it's a mind-blowing concept. There are only two buttons on the mouse. (That she knows of.) She uses the mouse every day! She knows how to use more than two buttons on her camera, and she uses her camera once a month. I just don't get it. Why are the buttons on the mouse harder than the ones on the camera?

Even weirder is that she is capable of learning a lot of specific tasks. She learned how to "Open With" and how to "Rename"; it's been a long time since I had to help her with stuff like that. To me, it seems easier to remember the single rule, "Right click and look at the context menu," than to learn all those specific tasks without understanding the general rule.
I agree that IE6 is a huge pain point... but just know that users on IE6 already have a horrible experience with the web, that your crappy and broken pages probably look and work just as well as anything else.
Zuck did pick a different niche--Ivy league students (and then college students in general).
My personal VIM preference would certainly suffer.

Anyway, the touch screen is undoubtedly gaining use cases in mobile computing and terminals of banks, subways and similar.
6 years then? :D

Let me qualify this a little. I don't mean no keyboards will exist within 6 years, but at around the 6th year mark, the vast majority of tech aware people, like you and me, will refuse to buy a computing device (including desktop PCs) whose primary mode of interaction is through the keyboard/mouse. Rather they will only be interested in touchscreen devices.
"Is that the new iPhone with the antenna thing?"
>The only thing that worries me is once control is conceded from Nasa to the private sector, the government will regulate the new industry harshly.

Thinking like that is what led the EPA to allow BP to neglect to install an acoustic trigger that could have prevented this whole debacle in the gulf. Harsh regulation is essential if you want safety.

The problem, and it's one that won't go away by the magic of capitalism, is that no one wants to put real money into space just for the sake of spaceflight.
Joke anyone? WTF.
Who the hell down-mods honest confusion? If it's so obvious, then you try explaining it.
You have to prove first that Thesis is a derivate work ... it might seem obvious to some, but it's better to ask a real lawyer or at the very least people with adequate paralegal experience ;)
sleep 60*5 && say get off your butt
Yes that is a comprehensive list. Reminds me of this similarly canonical list, the great universities of England: Cambridge, Oxford and Hull.

Particularly on the criteria of plot 'Requiem for a Dream' can surely not be considered a classic. Conceivably if we were willing to overlook the (lack of) plot and consider the cinematography, acting, realism and artistic choice of title then there's at least an argument. Although in my view it is really just 2hrs of Oscar juice and 'great' acting is surprisingly forthcoming given the right subject matter.
ifbyphone.com can do the trick. We have call tracking numbers (so you can put one unique number on each ad) that work with online or offline ad campaigns, then real-time reports showing how many calls you get on each ad.

For a case study, check this out: http://www.widerfunnel.com/about/media/ifbyphone-and-widerfu...
Downvote or not, the article is about how America can't afford a space program, and my comment is about how that really pisses me off given our clear priorities.

But yeah, in retrospect, it's flamewar material and I probably should keep my big mouth shut. It's just ...

I'm in Europe for the summer. And I know Europe has its own problems, but they're actually doing some stuff here that makes the place a better place to live, instead of taking huge piles of money and burning it. The roads are better, the cities prettier, the public services more helpful, the health system more efficient - it just kills me.

I live in Indiana, largely because the real estate market has crashed and it's so cheap (and yeah, I'm from there, but that's why I went back). Indiana really can't afford squat now, because all the money is being sucked out and spent on wars to profit the rich, or just plain being gift-wrapped for them because they're too big to fail.

And now we can't even go to the moon.
So you don't understand that someone who was never bought up with computers, big screens, or even buttons can get confused with new technology?

What I don't understand is all the people who haven't quite grasped the fact that people are different, and think about the world differently. While right clicking would be second nature to many of us, a lot of people still don't "get" computers, and a lot of what happens is magic to them.
At some point it will. Maybe 5, maybe 8, but within a reasonable amount of time. I think it depends on the acceleration of other iPad like devices in the same way Android phones followed soon thereafter the iPhone. Funny fact: I was just recording an iPad demo and I had to keep redoing the voiceover due to the use of the word click instead of touch.
How do you know he's not doing things under a different name now?
Ah, that's a neat movie. I don't know why it isn't on the front page of their website.

Still, the fact that they've got it working once doesn't mean the problem is solved. You need it to work all the time, in all sorts of weather conditions, and automatically stow itself if conditions become unsafe. Failure means plowing into the ground, which is probably going to be expensive each time it happens.

I'm sure they'll never get the plow-into-the-ground rate down to zero, but there's gotta be a lot of work still to be done to get it as small as possible.
OK, I was going to ignore this, but now you've broken two guidelines. From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

If the original title begins with a number or number +
gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop
it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X,"
and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number
is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

and

Please don't submit so many links at once that the
new page is dominated by your submissions.

Please, exercise some discretion.
I thought it was pretty clearly an attempt to talk about our financial priorities by illustrating how minuscule our savings will be by cutting a moon program.

I now see that mentioning the war at all was foolish - it kills all debate about whether that much money is actually doing anything useful.
You sound really condescending. I'm sure she'll eventually get it if you keep telling her.

Also if you don't tell her, she might figure it out on her own, maybe she keeps asking you because you're too available? :D
Facebook reaches 500 million users
I want a social place but not to share pics with my family and friends. I want to share knowledge and expertise. I want to ask questions, get answers, share code, show off my projects, learn from the experts, chat with colleagues, network and socialize.

Start with a facebook clon for hackers, then, like reddit, expand to all possible interests. Let people create their groups of interest and then grow, grow like weed.
It's not a silver bullet, and obviously monarchy doesn't make society impervious to totalitarianism, as Francos Spain and the Saudis are examples of.

I don't give much for the egalitarian argument. Yes, I'm better than a lot of other people, and I have no problem accepting that there are other people who are better than me. Now, this doesn't imply that I should be in a ruling position over them, nor them over me.

The royal family isn't in power because they're "better", or because they just happen to be part of a class that happens to be in power. They're in power because they're the royal family, and the throne is passed down through predefined rules that they don't control. If you're not heir to the throne, you won't get it (this is why they're not a "class").

They exist as a check of democracy where the process of getting elected has more in common with a reality-TV-show than a thorough assessment of skills and ideas. Members of the royal family are born with a single, simple mission, should they choose to accept it: to secure the longevity of their nation. If they don't accept, there exists the option of abdication, which is irreversible. They train for this single mission for decades. At no point in their lives are they subject to petty political quibbles, and this is how they keep their legitimacy.
People just need to play some Minesweeper and they'll learn about the existence of right click. That's why Minesweeper was created, isn't it?
On the discovery show, it seemed pretty loud too. An annoying buzzing sound...not sure where they're planning on deploying these, but noise pollution might be an issue, not to mention potential crash safety issues.
My personal opinion is that clicking with the mouse is a flawed design. This makes it hard for beginners.

Why would you need to double click to start an application on your desktop while you only need one while you're in your webbrowser?

But even more so, I believe that the concept of files is hard to grasp for a real beginner. Modern applications (like Google Docs, Evernote, ..) do not use them at all. The concept of "content" of a certain application is a lot easier to understand.

Take the iPhone for example, there's no files at all (for the enduser). There's no need to "rename", to "open with another application". Does this infuse aggrevation in developers because they feel drained of power? Yes, of course! But those are devices created to be used, not to configured.
I've only tried typing on an iPad a few times, and while it worked reasonably well, I can't imagine doing it for hours a day at 80+ words per minute.
Puts on Perl troll hat

You must not have learned too much, or else you'd have no reason to go back! :)
Morality, Ethics, Capitalism, License Agreements and the Law... no matter how you may see that they overlap, they're all separate things.

In the end, it's the laws of the land that you're in that matters. As far as I know, I don't believe that these arguments on what is a derivative work are anything more than opinion. Settled cases are not equivalent to legal precedent.

The best thing that could happen for everyone involved is that it goes to trial and ends with a judgement, and then all this posturing and pontificating will hopefully come to a merciful end.
Technology goes both ways. Rebels have the same tools at their disposal. i.e. Twitter in Iran.
Recruiting freelance help for your startup with equity
The government can't mandate interdependent families and communities. Those either happen or they don't. They can mandate social security.

Interestingly, the government can also mandate compulsory euthanasia for the elderly.
The original iPhone did NOT have GPS at all. It had cell tower triangulation and Skyhook. Assisted GPS is a superset of GPS using other technology to assist GPS by doing things such as getting almanac data from a server instead of from the satellites or getting the time and approximate location which allows faster computation of position from the satellites, or offloading some of the computation to a server.
I'm always leery of a startup based on a platform like this, because Facebook can easily easily take the ground out from under you.

There's also no early mover advantage or network effect (unlike say, admob), so if facebook chooses to implement this it would be fatal.
Those powers were stripped along with virtually all others from the Swedish monarchy in the 1974's reform of government, and now sits with the speaker. Our royal family isn't a lot more than a well payed magnets for tabloid journalists, so that our real civil-servants can get work done.
What's the distinction, though? What's the difference between right-click and all the other things she can do?

She can work her digital camera. She can work her cell phone. (She even sends text messages now!) She can work the DVD player, the TV, and her fax machine. She even managed to program her VCR to record shows a few times back in the days when programming a VCR was a real accomplishment.

Also, she considered majoring in math in college and became a high school math teacher in her forties, so she's never been averse to abstract thinking. (It also proves she can work a graphing calculator.) She's had Windows in the house since 3.1, and before that we had an Apple IIgs, which had a GUI finder and other mouse-centric apps.

So what's the distinction? To say that people who came to computers late have trouble with stuff is an observation, not an explanation.
A common urge when someone passes is to want to do something to honor them; be that planting a tree, naming a trophy or starting a foundation.

I'm not sure the Internet really makes those things easier. Seriously, planting a tree is easier with the Internet?

I've thought a lot about my own death and what I want from the people who love me is that they weep. I don't want some legacy implanted on the world as if I, one of billions, deserves that. But I do want those around me to care, and to express it. Seriously, if you are one of my loved ones and I'm dead then be human and weep.
Well, sure, but I was comparing one project - the moon project - with another - the war in Afghanistan. For once, I didn't care one little bit about the morality of the project, all I wanted to do is to put the magnitudes of these projects into perspective. I mean, the ratio of this program's cost to the cost of the smaller war is nearly a factor of a hundred.

The moon program is an accounting error in terms of the military budget for either war, and I was irked by the Times' mention of "$9 million a day", implying that this is an unGodly amount of money to be flowing down the drain, while not mentioning the far, far, far larger daily sums we toss away on other projects.
The difficulty here is not in building software for a memorial page [although I'm sure there is a lot of room for experimentation and improvement], but in detecting that someone has passed away, and then handling all interactions relating to that user with extreme sensitivity.
As far as I know, PMI is the most widely known certification for project management. Even if you don't intend to do their certification, their resources section should still be useful to you.

http://www.pmi.org/
can't concentrate when music is on.
>can you account for the fact that in order to verify digests, the server actually needs to store the plaintext of the password, and not a hash?

That was my first thought too, but apparently doesn't have to be the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication#Ad...

On the other hand, wikipedia also points out my other gut reaction to the article, which is that forms over https basically provide all the same advantages without most of the drawbacks.
Ask HN: What proficiency does one need to start freelancing? 
How proficient should one be in a particular subject before starting to take on freelancing jobs?

I have this image in my mind about most freelancers being people who went to their 9-5 software development job for 10 years before they started to freelance.

My company which I have had for a few years have done some (when looking back at it now) very basic php/web-design freelancing for local companies. I was reading the thread about where to find freelance jobs (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1526199) and realized that there are a lot of projects that need coders out there. Having invested a good amount of my education recently into software development, project management and economics I think this would be a really good way to keep learning new things and at the same time get some pressure ( and money ) to motivate and make me prioritize the project at hand. Of course I wouldn't seek out projects that I knew were out of my current or near-future skill-set but this is probably the heart of the problem.

Do potential clients expect a certain level of expertise or are they happy as long as the product works within the boundaries of the spec and deadlines are met? Im thinking that honesty in the bidding and the continuos development process will get me a long way. By that I mean not promising deadlines that im not sure can be met and facing problems head on. But perhaps this is just naive? Also im starting to notice that the more you about something the more you realize that you still have to learn.

Also does the general rule of "work for free or full price, never for cheap" apply in this situation?
I find your arguments somewhat convincing, but I've got the feeling that the "size of the financial industry" is one of the major reasons why it's not working. The housing bubble, for instance, shows that it can make very bad decisions -- I wonder if there is more money seeking a place to invest than there are places where the money can be profitably invested.
There's no point in denying the fact they have trouble, though. If a similar group of people keep having trouble with the same interface of a user application, then the usability is just plain bad. It's not the fault of the users, it's the design's fault.

Don't get me wrong, I feel with you, though. I don't want to count my problems explaing the concept to beginners^
The mouse is an unnatural abstraction. Just because it was better than everything else at the time - and it was - doesn't make it anything other than a spooky indirection.

We get this kind of thing because our superpower is dealing with spooky indirections and weird abstractions. We are not normal.
The touchscreen will obsolete the keyboard/mouse combination except for entering or editing large amounts of text within ten years. (Obsolete means something like “cross the 50 percent mark” and “displays strong growth while keyboard/mouse devices collapse”.) The iPad seems to show the way: ultra portable with a (probably wireless) keyboard attachment for when you really need to type.

That would be a prediction I would be comfortable with.
The problem, and it's one that won't go away by the magic of capitalism, is that no one wants to put real money into space just for the sake of spaceflight.

There's only a few things that people are willing to pay $1000 a pound to send into space. One of them is communications relays. Another is cameras. The third is themselves.

I'm hopeful that space tourism will be the killer app for human spaceflight, because the current model of "let's fucken just send people up to see what happens" has pretty much reached its endpoint: we know what happens.
Figure out why people use Facebook, and then do a better job at it than Facebook is.

Presumptions: Facebook does not actually understand its own audience and why people use the site. Also, I presume you will figure out what "better" really means for your audience and not just over-engineer something.
I'm suffering from confusion of terms. Folks have been referring to cell tower triangulation as "assisted GPS" in relation to cell phones, and the term has become somewhat muddled. It's not A-GPS as we have in modern hardware, but people tend to use the term "assisted GPS" to refer to cell triangulation/Skyhook systems.
As someone in a similar position, I can offer a few tips.

First, realize that the search process is totally different from a job hunt. Good tech companies hire for talent, not skills. However, developing talent into something comercially useful isn't a short-term proposition. Unless you have extensive project management experience/have shipped several impressive things, your best bet is to become expert at a particular skill/tool, and sell that expertise, than being a good "back-end developer".

You need to get comfortable around non-techies. This means: explaining how your contribution reduces expenses/increases revenue, realizing the client often doesn't know, or frankly give a damn about the technical merits of the project ("python? you mean, like, the snake?"), and that you'll have to network a lot with non-technical people. Tech people might be a source of referrals, but most of them default to "building" vs "buying" (paying you) to get the job done.

Get off the internet. Seriously. Business-to-business commerce is still very telephone, referral, and relationship-driven. Elands, craigslist, etc. puts you head-to-head against undeniable idiots, offshore guys whose cost of living is about 1/10th that of oakland
This looks way better than than the giant fixed turbines they are putting in Eastern Oregon which cost $2.4 million a pop, interrupt the view, and can't pay for themselves.

It's also funny Oregon has abundant hydroelectric power, but subsidizes these wind projects with rate hikes and taxes - while selling billions of dollars of these electrons to California at market rates.
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Possible, but probably not practical.

It has certainly been done in various Java implementations. HotSpot I'm pretty sure does precise garbage collection.

Native stacks don't need to be scanned for pointers, but the VM must of course keep track of which parts of the stack are native.
As I said in my Iron Man forfeit talk, I'd quite like to see the perl6 spec renamed to Camelia Perl - and perl5 renamed to something else as well.

The respective communities for the two languages now very much regard ourselves as two fascinating languages in the same family - one very much production ready, the other still polishing that side but a stunning work of language design research already.

Now it's just a case of our marketing catching up with reality.