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The back references present in the regular expressions discussed in the article make the entire system capable of handling even NP-complete problems.

Really? So, we can parse HTML with regular expressions nowadays?

I think a more appropriate word choice would be "recognize" instead of "parse", with regard to the OP of the thread.
If it gets better reception than the 3GS in some situations and worse in other situations, how is that a serious design flaw? What makes it a flaw rather than simply a design trade off?

I've had many high tech devices way more flawed than this and they didn't get 22 days of coverage, a press conference by the CEO, or some free fixes. Hell exploding laptop batteries got less coverage than this! I don't even own a iPhone (and don't intend to get one) but these comments are over the top.
This is fascinating. Would you mind talking a bit more about this via email? I can't seem to find your contact info, but mine is in my profile.
So this article goes from using the analogy "Yeah, well, Jimmy stole cookies from the cookie jar, too!" to using beefy words like petulant and contrite. I'm lead to believe that readers of the Harvard Business Review are linguistic ninjas who are simultaneously somehow unable to analyze the simplest abstract description. Or am I reading too much into this?
Also, I'm not really a fan of reading text in monospaced fonts. Others may disagree, but reading code and reading regular text are very different things.
This is tremendously disturbing, but according to the article pretty common. It's a tough line.

On the one hand, nobody wants children to suffer. If at all possible, every child should be protected from abuse. I think the key, as the author elaborates on, is education. Knowing the difference between a crazy hippy family and pedophiles seems like common sense -- but if you, as an uneducated clerk at a crappy CVS in the middle of nowhere, saw something that offended your sensibilities and seemed perverse... Without education things like this will happen again and again. Once something like this gets into the bureaucratic pipeline it becomes an unfortunate problem of due diligence.
http://twitter.com/newsycombinator is also good if you want anything that hits the front page (surprisingly it has almost 14,000 followers.. which seems sky high compared to the number of HN users to me.. :-))
I've been thinking about this too. I feel awesome that Amazon reached out to me but does that mean it's better than Droid/Berry/Nokia? If I agree to any new opportunity, what if it's the next Microsoft KIN/ZUNE (I doubt it)? Even if Amazon sells a million kindles a month (12 million a year), it would take them a few years to catch up to droid/berry/nokia? It seems like a high risk/high reward situation when I don't even know if the Kindle app store will work out at all. Whereas, the other markets are proven. I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just talking about a different angle of approach.
keep the comments coming...coffee is brewing and changes are coming
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Germany's online booksellers have ridiculous prices. I don't know what the marketshare figures look like in the rest of the world, but I would be very surprised if they were comparable to Germany.
We had "a run in" with Child Protective Services about 10 years ago. The charge: "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (symptoms medically caused; a long story). The "advocates" at CPS had me and my wife (in hospital having just delivered child #2) tried and convicted immediately. Only, I think, thru my self-advocacy directly to the head of pediatrics at the county hospital where my child was being held for examination, resulted in the case being resolved in our favor within a few days (in contrast, I could have talked to the bureaucrats until I died w/o making the slightest headway). Due process? What's that? Various lawyers I consulted advised me to not even hire a lawyer (imagine multiple lawyers saying _that_!) because the law was so stacked against parents, and so completely protective of the CPS bureaucrats, that it would be an utter waste of money with no hope of lawyer-aided "victory".

Miraculously we got our kids back in very short order, however the bureaucrats wouldn't give us the slightest scrap of documentation that the event had ever taken place (and this remains true til now). And needless to say, we received no apology either (at best they were all "just doing their jobs", just like concentration camp guards).

I have nothing good to say about the arbitrary, condescending, totalitarian bureaucrats/"advocates", or the (CA) legislators who wrote such one sided laws ("for the children", no doubt) giving these petty tyrants their obscene powers. I guess many reading this will think "necessary collateral damage by wonderful, diligent state employees pursuing the greater good"; all well and good until _you_ are the ones in their crosshairs: then we'll hear what kind of tune _you_ sing about the glories of the state when you are deprived of due process among other things.
I was surprised to find no mention of the issues with nesting. Every programmer should know about this limiation, even if they don't get into the pumping lemma and whatnot.
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I downloaded the iPhone SDK in March 2008, whilst on vacation in DC. After working with it for a few months, I quit my job, but in that case, I'd written a few non-trivial programs and knew writing Objective-C and Cocoa code was what I wanted to do. Sure as hell beat writing business software and teaching C# to business grads, though anything is fun if you're determined to enjoy it.

Total pay cut, maybe $160k and rising. Yeah, still the right decision, though money has been tight.

The key point is that I had a solid grasp of what I needed to do technically to survive after quitting, and I was not jumping into the unknown, just the not yet done.
Double negatives are frowned upon for a reason....
Overblown or not, the product still have the flaw. I think what the media expected is Apple to admit the flaw, and not pushing the responsibility to customer by holding it another way or buy bumper.

In auto industry, Toyota, Honda and others admit their product have flaw, and do a recall.
And yet strangely enough, this doesn't refute the thrust plusbryan's comment if you take it as a reflection on Job's suite owning status or his general character.
In the auto industry, if they don't recall the product when there's a big flaw, people die. It's a bit different. This seems like the A/C buttons on a Toyota Camry being finicky and annoying. Not worth a recall, or the attention that's been paid to it.
Parts for a reprap.
Maybe these people don't count the silly ideas they get, which they have no way to solve, or would not actually produce money, or are impossible.
I learned today that I may be losing my H1B soon. I can stay in the US as I'm married to another H1B holder, but I will not be able to work.

Since I dislike being idle, my first thought is to pack up and move back to my home country to look for a job. But this article represents an interesting path that I may follow myself.

Thanks for inspiring me to view lack of work permit as an opportunity and not a major life crisis.
My parents had childhood pictures of me, developed through the local grocery store, completely naked aside from a few layers of mud and a huge grin on my face. My teenage self might not have appreciated the opportunity to grandstand in such a manner quite as much. (I honestly thought I'd found and destroyed all of the copies. My parents were much sneakier than I gave them credit for.) My adult self thinks it's all rather funny.

Almost every other child I grew up with had "nekkid pictures" of them, taken by their parents: bathing, having done something foolish or amusing, or just generally running around the house like kids do.

Your post paints you as a reasonable person, and that actually terrifies me: a reasonable person shouldn't see an error in judgement here. These were parents doing what parents do, taking pictures of their kids doing what kids do. Proud parents, possibly thinking, "we'll embarrass the hell out of them when they're 16". (I may be projecting a bit of my father here.)

We're shaping a society that's cynical and distrustful, and it starts with reasonable people associating behavior like this with phrases like "they should have known better".
SJ in a tux at the Academy Awards in March. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/steve-jobs-oscar-ca...
I think Skulpt (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747086) has more potential and is more interesting.
This is why I can't understand how startups still use Paypal. With Paypal, your dispute could take forever to get resolved and there's no one you can call directly to get things fixed asap. Not only have costs on your own merchant accounts come down, they're easier to setup as well as make your business look more professional.
Booya! Thats great- grab the bull by the horns! Let me know if I can help further just tweet me @emilepetrone
The parent said it was a badly designed phone, I was just saying that since everyone seems to be much happier with it than the predecessor, even in the area of the flaw, it's not a bad design. I don't see a false dichotomy.

And the 3GS is not a completely obsolete phone at all, except by gadget addict standards.
The point is, I can replace the defaults, and because of the way actions work, the are proper replacements that integrate with other applications.

It isn't about using the phone as a mass storage device, dummy! It's about being able to e.g. add and remove music, movies, photos etc. to and from the device and a network location, over the air, without ever having to plug into another computer.
Jobs admitted there was a flaw, just as there is for all phones. Perhaps they should recall all phones, and we can go back to having a pull out antenna, or large radio source closer to our heads?
http://musikpitch.com . 99Designs for Music.
That might be true if your users were a blank slate, but they aren't, they have existing language skills and it's easier to remember words from ordinary language than it is some library writers abbreviation.

Nor all all words arbitrary collections of letters, most words have some form of alternating consonant vowel structure that makes them easy to speak and remember. Write a program that just arbitrarily combines letters and I doubt you'll get much out that looks like words; there are lots of patterns in how we create words, it isn't arbitrary. If you can't read your code aloud and sound reasonable then you've probably inappropriately abbreviated your identifiers.

Map is by far a better name than mp; there is no shortage of vowels; map is already a short identifier and a real word.
In the PR world, there is a saying that "all publicity is good publicity".

What about this antenna issue--is all the coverage a net positive for Apple or is this an exception to the "rule"?

Just curious to know what others here think.
I actually meant the right... with the rest of Europe on the other side, they're the odd ones out.
Yeah, that's a decent point. I'm probably tainted by my exposure to the iPhone - it seems reasonable that most people probably don't even know about OS upgradeability. Good point about the app market, that will likely be one of the main areas where it matters. I know my friends who got a G1 felt stung by not being able to upgrade their OS to include new features within a year or so of buying it, though.
Ask HN: Is there a tool to view link and HN comments in one page?
Just wondering if someone has created a tool to view a submitted link and related HN comments in one page.

This is instead of having to open 2 tabs each time you want to read the article and then wanting to read the HN comments for the article. Or is there a better way of doing this?
This round up is fairly accurate. One thing worth mentioning is that all of these tools can be bent to be used outside their comfort zone (just like an RDBMS) so you don't have to have a stack of 5 different databases, if you enjoy getting the job done with one.
But apparently they only have 1000 of them, and won't get any more, due to the Nexus One being End-of-life.

http://ausdroid.net/2010/07/02/vodafone-only-have-1000-nexus...

I was going to pick one up for cross platform game development with Unity3D, but this was before I found out that developers in Australia still can't sell apps on the Android Marketplace. I thought Google would have their shit together with this by now.
I suspect RexRollman's point was about DRM. If Amazon doesn't support your platform, then it isn't supported. You can't even write your own software to read Kindle books because of the DRM.
For the first problem, see std::unordered_map (was std::tr1::unordered_map).

For the second problem, see boost::flyweight<std::string>. And/or, "typedef std::shared_ptr<std::string> string" and add "new" in front of every string you create.
Couch potato voice recognition
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lorch/personal/self-ref.html an actually attributed and correct version

http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/craft/srat-Q.html this one is the same, but lets you bookkeep
Pretty sure it meant to go with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1531004... pretty surreal.
tip, hang out on #startups via irc.freenode.net when you're bored / want to say hello to fellow hackers. I'm in the bay too btw, so if you're at the next eastbay HN meetup I'll see you there.
It's way below an average place to work: these past years, Apple hasn't made it in the top 100 places to work a single time. Not a single time. In the Top 100.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/fu...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/fu...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2008/fu...
Oh crap! Totally wrong thread. Wow that probably sounded completely strange out of context. Oops.
Any chance you're in Laramie, WY?
Good points..will answer in next post
One of the reasons I don't usually keep mine jailbroken is that it becomes very annoying to upgrade. It's jailbroken right now, but the tethering is basically the only thing I miss when it's not, and that, only very occasionally.
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>isn't a crime
PR often creates word of mouth, even when it's clearly nonsense. Look at Sarah Palin or the elite funded and organized "grass roots" tea party. Given a big enough soap box, you can sway opinion. Another example is the idea that democrats want to spend tax dollars and republicans want to be fiscally responsible. A whole lot of people believe this meme, a clear majority in fact. Yet the facts clearly show the opposite, and many people try very hard to spread this truth via word of mouth. Why do people believe the opposite? Because they hear it over and over again from a top notch PR machine.

Coke doesn't need everyone to believe them, what they need is to not lose their very large base so to speak. And for that they need a PR campaign that says what their base already wants to believe. Btw, their base will spread this via word of mouth just as rabidly as you will spread the opposite opinion.
Destructuring is a pretty dangerous practice because it completely destroys encapsulation.
Such a clause seems to indicate that you would prefer that your code be incorporated into a proprietary project to it being incorporated into another open-source project. Is this the case?

If not, why adopt a license that is incredibly hostile to the free-software folks, explicitly forbids them from incorporating it into their projects, and allows people to incorporate it into proprietary projects freely?

If so, why open source it at all?
I still think it's true. Why my little cousin download mp3s of his favorite artists?

Is it because the 1$ song is too much?

It might be because it's hard to buy something without credit card and when you're wrong you don't necessary have one. However, his parents will happily buy him any songs he wants.

So, what is it? It's because it's easy to do (my little cousin does it) and there are no risk for him.. I mean, who could accuse a little boy to download a few mp3s?

I feel it's the same for software. Why would my girlfriend pay for Windows when she can easily gets it without any risks of being caught?

And, you guys think whatever you want, I know you've downloaded illegal software, mp3s and movies. And, it's not because they cost too much. It's just easy and without risks.

Imagine all download were tracked (forget the technical details) and it would cost you 500k if you're caugh downloading winzip illegaly. Would you have done it?
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wow USA is really insane!
I must earn tons of money and go to a better place like Scandinavian countries.

day by day my doubt in power of USA is increasing, it seems to be headed on path of Britain or worse Japan
FWIW, I actually like(d) the monospace font but.. I spent most of the 80s and 90s reading long texts that way. It's somehow nostalgic. I admit it's probably a niche fetish though ;-)
I love the logo. Simple and potent.
Apple already got plenty of flak for leaving out features like wallpapers in the name of performance; if they hadn't released iOS4 for the 3G at all they would have been crucified by the same people. Releasing the update and telling people not to install it would also have been a dumb idea. The only thing they can reasonably do is allow downgrades back to 3, or improve performance in 4.1.
Did someone learn something on this site? Why it's on hacker news instead of newbies news.
"Today, he was deep in his own personal maelstrom of defensiveness and hostility. His head was frequently down; in fact his whole posture betrayed his unhappiness. He frequently hid his hands behind his back — a classic defensive posture — when he wasn't clasping them in front of his stomach (another defensive posture)."

It was a defensive press conference, by nature. It's not like he's announcing a new product or something. Do you expect, or even want Steve to summon fake enthusiasm on command?

Say what you want about the "reality distortion field", but Steve is a profoundly honest guy, in the sense that he won't convey any impression other than that which he really feels. I bet he couldn't give a Stevenote about a toaster no matter how hard he tried.
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The author had to mention England explicitly in order to give an excuse for why it didn't count. (I would be interested to learn when this supposed "transition from monarchy to democracy" took place. 1215? 1689?)

Yes, that was the paragraph that lost me all respect for the article.
I didn't say we want to live in a world like this. I'm saying this is the world we live in. A reasonable, non-naive person would think twice about taking pictures of a kid naked, if they had any knowledge of the current state of society & laws in the US. This position should not terrify you. If there's no upside to it, but a pretty significant downside, then don't do it. Exercise willpower.

To put it another way, it's like running across a highway at rush hour. Why do it? Upside is a brief thrill (if you survive). Downside is you die horribly. Conclusion: don't do it.
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"you need them all to collude to stop together."

Not really, and this isn't anything like a prisoners dilema. Coke doesn't need everyone to believe them, or everyone to collude. First and foremost they need their current customers to hear a believable story that HFCS is just fine. "Let the hippies drink that expensive stuff, we've got science on our side". Their customers already want to believe this for various reasons, so they will keep up this front.
It's really common wrong-headed idea, and I suspect at its heart it's a fundamental flaw of democracy.

The idea is that if A does bad thing B, all you have to do is pass a law against doing B, and A will stop doing B.

But that's not how it works in practice. Instead, you introduce this third character C, who goes out looking for As who might be doing Bs, and potentially does a lot of damage in that search.

That damage isn't taken into consideration by the people who simply want As to stop doing B. But people, as a collective electorate, are like a simple-minded 6-year-old, who are promised something by their parents, and they clap their hands in glee, unable to imagine the downsides.
There's a big difference between saying 'no secrets ever' and a situation where secrets are the norm. Those in power will always have the urge to increase secrecy, but it increases their power. We, the people, have to be always diligent to fight against secrecy, because to do so is to fight for democracy itself.
Pique, whimsy. Same reasons as db really.
There have been multiple cases where GPL fanatics stole BSD code and relicensed it without discussing it with the original creators, which is technically permitted, but dirty as hell.

Some wireless drivers for Linux derived from this theft. (Broadcom, being one)
> the US should get some kind of old-government distinction

"Washington's time" was only 270 years ago! As experiments in government go, the USA is still a spring-chicken.
I think his lawyer failed him

No he did not, this is not court, you have no right to due process. Your rights are considered secondary to the rights of the children given that you are in question you can not by nature be the child advocate. The DCF (whoever your states agency is) takes that role. So they get to decide if a lawyer is present or not for child questioning, etc.

All you really can get from a lawyer in this situation is advice and legal counsel if they decide to bring charges as well as a agent to act on your (not your children) behalf.

It is a nightmare where they have you and your lawyer over a barrel until you can catch them up and get them to relent.
> Of course, I could downgrade the OS back to a previous version. That is, if I wanted to go through a long, involved, and potentially brickifying process. But I shouldn’t have to do that.

Cry me a river. I bet it would have taken less time to downgrade than it took to write that post. And there's not much risk of bricking. (He seems to think his phone is unbearably slow now, so why not?)

He also never mentions attempting to do a restore, which has fixed the problem for a lot people. There's obviously just something buggy that'll likely get fixed with 4.1.

In the meantime, how many of these trivial stories are going to get FPed on HN? (In fairness, this has probably affected more people than Antennagate. I just can't believe every tech issue is getting trotted out here like it's an Apple bug reporting tool. This isn't even a new problem.)
The closest he came was when he introduced and demoed the Motorola ROKR. And even then he was visibly displeased when it failed on him on stage.
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