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No, they should abandon their rules and guidelines and trust consumers to make an informed choice.

If they really want to keep up with this nonsense they can make some sort of an "Apple Approved" logo that gives you better search rankings in the market if you get it. This draconian approval process is ridiculous.
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I wrote a blog post about how I kept my sanity with my now 4 month old girl: http://www.antzucaro.com/2010/06/keeping-your-sanity/.

I hope it helps.
I'm about to move to London... I'll have to check it out! Also it has a fab name, nowhere else knows what a flat white is, and the cappuccinos they make here in Belgium have fake whipped cream on top! :( :(
I don't know much about them specifically, but if they're anything like all the common schemes (http, ftp, ldap, etc), your application would be responsible for implementing a security policy.

For example, there is nothing about HTTP that implicitly prevents CRSF. However, web servers that speak HTTP pass information about the requester that can be used to prevent CRSF at the application layer.
In general that is probably a sound practice :) At the very least one gets informed
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Who says anything about scaling up a franchise? It sounds like they're talking about a few small cafes rather than a new Starbucks. They're already doing that in Melbourne, so I don't see why it's particularly different.
That's exactly what I saw, too. Besides, trying to build any kind of product in 2-3 hours is impossible. MVP is still a product - not a mock-up.
I think http://www.similarsitesearch.com/ is the best search engine for finding similar websites. It's hard to distinguish the differences in search engines for finding similar sites for popular websites like flippa.com. I saw all of them returning the similar results except that similarsitesearch.com gives more results than others. similarsitesearch.com generates the best result for smaller websites like moreofit.com.

BTW I think moreofit.com has very good UI. Better than any other similar ones I have seen.
No. Just no. Untested, unproven, and unstable. I've made comments about this before, but the short of it is: don't trust your production file system to something only researchers use.

When the developers of the product can't get it to work on your servers, and you've lost a good 3-4 days of uptime, you'll rethink not buying that SAN.
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It's very easy to fall for some of those, also if you're not a first timer!

Even big, established companies run by visionary or at least very experienced CEOs seem to get some of those wrong at times, especially the 'you build it, they will come' and 'you're about to give up too quickly'.

Wave and N1 for instance with Google.
Paypal has roughly 8000 employees of which 7500 work in fraud and customer services none of which is outsourced. It's not that they are not taking it seriously..

Their customer support tends to be really good in my experience, don't base too much on the one in a million horror stories that make it to this site.
Okay, but my CM fonts in PDF are WAY too light.

Any suggestions of a way to get darker CM fonts in PDF?
4 years down the line, sriramk, any updates?
Sorry in advance for being harsh, but ...

You state that you can build a functional product in 2-3 hours? I call bullshit.

I mean - I know programmers are notoriously optimistic, but that's just getting ridiculous.

Unless you mean that you can throw together a mock-up, but that's not an MVP in my book.
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He mentions a lot of LISP dialects, but not Clojure.

EDIT: Ah, there was no Clojure back then ;-)
Strawman alert. I never made the argument that they shouldn't run an unregulated app store.

Whether or not Apple should regulate app approval is a completely separate argument from the one presented in your original post. You stated that "with those kinds of profits", Apple should accommodate them. That implies favoritism. The only thing worse than a regulated app store is a regulated app store that exhibits favoritism.
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Objects casting different shadows in different planes
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I wish I could upvote this more. I'm off to change mine to the phone # one now.
This is a pretty simple version of a theorem in math that says that any countable collection of shadows can be cast (up to an error of area measure zero) from a single object.

In other words, you can make an object that casts a shadow that is the time of day - digital or analog.

I'm pretty sure you can buy these things - let me go look ...

OK:

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=digital+sundial

http://www.digitalsundial.com/

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

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5596553.html

http://community.middlebury.edu/~schar/sundial/patent.html

... and cast as a short story ...

http://www.cthisspace.com/ftl/macaw/MR40.html
Ask HN: PayPal seems to be on the down. Solution?
So it seems PayPal is gradually losing all support from people in the tech community. It's making mistake after mistake after mistake. But it's got a huge user base, and seems to do the job.

I'm building an app where clients will pay the company, the company will take a %, and then deliver that to developers.

What would be the best payment solution? Any ideas?
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My question is: how many geeks work only in one language or write to only one platform?

Some of us do a lot more than I think you can reasonably expect a non-industry spouse to follow with any technical depth.

It's like expecting a prolific musician's wife to identify all the instruments her spouse plays and have some understanding of why he chooses one over another for a given piece, just because you could reasonably expect a blues guitarist's wife to know that her husband plays predominantly blues guitar.
Generic and well-known info (agreed, can usually be quite common things) can make sense for the sake of completeness of the interview but not for much else.

Less known or seemingly trivial background information could instead help to evaluate some of the answers the interviewee give or understand the reasoning behind some of his choices.
Just to give you an example, does the fact that the interviewee knew at some point in his life person X or that he previously did Y lead him to do Z? Knowing that X and Y exist could help to find the answer.

These kind of questions aim to explain the why and thus interesting only from a biographic point of view, personally i feel the how to be more useful so i'd limit the biographic data to a minimum, explain only what is needed to give context to the interview.
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Your points are valid and your solution would work (especially the part about watering for a total of an hour by automatically taking into consideration power cuts, etc).

I wonder if there may have been an 'environmental' reason for his solution (and hence his bad patches).

I lived in a couple of third world countries in the 1980s (in Asia and Africa) and came over to the US in the early 90's for studies. One of the stores that my electronics class prof introduced me to was Radio Shack. I could not believe it - for an electronics tinkerer there was nothing better. Everything you needed to build your (small) dream device seemed to be there (tools like soldering irons, bread boards, capacitors, etc). And they were pretty cheap to boot.

That ease of access to equipment is not available in third world countries.

So the solutions you come up use the accessible 'raw materials' available in your environment. It may not be the most simple, or elegant, but it is something that works. To the farmer the underlying technology is understandable and accessible. And testable with a phone call!
That's why I use TeX. I understand it fairly well, have a lot of macros that work well, and can write more macros easily. So I have own macros for table of contents, cross references, numbering figures, tables, chapters, sections, theorems, etc., bibliographic entries, verbatim, putting text from TeX on figures, putting a frame around foils, lists, etc.

With LaTeX, (1) I would have to learn more and (2) to write macros, I might have to understand and then fight what LaTeX assumes. Also the LaTeX documentation is much larger than 'The TeXBook'! So, I just stay with TeX.

Also for me a big, HUGE, point is that input to TeX (or LaTeX) is just a simple 'flat ASCII' text file, and for those I use my favorite, programmable text editor, the same one I use for writing software, e-mail, and much more. E.g., when I need to do some special thing to a TeX file, I can write an editor macro to do it.

Net, in my general purpose, long lasting collections, I have about 150 macros for TeX, about 150 for my programmable editor, and about 100 for command line scripts. So, that's 400 names to remember? No, from my editor, I can quickly see all the names of all the macros and, of course, for each macro its source. Searching for macros? My editor is great at searching! Lacking anything else, I can quickly pull all the macros of one collection into one temporary file and just search that. I have no difficulty finding macros! Works well.

Not to be missed, I run TeX from a scripting language which is 'smart' enough to do the converstion to PDF, etc. So, I minimize clicking. It's easy: I just have a little text window, and to see the results of a change in my TeX input I just hit the retrieve key in that window and then Enter. It's FAST.

Broadly I like 'windows', lots of windows, even for just one piece of work. So, for TeX I will have at least three, one for each of my text editor, the TeX DVI preview output, and the command line scripts. For my current software project, putting a Web site in front of some of my other software, I have about 15 windows with a mixture of Web browser windows and my editor windows. To open all those windows at the start of work, I have a simple script. To arrange the windows, I have a simple script. When the windows on the screen get to be a mess, I have a simple script that will arrange them and can be executed with an icon on the UL corner of my screen.

Lesson: One 'application' that has just one window and tries to do everything within just that one window is less good than just using the ability of the operating system to display many windows. So, right, "Look, Ma, no IDE!". And no Word, either.

End of my contrarian view of graphical user interface!
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I've yet to use it myself, and I'm not sure if it's entirely been released yet, but Amazon has a payments system in the works: http://aws.amazon.com/fps/
I think I'm lucky, because my baby isn't hard to get to go to sleep at all. She usually falls asleep around 10 or 11 and sleeps all night. The reason I don't sleep is because I need to make time for my family and still have time to do what I love.
I disagree with your "incompetent" assessment of Twitter.

First, there's a lot of false info out there about what parts of Twitter were built using which technologies and why it had uptime issues.

Second, their issue was massive scalability. A high-class problem.
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"Babies love white noise."

A friend found out that static from a radio will do the trick.
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I don't think anybody thought search was "solved" in the 90's, nor today.
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Remember back during the Bush II era when we all thought we could put all that Social Security money into the stock market? Didn't we all have fun back then?
Not bad. In this case that won't be applicable, but I can see some other places where I could use that. Much appreciated.
Sorry, too simplistic.

The police and highway patrol have bigger problems and you'd need to stake out long stretches of road indefinitely, pretty much.

Also, making an example of convicted criminals doesn't work. I'd assume thieves risking life and limb to yank LEDs and cable from the middle of a highway in the dark are desperate (and probably poor) enough not to care about precedents.
Burners are an innovative, sharp, and down to earth bunch; I'm not surprised PayPal got "burned" by pulling what they did. Burners are also a big(ish) community, some of which are influential people in mainstream society.

Glad to see someone met their needs, WePay just got some damn good publicity.
Cant wait!
Unfortunately, Wikipedia now probably contains more information than a single person can digest in their lifetime.

My life was not profoundly enriched by reading about the coffee case, either.
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A mockup can be a MVP. A MVP is just there to attract potential customers and make them 'sign up' (e.g. an 'I'm interested' email)
The article mentions Hoboken, NJ. I live here and there was no bust, IMHO. Buildings are still going up. It's a small little town on the Hudson River, across from NYC. I'm sure prices fell 20%, maybe 30%, but you didn't lose half your money.
There's definitely a mildly negative connotation to the word 'jugaad' as I've seen it used in real life.

More 'kludge' than 'hack'.
Recruiting is part of HR; at fast-growing companies, it's a pretty big part. Wouldn't it make sense to hire some recruiters who are able to distinguish at least roughly between good hackers and bad ones?
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Ask HN: Is there a Tech scene in Philadelphia?
I'm aware of DreamIt Ventures and a few other organizations, but I'd love tho know more on the Tech scene there from people who live there and come to HN.

I'm thinking about relocating to Philly in the next year (and commuting to NYC a few days a week) and want to learn more.
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It's not crazy talk. I had a terrible experience with PayPal six months ago. I didn't believe all the horror stories and opened an account with them. They decided there was a problem and froze my account - but they neglected to tell me and continued accepting deposits, the freeze only applied to withdrawals. It was extremely difficult to recover my money.

The point is, there are no rules, there is no transparency. Their decisions are entirely arbitrary and you are at their mercy. Never again.
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It only does this for me on Windows. On Linux, I see the proper glyph.
Oh, great. It's from Sony. You know what that means.

New features in Xperia Software Update 3.41:

Due to security concerns, and to ensure access to next generation gaming content, the [Android OS] option in Xperia Software has been disabled. Users who still wish to access [Android OS] can choose to stay with software 3.40, but they will lose the capability to sign in to PSN or access games and movies designed for 3.41 or above.
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We had a nightmare like this when we first launched MyDunkTank and were using PayPal for our payment processing. They suspended our ability to accept payments without warning or notification and then dragged us through a ridiculous and costly paperwork process for over a week.

We supplied everything they asked for and more. They denied our appeal and then locked $2,600 in our account for 180 days without explanation. We worked every channel we could to get a more reasonable outcome and it was to no avail.

There were a few good people in the PayPal bureaucracy who became champions for us but they were powerless. It was very discouraging.

The irony is that PayPal originally challenged the man. Now they are the man.
The HIG (I don't have time to find a citation right now, but that's where it'd be.)
What's your platform strategy for social games?
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Institutional buyers have always bought stocks though, it's just that they used to have a much more conservative risk profile. Typically they'd be anti-cyclic, in this case they bought right along with the herd.
Opportunity cost is what you give up. If you are capable of finishing school in four years, you're capable of averaging a $25K income over that time.

You're right about summer jobs, but the vast majority of summer jobs pay less than 1/4 of what you'd get working the full year (plus you have to do a job search for a three-month job, versus a job-search for a multi-year job). Outside of law school summer associates, I don't know of anyone for whom summer jobs routinely mean a raise.

I like your friend's story! But imagine if, after four years, he had credible evidence that he could work extremely hard, plus tens of thousands of dollars in savings. A good situation to be in if he wants to start a business.
My wife is a homeopathic doctor.

I know quite a bit about the practice and have many intense debates with her about it. I take the scientific stance in these debates and we've often talked about the efficacy of homeopathic treatment, regulation, and so forth. I know quite a bit about it now and have been able to reach my own conclusions (which I won't discuss here).

I don't think she has as strong a knowledge in programming, but I think that's partly my fault as I don't talk about it much. She know what computer languages I know and that there are quite a few out there. She knows a few of the projects I've worked on. But that's about it.

The article provides some good advice. I took up knitting at one point just so I could spend more time with my wife doing things she likes. She's taken up cycling with me and has learned to appreciate graphic novels and some of my favorite poets. If you're going to spend a lifetime together you might as well make it as enjoyable as you can.
Part of the cost is often borne by the government. For the purpose of identifying a bubble, you have to look at that cost, too--because the problem is too much aggregate investment in education, not that it's a bad deal for everyone.
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Because it's at least an order of magnitude more than what you'd pay in Europe for the same thing which is a good indicator that there is price fixing involved.
"What are you prepared to sacrifice?" is one of the toughest questions to ask oneself.

"Which relations are you prepared to sacrifice?" is even harder.
Are you sure? Because neither the description in the Market, nor the project description on the K9 Google Code project webpage say it's only an IMAP client. Here's the description from the K9mail Google Code Project webpage:

"K9 is an opensource email client based on the Email application shipped with the initial release of Android.

K9 is focused on making it easy to chew through large volumes of email. It's our hope that K9 leads to improvements in the core Android mail client. "

If they're intending it to be only an IMAP client, nothing more, they aren't doing a very good job communicating that.
Ask HN: Wayne Burkett's HNSort Greasemonkey Script
http://wayneburkett.com used to host it, but it is no longer there, and I have lost my copy of it. Does anybody have a copy of this floating around out there?
I think I know this Ilana. She's in my class at Amherst College.
I like it more than "hacker."
The biggest difference is #2. Look at the high scorers on TopCoder. They have a ridiculous number of points, but are they really the best programmers? No, they are decent programmers who spend a great deal of time on the site. As a very good programmer who does not want to waste away their life on the site, you have no hope of coming close to them. Stack Overflow reputation is similar.

With Code Anthem you are scored in a language in between 20 minutes to an hour, depending on your own speed. After that you are ranked compared to all other people and there's no way to trade time for points.
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It just depends what layer of abstraction you think this stuff belongs on. Also, HTTP verbs don't require javascript.
Hackers Hijack Gmail in China
I'm surprised no one has said this: this is illegal in most of the US (definitely in CA). Contractors cannot do the same job as employees. It is skirting the labor by doing this, and circumventing employment taxes.

In the economic hard times, many states (WA, CA, MA) are going after companies that do this. Yes, auditing and fines.

You might think they won't find you. Well, here's how they will: contractor Joe has been working for you for 3 years. You decide you don't want him anymore (for a variety of reasons). He files for unemployment, even though he's not supposed to. He figures, hey, I'm an employee so I deserve it. In CA, the EDD will use this red flag to audit, likely find that Joe was an employee, fine the company and give Joe his unemployment insurance.

I'm not passing judgement here, just stating the facts.
Touching a button still will jiggle the unit. Better yet, use the microphone and let the photographer say "click" to take a picture.
I'd have thought though that apple would be cool with it, so long as the user has to explicitly enable the functionality.

So the default is that they are volume buttons, but if you explicitly say that in this app you want them to behave differently they will.
Net Neutrality Is Critical for Innovation
I disagree that its perfectly doable on pirate bay. Downloading and watching 1080p movies via the pirate bay is even an edge case for that service.

Take a look at their "High Res" movies

http://thepiratebay.org/top/207

First the majority are in 720. The ones that are in 1080 tend to be 10GB to 50GB in size and downloading them can take days (I've tried - on a decent cable modem connection). Then you need to store these beasts which means some sort of multi-terabyte storage server - or burning them to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD disk. A perfectly acceptable alternative but then you're not usually using an Apple "iTV" as your playback device.

So so far this is so far out as an edge case that Apple's choice still makes sense.
Not to mention that the app store represents less than 1% of Apple's total revenue.
"You're about to give up quickly" is the hardest thing to judge really. Especially when you're a bootstrapped entrepreneur running out of cash, persistence becomes very tricky.

Would love to hear how fellow bootstrapped HN'ers dealt with such a situation.
Ask HN: Founders with small children?
Question for the founders out there (YC and everyone else too):

How many of you have small children? How well are you able to focus, be available for work at any and all times, and keep up with obligations to your family?

I have a 1.5-year old and am wondering if it's realistic to start something right now. The biggest issue in my mind is that we're thinking of calling that factory method again soon.