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You are simply incorrect in your facts.

I can't cite how I know, but if you look up who I am you can probably guess that I'm aware of the largest DDoS's in the world that take place.
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Apple don't have a majority of the smartphone market, let alone the mobile phone market in general. Windows had a market share of over 90%.

Five years ago you could have made an argument for Symbian being the Evil Monopoly in this market, but Apple/iOS has never been anything like a monopoly. People seem to confuse control over one device with an actual monopoly. They're not even remotely the same thing.
I'd think they should put one next to laundromats, mechanic garages, anywhere where you have to kill time.

I always go to the same Jiffy Lube because there's a Starbucks across the street from it.
I agree. I generally won't give money to a company that I can't contact. It's just asking for trouble.
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I read on http://abtests.com/ that pink unicorns increase conversion by ~10%.
It would be more interesting to see this map corrected for land mass to see actual density.
As both a windows and mac user I have to agree with all of your points but the last one is probably the most important.

The software ecosystem on os x is much nicer overall because of the guidelines that apple publishes. Most OS X applications look and feel in a similar way. It's also why iOS apps tend to behave the same way as well.
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Can you make games already? Good game design is hard, and I wouldn't suggest taking the plunge and going full time if you intend to learn along the way.

If you do know how to make fun games, it's possible to make money with determination using an ad supported site and games. Small, free games are a good way to build up traffic to your site, and also a good way to learn what kind of games will find an audience.

Ultimately though, for a successful game with a decent amount of depth, you'll make so much more money charging players that it'll be crazy to keep them free. At least 10x more per visitor if you at some point ask for money.

Some background on who you are and why you're asking would be helpful in giving a more detailed answer!
Instead of various weird ways of stimulating the economy such as "cash for clunkers" the US would be wise to imitate this initiative to create new businesses during a economic downturn.
How about by altitude?
'Being first is not always best'

A well-known fact to HN readers: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=google+first+mov...
No you're not being kooky. I think the notification system on the iOS needs work. IMO it's the weakest part of the UI.
While a phone doesn't need a cell tower for GPS, they for the most part need one for viewing their location on a map, and I think that's why people say they need a cell tower for their phone's GPS.

Long story short, my wife and I were trying to find the house we were crashing at in upstate New York one evening after a piece of hers was performed at Bard. I'd punched the address into my iPhone and off we went. Only in the last few turns did we realize that Google couldn't find the address and auto-corrected us to the wrong county (UGH). We tried entering the address again, but had no signal. We were only using the iPhone because we couldn't find my Garmin. Later when we returned home, we still couldn't find our Garmin, so I bought a newer one, refurb, off Amazon for ~$150. It tells me the speed limit of the road I'm on, shows me which lane I'll need to be in when a turn's coming up, acts as a bluetooth speakerphone and interface for my iPhone, gets traffic updates and gas prices from some kind of FM broadcast service.

Yes, convergent mobile devices will get there eventually, but there are still benefits to specialized devices.
Makes me wonder, can I make that money doing stuff like this? I know systems research is irrelevant and all that (Rob Pike)... AFAIK the last successful operating systems startup was VMware (is that true?). Does the world have place for more OS startups these days?
There are so many options now.

You could install Asterisk/FreeSwitch/FreePBX internally and purchase a SIP trunk with unlimited minutes from a provider like Aretta (https://www.aretta.com). I personally don't have any experience with them.

Or, you could pay to have the provider host your PBX, which will probably save you a ton of work, but will (of course) cost more.

http://www.phonebooth.com is another option.
Ask HN: Nexus One or Droid/etc?
I'm looking to buy an Android phone to serve as both my main phone and dev machine. Is there a particular advantage to getting Google's developer phone (Nexus One) over one of the Droids/etc sold by the carriers?
Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project (2009)
Strictly speaking, Google doesn't actually distribute 'the' Java(tm) VM. They distribute the Dalvik VM, which supports Java, among others. Arguably, Google would not be in trouble, if they distributed Sun/Oracle's Java. (They'd be in different trouble re: Java ME instead, but that's a different question.)

Spinning up the FUD machine, anyone implementing a VM must have similar types of problems to solve, and so it's possible, just like in Dalvik, that the Python and Ruby infringe upon those or similar patents that opponents with deep pockets hold. Sprinkle some mutterings of Ogg Vorbis on top, and a sufficiently knowledgeable advocate against Ruby/Python could easily argue the opposite. (Python? That's, like, an open source language right? So that means no one to indemnify us if Oracle decides Python also infringes their patents?)
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Looking around their site I don't see much further on this, but they did have a release this February. Does anyone know if this actually worked, or of other attempts that worked / didn't work?
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The case for raw milk (vs cardboard cow)
This was written by undergrads at ACM's UIUC. I went to school there.

You don't need FU money.
That's step 1.

Step 2 is using the billion dollar judgement as a precedent when suing people with a little bit of money.
Hiding files in Flickr pics will fool web censors
Trying to make the world better by banning things often has the opposite of the intended effect. Look at how well prohibition worked out, time after time, in various places around the world.

To see a possible outcome of restricting the availability of parking, look at modern-day Russia. The streets and parking there were designed for a very small number of cars, since most people were expected to use transit. Then public transit failed, and cars became affordable for a lot of people. But there is still no parking, so people must not use cars, right? No, now there are major traffic jams and problems with illegal parking in every city.

There has to be a viable alternative to cars (good public transit, walkable cities).
I have a pocket at the top of my camelback that gets good enough gps reception to do things like trace my route and such. I have a regular computer mounted on board. If I had the money I'd get something like this: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=160&pID=10885
I'm a chilean entrepreneur and I'm looking for a cofounder. I'm solving graph and scheduling problems for some transport industry. BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, timetables, etc.

We could take advantage of this initiative and get those $40k.

I just updated my profile. ($2k a month is enough to not starve).
I read the comment by Xenophanes and we are talking about different things. So we can agree to disagree here :)
Design Philosophy: Orchestra vs Improv Jazz
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UK breast cancer death rate plunges
That's really different, but seems fit for the market you are after.
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Running barefoot is alot different than running with shoes on.

The reason why companies have to make "Barefoot" running shoes is because shoes have been traditionally manufactured with thicker heel and thinner forefoot. This promotes a heel footstrike rather than with the balls of your foot. Shoes like the Nike Free or the Vibram Five Fingers were designed to promote natural foot movements.

If you try running barefoot, I think you'll notice that when you land with your heel, you're actually not putting much weight on your heel at all - it's more of a gentle support to pivot and most of your weight is only put on your forefoot.

When I run in running shoes, my cadence/form does change slightly. I am used to running by landing on my forefoot, but I personally find it more difficult with running shoes on. I made a conscious effort to land with a bit more weight on my forefoot.

I don't think there's any particular secret to running like this; I do martial arts and am barefoot all the time, so running with such a stride seems pretty natural to me -- it ultimately just works better for barefeet, whereas shoes promote an "unhealthy" foot movement.
Can only resize windows from the bottom corner

no alt to access menu

no double click window header toggles maximize

That switch icon they use for 'option' confused me because it's not on the keyboard anywhere

Overall it's pretty good, but I agree, I miss the little things
David Brooks on unconscious human behavior and the conscious side
I was thinking of something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00004TI29/ref=mp_s_a_10 which goes down to 90F.
Smart people always view source :)
Both India and China have vast areas of relatively high-density rural population. If a part of the raw material for economic progress involves the shift of people from rural/farming to urban/professional lifestyles, then there's a huge potential here.
I think the slider control orginates from Panic's Coda web site: http://www.panic.com/coda/ It is a great way to show a lot of content on the same page without vertical scrolling.

This is what we use at http://flow.io and it works well for us. The instant visual feedback is addictive, and a lot of users click the tabs to learn more about our app. Our bounce rate is very very low. Another interesting thing about this control scheme is that users often click the tabs in the intended order (from left to right) so you can reveal what your app does in easily digestible bite-size chunks.
A compromise re fat tweets?
> "I tend not to trust anyone unless I've heard both sides of the issue. ... other side..."

Just two?
As someone mentioned in another thread you would need to invest in a server thus actually increasing the overall capacity, rather than artificially increasing it or decreasing it.

I do not know much about servers, but as I understand it Google runs a server and they doing so I do not think affects the traffic of my website. If however Google running a server would mean that my website would run more slowly, except for perhaps the distinction that it adds real capacity, I do not see how that is more different than paying the ISP to prioritize your traffic. Though I might need some enlightening.
When someone asks if you need a lawyer, it's not actually a question.
Your previous comments provided an interesting (if unnecessarily polemical) counterpoint, but you've lost me with this one. Exploring the potential ramifications of a policy change is the very reason for discussing it, and the point of an article like this is to spur discussion. But in this comment you seem to go beyond criticizing the particular article, to criticizing the very idea of suggesting a policy change. You seem to be saying, "nobody should ever propose changing anything, because whatever change they propose, I can probably think of negative consequences that they didn't mention." Presumably that's not what you meant, but I can't guess what you did mean.
Apple doesn't even lead the smartphone market (yet), RIM does. I'm sure they will catch up quick but RIM had 40% of the market last time I checked and Apple had 25%.

They have 90% of the mp3 market and 75% of the mp3 player market but that's still not a monopoly.

The only thing they could be accused of is a monopoly on non-crappy web apps. Pretty amusing.
"Window Max & Min buttons randomly work depending on the application"

That's because what the button with the plus on it (Zoom) is doing is not supposed to be making the window the size of the screen, but rather making the window the size that will display the most content from the current window with the minimum of scrolling. Some applications ignore this and just use the standard Windows behavior, hence the inconsistency.
A 404 page should help you find the page you were looking for, no? It fails miserably at that.
Hmm. Well. Most Python templating systems use HTML with some Python code intermixed, in one form or another. So you're basically writing HTML and adding Python for conditionals, loops, special function calls, etc. With this Weby library, however, you write Python code that generates HTML. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's a completely different approach.

Also -- and this isn't a criticism of Weby -- I can't help but notice the lack of Python's syntactic flexibility here. Don't get me wrong, I love Python (still), but this is definitely not an area where it shines. In languages like Ruby or Scheme (etc), similar code would have much less fluff. In Python, OTOH, such a thing wasn't even possible until fairly recently, when the 'with' statement was added.
Hmm. The article says that the as operator is the same as casting, which is not correct. Casting will result in an exception if coercion fails, where as 'as' will return a null reference.

Which makes the code example

(foo as Bar).Method();

dangerous without a guard.

Edit: punctuated for clarity.
HAML and SASS versions of HTML5 Boilerplate
I think there is. Every OS that exists is a mess. Make an OS whose inner workings I can undestand (and therefore are very well documented) while allowing to make commonly used software, and I will worship you.
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The best part about firebug is that it allows you to change the css on the spot and you get to see how that affects your layout immediately.
Also, I heard from a writer that Microsoft Office is superior to any word processor (a.k.a computer program you use to write a novel) to the point that he writes novels in Microsoft Word under Wine.

That's insane. Word is a horrible writing environment. It's a passable document editing environment, but to write novels or stories there are a number of infinitely better tools, such as Scrivener or Writeroom (for mac - but there are equivalents on Winblows) on the minimalist side, or some others whose names escape me right now on the "let's have lots of tools to help someone write a novel" side.

Word sucks for writing.
Collage: Defeating Censorship with User-Generated Content
Awesome design, I don't have any art worthy of a portfolio but that was a cool looking site.
Thank you. I'd learned from the original text. I never knew he had released a couple more editions of this.

In fact, I may have to go buy this now!
Unfortunate choice of a histogram. Colouring the whole width in different saturation (or color) would have been a much better visualisation. Currently the upper graph suggests the population is in the US while the majority of that bump comes from India and asian countries.
I used XINU to study OS course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu

Xinu is a small, elegant, multitasking Operating System supporting the following features:

* Concurrent Processing
* Message Passing
* Ports
* Semaphores
* Memory Management
* Buffer Pools
* Uniform Device I/O
* Shell
* Tcl
* TCP/IP

Xinu was originally designed as a vehicle for teaching Operating System design concepts and is used by many educational institutions for this purpose. Later versions supported TCP/IP, these versions are often used in Data Communications courses.
Not everything could work as peer to peer (wikipedia as a mostly "plain old website" for instance), but many things could. Facebook and for that matter every web app who mostly acts upon data linked to an user account. Even backup/file hosting could work - but you have to commit a part of your bandwidth to provide service to other users, and bandwidth is limited by ISPs (there are probably good reasons for this tough). The approach could also be expanded in online games, tough we actually see things moving the other way around : maps you have to get from battle.net servers, ...
Clickables:

http://www.jperla.com/blog/2010/08/15/weby-templates-are-eas...

http://github.com/jperla/weby-templates
Charlie Rose:  Discussion about creativity with Berkowitz, Merryman and Alberts
nexus gets the updates first
but if you root one of the other ones you can stay up to date as well i guess
I had decided the weird indentation of bullets 5 & 7 was too small to mention - until I got to recommendation #10.
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I think saying "Vibram got kinda lucky with their design" is taking away from what Vibram achieved with this product. It's no different from any new venture.

I've been interested in barefoot running ever since products like Vivo and Nike Free began making headways into the market. The article posted makes it seem like these are competitors introduced after Vibram Five Fingers, but they were all introduced at roughly the same time.

The barefoot products mentioned were all introduced at a time period where barefoot running was beginning to gain serious traction. It was excellent timing for all companies pushing barefoot products. Personally, I think alot of Vibram's press has to due with their unorthodox design. Nike's barefoot alternative is a much more traditional shoe design (that I think is more known for its comfort).

Vibram is popular due to a quality product with some timing that wasn't just coincidence (they weren't the only company who saw the trend). I think their "honest" and unorthodox design gave was the real differentiator that made them that much more popular than the competition
This just is not true. The cell tower isn't needed for GPS. When you say you need a tower to see yourself on the map, that's the same thing as saying you need a tower for GPS.

If you mean you need the network connection for the maps, this is only true for the Native Maps app (which even does some caching). There are many, many apps that let you store maps offline (including my own).
> public transport isn't good enough

> London has over 600 railway stations.

But if London can't do public transport properly with over 600 stations, what would it take? The tube system is simply massive.

Just some system comparisons (sorry, I love subway systems, it's a rare obsession of mine):

London Underground - 270 Stations, 250 mile total length (mtl), ~3 million daily riders (mdr)

Métro de Paris - 300 stations, 133 mtl, 4.5 mdr

The Moscow Metro - 182 stations, 187.2 mtl, 6.55 mdr

Seoul Subway - 291 stations, 188.4 miles, 5.6 mdr

Tokyo Subway - 282 stations, 204 mtl, 8.7 mdr

New York Subway - 468 stations, 229 mtl, 5 mdr

D.C. Metro - 86 Stations, 106 mtl, .8 mdr

Chicago L - 144 Stations, 106 mtl, .6 mdr

Barcelona - 164 Stations, 77 mtl, 1 mdr

Of these cities, I've never been to London, or Tokyo. But I've been to the rest and ridden the systems in those cities. I found all the systems provided great coverage near the city center and excellent walkability of the city (except for maybe big chunks of Moscow and Chicago outside of the loop). Things thin out a bit in the burbs for any system, but that's to be expected. The real problem is that cities can grow out fast. Cost of living in the centers of any of these cities can be insane. So people naturally move out, and the systems simply aren't as good there.

The key seems to be rapid and aggressive expansion of the systems. But that just simply doesn't seem to be happening.
Whose car looks more like a strong pair of legs?

I like the shoes too, but sometimes the rhetoric used to promote them strikes me as silly.
Apple manager arrested for divulging confidential information for kickbacks
My thoughts instantly go to Deleuze & Guattari's rhizome Idea in A Thousand Plateaus. Why wouldn't our brain run small connected pieces of software that together emulate how the world works and especially how other people are expected to act/behave. This way the network of networks can run simulations. Also, when new bits of information arrive - see Dawkins' communication-is-influence idea - the software gets updated.
What is important for a phone platform is what's on top, not what's on bottom. Android can compete with iPhone because of the high level stuff Google provided--the Linux at the bottom is pretty much irrelevant.

Most Linux phones, other than Android and WebOS, run crappy top level stuff written by the device manufacturers. Rarely, a device manufacturer does come up with something that is not crap to put on top of the kernel, but even then they can't compete with iPhone because they lack the infrastructure, like app stores that can attract significant developer interest.
As a side note, you don't have to know CSS/HTML to be a web designer. As a matter of fact, in most places I've worked, web designers did the graphic part on Photoshop and web developers sliced the images and wrote the HTML/CSS.
Compare this article to the recent Groklaw article. While my view is closer to Groklaw, both articles seem to offend me. They both worship a leader (Jobs or RMS) and seem to call for hate of their enemies (Google, Microsoft, Mono). But if you snip the objectionable parts from each essay, I think each brings something to the discussion. And I really wasn't expecting an Apple fan to share Groklaw's fantasy of an end to patents.
There are a couple ways to do it.

1. In game ads. When I was at MochiMedia, the top game developers earned around $10k/month, so it is possible. That said, there were only a handful that were able to do that well. Most people made far less. Even games that you would consider very successful made around $200-$400/month. The money to developers is around a $0.25 CPM. That means to make $250 in a month you need 1MM game plays.

2. Virtual Goods. Since I left Mochi, they started their MochiCoins program where developers can sell virtual goods directly to game players. I don't know the official numbers, but I heard the successful guys were doing as much as $1k/day. Again, that's the top end and most people were far lower. The bar is much higher in creating a good game here as you're going to try and get a user to actually pay for it.
> There is an agreement we know nothing about yet between Apple and Oracle that if Oracle takes down Android something will happen in return from Apple.

Like Apple gives a free iPod to everyone who purchases an Oracle database or something like that? Apple and Oracle are in such different markets it is hard to see how there is anything Apple can do for Oracle.

> I wish these were conspiracy theories...

They are.
Much like iPhone development, right now I think the stronger play might be contracting for companies who want Flash games made.

The success curve for this looks a lot less intimidating than the success curve for game development generally. (Which is even more painful than the success curve for "selling software on the Internet", which is already pretty brutal.)
I like this! I just put a reminder on my calendar for 3 months from now to more-fully check out the project.
I remember reading an article awhile back about either Vector TD or Desktop Tower Defense doing very well, although I'm not able to find the article.

http://www.candystand.com/play/vector-td

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game3.asp
Learning To Floo - A graphic novel on IPR
Interesting project, but it's name sounds too much like Xenu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu .