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This strawman comes up every time we have a discussion about the developer agreement. The section referencing "private" APIs is talking about Apple specific APIs which have not been publicly documented. In Apple nomenclature, Public="class, methods, and properties are documented in the reference library and exposed for developers to use." Private="undocumented and exposed for Apple internal purposes only". Basically, if you can find it mentioned in the documentation, you can freely use it. If you had to do a class dump or use introspection to even find the method out, it's probably private.
There is a barrier between a Flash/Silverlight app and the remainder of the page, that's not true for the JS code driving a canvas element, it's the same code that drives all of the interactivity on the page. This makes a difference.
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I can do math, so I will rule out wind installations.

Windmills are a way to reduce overall fuel consumption but they are not adequate for base power (they are too inefficient and too unpredictable).
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I'd bet the single largest consumer of intelligence data from the CIA is the US Military, which, is considerably staffed by the US Military.

I might be splitting hairs here, but it is a well known fact that a tremendous amount of CIA employees are geologists, economists, and market analysts.

Realistically, while the CIA's job is to supply the nation's President and governmental agencies with intelligence, the end result of a lot of work the CIA does is for the US Military. And you can bet a ton of work is done around the Petroleum supply.
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Over the last month and a half, that does appear to be true.
Apple would be in violation of the GPL for distributing the app with those restrictions tacked on. If I were them I wouldn't distribute GPL apps either.

They would basically have to special case apps licensed w/ the GPL. Sadly I doubt it's worth the legal and/or operations costs involved.

I'm not a license snob, whatever works for a project is great (GPL has been great for Linux). However this is a prime example of why MIT and BSD licenses are more free than the GPL.
Excited about Notifo, downloaded the app and loving it!
Fully agreed. The only reason I would find that type of shut-off acceptable would be if Rackspace were getting DDOS'd to a point that was costing them significant expenses by way of bandwidth, manpower, or downtime credits to other customers. In such a case, shutting them off for causing these damages while violating Terms Of Services would definitely be warranted.
Estimate errors are not important -- the certainty that the peak comes however is!

Try to think about it, you know how exponents of 2 work:

1

2

(...)

1024

2048

Now note that to move from point n to the point n + 1 you need to use as much as in all points from 1 to n - 1: when you're at point of 1024, to move to the point of 2048 (double) you'll need 1+2+4+8+...+512 + 1 of something.

According to

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/colombia/oila.html

the doubling time of world oil consumption is 30 years (just as little as 2.3% usage growth per year makes that!) That means that during the next 30 years the world needs as much oil as the total oil used from the beginning of the oil use to the 1980(!) Think again about that simple fact!

Now if you know that all oil in the Earth formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae, which had settled to a sea or lake bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions, you can imagine that the supply is really limited.
Look, this is not a study by the CIA. It's been prepared by the German military, and the article sources no other primary information. If there is a study done by actual geologists and market analysts, I'll get excited when I see it.
What is this the 20th 'article' TechCrunch has 'written' today on it?
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The wind energy plants in Germany produce a whole lot more energy than the solar energy plants there.

The Germans can also do math, and they take in to account the number of sun hours, the acreage used and the latitude they live at. This means that during a fairly large part of the year solar power in Germany is not running at a high efficiency.

On the other hand, Germany has a lot of wind, so they use it to good effect. Fully 7% (!) of Germany's energy use comes from wind power, contrasted with only 1% for solar.

Best not rule out wind installations when you have a lot of wind and little solar, especially when you can do math ;)
To quote Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html...):

[...] most implementations of common languages (including Ada, Pascal, and C) are designed in such a way that the interpretation of any recursive procedure consumes an amount of memory that grows with the number of procedure calls, even when the process described is, in principle, iterative. As a consequence, these languages can describe iterative processes only by resorting to special-purpose ``looping constructs'' such as do, repeat, until, for, and while. The implementation of Scheme we shall consider in chapter 5 does not share this defect. It will execute an iterative process in constant space, even if the iterative process is described by a recursive procedure. An implementation with this property is called tail-recursive. With a tail-recursive implementation, iteration can be expressed using the ordinary procedure call mechanism, so that special iteration constructs are useful only as syntactic sugar.
Would you care to share what sort of "innovative UI experiences" you've been prevented from delivering?
Good point about Steam. It really does suck balls compared even to the vast majority of web apps. Ditto for iTunes: slow as balls sometimes, but I still use it to buy music sometimes.

Still, a competing product will win both over if it can get sub-100ms response time for all of their UI interactions. Buy and listen to a song? Imagine hearing it instantly after you click "buy & listen".
The point is that it's probably a contingency plan, and its task is not to estimate the probability of the contingency, but rather what to do should it occur.
I have to confess that I'm a bit jealous. I've been working on financial software for small businesses since 2001, and never came anywhere close to getting thousands of companies to sign up in a matter of months. Where are all of these companies hearing about InDinero? Has there been a big marketing push outside of the Hacker News community?
How, or in which level would a Lisp be integrated with Factor? Generate Factor code, generate Factor-VM bytecode?
Still playable even when the ball goes offscreen!
We got an Austrian taking over our government a few decades ago. So I wouldn't rule out some sneaky take over by the Czech.
Tagged is a number three, not owned by a large corporation, not a previous giant.

When it comes to social networking, network effects normally result in one or two highly visible giants and a long tail of smaller, likely specialized networks. These can still be profitable, and of course there's more to the web and startups than stuff that is social in nature.
I think the point is that just because there is an dominant player in an industry, doesn't mean they will remain dominant. How easy it is to disrupt a market varies, but they all will change over time.

Facebook's open graph actually makes it much more likely there will be parallel networks to Facebook that could eventually become primary.

For instance, if Google had Facebook Connect as a login method, they could quickly assemble the entire social graph and potentially beat Facebook.

That's likely why Facebook is in a tiff with Ping - Apple has the capability of replacing Facebook some day.
Such as building their own private businesses and employing other people in the private sector.

For example, it is much more beneficial to the country to build, say a new hotel (as this is Greece's biggest industry), instead of wasting the money on more public-railroad-type of money wasting businesses.
Let me just say I have been longing for this, ever since iPhone 1.0. I have a lot of video and I don't want to convert to MP4 and wind up with two of everything. I know CineXPlayer is there, so I'm hoping VLC will be too. Will there be an iPhone/iPod Touch A4 version coming? And, OT, a webOS 2.0 version -- is that possible?
Reminded me of this from a while back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382456

Talks about peak oil in part 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU
Apple decides to do C. But C is a lot of work. So they do A and say "make web apps" and they start working on B. Meanwhile everyone screams, we want B, even though apple never promised B. Apple delivers B and everyone demands C and the FCC starts nosing around to see if it can drum up some "donations" to favored senators and congressmen from apple. Finally, apple finishes C and everyone says "see,we told you to do C!"

Yet when apple originally thought up C, these same people had never even considered the possibility of A.
You are incorrect. You are not required to use native widgets. What it does enforce, however, is that if you use the native widgets, you have to use them in a way that's consistent with the HIG. As a quick example, you shouldn't use a tab bar controller where the tab buttons perform an action on the current view(like save, or cancel). A tab bar controller is only for switching between views.
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True, but Bede's history was wide-ranging and made no mention of Arthur or any other elements of his legend.

To the extent that Arthur could have been real, he likely would have been a warrior-leader, rather than a king, fighting against the spreading Anglo-Saxon invaders.
Why, you can interact with Flash/Silverlight embedded object as well. (A perfect example is using Flash to fake Websockets) And both support Javascript. There's really not much difference.
Quiet some good tips there.
Yes. In Germany you usually give litres per 100 km. (Though the car companies tend to cheat, so you should only trust the `gallonage' as stated by, say, independent magazines.)
I just want to a way to straight up combine multiple accounts. One login, one inbox, one contact list, multiple email address.
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Coal can be converted to oil. At present prices this is not economical. But when the oil price goes up above the point where it is economical suddenly the 'reserves' will have to include all the coal reserves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

That would (iirc, can't find a quick and reasonably reliable source) double the total available oil for the next 50 years or so, and then there are currently uneconomical sources such as tar sands.

So, in short, yes, it will run out and fairly soon but not as soon as you might think based on just the oil reserves.
They hang out along the edges, otherwise cool concept. Maybe have some more colors?
Do you have more details about this? Maybe a link or something.
I tried logging into igoogle.com with my google apps login. It didn't work. Has anyone been able to get igoogle to work with your apps account?
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Try to reach out to Andrew Warner (the guy behind mixergy.com). I believe he lives in Argentina. He frequents HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndrewWarner
This seems like good advice. I haven't contacted any career centers yet but I would not be surprised if it was super bureaucratic.
Rather, it's our fault for paying cell phone carriers who abuse us and take us for granted.

Also, rooting phones is now legal in the US, so to the degree that customers want that option, that option is available.
The issue isn't that 175k students love history. The issue is that 175k students have been told "This degree will teach you how to think, not what to think", and that they will learn how to free their minds while contributing to the cultural dialog of the nation. It's a great hook, but it's not always true.

Reality - arts degrees don't teach you how to think. They teach you how to argue more forcefully - give three reasons and a summary, not just one reason. Also, pretend to have considered the other side of the case before you dismiss it.

Reality - this cultural dialog is a bunch of guys with no idea of business or economics arguing about what is, essentially, business and economics.
Note that even the doubling the estimated world reserves that you suggest gives the humanity only a few decades more. Where do you get 50 years when the current estimated doubling time of consumption is 30 years?

Approximately 40% of the world electricity production uses coal as we speak. It's not that the coal is just waiting to be used instead of oil.

Your kids (if you have them) will experience oil problems anyway! Not to mention the effects of all that CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yep. :\
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Thanks to history and stupid bureaucratic politics, though, the military has their own intelligence agencies as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency
I second this. I was recently burned when I realized my Google Apps email accounts weren't forwarding all emails to my primary email account. Apparently you can't disable the spam filter on your Google Apps email accounts, which means that if an email is sent to your Google Apps email account and gets flagged as spam, you'll never see it unless you log into the account itself. I was hoping to just have a more professional email address for my business that would just pass everything through to my primary email address, but alas that still isn't doable from what I can tell. :(
My guess is that Apple thought they saw a problem on the horizon, threw out some very restrictive language to be sure they had as many known AND UNKNOWN bases covered, then after some more thoughtful consideration decided that they didn't need to be so strict after all, and relaxed the terms. This sort of pattern happens a lot: go overboard at first, then pull back as you get more comfortable with things.
This is something that we've needed at Northwestern for a long while now.

NU's startup presence is abismal. If you want to venture into consulting, banking or journalism they've got you covered, but the Valley? You are on your own.
this is analogous to saying that a food corporation has no ability to predict worldwide reserves, consumption, and the economic effects of the wheat that they consume. Or that an airline doesn't employ economists that closely monitor oil consumption and supply.

Army's spend an incredible amount of time looking at the long term effects of the oil supply chain.
> Yeah but we're not talking about less restrictive licenses, we're talking about linux and the gpl and the fact that zero of the changes from android have made it back upstream into the kernel.

Sure they have. The kernel developers deemed most of the changes unsuitable for upstream. That's a shame, but it's their prerogative to reject the changes, and Google's prerogative to still want to do things their way.

> Dirk Hohndel from MeeGo made a good point at OSCON this year that open source is not just about releasing patches to code you changed, but oepn source is about engaging with the upstream projects that you're using...

So now some guy who I've never heard of has an opinion on what open source "is," and that's canonical? I don't think so, and I don't agree (as an open source developer-in-hiatus myself).

Open source is whatever you damn well care to make of it (as long as you're honoring the relevant licenses). That's why it's so awesome.
The falling down one didn't respond to the keyboard for me :(

This one is very nice:

http://js1k.com/demo/434

I love these little demos, they're going to be an amazing resource for anybody that wants to learn how to program in a fun way. 1K of code, a bit of time to figure out what makes it tick.

Food for lots of code hungry children worldwide!
Not to commit either way, but today we have this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-coming-oil-glut-2010-9
I'll agree with this. But the development of a contingency plans most certainly includes individuals that are highly skilled in economics, geology, and a vast number of other sciences.
It's a tired stereotype perpetuated by shitty movies.

What, and your statement that scientist and engineers don't care about anything else wasn't?

Look, this is all anecdotal, but the CS/science/math/engineering students I knew in school were generally voracious readers, well informed about current events, politically opinionated in a highly educated way, appreciative of the arts, and involved in extra-curricular activities. They were frequently well-traveled, multi-lingual, and musicians. They were reasonably well represented in student government.

Maybe the schools you went to were different, but this is my experience.
You need to visit rural India in 2010 :)
Nitpick: regardless of what the scare-message says when you unlock your N1's bootloader, changing the software on a device cannot (by law, in the US) void the warranty on the hardware, unless it is demonstrable that the software modification actually damaged the hardware.
This is a little bit different -- the dots don't fall back down after a while if you leave the cursor there, whereas the Google ones did. Is this intentional?

And is it okay to reuse this on other sites?
Continental European. (OK, the British have Stilton.)
I don't think you need to make the internship quite so formal as a "program". Just put out an advert for interns on places like Craigslist (we used Gumtree... a UK equivalent), and do some very hard filtering (you'll have to anyway).

As for making the most of the interns, I think the key, once you've picked the right people, is to be willing to spend the time to teach them how to do stuff. What this means in practice is that rather than assuming (as every crazy startup founder does) that you need to do everything yourself, or that it's all too complicated for them, spend the time to show them and teach them how to do it. You'll be surprised how quickly they can learn stuff which you thought would take you ages to explain.

As others have said, it also definitely helps to have some kind of bigger picture vision that they're helping you implement, to help motivate them.

In terms of how early... we started very late... the summer had already begun... and we still got some good people with relatively little effort. So while I'm sure earlier is better, there doesn't seem to really be an end date.
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7% is better than a poke in the eye, but is it really worth it, wind power is no panacea? The point I was making is that if some evil wizard suddenly eliminated all of the hydrocarbon reserves from Earth no country in the world would choose wind (or solar) for providing base power generation. Both have the same problem that you can't just press a button and get more power when you need it, you are dependent on circumstances. They can help ease the load on the rest of your power generation infrastructure, but at best it's only a partial solution.
As the author of the article, I'd argue that the evidence that the FTC is talking to developers about tools (not so much about blocking Flash) shows that Apple was feeling FTC pressure. Jobs argued hard, and not unpersusasively, that third-party tools weren't the best for the ecosystem, so I think it's likely this reversal isn't what they want, but what they think they need to do to avoid a PR embarrassment from an FTC action or formal settlement.
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When you make a filter, you can mark it 'never mark these as spam'. I made a filter for mail coming into that email address and selected that. It works fine.
I read it and saw "PUA." Its as if they took all the underlying skills of manipulation and gaming psychology and applied it to business/networking.
Very true. For me, it's both. I've installed arbitrary non-Market apps on my N1, and I'm happy with that. As soon as CyanogenMod 6 goes gold, I'll be reflashing my phone.

(I'm a bit stricter with stability on a device like my phone, else I'd try the RCs.)
Yes, I concede, you are right. That's how everybody uses Flash and Silverlight, by driving it externally using javascript.

Are you being serious or just a troll? There are holes in the wall between Flash/Silverlight and web pages, but there is very much a wall.
Word length also correlates well with being German or Dutch.
Thanks for all the comments.
I jogged again today and I'm ready to get down and dirty into some XCode. 30 days to Application Submit :)
> Note that even the doubling the estimated world reserves that you suggest gives the humanity only a few decades more.

Yep.

> Where do you get 50 years when the current estimated doubling time of consumption is 30 years?

From the combined effect of coal to oil conversion (for transportation), increased reliance on alternative energy, a rising oil price eventually causing both reduced consumption and at the same time making currently un-economical sources economical.

> Approximately 40% of the world electricity production uses coal as we speak.

That's correct.

> It's not that the coal is just waiting to be used instead of oil.

That's true as well, but we do have more and more alternative sources for energy production other than coal. That it's only 40% is actually quite amazing. Natural gas is another big source of electricity, nuclear is another.

> Your kids (if you have them) will experience oil problems anyway!

I do, and most likely.

> Not to mention the effects of all that CO2 in the atmosphere.

The magnitude of those effects is still up for debate. I'm very much concerned about the dent the whole CO2 story got from the scandal around the leaked climate documents.

The people around me that were 'mildly skeptical' are now in the 'no way' camp and those that believed the facts as they were presented up to then are now openly skeptical.

There are still many people who are convinced the CO2 emissions are bad and that the greenhouse effect is going to have an impact on their lives but there definitely has been a sea-change in attitude.
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Religion is mostly based on what you grow up with, i.e. what your parents told you. Turns out, race is also highly correlated to your parents.
Agree. Think about life 100 years ago. Sometimes I just sit in wonder at what human civilization has accomplished since the start of the 20th century, compared to all of human history before then.

I think it's pretty likely that sometime in the next few decades we'll have a replacement for oil. It may very well be technology that hasn't been discovered yet. But I see no reason to think that we'll just use up all the oil and have no alternatives.
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Sounds like emotional slavery and a recipe for future prozac customers.
How has the dynamic between you guys and Hipmunk been? You guys may be targeting different types of travelers but there is that shared goal of making travel better. Has there been a collaboration, or do you guys have more of a friendly rivalry going?

P.S. Really dig the logo.
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