skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry man, but that's just a random collection of FUD there. The AppStore won't be the only way to install apps on the Mac, it will be - as you correctly pointed out - the most convenient for the average user.

Concering your argument on fragmentation and different devices. My grandfather, now 75 years old, just started using the Internet thanks to the iPad. You can read about it here: http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/18/my-grandfathers-ipad/

And you know what? He loves it so much, that he got himself a 16Mbit connection after three months. To make something like that happen, that's a major feat. He's on the net regularly now, sending mails, checking news - and couldn't be happier about his machine.

I won't use the iPad as my primary computer, of course - but a lot of people just can't operate a developers OS. And they shouldn't have to.

As for the price tag - that argument is as lame as it is old. Start comparing other high-end vendors and models and you'll have your epiphany. For starters search for competition on the Macbook Air 11" or at the other end of the spectrum the iMac 27". Then come back and write another blog post.

One last thing: your comments system is broken. I got cookies and JS enabled, but still get this: http://dispatched.ch/bilder/Broken_Blog-20101021-235606.jpg
Nobel Winners Tell Why Russia Lacks Allure
Highrise has been less and less valuable to me (though I'll note that just by calling it a "CRM", you're already suggesting that you're asking it to do tricks; it's not a full-featured CRM). But Basecamp has gotten more useful to me over the past year or so.
Do IDEs count? A lot of Mac users use Eclipse. It's not common among all-Mac teams that just do XCode, but it's fairly common for devs in groups that mostly do PC development to own Macbooks that they run Eclipse on.

Probably not a big concern for Apple, but it's common in universities, too, since Eclipse is (until now, at least) cross-platform enough that you can assume Windows/Mac/Linux-using students can all install it on their laptops.
Intel is aware of this. Atom is the shot across the bow. They are working on making smaller and lower-power parts. It's interesting to watch ARM race up as Intel races down.
We have talked a lot about solutions like this, but most of them end up more trouble than the encryption proposal. For example, developers need to link back to your profile page and your friends' profile pages in their UI - do we change all those URLs individually for all applications, too (since they contain a user ID)?

I think it is a clever idea, but it ends up breaking down in a lot of ways, and it has the bad quality that it is not backwards compatible with existing applications.
"It sounds like you chose to stop learning about cars after manufacturers stopped using carburetors."

Read what I said again. You'll find that actually all you can infer is that I have a car with carbs; there's no information there on how much I know about anything else.
The advantage of the App Store is that Apple will make sure nobody submits an app with a dependency on locusts.

http://www.xkcd.com/797/
What portion of x86 transistors are dedicated to supporting the bad instruction set design?
I totally agree with you. I started a new thread here asking this question. I dislike their marketing among other things. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817537
That can't be correct, since I remember running Windows NT 4 on a PowerPC system.
Not to mention the technical difficulties. How would they stop me from running an application which I'd copied off a CD, or compiled myself, when I already have control over my filesystem? I suppose they could figure out a way, but it'd involve a lot of voodoo.

Besides, imagine the marketing pitch for that version of OSX. "Upgrade to our latest version! Most of your old software will stop working, and you'll have to buy it again!" I don't think so.

They're going to make a lot of money with their app store -- they don't need to destroy the rest of their platform to do it, though.
That will surely happen. CPUs have for some time been limited by heating problems and the architecture with more performance with the same power consumption will win. If ARM can deliver that, then there's no question about it.
Does Rapleaf scare you?
Yup, Gearman does this very well and it definitely isn't complicated.
And going forward with the AppStore, users can still download and install from a .dmg or a .pkg as they do now.

Your .deb could satisfy dependency requirements, but it won't be able to take advantage of "check for updates" functionality of the underlying package management ystem.
"the other messes with the carbs. "

Pringles? Cheetos?
If you make your services any cheaper, I will personally unsubscribe, since I will no longer think you're in it to make a living, but offering a charity.

http://prgmr.com/xen/

You really have everyone beat on price, by a mile. Too bad, there aren't enough cheap, unix-gurus to make use of it :-) People these days want an ajax console with drop-down menus for shell commands.
Cool. Looks like Shlomo got someone to investigate: http://twitter.com/ShlomoSwidler/status/28063124182
That's if MacOS remains < 33% market share. Once it hits a demanding 50%+ market share, they have the power to do pretty much what they want, unless laws prevent them from doing so. Not saying they would, but your argument is weaker once they gain the market share.
And with hospitals, what exactly do you want more money for? More beds? More nurses? More money for the uninsured? Are you sure that will fix our nation's healthcare problem? I'm not an expert by any means whatsoever on this topic, but as far as I know, the quality of America's healthcare system, bad or good, is largely a function of governmental policy.

Just in case you hadn't noticed, the post you are replying to is about the NHS, which is not affected by US government policy.
Obligatory wikipedia link:

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

Interesting how long the concept has been in science fiction, since at least 1942.
It's not so much arbitrary as it is structured with racial preference in mind. Why that is so, and the degree to which that is good or bad, is probably for a different discussion.
This fear mongering is getting completely absurd:

> Apple doesn’t want you use your computer to control an
> Arduino, write custom printer drivers, run a game server
> or control your house lights.

Are you serious? How does creating an App Store (that is only suited for certain types of consumer-oriented software) imply that Apple doesn't want you to do any of these things? What?

> Your computer will also cost a lot more because you’re a
> professional. So Apple can bump up the profit margin that
> it once lost because of the commodification of fast computers.

Yeah, cause Apple is really interested in bumping up its profit margin on the 1% of Mac users that write Mac software, instead of the 99% of Mac users that consume it.

> So now, as a developer, if you want to sell your software
> it better be in the AppStore. If not, Mom will never find
> it and Mom wouldn’t trust it if she did.

How is that any different from the current situation? As a Mac developer if you want to sell software right now, you have to handle everything yourself.

A Mac App Store (which is entirely optional to participate in) gives you increased visibility, a massive audience, and takes care of the pesky payment details for you. Is that worth a 30% cut to most developers? We'll see. (I suspect the answer is going to be yes.)
You make it sound like no government program has ever been cut or removed. You also make it sound like private companies can do no wrong, and that customers always act in their best interest like rational agents. This is a fallacy learned in every ECON 101 class.

Millions, even billions of dollars are siphoned off in people buying useless products like Acai Berry or junk bonds labled as AAA that do nothing for society or even themselves. Now imagine what other useless industries these people would invest given that a company like Google could make so many flops? That is essentially X times more waste where X is the percentage that these junk dealers reinvest.

As someone said more eloquently than I have: "Why do I need your government nanny state telling me how to build my cars? If people who drive my cars die, then they won't buy more cars. THE FREE MARKET WORKS PEOPLE."
Good to hear that.

I too think the MBA is lovely, but you can bet I would disclose how I got it, for the sake of transparency.
>blue whales

>Quaking Aspen grove in Utah

>Giant Sequoia named General Sherman.

He's too good, I've read the wikipedia article for each of those within the past couple years :/
If you read the article to the end, it says that it wasn't the piracy that led to increased sales. The decisive part was the author engaging with the 4chan community and earning their respect.
Law firms and medical schools, maybe, but not investment banks. If you're a programmer, anyway.
Why use Google if one can be lazy and use MacPorts ;)?
"4GB RAM ought to be enough for anybody."

ARMS's Achilles' heel is that it's only 32-bit, and I don't think anyone wants to go back to a segmented address space any time soon.
PG what % of startups chosen each class have a working model with revenue already generated? Could you list some of the pros/cons? Thanks.
When it comes to security, people should not re-invent the wheel. An integrated installation and update method makes a lot of sense, and Apple negatively impacts the security of their ecosystem by using criteria beyond malicious intent to bar third-party vendors from the integrated system.

They also reduce the quality of third-party software, as even blessed software developers will still have to put time into planning for pushing their own updates should they fail to win Apple's blessing.
It's strange. I've talked about all of this with a lot of people, and some people understand why I dig iWantMyName, and some people think I'm insane. It comes down to whether or not price is your #1 concern.

I don't buy a ton of domains, so I'm more than willing to pay a little extra so I don't have to wade through registrar bullshit. It's not just GoDaddy, although they're the most egregious example.

I particularly enjoy iWantMyName because they're startup-centric: they have one-button DNS setup for GitHub Pages, Heroku, Google Apps, bit.ly, Tumblr... man, a whole slew of services, really. I just feel more comfortable with everything. And that's worth the extra bucks to me.
Open Journalist/Blogger Spreadsheet
Thanks for using Highrise. Sorry you're having a bad experience with deals.

We agree that the deals page needs pagination, but most people don't have 5000 deals. So while you're scenario is very real to you, it's not a common case. That's not to take anything away from your experience - we agree it's bad and we want to make it better - it's all just a matter of priority. We're currently working on optimizing for the common cases so we can improve the product(s) in areas everyone can enjoy.

Our development log is public, if your curious about the improvements we're making every day:
http://highrisehq.com/changes
If we compare the RISC nature of ARM with the CISC-implemented-over-RISC approach of contemporary x86s, it's easy to believe it will prove simpler to upscale ARM than to downscale the Atom.

Transmeta-style emulation could be one possible way out of this death spiral for Intel.
How about 'donating to non-profits and honest' Gandi.net? They have been my registrar for many years, and I rent a Xen VPS from them. I have always been happy with their service and openness.
Gist: This seems to be a common problem for startups- press contacts and pitching them. Databases from Vocus and Bacon's are thousands upon thousands of dollars a year. I've wanted to see it be an open database, so I'm submitting it here. For email addresses, DO NOT USE PERSONAL INFO, only the emails that would normally be used to receive pitches. I hope this is useful and makes getting press easier for startups.
PowerPC (except PPC970 aka G5, as I recall) is bi-endian (configurable endianness); so are Alpha and Itanium which also had Windows NT ports.
Neither Apple iOS or Android were "build from nothing in 2-3 years".

iOS is based on OS-X, which is based on NeXT, which is based on BSD (~40 years of work)

Android is based on Linux (so ~20 years of work)
If we're going to be strictly factual about it, Google is actually spending money on cancer research and spaceships; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/oncampus/08/10/google.html describes one of a number of grants that are going to researchers on, among other things, cancer; Larry Brilliant himself suffered from thyroid cancer. Also, Google bought SpaceShipOne, which is now on display at the Googleplex. Presumably Scaled Composites is using the proceeds from the sale for spaceship research. Sergey is going to space in a private space flight next year, assuming all goes well: http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.vie...

There are many other investments in cancer research and space travel being made by individual Googlers.

However, it is perhaps more to the point that both Google Search and Google Academic are crucial research tools for medical research and for aerospace engineering, as for many other fields.

Both directly and through its employees, Google is also funding substantial applied research in crucial areas such as renewable energy production, genomics, public health, and ground transportation.

I don't know what you mean by "disastrous public plumbing in the US". My experience with US municipal water supplies and sewers during the 29 years that I lived there was that they were inexpensive, reliable, safe, and efficient. My experience with water supplies (and sometimes sewers) in other countries has been much worse.

A personal note: I haven't ever tried to work for Google because of, essentially, ethical concerns: I am in danger of having to live in a world where a large fraction of our communications are intermediated by a single company, and I think Google's cultish secrecy is corrosive to the values of Silicon Valley. However, I think Google should only be dinged for its real faults, not imagined ones.
Advancing cloud computing with integrated developer tools by Google and VMware
"Four Steps to the Epiphany" (lean startup) summary
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-customer-development.html
Git User Survey 2010 Analysis
I ran some rough numbers once. I couldn't find exact numbers but estimated for about $1.5 million worth of ARM-based plug servers, you would have close to enough raw CPU power (in terms of FLOPS) compete with the 2003-version of Google.
At least he didn't taint the reddit name too. :)
I would hope that Linode doesn't do anything price-wise otherwise it is entering into race the bottom (I'm a L customer, don't care as much what SH do).

For me, the AWS free account is to more about letting developers play around with the unique features(/challenges) of AWS before needing to actually deploy a real product. There are a lot of unique things to consider with AWS that you don't have to deal with on regular VPSs.

This isn't about creating a free tier of hosting, and if Linode did offer something like this I'd be concerned about the potential impact on the hypervisor machine load and additional support impact.
Behold the power of nullDC
A Plea to Amazon: Fix Mechanical Turk
Exactly. Both Intel and AMD require licenses from the other to produce current x86 chips.
Forbes.com article on Y Combinator and Paul Graham - The Disrupter in the Valley
I'm not going to write off Intel yet, but they're in a dangerous position. The number one reason Microsoft's stock has been moribund the past ten years is that Linux took over the datacenter. Imagine how much more revenue they'd have if the millions upon millions of X86 servers deployed since 2000 ran Windows. Instead, they're stuck in a saturated, slow-growth monopoly. If non-x86 chips take off in data centers, Intel will be in a similarly bad spot.
History has shown that intel is very good at getting out of potential death spirals...
This is like saying that car designs should be more "mechanic friendly" and less "closed" because every car owner is a potential mechanic, and mechanics learn by working on their parents' cars.

How would you feel about a car company that offered a model that is easier to maintain and operate but harder to modify?
What you are witnessing is the predictions of Alvin Toffler comming about. From WP,

<quote>The gap between producer and consumer is bridged by technology using a so called configuration system. "Prosumers" can fill their own needs (see open source, assembly kit, freelance work). This was the notion that new technologies are enabling the radical fusion of the producer and consumer into the prosumer. In some cases prosuming entails a "third job" where the corporation "outsources" its labor not to other countries, but to the unpaid consumer, such as when we do our own banking through an ATM instead of a teller that the bank must employ, or trace our own postal packages on the internet instead of relying on a paid clerk.</quote>

As more internet users become Prosumers, the idea of a 'startup' becomes trite. Instead, everyone is a business or two on their own.
We spoke over the email back in July. I emailed you to say that the quality of the feedback had gone substantially down for the reasons I posted above. You replied suggesting to reject as many responses as I felt needed and alternatively to refund the purchase. This is just, and you do in fact take care of the poor experiences.

I rejected good half of responses, but it also made me realize this:

Having thought a bit more about this whole situation here's what I think is the root of the frustration - I would rather not get to the point of needing to reject comments.

There are some obviously half-assed comments, and these are easy to reject. However there are other comments, still useless, that clearly had some time and effort put into them. Rejecting these seems unfair, especially considering the price point. And there is lots of these comments.

That's why an ability to focus the survey more precisely is IMO essential.

Hence - my question. Have you got a chance to add country filters to FA or not?
Oh this is so damn clever. Genius!

Think about it - copyright and brand owners must hate 4chan. But 4chan hates marketers and insincere people who don't "get" it. So why not post a story about how some writer "engaged" with his audience there leading to a massive sales spike and all-of-a-sudden it'll be crushed under the weight of semi-earnest marketing types attempting to convince "anonymous" to buy their wares.

Genius, I say! Before you know it there will be "4chan social marketing" consultants popping up all over the place, touting their snake oil at advertising events!

;)
I'm not. Could you list some, please?
I really dig this.

If I wanted to learn to do something similar, where would I start? I looked at the research paper but I fear I might need some prerequisite steps.
Moniker has been just rubbish in terms of domain renewals. I gave it my PayPal and its automated emails said that yes, my domains are up for renewal, except they didn't and I almost lost them. It turned out that I needed to prepay in advance in order for auto-renewal to work. That's just stupid IMHO (they're not my bank) and clearly their automated system is wrong in what it thinks is happening.

Apart from that, they're OK.
I am no longer surprised by anything relating to 4chan. I decided a while ago that they basically break all the rules (in a good way) that we have come to understand, though only within their walls.
No, I don't believe a $20/month base plan on Linode is a true barrier for anyone seriously considering deploying a real app.

If you can't be sure that $20/month makes sense then you've wasted a lot of time building an app. If you don't have the $20/month then surely anyone capable of developing an app can work for a few hours on a project for someone and make more than enough to cover a year's hosting.

If you just want a shell account to dick about with then Linode isn't for you and I don't think it's unfair to suggest that us folks running businesses off Linode instances don't want your eggdrops and IRC servers on there either.
Having recently implemented a CC payment system, it's not actually required by CC companies to do any kind of address verification (though companies that ship physical goods generally try). Amazon is probably more stringent.
I don't understand what you think the goal is. They posted an article to encourage people, who 4chan hates, to visit 4chan? It's not like they won't be found out.

…well, that's unrealistic. It's more likely that they'd completely fail to understand it - not in a "there's a deep meaning and they'll miss it" way, in a "there's a shallow meaning and a ton of in-jokes and they'll miss them" way - and give up. That or they won't be allowed to visit from work because the site is too offensive.
When Winamp 5 came out, I believe it was censored. The last time I installed Winamp 5 was about a year ago, and I believe it was still censored.
The author's engagement is key, absolutely. But the fact remains that the good was freely available, regardless.

However, the spike in sales would never have happened if the book hadn't been freely available to start with.

This is a measurable demonstration of a working business model, and it is, clearly, not the model the publishing business is using. Indeed, it is precisely this model that they are lobbying, and succeeding, to make a criminal offence.

It's absolute madness.
As charlief said, it's all about existential risk.
The ";)" at the end was left in an attempt to hint my response is mostly tongue-in-cheak.
Q&A with PopCap's Plamen Dragozov on Multi-Platform Mobile App Dev
Something like 20% of Russia (yeah, I know, we're kind of an exception :)
Because "mash" and "crush" are synonyms?
Well, learned, or people who speak French: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/vulgariser

EDIT: I see that someone beat me to the punch ...
you need to strip out the implementation specific classes such as propel and the mysql-specific calls to make this useful to anybody else

for eg. an in-memory sqlite db would be ideal for this purpose (and a lot faster)
My boss asked me to use Orbit UI and I said No
Well, I should have said "at this point". Surely building bsd-port is more interesting than building your own Java 6.
Great idea Jason, have thought about it too!
genuine engagement is the key here; 4chan is certainly not the place to be seen to be money-grabbing and insincere!
Hmm. So if you aren't an ass to prospective customers, you can still get their sales? Who would have thunk that?

Its not a proof positive way to get sales via advocating copyright infringement. However if you're less known, it works wonders.

And yes, I saw his works linked from /b/
It looks like NASA is also experimenting with microwaving.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/07...

Best of all, microwave extraction can be done on the spot. And it requires no excavation -- no heavy equipment for drilling into the hard-frozen lunar surface.

At least 95 percent of the water added to the simulant was extracted (vaporized out of the soil) with 2 minutes of microwaving.
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Sorry, that wasn't really the intention of my example, which was to show the range of government spending. Ultimately, though, it boils down to this: Google isn't doing anything with this money, except earning less than 1% interest on it.

Google can afford to pay taxes in the countries in which it operates. That it does not, while obviously legally defensible, reflects poorly on the other work it does.

Public plumbing: the US infrastructure is badly out of date, and unable to meet most projected demands for expansion. The US Geological survey projects that 1.7 trillion gallons of water are lost through leaks in the system each year -- about $2.6bn in value. http://www.epa.gov/awi/distributionsys.html