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There are lots of artists and companies that deal just in music. Sure they have to compete with other forms of entertainment, but "music business" seems like a useful subcategory for discussion. Do you have other reason for disliking the distinction?
The fonts are fine, the rendering is an issue simply because we can't replicate 10+ years of proprietary work in fewer months. We're actively working on this. Be glad you didn't see the alpha ;)
Does anyone know how much they make from the paid for iOS version?
There are guidelines that people follow but there is no hard and fast put this here like this and it will hold a fall from 75' up rules. It is a lot of feeling and intuition and most importantly redundancy!
They're very different. This is properly illegal.
mac is good platform but rarely adopted because of the cost. i still prefer PC for its unbelievable cheap price
tumblr :/

The way that SyncPad was prototyped was using PHP/MySQL. I ported that to using Mochiweb. I manage all of the queuing of messages through a relatively straight forward OTP gen_server and Redis.
I like the idea, but ...

When did "hacker" come to mean, "someone who wants dinner with moneymen and books on success"?
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I never said I outsmarted them or that they where stupid. From the begining I stated that it was a cautionary tail, nothing more nothing less.
I only said ad hominem, not attack. :-p
Aren't the rolls $25?
The question is whether you would really want to go with YT?

I mean the quality of the comments, the quality of the design (yes it's sheit).

Vimeo seems like a much better space to seed your content.
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I've definitely thought about it. However, several units in the year involve filetypes that are particularly poorly suited to git: GameMaker, NeverWinter Nights modules, and Unity 3D all work with large, opaque binary assets.
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Ask HN: Where to Start my Venture into Computer Programming
I'm sure this question comes up a lot on HN, but I'll ask it anyway. I have no programming experience but a lot of self-motivation and insatiable desire to learn. Where to start? Which languages and why?

Q: Well, it depends on what you want to accomplish by learning it?
A: I don't even have a good grasp of _all_ the possibilities!

Any advice, whether it regards references, scheduling, beginner books, tutorials, anything would be helpful.
dutchie here, a slightly more readable version:

"Rotterdam, December 9th. The police has arrested in the night of Wednesday to Thursday a 16 year old boy who apparently was involved in the cyber attacks by WikiLeaks sympathizers on amongst others Mastercard and PayPal. This has been announced by the office of the public prosecutor.

WikiLeaks sympathisers have started these attacks after the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Great Brittain. With these so-called DDoS attacks hackers want to take revenge on companies that no longer process funds transfers to WikiLeaks. The High Tech Crime Team of the dutch national police had started an investigation after it became clear that these attacks originate in the Netherlands, according to the office of the public prosecutor.

Besides Mastercard and PayPal the websites of VISA, the Swedish public prosecutor, the swiss Post Bank have been subjected to attacks as well. The actions of the WikiLeaks sympathisers are carried out under the code name 'PayBack'.

The young suspect from The Hague has been interrogated on Thursday and has confessed that he committed attacks on MasterCard and VISA. Police have confiscated computers and data carriers. On Friday he will have to appear in front of a judge in Rotterdam. According to the justice department the boy is part of a group of hackers.

The investigation in to this group is still running, according to the public prosecutor. It is not clear whether other suspects are also in the Netherlands or abroad. The justice department does not rule out more arrests.

A spokesperson for the public prosecutors office has announced that the justice department will act against those that are actually performing these attacks. People that just make their computer available are committing a felony but are not taken in to account in the current investigation."
It generally costs a lot more than $100 to interview someone (especially for the good candidates who go far).

If this process makes it more likely that good candidates got in touch with you, you might actually save money.
Eh, better than the last go around on the topic. There is a cultural difference between the two. iOS does get a boost from the Mac culture: users tend to be affluent and very engaged in their devices. And those people are more likely to plunk down cash for apps. Gruber himself caters to and makes his money off this audience (funnily enough, from advertising more than selling product, but that is off topic). But I am with Wilson. The app ecomony is going to be like the web's. Cause paid software does not work for the masses. It works for enterprise, it works for the niches like gamers and Mac users, but it will not scale. You can already see this in the App Store's pricing race to the bottom. And if the iOS line is going to be more like the iPod than the Mac, the paid app ecomony is going to be seen as an amusing relic in a few years.

Also, I do not get why Gruber plays dumb about Angry Birds' profitablity on Android when that report about Rovio hitting about $1M/month on Android was on every tech site over the last few days.
up till now about 4 million download from iOS ( in the same article mentioned). so about 4 million
Somehow, you've ended up saying that when educated citizens overwhelmingly support one governing philosophy, it's not only somehow bad for the educated citizens, it's also bad for the philosophy! That's a neat trick.

It would be, if I had conflated "philosophy" with "political party"

But I didn't.

Cheers.
You may be right that I don't get Objective-C. I understand that you're not actually calling methods on objects, but instead passing messages to it. What I don't get is why the IDE and the compiler accept invalid method (message) signatures. For example, if you tried [[UIView alloc] mymethod], XCode won't say anything (unlike Eclipse which would catch that mymethod does not exist), and if you try compiling it, you will only get a warning: "UIView may not respond to mymethod". On top of that, XCode won't always display that warning, so you can run into some serious trouble.

Even if XCode were consistent, suppose you are working with some frameworks (like OpenFeint) which, when compiled in your code, have a couple of warnings here and there. How do you tell your warnings from theirs?

More importantly, calling a method (or passing a message) with an incorrect signature should absolutely be a compile-time error.

I'm not trying to be facetious here, I really do run into these problems. I'm genuinely asking why Objective-C and XCode should be considered on equal footing as some other languages?

(P.S. I'm really fired about XCode and Obj-C because I work with it almost daily and these things bother me to no end, so hopefully you're not interpreting my passion for wanting to improve these tools as smugness or arrogance directed at you)
I want one that can say stuff like "your trying to configure virtualhost in apache, but you've buggered it up..."
...and then offer helpful fixes.
This article kind of is a trap, actually. Check out the last paragraph:

> It seems that one disguised empirical question scientists are asking, when they ask “Is X real, or just a handy predictive device?” is the question: “will I still get accurate predictions, when I use X in a less circumscribed or compartmentalized manner?” (E.g., “will I get accurate predictions, when I use atoms to predict quantized charge on tiny oil drops, instead of using atoms only to predict the ratios in which macroscopic quantities combine?".

Rather than trying to answer the question, the author turns it into a slightly different one that's easier to answer, and potentially more useful.
Actually it's full of factual inaccuracies.

Sorry but this kind of snark does nothing to further the privacy debate.
Yes, sure. Because if you haul 16 year olds in to a real life sized police station and start asking pointed questions after doing what they probably figured was a nice prank they're going to clam up and ask for their lawyer, instead of becoming blubbering children.

Please, you can bet that (a) it's true, (b) that it's not a corner case (c) that he really confessed and (d) that there is nothing hinky at all.

Grown ups tend to fall apart after an hour or two in a cell if they've never been there before, imagine the effect on a 16 year old kid.
Why ?

It's not unusual for suspects to confess to crimes. It's just you're much more likely to hear about cases where the suspect denies the charges so it seems much more common than it actually is.
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Deployed it on my blog - http://www.puremango.co.uk/about/privacy-policy/
Fine, I guess I'm referring to computer scientists then. You're playing semantics.

Edit: Actually, there are no CRUD jobs in kernel development. There aren't CRUD jobs in a lot of fields. There aren't any CRUD jobs in database design and development. There aren't any CRUD jobs in compiler design. Any argument to the contrary betrays a fundamental ignorance of what CRUD means[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete
I think the link title misses the point of the article. The article is about getting unstuck -- something very difficult to do in any relationship. People get disengaged; routines become habits. The question she's struggling with is; how do you reengage?

This is easily applied to startups -- I'm at my third startup and after the initial push, rush and execution, when you're entering your 3rd or 4th year... It's hard to get really amped about work. It's hard to get excited about working from home. It's hard to keep focused and motivated. It's hard to break what has become routine. So how do you do it?

If her solution for her marriage was parlayed into startups it would be to ... act a little more unemployed. Get hungry.
I'd love to get rejected by somebody in this way. :)

Really, you're above average if you bother to contact the person at all once you've decided not to hire.

A lot of people are pointing out liability issues with this approach, and sadly, they're probably right. But I bet there are constructive things you could tell rejected applicants that would be still be safe from lawsuit.
Probably, but our district tech support staff is way too understaffed: just downloading and installing Python 2.6 (which I use to teach parts of the class) takes a couple of months lead-time. Even single-user Dropbox isn't supported on campus; I can only run it because the installer will work (somewhat) without admin privileges.
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I disagree, you can push quantum physics very hard, in weird corners where is is manifestly wrong. Then you do the experiments, surprise surprise, quantum mechanics turn out to be right. E.g. Single Photon Interference
How to remain calm, despite what's about to happen to your Chrome notebook
beside, i have a macbook pro and a wins work station. i'm still checking if i can install mac osx on my PC hardware.
Rate my business plan: Porting a classic to the iPad
This began as one of those "y'know, I really wish someone would..." ideas. Then I realized it might not be entirely impossible to start it myself.

There's a series of PC titles from the late 1990s that are generally considered among the best video pinball games ever released. There's a glut of pinball games on the App Store in 2010, but quality is pretty thin -- pinball design is just not an easy art. Fortunately, Empire Interactive's Pro Pinball series would make a fantastic port to the iPad -- the game runs at a native 1024x768, and the controls would map to touch and accelerometer even better than they ever did to the PC keyboard. Someone just needs to secure the rights and original development assets, find a developer familiar with x86-to-ARM, design some revised UI elements and assets, test, and release.

Much easier said than done, of course, but here's my theoretical plan:

1. Figure out how much the lawyering to secure the rights would cost

2. Figure out how much the development would cost

3. Add figures from lines 1 and 2 and enter into the amount field in Kickstarter (download voucher of final product for $10 contribution!)

4. If funded, pursue rights and development

5. Do UI design myself (the one part I actually have experience with!)

6. Develop, test, release on App Store

It's all napkin-scrawl at this point, largely outside my areas of expertise, and probably too demanding to start as a side project (as if I don't have enough of those). But what do you think?
mostly android app earn income via ads , sales in google app store are really bad. no body is buying.
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I understand your point, but for a small startup $800/yr is not practically free.

'Teams' is a great first step, but it's not a reasonable solution to my problem yet.
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Good. This may not be a popular opinion, but I've been waiting for these kids to get punished. Just because they are script kiddies doesn't mean they aren't fully aware of their actions and the impact those actions can have.

I see them all over mainstream sites posting comments "as" Anonymous and I can't help but wonder how ignorant or just plain stupid these people are. They can and will find out who uses these tools and you can bet Visa and Mastercard will use their enormous resources to make sure there is reparation or payback.
Many colleges don't accept cards.

You can however charge your federal income tax (and some state income tax) payments against your card for a fee.

American Express even lets you use rewards points to offset this fee.
Raising children can be tough, but 60 hours of housework per week?

That statistic comes from the book "More Work for Mother" which is the history of "labor saving" devices and their impact on housework (short version: labor saving devices have generally led to increased expectations for quality, not actual reduction in hours spent on housework). IIRC, 60 hours per week has been a stable figure for roughly 300 years so it probably hasn't changed much since I read the book.

I don't doubt that there are exceptions. I've certainly rearranged my life to eliminate as much housework as possible.
Well - actually - here's another one of life's oddities. When you first hook up with a girl, that kind of feisty moxy is exactly what attracts them to you. Men who get laid, the world over, will attest to the truth that in the initial stage of attraction, a man should always signal an attitude of rebelliousness against feminine expectations and norms.

So in actual fact - most (young) women WILL find it sorta cute (with perhaps some modifications needed). When they move in with you, however, it quickly becomes less cute. And therein lies the rub.
Are you sure you aren't reading between the lines a little bit? I think that given the context it's smart to be a little skeptical of stories like this.
Here's a faster way of telling if you're dealing with a toxic (corporate) customer: See how they react when you say "no" to something. This is them on their best behavior too; if the reaction is nasty then you have your answer.
Or needing to find your way to the next village.
One web
I remember reading about a similar concept by Citroen I think about 15 years ago. The brake lights would be a much pinker shade if the brakes were applied sharply.
I forget who it was, but there was a car factory that worked like this:

Groups no larger than 6, reporting to higher groups of 6, up to how many levels you need.

Within the groups of 6, they work out themselves who gets paid what, completely transparently.

The amount everyone gets paid is posted publicly. It worked, because people set the rates fairly in the groups.

If your going to do something slightly anarchistic like be by developers for developers you might as well go the whole hog.

Oh, also make sure the whole organisation isn't bigger than 150 at any time - staying within the dunbar number seems like a great idea.
(less 30%)
Neat arbitrage play (with some minor risk as noted in the article).

If the Mint isn't losing any money on the credit card transactions (think PayPal fee's), then he's essentially getting free money from his credit card company. Otherwise I'm curious who wrote the law to let the Mint sell $15,000 for ~$14,500 (guess) after CC fee's and shipping... ;)

The poor bank definitely loses out. They have to spend all those man hours processing coins, money which they won't make back in interest as he'll clear out his savings/checking account rather quickly to pay the credit card fees.

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EDIT: Per frisco's link:

The Mint says it costs, on average, about $3 to ship each 250-coin box. So $10,000 in coins would be 40 boxes, or $120 in shipping. As for credit-card costs to the government, a Treasury Department agency handles all government credit-card transactions and negotiates costs. No particular credit-card expense is charged to the Mint, a spokesman says.

So, $15,000 in coins would have been sold at a loss of $180 to the U.S. Mint. That doesn't take into a lot of other costs like manufacturing.
There's probably a way to phrase that without implying that HN is a "gentleman's-only" club. (With every romantic interest we entertain?) Or that the learning is limited to the 15-30 age range -- I know people my father's age who are learning some very painful lessons in this department...

Regardless, the point has merit, and in either context you can't win (or even gain the experience you need to win) unless you're in the game. :)
I don't know if there's a better thread for this, but 2010 sure hasn't been Adobe's year.
This reminds me of Rod Adams' argument that the US nuclear program focuses too much on scientific research, when the more practical thing to do would be to focus more on the engineering challenges of mass reactor production, plant construction scheduling and logistics, and so on. That engineering approach could get us huge amounts of inexpensive, safe green power, as China is discovering already. But instead the US remains preoccupied with research, when they ought to be building with the technology we've already got.
Huh, I don't really feel defensive at all. I simply don't feel the need to justify computer science as a discipline or software development as a profession. I originally came into college as a physics major and am doing theoretical computer science (math) as a depth focus in my major. These are generally thought of as the "hard" fields -- but I don't find any of them harder than computer science. Computer science just doesn't strike me as a field that needs defending. If it were easy there wouldn't be so few good practicing it.
The main thing is stop thinking mobile and desktop and only think about resolutions and capabilities.

My advice is: make a universal HTML that will work without JavaScript and without CSS, then lay some CSS on top, then enhance that with some JavaScript. You can have conditional rules in your CSS, and you can detect features in JavaScript without resorting to UA sniffing.
The claims in the lawsuit would apply to any modern virtual machine.
Wow, surprise surprise: a Chrome netbook can not serve as a replacement workstation for a sysadmin. Were these really intended as anything but a casual computing device?
This kind of survivor bias will be true for mostly any subscription business. Users that weren't getting much value from your business will drop off. Given a reasonable segmentation of free and paid users that will mean a larger percentage of active users will be paid.
It is said that Poincaré, when finally convinced that the evidence of atoms was overwhelming, exclaimed something like "but then it's all false!", meaning that all the continuum-based theories like fluid dynamics and electrodynamics, which had previously seemed like exact descriptions of the underlying reality, had suddenly shown themselves to be mere approximations...
Agreed. General Mac buzz picked up significantly when Apple announced the switch to Intel and the first MacBook was released.
I did, I just don't think thats funny.
Just charge everything and get the same rewards.
The vast majority of the things he was trying to do are outside of the planned usecase of this device. It's like if someone was disappointed at the lack of photoshop on the iPad...it simply wasn't designed for that.
Wow, I thought they had sold a lot more on iOS. So in one month of ad revenue on Android has brought in 25% of total iOS sales. If this ad revenue is consistent that's pretty incredible news for Google. It will have made clear that ad revenue on mobile devices is where the money is (and with Google being an advertising company, this is great news).
This is not Fox News or Bild we're talking about here, and given the context it is smart to know how to separate facts from fiction regardless of whether or not those facts fit in to your preferred worldview.

The dry facts:

(1) some 16 year old kid was arrested

(2) he was arrested in relation to his role in the attacks o MasterCard and PayPal

(3) He's been interrogated

(4) he confessed to at least being involved

(5) he's part of a group (most likely Anon, but that's interpretation on my side)

(6) they seem to have other suspects

(7) they are aware of two classes of suspects, 'organizers' and 'mules' and are (for now I would assume) focusing the investigative effort on the organizers, which suggests the kid was part of those that organized the attack and not just someone that downloaded a script or bot tool.

(8) On Friday (tomorrow) he will be arraigned, presumably we'll learn more then as well as whether or not he will be held longer
Yeah theorists have been doing this since Plato. They can't understand the question they've asked so they try to re-parse it into one that they can.

I'm not sure why - but it rarely occurs to them to just stop asking the first question, and stop asking whether the second actually has the same semantic content as the first. When I point this out to them they retort that I have no rational argument that could reasonably compel them to accept that these questions can't be answered. I accept the truth of this retort. However, I offer them the prediction that animals that tend toward behaviours such as theirs will get selected out of existence a whole lot sooner than those that don't. It's a purely empirical hypothesis so there is nothing more that can be said on the matter - and so it mercifully ends the conversation.
"I like to think of DDoS as equivalents of sit-ins: both aim at briefly disrupting a service or an institution in order to make a point. As long as we don't criminalize all sit-ins, I don't think we should aim at criminalizing all DDoS. "

http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/09/parsing_...
To all the people who voted me up because you too felt you were in the same situation, I'm sorry. I got home from work and there is indeed a Cr-48 in my possession now! Google is truly amazing. :/
Why am I being redirected to a login page?
How much karma do I need before I can downvote people?
"301's are the new pamphlets"
Sure, but as counter-examples, take Eclipse, Visual Studio, Netbeans, Notepad++, Textpad, XMLSpy...

From your example, it's apparent that Mac-only editors use cmd-[. This is a great idea as it promotes cross-platform compatibility and makes life so much easier for developers. /snark

Likewise, I have a problem with Visual Studio and Eclipse, and their debuggers: F6 is step-over in Eclipse, and F11 is step-over in Visual Studio.

By the way, try using the Visual Studio debugger in a virtual machine on OS X. Another example of an awesome key-binding in OS X (who uses F11 anyway? Let's assign it to something system-wide!)