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Of course the don't want competion. They do everything they can to protect their ecosystem.
App dev defies letter of license agreement, angers users by going AppStore-only
The GNU GPL does not place obligations on a platform vendor.

If Applidium provides the source (or even re-signable binaries), then anyone with the platform vendor's normal access mechanisms can modify and install on their system. They can even go through the platform vendor's steps required to distribute.

(Yes, you can send re-signable binaries; Jesse Grosjean did this with early versions of PlainText. You only have to pay the access fee of $99/year to install it on your own devices.)
One possible reason is that Google can be a potential competitor, buyer or in an event which leaking email information to Google might jeopardize company's growth.
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JSON or XML over REST is certainly simpler and gaining popularity. The reason it isn't being broadcast on EWeek/etc is IBM, Microsoft and the rest of the tool players haven't figured out how to sell you a tool that locks you into their proprietary stack.

A key point the writer alludes to (and an IMPORTANT one) is that SOAP was hyped by tool vendors because it game them something to SELL you. There's really nothing to SELL with RESTful stuff, it just works and is inherent to the internet, therefore tool vendors aren't exactly pumped up about selling you anything.
Surely there's room in the market for both? For TVs with apps, a DVD player, a Wii and a Tivo built in, and also for TVs that don't even come with a tuner?
So if the original authors of VLC (not the authors of the iOS app) granted that permission to Apple then this wouldn't be an issue?
it would look more impressive vertically stacked... it didn't make me think that one trillion is particularly huge.
She obviously made a mistake in her version numbers, but I think she's also phrased her response poorly.

It‘s true that I could have made version 2.5 available through the legacy Sparkle updater. But maintaining two builds, one for the App Store and one with the serial number checks, was too time consuming for me. Precious time better spend on the actual update and my other apps.

The whole response lacks empathy for her users.
Depends what you want to do with it.

Do you just want to pull apart a class and twiddle with its internal strings (e.g. to retrofit some duck-typing) or do you want to manipulate the code?

If the latter, I believe it is a stack based language, so go learn you some forth, first.

If you want to implement some dynamic language running on the vm, then you need to dive in a lot more deeply than this.
I'm sure it will sell well, and I know how much current iPhone users hate the AT&T network, but after four generations of iPhones are there really that many people who wanted one that have been holding back?

In the UK you can get iPhones on 5 networks as well as unlocked, yet Android is still growing in a similar pattern. The whole pie is growing rapidly though it is hard to tell. Mmmm, pie.
Would you mind giving a lay explanation as to what happened? I'm having trouble parsing what you've written, likely from a lack of context.

First, what's an FSF analysis? And who is the developer in question? One of yours? One of Apple's? Random guy off the street?

What exactly was your application doing that Apple didn't like?
Yeah, that's really the only time it works. The problem is, for 10 years vendors have been crowing about how it enabled .net to talk to java to talk to Cobol (or whatever) and that's just plain false. I've been in multiple shops where we established it was easier to write custom wire protocols than it was to try and get the various SOAP providers to talk to each other... e.g. Like Biz-talk... what a joke... Works great as an enterprise integration tool as long as your entire enterprise is running the same version of windows... and start drinking heavily now if you happen to have mainframes or -nix machines, cause you'll waste gob's-o-cash trying to get these things all hooked together.
Americans Waking Up to Social Media Privacy
What is the chance of Iran becoming a root CA? Passing a WebTrust audit? It's not like you can become one just by showing up.
There is a trivial way to get the application onto the device: pay the $99/year fee to be a developer and re-sign a 'beta' version.

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/wiki/iOSDeveloperSelfSign

The problem here is that someone has made the assumption that the GNU GPL is permitted to impose restrictions on third parties or platform vendors. It isn't.

What happened here is that someone didn't understand what the GNU GPL does and does not do (and that includes the FSF, IMO) with respect to third-parties and platform vendors.
Except every browser I know will barf at self-signed cert.
So, in perspective, USA gross national product (annual) is $14 trillion, so 14 of those (acres or football fields of pallets would have been a better reference).

USA annual defense spending is $1.35 trillion (more than every other country on earth combined). This does not include the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (hidden in "emergency spending", basically debt sold to China) or the huge medical expenditures to keep tens of thousands of wounded soldiers alive for years after.
I'm not as concerned about what a trillion dollars looks like as I am with what a hundred million looks like. Once I get the pallet-sized stack, then trying to do something about the warehouse-sized stack is probably a lot more realistic.
Have you ever stood on a football field or acre of land?

Imagine that full of pallets of $100 bills.

To me that's quite a visual, vertical has no spacial reference.

UPDATE: I did some quick calculations and if my math is right, it's more like over THREE acres for a single stacked pallet. Double stacked as in the image would cut it down to just over 1.5 acres.
Ask HN: Anyone here doing personal income/expenses tracking?
Hi there

I'm just looking for some personal (rather than business) expense tracking software, preferably online. Thought I'd ask if anyone here here has created anything like that or if anyone has anything that they would recommend.
I'm going to let reuters know that I have figured out a quick and inexpensive way to use my Apple laptop to crack their windows password. Maybe they'll ring up Cupertino for a reaction?

Others that are complicit in this notorious plan: Intel, Nvidia, Linux Torvalds, PG&E.
Thanks, I'll check this out!
I get that you're angry about this, but if you want to comment on it, write your own blog post, don't editorialise the headline... this isn't reddit.
There are in fact less than $1tn in circulation as currency. Most of it is in bank accounts or money titles, depending on your definition of 'money'.

Currency in circulation: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CURRENCY

M1: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1

M2: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2

MZM: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MZM
I like it better this way as it's a realistic scenario; it's the way it would appear if it had to physically be stored somewhere.
I'd rather the submit button say "Submit" than have any "Reset" button anywhere. I hate it when I accidentally click those.
As a sucker for unicode hearts I'll test this out. Great idea
According to TUAW http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/08/vlc-app-removed-from-app-stor..., its one Rémi Denis-Courmont employed under Nokia who waged the campaign. How true is it? Sounds more like a corporate conspiracy than a fight for principle.
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Universities should stop using Blackboard. They tried to use a software patent to prevent competitors from implementing "roles" (otherwise known as user groups).

Eben Moglen even gave a keynote on this: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF06/Keynote+-...

The keynote was followed by an open discussion with Blackboard's lawyer: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF06/Lunchtime...

As Eben Moglen put it: "Preventing people from learning how things work is the opposite of education."
Let's talk about the problems in the Navy. I'm an officer. I don't agree that all of the best officers are leaving. Some are, but probably not in greater percentages than the mediocre and bad ones. The promotion system is as horrible as this article indicates.

There are some extremely talented officers at the higher ranks in the Navy, at least, that at least stay until they are able to retire. The incentives to stay after retirement are few unless you either really love the job, or are very ambitious. There is an extreme financial disincentive to stay after about 22 years.

The Navy, at least, has an extremely backward promotion system that is at odds with its own interests. Many, many times I've been in the position where I've wanted to move people around to their areas of expertise but to do so would hurt their chances of promotion. If I have a Chief, for example, who is one of the best in the Navy at Job A, but Job A doesn't supervise a lot of people, chances are he won't be promoted no matter how well he does in that job. Some of these jobs are extremely specialized and there is a huge gulf between someone who is an expert and someone who isn't.

There is a big emphasis on officers getting advanced technical degrees, but very few jobs available to make use of those skills, and those that are aren't necessarily good career moves. We have a large contingent of officers with Masters degrees in electrical engineering and computer science doing middle-level management work while brand new sailors with six weeks of training get the technical jobs. When this setup fails miserably, contractors are brought in to fix the problem at great expense.

The entire world has pretty much decided over the last century that increased specialization leads to greater efficiency and cost effectiveness. By promoting and operating the way the Navy does, the Navy has decided to take the opposite tack; the path to success in the Navy is to become a generalist and do a little bit of everything.

One of the most insightful remarks I've heard in my entire career was when the Navy changed the promotion system to try to promote more based on merit than favoritism. This caused an uproar as the system we adopted was rather bureaucratic and ham-handed, and seemed to put some of our best sailors at a disadvantage. While everyone was complaining, an LT I knew at the time said, "You know what, none of this matters. As soon as everyone figures out how the system works, they'll work within the system to ensure that the best people get promoted." And that's pretty much how it works today. The only time the system really makes a difference is when it hinders decision making.
Not necessarily. Try reading " 'brilliant' " as " described by his colleagues as 'brilliant' ", take into account the well respected people that he worked with and its a far higher compliment than the article writer, who is almost certainly not a programmer, could possibly offer.
"Corporation Service Company" has to be one of the most generic names ever.
All AT&T phones have the restriction, as well as most Android ebook readers.
Being on Facebook and being a Facebook junkie are two different things. You can get the benefits of Facebook (being accessible to old friends/classmates and occasionally checking out an old friend or ex-girlfriend) without being an addict.

Because everyone is on Facebook, that's actually a huge amount of residual value to keep an account there. So for most people, it's not sensible to delete their account. Just be relaxed about it, don't connect to everyone and their dog, and use it every once in a while when you need to or when someone contacts you via it.

That said, I understand the need to just "remove the hooks permanently", as you put it. When you're addicted to something, when it grabs your brain in just the right way to keep you hooked in, often the only sensible way out is to cut all ties. I did the same for World of Warcraft (see http://inter-sections.net/2009/02/21/destroying-the-world-of...). Many people play WoW casually and don't need to delete their characters and quit so permanently... but I was totally hooked, so I needed to... so I understand why you did too.

Good luck with the new life without the big weight on your chest :-)
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Previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511285
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An infinite wing would not have induced drag but it would have infinite parasitic drag. There are two kinds of drag at play. As one is reduced the other becomes more dominant.
IaaS provider positioning & Gartner Magic Quadrant
Is Foursquare the New Friendster?
I moved away from Slicehost due to frequent performance problems, which I found were related to disk thoroughput. This was at the STL data center. It was driving me nuts until I figured out it wasn't due to something going on in my own system. I had a spare Linde which was relatively trouble free, so I moved the main server to Linode and it has been so much better. Currently it has 2-3 times the activity as the server doing the same job had on slicehost with no performance problems, ever. AND it is cheaper than Slicehost.
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An imagined anecdote (what you provided) is not a substitute for data (what I provided).
I think the name misses the point Dick was making in the novel (and throughout a lot of his work). It's about what exactly makes us "human", and how maybe it's possible to create something find all the qualities that we believe define humanity outside of humans, thus taking value away from being humane, or maybe adding value to it. The question "Do androids dream with electric sheep?"is just an example of this. "Human is" is another excelent short story by Dick on the subject.

The fractals are very nice though =)
More cloud fluff. Yes, cracking a pre-shared key requires a lot of processing. The more computers working on this, the less time required.
Now, they talking business.
Okay, Lets go for an easier representation of this scale. The author states that 100 Million dollars fits on a standard pallet. If we take a standard us pallet[1], we find that within a standard container[2] we can fit 9 pallets[3].

There fore One Trillion Dollars will fit into
1 000 000 000 000 /
(9 * 100 000 000)
= 1111.111... containers.
Lets round up to 1112 for the sake of transportation convenience.

If we take a large container ship like the COSCO Guangzhou[4] we can see that it will cary 9450 TEU[5] containers.

As you can see one of these large ships can carry
9450/1112 = 8.499
container loads of trillion dollars.

From this we can see that I expected a large container ship to carry much less, so my conclusions is kind of out the window. Damn that is a big ship.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#ISO_pallets
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
[3]http://www.epal-pallets.org/uk/produkte/vergleich.php
[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO_Guangzhou
[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
A billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A trillion dollars.
Way to go HN. Instant downvote due to violent disagreement with an unpopular sentiment, not because the poster failed to add anything to the discussion.

I don't think it's a failure to contribute to point out that rational people( and here we would presume that brilliant programmers are generally rational )would conduct their lives and solve their problems rationally.

Physical trauma that occurred and ended 20 years ago is not the kind of thing a rational mind would choose suicide as a solution to.

I understand that the "feelings first" zeitgeist of modern America makes this kind of thinking unpopular, but for some reason I thought unpopularity alone was not considered an appropriate rubric to downvote on HN.
Does anyone have examples of apps that actually use the prediction API?
Hopefully that will be enough to convince them.
FSF is Free Software Foundation

The developer is one of the VLC main contributors, but you have to understand that there is no official "VLC" company/organisation.
I would love the FSF to explain their current position, but they don't want anymore...
America by the Numbers
Counter argument: I'm a heavy linux user, yet I don't have rythembox.

Seriously, who knows why they won't just install it. Perhaps its because of a nokia program-installation policy. Who knows. I don't think we should expect that they will have it or are able to install it.
This is an interesting and important next step in the WL story.

From a political standpoint, somebody is going to have to pay somewhere. It will be interesting to see if they apply current law, create new laws, or work extra-judicially. My guess, and the way this article indicates the story is heading, is that they find some existing law to apply. After all, with a legal system as complex as the United States has, if they want you they'll find something you're guilty of. Remember that they got the gangster Al Capone not for breaking prohibition, gambling, or murder: they got him for tax evasion.

If they keep heading this way we all need to pay careful attention to what WL gets charged with, mainly because it will set a precedent for the rest of us.
I really don't understand the respect to this particular comment. I think kwoks expressed himself slightly awkwardly, but are the downvoters suggesting that this guy did the smart thing by taking his own life?
Here, the issue is about usage rights, not redistribution.
Ok, so imagine ten thousand of those pallets stacked on top of each other.
You can keep your copies...
What stops you from installing the software on your iPhone? It's not as if the binaries are not available any more.
No, if Apple decides to create a new marketplace - to which tens of thousands of small business have a stake; Apple has a duty to act in an impartial and fair manner.

The fact that Apple created this economic space, doesn't give it the right to behave like a feudal overlord might have behaved in the Middle Ages.

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It's very much a case of 'who watches the watchmen'.

An independent complaints or regulatory commission needs to be established which can be used to lodge complaints about unfair action within any privately created IP-focused marketplace. I believe that laws should be introduced to ensure that Apple (and Google / Blackberry etc.) would have to subscribe to any guidelines put forth by such a body.
I know the space well and would be happy to help. I made https://www.pearbudget.com. Depending on what you're looking for, it might be just right for you. Or, of course, it might not.

If you let me know what you're looking for, I can help you find something. Either here or on Twitter (@charliepark).
Pffft! They're aiming low. I have one hundred and fifty trillion dollars[1] sitting right here on my desk. A 100 trillion dollar bill and a 50 trillion dollar bill :)

[1] Admitedly its out-of-circulation zimbabwe dollars that would be worth maybe $5 if it were still in circulation. Heres what one hundred trillion dollars looks like: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Zimbabwe_%2410...
Are there any HNers in Hyderabad? If so, I'd love to talk :-)
You're way off-base about this. Lots of good schools are in college towns that have "not a whole lot there." This has absolutely nothing to do with what causes a handful of people to commit suicide. And Bill's suicide note gives no indication that he was upset about anything Princeton-specific. I'm sorry you had a bad experience living in the town of Princeton, but that's completely orthogonal to what happened here.
I've been pushing this idea: "A half-way house for suicidal people" Basically, if you're intending to commit suicide, you simply register for the project, and you get an all-expenses paid trip to Iraq, Afghanistan or Congo or some other really dangerous place. Spend two to three months helping people out, then feel free to commit suicide after that.

No counseling, no attempt to talk you out of it, just a chance to be somewhere that will put you within a new world.
> The news media keeps saying that Borders is going out of business in large part due to e-books. But I have a hard time buying that.

Useless anecdotal evidence follows...
Solar car aero shells are designed for zero lift, not to press the car into the ground or take off. This is the minimum energy usage.

It's true that you could reduce your rolling resistance by making a car with positive aerodynamic lift, but doing so would make you dissipate more energy in the air than you would save.
Also, for those of us who think in terms of horsepower, 1200 watts is about 1.6 hp. A blender might be a more useful kitchen appliance comparison than a toaster to grasp the amount of mechanical power that this car produces.
I'm working on an expenses/purchases app at the moment. I have small businesses in mind but I am also considering a personal aspect. What is it that you want to get out of such an application?
I think one of the reasons for the strange 'assignment' and 'orders' system of filling job needs is overlooked by the author. 'Randomly'[1] rotating people around in the service has a side effect (or, actually, it's main purpose) that is very beneficial to civilian society in the United States - it virtually eliminates any situation where soldiers are more loyal to their chain of command than to the country/Army as a whole.

Getting a new boss every 3-4 years means you'll never really cultivate that lifelong attachment to the one boss you'd do anything for. This stems the a huge amount of potential military coup/uprising/etc., and keeps the armed forces focused on their jobs and loyalty to the mission and their country.

Has there ever been a military vs. govt/civilian situation in the US once this policy was put in place?

[1] It's not random at all - it's a 'who you know' system. 'Detailers' are staffed at the personnel bureau, and if you know your detailer well (or have other connections), you get the job you want. Just like any other major organization.
I like this a lot and the barrier to entry is really low. Plus the simple design is a major plus.

What's a big negative to me is the design of my feed. It's actually what's preventing me from sharing this with my friends who are fellow designes/creatives. Specifically too much real estate for the sort option on the right, dropshadows are little bit distracting, and do you need "Thing from?" Just by having the URL, I can tell that's the source.

I think what makes more sense is if the tags run across the top horizontally (above the images), and there is an add button. The reason is so that the grid remains completely full width across your container and so more results are per row.

This would also help put the name of the person above the image results instead of to the right.
Yes, only those kind of bookstores are in the same, and even bigger mess than Borders is in.
Why Steak over Cucumber (for Ruby acceptance testing)
I very much enjoyed this post. Personally I don't particularly rate Gartner's 'Magic Quadrant' stuff but this non-Gartner blog post was a useful read for gaining a better understanding of what some of the real differences are between different IaaS providers.