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They have done that bare minimum. Flicker has already provided the guy with five years of hosting and linking - that doesn't just disappear because it's in the past. They provided the service that was paid for over those years.

Now they've made a mistake, and have refunded this years payment and added future access for free. They have done more than 'the bare minimum'. It might be good PR to refund previous years' fees, but they were at the time provided in good faith and competant manner; there is no 'fair exchange' reason to refund them.
I don't know much about feminism as an intellectual movement, but there are definitely a lot casual feminists who consider Silicon Valley style entrepreneurship to be discriminatory because it requires reading non-fiction books in order to be successful.

The basic argument, if I undertand it correctly, is that women should be able to achieve success in any given field by doing things that women are stereotypically interested in. So, for example, they would consider Silicon Valley to be patriarchal because there isn't any role for women who only read People and US Weekly.

I know someone will accuse me of being sexist, but this was actually the consensus from the Women and Entrepreneurship class I took in college, albeit it wasn't phrased in exactly this way.
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I didn't know about the no-donations policy, thanks.

I also really meant what I said about a donations game, it would work in a society where everybody wants the world to know about the good things they do in private.
I started wit Python. Still learning..
It really just depends on what you're asking about. My opinion is that IRC is a better medium for common languages with popular open-source implementations like PHP, Python, or C and SO is usually a better medium for languages with popular closed-source implementations, like C# (though freenode's ##c# is sometimes helpful) or ActionScript/Flash. More enterprise people are on SO than IRC, I guess.
> Even if your App is built in accordance to every policy, Apple can still reject it.

I think we reached this conclusion a while back. While many developers may consider it unfair, I should point out that I have never seen a non-gimmicky, high-quality, and polished app face this same predicament of arbitrarily getting rejected. These types of things just don't happen to those stellar apps that have been through a long development process (unlike the one mentioned in this article).

The truth is that arbitrary rejections aren't so arbitrary. You won't see an app like Doodle Jump be rejected, but you may see it happen to a fart app. While Apple doesn't necessarily point out the particular reasons of a rejection every time, most of us can agree that there is a clear distinction between those that are arbitrarily rejected and those that aren't. This goes to show that there is some reasoning behind Apple's decisions.

People need to realize this and understand that there is probably a pretty good reason why their app got rejected - even if Apple doesn't point it out for them.
As I said, people should upvote to promote intellectual stimulation, and this thread directly addresses that - so it should be upvoted. Upvoting this submission solely because you agree with it is not what you should have done.
It could have been intentional. For instance, if they saw themselves being painted into a corner in the future, businesswise, they may want to make a branding break with their past sooner than later. They can always foreground the chimp, the color blue (or whatever) later.
More on Burman and AJE: http://www.walrusmagazine.com/print/2009.10-media-the-most-h...
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If Push Pop Press is going to rely on people using the iPad with one hand as their home page shows, they may find themselves short on users.
Thanks, I've now added that to the list.
Satellite gets them a lot more viewers in the developing world than either internet or traditional cable. It's also a lot harder to block.
Not as much as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is kicking itself over granting that patent, I imagine.
Please stop saying that StackOverflow is 'broke.' The word you're looking for is broken. StackOverflow's overflowing stack of cash is doing quite well, actually.

Other than that admittedly nitpicky detail, the article is accurate and provides insight on a problem that I, too, have experienced. However, I don't think that StackOverflow is broken, I just think it's overcrowded. And for a question-and-answer style website, isn't that a good thing?
> I should point out that I have never seen a non-gimmicky, high-quality, and polished app face this same predicament of arbitrarily getting rejected.

Walk over here with me, and I can introduce you to the fine folks at a small company called "Sony"
Not sure how BASIC didn't make this list. Played around with it first on an old tandy my dad had and then got actually interested when I started learning ti-basic for the ti-86. First "modern" language was PHP, although I don't know if you can really count PHP3 as modern.
You mean...

No.

I mean that the above comment seems to be suggesting that a company that reaches a certain level of success (e.g. Apple's user base) is in the wrong if it doesn't share that success on equal terms with any competitor that would like it. As if reaching that level of success were just a matter of chance and not, y'know...competition. That would be saying that your reward for creating a wildly successful product is to be held back from doing so again.

Since you seem to traffic in absurd examples, try this: Why don't all of these companies just merge into one big company? That way nobody gets blocked out of anything and everybody gets to share the wealth.
Yes, it is SFW.

Incidentally, I got exactly the same thing from "Smart"Filter at work. Like the others, I suspect that having "cam" in the URL makes it look suspicious.
Allow me a counter-point:

In a male-dominated society, the news is still controlled not by men or women but by money, in the form of advertising revenue.

In a male-dominated society women are stay at home housewives, with time to flip through the channels and shop for household goods, making them a very important consumer demographic and a prime target for advertisers.

Therefore, television news would be 'emotional' and targeted to women.

I don't see how my argument is any less baseless conjecture than yours.
Superimposing the eye of Yasi over New Orleans was a bit tasteless.
Ah I was hoping it was a new startup doing some sort of designer browser. I could use something that made it easy to browse portfolios using design style as a filter (and some sort of "more like this")
I'm not sure what uniform means in that context but "voluntary" is not a good standard because it's too loose a word.

Again, going back to Microsoft's case: reportedly Microsoft demanded OEMs to stop dual-installing competing BeOS on Windows machine or else they would have to pay more for Windows license. For the OEM that was voluntary contract in that they had a choice: quit the business selling Windows machines, be less competitive than other OEMs (higher prices or smaller margins) or stop dual-installing Microsoft's competitor. The third option was the most compelling but neither was fair or good for competition or users.

Apple is in the same position as Microsoft was: they can impose whatever restrictions they want on access to iPhone/iPad users. Acceptance of those rules is "voluntary" on part of Amazon or Sony or Mozilla or me, but that doesn't meant that those rules are fair or good for competition or users.

I for one, would like to see Firefox on iPad but it's not going to happen thanks to "voluntary" agreement between Apple and Mozilla that Mozilla "voluntarily" couldn't accept. And that's just one example of things that I would like to see on iPad but won't.
You should charge more. iPhone devs that can't design charge $150
Apropos: Why I Love Al Jazeera by Robert D. Kaplan

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/10/why-i-lo...
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Luckily, there is a great alternative out there selling just as well as iOS.
That's probably charging by the project, not by the hour. The /hr is an effective rate.
I'm really curious about how the first language you learn influences your way of thinking about programming. I suspect that over the long term, it doesn't matter, but I wonder if it might make a big difference in the first few years.

For example, I started with BASIC, and then moved to C. Thinking in loops was really hard for me at first (as opposed to using goto).

What would be like if your first language was a Lisp?

Less seriously, what about Unlambda? Or Brainfuck?
(yeah, I wrote that lengthy post)

I understand the concept of metamerism. You are quite right about objects changing appearance from one light source to the next, etc. It’s also true that sunsets often have colors which are more colorful than can be produced by computer displays or 4-color-process prints. However, I stand by my assertion that the main reason that sunsets don’t look right on screen or in print has to do with the lack of dynamic range.
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LOGO! It's not a bad first language for a 5 year old.
You're right, and that's because VC is a hits-driven business and none of the founders of major companies (MS/Google/Facebook/Oracle sized companies) have ever been in it for the money. If they had, they would have sold their companies when they were worth $100M and sailed off into the sunset.

However, on Wall Street, this type of attitude is highly valued -- you want to find the young kid with massive insecurities who wants to have $1 billion and when he gets it will want $10 billion. You give him a desk and tax his earnings.
Odd I've had IPv6 on Comcast in the Northern NM area for at least the last three months.
Nope - remember it's only idiots that play the lottery.

This is like helping the nerds carry on taking money from the bullies once they grow up and get dead end jobs
I see your point, but I really don't think that 1.5k rep qualifies as casual in the context of the discussion.
Well we ran out of 4 billion, and much of the world isn't really online yet. Then factor in having a laptop, a smartphone, gaming console, HPTC, etc. There's more servers and infrastructure too.
It's not that much overkill either, only 4x more bits.
There was a patch for all architectures, but it got dropped after 3.07 (current is 3.09). Andrew wrote "I don't feel this patch is general enough nor straight-forward enough to make it into rsync."

See these for more:
http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise/
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7004
That users spend a fraction of the money on. Which would render this game irrelevant - if it had any relevance to begin with.
This was discussed in a Salon article a few days ago:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/28/dahl_...

The section "Turning On" describes the process that led Buckeye Cable System in Ohio to start carrying Al Jazeera. I think it directly addresses your question.

This hit the front page a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156195
If you don't send regular emails, don't email them all yet. With 95% of the traffic dying down, scale back to minimise costs and work on new project until it's finished/ready.

When you get a new project ready; say something along the lines of "This will be the last email from viral-project.

The viral-project closing down, thanks for participating! (Allow option for people to get messages/pm/etc if it's a permanent shut down).

I will be focusing my efforts on a new direction: new-project."
Dingus.
After watching a few videos from that show, I swear we have hired some of those people to do work on our rental properties. I have some pictures of bad work that I really need to put up on my blog.
> he should consider updating the Wikipedia page

Please note that anyone enthusiastic to learn and contribute is extremely welcome on the color-related Wikipedia articles; many of them are in a pretty sorry state.
Its true that you can't have an in-app donation process but you can have the user fill out their information and have them press a donate button that opens up a Safari window to process the actual credit card transaction.
My bad. I'm from a younger generation so I'm pretty uneducated when it comes to some of the earlier programming languages.
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Hmm, ok. I think you actually compared yourself to happy-fart or something, but whatever.

In any event, it's as if you would deny them "learning". I would refer to any legal code. You can observe it change with time in order to adjust to behavior, attitudes, mores, technology, etc.

Imagine the crime boss "Hey, IRS (the US tax board), that was legal last year, how come you took away my loophole?" Now, granted, the IRS has to go thru a process to implement code changes, but this is an analogy to illustrate that codification requires change over time.

It'd be shortsighted to want to limit the change regimen from ad hoc to periodic, for your convenience.

Sense of humor; is that even germane to anything? Would it have been better if they had cited some cells from xkcd?
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Why was Pagemode acquired by Webs? I am still struggling to understand why Webs acquired Pagemodo. What did they want from Pagemode?. They obviously had a good graphic designer but with 23 million (Webs’ funding) you could get a lot of those. I do not think 60,000 users are enough to drive an acquisition. Pagemode is just a couple of well designed Themes. It is an unfinished product. I think the acquisition might be a publicity stunt to release a better product. What do you think?
It’s baffling to me that some people really think that Gruber never criticizes Apple, not even from a position of ignorance (“I don’t read much Gruber writes anyway but it seems to me that he hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple.”) but from a position of authority (“Gruber hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple.”).

I have seen harmless headlines than the one Gruber uses for this article called “linkbait” on HN.
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Sorry, but with all the respect I have for Joel and Jeff, almost every-time one tells about "why I prefer using windows for my scalable website rather than open source solutions", it reminds me the quote from the Woodie Allen's movie

"Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken."
And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?"
The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs."

It is all about an imaginary benefit, as an outcome of a silly process (eggs from that imaginary chicken, saving $$ by choosing MS).

Even if you tend to believe MS-SQL is the best database out there, there is no way, coding/testing/distributing your layers (and trust me, there are plenty of them at SO) in C#/Windows is better than {Python||Ruby}/Posix.

This is my opinion, based on my experience from smaller scale web apps, if at small scale the gap is huge, when things grows to millions of page-views a day, the gap is far larger.

Just try to imagine friend-feed, reddit, facebook, justin-tv or any other large website, you name it, scaling and pushing versions on top of MS platform.
Hmm,

How would you explain Xerox suing Apple over this?

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/15/business/company-news-xero...

I can't find a mention of Apple licensing anything in the wikipedia article either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...

Also this claims to debunk the story:
http://books.google.pl/books?id=gzAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&...

"Xerox did at one time owne stock in Apple, they were purchased as an investment"

(All this followed from the Wikipedia page, I'll admit)
The cynical bastard in me thinks that There Is A Chance To Beat The Lottery is the best headline a lottery PR team could ever hope for. It is like card counting in Vegas: a problem if and only if you can do it well.
MG's post quotes http://twitter.com/#!/fxshaw. This should answer your question- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/shaw/
> And PBS is decent, but it's mainly targeted at people 60+ and retired. Waiting until 7pm for news from last week just isn't viable for people who actually need to know what's going on.

I'm sorry that's just ridiculous. Not only do they have a website that's constantly updated, the news they present is timely according to the importance of the event. They usually have a mix of a) news that happened that day, b) follow up stories from events from the past few days or week and c) long term international news (Haitian recovery, Peru's economy, etc.). And then they have ~5-7 minute rundown of the headlines from that day. Recently they've been devoting almost the entire program to Egypt.

I seriously cannot understand HN's infatuation with Al Jazeera English. It's simply a more sophisticated version of CNN or BBC. I guess if you're looking for a 24 hour news, then yeah, go with Al Jazeera English. I've watched it for their live coverage of Egypt, but I can't imagine watching AJE every day.
I've found it's hit or miss. You really need to love what you do and jump on the teams that value you.
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Don't miss this profile on Tobias in Wired a couple years ago:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymas...
DNS Registrar gave domain name to US government, the US government simply pointed the new domain name to a new server. If you're still viewing the old site, then the DNS propagation hasn't reached your ISP's DNS yet. The server hosting the files is unaffected as it's in another country hence someone provided a direct IP address.

This has the potential for attacks on unprotected clients with malicious JS.

But most likely, they will be logging browser details and ip address as an old honeypot tactic. If I was in their position, I would attempt to cross-match the IP addresses with list of associated profiles (For the paranoid, FB/HN/etc may provide profile associations due to sealed requests). Then there's a list of suspects for questioning.
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>I mean that the above comment seems to be suggesting that a company that reaches a certain level of success (e.g. Apple's user base) is in the wrong if it doesn't share that success on equal terms with any competitor that would like it. As if reaching that level of success were just a matter of chance and not, y'know...competition. That would be saying that your reward for creating a wildly successful product is to be held back from doing so again

All of what you wrote makes sense for a single market. But here things are different.
Apple makes phones. Amazon sells ebooks. The conflict of interest started when Apple started selling ebooks and now is ready to devalue it's phone to get leverage in the ebook space. i.e They're leveraging their smartphone marketshare to gather steam in the ebook space. Remind you of MS and Netscape? Pretty similar except for the Windows monopoly part.

Didn't exactly that happen with Microsoft with Windows and Office?

>your reward for creating a wildly successful product is to be held back from doing so again

Err, how would Apple be held back from creating a killer ebook app and succeeding by the merits of it rather than sitting around and charging a tax on all the ebook purchases on iDevices? How does this benefit the user?

So you mean creating a successful product by beating competition in one market should allow one to automatically make another successful product in another by riding roughshod over the competition leveraging the earlier success beyond just using the profit as capital?

So, do you think Microsoft shouldn't have been punished for bundling IE(it was actually better than Netscape at that point) with Windows ? They didn't even ban Netscape or attempt to tax it, they just bundled their browser with a very successful OS which is not a matter of chance but, y'know...competition.
I don't think you've done the math yet on how many possible ticket combinations there are. I have more reason than most people to spend time thinking about bingo math. Get out a piece of paper and run some calculations: enumerating the whole solution space is not feasible.

Anyhow, the real solution is easier: checking a bingo card or lottery ticket for any feature you want is, essentially, O(1). Generating a lottery ticket is O(1). Generate billions, sort into piles, choose millions from piles in proper proportions, randomize order, done.

This still won't help you if you print sufficient information on the ticket to reverse engineer whether it won or not without actually purchasing it, of course.
Another one: Right now some people are talking about so-called "niche social networks", i.e. concentrate on users within a certain niche, which are automatically much more homogeneous in their interests and preferences. HN is actually kind of an example of one. I'd rather have one social network for everyone which automatically sorts the users into niches (clusters), where the same user might fit into multiple niches.

The big advantage is that the networking site will find the people with common interests for you instead of the users having to find (and tend to) the adequate niche networking sites!
I don't disagree.

But I offer this thought: do you feel like you might tell your kids or grandkids that you remember a time when any of your friends could try out the software your created on their own devices? When anyone had the ability to do whatever they wanted with their devices, without having to agree to a license agreement first?
Dude, their app violates App Store's policies.
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I shudder to think of all programming languages being involved in an elaborate NASCAR race.
When the subject is feminism, is it correct to say "straw man" or "straw person"?
You do know that's likely to be a hoax, right?

It's not on snopes yet, but it seems unlikely that Fox's cartographers would be that incompetent (especially since they probably buy their map imagery from a third party); this is most likely a photoshop job. And while it's amusing, I'd rather stick to disliking Fox and News Corp. for their blatant partisanship and pandering than feeling superior to them over something that's entirely fiction.
AskHN: Are there online communities for technical startups not related to web?
HN is a great community. However, it mostly focuses on Web startups. Do you know of any resources on other technical/engineering startups? For example, anything related to semiconductors/chemical/material science industry would be of great interest to me and there are many other specializations worth mentioning. Thanks.
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"arbitrarily" - Anybody like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, WSJ realizes that selling content on the iPad platform (now that the platform is popular) is going to require them to play ball with Apple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance
The article states that 18 quintillion is being allocated to each customer, which does seem a bit excessive.
Yes I don't understand why this mistake is being made. The opposites are blue-orange, purple-yellow(easter colors), red-green(christmas colors).
Or you could write a Beat The Lottery iPhone app. (OCR plus counting... I somehow think they can make it work.) There are a variety of business models available at that point.