skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is one of Apple's requirements. Whatever you sell somewhere else, it has to be the same price or cheaper at Apple.

You cannot charge more on iOS to compensate for Apple's 30% cut (which I think is rather high for subscriptions).
Author here: That definitely would've saved me some time!

But doing it this way also gave me insight into how quickly/much Google was indexing. I didn't do a full test on bing, but some spotchecking indicated that Google was picking up the news coverage much faster.
Will the Next iPhone Have a 4-inch Screen?
Actually having the same content/product sold through both Apple and somewhere else is an interesting case. Between the two distribution channels, in which do you put your R&D or advertising dollar when channel Apple returns 30% less per customer gained there versus channel other?
Where the Folders Are Most Useful
As far as the utility of a product is concerned, it must be valued according to the usage, situation and its production. There are no certain parameters though to check their ability to perform well under any situation. Still, some basic rules can be laid out to make sure the product is not a total failure at all.
That... Almost sounds like a sane, rational way to run an army. Provide an external motivation that doesn't include rabid parochialism and tie it to the wellbeing of the country.
The criteria seems rather academic and out of sync with the market.
From the horse's mouth:
User revenue will be split 70% to the developer and 30% to Amazon net of delivery fees of $0.15 / MB. -- http://kdk.amazon.com/

That page also indicates the bandwidth threshold under which Amazon pays is 100kb/user/month.
But, did it work?
We can laud the achievements Apple has accomplished without refraining from criticism where they fall short. Furthermore, even taking what you say for granted, these past achievements do not validate the approach Apple is taking today with their new in-app subscriptions policy.
Eh, I dunno, there was some sensible action in there. Reducing to two locations the enormous, global oilslick that is Nokia's R&D seems like a good idea. Gutting all the outsourcing seems like a good idea. De-bureaucratizing and de-cluttering the organization seems, to me, a lot more sensible than outsourcing the very soul of your product's user experience and becoming little more than a commodity electronics manufacturer.

Like Tony Hsieh says, you can't be successful by outsourcing something that should be your core competency.
The Watson Trivia Challenge
That looks good. I think I have come up with a different slant though :)
On ‘Jeopardy,’ Watson’s [Redacted: Spoiler]
Unless you are no good at business tasks. It's an unpopular truth, but still truth: Some people could never run their own business. They don't have the skills, or the mental chemistry. Some kids could never be president, some people can never run at a competitive level, and some people can't work for themselves.

It's not fair, or glamorous, or even particularly PC. But it's true.
Zach said it best yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2224469

Of course Rhapsody can't sell their stuff for a 30% margin. It's not their own stuff!

They're trying to be the last link in a chain of 90/10 (or more) splits. They repackage record labels' repackaging of artists' content. Do you think the artists would find 30% economically untenable?

The App Store is 70/30 because Apple can take things straight from content producer to customer. When the Apple takes the place of publishing, distribution, inventory, sales, payments and shipping, there's real value for that 30%.

When all someone wants out of Apple is merely to process the payment and send things down the pipe, gee, who do they think they are? But that's not what Apple is actually holding themselves out as. Apple doesn't want to be in that kind of commodity market anyway. Seems reasonable to me.
Objective-C: Not just for Macs and iPhones
Thats what I dont get. On the car it looks like the driver is writing some other sort of License, ZU O666 but the sign is telling DW 530GS to slow down. Not enough images of the car to prove if it did, or did not tell the driver exactly to slow down. But for the sake of making this awesome, lets say it did work.
Click through to the larger image. Its much clearer http://i.imgur.com/haspR.jpg
You definitely should. I was hoping to meet you in this batch but I guess our days were different (I was on the last one). Regardless, good luck!
Microsoft VS Mozilla on Modern Web Browser
It blows my mind that there are still people calling it 'JAVA' instead of 'Java' in 2011.
Why not just limit your response to the first sentence? Moreover, I work with a rocket scientist and I'm not sure he could figure it out.
Comments all removed.
The 'Fáil' part is pronounced as 'fall'.
Experts-exchange faces the same problem in StackOverflow that the proprietary UNIX vendors confronted in Red Hat and Cygnus.

The open source vendors were perfectly happy to turn a hundred billion dollar industry into a one billion dollar industry, as long as they sat on top of the smaller stack.

StackOverflow is clearly happy with a large piece of a smaller pie, and the "evil hyphen guys" are never going to be able to compete with that.
That is a false dichotomy, Apple vs. Google. I think it's a poor way of trying to make sense of the situation. Keep in mind that the word "Google" is not even cited in the link.

There's no need to defend every one of Apple's decisions, sometimes people do stuff that sucks, or even brings Google to the discussion just to defend Apple.

EDIT: That said, your points were good, I liked the articulation of your comment, I upvoted you.
I agree almost 100% with what you're saying. I'll just add 2 comments:

1) Regarding the fact that at any given time, there is knowledge that people have that hasn't been encoded in a form usable by the optimizer: I think this can be addressed by generating a set of decent designs with machine learning (on the pareto front, if you will) and then providing user interface tools to allow the humans to pick the designs that best handle the knowledge that wasn't optimized against. These user interfaces will often have to be quite elaborate but that's a tractable problem.

2) When working with Genetic Algorithms, and any machine learning technology, really, my experience has been that the first results only show what is wrong with the problem setup. The designs that are returned by a genetic algorithm are invariably nonsense at first and the then it's a matter of playing whack-a-mole as the optimizer exploits inaccuracies in the problem statement, a fix is made, a new exploit is found, repeat. This is often viewed as a deficiency of genetic algorithms but in my opinion the fact that the metrics being used can be gamed is valuable information that needs to be addressed as early as possible.

Finally, I understand my original comment came across as somewhat naive. If we ever get to a point where we can design physical products, I am imagining starting with something along the lines of a mechanical pocket watch, or maybe a nice desk chair. Airplanes are gonna be last.
So does this work with Google apps for domains? I can't easily figure out how to enable it.
One-command NORCPU program hacking challenge: analysis and solutions
Abandoning your users and moving to a platform where there's little money to be made is a questionable proposition for producers. And a lot of users will have second thoughts about moving to a platform they perceive to be distinctly inferior just because Apple are being dicks.

Also, as a reminder in case you live in a country where it isn't so: Contracts prevent most of Apple's customers from jumping platforms, and sunk costs in iOS apps tighten the lock-in.
Nice to see some numbers on Watson’s much discussed reaction time:

Watson, on the hand, does not anticipate the light, but has a weighted scheme where when it is highly confident it can buzz in as short a time as 10 milliseconds, making it very hard for humans to beat. Less confident, and it buzzed more slowly.

Also, this quote:

“It sort of wants to get beaten when it doesn’t have high confidence,” Dr. Ferrucci said. “It doesn’t want to look stupid.”

This line:

The researchers also acknowledged that the machine benefited from the “buzzer factor.”

And the other players’ take on it:

Both human players felt that Watson’s button pushing skill wasn’t necessarily an unfair advantage. “I beat Watson a couple of times,” said Mr. Rutter.
I think the photos are meant to imply that the system is reading external input as text and so might be vulnerable to an injection attack like what the bottom picture shows. I don't think it was intended to suggest that the system has actually been hacked in that photo.

Of course, the whole thing is meant as a silly joke (and that's one of the reasons I wish it wasn't posted here). It's unlikely that the camera would recognize something that's so obviously different from a license plate, let alone use a SQL database.

I'd love to see a real discussion on how the ubiquity of computers creates interesting vectors for attacking infrastructure. It seems inevitable that these systems will be connected to higher-value targets and that non-traditional input devices can still be used for launching attacks.
I think most of the angst around these new rules are less about Apple charging 30% of a magazine or book publisher's content sales, which may well be in-line with what Amazon charges, and more about the apparent intent to impose this same arrangement on things like Netflix, Rhapsody, and any other SaaS with an app in the app store, most of whom don't have the leeway to survive forking over 30% of a monthly fee to Apple.

That's where the whole "Apple deserves something for bringing millions of eyeballs to the app store in the first place" argument really breaks down. The iOS Linode utility app is of value to me as a user, but it's a tiny part of what I get out of Linode, so it in no way seems reasonable for Apple to demand that Linode now allow sign-ups through the iOS app and hand over 30% of the monthly fee for those sign-ups. I'm not on Linode because of the iOS app, I'm on iOS because of useful utilities like the Linode app.

So when most of these useful add-on utilities are driven off the store by this crazy land-grab, users like me are going to be driven right off the platform as well.
Fall is hardly a better ending than fail. Neither are particularly inspiring!

Edit : I read the article. Apparently the pronunciation is 'foil'. Slightly better.
See COICA. Makes your point moot. Next idea? :-)
My last company tried to do this.

No really. They told us during salary reviews that "Financial Forecasts aren't looking good!" and "There's going to be another GFC and that's why you're only getting a $1K raise". That's when I decided to quit.

Then they made a big song and dance at a company event about how we'd made 13M in profit. Yeah, VERY convincing guys.
He was referring to the fact that once you've made significant investments in a platform + applications + DRM content, it's not really straightforward to move to another platform, especially because you cannot transfer the content you already paid for.

Also let's not forget about early termination fees from carriers, or getting another subscription just to get another phone.

For some people moving to another platform can be a significant expense. And for most people it's not really clear what else you might be missing on the other platform, that you were accustomed to using now.
I wish that were practical, but Web apps just don't measure up for a lot of domains. Personal example: I was recently toying with the idea of porting a design program to be a Web app, but even just getting very simple typography right is pretty intractable.
Uhh, it's an ingrained reflex from my teens.

Because they're not Microsoft.

It's just the leftover bitterness of Amiga Persecution Complex. Billg killed the Amiga

...or so it is widely believed, especially in Europe.
'An Accidental Diplomat'?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1902602390
Ask HN: Does Anyone Else Have a "New" Gmail?
I have a slightly refreshed Gmail header - where the Gmail, Calendar, Documents and Settings links are located. I didn't see any mention of it, so wondering if there's any new functionality. (I haven't found any.)
Same here, worked second time fine.
agreed. something like 12pt/1.65 for .post-content works much better.
> Data-oriented code is not possible in Java...

There are obviously techniques in data-oriented code that aren't possible in Java, but a lot of the key insight is applicable in just about every language. Structures-of-arrays, defining the data in objects based on usage patterns instead of responsibilities and "model-the-world" categorisation...

Java doesn't have a `sizeof` operator, and objects probably don't tend to store their object member variables by value, and it's not always obvious which function calls cost how much... Problems, to be sure, but if you really want data-oriented code you can usually contort yourself far enough to get it.
Google Beatbox?

http://translate.google.com/#de|de|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20...
Startup Dinevore Serves Up Restaurant Recommendations From Sources You Trust
It blows my mind that there are still people linking to tutorials that instruct people to use immediate mode in 2011.
Am I the only one somewhat annoyed by the use of "of" instead of "for"? IMHO, it should read:

"Apple's three laws for developers"
Materialism is the Only Universal Language
Some feature requests:
1) add a realtime search function OR a way to navigate by letter

2) add an input that allows me to choose 3,4,5,6 letter domains.i know that's not the focus of the site, but still. would be cool.

Also, are you getting any kind of referral fee for sending over customers? hope so!
How is this even comparable? Amazon is not forcing anybody to sell content through their channel in order to make the content available on the kindle. I don't think the issue is the amount Apple is charging, but instead that they are forcing content providers to make content available through the AppStore at the same price as elsewhere, and at the same time wanting a commission.
Ask HN: vCard utility for Gmail that auto-imports?
Thanks! This is very useful.

I also heard about .gg and .je (Guernsey and Jersey - British Crown Dependencies off of the French coast) which can be registered directly at http://www.channelisles.net/applic/application.shtml (but they handle them manually so you have to wait a few days).
Steve Jobs Is Dead (Or So They Say)
The narrative of this story is very similar to the narrative of the Apple stories.

If the customer and the business have a third-party involved, (call him the provider, the platform-owner, whatever), then there is an inherent conflict of interest. The provider only cares about his walled garden, whereas the business has to care first about the customer but secondly about having the resources to make something the customer wants. The walled-garden guy could care less about that. Now he can say that he only has the best interests of the customer in mind -- that's why his walls are so high. But in practice all he really cares about is constructing the rules such that the trade-off in general works most of the time for most people. That's a far cry from a free, open and informed market.

What's it mean? It means no pictures for Kindle periodicals, that's what it means. And it's unlikely to change any time soon. What a lame situation.

But part of this story has me perplexed. I helped my wife publish her first ebook last weekend and we didn't get any grief at all from Amazon about pictures. So e-books can be as big as you like?

I understand the issue is bandwidth, but publishing 12 ebooks for $3 bucks a year to the same guy is just the same as the guy having a yearly subscription for $36. Wonder why the difference between periodicals and regular ebooks, and I wonder at what point Amazon would start complaining about file sizes?
YouTube Offering Millions for Celebrity-Created Content
"Insiders tell Vulture that the expanding program aims to land at least twenty boldface-name curator-owners, with YouTube offering as much as $5 million per celeb-branded channel..."
We built http://tenderapp.com to handle customer support on Lighthouse. Tender quickly became a product of it's own.
[2009] - Early post on the subject: http://niebezpiecznik.pl/post/fotoradar-injection/ [Polish]

Edit: Author's original post: http://dabroz.scythe.pl/2009/10/29/ocr-injection [English]
Watson on Jeopardy Day Three: What We Learned about How Watson Thinks
Stack Overflow Rides Experts And Order To Q&A Success
Testing for -0 (negative zero) in JavaScript
Often that allocation should be free - when you do a "proper" function call you'll be increasing that pointer already, and the total size of stack-bound objects in many functions can be determined at compile time.

(Erm... I think. Need to read more...)
Pretty funny but I would have to agree these systems are likely meant as a self contained warning appliance and are not powered by a database.

The more interesting question is whether YOU would've thought to sanitize license plate input?
I'm sure the one all-encompassing corporate overlord is better than the other. Absolutely! Where do I enlist?
I think the person that said that quote is implying that things like bolt cutters should be made illegal, strangely enough.

He also wants DMCA's safe harbor provisions curtailed.
Google is the one who undercuts entire industries by making products in the field free and Apple gets the blame for charging people to get access to paying customers.

What a funny ass backwards world we live in.
Wow. Thanks for posting this! Besides being interesting, it has inspired me to go pick up a personal project I've sort of abandoned! I'm really hoping to get it working enough to do a Show HN post for some feedback. Thanks! :-)
Perlunya - Sebuah analisa keyword dan teknik seo
I've been thinking about this, and trying to come up with a solution.

The best solution I can come up with is options/stock and salary... That way creating more value DOES help them get more income, subject to the vagaries of the stock market.

Unfortunately, as wonderful as it would be for everyone to receive their exact value in return as a percentage, that's HARD... It's hard to quantify and it's hard to justify.
Calling on RoboCop to Help Revive Detroit (Funded!)
Make judgment calls in each case.

Don't like or dislike a company, that's just senseless. Rather, like or dislike what a company does. Appreciate IBM's Watson, and dislike IBM's European business dealings in the 30's and 40's. Appreciate contributions Apple has made to personal computing, disliking their control-freak attitude.

Use your brain, don't make sweeping generalizations by sweep shit under the carpet.
Apple isn't enjoying almost monopoly like status on the internet. It is a walled garden.

If you want the alternative there are plenty out there, but they are not going to be as likely to make you money.

I wonder why Apple see it fit to charge for that.
I think he's referring to TTNavigator, which is a really cool idea (and an idea I stole for my use in Cydia.mm, fwiw).
Sure, not everything can be a web app, but a lot of the subscription world can easily be ported to web app, since the content will likely be delivered in HTML.
You Want Some Advice?
"If you want some advice, you’ve probably been thinking for a while. Stop doing that, and go make something already. Stop looking for advice. Stop waiting for inspiration to strike. Stop reading stupid productivity books, business books, start-up books, business magazines (unless it’s Harvard Business Review — that’s a good one), dumb-ass-top-5-whatever blog posts, and use the common sense you’ve already got and make something. The only way you’re going to get somewhere is by going somewhere. Put your pencil on the paper and go. That’s it."

Loved this quote from my friend Erin. Too true.
yes it does, you should be able to download it from our website.
Could there be anything illegal here? They took a picture of you...
Google page translate seemed to have failed so here is the manual version of the page:

As reported by the driver, the 1994 national road safety camera mounted was interesting:
http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar-40...

The camera scans car number plates in excess of the speed, and a few dozen meters away, a special table shows the following message:
http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar2-4...

I wonder what happens when the national road 94 driven into the car
http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar3-4...

P.S. The whole reminds me of an old strip xkcd:
http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/xkcd-450...
It's just so inspiring to read this kind of stories.
We are kind of doing the same thing, bootstrap from nothing.
I wish there is more help out there for people like us.
Start-Up Chile: Ending the traditional bias against single founders
Google is great for consumers, but they are really terrible for businesses

Apple has been "terrible" for Nokia and RIM. Competition and consumer surplus and creative destruction are good, even if in the short run some businesses suffer.

The revenue stream you site is an addiction for most sites

This is somehow different from the revenue that publishers earn from Apple's app and iTunes stores?
Still up for grabs, unlike cunniling.us
> Abandoning your users and moving to a platform where there's no money to be made is a questionable proposition for producers. And a lot of users will have second thoughts about moving to a platform they perceive to be distinctly inferior just because Apple are being dicks.

It sounds like being on iOS as opposed to Android is worth money to you. That's what Apple thinks too.

Either prove them wrong or pay the piper.
>there's no money to be made

Man, I can't read this thread. There is so much hyperbole. I should have recognized the type of people this headline and article would bring out.

edit: I don't understand your claim. Your wording wasn't problematic. As I read it before and read it now, you're implying that moving to Android results in "little money to be made". That's the part that I don't really understand I guess.
If you're talking desktop, I agree, since the browser has become so pre-eminent there. But for mobile, Web apps are distinctly second-tier citizens. Just installing one on your home screen is voodoo beyond the ken of most iPhone users.
That's not how I read their ToS, they are forcing content providers to offer the same price as elsewhere.

They ban pop-up's or redirects outside.

Both of these are good for end users, and user experience. The 30% cut is only going to affect the providers, not the end users, (at least not directly). They are in turn offering a large user base to these providers, in essence acting like a distributor.

If this somehow leads to providers leaving, I'm sure that Apple will back off some of these rules.
Oh absolutely, if the problem is simple enough it's definately possible :)

Even in aerospace finite element optimisation techniques have led to some very effecient structures.

The problem is when you pass the limits of what is manufacturable and have to start breaking it up into simpler pieces joined together based on time, budget, abilities, what you know will work etc.

Also when you have to meet hundreds of requirements like having to fit lots of systems that people haven't designed yet and don't fully know what they'll need yet. It's the problem of compounding unknowns etc.

An awesome chair is definately doable :)
The classic mistake of equating bits to atoms!
I did, but it says "Currently this single sign-in feature is disabled for the domain xxx Return to taskforceapp.com. For information on how a domain administrator can enable this feature, see these instructions."

I clicked on the link to return and it says can't login. And the directions don't make much sense.
I think Bieber fans would contend the same thing.