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That could be a thought, or goal, of theirs, to push content creators to their platform instead of through Amazon and Rhapsody middle men.

Users will and won't care depending on several factors. I can imagine that hardcore Amazon Kindle users will be pissed that they have one less platform to read their books on.

The Kindle syncs books and your position in the book between devices. It's a value proposition that's hard to beat. Even if you have the same book on your iBooks I think users will get pissed that they have to search to find where they finished reading it on their other devices.
I shouldn't have run a scan of "golemtechnologies.com".
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It's one thing if Apple provides a competing service to Netflix, Hulu, Rhapsody, et al. (And may be accused on monopolism.)

The thing that boils my britches about this is that Apple DOESN'T have a competing service. When the services leave, the iPhone is left only with iBooks and iTunes, both of which are expensive and not very good.
There is a new release candidate for CPAN that sets up some very nice defaults for using CPAN:

http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1339/cpan-pm-release-candi...
Belgium beats "no-government" world record
Currently reading from ihackernews.com...
Dear anonymous, I don’t have much experience in firing people but I have read and watched quite a number of startup books and videos to understand a reoccurring theme when hiring people, especially for a startup: Make sure they fit, and don’t drag down your company. One huge red flag was how he does not fit the groups culture. His skills might suck but if he was a punching bag for other developers to throw ideas at him and in turn it helped them solve their issue, at least that’s good. From what it sounds like this guy's personality within your company is uncanny to a dead moth. I remember this chapter from Rework from 37signals: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one

Good luck and tell us what happens.
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Apple makes it pretty clear that if you are offering a service that you deploy via an iOS app, you have to offer it within app or be rejected.
Nope. Apple says that if you accept subscribers at all, you must also accept them within the app, and at the same price. Seriously.
Scratch that, loaded in just over 2 minutes:

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Get them reliable electricity, clean water, access to capital and stop propping up their corrupt governments... and give them all computers. And then we can talk about whether their music downloads are priced fairly.
>milk-or-tea-first

Ahhhhh, the one debate more divisive than emacs-or-vim.
This is why I told people to dodge dating. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171382

OK, so let's say you've got a gun to your head and must do dating:

1). You don't have to appeal to everyone or the population average. You can start appealing to outliers in terms of viral spread ("Sure, I'll RT that I'm looking for a boyfriend, why wouldn't I?") and hope they have friends in the wider population.

2). Scalable content generation, the technique for all seasons when coming from behind in SEO. "online dating" is competitive, "20-something white guys in Ogaki" is not. Local search optimization for dating is an angle, although I know it has been plumbed before quite deeply (welcome to everything about this space).

3) See the OKCupid link bait? Think you could come up with similarly juicy headlines without the data? I'm thinking the answer is "yes", since Cosmo has done it for years. Twenty Reasons Guys Don't Date Smart Women, etc. (It will spread.)

4). Find an enemy, manufacturing them if necessary. If your marketing generates an emotional response it is less likely to fall into the background. A previously successful strategy for many dating sites has been "The world and our competitors won't let X do Y but we're different and love will win out, booyah."

5). Everybody in this space plays dirty. If you can't see the bloody knives in any competitor's hands, that is only because they're buried so deep in the body of everything right and good in the world. You will stoop to their level - and then some, because incumbents hold al the cards and their sins are buried in Google backups whereas yours will be fresh in Matt Cutts' inbox. You will be dancing on the knife's edge until you get your site burned to the ground, or you will never have enough traffic for that to even matter.

Seriously, do you really want to do online dating?
Ouch.. had to bounce Apache, but not sure what caused that... other sites on the same host have had a few thousand hits in a couple hours. Maybe more traffic than expected this morning
Not only that, but you could have multiple users to begin with. Since all files are synced on save, two people couldn't be working at the same time. Well, I guess they could, but good luck editing the same file. Or even trying to commit. You could easily overwrite the other persons files without knowing it.
Yes absolutely, I'm just at work at the moment, but will send you my contact details (email + instant messenger etc) tonight, cheers :)
Perhaps not hypocrisy, but greed and unfairness, yes. It cuts out the folks that Apple doesn't make a deal with an entrenches the major players, simply for Apple to make more profit. That might not be hypocritical, but it's a shitty thing to do.
Kinda. Apple require in-app subscriptions prices to be the same or less than what the subscription costs if bought elsewhere.

A possible solution could be to offer a separately priced subscription for people who want iOS access in addition to what's normally provided, and then keep the prices consistent in-app and outside. But I'm not sure how Apple would feel about a solution like that, it would be the closest thing to an explicit Apple tax we've seen, and it directly hurts the consumer (which Apple seem to care more about than hurting developers/"app store-vendors").
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I was just joking, our site is fairly robust (if it crashes and burns it should come right back up). I just tried to purchase a paid scan, but your checkout was down. I'll try again later.
I just scanned my personal site. It came back saying 1 directory traversal problem and 1 interesting file, and that if I wanted to find out what they were, I'd have to pay. And good grief, there's a lot of text there.

To me, that just seems scammy. As in "click here for your free credit report... oh! We've found problems. Pay to see what they are!"

Looking through my web server logs I'm not quite sure what the problems are, or how you determined I had the problem. Did I maybe return an error message with a 200 status code instead of a 403 forbidden? I've got some redirects on my site, did you take the 301 as a bad sign?

Looks like you're using skipfish for the scanning engine?

Who is your target market? I could see companies using something like this to fill the box on PCI compliance, but would need a lot more control over the report (eg "get rid of that low category") and would need a lot more details about how the scan was performed in order to satisfy an auditor. People who just want to display a seal on their signup page will want something a lot more low key, and already have lower cost options.
The STL is not a third party library anymore - its part of the langauge just as much as the C++ runtime is.
A little tear in my heart.
I must use IE7 at work.
> Yet they're now threatening to make a number of their more
> popular apps economically unviable according to their
> creators.

How's that? Or are we again talking pandora and netflix there? In that case I couldn't care less: these are not available in my country, and most likely never will be.
Heck, even iTunes Music is not available, only apps.

Now imagine you are a new company just going to start selling subscriptions in iOS app.
I'd say you get a lot of convenience with this Apple offering.

As for end user, there is no loss there: just a convenient way to buy subscription with one tap.

All this sounds once again blown out of proportion, everyone is shouting without any effort to really understand what they are shouting about.
Well keep up the great work. I'd like to do something similar here in Ireland, definitely, just not sure what kind of frequency makes sense, bi-monthly or so perhaps.
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It's more of an issue with, "do they practice what they preach?" "Do they eat their own cooking?"

When people at a company don't do this, it's often a symptom. A friend of my girlfriend worked at an AT&T store. She could've gotten a huge discount on AT&T mobile? Her answer: no thanks.
Very cool. However, I don't see anything on the page that explains what I'm getting myself in to from a privacy perspective. Based on most spam laws, once I email you, we're engaged in business, so you could take liberties with that and start sending me email. This looks like a neat service, so maybe I'm ok with that, but I'd like to know up front.
We can still be disappointed even if we're not surprised.
If they won't do anything about being hurt, then the question is surely how hurt are they?
Or a seperate company/brand?

If Spotify was called Spatify on the app store, operated by a company that's owned by Spotify, their product wouldn't have to match the pricing of Spotify products on non-apple platforms... and perhaps 'Spatify' could announce a deal that allows Spotify customers to use their product for free.

Then it just comes down to whether Apple follow the rules by the letter, or apply common sense and tell Spotify not to take the piss.
Articles like these make me wish HN had a TL;DR option. Something like:

How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit

"Seeders put links in their content requesting that you visit their Adsense driven site" Click to read more...

Nice idea for my next hacking project maybe.
Too bad apple can actually do whatever they want rather than working within a codified framework. Loopholes are not going to work.
I've been interested in Langton ants for a good 8 years now, and have been playing with variants on them for a long time. Here's one of my favorites: http://pyvascript.appspot.com/Langton45

Rather than working on 90 degree turns, this does 45 degree angles, and it has a bit more complexity in the command set.

The rules are: + and - turn right and left 45 degrees, * and / turn right and left 90 degrees, ! reverses direction, . does nothing.

You can come up with some really interesting patterns, e.g. http://pyvascript.appspot.com/Langton45?command=*.%2B

Edit: Huh, I guess I never released any of that. I should port it to a modern Pyvascript and throw it up somewhere, as the version this is built against is probably going on 3 years old.
If you're wondering why the heck a civilized country like Belgium would be without a government for 249 days, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceg6NQKHd70
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if I didn't do at least some password reuse I would have a hard time writing them all down, and remembering them would be totally impossible.

There are a variety of good password vault programs out there. I keep my passwords in a KeePass 1 file on Dropbox. I can run Keepass on Windows, Linux, OS X, and my iPhone and iPad. There are a variety of low-cost and free options that are about this good or better.

Sometime, I'll be working on a Keepass compatible iPhone program that can access Dropbox directly.
Yes, they can. They're just not allowed to link to their subscription page from within the app. If they offer in-app subscription purchases the pice of that offer should be the same or lower as outside the app:

"If you would like to make a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) subscription price must be offered inside the app […]"

Some people misread this sentence as "you can't put a content app in the app store without giving money to Apple".
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Depending on what kind of security clearance you have/had, you sign some long-term (ie: for life) NDAs and other paperwork that gives the government right of refusal to allow you to publish (in any fashion) any work. Including things like your resume.
It's not something normal, regular, average citizens deal with, but for those who are trusted with highly sensitive knowledge, it's par for course.
The minute that Visa and Mastercard provide a place to sell your stuff and a fulfillment model that will be a useful comparison.
One of the benefits of this could be allowing them to drive-test private APIs in order to eventually make (or not, or alternative ones) them public eventually.
I quit my last position after a former coworker got sued by my employer for creating a very popular and profitable online game. The situation put a chill over all the whole company. And eventually I decided I couldn't continue to work for them with the constant threat of being sued should I ever leave and be successful on my own.

Software developers really need to be educated so they are not tricked into signing legal traps like this - I wish I had been. I'm not sure why invention clauses are even legal in the first place, but all it takes to avoid a nasty situation is to read the papers before you sign and refuse to sign it.
I just tried the site from my phone, and had a couple issues. First, the main report page is in flash, so I couldn't see it. That's not a big deal since I can look at the other links at the top of the page to see the results. But on these pages, the vulnerabilities are shown as a collapsed category. When I try to open them, they close back up immediately so I can't read them.

otherwise, the site looked good.
>How is that even remotely a good analogy?

Because the GPL binds you to preserve the freedom of your users, too; BSD says "do what thou wilt". Both ways have their advantages.
Ethics dictates that if the side project you are working on may be in competition with your company's products, then it would be a lot wiser to pack up and leave and pursue it. Otherwise, I don't see anything wrong with having side projects, especially if it is something you are passionate about and would add better to your bottom line.
I do around 5mpbs on dedicated servers without issue, I've peaked at 100mps without too much fuss.
It's my understanding that in the past, things have lapsed into the public domain as copyright expired. However, laws changed, and these public domain items were put back under copyright protection. I cannot remember where I read it, or under what context.

That being said, what I said was, afaik, incorrect. If something is specially put into the public domain, it's there. The things I read about weren't explicitly put into the public domain by the copyright owner. They just fell out of copyright.

My apologies.
iBooks syncs last-read-to positions for books that are on the device. It doesn't automatically sync books, though - that has to happen through iTunes.
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That only works if Apple doesn't withdraw the current version of the app from the store --- which they're entitled to do.

The EFF got a copy of last year's legalese and posted it[1][2]. Apple reserves the right to withdraw any app for any reason. (The key language is Section 8, which says that they can pull any app at any time for any reason. For good measure, section 4 says that if you don't accept new terms as they are offered by Apple, they can "suspend or terminate" your use of Apple services, including presumably the App Store itself. Section 12 reiterates. There's also language in there that says new terms won't apply retroactively, but their line here is, I think, that they're only getting more stringent about enforcement of existing terms --- and the other sections clearly state that nothing there limits their rights under section 8.)

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-progr...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/20100127_iphone_dev_agr.pdf
If you want to remove some of your self-described "ignorance" I highly recommend "Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos". It's a great primer on the origins of study of emergent behavior in chaotic systems, particularly highlighting the work of Chris Langton, Stuart Kaufman, the Santa Fe Institute and several others. GREAT read.
"They're stealing our jaerbs!"

I ran the numbers, assuming a work force of waves hands 150 million, a 4 million turnover represents 2.666% So if we apply that annually, the chance that you will keep your job each year is only 72.3% (NB: if you're going to tell me my math is wrong (a) don't bother and (b) you need to take into account that some people will lose more than one job in a year)

That might not seem too bad, but take a two year time span, and it looks more like only 52.3% of having continuous employment with a single employer.

However, even leaving aside the issue of calculating the size of the job seekers market (e.g. some people will have given up and not even register anymore), it doesn't take into account people leaving the job market due to retirement, people leaving the job market for other miscellaneous reasons (births, deaths, moving overseas) and people entering the job market for the first time or re-entering.

It just seems like a gross over-simplification to take only these two numbers in isolation, without even providing context.
> I'd say you get a lot of convenience with this Apple offering

Question is, is that convenience worth 30%? I'd say most companies wouldn't think so.
I agree. It was unnecessarily hostile. Seems like someone trying to establish his blogging brand.
"Are you sure applicants aren't failing because the application problem for the intrusive stack is written in a confusing manner?"

I don't know, its very possible. I found the application problem very easy to understand and writing an intrusive stack is really easy, so unless I'm very disconnected from the "average applicant", who apparently 1) isn't very good at C++ and 2) doesn't know how to implement common data structures, the problem must be with the application.
Take a look at Cloudflare for helping to take some of the load off of the site. Works great.
Seems like a really neat service. In the XforY tradition, a TripIt for your Amazon orders.

One quick layout suggestion: Your #content div is currently set to 914px, and on Firefox, that's dropping Step 3 to a lower line. If you increase that to 915px, it lifts up to be on the same line as the first 2 steps.
Looks like your site got Hackernews-ed.
>What's great about Perl is that you are forced to use very few of these modules

That sort of kills the claim that perl is great because of the size of CPAN, no?
I suppose if we got rid of all the pesky technology going around we could all go back to subsistence farming or better yet hunting and gathering and then we'd have pretty much 100% employment. Would that make the wsj happy?
I stand corrected, it's more yucky than I imagined. I can imagine what's going through their minds doing this, but this is just plain stealing.. they want to drive off any one that sells products that can potentially compete with them (kindle vs ibooks?), but damn, again they're killing off everyone with a bazooka, again. It's like the dev license change to kill off flash apps that ended up hitting almost every top app vendor out there.

They might back down from this like they did for the dev license changes, but this habit of always changing the rules in the middle of the game regardless of who gets hit is really getting old.
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Today I was speaking with a friend of mine about how the 30% thing can create huge problems where there are small margins.

However my friend replied that after all we are not in the condition we were with Microsoft in the OS field, and that there is a lot of space for the market to fix that.

That is, if really there is not enough margin, a lot of cool things will start happening only on Android, WP7, and so forth. For the users this will start to be a disadvantage, as Apple can't get everything right. For instance Kindle is cooler than iBooks.

So there are really chances that this time the market will fix it.
Can better data analysis improve healthcare?
The obvious long term result is Spotify, Last.fm, Netflix etc are going to dump apple. Then a new company will resell Last.fm content at a 40% markup to sidestep the apple rules. Bad PR is then going to force apple to rethink their stance.

However, I expect Apple is going to offer "deals" to the major players.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I guess I need to work on my architecture, it's not holding up well with the HN load :)
That's probably part of the plan. If they had started at 15% there would be the same complaints. They would have to back it down to 10% to appease people. If they start at 30% they can back it down to 15% as a public act of concession. It would not surprise me at all if they selling this to major players as an opportunity to raise their prices and make more money for themselves in the process. If Apple wants 15% prices will go up 20%
There were confident they could maintain a free version; they tried (really hard, I might add) to make the freemium business model work with Reflector, but in the end, they just couldn't.

BTW, have you ever considered that if Red Gate didn't buy Reflector from Lutz, he might've stopped maintaining it for free on into perpetuity? That at some point, he might've realized that he was giving away something that people found extraordinarily useful, and might have tried to monetize it himself? What if, 2-3 years ago, we were instead reading a blog post from Lutz saying that he was going to start charging $200/license for Reflector, effective immediately? Would you still be so morally outraged? If not, why?
Resolving dropbox conflicts is not easier. Price is free only if you don't use dropbox beyond the 2 gigs. Putting a Linux wall plug in your house is close to free.
Minor.....but in your About page, the "Get listed..." and "Search for...." buttons would look better if they were vertically aligned.
I am using Chrome on Windows.
HN doesn't have private message functionality and you don't seem to have any contact details in your profile.

Is there any other way of contacting you? =)
I have to admit I didn't test with mobile devices for launch, trying to get it out the door. What phone are you using? iPhone/Android/Windows? I'll work on the expand/collapse JavaScript for phones
Exactly....for all this FUD about licensing costs, if that's the difference between make or break, or affects your profitability in a major way, then you have a lot bigger problems than your licensing cost.
That's really cool. At times it looks like a spider spinning a web. Does it ever reach a state where the behavior becomes constant?
Are you speaking morally? From my understanding the warranty disclaimer in many licenses (GPL, BSD, MIT) does exempt you from responsibility...
The fact that you are correct is laughable in this age of GPUs commonly having 512mb+ of dedicated RAM.

Think what the latest game engines can do at 60fps, why oh why do our browsers still sweat over a few alpha channels in 2011?

EDIT: My galaxy S phone runs Quake 3 at 60fps, flawlessly. MY PHONE RUNS QUAKE 3! Why can't my browser do alpha blending at more than 10fps?
You know, just putting co-founder in the title doesn't actually explain that he's not with the company anymore... it just means founded it with someone else (unless co-founder means someone who founded a company with someone and then left? could be my bad english failing me..)
There are several apps in the appstore-- I have four of them myself, and a couple of them allow comments and points. The one I use most often is the one by Michael Grinich, but YMMV.

The trick is to search for Hacker News (with the space in between the words).
Yep, we're .NET through-and-through. Our main product is written in C#/F# and is a tool for .NET developers, and our website is built on the WISA stack.
Yeah, but then Spotify users wouldn't find Spatify in the app store.
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