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I really like the Blackberry strategy. The android application framework will be adopted to take advantage of the large app pool. Their new OS for playbook and phones going forward will be their proprietary qnx kernel and web browser along with their own app store with only approved android apps.

They can control the experience and the app store to cut down on the crap apps and provide a more seamless interface.

Rim might just turn out to be the Apple of the android world. Something both samsung and motorola tried but imo failed miserably.

This news seems like a stepping stone in that direction.

For the people saying its a bad idea for RIM to increase the number of people you can chat with on bbm i just dont see how this is a bad thing no matter how u spin it. If someone i need to talk to decides to go with an iPhone or Android phone then i might think about switching too since i can't bbm them anymore.
When I was in high school we had a cat that was, shall we say, not small. My cousin was staying the night (taking my bedroom) saw the cat laying on her mat. She said "Wow, your cat is really fat". Claws and teeth suddenly displayed with much hissing. it was quite a fast reaction. I grabbed the cat before any harm could be done.

That night as I sat on the couch reading, the cat walked past with that "I am going to do some damage" crouch. Walked into my room (where she never really went at night), and proceeded to "play" on top my cousin. Retrieved cat was still pretty ticked.
Testing Backbone applications with Jasmine and Sinon
Agree. It's hard to imagine someone is going to be a great programmer if they've never given any hobbyist or intro coding a shot.
Timid people can have killer business instincts. Don't let his outward demeanor fool you.
Open source Arduino based USB/MIDI foot controller
Clickable http://www.makeusdate.com
Android malicious app list
This also works well as a baby namer.
Sorry, meant to upvote, not down.
For those who don't know - Daredevil is a comic book character who is blind but has trained his other senses to compensate.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(Marvel_Comics)

Not an amazing contribution to the thread but relevant and hardly worthy of punishing with downvotes.
This is what prolog was made for. You might have good luck with googling "constraint-based programming"
Interesting, but I'm curious how big their market actually is. Also, it seems like their price point is a bit low and nearly unsustainable given the numbers in the article. If Artsicle buys an original piece for $1500 and rents it out for $50 a month, that piece needs to be actively circulated for 30 months before they see a profit on it. An unpopular piece may never become profitable, meaning Artsicle is stuck with upkeep and storage costs for an expensive mistake.

Let's contrast this with Netflix. Assume that Netflix pays an average of $15 for each DVD they hold (probably on the high end). Also, assume that each member pays an average of $12 a month for rental privileges, and that each member holds a DVD out for an average of 3 days. Each member's "rental" costs them $1.20 on average. This means that each DVD Netflix buys becomes profitable after 13 rentals, or just over a month. If a DVD never becomes popular enough to be profitable, Netflix is just on the hook for $15 plus negligible storage costs in case someone decides to rent it down the road.

tl; dr - What works for Netflix might not translate away from the DVD world.
I'm thinking Google might be really interested in this tech...
Parallel Tetris
Are you serious?

Sony and Nintendo burn and load their software onto cartridges or discs .. they create stock, they package stock, they store stock, they move stock - they sell stock. These are real world (physical) costs associated with production and distribution.

Comparing Apple or Google to one of these suppliers is ridiculous because Apple don't use physical media for their software.

You made this comparison - I told you that steam would be a better (not perfect) comparison - because, like Apple and Google .. they sell via a download mechanism.
The House (Congress) is working on a new Visa class for Entrepreneurs that want to start businesses in the US. Sadly I don't think it'll pass in time for you.
"Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster," he writes. "Pain is part of the price of freedom."

Pain is part of the price of freedom. That's a truth that could use to be applied more widely.
Probably not much at all. Toxoplasmosis wouldn't explain a sex-biased result. Additionally there's no good evidence that the parasite affects human cognition.

Something much more simple is likely going on. In all likelihood cats are more like brood parasites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite).

They're about the same size as a human infant, have faces with juvenile features (i.e. are "cute") and mine wakes me up at 2 hour intervals at night asking for food.

Basically they're furry babies.
In some sense the difference between A & B don't matter. Probably the real question is if the consumer is using the product. Lets imagine I'm Garmin and someone comes and copies my GPS code, puts it on a device and then copies all of my map data. And then goes on to use that for their fleet car service. Now its possible that the consumer never would have bought the actual Garmin product, but there's really no good way of knowing. But if they're using it regularly I almost feel like it doesn't matter. It seems like (IANAL) that quasi-contracts should come into play here.

The fundamental problem I have with (C) being larger than (B) is that if it were true why don't more major companies know about? For example, if (C) were true, wouldn't MS remove all forms of copy protection from its product? No license keys period. You just pay money and get a link, but a link that anyone can use. And they would, accordingly make more money than what they're doing now.

I think what it probably looks like is (A) >> (B) >> (C)
Yes. The whole pretense that Steve Jobs' "reality distortion field" is somehow remarkable is one of the weirder and lazier tropes of tech journalism.
Quite a large one, I'd imagine. The Nook and Kindle are a pretty far cry from the iPad in terms of capability. To me it seems like it's a very close parallel to a smart phone vs. a feature phone.
Implying that the individual's browser is not modern might sound offensive. Lots of people aren't allowed to control which browser or which version they use at work.

I would rephrase it as a feature thing to make it more objective. "You appear to be running IE6 which doesn't support X, so you'll miss out on feature Y of this site. To experience Y, please either upgrade your browser or try Chrome/Firefox or Safari" might be a bit more useful to the user.
Technology Talent Poaching to Get More Aggressive in 2011
Since when is it not okay for a company the emphasize the pluses over the competition and leave out what's not so good. This is common practice.

If you want a full comparison, you have to do it yourself or use independent tests. I always rely on my own tests, if possible.

Mr. Job's keynotes are rhetorically first class and most people can't wait to get hands on the products after they have seen the show. This is no reality distortion, this is perfect marketing.
A little bit of it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283693
I don't know why you got downvoted, but I'll say that as someone in this sort of a position as well, this discussion is very informative about what skills and character traits I should focus on.

Same for PG's essays. HN is a chance to grasp great hacker/entrepreneur ideals that I can tune myself to while off of HN.
If There's a Bubble, Are Twittering Journos Complicitly Fueling It?
I guess iPad 1 users will have to buy an iPad 2 if they want the ergonomic problem fixing then ...
Dead Island: how the gameplay stacks up to must-see trailer
sw007 - there are hundreds of millions of people on FB - plenty of market share to work with. The app itself is viral in nature - get your friends using it. IF it is GOOD, it will spread naturally. No reason to give up.
Ask HN: Best way to use pre-launch email signups strategy?
I've been working full time on my startup SpotHero since September. We put up a splash page to collect email addresses as the application is being built out.

I've collected a couple hundred email signups with my startup http://spothero.com Currently, the "confirmation for an email submission" is on the website and they do not get a follow up email. What is appropriate to send out before it becomes "spam"? There are a ton of things I can do with the email signup list, but I don't want to put people off.
Think Jeopardy’s Watson was intelligent? Check out Eventbrite’s A.I.
Funny, but this point is actually quite interesting since it's an example of inter-species reciprocity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(evolution)
> I mean, last year BCC essentially added twenty full time teachers to the US just by preventing people with masters degrees from preparing for class by cutting construction paper with scissors and then writing on the construction paper with markers for more than an hour at a time.

I love the description and love your HN contributions as much as anyone, but that sounds just a wee bit inflated. I would think BCC purchasers more likely to use the hours saved as leisure rather than as additional professionally productive time. You also dismiss the possibility of these teachers finding another satisfactory program in BCC's hypothetical absence.

(Unless you've already factored out those factors before you arrive at the "20 full time" figure. Then please ignore me.)
Markus isn't saying "I think piracy is great and you should all do it" he's saying it exists and you just have to deal with it.

This is kind of where I always stood (I don't pirate personally, though).

If you're selling some intellectual property, you can sell a bazillion copies with almost no production costs. You produce once and then copy for (almost) free.

Now that everyone has the ability to copy, that massive advantage is somewhat tempered. It isn't quite the wild west, which is good. If piracy was easy and convenient it would eviscerate sales. Most people can't figure out or don't bother with piracy and blatant piracy is legally squashed (in the developed world, at least).

There's not much you can do but accept it as a cost of doing business and soldier on.
I like how simple this is, but I find the branding a bit off. Nothing is memorable about fiesta.cc, and a .cc domain tells me you may not be serious enough about your business to invest in a better domain.
There are 500M+ people on facebook. I doubt even 1% have even heard of crush notifier. Stop the pity party and get to marketing!
In that case, that'll be $18.95 ;)
HTML5 Canvas Text blur with EaselJS
This shows how desperate RIM is getting. I love my BB and the BBM service (for all the reasons below) and this a challenging business problem to solve. They've tried to combat their loss of market share with products (ie. Torch, Playbook) but that hasn't been doing well. They're losing enterprise customers to Apple so the last straw is extrapolating a service that BB users love. I sincerely hope this works but I'm not expecting that it will.
I don't think this is really a power players type of game. I find myself wanting to be sometimes, because that's what I am used to. I find myself letting go of that mentality the more I play.
Oh man, I used to have the exact same phone line fights with my dad. A friend of mine had two phone lines at his house, and was the object of great and furious envy. I'd all but forgotten the days when an internet connection was a special treat.
So you're saying the iPad has sold more than 90% of all devices that are like iPads? Seems verging on tautological to me.
your comment posted simultaneously with mine. completely agree. looks like there is a consensus sw007! get to it!
This has been happening for quite some time. One of the earnings call last year was more of Android-bashing than a talk about Apple's successes.

EDIT: I believe it was Steve doing the talk back then too.
Show HN: My HN November App (Quotiac) is finished. Better late than never?
Back in October, the "HN Make November Launch an App Month" discussion was started and it sounded like a great opportunity, so I joined the Facebook group and decided to build my take on an iOS version of the classic Quotefalls puzzle game, thinking I would learn a ton and it would be a great way to get my feet wet with making, marketing, and managing my own software. A week before the group presentation (end of Nov.), I took my project off the project list because I was nowhere near finished. One of the many great things I’ve learned in all this is how easy it is to justify all the feature creep that bloated the design for my original MVP. Every time I decided to include a new, major chunk of functionality in the first version of my app, I convinced myself that it had to be in there otherwise it would make the wrong first impression and people would never give it another try. I still think that’s partially true, but only now that the first version is finished and in the wild am I’m realizing the incredible value of early feedback. It’s still early, but my early metrics show people aren’t really playing it and, if it turns that people don’t find the game as fun as I do (or at all), then sticking with the original, lean design for the MVP would have at least allowed me to recognize that early on and stop there rather than spend another three months tacking on all the single player and multiplayer functionality.

But I’m obviously still seeking feedback and I would love to hear what you all think, since HN is what got me started down this road. Specifically, I’d like your feedback on the tutorial. Does it explain how to play the game? Is it a roadblock? Are there any other aspects of the game that need to be explained better? And most importantly, is the game any fun? Brutal honestly is happily accepted!

The game is called Quotiac and it’s available for free on the App Store. I even added a puzzle pack for the HN community, it’s called “The Hack Pack” and I think you’ll all enjoy puzzle #9 especially (http://quotiac.com/images/puzzle9.png).

Here’s a link to the app,
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotiac/id400583719?mt=8

Thanks gang, I hope you like it.
Ask PG: Please delete my account?
Or is there a hidden feature somewhere?
EaselJS v0.3.2 Released
When investors treat us like toys
Perhaps I wasn't clear... it's not a fault at all, in fact MongoDB is behaving exactly how you'd expect and hope when the dataset gets too large. I just couldn't find anything out there to confirm this :)
Thanks for the feedback! I was thinking of .cc as a feature, designed to evoke the act of CC'ing an address to create a list. Wasn't a decision made due to lack of seriousness or to cut costs, but maybe still needs rethinking if the CC connection isn't obvious...
How did anyone get "small" from that? Sounded pretty clear to me. I'm a native English speaker, and do not speak or understand any other languages.
Speaking of pedantry, here's my obligatory response where I say Apples and Oranges can in fact be compared http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-...
I remember seeing the difference engine as a child on a trip to the science museum. I was awestruck at the time, both by the thing itself and by the fact that nobody had bothered to make the upgraded version! even when they clearly recognised its importance enough to put bits of it in a museum.

Thanks jgc! Can't wait to go back there and see the whole analytical engine in its full glory.

One thing: plan28.org is on the ever-growing list of websites that have left the html5 boilerplate hot pink text selection color directive in their stylesheets. Doesn't really go with the rest of the aesthetic. It seems that I now see several sites each day with this left in there, its most amusing.
Cheers guys. I have been hammering Facebook - I have sent a message to 268 people, including my ex (brave move!) and around 40 of my friends have updated their status with it. I guess my concern is when they stop updating their status how do I reach out to the rest of the 500 million on facebook! I will continue to annoy my friends though and keep hammering them until all of them are on it
How much stupidity do you think is involved when billions of dollars are on the line?
Hasn't the WhatWG done a lot of work trying to formalize the workings of ContentEditable in order to include it in the HTML5 spec?
Have you actually used that editor in a project?

I ask, because I tried to once. After a bunch of unsuccessful shoehorning, and marveling at how they could write an entire megabyte of javascript and still not end up with a working editor, I gave up and rolled my own.

It actually made diving into ContentEditable seem like the less painful choice.
WP7 is under-rated. I've seen more than a few in non-developer hands.
When will our Martian future get here?
It's been standard practice forever for magazines to date themselves anywhere from one to twelve weeks in the future from the calendar date of physical sale. Cars too, unless you claim that you can't buy a 2012 model car in July 2011 (hint: you can.)

Are you just complaining about the cover date or do you know something else about the article's origins?
What is this "predecessor to RFID technology" business scattered all over the place in this article? RFIDs have a set, small amount of data that can be read off of them, while this is a remotely-powered audio transmitter.
This article isn't written by Neal Gaiman, but by Sudara Williams, one of the founders of Ramen Music.
Very clever but I never put the act of CC'ing and .cc together. Not sure others will either so I have to agree with the original commenter.

It's really too bad that domain extensions matter at all in how the service is perceived.
You said "they make a lot of their money as capital gains which are taxed at a rate" and I said their effective tax rate of 32%, which is higher than yours, includes capital gains taxes.

You can make a strong case that corporate taxes are a tax on consumers, but those are only 1/6 of individual taxes, and even if all of it was passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, you're spreading it out over the entire economy. I highly doubt it pushes your effective federal rate above 32%!

The argument that corporate taxes aren't paid by shareholders is not a justification to raise rates on the super rich, it's a justification to make sure all that tax revenue comes from shareholders. You could lower the corporate rate and increase capital gains, I suppose, but there's no excuse that much of the world has lower corporate tax rates, because it's an inefficient tax - a tax that the poor are partially paying!
The only component of student behavior the predictor will not account for is whatever component of behavioral factors which are uncorrelated with SES, but are correlated with the distribution of students between classes. I.e., there will need to be a systematic reason why rich white kids who are more poorly behaved than the average rich white kid go to classroom 101 but not classroom 201.

The root cause is that they share a classroom with other students who are misbehaving. To oversimplify wildly, take 4 demographically matched classes:

1) A class with some disruptive students , with a bad teacher : outcome - bad

2) A class with entirely generally well-behaved students, with a bad teacher : outcome - not so good

3) A class with some disruptive students, with a good teacher: outcome - not so good

4) A class with entirely generally well-behaved students, with a good teacher : outcome - good

How do you distinguish between classes 2 and 3?
Invented by Leo Theremin, no less.
Somebody rebutted the points in one of the comments: none of the dual-core are really shipping over 100 000 a month (threshold for volume considering iPad ships 1,000,000 per month); Samsung admitted miscalculating their end-sales; iPad 2 has some intense minitiarisation, which as with other 'features/improvements' doesn't come free; Apple bore the entire cost of developing the OS themselves; Kindles, Nooks etc. aren't tablets. Not sure if his/her points were sound, just reporting them.
Unfortunately while low pay will rule out great programmers, great pay doesn't necessarily lead to great programmers, just people who can convince others they are great programmers.
Kickstarter is a great platform for sales and marketing once you've got a functional and scalable prototype. It's not a great place to raise exploratory / research funding.

If you look at the history of Kickstarter's most successful projects, they tend to resemble pre-sales more than "donations." There's usually a product delivered at X level of individual funding, and 90% of the funding comes in at X level.

This model is fantastic for launching new products that are ready to go upon receipt of funding. It's not as successful for raising money for R&D.
Just emphasizing is not a big deal. Giving numbers that are outright wrong is a problem.

This is common practice.

"Everyone does that" is no excuse.
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You've misunderstood.

There were 47 stories. 31 (65%) were by women.

TechMeme highlighted 6. 1 was by women, 16%.

Google's front page had 4/9 women. (44%) Bing's front page had 5/10. (50%)
Doesn't that thinking discourage the creation of consumer software? Just because someone isn't making money off of my software doesn't make it ok for them to have it for free.
Right, makes sense and experimenting with different systems is the only sane way to make a solid idea about the different solutions... instead of asking on twitter what NoSQL database to use ;)

Btw it's worth noting that there are on-disk databases that will behave pathologically in scenarios where the available memory starts to get seriously smaller than dataset. For instance I saw instances of MySQL that once the data set size reached a given threshold the performance started degradating exponentially. This can probably be avoided.
First Look at Scrivener for Linux
Websense blocks it under the category "Violence".
I'd argue that the commercial Internet is too young to be regulated. Regulation is a reactive force and there really hasn't been much to react to, yet. Sure there's issues with spam and porn, but neither of those industries are heavily regulated to begin with.
There seems to be a problem with the encoding:

Hi, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gabriel_Rodr=EDguez_Alberich?=! Choose a password to use for fiesta.cc:
>> Yeah, the other nice thing about this compared to librelist is that you can use any list name you want without worrying about conflicts (since lists are tied to the sender's address).

And that's how clever software is built.
Yes, we use Aloha. It is a bit big now, mostly because it depends on ExtJS. But that is bound to change: http://aloha-editor.org/wiki/Migration_to_jQuery_UI
I agree that it seems negative and I'd rather he didn't do it, but I can see why he does. There are plenty of even less accurate commentators who are prepared to make analyses of the situation that are unfavorable to Apple. Most people don't take the time to critically analyze the 'news' they hear and are actually influenced by this stuff. Apple needs to at least state their viewpoint so that it is out there alongside the criticism, and maybe it's better for it to come in this form than in their marketing materials.
I actually see his assertiveness as a sign of how much Jobs respects the potential of his competitors and the ruthlessness with which the market will walk away from his company's products if he doesn't sell, and just how much obligation he has to employees who sacrifice so much to make it look like magic.