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I don't think I've failed to realize that, in fact I specifically addressed it. But that doesn't mean that Apple can't enable power users in some fashion.

Plus, a lot of the iPhone's UI now is just ugly, usability aside. The settings menu is just painful to look at, compared to the slick menus and options in Android phones.
So, where is the solution that gives you pretty urls with HTML5 history for those who can have it, and identical urls preceeded with hashes for those who can't, in an easy-to-use plugin? Also, where is the framework/pattern that makes both styles of URL work in the absence of either technology using something like mod_rewrite?

In other words, how do we get it all, future-proofed, without so much frustration and so many debates?
I currently use LockCalendar for this (requires jailbreak, available in Cydia) and love it:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/d2ko29

There's also IntelliScreen (requires jailbreak, available in Cydia):
http://intelliborn.com/intelliscreen.html#step1
>If I deleted my digital copy that I sent to someone, would that be okay?

Ethically I believe this to be equivalent to lending a book/cd/whatever to a friend (this has been done, actually, as a protest/stunt. A guy attempted to sell an mp3 from iTunes on eBay).

>If I download something from someone, am I responsible for verifying the copyright or is it the distributors responsibility?

Distributor, generally. I feel this is similar to receipt of stolen property. In most places you are only liable if you knew it was stolen.

>If someone requests something from my computer, and my computer allows them to have it without my explicit intervention, am I responsible?

Yes, though how responsible you are is debatable. Intent is important but ignorance is rarely a successful defense.

>Am I responsible for distributing a file if someone downloads it after accessing an FTP server I setup using an anonymous account?

Why wouldn't you be?

>What if it required a password?

How is that any different? Or do you mean someone guessed the password?

Of course, most of these answers are just my opinion/speculation. Sometimes the line between "piracy" and "sharing" is blurry which I think is a huge part of the problem. There is (seemingly) no way have one without the other. If I want the ability to lend an ebook to a friend then I must also have the ability to give a copy to my friend. There are some systems in place to attempt to reconcile this, but they are either limited (you can lend it x number of times) or take away some other right (for example, it might take away the right to have a backup copy).
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If 'App Store' trademark is generic, so is Microsoft's 'Windows,' Apple argues
Well I'm a shareholder in WPEngine.com (WP hosting platform!) so yes, I should route all my WP requests I receive to them! :)
Let's hope that the Amazon App Store improves upon the horrendous searchability of the Android Market.
This sounds like the Anthropic Principle, which to me is a tautology or hasty generalization: "We're intelligent, and this makes sense to us, so this must be how intelligent beings make sense of things. QED bitches!"

The assumption is that the particular way of understanding the world that humans possess is the only intelligent way to comprehend it. First off, the way that we categorize the world is (as far as we can know) unique to us, and it is also the only way that we have to understand the universe -- it encompasses our math, science, epistemology, ontology and whatever other ways we categorize experiences.

We have no way of understanding anything that cannot be represented by this system of categorizing knowledge and experience, and that includes other incompatible systems which may in fact be superior. Nassem Taleb says that categorization is a necessary human activity, and I would agree. But it's not impossible to conceive of a worldview that is not predicated on categorization, and which could in fact be superior. It's not unthinkable also, that a being with such a worldview might use different (and possibly superior) informatics than our system, with its lists, maps and trees.

Suppose a two-dimensional being claims that his understanding of the universe is supreme and all other intelligent beings would likely use his own system of knowledge representation, manipulation and communication. It is likely that those techniques would seem feeble and impoverished to us. So why can we boldly claim -- a priori -- that all forms of intelligence we may encounter would use our systems?
You are correct. -70 is the cumulative total, so far, will rise if anyone is still reading this thread
Next challenge for Micromobs is to import HN thread to a mob. #Hackermob
Both Google and Facebook are on the hunt it seems. Google just buys Zynamics, Facebook buys Beluga.
So let's say that Google decided to repeat the event every 365 days, using the analog of a perfect 7-day week as you did above. That means that every 4 years, Google's "birthday" is going to fall one day further behind your friend's actual birthday, which is clearly incorrect. I think the correct answer, as was stated above, is to simply ask someone whether they want this to repeat annually on Feb. 28 excepting leap years OR if they can accept the 4-year cycle.
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MOST ideas are cheap. Like all rules, there are exceptions.

There are many ideas that are still here centuries later and have changed millions of lives. It's not only about execution. Even after they're well executed, we can still compare quality of ideas.

There are ideas that come from very deep thought and intuition, which make people see things they didn't know were possible. Words are also cheap, until you've written literature.
Xen was a standalone hypervisor that run under the Linux kernel. It was developed independently of Linux. Linux was a guest along for the ride.

With KVM the hypervisor is over the Linux kernel and gets to use the facilities of the host kernel. Less code, less complexity. Why wouldn't Linux kernel hackers prefer KVM over Xen? They get full control (aka the ability to get crap fixed without hounding an external party) and get to reuse code they already have to write anyway.

Preferring the KVM approach over Xen makes 100% sense to me in the long term for the Linux folks.
Oh, I see, Republicans work for corporations and Democrats don't. Have you been following campaign financing the last few election cycles? Democrats received more from corporations. They both have been bought off. Goldman Sachs gave more to Obama than anyone else. Whoever is in power acts authoritarian. Obama could have repealed the Patriot Act. He could have expelled lobbyists out of Washington. But he didn't.

Fast forward 6 years and we'll be able to point to a successful Obama presidency as well

I suggest you taper your expectations back a little. The only way Obama can be successful is if he solves the debt crisis. Clinton did a great job starting in 95 when Republicans took congress. I believe in checks and balances. 93-95, 01-07, 09-11. What do those years have in common? Single party rule. No checks on power. Huge deficits (except for TARP in '08), huge problems. Why are you so gung-ho on Democrats? Social Security, Medicare can't be solved with what they advocate. We'll end up like Greece if they don't move to the center on government spending. Republicans too!
I am very sure this does not happen because the products (especially BinNavi) are entangled in commercial licenses for 3rd party components.
Do you really believe anyone in the year 2011 thinks it means that? Words change meaning over time and there's not much you can do about it.

Does gay mean happy? or does it have some other meaning?
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Masi Oka (Hiro on Heroes and Max on Hawaii Five-O, formerly a visual effects programmer at ILM) is an example of a programmer who taught himself how to act and became a successful actor, but he didn't self-promote on the Internet. He did it the hard way (commercials, guest roles, pilots, etc).
Yep, I checked this out and created an account because of a tweet that I got. I follow some startup CEOs. Hope you don't consider this to be a "shady" comment ;-) And yes, I am a fan of micromobs; it has been useful to me. It's kindof like campfire, but better.
I didn't mean to judge you precipitously. Will now withhold judgement until Part 2 ships. :-)
This is the most aggravating part of it for me (I'm a PhD student who has stuff in the ACM library); I'm paid for by the NSF, but my understanding is that the NSF does not require the papers to be freely available. I think there may be some countries/grants that do force open the publications they funded.

The problem is systemic, and will only be changed by direct, large-scale intervention. Fortunately, the US government is really well positioned to do that. If all the NSF funded papers went away tomorrow, you can bet IEEE and ACM would change. The question is whether the government will do this, but they haven't show all that much interest so far.
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Writing interesting thins aimed at a link-rich audience which trusts you will help you build computationally visible signals of trust/authority to rank for "boring" things aimed at cash-rich audiences who do not yet know you exist.
if I was in that situation I would have likely just melted the gold and poured it into a hallowed out brick or something..
There is nothing to see unfortunately. Nice video but I don't know how you are bounding my network. Interesting idea though conceptually, but its going to be tough to explain it to the public
not sure if they're on iTunes U, but iDevice friendly videos are at http://www.archive.org/details/SICP_4_ipod.
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Congrats to my former company! I was lead devevloper of three of our products (BinNavi, BinCrowd, PDF Dissector) until 5 months ago when I was tired of the stuff we worked on and bailed out.

Curiously, we always saw HBGary as one of our main competitors. However, we were focused on tech, not shady deals. :)
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Linus wouldn't be Linus without the tantrums and smiting.
Scala wrapper around Java time (no third party libs)
Scala wrapper around standard java time libs that require no third party dependency.
I can't help myself, I have to blurt it out: http://w3fools.com/ - thus I would recommend: http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/
It's not even a logical assumption in the first place — just one that the _AAs have tried very hard to push. Look at any paid product's conversion rates and then try to say with a straight face that every illegal download is potentially a lost sale. The "potential" is extremely low, similar to how every trip to the supermarket is a potential mugging. I would guess that only one in fifty is even potentially a lost sale in any meaningful sense. (And that's not even factoring in the converse truth that some percentage of piracy actually amounts to gained sales from the pirates either paying for a later version or getting their friends to do so)

Regardless of your stance on piracy, the "illegal download ≅ lost sale" numbers are not remotely reasonable.
The purpose of treating everyone as if they had equal intelligence is not a rigorous scientific pursuit, it's about creating an environment most encouraging to learning and problem solving. Engineers are much more motivated to tackle hard problems and even work together if they believe that they can adapt to each others' differences.
Where did you get that? In my search of Apple's iOS HIG, I came across the exact opposite: Think Top Down [1], where Apple states that important information should be placed at the top "where it is most visible and easy to reach."

Can we try and not make up stuff?

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The location of the slide, I guess, is to allow people to see their lock screen wallpaper. That's my stab at it, but who knows.

[1]: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserEx...
To use an ORM well you should know how it works internally anyway. Monitor what SQL it spits out, think how that should be done optimally and see how the ORM would generate that; a lot of ORMs you can nudge in the right direction if you know how it generates the actual SQL it executes from your (limited) input.
Durham again? seriously?
This is fantastic news. I worked at IronPort prior to the Cisco acquisition, and Scott was a very effective CEO. IronPort was a significantly under-reported success story in the Valley, and a tremendous place to work. There was a huge emphasis on building out not just a great technology company, but a great company culture.

This sounds like an excellent addition to AH!
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What I find fascinating about Hedy Lamarr's patent is that it formed the basis, many decades later, for spread-spectrum communication tech used by wifi and CDMA networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Frequency-hopping_s...
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flagged. already posted on the front page.
Supreme Court: AT&T can't keep bad behavior a secret
Facebook already updates their API and policies very regularly, nothing they give an application access to can be given for granted in the long term. Especially when it deals with private content.

When your service is dependent on another, you're always at the mercy of an update that can shut down the API feature you were using, whether the intention is to kill your service or not.

In this case it seems like the goal of the website is to become a starting point for a person's browsing/searching experience, facebook and google want the same thing. If they feel threatened they could cut just stop Greplin in particular from accessing their API. It's not hard for them to update their API terms of service to make that kind of use forbidden, for instance. That kind of tactic has been used in the past.

That's why I see a lot of uncertainty in the future of that service. I'm not worried about the founder and the company, though, their most likely exit is a talent acquisition by Facebook or Google.
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Notified Pro is more of an alternative notification system, not a home screen replacement, isn't it?
Sorry, but actors don't write the scripts!
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Exaggeration definitely. But it's no secret that's what Apple does (holding back features they could already deliver for the sake of getting people to upgrade their hardware every year).

Btw, I own an iPhone and MacBook so I'm not anti-Apple.
$1/song is still pretty expensive when trying to legitimately purchase a hypothetical 16GB iPod-sized music collection.
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I imagine it takes some mighty wherewithal to so cleverly hide such important historical items under that level of pressure, what with the Nazi regime breathing down your neck and all.
They're gaining a little popularity, but most phones are still flip phones. The main reasons I've seen are that the pre-paid and free-with-plan ones are flip phones, and mobile internet is more popular, so a full built-in web browser doesn't give much advantage. Smart phones also usually don't have infra-red contact-info transfer, which frustrates a lot of people, though I don't really think it's hurt sales. They're also usually only in black and white, and lack a good place to put cell phone charms or purikura stickers, which probably kills some of their appeal.

Edit: Also, lack of Live TV is a big one for businessmen who are sports fans. Lack of a FeliCa reader might be an issue for some people, but probably not a deal breaker, since most people probably also have SuiCa, PasMo, IcoCa, or Edy cards.
You might get some idea if you convert it to annually.
There's an alternative, just click the provided link: http://challenge.greplin.com/static/nophone.html
This pain point is one of the reasons I do not buy pants or shoes online.

This is amazing execution of the idea, and I hope they get bought out for the millions they deserve! Or, if they'd prefer to grow it organically, that too!
I would've thought adopting an arbitrary standard and hoping for the best is pretty much the opposite of good design.
Site is mediaroost.com.
sudo brew install csshx
The website looks really nice and I'm guessing those who are using many vendors will find this helpful.

Will you be able to provide as detailed information about the EC2 billing as Amazon? (as an example)
With this much money you obviously don't want to be dropping the whole lot into the market at one point. If this were 2009 it would've been a great decision, but after a 2-year bull run that looks like it's petering out I'd probably opt to keep most of it in cash/bonds/money market until you have a better plan for the money.
What do you think of Zawodny and Balling's High Performance MySQL? I thought it did a really good job on optimizations for not just MySQL, but many things in common to various SQL systems.
I find your lack of parentheses disturbing. I'd personally prefer:

(b-when foo (plusp 1)
(frob foo))

These implementations also don't handle declarations correctly ;P A surprisingly tricky topic.
Ha! Interesting...thanks
> Your example of 10/400 v 10/100 implies early specialisation if that's to be a realistic scenario, which I confess I'm not a great fan of.

Young kids have interests. They change over time, but they have interests.

> Early specialisation forces pupils to close off options before they may realistically be ready to.

You assume too much.

> I believe I've illustrated though how school choice as implemented in Britain necessarily impoverishes the schools perceived as poorer

Actually, you've proposed a mechanism. Even if we assume that things always work that way (and they don't), there should be nothing keeping kids at those poorer schools, so what's the problem?

> Someone's kids have to go there

Why?

If no one wants to go there, why keep it open?

> It is not a panacea though,

Strawman.

> we should be honest in appraising its failings.

We should apply that to all schemes.
This may have been true in the 90s/early 00s, but I'm not sure if it is anymore.

During a trip to Tokyo a few years back, I got to see some of the "advanced" phones up close: big, clunky, and plastic. The majority of phones are flip, with very few smart phone users.

There is a big difference in what the Japanese want out of phones for sure though. While we're fixated on Internet access and applications to pass the time, the biggest seller of phones in Japan is the ability to watch TV through 1seg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-seg

Wikipedia has another really interesting article on cell phone culture in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture
No one is going to read a novella-length speech unless they're already into the philosophy. Got a summary?
The ACM, which is publishing an article by me, offered extensive editing, mostly to help me hit their desired tone. (The article was adapted from something I wrote outside of my academic "voice.")
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Unfortunately, there's a sizable segment of the HN crowd that foams at the mouth to practice pedantry.
They have a fantastic product. I was extremely impressed with how well it worked. To top it off, Matt seemed like a really great guy when I interviewed him.
We had built an event-based server in raw Python using epoll. It was fine, and Python is a great language. In my testing with a very early version of node, I found that node was between 4 and 10 times faster than Python.
GroupMe 2.0 (released today) uses either SMS or Push/TCP in the iPhone and Android apps.
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Yes, but you haven't really address 'why' they would do it.

> In this case it seems like the goal of the website is to become a starting point for a person's browsing/searching experience, facebook and google want the same thing.

This is your only 'why', but it's very weak. Every company wants to be the 'starting point for a persons browsing experience', but Facebook doesn't provide that, and neither does Greplin. Google does of course, but Greplin doesn't.

Your point reduces to "companies which consume APIs might compete with the companies which create them, and so might be shut down". Of course, your statement is true, but it's valueless.
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Silly Hollywood movie physics gave us The Matrix, Back to the Future, etc. Necessary evil, IMO.
If all unregulated digital distribution were piracy then
you would be correct

I was thinking about trends.

Selling digital goods is obviously flawed right now; as you said, and you are right - because copying and sharing is so damn easy to do (and human nature too).

Heck, I "share" lots of stuff myself; then I start feeling guilty and purchase some of that stuff.

It's a trend that I worry about; because I'm also in the business of selling digital goods; but I also feel that the legal frameworks have been stretched too far and that DRM is really all about artificial restrictions, not "rights", which is just wrong.

I guess on the Internet the long tail works and some authors are doing quite well because of it. But technology is so disruptive in this case that it will shake a lot of bones :) - and this situation might be comparable to the end of The Renaissance period.
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I love how all this semantic HTML police are putting the hate on JavaScript. Comparing it to Flash is a gross misrepresentation. If flash was a superior technology that easily allowed you to create a superior user experience that behaved like browser applications ought to it wouldn't be dying away. It doesn't but JavaScript and Skilled js devs can!

Why should we be forced NOT to use a technology that provides superior response and productivity than what was traditionally possible? Forcing us to live in a world with server round trips for everything just so we can say we perfectly fit within this artificial restriction as defined 20 years ago before any consideration was given to the Internet being used for more than viewing anything but linked documents?

There still exists the 'content web' suitable for browsing and navigating content! For the Wikepedia and the plethora of blogs carrying content that remains as business as usual and has no need to change.

There are other apps like that provide enhanced functionality like gmail, google maps / docs / calendar, Zoho Writer, groove shark, etc delivering a far superior experience to anyone with an internet connection and a modern browser better than any set of hyper-linked documents ever can.
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Yes! I've been wanting someone to make this product for a long time.[1] So glad y'all did it.

The execution looks amazing. I can't wait for this to be ubiquitous.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673722
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Thanks tptacek for sharing some insights!
Genius idea! I always take a stab at sizing online (I think men's foot sizes are more flexible than women's), but I still don't know if I'm a 10, a 10.5, or an 11!
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