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TwitPic makes $1,600 every time Charlie Sheen tweets an image
I was under impression that iOS apps are pretty often just HTML5 applications packed in iOS app format.

Typical native iOS apps are not like that. They are written in Objective-C against the CocoaTouch framework and are compiled down to native code.

You do get apps in the appstore that are written in html/javascript but even those will come with any extra resources they have shipped as part of the app itself.

If you're doing a purely web-based app that is meant to be installed directly from a web site, you can, as you say, instruct the browser to cache resources for offline use. However I'm not sure if there's a limit to the amount of resources that can be cached. Presumably there will be some kind of limit and games (which are heavy on graphics and sound) may easily cross that limit.
Why everyone in a startup (incl. business people) should code
Why is it always cannabis and psychosis? How about a longitudinal study on cannabis and creativity?
I think the point is the idealized magazine "athletic" body has nothing to do with reality.
The issue to your assertions is this: RedHat still uses patch stacks internally (that much is reported by RH engineers). It simply is not feasible to work on the kernel without patch stacks, unless you're OK with throwing it all away from one kernel to the next.

The difference is that previously, as just about everybody else, they provided a stock kernel and their patch stacks which got applied on top of it locally.

Now, unless you have a redhat support account, you only get the patched kernel, not the original one, not the patches. The patches are still there but applied on their side before distribution, it's actually more work for them to do it the new way, not less. And it generates exponentially more work for everybody else.
I think older workers are less likely to be fooled by "cool toys", but all geeks want a system that they can be productive on.

As a Python programmer, I care more about hard drive speed and a nice monitor, but if I had to compile C++ I would kill for a faster CPU, and more RAM.

Some things boost moral and make workers more productive, so the employer benefits twice.
This isn't about that.

A few of the guys on the 99 team are from New Zealand and their friends and family have been affected by this. It's a pretty big deal for us.
You rich folks in the 90s.. all my computer could run was DOS so I used the then-popular KA9Q by Phil Karn. If anyone wants to start a donation drive for Phil... ;-)
This is so awesome. Going to use this to populate the required "comments" for my CS labs.
Great idea, saves my time! Do not forget to switch on your scheduler to post jobs on twitter regularly
Well, there is a funny and sad at the same time case: cameras. My impression is that for a large portion of population the only thing that matters is megapixels.
Ask HN: Review my startup's teaser page, http://loqize.me
loqize.me launched the teaser page yesterday. It's our first venture.

People might start calling us the "Swiss Hipster" but just be clear that we started working on loqize.me in our spare time about 1 year ago and way before Hipster was all over TC! loqize.me is bootstrapped by me with some other friends in Zurich, Switzerland.

The teaser page is at http://loqize.me/

Thanks for the feedback HN!
Ask HN: Review my startup's 3 min. screencast, http://vimeo.com/16147939
This is an early version (4 months ago) of what people might call the "Swiss Hipster" but just to be clear: my friends and I started working on loqize.me in our spare time about 1 year ago and way before Hipster was all over TC. We are not your typical European startup clone.

What do you think about this 3min screencast? http://vimeo.com/16147939
Turn up your speakers.

Thanks for the feedback HN!
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Isn't this still vaporware for at least another week? Or did I miss seeing an announcement since this news:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/adobe-flash-102-will...

To an early adopter, nothing is more beautiful than a paper description of an imaginary product. Imaginary products don't consume power, for example.
Most sports magazines promote very unhealthy body shapes. And often they don't report on important athletes because they don't look good. That's why I cancelled my Runner's World subscription decades ago. Once in a while I get a glimpse of their new covers and they seem to be getting worse. Like that cover "the raise of the skirts." It's more about fashion than sports.
Most of the movies filmed in that era are too slow for the current taste.
Ask HN: How to identify promising entry-level coders?
I've seen some discussion here about how few opportunities there are for entry-level coders. From a hiring perspective, it makes sense: how do you know if someone will do well unless they have a record of doing well?

I'm curious: if you had a small budget to hire a completely inexperienced coder, and the freedom to train them a bit and give them time to study, how would you identify good candidates? What kinds of tasks might you give them where they could become useful in the first month or two?

I'm not talking about CS grads, but someone who's genuinely never coded but is smart and wants to learn.
Basketball, hands down. Tall, slim, muscular.
That's not an uncommon experience: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk//2011/02/28/why-we-skipped-xen
Thank you 99designs! Very generous.

I live 20km west of Christchurch city and was fortunate to escape largely unaffected. My heart goes out to those that have lost Family, Friends, Homes and Businesses. The last week has been a surreal experience for myself and everyone here.

It is a case of the haves and the have nots at the moment. There are still 20,000 homes without electricity tonight and 30% of the city remains without water and sewer. It's an incredibly weird and helpless feeling with many suburbs getting back to (relative) normality while other suburbs towards the east have been devastated. Everyone is on edge, each aftershock brings back memories of Tuesdays quake and for a split second everyone wonders if it could be another big one.

From my perspective it has been fascinating watching the web and social media play a key role following the disaster. Immediately after the earthquake the news spread fast via twitter as you would expect. Photos and youtube videos of the carnage were being broadcast around the world within minutes. It has been described as one of the most documented disasters in history. You can look back at the first tweets using google realtime search http://goo.gl/40djD

Txt messages and Facebook were the two best ways to immediately check on family and friends, I can't imagine what it would have been like before these services. Knowing that your loved ones are ok within minutes is incredibly relieving. I could instantly inform my friends from all around the world that I was ok with a quick status update. And for those without internet access, their Friends who had made contact could post on that persons wall letting everyone know that they were ok.

Facebook Groups have been a great tool to inform and mobilise various volunteer groups. Canterbury universities student volunteer army is the best example. Thousands of students were mobilsed through facebook and they have been helping to clear silt away from properties. Silt is a fine sand that bubbles out of the ground as a result of liquefaction. http://www.facebook.com/StudentVolunteerArmy

New Zealand developers have also volunteered their support with a number of excellent websites popping up in the days following the quake.

http://www.quakeescape.org.nz
http://www.trademe.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake-support
http://eq.org.nz
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/christchurch_earthquake...

Also worth mentioning, a group of New Zealand developers have launched http://www.appappeal.co.nz to raise funds. I'm sure your support and tweets would be greatly appreciated.

It's late here, Hopefully I'll do a more comprehensive (and edited) blog post at a later date. Thanks for your support.
wow. I am quite blown away by unwarranted cynicism like this :/

Littlecosm is a twitter client in that, if you want to, you can tweet from it. Users only tweet from Littlecosm if they type in text and hit a "tweet" button, in exactly the same way they use any other client.

The game encourages you to tweet about it from time to time when you achieve something new in the game (of course, and so does every blog post and new web2.0 app out there!) but you are entirely, 100% free to not do that.
Is that the case?

"Funding: The EDSP study is funded by grants of the German Ministry of Research, Education and Technology (01EB9405/6 and 01EB9901/6) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and this paper is part of NIH grant RO1DA016977-01, PL.
Competing interests: All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisation that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work."
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Thanks! I couldn't figure out how to donate to an email address just by navigating around PayPal's site, and without signing up, but that button allows me to do it directly.

Quick note, it defaults to AUD, not USD, but the exchange rate is almost 1:1, so it doesn't make a huge difference.
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I like this one :-)
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Let's not forget about the AAA adventure game, Heavy Rain.
For men my vote is on decathlon. Not sure about women though.
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Not very. Most photos are taken from some angle (it's easier to reorient a satellite than to reposition its orbit). Course, you get the most quality when shooting close to straight down.
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I wouldn't call it accurate.

Generally there are two major providers in a area that have saturation marketing.

Then you have CLECs and independent ISPs. They tend to focus on direct sales to business so the public isn't as aware of their existence. Typically you'll have 3-5 of these in a market.

After that you have the mobile data providers (Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, Cricket, Clearwire).
That's not necessarily bad. As long it's credit for durable goods not experiencing bubbled up prices. There's good and bad leverage. Good leverage is essential to develop a healthy economy.
Is it a Markov chain generator using word fragments from analysis of a large Java corpus?
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ATL0 was a great command that muted the modem so that your parents couldn't hear that you were dialing up. :-)

Oh wow, now I feel old.
None of the html attribute values are quoted either.
sorry, but from scratch (no apache, no mysql, no php) to running 2 php/mysql sites in different virtual hosts takes less than 10 minutes on a modern ubuntu box (and probably most of the time will be spent configuring the site, not the servers). plus, i don't want to run a php -something in a shell each time i want to test something. also, while modern ORM's abstract away most of the database , I still wouldn't use sqlite on the dev machine for a site which will run on mysql in production
Edit: The link that jacques_chester posted has a donate button, that solved it for me.
I built a twitter game last year. It was a scrabble style word point game amongst friends. It got terrible reviews here and I abandoned it.

I still think there is a lot of opportunity to make twitter gaming a success.
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Here is a campaign I set up today for this cause

http://vinatta.vinattaengine.com/Email/EmailInvite?campaignK...

It might help to get the message out to a wider audience.

Shameless plug: This is a part of my Internet Startup. You can opt in to have your name (or alias) published.
I look forward to the full version (starting at DOS 1.0 and with http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm)
You hear people often about "swimmer's bodies": broad shoulders and narrow waist (V-shape), long legs and arms, not too low body fat percentage, medium amount of mass, toned & elongated muscles.

Also ancient pentathletes (modern day decathletes). Aristotle in Rhetoric: "a body capable of enduring all efforts, either of the racecourse or of bodily strength...This is why the athletes in the pentathlon are most beautiful"
I saw a line once, "hire for attitude, train for skill." I think this is dead on. There are people on HN who have picked up coding in 6 months because they were really committed and really wanted to learn.

I think the ideal candidate will have broad interests and experience, be passionate about achieving excellence/mastery in their interests, and show some aptitude at logical thinking.

Ask them what they like to do. If they can talk intelligently about half a dozen hobbies and show that they've achieved excellence (or at least intently pursued it) in those fields, then they'll probably be able (and willing) to do the same thing with programming. If they like to watch TV and play video games to the exclusion of all creative output, then they probably are of no use to you.

Ask for references. Talk to the references and ask about what the candidate has done to impress them. If the reference says they're a good kid and will do well, that's not much use. If the reference says they once single-handedly cooked a meal for 150 people in one day, then it probably doesn't matter that they don't know anything about coding yet. They obviously know how to dedicate themselves to a task.

Disclaimer: I have never been in a position to hire anyone.
In fact, one thing I have noticed is that the people who I consider to be good software developers barely ever apply for jobs at all.

Good point. The best developers I ever hired were (a) already working, (b) not looking, (c) referred, and (d) without a current resume.

Therefore, the people who I consider to be good software developers probably don't have a current resume.

Therefore, the top 1% of good software developers probably don't have a current resume.

Therefore, if you have a pile of current resumes, it probably includes none of the top 1% of good software developers.

Therefore, if you're hiring from current resumes, your probably not hiring the top 1%.

[The only thing worse than sloppy probability and statistics is sloppy logic. But that's OK, because I'm not in the top 1% of either.]
Disappointed, thought it might suggest class names based on the attributes that you already know you want to associate with it.
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Health and performance are so much more important than subscribing to some utterly imaginary idea of what you should look like as a person.
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Your domain and idea is great. However I would leverage the browser more, display the nearby weather on pagoad, then allow for change.

http://thermo.me/

Does this really well. If you don't to use geolocation, just parse the IP.
I entirely agree that borrowing for durable goods isn't a bad idea if you can afford it.

My argument is that for the last many years normal households have been buying stuff they can't afford with money they don't have. And now that the housing prices aren't rising anymore they have serious trouble since they can't take out another mortgage on their house.
I don't know; it seems to me that there are a lot of programmers who seem to be opposed on principle to paying for software (which is a kind of strange position, seeing as most of them are also trying to make a living developing software.)
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I found this article interesting, but I think the submission title might be guilty of "gratuitous editorial spin" as outlined in http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I'm fairly sure there are such studies, but not longitudinal ones. I would say the reason is mostly to do with psychosis being a lot more rigidly defined than creativity, although there are obviously other biases.

How exactly would you go about measuring how creative someone was, then seeing if that had changed 10 years later, in a way that would lead to a statistical conclusion worthy of publication? A very difficult proposition.
The point is that I'm describing a bias of German policy, not some kind of hard and fast rule that holds without exception. Spain would be another example similar to Ireland. But that's all temporary and doesn't change the fundamental bias of Germans to fight inflation first and foremost.
I didn't want to inject criticism.

The question is, how do you "solve" quests? Everybody on here seems to assume that this is done by tweeting about it. It even says on the page that the quest will be solved quicker if you do so.
There was a submission to HN awhile back, where someone did a study of what actually happens with dynamic languages in JIT VMs. In many cases, there is a lot of dynamic behavior when an app server starts up, but later on, the system settles down, there's no fluidity in type information, and the system might as well be statically typed.

App server farms running hundreds of processes with instrumented JIT VMs could gather a lot of data. This would allow programmers to determine the "steady-state" type behavior of an app server after the "warm-up" period with a high degree of certainty. Would it be possible to save such data as an aggregation of runtime-profiles that could be used to 1) speed up execution and 2) back-port static type annotations to the source code? I could also imagine a special command to tell the VM that "warm-up" time is over now, take type annotations as mandatory, and start aggressive compiling now!
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I was about to make a snarky comment like "ShootMeNow", until I realized that OP may actually have a real winner on his hands...

Think about it.

It a Big 5 consulting firm acquired this and used it in their enterprise web app practice, would anyone ever be able to tell the difference?
One possibility: By the apps made by Google that are finely tailored for Android. Example is Google Voice.

So Google can indirectly generate money off Android.
This is not the difference engine Nathan Myhrvold paid for.
The real question is, is this more useful than the photographic approach? i.e. does a user identify these landmarks better in this slightly abstracted hand drawn rendering than in a photo rendering of the same?
While it's a very cool app (also, kudos on reducing the huge framework stack), I still believe an in-page text editor is actually a form.
Can it invalidate my caches as well?

If so you're onto a winner.
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Really shaky logic, taking the price that a premium network is charging and the price for cheap adverts and getting the average. I'd be very surprised if TwitPic's average rate is even close to $3, more likely ~$0.50.
If I'm gonna use it as a client, I'd want to have pages/notifications for mentions and direct messages. And the other figures' tweets could be real time updated, I'm sure you thought of that.
For the record, I think what your company is doing is outstanding. It's going to cost an absolute fortune to help rebuild the city and every single last dollar counts. I think you deserve every ounce of publicity you get from this regardless of your motivations for lauching this fundraiser.
Better smartphones = more browsing = more google traffic.

Before the first iPhone came out, most people only used their mobile phones to browse the net if they were desperate. Mobile browsers (except Opera) sucked. Only high-end phones had Opera.

Android makes smartphones better and cheaper, so more people will buy them. It makes mobile browsing better, so more people browse the web. This all drives traffic to google.
What's convore?
Starts at about $150; decent ones are about $300. (http://www.flipkart.com/android-all-mobiles?query=android...).
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Quite right. The English definition of theft: "A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it". To thieve something, there must surely be some thing to thieve.
Cars != durable goods.
You mean: cannabis and discreativity. Lots of ideas, no will to implement them.
I disagree, a lot of popular casual games work best in 2D (angry birds / flight control).
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I asked this on Quora a while back: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Chachaba-create-their-3D-virtu...
Answering the question "how does Google make money off of..." (regarding any of it's projects) can usually be answered by saying that Google has a vested interest in getting users to spend more time on the internet. For every hour that you are on the internet, you're probably using Google a few times.

This is how you can also answer "how does Google make money off of self-driving cars?" If people aren't driving their cars, they'll most likely be on the internet during their commute. If they are on the internet, they are probably using Google.

That said, Android provides a number of benefits to Google. Namely brand recognition, user interface research, and user GPS data. Ultimately though, the introduction of Android as a cheaper alternative to iOS and a more flexible alternative to BlackBerry probably contributed to smartphone sales much larger than the actual sales of Android devices (meaning: having an additional smartphone stimulated the demand for smartphones themselves).

TL;DR: The open-source nature of Android encourages increased smartphone production and consumption, thereby increasing consumer usage of the internet, and by default, Google.
They're worried that if others control the sector, then they might start building their own advertising platforms (or change the dominant revenue model to something else entirely) and cut Google out of the game. It's a preemptive strike, primarily against Apple. Bit like Microsoft's costly entrance into the home console market, just to ensure Sony didn't usurp the Windows/PC platform by providing equivalent services via Playstation.

Edit: they've probably also boosted their overall revenue in the short term because not everyone can afford an iPhone and the other vendors were so far behind iPhone OS, ads on their platforms weren't worth as much.
Could someone with a deeper knowledge on this comment on if this is possible or the clauses around it?
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it's not meant to be a direct replacement of your existing client. more like something supplementary, or when you want to take a break from Tweetie for an hour :)