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Pretty sure a lot of developers would have got similar stories. It's just the wild wild west and they couldn't find gold. In the meanwhile, whoever is selling the pic axes, the app stores, are making money.

It's all a fad. Create value or sell pic axes.
There's a big difference between

"On Thursday, the company said that as its select partners release the first tablets based on Android "Honeycomb" – the latest version of its mobile operating system – it will not open source the Honeycomb code."

And "But there was no indication that the code wouldn't be promptly open sourced as the first devices were released. What's more, Google did not make a public announcement that it will keep the source closed. "

I'd be surprised if Google has manged to rid every last piece of GPL'd software from the OS. Otherwise, they're going to have to release the source.

Check here for updates http://source.android.com/
No individual or group in the country has all the power. However, most of the power is split up among a minority of players and corruption and abuses of power run rampant.

Small scale: I know someone who did serious time because he picked up some drugs for a old friend who was trying to get a lighter sentence. This is someone who had never sold drugs, and stooped using a while ago. But transportation = distribution and "entrapment" does not count when the cops use a third party.

Large Scale: UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld is the only person to due time over a multi billion dollar tax fraud.

PS: Don't forget the recording industry is only worth 12 billion a year, yet protecting that tiny cash flow is worth more than pissing off all those pirates.
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I think the languages that's going to win is the one providing the best value and the easy adoption. I tend to go for nodejs. How many times a language is mentioned does not necessarily reflect its power or its capabilities.
When you submit a link to a PDF you implicitly submit it to scribd who then purloin the content and make it available through their interface.

They claim to honor take-down requests, but I've been caught out by this. Before I knew if their distasteful practices I submitted a link, they took a copy, and now they won't take it down because I'm not the copyright holder. The person who is the copyright holder doesn't know, and I've been unable to get in touch, despite trying.

I'm pretty sure they'd be unhappy about it if they knew.

So now I never submit a link to a PDF, I always create a place-holder and submit that, or find some other reference. The existence of these auto-links to scribd is one aspect of HN that's makes me feel genuinely grubby, and you should only ever submit a PDF if you're happy to have it copied without permission.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=836544
As someone who hasn't ever used arch, I am surprised to find out that they don't sign. The distros I use, RHEL, fedora and openSUSE have pushed all signed packages for quite some time. Clearly debian/ubuntu do as well. FBSD and OBSD also. Even gentoo supports signing of portage source packages, though apparently there is no policy that requires package builders to sign. This would seem to be an argument against rolling your own package manager, at least if you lack the resources to bring it up to industry standards.

Does anyone know of other distros that don't sign their packages?
For Google, open-source is a marketing strategy. Not more and not less.
Isn't honeycomb just a codename for the latest version of android though? Isn't that like saying: Ubuntu LATEST will not be open sourced until...Ubuntu OLD is still open ? In my mind, that makes it a whole lot more closed than open.
"honeycomb will not be open sourced until they decide it's ready" That's what I was thinking until the article speculates how smaller tablet providers will lose out.

If it was my platform, I know, I'd like to be first to market with well built tablets rather than a bunch of mediocre tablet attempts, which could reflect badly on the platform itself.
Having a healthy skepticism towards capitalism and the "free market" does not make you a socialist. I'm equally skeptical about rampant socialism. The answer is in the middle somewhere. An ideologically impure position perhaps, but a pragmatic one none the less.

Being an entrepreneur isn't incompatible with social capitalism. Just because you want to start a business and earn buckets of money yourself, doesn't mean that you must be against a social safety net. Why would it?
Maybe. I think many submitters would tag links wrongly, so (sufficiently high karma?) readers would need to be able to (vote to?) retag them.
This is basically what subreddits are. I would like to see this implemented.
Google trends for sex and porn: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2Cporn&ctab=0&geo... Indians are, unsurprisingly, very much into it.
The power of tags is that they're user-defined.

Look at Digg and its naïvely broad topics: they're nowhere near as useful as user-defined tags. A story on a TCP bug is in completely different interest areas to a story on Apple's Smart Cover, yet both are filed under "technology" in Digg.
It looks pretty cool, but the app just closes on my Desire (2.3.3), so I can't really test it :(
I would pitch it to the adult industry as follows:
If someone is surfing from behind a content filter, they are either a child without a credit card, or in an area where sex is so taboo they will not possibly whip out their credit card for a porn site. Let us filter out these useless bandwidth leeches for you.
I went to an IETF meeting in the fall of 1998 where the thing hanging around your neck was a clear plastic holder that contained both your name tag and a brochure. Not quite as nice as this solution, since you could take out the brochure and lose it. Probably much cheaper, though.
Probably unsurprisingly, Amazon and a bunch of others offer this. http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
If your domain name is registered though a US company they may be able to seize it.

Also, if you have any assets in the US they can be seized.
> I'd be surprised if Google has manged to rid every last piece of GPL'd software from the OS. Otherwise, they're going to have to release the source.

They have to release source to the GPL parts (WebKit, the kernel and stuff that links directly to it, like drivers and possibly other stuff they use). From their glibc-like Bionic and up (including the userland, Dalvik), everything is BSD-style and they have no obligation whatsoever to release anything. Not even to manufacturers.
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"other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people like the topic"

Except that things in the "other" category are not off topic, and shouldn't be flagged even if only a few people upvote them.

Per the guidelines, what's on topic is:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than
hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might
be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Personally, I am opposed to limiting tagging to only a handful of pre-determined tags. But if that must be done, I'd prefer a much wider range of tags. The tags you list are far too limiting.

For instance, I am interested in Lisp, but not in Java. "Hacking" just doesn't do a very good job of filtering these.

I am interested in "gadgets", but don't want to see another iPhone or iPad story for as long as I live.

HN should allow a wide range of tags (ideally completely determined by the users or story submitters).
"But the perils of being rich are legion,"

Your perils are legion when you're suddenly the target of a squad of ninjas, or surrounded by a hostile armed gang. There being a social stigma attached to being rich or there being higher expectations on you because you're rich are miles away from a legion of perils. "My friends look at me differently" or "I tend to take the easy road whens stuff gets hard" are drastically less severe of problems than "I can't afford my kid's medical bills" or "I'm having a hard time providing for my family while saving for retirement". Yeah, their lives have problems, but that inevitable - if our lives didn't have some risks or tradeoffs, we'd go insane from boredom. But their tradeoffs and risks are very far removed from their physiological and safety needs.
as in cree-uck? Nice looking site though, I'll be honest I've never really been into Q and A sites, but I like the clean look of yours.

How many hours in total did it take you build?
But the reality is surely that Google and its partners don't want smaller name manufacturers eating into their tablet sales. Or perhaps they don't want larger names nabbing pieces of code for their own tablet OSes.

Why would they be worried about this? Isn't the purpose of Android* to increase global pageviews and sell more (local) ads? Don't 2nd tier OEMs and competing platforms further these goals?

While I am not sure if you can take google at face value in terms of their reasons, the author's conclusions seem wildly unsourced. Unless someone would like to expand on his reasoning?
>Might work as long as tags are not user defined

== Categories
and even there i doubt the "might work"
I would not call that "open". Doing "open source" does not necessarily imply "being open".

My main problem with Android is that you do not see any of the development that lead to Honeycomb. Even if you are interested, there is no way to see where the project is going without being on the inside. Android has a completely closed development cycle until _after_ the release of the first devices. I cannot consider that 'open' in a general sense.

I think the point that people want to make is that all competitors of Android are even more closed down.
I always think the same thing about lobbying. The contributions to politicians are really small in comparison to the benefits received. Maybe we should make bribing more competitive to raise the price in order to make it less profitable?
Rails seems an ideal language for startups, but I was still surprised to see how highly it plays on HackerNews.

Lot's of great quotes in this article from earlier this week about why startups in Boston are using Rails:

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/03/22/boston-companies-using-...
It's strange how adult humans give other adult humans the power to tell them which websites/books/etc. they aren't allowed to see for their own good.

And that's just a normal part of the way the world works.
'Becomes' is an understatement. It seems to have been patently obvious to people who understand the Internet for many years that this wasn't going to achieve anything beyond the establishment of a new registry for people to sell domains in, yet a combination of the greedy and the ignorant meant it was always likely to actualy happen.

We all know that the sites selling adult content aren't likely to give up their existing .com domains. That sites containing user-submitted content that some would view as porn but which would themselves claim otherwise - RedBubble springs to mind - definitely aren't going to be interested in shifting to .xxx and that there will be a group campaigning for their own personal definition to be used in requiring people to move. And that sites containing, for example, material on sexual health or abortion are going to be pressured in some regions to shift to .xxx. The domain solves nothing well and creates so very many problems.

This whole issue was a very predictable problem from day one and I wish ICANN had had the courage to stand up for good sense and not grant the new TLD.
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I knew there was a previous, related discussion.

HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289
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A true believer in communism would also say that it is misunderstood in both theory and practice.
I tend to dislike the idea, but I wouldn't oppose a 1 month experiment after which we could run the poll again.
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Why is this downvoted? This is a fair thing to say. Lisp is basically an exposed Abstract Syntax Tree. Most languages get compiled down to something resembling a lisp before machine code. You could fairly refer to this as "syntaxless". It is just expressions in a tree format, not arbitrarily designed syntax for logic that must be stripped of its grammar for the machine to parse.
> And calling a language community a cult is beyond offensive.

If we look closely, Lisp criticism is a kind of a cult too.

- Criticizing Lisp among them brings social validation

- They make lots of jokes about Lisp, but none about Lisp criticism

- Praising Lisp brings social exclusion

Therefore, Lisp critics are part of a cult. Like many others, they dislike what they don't understand.
User-defined weigths for tags is a nice idea indeed.

Might be too much load on the server, though, as it will actually mean that every user has his own front page.
I don't think regulation will help (maybe a little). They will find other ways.
The whole culture needs to change. As long as they can get away with blatantly unethical behavior nothing will change. Not sure how to achieve a cultural change though. The current system is very profitable for both parties.
I think a third party or a press that reports facts and calls out blatant untruths may help.
It's called the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.

It's best to have a two-pronged attack, both from the outside (change the rules so congress is less corrupt, appeal to justice and rationality) and from the inside (buy your own damn congressman).
That's indeed a potential issue, same for filtering. I'm not sure how much caching is going on, but it'd make any caching in place much less effective. Maybe only give that option above a certain karma.
"At that point you have different concerns, but you still have concerns."

Concerns differ in terms of criticality. "I lack motivation because I don't NEED to work" is a very different concern from "I work 60 hours a week and still can barely put food on the table". The former may seem like a major concern when it's happening to you, but from a non-relative perspective, it's still much less serious than the latter.
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1. This is why anonymity is important online.

2. It's unfortunate that the default position is encroachments on rights, requiring active defense for their preservation.
people behavior != government policies :)
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> everything is BSD-style

Nitpick: it's actually the Apache license (which isn't that far from BSD), but your point is of course correct.
'rm' prompts by default? since when?

Btw, which defaults are, in your opinion, "bad"?
How long before some guy is caught watching porn on the window.. ?

Seriously though, there really isn't much privacy if all of your screen watching is clearly visible to anyone walking by on the street.
Last time I heard it, the first half of the program was corrupted and all that was left was the second half, consisting entirely of closing parentheses.

Another version is that the file was stolen by a malicious hacker and help for ransom. As a proof he had the file, he sent the last part of the file. When one of the programmers saw only ")"s he knew the file was authentic.
"If it was my platform, I know, I'd like to be first to market with well built tablets rather than a bunch of mediocre tablet attempts, which could reflect badly on the platform itself."

That ship has sailed.
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Does this have anything to do with Rim's tab not being able to support Honeycomb-based apps, but previous Android version apps?

I would guess that if rim had the source, they would support Honeycomb apps on the playbook and it would be a selling point for them.
That is AWESOME! Congrats. I think it's a fantastic idea.
Another possible solution:

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
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I don't understand these "Google Android is not open" arguments. Can you go to http://source.apple.com/ and download iOS 1.0? No. Can you go to http://source.blackberry.com/ and download their OS? No. Sure, Honeycomb isn't coming out right this very moment, but at least there's something there.

By any definition Google is at least several orders of magnitude more "open" than Apple. Apple releases no source (other than what is required of them, and only after a few weeks or months). Google releases all source (sure, after a few weeks or months).
As a member of this cult with absolutely no sense of humor, I would like to mention that we drink very delicious Kool-Aid, and we are allowed to wear two different colors of sneakers. And after the comet we will join as a spaceship lands, I have been promised a cushy job at our destination. (secret-lisp-cult-message <COMPILED-LEXICAL-OBJECT PUBLIC-KEY>)
I would suppose people who disagreed strongly would post their reasons. That's disappointing.
Absolutely. Other would be interested too, I think.
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Why? Those folks at Google seem very good at it.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs...
This is one of the WORST nerd rants I've seen in a while.

He has a 2 minute long video about the fact his HTC phone makes a 4 second long startup jingle. Which only happens when you power it up or power cycle it, not an everyday, or even every week thing for most users.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Your link was wrong.
Kama Sutra is about 2000 years old in the current form, according to Wikipedia 2 CE. To put this in perspective, this predates the Muslim/Mongol invasions by about 1000 years, British invasion/colonization by 1700 years etc. Societies change.
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Cool, looking forward to more iterations. Congrats on the launch!
More data:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142

etc. You can search on google with "site:news.ycombinator.com" as a prefix and get useful results on pretty much anything startup-related.
Strange to see a reference to couchdb/couchbase so awkwardly shoehorned into the article.
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It sounds like he's criticizing Lisp for being prone to monkey patching, which would be a very poor understanding of metaprogramming in Lisp. From what I've seen Lisp ends up being perfectly clear about what is being called in what context. Clojure is especially clear with its namespace feature.
"there might be a better system of organization than tags"

We should cross that bridge when we get to it. If there is no better alternative to tagging now, this objection does not hold much weight.

How long are we to hold off implementing improvements in hopes that a better solution is found? A year? Ten years? A hundred years?

Remember, there are no guarantees a better solution will ever be found.

And your argument could be used to hold off implementing any feature, not just tags. After all, a better solution might someday be found.

We should make reasonable, incremental improvements like tags instead of waiting for someone to find the holy grail.
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I'd be surprised if the GPL parts were not already published as soon as HC tablets started shipping.
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"git clean" does nothing without -f, or the user changing clean.RequireForce=false

"git reset" does nothing irrevocable unless you add --hard (why should you also need to add --force?)

"git checkout" will only trash uncommitted changes if you ask it to specifically. (e.g. 'git checkout <file to overwrite>').

side note: using 'git reset --hard' to teleport a branch around is bad form, imho.
One example: RIM wants to ship their Playbook with support for Android apps. They probably need the Android source code in order to do this. They've annouced that Playbook will only support Gingerbread Android apps. With the Honeycomb source code they might be able to support apps that work better on tablets.
If the alternative is to get blocked for everybody, then why wouldn't they agree?
There's an option missing : Seems like a good idea. I'd like an experimentation.
I think it could be a good idea to insert tags in an apposite page where people can find the topic they're interested to. Instead i wouldn't touch the hn central page.
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Why do I care about why someone did not like a certain language 4 years ago?
People are wierd. I don't even look at facebook photos but other people are obsessed with them. Then there's those sites where people (young women mostly) look at photos of people going in to local nightclubs (ie they actually pose for the shot then it's uploaded), and they spend time looking at what fashion items people were wearing. Anyway I imagine in this case the focus is on right there, right then, and the whole thing will be driven by flirtation. Think about it like using technology to broaden the radius of effective flirtation from a few meters to a few dozen meters.
> Lisp's extreme flexibility doesn't remedy that at all.

Why would it? I'm not sure I understand the argument.

And also, just for an example: In my experience, Clojure's package management beats Rubygems for purposes of a project. You specify your dependencies and their versions (including the Clojure language itself) and a script updates them from the whatever repos you specify. It's taken the Ruby ecosystem some time to come up with RVM and Bundler which accomplish the same things. These kinds of things (package management) are available for Lisp languages today.

Of course CL only recently got http://www.quicklisp.org/ which seems to make some strides in this area.