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If you're referring to discrimination against certain groups, I totally agree. If there are people who happen to be gay, black, white, female, or whatever, and they're being discouraged from doing something or actively discriminated against, that's wrong and we should stigmatize people who engage in it.

The stories on HN about female engineers and the like do tend to be more about specific instances of discrimination and less general discussion about demographic ratios as the original post was, though.
That's not the title of the Yahoo article. Steve admitted on stage (at D3?) that rejecting the political caricature app was a mistake. It's probably better to simply report the news rather than give an incorrect spin.
The swipe and onion skin are pretty simple. Both of them put the images in the same place. When you swipe, the width of the top image changes. For the onion skin, the opacity changes.

Difference has some canvas magic going on.
This looks great, even more motivation for me to get my girlfriend (who is a designer) to use git. Does anyone have any reccomendation for a user friendly GUI based GIT client for Mac?
>And this comes to the other problem: how do you judge people above you? You can't, really.

Relevant Wikipedia article: The Dunning-Kruger Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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Thats what the helper app is for! Sits outside the browser and lets you send and receive using the same technology without having to worry about the browser thing. Will do resume and everything. Still just as easy to use too.
Sort of like Project Euler?
Interesting concept never thought to do it via a website.

I don't know if its me or not, however when I click the "Choose files to share" in Chrome 10.0.648.151 on Win 7 it does not do anything.

Good work, going to try the desktop client :)
Flagged. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351851 .
I still stick with GitX, but Tower[1] looked pretty cool during its beta.

[1] http://www.git-tower.com/
Radiation visualizations paint a different picture of Japan
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83789/what-is-the-best-gi...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client...
We appreciate your not repeating all the embarrassing things I might have said that evening. ;)
Awesome service!

One major request: Please create an API.

So many startups/services need a good way to upload large files efficiently. It takes a lot of effort to create an file upload feature that works and provides a good UX across browsers/platforms. We would use it for Mugasha (artists upload large audi files) and would pay for it.
I should have phrased it better.

They do that but still spend resources on actually developing proper product.

They don't look for a "rockstar developer" and turnout a awesome app/game with a budget of $1,000.
I think keeping shovelware out is a fair concept, but they should give interested parties more freedom to play around with their platform and make demos. As it stands many of the rules for being a Nintendo developer are arbitrary and it keeps out talented folks. For example you must have an office and you can't work out of your home. That alone could be enough to drive a startup into working on the iOS instead of the 3DS.

I'd like to see Nintendo have some sort of arrangement for hobbyists to poke at the platform and make neat stuff, and for Nintendo to partner with them to publish a quality title if something of quality is present. This is similar to how Argonaut and Nintendo started working together and how Nintendo came to produce Star Fox.
If Facebook sues people making face books, then you'll have a point. It's about co-opting naturally occurring words and then preventing people from using them to describe things naturally.
Can you shoot us an email at feedback(at)sendoid.com with some info on your setup? Would love to get some more info from you so we can figure out what the problem might be. Thanks!
You have no idea how badly I want to do this. Trying to figure out how to make it work is definitely on the list.
Thanks for the mention! A lazy link because I'll never miss a chance to shameless plug: http://letscrate.com/

Excited to check out Sendoid though.
In other words: "Nintendo continues long, slow death march to irrelevance."
Agreed. Want to talk privately sometime (email in profile)?
> a. due to Apple's efforts, the phrase has gained an amount of familiarity and also b. it's simply a good name.

+1 glad to see someone's paying attention :)

The term 'App Store' is being used by a lot of vendors operating in the cloud/mobile space. It's familiar and when you use it people have an idea of what the offering is.

If Apple can keep the association of 'App Store' an Apple exclusive that gives their brand more value. That's why they're going after a big company instead of a small one. If they can win this against Amazon they almost automatically crush all other uses of the mark by smaller companies.

If they lose they only lose a few million. That's not going to make a dent in their budget. Small risk / big payoff.
I agree with your characterization of programming, but I think a lot of people are taking this too seriously.

Obviously programming isn't a superhero ability, as superheroes do not exist. It's exciting and awesome to learn to be able to do the things we do, and that's what I took away from the article.
iPad version please! I know there are, um, some certain problems there ... but the need exists, especially with video editing. (I have ~2GB renders needing transfers that Dropbox can't handle.)
Re: Consoles Microsoft already allows indie programmers on the Xbox 360 for $99/year: http://create.msdn.com/en-US/ (warning, Silverlight on that page)

They can charge up to $5 for their games, and they get stuck in a ghetto that's kind of hard to find on XBL, but it's out there.

The PS3 is much more locked down - the linux alternative was removed.

There are also a whole lot of "Homebrew" scene's out there - some have turned out impressive stuff. If the console can either load homebrew with no other work (as the Dreamcast was) or can have modified bootloaders that allow 3rd party code to run (as the original Xbox and PSP were), then you have a good chance at getting decent stuff ported.
My old economics professor likes to use Scott Adams' term: a confusopoly. (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/03/is_paul_krugman_click-worth....)

The pricing is supposed to be complicated, so you don't pay much attention to it.
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Yup and it could be 1 line if we were playing codegolf.

I'm loading that code dynamically from the bookmarklet because I assume that they'll change the ids of the divs at some point.
Not sure what Sendoid uses, but there is a project called Cumulus that implements an RTMFP server in C++.

https://github.com/OpenRTMFP/Cumulus

Haven't tried it yet, but the code looks pretty good.
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Although I'm pretty sure that country isn't Canada (where I am and where they're blocking us after 20 articles).
Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. Equally, one could make the case that software engineers have an incentive to make bad/incomplete/burdensome software so that they are still needed to provide fixes/updates. Lawyers also "use" the law, it still applies to them.

The patent situation won't change, as the players involved are too keen of their portfolios.
"The mutual suspicion has to stop. People like PG Fred Wilson, Scobelizer, Mike Arrington and other powerhouses in the startup world should feel as comfortable talking about it as they do, talking about the absence of women in technology."

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I think they avoid that topic as much as they can as well, everyone has a side to blame and it just gets nasty (I've been on the end / in the middle of this a few times)

I don't quite get your point here,

"Something happened on Hackernews that made me conclude on what the real issue is as regards to the absence of black founders."

Okay.. but your point is I'm not sure

Black people don't get covered enough on techcrunch / HN enough?

I don't know about you but I just a startup on its merits not on if the founder is male/female black/white british/american, You seem to be actively looking for this information with each post on TC (looking at your http://oonwoye.com/2010/04/05/black-founders/) post

"High profile and connected black founders should endeavour to speak about this issue. My post last year only got traction after a Retweet from Tristan Walker."

This could / is also be said about women and any minority, I run a conference in the UK and the percentage of women that actually apply is minimal let alone women that fit our speaking criteria.

"The truth is that a vast majority of my tech friends in Europe are white (obviously) and they are some of the nicest people I have met (The co founder of my last startup Joel is actually British). They are extremely helpful and I have NEVER noticed any form of discrimination. i assume it is the case in the US too. Which is the reason I am a bit confused as to why discussing this issue is a problem."

I'll admit I have a problem discussing this because its very easy to say the wrong thing and things get taken the wrong say, I've had the same discussion with women in technology and things were twisted and any points I came up with were rebutted with "your an average white male so you don't know" and that argument gets old pretty quickly when your trying to have a discussion..
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The really misleading thing about these statistics is that the budget is not 100% teacher salaries. I am guessing, it's not even close. That means to get your 16% savings you are going to have to cut a lot more than 16% of the staff.
Clojure has Leiningen for library versioning / package management / builds. It's excellent.
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Let's not rewrite history here. The API that was used must have been PAAPI since it's the only Amazon API that allows access to their catalog. That API has very clear terms of use, and the terms haven't changed that much in the recent past. If a company decides to build a product or business using an API knowing that it goes against the terms of use, it is a huge risk that they have to assume.
Tell me more about how this solves security problems? (I'm asking, I don't already have an opinion). Why can I trust this service with (say) a zip file full of source code?
It's using context-blender (https://github.com/Phrogz/context-blender) an implementation of the Photoshop blend modes.
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I still have to push the button down to make toast, and watch it like a hawk so I don't make charcoal. Feeling ambitious?
Shared memory makes perfect sense for a webapp, too. I question the whole stateless mantra -- if state is reconstructable on other nodes, then what is wrong with state that improves performance -- such as caching.

Everything from database connections to user data can be cached locally, shared across connections, and does not require multiple processes each with their own large heap.

I'd like to elaborate on more examples (such as comet and efficient handling of a large number of blocked connections while allowing unblocked connections to proceed concurrently while maintaining cached local state) ... But I'm on an iPad and this keyboard is driving me crazy.
Straight from jedberg's mouth: "This article is a complete fabrication. He should be ashamed to call himself a journalist."

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g8ht8/cond%C3%A9...
"How long until Microsoft is making more money on patent licensing than from their mobile unit? Serious question. Maybe they already are."

I'd imagine there's an excellent chance that they already are. Sounds much cheaper to keep a stable of lawyers around than hundreds of engineers, testers, support staff, and marketing folk.

If you think the margins on selling software are high...
I was hoping this was about ugly babies...
All licensed games had that seal. It was nothing more than a marker that the standard licensing process, which is not particularly different from console to console, was followed.
Could Apple argue that customers might think they are buying from Apple, when in fact they are buying from Amazon?
Sure, I can give you some info:

We're still discovering this space, but we've learned that there are a huge number of use-cases in commercial sectors for secured, fast file transfer-- especially out-of-network transfers that don't require the receiver to be part of the sender's existing IT infrastructure. Sendoid's tech is great for this.

Companies are having to pay out the nose for our kind of service right now from enterprise providers. We don't think secured file transfer should be expensive, and Sendoid is the first step to fixing that.

PS: If you have a company that wants to get involved with our beta program, get in touch: corp@sendoid.com
I don't think keeping shovelware out is a valid explanation for this blanket rule. Apple's ToS have quite a few provisions that could be used to exclude a large amount of shovelware from the app store, but they tend to be rather lax on enforcement unless it competes directly with their business interests. Thus you get 50 fart apps and only a couple of web browsers. Nintendo could easily adapt similar ToS, strictly enforce them and keep out the shovelware. Their decision to exclude this possibility entirely indicates something else is at work in their thinking. If you look at the controversy surrounding Bob's Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game), it seems pretty obvious that their issues with the "garage developer" have little to do with keeping out mediocre titles. I would suggest that the blanket rule has more to do with their long term business interests--keeping prices up and preventing competition with their own first party games.
Not even that. Sales of FPS titles on consoles easily dwarf those on PC (depending on the title, 3-10x).
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I think the perverse incentive you point to wrt software is a real one. I think that's why the tools that engineers use are usually the best pieces of software.

I don't think patent lawyers are generally have to use patent law in the same way that software engineers have to use software.
In the past Sony released a special PS1 that you could develop games on called Yaroze. It started the careers of a few hobbyists and a game for it, Devil Dice, ended up getting a retail release (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Dice).

The Japan only Bandai Wonderswan had a homebrew system as well, named Wonder Witch. "Judgement Silversword" was published at retail for the Wonderswan but produced originally via this homebrew system and it is considered to be one of the best games for the platform.
In addition to this blog post there is an internal presentation that Yelp has provided slides for[1] covering MySQL's transaction isolation levels, replication, InnoDB locking and so on.

[1] - http://cloud.github.com/downloads/eklitzke/mysql-minutiae/pr...
Exactly. That's sort of what I (and I think KA) was getting at.
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He currently does have them, he just doesn't own them.

In the future, he may no longer have them, but currently he apparently does.
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I wonder how this compares to other areas of the country.
It forms an encrypted direct connection between the sender and the receiver. The data never touches anyone else's server and is encrypted the entire trip.

Everyone feel free to run a tcpdump dump of the traffic if you want confirmation thats not from the guy who made the service.
I wonder how this compares to other areas of the country?
Nice slides (linked from the article).

Since I'm MySQL ignorant, you say:

"the code wasn't sure if a row would already exist in the table, so it would issue a DELETE just in case followed by an INSERT with the correct data"

I come from a batch oriented background, so whenever I read something like this, my 'use a merge statement' light goes on.

I have literally no clue about the locking behavior of such an approach in MySQL, so I'm curious if (a) it was an option at all and (b) what locking behavior MySQL would throw into play with a merge (upsert) directly.
Back story: http://www.azdisruptors.com/blog/2011/3/19/have-jawa-and-jas...
If you only use encryption when you 'have something to hide,' then use of encryption is enough to incriminate you.
How different Sendoid is from Tonido?(http://www.tonido.com)

With Tonido you can right click any file or folder and it will create an URL for the resource. You can share the URL with anybody for download. There is no limit on file size, no uploading - completely private and secure.
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If you read the headline, you will notice that this comment thread is about Amazon screwing over their API users. Twitter was just brought up for context. So bringing up Amazon as somebody "innovating and sharing their stories" without addressing how they treated Lendle users is more than a little bit silly.
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I don't know if that should matter. If Facebook spends billions promoting it's brand and then sues people making books with faces who called it, lets say Staunch's face book, I don't see how they deserve to win.
More importantly the iPad's pricing is normal. The Nook, the Kindle, and the Xoom all come in different versions. People expect to pay different amounts for different hardware.

Nobody's doing what the NYT is doing. Netflix and Hulu are given as examples of content producers that have a simple pricing scheme over multiple devices. Lots of people use those services. The NYT pricing not only violates expectations for online content, it doesn't even seem typical for newspapers. Paying per 4 weeks instead of per month? Who has ever done that?
I have "methods" for implementing this stuff in iOS that I've been figuring out the last few weeks. Its definitely on the way.
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"Heading down the same road as the music industry" seems a bit strong. They haven't sent out armies of lawyers to extort kids in project downloading picture books, or asked Homeland Security to seize URLs

They've simply decided that a site probably shouldn't be using Amazon's own resources via the API to make it easy to find a particular Kindle title they might have been considering buying for free. If Amazon perceive it as damaging to sales they'd be insane not to. Noticeably there's a similar site that hasn't been shut down; maybe that one generates decent revenue via links to purchase books they don't have available.
A lot of titles that are now considered classics were initially released without that seal of approval because the publishers didn't want to pay Nintendo's licensing fees. Check out the Nintendo v. Tengen case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29#NES_games

And a lot of awful games did have the Seal:
http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/w20-01.htm
I like reading stuff like this. I deal with strange issues with MySQL all the time. It's nice to know others feel my pain and take the time to write about it. I don't usually see deadlocks anymore though thankfully.
It's funny that there are people on this forum that believe husbands actually make decisions. A great quote from some random sitcom - "Marriage is all about compromise. My wife wanted a cat, I didn't want a cat, so we compromised and got a cat."
Really? You wrote custom crypto for this? Or do you use an SSL connection?

I wouldn't have thought to ask that. My original concern was: how do you assure someone like me that an attacker can't redirect files to other locations?
You could use MySQL's `ON DUPLICATE KEY` syntax to work around the deadlock, which provides a syntax like `UPSERT` in some other databases. This would work because the operation would be atomic. However, at Yelp we've had replication issues with this statement serializing incorrectly into the binlog, so we generally prefer to explicitly select and then insert/update, or delete and then insert.
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Can't find their send file immediately from the browser button? I don't think my dad's gonna be able to use it without that.
The app lets you submit a page via a bookmarklet, then emails you a link to the page one week later. It's really useful for saving HN comment threads. HN commenting dies down within a week, so you won't miss any good comments.
Didn't they say if you edit or resubmit your app late, it will be marked as late and not be considered in the same way as the batch before the deadline?
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Interesting. How do you punch through NATs and firewalls? If you're doing it with p2p proxies, how do you do authentication and avoid mitm attacks?
> How would a phone use an OTP?

A year of 9600 baud is ~36.1 GB.

Hand-deliver a flash stick once a year.

Obviously this is not a solution for everyday telephony between strangers. But RSA could be.

> nobody cares who listens to their conversations

This is true mostly because seriously caring is at present impractical.
First of all "Windows" itself doesn't mean an OS. You can argue that OSes have generic GUI windows, but Microsoft is not suing to prevent Gnome from calling itself a window manager with application windows. "Windows" is a trademark for an operating system.

>So then, possibly an "app store" doesn't just mean a store on Main St, that happens to have applications on its shelves, but a novel concept worthy of a trademark?

Well, store doesn't really mean only physical stores right? There are a bunch of online shops calling themselves stores from the 90s.
The problem is that privacy is no longer the default. So instead of having it, now you don't and you have to prove why you need it.

I think that's kinda why the constitution set the default to innocent. Too bad we don't really see that as necessary any more.
Acquirers will be concerned about who owns or has copied the code.

The company should own the code. I would recommend not granting rights beyond that. You can always package parts up and open source them.

Don't labor under the illusion that your code is a beautiful, unique snowflake...
Like ESPN licenses it's channels (and even ESPN3) based on the number of subscribers, not the people who actually tune into them?
I was wondering when this would happen.