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Mini servo gripper Plate
The developer tweeted that he's submitted an update to the App Store which includes that functionality. Hopefully it should be added soon!

Can anyone offer any further detail on that?
How a marketing funnel can bring you an avalanch of leads
I'm surprised noone pointed out this post from Sriram Krishnan, a product manager at Microsoft:

Stuff I've Learned at Microsoft
http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2009/12/stuff-ive-learned...

"Ask for forgiveness, not for permission
...
Any sufficiently large institution has something to lose...Corporate systems are optimized for saying no. Maintain the status quo. No risk of failure and a spectacular blowout...This is exactly why you are better off going ahead and doing something without asking first. If you don’t ask, no one can tell you to not do it."

I'd argue that the specifc principle "never ask permission to clean up code" can be generalised to "never ask permission", especially for software houses that have grown large and sclerotic. But YMMV; in a previous job I once told my manager I had an exciting idea for an automated test platform that I'd be willing to implement and test in my free time. His response was "And when you're finished, who's going to maintain it? I'd need to hire someone at least as skilled as you to keep it running. Please don't make it."
Eight Easy Steps
Glad someone asked that question, was thinking I'd get to the bottom and have nothing but pointless discussion on 10 bucks being worth it or not.
Touring The Amazon Appstore
JQuery Perlin Noise Plugin
Because trust in the CA system is essential for the web as an application platform? Google wouldn't be happy if people started making native clients with hardcoded public keys because they didn't trust the CA system... (cf. cperciva's tarsnap.)
There's a great aphorism that applies here: In theory, theory and practice are the same.

So it is with regard to free speech, and it's a thorny wicket. In a free marketplace of ideas, people are able to hear all viewpoints and select the most rational ones. Unfortunately, there are studies that seem to suggest that the repetition of a falsehood reinforces the ideas contained therein for at least some of the population. The best I can find quickly are "How Warnings About False Claims Become Recommendations: Paradoxical Effects of Warnings on Beliefs of Older Consumers"[1] and "Metacognitive Experiences and the Intricacies of Setting People Straight: Implications for Debiasing and Public Information Campaigns"[2]. (Look at the birther movement. There's an insane number of people in the U.S. who believe something to be true that is not only nonsensical but has been absolutely proven false. To many of these people, the means by which things were proven false has only reinforced their insane belief—and the more they repeat it, the more often they have a chance to convince others of their insanity being true, even though objectively it isn't.)

We know that words can wound deeply; look at the concerns over "cyber-bullying" and the reports of preteen suicides over some of those cases. As a parallel, it's illegal in every country with the concept of freedom of speech to incite a riot (even though the rioters are the ones causing the damage). As wlievens said, there's often direct consequences to hateful speech[3] that are deeply tragic.

Like corin_, I'm divided on this matter. I grew up American and emigrated to Canada as an adult. Canada has hate speech laws that can be fairly described as "prior restraint" and wouldn't pass muster in America. Those offend me as an American. But the level of discourse in Canada is, I think, better for such prior restraint. Obviously, one must be cautious in how one applies such things, but the improved discourse pleases me as a Canadian.

This is a long way to say: no, I don't think that free speech is more important than these other issues just because it's free speech. It's a complex problem without an easy hard-line solution that can be applied effectively. Because of the effects of repetition, sometimes the best way to stop hateful or stupid speech is to squelch it. And sometimes, it's the right thing to do.

[1] pdf: http://www.cerog.org/lalondeCB/CB/2005_lalonde_seminar/how_w...
[2] pdf: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/norbert.schwarz/files/07_aep_schw...
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358825
I think an avatar photo business would be a good idea. Think of all the twitter users with resized photos of themselves that are unflattering, cryptic, or just plain bad.
I am surprised that they got rid of the padlock icon. I had to Google before I realized that they now use a colored section with the site name in the address bar to show a secure connection. Not very obvious when you first start using it.

I wonder if this change is going to be disruptive for users who are trained to look for a padlock icon.
I have both the trackpoint and a multi-touch touchpad on my Thinkpad. I find the trackpoint to be much more productive because I never have to move my hands. Using the touchpad requires squishing my arm in close to my body rather than keeping both hands comfortably extended.
Extremely relevant:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2164
Samsung announces two new Android Honeycomb tablets
I don't know if there's such an effort underway, but I hope so. Unfortunately, the entrenched players don't really have much of an incentive to change things, they're making billions from the current certificate model. The CAs don't even need to be compromised, there are quite a few that are maybe not 100% trustworthy (China's CNNIC is one that springs to mind) that are trusted by browsers by default. I agree it's a huge problem. I was merely pointing out that the problem does not lie within TLS/SSL.

The PGP "web of trust" is an existing distributed trust model; it never really caught on, though.
It could certainly possibly be the Chinese government, but there's no evidence linking them and there seem to be easier ways for the Chinese to get their hands on a CA. (They already have one, and are you really willing to bet that no other CA is willing to give out a copy of their key for "law enforcement purposes" and a big pile of money?)
Not to mention if there are other people modifying the same area of code in a parallel project. They won't have tender words for you when they try to merge back their changes and find it has completely changed.

Cleaning up code is a good idea but you need to be aware of the context. Always do the best you can.
Current day's data has been available for me across 5 different user accounts and dozens of clients for at least a year. You just have to select today to see it.

It sometimes lags by about an hour.
Setting Up FTP^H^H^H SFTP In A Hurry For File Uploads Using OpenSSH
OK. Sent it. :)
right, well you can also do that from any piece of logic using the JQuery API, if you have to: http://docs.mobl-lang.org/mobl/JQuery
Boring AND sleazy. Now I'm intrigued.
Entrepreneurs: stop networking and showing off and get back to work
I actually know that! I own two .me domains and was about to buy .tv domain. Also the .tv domain was launched with high hopes of TV Networks buying enough and paying enough to support the country's economy. Of course that did not happen.

Looks like they were made with the purpose of being abused.
Alternate designs have lots of issues. The most prominent alternative, PGP's web-of-trust, quietly failed in the market (seriously, even most of my cryptographer colleagues don't have (up-to-date) keys).

There is some talk of using DNS to authenticate servers - just stuff a public key into DNSSEC authenticated records - but it'll be a while before that is actually ready. And someone will still have the key to the DNS root, and all of this stuff only works if DNS fails closed (i.e. breaks if there are no signatures), which won't happen anytime soon.
RE: your GitHub section on the right hand side. I couldn't care less how many repos you're watching. I care about what you're committing, its quality, and general use by some (any) community.

However, putting such details into a CV is way, way too specific, IMO. From a perspective of a recruiter, they have literally 30 seconds to be impressed by your CV. How are they possibly going to be able to evaluate the quality of GitHub commits from the top two or three screenfuls of your CV? As an alternative, consider adding links to particular GitHub commits as proof of some skills, e.g.

"I've added end-to-end encryption to ZeroMQ, here's the GitHub commit and a blog post to prove I'm not a charlatan".
Play.com blames Silverpop email service provider for security breach
We're in a New Energy Crisis. This One is Personal.
Looks like a useful too in android dev arsenal with Amazon Appstore launching..is there some type of blog post, etc as I would like to do some type of post for ChicagoAndroid.com which I am a member of..
I myself run a little magazine about bitcoin that is hosted on a VPS that I pay in bitcoin. I even own a domain name that I paid in bitcoin.

What kind of exchange rate on bitcoin to USD did you get on these purchases?
Not in anything I've seen, about 50 different extensions including context menus, blockers, all sorts I'd call major.
So, where's the "Congrats on Shipping" cake from the Ruby on Rails devs?

edit: Or maybe one from CakePHP would be more appropriate.
Are your paying clients the same people clamouring for open-source?
sounds impressive but this is a exception, not the norm

there are many areas where certification/practice needs prerequisite qualifications eg surgeon, attorney, airline pilot

if the course is highly competitive/lucrative like say with IIT or AIIMS in india, expect litigations
Internet Explorer 9 Launched What makes it different?
Did you know about the IE 9 new features that distinguish the browser from others and may appeal to the users. Internet Explorer 9 features for better browsing.
Google Lifts Ban on BTQ After Two Weeks
Senators to Apple: Pull iPhone DUI checkpoint alert apps
Apologies, I'd not meant to appear thick. I'm just suggesting that there need not be a distinction. Pricing innovations in the desktop space can also apply to the web space.

Subscription means you have to convince the customer that enough value is being delivered consistently to make them feel comfortable paying month after month automatically. Single purchase means you only have to convince a customer that value is being delivered right now. The single purchase decision is a much lower decision hurdle.

In the real world, single purchase decisions vastly outweigh subscription purchases in both value and volume. So why do web apps, lemming like, aim at the higher hurdle? As the responses to your question suggest, unless you are netflix that is usually insurmountable. Even well proven physical subscription models (newspapers, magazines) are having a hard time making the subscription model work on-line. Hence the fallback to advertising revenue or hoping to be bought out.

If you can't give the customer something real, tangible and permanent now then you automatically assign yourself the tougher challenge of convincing them that the site will still be around, functioning and delivering value into the future.

Example: $20 gets you into our web app. All your needs met and delivered to you in Excel/OpenOffice/GoogleDocs format...whatever. This is yours to keep forever and you get one year free access to our fantastic service and all its upgrades.

I've a few more specific ideas, but I'm saving them for the day I decide to ditch my life as a well paid corporate drone.

Wait - just thought of another one. Its not on my list, suffers from a need to get physical and has probably already been done, but illustrates that a single purchase, subscription-like model is possible in theory.

webPrint.now Dump a digital image on webPrint.now and we'll get a high quality physical print to you overnight. A gazillion file formats supported. Sizes from tiny to gigantic. [Single purchases, but repeat customers will be the best business.]
Ask HN: Catching a domain as it drops from Namecheap?
I've got my eye on a domain which is expiring in the next 30 days - other than Pool.com, Snapnames.com, and NameJet.com, is there anywhere else I should be backordering the domain? It's currently registered at Namecheap -
why not use something like Dwolla which is dollar denominated

One of the big advantage of bitcoin as I see it is that it is not pinned to a single country, it is a truly international currency. Pegging it to the dollar would reduce its attractiveness for many people.
Ask HN: Review my startup - GrexIt: Build a Knowledge Base out of your email
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Would love to know your thoughts and suggestions !
Google Hits Another Speedbump on Way to Digitizing World
It's still the slowest.. Proper tests here http://uk.gizmodo.com/5784454/browser-speed-tests-firefox-4-...

From what I saw in the arstech article, the graphics are somewhere between bulkly ie8, and super clean Opera. Has any FF user used another browser properly and gone back for something other than extensions? It really does seem to suck from what I see. And now Opera and Safari have a lot of good extensions, FF should be dying out, but it probably won't.
Figuring out a way around the standardized admissions process is the admissions process for nonstandard applicants.

This is no different than anything else in life, from job applications to pitching a client, and the world hasn't changed as much as you seem to imply.
If you open-source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) then competitors would be prohibited from re-using your code without applying the same license to their codebase.

Would looking at your code be sufficient to put you at a disadvantage or would preventing competitors from re-using your code be a sufficient defence?

edit: Sorry, it's actually the GNU General Public License (GPL).
What did you prefer from FF that wasn't in Opera?
Swarm Robots Evolve Deception
How to Create an HTML5 and CSS3 AJAX-Based Contact Form
Countless modules and plug-ins for simplifying functionality have been developed using the various JavaScript libraries. These include slideshows, image galleries and even contact forms. In the case of a web-based email contact form, we are required to delve into two separate application fields.In this article, we’ll first look into the PHP back-end code that is used to send the emails from a web server.
Google says Microsoft patent lawsuit threatens innovation
Radiation Hardening 101: How To Protect Nuclear Reactor Electronics
I'm curious which American accent sounds "borderline-racist".
e-gold primarily failed in the marketplace, like all the other gold currencies. This was really of a piece with PGP and the other cypherpunk notions: they didn't take off because people were not yet invested enough in their digital lives to care. It was largely experience with this that brought me to the conclusion that the end of privacy is inevitable.

I wrote the software behind two of e-gold's "major" competitors, and contracted for e-gold as well very briefly, so I'm not exactly unbiased, by the way. I don't know much about BitCoin, though.
I can assure you, after graduation virtually no one cares about BA vs BS. All they see is Berkeley.

The level of your technical skills is entirely up to you.
I had a go in this space a while ago with Hecl ( http://www.hecl.org ) but I think things, sooner or later, will probably head towards Javascript. Way too many people know it, and it's already deployed everywhere.
Cognitive Radio and Game Theory
New Ashley Tisdale Hot Pictures and Wallpapers Gallery
Consider whether your arguments apply to any other good in the economy and what makes education unique. It isn't.

You have no way of knowing whether education is underfunded because you don't know what distortions exist in the education system. In any case, it is likely that choice would produce a better outcome than the existing system for the same cost.
Interesting stuff.

My major problem with advertising is the old classic: as soon as your revenue comes from ads, your customers are not your users/viewers/readers, they're your advertisers. And that promotes a mentality that isn't very customer-friendly - even if you think you can steer against that, it has a tendancy to sneak in through the side window.

(I speak from experience here. It's easy to start thinking "Hmm, could we get an extra page view there?" instead of "Hmm, how can we make this better?")

There's a reason that HBO have a string of awesome, critically-acclaimed series. It's because they're very good at what they do. But I suspect the revenue model might also have something to do with it.
When I was learning to program there was no Internet and there were preciously few technical books on the market. Often I had to resort to trial and error, where error could easily mean watching my machine rebooting, since there was little memory protection. Obviously I now see the world with different eyes, but it seems to me that today's computing world is much more suited to self-learning.
Hasn't also VMWare announced some kind of Android hypervisor recently? In that case, I feel that a product by a small startup may have trouble getting enough attention if it is also closed-source.

(But beware of taking business advice from me, who am not running a company)
Ohh, the future! Hmm... Has somebody checked if the size has some sort of golden ratio in it?
The deconstruction of launch pad 39B (space related)
Your daughter is lucky to have a parent with a good sense of humor.
My brain works better next day.
I'm on a netbook too (old one: 901), and FF is my preferred desktop/dev browser, but Runfield is unplayably slow in FF4(2-3fps maybe) on my netbook, whereas Chrome (10.0.6b) feels like it's hitting 15-20fps.
Does not apply for macbook pro 13 and iphone 3g. So I am guessing it depends on which macbook air you get be it 11 or 13 inch.
Props to you for your determination, hard work and perseverance. I think it speaks very well of your then maturity when you look at the way you approached what is, for most young adults, a very intimidating process.
Working Money
When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Albert Shanker - past president of the American Federation of Teachers
Leanthingy: Help Startups Pursue Worthwhile Ideas
Smokers also know that smoking is dangerous.

Banning apps like iSmokeit would be like imposing your morality on the rest of the world, even if there are well-behaved smokers out there that only smoke in their own private space.

On the other hand apps that help you quit smoking are OK, since smoking IS bad for you in the long-run and dependency on smoking IS a treatable vice.
My opinion is that many people hate autotools because they don't understand them. It was designed to handle just about any crazy build scenario you can throw at it -- of course it going to be a little complex.

I started by spending a few hours forcing myself to read the following. It explains how autotools works and (importantly) why.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_...

It is critical to understand what the autotools are actually doing before you just go and copy'n'paste somebody else's configure.ac and/or Makefile.am.

When you are ready to get your feet wet, here is a really good quick summary from the GNOME project:

http://library.gnome.org/users/anjuta-build-tutorial/2.26/cr...

Once you understand what is going on, finding specifics in the GNU manuals (and being able to interpret them) is much easier. Yes, you should understand how m4 works (it's not rocket science).
I'm not claiming that Apple does not have the right to curate their property as they see fit.

I, on the other hand - apart from not buying their products - have the right to observe that Apple Inc represents a bunch of unprincipled hypocrits.

I hope this helps.
So as someone who has just started my first Django project, is there any reason not to immediately switch to 1.3?
Stock trades to exploit speed of light
Sounds like Microsoft has never heard of the Carlito's Bakery or Charm City Cakes. Considering M$'s size I think the cake could have been a hell of a lot cooler.
Hey great to hear MVP works I was beginning to doubt the model :-)
Bertrand Serlet to leave Apple
maybe they just like using a specific radius for the corners of their products
I am glad at least one person understood the point I was making. I think the average HNer overestimates the rationality of the average consumer.
So, maybe IE isn't a great browser, but it still has actual people working on it. I bet at least one person on the IE team uses Firefox or Chrome in the office for regular browsing.

Think of it this way: The people who work on IE are probably well aware of the areas that need improvement. They might not get to make the decisions about where the work is focused. There may not even be enough effort available to put into major changes. Then there's the issue of backwards compatibility that plagues Microsoft products.

Microsoft is full of really nice people and talented developers. This is a gracious gesture.
How is it at risk of a feedback loop in a way that other currencies aren't?

It seems bitcoins defend specifically against hyper inflation by limiting the number of coins that will ever be produced.
TNW probably encounters a lot of people who do more pitching than working. They hardly ever hear from people who do too much working and not enough pitching. It's my impression that HN has more of the latter. This article is terrible advice for them.

More generally applicable advice is the "rule of thirds" described in the middle of Chris Brogan's blog post that I just submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359099
Zappos Stops Shipping to Canada
If the newly generated address is on your local machine, and it's a new client.. you will have to verify the block chain before you can conduct transactions. Probably you are blocking it up.. I got my .05 bitcoins right away.