skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, how do they have a monopoly on portable music players? They have a very popular player, of which they are the sole manufacturer, and require you to use their software.

The free market has plenty of alternatives, though not as good if you ask me, if you do not like their solution you are free to purchase another. There's nothing monopolistic about having a hugely successful product.
I think HN has seen enough snarky comments for a while. I would request everyone try and abstain from content-free comments.
Actually, it's quite possible that much of what we think of as Quicktime will go away in OSX 10.7.

Apple has tried modernizing Quicktime with something called QTKit/Quicktime X. iOS did away with this altogether and instead uses something called AVFoundation. OSX 10.7 includes an OSX version of AVFoundation.

It's not 100% clear to me what the relationship between the two on OSX will be, but I'm guessing that Apple has given up on modernizing Quicktime and is just replacing it with AVFoundation.

This can't really come quickly enough. If Windows users are tired of Quicktime, well... it behaves a lot better on OSX if you're an end-user, but programming for Quicktime is a pain. In particular, programming codec plug-ins is horrible. The basic Quicktime architecture still deals with FSSpecs, memory handles, the old Component Manager, and API artifacts relating to the old code fragment manager from the pre-OSX days. Quicktime is probably the one big chunk of code in OSX that still dates from pre-OSX days and hasn't been re-implemented in terms of something more modern like Core Foundation.
Yes I really it.

I hope you succeed with it, (and that YouTube goes the route of hiring you rather than shutting you down!)

On my wish list for your app would be the ability to synchronize two browsers to the same stream....
JetBrains releases pre-beta Objective-C IDE
I needed to use Photoshop exactly twice (essentially to import existing photoshop files) in the past 3 years. Mind you, I didn't buy it. However, I would probably have bought a one month subscription.
Run any Android apps on Windows with Bluestacks.
Sony drops Geohot suit
Just because you are not "good" enough to get into YC does not mean you are doomed. I have many friends who have started companies that make >10M year that would have zero shot of getting into YC. YC is great for many reasons, but is not a prerequisite to business success.
Come on man, stop spamming your startup here. Two iWagerr posts in three hours, four or five in the past week?

You could accomplish the same thing by writing and submitting company blog posts and no one would complain.
I think HN has seen enough comments telling everyone else how to behave.

Edit: Apparently folks like being told what to do. shrug Carry on then.
I currently live in Atlanta, GA. I enjoy it here, but I live in the city. I wouldn't even consider moving outside the perimeter. So, you need a better qualification. Personally, I'd be fine living in any large city regardless of location and I wouldn't consider a small city/town regardless of location. I also went to Georgia Tech and find that there is a strong tech culture in the area if you know where to go. (I assume the research triangle in NC and other cities in the south with universities or large tech companies like Huntsville would be similar)

I grew up in the north east, so I'm not a native southerner.

EDIT:
apparently he's from Memphis, TN... I don't know much about that area.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2398318
The RIAA at least demands money (albeit only a few thousand dollars). If the agreement here is as the announcement seems to suggest (injunction only), it'd be as if the RIAA settled for just an injunction directing the person not to pirate their songs in the future, with no exchange of money. Most RIAA suit targets would probably take that settlement offer without complaint, and it wouldn't have much deterrent effect.
> This stuff is all free, and is all fully capable of allowing you to do work.

That depends on the work you need to do. I don't pirate software on principle, so I used to use exactly those three applications, along with OpenOffice, for my everyday needs. However, when I started needing tools to do real work for real money, my perspective changed: the glaring weaknesses in the OSS software compared to the serious professional tools made it easily worth dropping £1,000+ on things like CS5.

In the interests of fairness, since "glaring weaknesses" is a somewhat strong term, I will list a few of the more obvious ones:

- No serious typography support (e.g., using OpenType features; flexible antialiasing for screen graphics; flexible H&J settings).

- No serious colour support (e.g., integrating Pantone spot colours).

- No layer styles.

The Adobe apps have their problems, to be sure, but on even these basic points the "competition" is lagging many years behind.
Nice write-up!

+1 for Monty Python reference. :)
Thank God. I thought this would be another condescending post about how kids these days think they know everything and just need to learn how to listen to their elders because they know everything.
Yes, Haskell's such an awesome language only partly because of the cool technology. The community and its leaders are the real secret sauce.
I don't see why, its a perfectly cromulent word.

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromulent#Embiggen_and_cromulen... ]
Ok, I found it now. If you select Sim Card, but they still ask you the IMEI number, and you can have only one phone per simcard. They tie it together.

With T-Mobile, just change phone, as long as it works for you, it works for T-Mobile.
It's not that much better than dialup and certainly not within the unlimited use that your article suggested.
this is the most difficult domain name to remember that I've seen in a long time.
So, I don't know mark - but lets assume the personality he was portrayed with in the first portion of the movie were fairly accurate; He was portrayed as a highly intelligent, social misfit with rather pronounced aspergers and extreme ambition to climb the social ladder.

Further he was depicted as having a certain level of jealousy for his buddies getting tapped by the social group he was interested in, in addition to already holding the fraternity the twins belonged to with reverence.

So, assuming these factors were true - there i no indication that he made any attempt to determine what sort of value the twins really could have provided to the site.

Clearly, history has shown that he was able to pull it off without them - yet at the same time you could guess that the twins would have been able to easily back the creation and provide high-level connections for the site.

So, it would seem apparent that truly this was a greed/control play on marks part.

There is no way he would have believed that any material resources the site would have needed could not have been provided for - but rather that any control of the idea and company he would have to give up was unacceptable.

This is understandable, but it further just proves out the fact that he agreed to help them upon the first meeting, had a clear spark of inspiration on what needed to be done to create it and only dragged the twins along to keep them at bay while he executed on the idea. Pretty slimy.
Google Rolls Out Its Panda Update Internationally
Sony settles with George Hotz
If you test run fails twice, TDGotchi is upset.

I believe that should be "If your test run fails twice, TDGotchi is upset."
Agreed! The world of POS and other small business database software is HUGE. The last non-coding job I had was working in retail and the boss had just laid down something like $25,000 for the worst point of sale system conceivable. Most of that was support, training, and installation.
It was taken directly from the article -- "today, many users are so reliant on search that it's undermining their problem-solving abilities" -- and made to fit in 80 characters.
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This is the important part of what you've read:

19 On March 31,2011, Hotz met with SCEA representatives and the Parties entered
20 a confidential Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing to settle the dispute between
21 them.

There's another document (that won't be revealed unless someone leaks it) that details what was actually agreed to.
I didn't essentially admit the point, I strongly agree with it. I'm just trying to put the idea out there that we shouldn't limit our attention to for-profits. I'm sure some for-profits do a good job, and I'm sure many non-profits don't.

I suspect the majority of crappy schools are non-profits, simply because most colleges are non-profits. I strongly favor reigning in all crappy schools, I merely oppose limiting our efforts to for-profits.
Sorry about that, as I noted in another comment, I used page views in the numerator and unique visitors in the denominator. I've updated the article with the appropriate percentages.
Gartner Says Apple iOS to Dominate the Media Tablet Market Through 2015
If your compiler is smart enough (i.e. you are programming in clean, or use Haskell's GHC) the `copy penalty' can be zero for objects that only have "one future", i.e. you only ever keep one copy of your structure. (And that's still cleaner and safer than mutable structures.)

The `copy penalty' for multiple uses of your objects, say a = update1 (x), b = update2 (x), does not depend so much on the size of your object as one the amount of sharing you can do. Immutable objects allow sharing. For mutable ones you have to work much harder.
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The headline was taken directly from the article: "today, many users are so reliant on search that it's undermining their problem-solving abilities".
Clicky: http://www.flattermecalls.com
Rethinking Compiler Design
3taps and Creative Commons Hackathon in SF (April 23rd)
IPad Giveaway and Celebrating Buy 1 + Get 1 Deal
Themify now offers Buy 1 Get 1 free WordPress theme. Basically, you get one bonus theme for the same price group with any theme purchase. To celebrate this deal, they are going to giveaway a brand new Apple iPad2. To enter this contest, all you have to do is follow @themify and tweet a message. The contest ends on Apr 29, 2011.
Hey, you can snark at me if you want, I'm just telling you what it looks like. Posting "review my app" over and over again and multiple times a day isn't helping you and it's not adding any value to HN.

A good rule of thumb is to try to add more value than you capture. For example, try writing and submitting blog posts talking about your experiences with iWagerr. You'll gain a lot more traction and feedback that way. Good luck.
How To Advertise On Facebook And Lower Your PPC
In this post we discuss how by taking the road less traveled in social media marketing we lowered our cost per click
Same story, different source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2433965
IPhone 5 Production Starting In September
Most PS3 owners care about playing games, watching DVDs, maybe playing some streaming media, etc. As long as those things work, they'll have no interest in who actually controls the machine. They'll certainly have no interest in hacking the guts of the console to turn it into a flaky general purpose computer. There's a good chance they already have plenty of those around. And since they get no utility from the hacks but do pay some costs, it seems perfectly rational to pick the "wrong" side from your perspective.

Which isn't to say that Sony has handled this well: they're still incompetent and Evil.
They rely on not-full time designers using pirated Photoshop.
Control your phone with a magnetic ring
Employees of phone companies generally? No, of course not.

Employees who have access to the wire-tap systems? I'm sure they do.
> Scandinavian and European countries provide unlimited medicine to whoever wants it?

I didn't say that. I just pointed out that they have free public health care and to me it seems they are spending less and are a healthier country. Now yes, I don't have hard evidence for you but is just my general impression. The point was that it is possible in theory and in practice to provide it.

> how come they are still poorer than the US?

Disagree with that. Look at the income distribution across the population. Look at other social indicators not just GDP. What is the life expectancy, crime, general health, and happiness of the population.

> I see very little that is convincing.

Sorry. It is just my personal oponion and impressions. Take it for what it's worth (probably nothing for you). Maybe someone else has a pointer to some hard data...
I think a better title for the post is "Bundler makes it easy to fork RubyGems for your project."

Its great info to know that bundler allows this:

gem "gem_name", :git => "git://github.com/your_github_username/your_fork.git"
So short answer -> you will be able to provide significant contribution! I would recommend also trying to get your head around things that are possible in code rather than coding itself, so you are able to analyze scenarios. e.g., keep a table of patients and medications on the server, serve reminders on the doctors smartphone, call up best rated doctor, or whatever. Also, try to understand what is not possible, e.g., automatic algorithm to diagnose (too complicated).
Not sure about Illustrator but Photoshop makes upgrades pretty compelling by adding sexy new features. Like the content-aware fill in CS5 - novel/useful/fun enough to make everyone want to give it a go. Generated a ton of conversation pre-launch and likely contributed to a lot of new sales and upgrades.
Strangely, the one at appspot.com isn't using SSL, but it is going over SPDY anyway according to Chrome.
The law is not clear. Not on this matter, anyway. There's a lot of legal precedent in favor of Hotz, but not enough to conclusively say that what he did is, strictly speaking, legal or illegal.

The fact of the matter is that because they settled, that question will not be answered. It won't be, until someone stands their ground and forces the issue all the way to the Supreme Court.
Duostack automatically manages horizontal scaling of your app and vertical scaling of your database.

Auto-scaling is a killer feature, platforms like Heroku or DotCloud do not support this.

Can someone explain how this will work, and the pricing? It looks like it's a matter of setting "Instances" and "Connection Concurrency" but the docs are WIP (no explanation on how the latter is different from the first):
http://docs.duostack.com/ruby/paid-features#pricing
It always warms my heart when I see people in the legal system get it right. I think slowly more and more people are entering that profession with a modicum of understanding of modern technology and how companies have been preying on the ignorance of the previous generation to bully their way to profitability.

Note that the ignorance of the previous generation is not said as a slight. I'm sure my children's generation will be rolling their eyes at the things I say and do 20-30 years from now.
I like the Open Screen project and I agree that SWF is a minimally open standard, but to say that Flash is open, enough to code a competitive Flash player, is misleading.

There's enough behavior that a practical Flash player needs to implement that isn't in the Open Screen spec (error handling in particular) that creating your own Flash player for general content on the web produced by Adobe Flash, and not just carefully-vetted SWF's, is hard.

But at least Adobe stopped threatening legal action against anyone who implemented their own Flash player.

Edit: Open Page? Open Screen. Oops...
Politicians can be incredibly dumb, but I don't think any of them are dumb enough to make it illegal to access facebook over SSL.
Actually, I'm wondering what Haskell has to do with any of this at all.

You're comparing the size of the current incarnation of a fairly modern functional programming runtime with the capacity of computers that existed 10 years before the first incarnation was realised...

The only message I can take from that is that programs today are quite big. That's only really interesting from a nostalgic point of view, I don't see what relevance it has to the discussion of mutability?

Of course, I could have missed something obviously significant here...
Did Adobe copy my idea?
Adobe's new product "Photoshop Nav" looks identical to one I talked about on
the 21st August 2010 on HackerNews, I would love to know where they got the idea from?

My Product: http://hotkeys.gameweaver.com/

Adobe's Product: http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile/nav

HackerNews Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1622890
On OSX, I can accept this argument, because Quicktime is the primary codec... repository(for lack of a better word) for basically everything on the OS.

However, I don't think it's the case for Windows or Linux. On those systems, it should just be another codec/browser plugin. Playing Quicktime videos should be the same as any other codec, so I don't really understand why it's not possible to sandbox it like Flash.
I like Opacity. It's a simple vector based program that makes it easy to export images at multiple resolutions.

http://likethought.com/opacity/
Leverage Your Startup’s Origin Story To Reinforce Your Mission & Values
How to Find Keywords that Will Get You Paying Customers
For me, the damage to Sony has already been done. I will never buy another Sony product as long as I live.
Normally when restricted stock grants vest, doesn't the recipient have the option to pay the tax by having the company withhold the requisite number of shares?

Isn't this similar in form to a restricted stock grant (in the sense that there wasn't just a substantial risk of forfeiture, they were claiming that their interest had been wrongly forfeited)? Could the Winklevoss's exercise the share withholding option in this case?
When Lockheed Martin was buying a company I was with a few years ago - the company was telling the employees that the private stock price was X. And that they were not going to sell the company.

Then, when the deal came through - the sale price was effectively 20% of the price that was previously told all the employees, and that any employees that joined the company in the last 12 months would receive nothing for their shares.

They additionally, gave executive stock bonuses to the C-level team to compensate for the difference between the original stated price and the ultimate selling price.

Further, they didn't allow any ESPP and gave no lockheed stock to any employees (except the C-Level).

Had the employees been allowed to exchange their stock options dividends for money to buy Lockheed stock for street value - the employees would have made out ok - lockheeds stock tripled in the next 12 months due to the war on terror.

Instead - they sold into Lockheed and had no incentive package for any new employees, fucked over existing employees and any employees who were there for <12 months got nothing.

Employees pretty much left after that - and HR had no answer as to how they were incentivising any new hires with anything more than a paycheck.
My first iOS app back in 2008 was made for my young kids. A few of the key design points that went into it:

* Design for right-to-left action, so that when kids tap the screen with the pointer finger of their (most likely) right hand, the rest of their hand doesn't hide the screen. I'm still not sure why so many apps are built left-to-right...

* There are no popups, menus or screens changes for kids to get lost in. Anywhere they can touch the screen, something fun happens.

* Settings are hidden away in the lame phone-wide settings, so that kids don't land in there by accident.

TowerSmash, 99c - http://itunes.apple.com/app/towersmash/id293910534?mt=8
Effort is multiplicative. While 50% of your effort might provide $500k of value to a company, 100% of your effort might be worth nothing without the structure and support provided by that company.
It prevents him from doing whatever's in the injunction order.

... Which is under seal, and will only ever be seen by the parties in the case, the Court clerk, and the Judge.
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How Development Looks Different When You’re Changing the World
Silicon Valley's Nebulous Money Network
Or various commodoties or stocks perhaps? "You've just spent two barrels of oil, or one share of google stock."
Accurate enough to provide a chuckle to anybody familiar with Wu-Tang Clan. Funny most associations we're made to the Paypal mafia.
Apple's gift to mankind was to ban(ish) Flash.

Facebook's was to ban(ish) QuickTime.

QuickTime feels like something that should have gone the way of the dodos, back when RealPlayer disappeared into obscurity.

After RealPlayer, QuickTime became the worst software experience on Windows. (iTunes comes in right after.)
Indeed. According to the Internet (which is always reliable): "There are two common British pronunciations, [neesh] and [nitch], the first perhaps being more highly regarded. The US pronunciation is always [nitch]."

Source:
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/english/dat...
I have not, but my concern would be becoming dependent on a third party Flash development tool for my workflow, and then being left behind as Adobe adds new features to the runtime unsupported by the IDE I'm using, or worse, that they find a way to break content created with the competing IDE. I don't think such a possibility would be all that unexpected, given Adobe's competitive nature and refusal to cede control of the runtime.
Too F*ing addictive
One big, big reason for me that this is useful is I can now install IdeaVIM and have a real VIM environment for editing Objective-C with code completion.

The JetBrains guys are wizards and likely will disrupt XCode the way they did to Visual Studio.
HTML5 video won't work in Safari for Windows unless you also have Quicktime installed.
A single payer NHS actually does change the overall cost of healthcare: the UK pays about half as much per person as the US does for its healthcare system as a whole with no noticeable difference in measured effects.

The reason is simply market forces: people import drugs to the US from Canada because the power of single payer there changes what pharmaceutical companies can charge Canadians for drugs. The UK pays less for drugs, doctors, the whole shebang. Operations are cheaper in the UK and Canada (not to mention the rest of the world, which is more extreme in general), period.

The takehome point is simple: pretending that consumers must be price-takers for any good as vital as healthcare entitles producers to arbitrary profit. I hope not to spend all my savings on healthcare and my best hope is to get some kind of market power, be that from an insurance company or the government.