skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Reminds me of the protection put into the game Earthbound (Mother 2) on the SNES. If it detected it was being run on a cart copier it would inject glitches at certain points that made it almost impossible to beat, including freezing the game at the beginning of the final boss fight and then erasing all the saved games. Video is below.

I agree with both sides on this issue. These are quite innovative techniques to protect the developer's bottom line, but they can be aggravating to some people that mistakenly end up on the wrong end of the fight. Personally, the issues you addressed, the one I mentioned and the article linked here are all common in that they are implemented in video games, which is (hopefully) only developed for entertainment purposes. I don't see much of an issue in doing so with games. Don't get me wrong, people put a lot of time and effort into playing games, myself included, and for the developer to potentially write some function that erases all my games or makes it impossibly hard to have fun using his product is mean. But, it's just a game.

If Microsoft was to do the same idea and erase all Word documents on my computer if it detected my copy of Office was non-genuine could potentially devastating if I didn't have backups ready. I've already been caught in their Genuine Advantage filter with a legitimate license. I'd definitely rally behind and movement to prevent office or business software from doing something like this.

Point being, the developer of Garrys mod is frustrated that people are taking his product illegally in order to entertain themselves. They aren't pirating the game to help cure diseases or end world hunger, they're taking it to entertain only themselves. It's just a game, and he's trying to have fun with the people that are pirating it who don't need to be using it to begin with. At least with this particular incident, false positives can be checked and remedies can be put in place for those few instances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmyoV1bkXNI
Source code geolocation — track your source
Moniker have comparatively terrible security though, don't keep your important domains there.
I think they're already doing STT client-side in Android

Not client-side, or I would use it more often (lot of dead spots near my house due to the peculiar geography).
Usually it's 4 weeks in Germany [0], but you have at least 9 statutory holidays in addition.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...
People need ideas in every job. In order to get paid and be legitimate you need to execute on those ideas. As a product storyteller, you need to help the group align their individual ideas and execute on a grander scale.

Honestly, I am in the same position trying to find my value at a small startup.

The article did a great job describing the overall value of the job, but lacked any specific ways to contribute. However, a small company needs a lot of help. I think first try to understand your strengths align with the goals of the company, especially how you can help your peers.

Then contribute what you can whether its writing, code, art, or whatever. Use the means of communication that helps you and your team succeed.
They have one: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/domain.html

I've never used it, so can't speak for the quality/services though.
First quarter PC forecast: Windows down 2%, Mac+iPad up 250%
:-D

No, I am just a plain and simple paranoid.
Dear RIM, I'm your customer and I don't wear a suit
Written by guys from Nitobi (of PhoneGap fame). Published recently, but may be a little bit dated (due to the long editorial ACM Queue cycle, I presume)
>I believe the way they enforce those conditions is to file a lawsuit

Yes, that's what happened.

>I suppose it's possible for the court to reject the settlement

I know I've heard of it happening.
> really? I need to sort through 32 terminal emulators to use ssh on my Debian machine?

Really?

Unless you installed debian-minimal, and installed the gui piecemeal from there, your system came with a terminal emulator (gnome-terminal or kterm) in a nice menu, which will work perfectly as soon as you type 'ssh myserver.tld'.

Besides, it's not like Prompt is the only terminal emulator/ssh client available on the app store. A quick google reveals there is also iSSH, TouchTerm, Terminal 426, and pTerm.
Google Calendar does this. Just switch to "4 Days" view.
John Doerr agrees too -- "Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6iwEYmbCwk) -- we're going to have to innovate our way out of this.
Yeah, this isn't unique to AOL or even to online subscriptions. A lot of the revenue pulled in by the big chain gyms, for example, is from monthly access fees being pulled from members who haven't been to the gym in months or years and may even have forgotten about the ongoing payment.

Between this situation and the way most companies make it so easy to subscribe (just click here!) and so difficult to cancel (just talk to 5 representatives on the phone, each of who will put you on hold for 20 minutes) I am extremely reluctant to sign up for anything that is vaguely subscription based anymore, but I know I'm probably way in the minority on that so there's still billions to be made here.
The most underrated threats to modern society
Opera 11.10: Fast, Featured...Quirky
I believe they just resell through enom (and maybe godaddy).
MS even wanted about that much for me to upgrade to a version of Vista that supported the 64 bit chip that came with the machine on which they had put Vista. That machine became a dual-boot with Fedora and I was on the road to Linux-land.
I too finally moved away from GoDaddy and had trouble finding a good domain registrar. I ended up going with EasyDNS after I saw how they handled being wrongly associated with pulling Wikileak's domain.
I learned that she had a 2 hour commute to work every day, which was killing her … because the company had a formal no-work-from-home policy. Needless to say I created a new policy and she was granted work-from-home Wednesdays.

Why was the no-work-from-home policy ever created? Did employees just stay home and lie about their work?

I take the 37Signals-type approach on anything like this, don't create rules or policies until they solve a real problem (not just a hypothetical problem).
I might of missed it, but are you using Google Apps (free) or Google Apps for business ? http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html
Yes, because we all know that when we run these systems outselves, they never go down.
Some cultures are more strict about office hours than others. In German culture it is normal to expect someone to be there on time and leave on time, and to never stray from the norm. I had to shake that up a bit.
I kind of get the feeling that that's coming. I have no proof, of course, but I just have the feeling that Apple isn't satisfied with the current setup, either.

Indeed, we saw the Mac App Store launch as a separate application instead of being jammed into iTunes.

It's a lot easier to make new things separate than to break up all the existing stuff. I imagine the iTunes break-up will come, I just hope it doesn't take too long to get there.
IIRC, in "Founders at Work", I think it was Vinod Khosla, who suggested to Excite (@Home) founders to have an unequal split based on a set of criteria, or it'll get ugly later (I'm paraphrasing). And I think it makes sense. Dividing everything equally amongst founders may make sense in the simplistic cases, but more often than not, people of varying capacities/skills come together to form a startup. It's better to not ignore those inequalities and design a split that address that upfront.
I had a hard time trying to use irssi inside screen. On each new line it would refresh some 10-15 times and usually clutter most of the bottom half of the screen. Definitely still needs work. With these problems fixed, it might well become the finest iOS SSH app there is.
Business. We pay them $50/user, for quite a few users. Thanks for the clarification, I've edited the top paragraph to make that clearer.
Crazy for consumers? RIM is insane
Breakthrough in vision? 
At least this looks better than the kinect and it uses webcams and is under the GPL!

I'm a layman in vision so I can't judge if this really is a breakthrough and I know the video alone, is at least 3 months old. But since I haven't seen it before, I thought others might be just as excited as I am.
I concur, I consistently read his posts while not being particularly interested in ruby.
I've had great luck with dyndns.com too. They charge ~double ($15) what GoDaddy does for domain reg but the service has been solid in the 8 or so years I've used them.
I'm pretty sure Portland based companies take more than a 40% cut in valuation and funding rounds, vs. SF based companies. (not saying this is a good thing, just that it is observed)

There is a weird valley (which Portland is still kind of close to the "uphill" side of, which SF/NYC probably are the top of) where sufficiently remote or small places are cheaper for a lot of things (real estate, mass market locally produced goods like restaurants and cafes, probably generic developers or IT helpdesk people), but then more expensive for certain specialized skills (if you absolutely must have one of the world's top 100 experts in COBOL working for your remote office in North Dakota for 2 months, you're going to have to pay him more than to have him work from SF).
You can already do some of those things in a 3rd party app via API (except for in-app purchases and iTunes authentication). Of course there are downsides like the AppleScript API kind of sucks and you need iTunes app running for it to work.

However to really become a platform iTunes needs to move to the cloud. Let's hope Apple will get it right with their rumored iTunes streaming service.
Yes, I should have explicitly stated it was linking to a screenshot on droplr.

Apologies.
I'm getting a "Network Error (dns_server_failure)" when I try to load the site.
Beautiful to look at, but some UI problems and bugs still exist unfortunately.
Why does any company spend money on building a browser?

Microsoft provides a range of different development tools and programming languages for web development. There is the modern stuff such as ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc, but lets not forget VBScript, ActiveX, etc, the latter not widely supported by other browsers.

Microsoft has more to lose technology wise by dumping its browser than the other companies do.
If you can drop $70k/night, do you really need airBnB to secure an island for a week?

Definitely more marketing stunt than anything, but also definitely brilliant.
Do they kick out all the 34,000 people that live that for the time? What do you actually get?
IE9 on win7 is slick, lightning fast graphics. Look for their fishie demo.

By having a browser on one platform they can use hardware acceleration on the browser making a win for both and keeping their hold on both.

That's the theory anyway. They'll probably screw it up bit that's the theory.
Really?? In what regard?
I'm guilty of this. I don't check my statement every month (I try to catch up on Mint at least every 3 though), and I have in the past forgotten to unsubscribe to something and paid a couple of months before realizing it. It's especially easy with online stuff that uses a 3rd party billing service. Even if you read your statements you might confuse what the charge is in reference to.
If their users aren't paying them money, then they're not Spotify's customers, they're the product Spotify is selling to advertisers.

Spotify's audio adverts can be really intrusive - it's definitely not something you'd want to cut in during a party.
I use both in Firefox. Ghostery sometimes blocks trackers that ABP doesn't. E.g: I didn't find google-analyitics in ABP's EasyList.
Spotify Puts New Caps on Free Music (and Knows You'll Hate It)
The article answers its own question. It's hard because it's a commodity business. Customer acquisition costs eat up all the margin. Trying to differentiate the product costs money which would result in raising prices, which results in losing customers, most of whom choose on price and then complain about quality. So, it's a race to the bottom - everyone trying to cut costs (other than marketing) to the bare minimum so they can reduce prices as far as possible. All the money goes to marketing, and none goes into improving the quality of the offering.

It's very similar to airlines. We all complain about bag fees and charging for meals or extra legroom, but it's we the customers who have driven them there by making price our primary, if not sole, criteria for vendor selection.
I love ConnectBot. Is there a way to hit CTRL + arrows?
The level of scrutiny to get an approval to release any meaningful part of the Shuttle flight software would be almost insuperable. "Open-sourcing it" is utterly out of the question.

However, this is not because there is secret communications tech on board.

It's because any "space-based technology" is covered by ITAR, and the US government has signaled (in the case I referenced, and others) that the gloves are off. It's not just fining the companies concerned, it's filing criminal charges against the involved individuals. This has been true for some years now, and the crystallizing event was the Intelsat incident above, which caused a multifaceted furor that resists summarization.

A case in point. I worked on a project to analyze ISS (space station) engineering data. We needed to look at the currents flowing through a motor on ISS that controls orientation of the solar panels. For publications released in the open literature, we were not allowed to label the axes on any of these motor currents. We were not allowed to have foreign nationals (such as, say, a Canadian grad student) working on the project.

The point being, any information about space-based systems is covered by ITAR, and the standard of scrutiny is very high.
I agree with the assessment that this "storyteller" sounds like an ideas douchebag. I work with a ton of them, believe me. But some of them do have value and here's how- the way an ideas douchebag proves her value is by selling great stories to clients. Giving that great presentation that makes people sign on the dotted line. Closing. That's a good ideas douchebag.
A few things:
1) There's an old game called Rocky's Boots, it subtly teaches engineering basics and is fun as hell. If you haven't checked it out yet, most definitely do.
2) Regarding computer teachers, krschmidt is definitely right. Teachers mostly do want to teach to the district guidelines because technology advances too rapidly for them and they want colleagues to be able to benchmark and bounce ideas with. The English literature canon doesn't change much, so those teachers feel they have a little more leeway.
3) Your market may be parents who want their kids to know how to program, especially homeschoolers. I don't know how large that market is, but it's definitely worth exploring.
The Droid Fonts Story
I found the arguments lurched from "Scheme is a Lisp because _____" to "It would be nice if Scheme were abitrarily designated not a Lisp because _____" and possibly "It would be nice if Scheme did not exist because _____." This page needs some editing to put the arguments onto a common basis for comparison.

There are three things being discussed, two of which are relevant to the title and one which is not. First, what test or tests define whether language X is a Lisp. Second, does Scheme pass these tests. Third, is it advantageous to "Lisp" the community or concept or whatever for Scheme to be considered a Lisp.

The third question has nothing to do with whether Scheme is a Lisp as defined by the first two questions.
I actually liked the elephant commercial. I don't see how that commercial makes GoDaddy a terrible company.
NearlyFreeSpeech is, IMO, the only registrar worth using.

It is simple, and the site is clean to a fault. There is zero advertising or service upselling - each page contains what it needs to and nothing else.

They're not the place to go to get cute with your TLDs, but for the standard TLDs, I refuse to go anywhere else. Even well-liked registrars like NameCheap are a big pile of spam in comparison.
After actually documenting his suggestions, only 1 out of 7 concrete suggests are not currently available in Google Calendar. His suggestions, in order:

1) Show only the current day and future days -- Google Calendar does this

2) Can't see when other people are busy or free -- Google Calendar does this (if that person has shared their calendar)

3) Can't see when a group of people have common free time -- Google Calendar does this

4) Get an autoresponse if you invite someone when they are not free -- this is mooted by 2) and 3)

5) Jointed owned calendars -- Google Calendar does this (can give people edit permissions on your calendars)

6) Autoreject invites based on time -- Google Calendar does this

7) Location aware -- OK, gCal doesn't do this.
I hardly know whether to call my infostripe.com operation a startup or not. I've invested in good scalable hosting with rackspace and act as all dev/ceo/marketing roles.. it's early for us but I guess being a startup is a presence of mind in many ways.
The author needs to learn how to use the unfollow button.
Har, har. You're right, the link does not tell the whole story -- it's hard to summarize the situation easily. See my comment to the similar question below.
"An island", not really (usually). "A village" or "an entire country", that's a bit harder - people live there. The location's purpose isn't entirely to be rented. Tourism, absolutely, but not temporary ownership.
As a ContentCreationWiki (ahem), it is saying all these things and more.
Have you tried Tungle.me?
I love Mint for this exact reason. Very easy to check it regularly to make sure you aren't getting double-charged or over-charged on any of your transactions. A few months back it helped me spot some fraudulent charges on my CC before they even cleared.
Ah, good to know. Though I guess GoDaddy with a better admin panel wouldn't be the worst thing. Looks like they also have free whois privacy.
Are you talking about netidentity? They were bought by tucows a while ago and then merged with other divisions to become hover. I'm a hover customer and never had any problems...
One system I'd like to try is basically this:

Standard office hours are from noon to two, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. All meetings should be scheduled during those times. Other than that, people can work where and when they'd like.

This system has a lot of flexibility, encourages people to be in the office a few days a week, but doesn't force them to commute at the same time as the rest of the world.
I've done this quite a bit myself, and I know it can certainly go down.
But at least then I can do something about it..

As it is, it feels like my requests are going into a blackhole. This is very important to us, but to Google, we're just another tiny startup.
I seem to recall having to give them a credit card number to activate the iPad, am I wrong on this? If so, that's a good incentive for them not to offer OTA updates, etc. It puts consumers in front of content for sale, at worst.
When Google breaks, you're basically stuck waiting for them. If your own system breaks, at least you can attempt to fix it.
Delivering Bad News - A Twitter Case Study
Wow, I didn't even think about gym memberships ect, using this as a biz model, but it does make complete sense. People buying memberships on Jan 1 for resolutions and then never going back.
Game Developer Conference : Lua Tutorials (2010)
Why you might choose to be in favor of transparency
It wasnt called predator for nothing....
That is around 75 hrs/week. Please tell me you work for yourself.
Also, that's a room, not an apartment. The house rents for $3K.
Have you seen the Bonfire project? http://ils.intel-research.net/bonfire
Two thoughts here,

1/ Don't add process until it's necessary. Why have office hours, a vacation policy, or any rule that requires employees to expend mental capital on superfluous issues?

2/ If you're to the point when that process is necessary, you probably hired the wrong people (especially in a startup).
Um, yeah, how do you? The answer is: you don't, and now if you want to buy a movie, you can't. So you have no choice but to sneak in again.
Show HN: Postman: "weekend project" Chrome extension for instant link sharing
Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
I've got Home/Down working correctly in my Terminal.app, you've got to go into Preferences->Settings->Keyboard, then scroll down to find the "home" key, click "Edit", and set the action as "send string to shell", and enter "\001" as the string. Repeat for "end", using "\005" as the string.

Caveat - this is how my work laptop is setup, my personal one is set to "\033[H" and "\033[F" for home/end respectively, but it works as well and I don't remember how I set it up. I'm remembering having some issues with the prefs wanting to escape the backslashes so "\003[H" ended up as "\\003[H" or something like that...

For PageUp/PageDown I find that applying the shift key with them does the trick (at least in applications like vim/less). However you can probably apply a similar trick for them in the prefs.

The Control key (jumping word boundaries) works sometimes for me, sometimes not, haven't tracked that one down yet.

edit: by "correctly" for home/end I mean jumping to the beginning/end of a line.
Thank you for pointing this out. People sometimes think I'm crazy when i talk about pushing really high fps. The human eye can detect objects that exist for 1/200th of a second, so pushing higher framerates will always make things smoother. I'm really surprised that all lcd monitors aren't running at 120hz or 240hz, obviously they can't be that hard to make if the tv manufactures are pushing them out.
They could move the activation into an on-device app that launches on first boot before proceeding to the home screen. In any case there currently exist hacks for activating your iDevice from a Linux (!) box [1], so it clearly works without a credit card, additional restrictions imposed by iTunes itself notwithstanding.

[1] https://github.com/posixninja/ideviceactivate
Dropbox has an advantage here, in that all files are stored local (mirrored, really) in user's computers, and they are backed up. It doesn't scale to shared editing, though.

I'm turning more and more to plaintext/markdown on Dropbox.
The auto-updating process isn't up and running yet, though hopefully it will be in six weeks (when Firefox 6 hits Aurora).
I can't see that happening. The problem is iTunes is Apple's Trojan horse to get on Windows. They were able to separate the Mac App Store because by nature they don't need it on Windows. But almost everything else iTunes does (music, TV, movies, device management, apps, etc) needs to be cross platform to work out economically. If they were to break it up, they would have to fight to make each program popular on Windows.

iTunes will probably have to remain a monolith until iDevices can be self sufficient machines, which I don't see coming in the near future. Of course, there is no reason why they can't make it a better monolith in the mean time.
i use years without any problem directnic, highly recommended
KAMPANYALAR
That's where we've moved all our Shared files. I don't love the pricing models, or the privacy issues, or the security model, so we're looking for something else.

AeroFS is the best off-site solution so far, but it's still very beta.
Is Blogging For Free Better Than Nothing?
Ask HN: Does anyone have experience with GA Tech's Startup Accelerator?
Does anyone have any tidbits to share about Georgia Tech's ATDC? Is anyone on HN currently in it?
Spotify, the American Dream, and why freemium is a broken record
Sidetrack: there is an .in tld? Nice, I'm surprised by the lack of VERB.in websites