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Wow. This video is amazingly intense considering that you can't see anything. Don't give up on it too early.
Most people stay at home or in their summer residence for most of the time.
This sums it up well: http://storify.com/themanwhofell/supeinjunction

Freedom of information is good, but I'd rather this kind of fuss was used to find out about things like the Trafigura scandal. I don't even care at all if a footballer is playing away from home with some pop-tart. That's not surprising, nor is it worth reading in a newspaper in my opinion.

It's sad that this is what it takes to motivate the public.
It looks like their Chrome plugin hasn't been updated yet, though. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hihakjfhbmlmjdnnhe...
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Do we really need people combing through every page of C2 and submitting every page? Don't you think the recent C2 story encouraged people to check out C2 for themselves? This seems to happen to every site that gets a single story submission: they all get strip-mined for submissions. Does it really make sense to make HN a compendium of links to every page on every remotely technical web site? I think Wikipedia might have an article on bubble sort the someone can gain a few points by submitting.
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I would add the marquee tag reinterpreted for 2011:

1. Tweets constantly scrolling through a sidebar
2. Unstoppable huge slide show above the content you claim to want me to read

And of course,

Autoplay video with sound.
Good for Hype for taking this problem on!

Has anybody with professional Flash animation experience used this product? I think that there is a great market for something like this but I'm wondering if it's ready for prime time yet. The demos are a bit weak if you ask me.

It may be worth $30 to find out...
I do not think it is that, since the parts europe that is protestantic have more vacation than the catholic parts, in average.
I just re-read it paying attention to how they use the word "App," and I don't think their use is generic. Every time they use the word, they are referencing either developers who make applications for their devices, the applications for their devices, or their store.
>Notice how Republicans are all for "individual rights", until these rights start to cut into Corporations' profits?

Are you suggesting that Dems, the RIAA party, would have done things differently?
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This description makes these docs sound like they come from the conspiratorial wing of filmmaking. (no insult implied mcantelon.)

However, they are in fact some of the most important pieces of film I have ever watched, and Adam Curtis is one of the greatest documentary makers ever.

I encourage you to watch all these, then go and watch all his other works, starting with the Power of Nightmares.
If Microsoft pays a patent holder for the licence to use a patent for microtransaction purchases within the windows operating system, and someone writes a windows app that utilizes the method, under this argument is it the same as long as Microsoft controls the transaction (ie we payed once, and it applies to our app makers)?
We hear a lot about thinking for yourself. Here's an example of someone who does.
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I'll check it out when I get home, but I wonder what it offers that you don't get from TreeSaver or onSwipe? I think the problem isn't a lack of HTML5 magazine publishing tools, it's a lack of html5 magazines. Who's going to be the first to step up and actually do this, not just in a demo?
Analysis of Apple's letter to Lodsys
The primary purpose of hacker news is to aggregate content from other places on the web.... I find someone searching through C2 and posting links to interesting articles to HN a useful for service. Othwerwise HN has no purpose.
To summarize the link "CLOS is not as limited in its functionality as the lame language I learned first (i.e., Java, C++, etc.) and since the lame language I learned first is the very definition of OO, CLOS isn't OO."

Such people see OO principally as a form of bondage. The link focuses heavily on encapsulation (i.e., restricting the programmer) rather than flexibility and capability (i.e., empowering the programmer).

You can have any degree of encapsulation and restriction you want with CLOS (see the responses in the link for precisely how). But you can't have any degree of freedom and power you want in Java, etc. Defining OO by how much your language limits programmer power and flexibility is a painful mistake.
Hm, an excellent point. We should alert them, then.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/square/id335393788
It's disappointing that the response is "we've already licensed that" rather than "you cannot possibly believe that you really own that."

Everyone I know who is doing real work in tech agrees that patents like this are BS. But everyone keeps playing the broken game. No one yet has had the incentive to make a real push (like lobbying) for real patent reform. It's still cheaper to swat the flies than it is to, I dunno, hire an exterminator? (I've never been good at analogies)
First sale applies to copyright, not patent licensing. With copyrighted material, you can "transfer" it to a third-party. A patent license typically spells out explicitly whether the patented material may be used for "distribution" to third-parties.

This matter will come down to whether or not Apple's existing license extends to third-party developers, based on the language in the patent license agreements.
Funny how allowing voting on submissions makes some people judge the value of submissions by the number of votes they may have gotten, while at the same time completely forgetting that each of those votes shows that some person found the submission valuable.

Look, if submitting C2 articles had no value for anyone on HN, they simply would not get any votes.

The fact that they get votes means that the people who voted on them found them valuable, and that submitting them provides value to the HN community.

Now, you might personally not find the particular submission appropriate for HN, in which case you should remember the HN guidelines:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Getting a pseudo-merchant account and a swiper for $0 could be fairly disruptive. It's a massive, very customer-unfriendly, very entrenched indusstry.
I've been thinking of creating a marketplace for this purpose, but I haven't had time to do it and the passion isn't really there.

In the past, I approached my competitors and asked if they want to buy me out. None took me up on it, but many wanted to have serious discussions.
The user agreed to assign all rights to the image when uploading the image. Any user suing to the contrary would have to say they didn't really agree. More interesting is when some user uploads a photo they found elsewhere, to which they don't have the copyright.
Since it's the top-most post, what worked for me when I saw 404s was to go to the main page[1] and read it from there.

[1] http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/
I'm not sure it's all we need. Lodsys may not prevail, but it has shown other trolls the way. What about patents from companies Apple doesn't have a license for?
The 6th comment on the page says it all: the question as stated invites a religious war. "What style of OO does CLOS embody/encourage?" is a more constructive question to ask.
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Thank you! I appreciate that you took the time to explain.

ESR is apparently saying (true at the time) that Perl can be hard to maintain. But by "Perl," I speculate that he was talking about coding in monolithic non-OO scripts which would be a drag in any language.

So his criticism of the language was fair in the 1990's, but only for that style of procedural coding.

I tried to look at his source, but his own links to his Perl stuff are broken:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/software.html
I sincerely don't think that it's a stunt by Apple, and to claim that it is would require a fairly myopic view of the state of software patents today.

That said, the "conspiracy theory" falls apart because this is ultimately self-serving by Apple; in-app purchases translate to money for them, and if developers are too scared to include content purchasing options in their apps (since in-app is the only permitted method, natch), it means a direct hit to Apple's bottom line. It isn't altruistic towards developers, so it's silly to see it as a justification of Apple's 30% cut.
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Interesting to look at how the current tech giants started.
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Meh. I agree the website could use some improvement, but it works and has been reliable in my experience. Its heaviness is less important to me than the customer-hostile policies of the average bank. I'm only on it a few mins a week anyway, I get my balance and history quickly and leave.
Totally agree with you on how difficult this is to read. Author is speaking some form of high academic CS (and it isn't obviously used correctly).

"Common Lisp augments the interpreter with other automata on the same substrate which make construction straightforwards. Though the choice of automata may vary, the essential idea of reifying the act of construction is universal."

Here he is basically saying that you've turned the elements of program construction into a data-structure (the s-expression). I believe automata just refers to any program in this context. (Think computability + complexity; languages executable by a computer can be described in terms of different types of automata... NFA, DFA, PDA etc). So you are making program construction into a data-structure which can be used to manipulate programs construction, or can be manipulated itself.

I agree with you about the mumbo-jumbo.
I'm actually going from Haskell to Scala and have to say part of me really likes not being forced to be pure all the time even if it feels a little dirty. Also for some projects the object oriented nature of Scala feels more natural. That said I still like Haskell better overall as a language (largely thanks to its purity).
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Medical in the US cost more but there is "more" available. If I were at my doctors office right now (3:13 Central time) and he felt I needed a MRI, I could have one before 5:00. I've often heard that in a non-emergency situation there can be weeks of waiting to get an MRI in some European countries. I have also seen a comment from a guy in the UK who had to have his arm re-broken for a cast to be put on because it had already started to heal crooked while waiting several days. A few years ago I spent some time digging through official government reports on healthcare in several (well limited to English speaking) countries and found things like >8 hour wait times for emergency services, >30 day waits (in some places) for some non-emergency services, etc. Yes, we pay more, but the flip side of that is faster access even in non-critical situations. In my case in February, I was at the doctor at 11:00AM on a Friday, MRI at about 1:30PM, and by 4:00PM I was scheduling surgery for Monday for gallbladder removal. I could have probably waited, my discomfort was relatively mild at that point, but I didn't have to.
What if there are consumer protection issues (which clearly there will be here)? The terms are not binding then.

Example: The purpose of the app is different now than it was when they signed up
Oh! Please add site added toolbars on the top, the bottom, and the sides of the browser window, usually adding the ability to tweet, facebook, subscribe, feedback, blah blah blah take up your window space.
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For the original application purchase, 30% wasn't ever bad. Back in the heyday of PalmOS apps, I was paying 50 on the big ones.

Per-subscription costs, however, are a different story.
That depends entirely on the terms of the license.
It would also be awesome if Apple could use this on iOS sync cycles.
With the only caveat being to get that next contract.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, it is the way to go. You just need the constant stream of work, which is easier said then done.
[IANAL]
What is clear from Apple's response is that it boils down to a dispute regarding the limits of Apple's license of Lodsys technology. Apple claims First Sale Doctrine - LodSys claims limited licensing. Personally, it seems unlikely that any reasonably well drafted agreement for commercial purposes would license a patent such that the other party could pass their rights without limitation to additional parties at their pleasure because this would essentially amount to a complete transfer of the IP rights to the other party (Apple in this case).

I'll add that because appears to be a formal agreement between Apple and Lodsys, the suits against individual developers look more like a new twist in an ongoing dispute than the pure patent trolling which the tech press has tended to use to describe the story (i.e. this seems more like an escalation of an issue of which Apple was aware than an attack from out of nowhere).

Apple: [http://www.macworld.com/article/160031/2011/05/apple_legal_l...]

LodSys: [http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-i-developed-on-apple-...]
Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_security_code

"The first code, called CVC1 or CVV1, is encoded on the magnetic stripe of the card and used for transactions in person. The purpose of the CVC1 or CVV1 is to ensure the data stored on the magnetic stripe of the card is valid and was generated by the issuing bank. This value is submitted as part of transactions and is verified by the issuing bank. A limitation of the CVC1 or CVV1 is that if the entire magnetic stripe is copied, rather than generated, the card can be duplicated. See the Skimming section for more details.

The second code, and the most cited, is CVV2 or CVC2. This CSC (also known as a CCID or Credit Card ID) is often asked for by merchants for them to secure card not present transactions occurring over the Internet, by mail, fax or over the phone. In many countries in Western Europe, due to increased attempts at card fraud, it is now mandatory to provide this code when the cardholder is not present in person."
It's a cease and desist letter. It implies that if Lodsys continues trying to enforce patents Apple has licensed, Apple will sue them.
I know that salaries in Canada are advertised in what you would make before taxes/CPP/EI, which usually come out to 17-26% less for most mere mortals.
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The remarkable thing about his new theory, group selection is that to an outsider and a lay person, it sounds simpler and a lot more dynamic then the original kin selection theory. This is no crackpot prediction by someone who enjoys causing a ruckus. It very neatly explains related observations such as adhoc gangs/groups which are as common in the animal kingdom as they are with humans.

I'll put a calendar reminder in 2 years from now to check back on how this one turned out :-)

Thanks for sharing! This is indirectly but wonderfully on topic for this site.
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Apple's letter [as presented] explicitly argues first sale doctrine.
Hi masterzora,

Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate it.

No, not doing it wrong -- he was almost certainly doing it in the predominant style of the language in the 1990's, which was procedural / scripty, e.g., hashes of references to arrays of references etc. Pre-OO.

And his remarks are certainly fair for the time period, but isn't it also fair to note that this style of coding is not practiced anymore? I think so but I'm interested in any viewpoint.
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Why would it include personal income tax? Your tax situation could be different than mine (single vs. married, deductions AKA children, etc.) it would be impossible for the employer to know what you personal income tax is going to be. Insurance? if your spouse has access to a better insurance policy you might opt not to participate in your employers plan so why would they "include" that? Social security and medicare AKA FICA? they pay half, you pay half and the rate is easy to find (7.65%, except this year) 401k? well you are paying yourself there, it's still your money.
Gentleman, fire up your photoshops. Who can get the most outrageously fake photos onto wenn.com via twitpic?
The SSH/SFTP method doesn't support SSH keys, so it's similarly useless on a system which requires them to log in.
Fully agree. Question is on what distribution channel will be used for web apps. Will it be in the browser or applications including a WebView? Users seem to like/get used to the concept of stores as distribution channel for web apps.
As Pauli said: "Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong!"
That’s an ad for a perfectly reputable maintenance app:

1. http://www.macworld.com/article/152184/2010/07/cleanmymac1.h...

2. http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac

What should a developer do when they find themselves in a situation where their software might be confused with malware? This app isn’t even all that similar to the malware. The name is completely different, the purpose is completely different (compared to the bogus stated purpose of the malware) – the connection is tenuous at best.

The bad thing is that no app is safe from that. Malware authors can pretend to be anything. Is the correct response to that really to shut down business or whatever you want them do? Should all developers of maintenance or anti-virus software for the Mac really close up shop?
If your objective is to write Mac OS X/iOS apps, move directly to Objective C.

As others have mentioned, there is no MacRuby for iOS, and the MacRuby for Mac OS X is fantastic, but a lot less capable than Objective C, still.

No slam to MacRuby though, as I suspect they'll be a tier 1 Mac development platform in the next 5 years.
Seriously, reeder is already a great experience for me. My app use looks very similar to your screenshots, but with the typography of reeder already baked in. With just a click I can: take notes, pinboard an article (or any link in the article or comments), parse whatever I'm looking at through instapaper, open any link in safari, tweet any of the links, share a story via google reader, email the link or text of an article.

You should check it out, at the very least as a point of reference.
Seeing how caltrain is pretty much a once an hour service (23 service runs per weekday) made me realize unless you live in downtown SF or any other area of the US where car usage is extremely painful, you pretty much need a car if you want to get out of your neighborhood.
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That directly depends on the install process for a small update. The diff minimizes traffic, the installer can just do a single install using 100 diffs. Each piece in the domino stack must play well together.
I'm not too sure, this is the line that really stood out to me:

> and delivery of applications (or “Apps”)

Basically making a direct relationship between the word application and apps. Either way, I think the whole App Store argument is ridiculous.
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And the fact that at the end of 20 years of paying a mortgage I own a piece of property while at the end of 20 years of paying rent I own nothing.
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On the one hand, odd number pricing is touted as an effective psychological trick to get consumers to think that the price of a product "isn't really that much."

On the other hand, I personally appreciate the simplicity and honesty of seeing a nice round number.

Does anyone have any data to support one tactic over the other?
Wonder if all the Square attention is good for the broader "POS disruption" space?

For example Erply (http://www.erply.com/), an award-winning startup, recently made news with porting their web based POS solution to iPads recently. Any others you know?
First sale actually applies to both:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_doctrine
Exactly. I'm bright and awesome, but this one thing puts me off moving to the USA.
They should be more careful in the company they regarding their marketing tactics/UX then , eh?
I was just talking to an elderly person who had a heart attack 2 months ago. Before insurance cost was around $200'000 and if she went with the more invasive option, it could of been $500'000. For one bloody heart attack.
Sure, it is fair to note, and I think it's actually a pretty good point now that you've clarified it a bit. (I speak as someone who's currently using Python at work but Perl for my own things.)

However, it's a manner of how you present the comment. As you originally stated it, it pretty much sounded like "He's Doing It Wrong", which didn't add very much to the discussion. In my opinion, a much better way to go about it would have been something closer to "I think it's worth contextualising his comments. It is likely that the style in which was coding was more in line with earlier styles that are not used as often in 2011. While Perl is obviously still Perl, more recent styles do help alleviate some of his concerns."

Now, this clearly still isn't a perfect comment, but it, or something more like it, would serve both to clarify your position and to allow for discussion based on it, if people were up for such discussions.

But, again, I feel the need to reiterate that I was not one of the people who downvoted you, so I'm only guessing as to the most likely reason for the downvotes.
Easy monetization is the top thing I need for HTML5 to be able to take over on any device. It is what I love most about developing for any devices with an app store, they handle all the micro-payment mess, hosting, etc for me.
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