skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Once you have a receipt from Apple, you have documentation that you used Apple's transcoding service.

If you accidentally lost 2TB worth of CDs between that time and the seizure of your PC, you're still going to have some explaining to do.
Instead of building those seperate solutions i really think Apple should build some general IPC/sharing model into the OS (like the intent system on android). It would enable so much more integration and open up all applications, i'd love that.
I really miss that on my iPad, being able to just send the content i am viewing to random app/page X (articles to read it later, for example).
Why rebuild read it later?

I guess the only reason is that this would open up the platform a bit more, this would be a horrible scenario: At breakfast i could read the web on my iPad, send interesting articles to "read it later", read those on my android in the train to work and the rest at work on my linux laptop..
Exactly - here are some startups hurt by Apple:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2626409
I find this funny, but typical as in the facts win, and the losers get shown up. My mum just said "There's no hope, when there's people like [Palin]" I hope Palin keeps on bumbling while she's on this tour.
Have you actually looked at iCloud? I can't imagine why a paid Dropbox user would abandon it in favor of such a scanty offering.
I have no great love for Apple, but the rhetoric around this is simply ridiculous. When a great app comes out, tech sites will say things like "why isn't this a feature of the OS?", but then when they become a feature then the OS vendor gets criticized for "stabbing" app developers.
There is a lot of fine print from the "it just works" company. [1][2][3][4]

1 I am an unabashed mac fanboy since 10.3

2 I've got more than ten idevices

3 Apple sucks at the internet.

4 I'll probably try all this out launch day.
So what is reality? That this will happen to majority of developers?
It's the same as with app rejections: if you were listening to the tech media it was like every other app was rejected. In reality there are 425 000 apps in App Store and developers have been paid $2.5 billion.
Hmm, perhaps you should consider a few differences between so called wage "slavery" and chattel slavery as practiced in pre-civil war US:

1) Modern workers are not owned from birth.

2) Debt is not forced upon you against your will, debt is a choice.

3) The alternative to choosing debt is not getting whipped nor killed.

4) Bankruptcy is neither getting whipped, nor killed.
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I have to comment that I completely agree with not being able to interact with notifications without unlocking the phone. The idea of a screen lock (aside from phone security for some) is to prevent accidental interactions in your pocket. I want to know that when I pull my phone out I haven't lost important notifications because it was jostling around in my pocket and clearing them.
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Marco has talked about this extensively in his "Build and Analyze" podcast. He sees Safari's new reading list as a potential net benefit for Instapaper. "Gateway drug", as he calls it. I agree with him.
Not that I game enough on either platform for it to matter, but a unified gaming profile including Xbox Live and GameCenter (among others like Yahoo Fantasy Sports) would be fantastic. Never going to happen though.
The Ponzi moniker is somewhat relevant in the sense that existing investors (angels and VCs) could cash out to the next series of investors (public market) before the company turns a profit.
Hopefully that will get fixed. Generally the reason why the reboot is required is because WebKit gets updated and that is a library that is loaded into various different applications the best way to restart all of them is to reboot, with the new state keeping that Lion is doing that will become simpler.
How are you using "pseudo" in this context? Do you mean "implicit"? Are you trying to imply some sort of value judgement?
Groupon does not make a profit: http://www.geekosystem.com/groupon-ipo/
Possible context: patio11's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623102 ("Then you move your code to the server(...). This defeats piracy so well it works in China.")

Note that pg has different arguments, though.
Sure, but some are harder than others.

My point is that composing something like this is more akin to solving a crossword puzzle than to composing a symphony.

As I said, a week of fiddling will get you a (letter-by-letter) palindrome of four lines, at least in my experience.
I never said I thought "it" referred to silk road. "It" clearly refers to the use of bitcoin. What's unclear is whether "it" is "all uses of bitcoin" or "the use of bitcoin on silk road."
This finally makes sense why Paypal has had their documentation on x.com for so long. x.com == x.commerce

And here, I thought they'd been wasting a perfectly good domain name for a long time...
For starters, Apple is known for taking an idea that has many 3rd party solutions, incorporating it into the OS, then presenting it as their own whizz-bang idea. (See Spotlight vs Butler/QuickSilver/LaunchBar)
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Not since 2010. The Justice Department reached a settlement with Visa and Mastercard overturning this provision:

http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=Newsletter&op=viewli...
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" Basically, it'll look through your collection and if they're in iTunes Apple will note that you already own those songs and allow you to also sync those songs via the new iCloud sync mechanism."

I know that is what was said, but its like saying "you just add extra water to your gas tank and you'll get mileage based on the number of gallons in your tank, whether or not its all gas."

The sentence construction is coherent but conceptually it doesn't pass the sniff test. Here is the rub.

"music that you own"

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 20 years you know that there are two interpretations of this phrase. There is the consumer interpretation:

"I bought the CD at the store, I can do anything I want with it, copy it, transcode it, destroy it, use components in a playlist I've created, or use parts in my amateur video on squirrels."

There is the RIAA/Music Label interpretation:

"You don't own the music you own a piece of polycarbonate plastic which can reproduce the performance of the noted artist in an sanctioned playing device that has not been modified in any way. You and no more than 12 friends present, and who have not paid you any consideration for hearing said performance. Any other use is strictly and unequivocally forbidden."

For years, even though the record labels had no way to enforce their view of what you could and could not do with the music in your possession, they really haven't varied all that much in their opinion what rights they didn't give you.

So when you say "music you own" it reads like you have the consumer interpretation of that phrase, and yet Apple isn't a consumer, they are animated pile of cash which sells player devices, so it is incredulous to me that the music industry would simply "let" them do what you have described they are offering to do.

If you (and Apple) had instead said to take advantage of this services it is required that you go to an Apple store with your original CD, which would be photographed with you by an Apple employee where they would record your name, birth date, receipt or other information you brought along to prove you had acquired the CD legally, and a sample of your DNA. Then they would exchange your CD for a unique identifying code that you could apply to your iTunes account which would enable you to listen to that CD via iTunes on any device connected to iCloud but would not allow you to transfer the song from the iCloud for 'offline' playing.

If you told me that that was what Apple was offering I'd just nod my head and believe you.
The current CLR version is definitely not at production quality like the JVM version, and afaik it never was.

At a recent talk in the Netherlands, Martin Odersky also basically admitted that there's still a fairly long way until the CLR version is really at production quality, and even then it will probably keep lagging behind the JVM version.

So surely you're right about intention, but that's also about all it is.
It happens all the time, only this time we get to see it unfold in detail, with revision history.
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Even taking half of the revenue, Groupon is bleeding money and admits that it is going to have to invest even more to keep up the growth curve.

I live in a moderately large regional area - Raleigh/Durham - close to a million people in the metro area. I've gone to groupon.com several times, and each time it doesn't seem to remember me - I end up putting my email in again each time, and then I'm shown a few 'deals', but nothing to suggest they're 'daily' (maybe they are, but I can't easily tell).

When I hear 'daily deal site', I'm sort of expecting to get emails daily with a deal. I've given my email address. I want these things. If they can't make that happen in a metro area with nearly a million people, and having a large org (8,000 people?!) I just don't get how this will survive long term, other than perhaps by name recognition (it's a damn catchy name).
From https://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#interne...

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* Built into Lion:
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* Browse the web with Safari:
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* Reinstall OS X:
OS X can be reinstalled on your Mac from recovery mode.

* Restore from a Time Machine backup:
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Are we going to finally have the ability to upload photos out of safari?

How apple gets away with this is beyond me. There is no technical reason that I can imagine why allowing photo uploads from mobile safari should be disabled.
You're doing a better job than I did of explaining the gap in available sources that experts could address to improve WP.

The point I hope I'm making, though, is that the improvement needs to happen outside Wikipedia. The experts can't directly be duking it out on WP pages as their journal articles get published.
Interestingly, today's Apple announcement is harmful to Michael Robertson's other music-related endeavor, mp3tunes (cloud "music locker" service).
>playlists?

Yeah, nobody would want to use those. They especially wouldn't want to build a playlist on the fly with their ipod.
The "Red Pop" Kickstartr project suddenly looks less exciting also.
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I suppose its possible that all of the music in torrents has been finger printed in some way or another which would identify it. Unlikely though.
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Here are the other 3 parts:

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They said the iTunes Match songs get downloaded as DRM-free AAC 256K files, so you will "own" it in the same way you currently "own" music purchases from the iTunes Store.
Ha, I guess they beat me to the punch:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2626409
"Recreational mathematics". Don't take it too seriously, the practitioners don't either.

But yes, the fact that this is bound to a decimal system suggests that there are no deep wisdoms here.
The world before iTMS involved me going to tiny record stores and thumbing through physical CDs. In today's world, within 4 minutes of reading a review of a new artist, I can have the track on my phone.

Over the long term, maybe iTMS lock-in is bad for consumers. But when you say that, I personally (just me) think you have to account for the fact that over the short term, it's been a huge win.
I remember Konfabulator and Watson (is that what it was called? The one that was ripped off as a new version of Sherlock back when that was still a thing), but I think you're mistaken about why Appearance Manager never took off. If I remember correctly, Apple just never provided external developers with theme authoring software or documentation for the theme format, because between the original DP period and the public release, they(/Steve) decided that they didn't particularly want to promote wildly different UI styles. They never even officially released the themes they had demoed, other than Platinum.
Hallelujah! "OS X Lion [Terminal] includes editable ANSI colors in preferences and support for 256 colors and BCE (background color erase). The default TERM value is xterm-256color."

Cite: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#unix
I've got to quote 37signals on this one: "Planning is guessing."

In my experience, agile development fails when management turns guesses into promises.
> Don’t try to one-up Apple by doing slightly better versions of what they do, or offering apps they’ll inevitably need to add themselves.

Not sure I can get behind this statement. Are developers shortsighted for filling in those gaps until Apple did it themselves? No; the shortsightedness comes in when they assume that just because their product fills a gap, the same gap will always exist. Nobody is ever guaranteed that something bigger, better, and bundled won't come along.
I don't know what the demographic spread here is, but I'm 99.99% sure that none of the 800 people on my phone/facebook pay for every CD they want. More frequently, I find people buy CDs to support certain artists, and not just to have a legal copy.

If this is the case, Apple's move is actually ingenious. I daresay a lot of pirates (who currently contribute $0) will pay $25/year for their music to be legal... for legal or moral reasons. The potential loss of revenue will lie on the people who buy 1-2 CDs/year. However, $25/year is likely more than the average amount these people pay, so it's still a plus, even if they stop buying the original CDs. I bet though, they won't.

I see this as a huge gain in revenue.
Strange, I came here to say the italian version was pretty good :)

This may be a function of the author being a(n impressively) fluent speaker of the language, though on the other hand the translation of Carrol's Jabberwocky poem in the book is terrible.
Rdio is so fast I don't bother syncing music over to my phone anymore. I think I agree, that normal people aren't going to care about the "latency" here. Price, branding, and integration are huge clubs Apple is wielding here though.
On Unix systems you can replace files on disk without issues because of the way it does reference counting to the underlying file system. Unlike Windows where this is not possible.

I am better there is still one single reboot to start up the new kernel and whatnot. Although I can't find any details on it.
I have heard that Grooveshark started under similiar pretenses.
I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup
Perhaps it's just my business background talking here, but why is anyone surprised or even upset that Apple continues to do this? All companies are looking for value adds and providing a good/better/best/integrated/whatever version direct in the OS layer is a great way to do this. If you owned a platform, you would do the same thing where appropriate.

Smart businesses don't just build an app or a feature, they build a whole business and potentially even a whole platform. For example, look at Remember The Milk or Evernote. Sure, Apple can make their own cloud-synced todo list app. Great. But, RTM is on many different platforms, as is Evernote. They have thousands of customers that will keep using their app even though a system app might do the same thing.

My point is just because apple turns your feature into their feature doesn't mean you can't have a successful business. It just means you have to adapt and change. It's no different than if you were running a successful little coffee shop and Starbucks opens up across the street. You can whine that it isn't fair that Starbucks Megacorp Inc. just showed up next door stealing your thunder, or you can take care of your customers so that they don't go across the street.

In the end, business is competitive. You have no inherent right to build software or sell it on a given platform or in a given store. The fact that Apple, Google, Microsoft, HP, Amazon and so on make worldwide distribution for indie devs so easy is completely 100% incredible.

Just try and sell a physical copy your $0.99 todo list app or game at every Wal-Mart, Target, Best-Buy, Gamestop, Verizon/At&t/Sprint shop in the country then maybe you'll have an idea of just how good you have it.
Palin's account was more correct than the accounts of her detractors.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/sarah-pal...

This is similar to the Orwellian incident where Palin made a true and factual comment about the fact that you can see Russia from an island in Alaska, Tina Fey made fun of it by changing the words to say that you could see Alaska from her house or office, then people started promoting the Tina Fey comedy routine as if it was reality.

edit: downvote this all you want it won't change reality
A Ponzi Scheme rests on misrepresenting new investments as income for existing investors. To date, I have seen no evidence of misrepresentation.

Cashing out before the next round invests is not a pyramid or Ponzi scheme, it's exactly what happens when you buy a public stock for $100 and sell for $200: Somebody else is willing to pay $200 and you sell your shares to them.

The fact that this happens before they make a profit and before they go public is irrelevant, that speaks to the mindset of the people buying the stock for $200, not to those selling for $200. Now if they lied about being profitable and were merely using invested funds to generate fictitious revenue that turns into fictitious dividends, you might have something.

During the last bubble, there were cases where investors put a bunch of money into a company and then demanded that it spend a bunch of that money on another company in their portfolio, effectively creating fictitious revenues. I'd go along with calling those deals "Ponzi Schemes." But this one? Not a Ponzi Scheme, just people who are willing to make a bet on Groupon's success.

p.s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme is instructive. Especially the description of "similar schemes" and the word "bubble." (I am not making any claim about Groupon stock being or being part of a bubble).
Does iCloud work on Android? Does it work on a PC? I doubt dropbox and instagram are in any danger because they have barriers to entry that Apple is likely unwilling to take. How many dropbox subscribers are going to go away? Probably not many. Could they lose a bunch of free users? Certainly.
Perhaps the fact that they've recently discovered delta updates would make the download process a lot easier.
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I'm sure plenty of end users would have taken the offer, thats just because they're corporate customers. They never want the brand new thing. Not only is the supporting an os upgrade a pain in the ass long process that will also involve a lot of waiting around for all your vendors to get off their asses about supporting the new thing, at the time the prevailing wisdom was to never use windows before the first service pack. XP didn't really get good until sp2.
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Perhaps you are talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_superior_and_limit_inferi... ?
This is a very good point, you can pull higher CPM since everything is directly measured.
Agreed - would have been more accurate to say Varien rather than Magento.
The guys at TaskAve (Location aware notes - http://taskave.com/)

On twitter they immediately said "PIVOT!"
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My work signed me up for OSCON today, if you're going.. best sign-up today- as it goes up in price tomorrow.

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(I am not affiliated with these guys- just thought I'd put a reminder out)
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I think you're getting downvoted for conflating gematria ("bible numerics", although it's originally Jewish) and number theory as the word is understood by (recreational) mathematicians. This is not terribly useful, but it's not the kind of crazy that led to the May 21 prediction.
Sorry i didn't explain well, i don't mean it will happen to everyone or that all the developers are denying reality, what i meant is that everyday we take decisions and even when sometimes the risks are well known we decide to not see it, it's someone else's problems i'm different, i think there are iOS developers that know that problem can happen and make a bet knowingly , but other just prefer not to see the "danger" and then act like it was a surprise , and that happens in all aspects of our lives. And if i were a developer i would probably make the bet, i think the risk is valid.
LinkedIn blows it on a bloated staff and expenses. No excuse, they just suck.

Pandora has been bent over by content owners. They're not powerful enough to dictate reasonable terms.

Groupon is waging all out war to dominate. They're hoping when the dust settles they'll own one of the richest markets in the world.
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How would they "stop" Apple from doing this to them?

Should they ignore the iOS market and let someone else pick up the money they're leaving on the table, or try to own their idea by patenting it and suing everyone else?
The chromebook. Now that everyone's iThing can sync and back up, what need is there for this cut-down web browser OS?
Fair enough Nathan, if you use your gap as a foundation to build something that has legs, then that's fine. I can't think of many examples, but something like Instagram comes to mind. They one upped the Photo app, but used it grow a community.

I won't stop using Instagram now, as I follow great photographers there. It's no longer about easy sharing or photo filters.
Isn't the ability to sell bitcoins also important?

Unless you think farmers in Colombia and electric companies in California are going to start accepting bitcoins directly?
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On mobile or on your desktop? I think we need to make a distinction here.
What makes you think you are getting amnesty?
I believe he was using other people's translations. (At least, in the English version, he compared it to other's French and German translations.)
How about BS?
They showed a Windows computer with pictures from iCloud during the keynote.
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"...then you can legally say you don't remember your password even though you know (one possible way) to generate it."

Another theory I do not recommend testing in court.
Nevertheless it's an enormous step toward unifying desktop apps and web apps.

Is this a good goal, though?

Web used to follow a certain model that worked well and allowed people to develop websites easily. It grew. Then people wanted a more desktop-like experience. This resulted in development of new APIs and extensive use of JavaScript. We're moving farther and farther away from the original model. And now MS is going to reverse the gears, and use web-based tools for desktop development.

Problem is, developing a web application right now it not much simpler than developing a desktop app. Sure, you get the benefits of no deployment, and instant updates, but this will not apply to "desktop" application in HTML anyway.