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Apple has paid 2.5 billion to developers -- and that doesn't include other ways of making money on the ecosystem (e.g. writing apps for others)

The danger parts are if you are trying to make money in the same way Apple is, or threatening them in some way.

Some examples:

- if you are going to try to make some kind of significant (30%) affiliate payment as a go-between. (iFlow)

- if you try to fill a temporary obvious gap in iOS, that nearly every user would want -- this only works if you can keep out-innovating Apple (if they even allow it). (Instapaper -- but I think he'll out-innovate)

- if somehow your app/service gives some advantage to Apple's competitors (AdMob)
> Don’t try to read a lot of different books at once

This really resonates with me as I have often 2-3 books on a particular subject that I will quickly skim through to find the one that I want to spend more time studying.
Microsoft must pay Toronto’s i4i $290M in patent suit
Why Facebook isn't the best home for your public events
In principle I agree, however, much has been made of Apple's buying power when it comes to key components (displays, solid state storage, etc). Apple may well have the lowest actual component cost.
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Moving Towards a Physical Archive of the World's Books
Science fiction author Charles Stross on why we're unlikely to ever leave our solar system: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: "It's Been A Disaster"
Meanwhile, just East of Silicon Valley, in Tupelo Mississippi...
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Reversing a negative doesn't yield a positive, it puts you back at neutral. This is only "positive" if you don't include the previous negative that was a massive abuse of their position.
One could carry the same analogy to level apps, compass apps, music streaming apps (particularly given the iPod and iCloud), etc.

More relevant to this case, is that Apple rejected an app that (based on the evidence presented) met every knowable requirement for being included in the app store and which had a high probability of generating substantial revenue. Then Apple appropriated the name and icon.

All this makes it hard to consider Apple's actions in this matter to be ethical in any meaningful sense of the term.
Highscalability.org should give you some idea of the architecture others are using. Note that the more extreme scale porn - Facebook and the like - is unlikely to be relevant.
I've never been a cold fusion "believer" but this is starting to look a bit interesting.

Here's a NASA chief scientist who thinks it might be for real:
http://www.evworld.com/evworld_audio/dennis_bushnell_part1.m...

The neat thing is there's actually a theory of how low-energy nuclear reactions might work, which uses known laws of physics. Something to do with the weak nuclear force. It was published in 2006. Since then NASA’s been looking into it, and they’re about to start experiments.

Here's a 30-minute interview with one of the theorists. The interviewer is annoying but the scientist is really interesting.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sandy-andrew/2010/04/17/widom-l...
Using the dollar sign is effectively an insult. Just like if I was to refer to Apply as crApple. How is it not childish to resort to name-calling like that?

If I starting my reply with "Look lhnz, you moron, ..." would you not downvote me or defend me if others did so?

I downvote people for things like M$ because I think that name-calling and inflammatory remarks aren't conducive to a worthwhile discussion.
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Thanks! I don't think we've met, come over and say hello at some point!
But did you find Christina Applegate?
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Separating Work, Friends, and Family on Facebook Isn't Easy
Although Apple wasn't explicit, I believe only the $30 upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion is exclusive to the App Store.

The App Store doesn't exist in Leopard and Tiger, so Apple will probably release a full price DVD set for $180 that includes Lion, iWork, and iLife.

Not exactly great, but it is an alternative if you don't want to download from the Mac Store. Keep in mind, prior to Snow Leopard the OS X upgrades were $130 anyway.
Sal Khan represents not just one curriculum, but a new way to thinking about education: teaching basic principles behind the scenes and bringing student participation/collaboration to the fore.

We created ShowMeApp.com exactly for this reason - so that any teacher can easily create these kinds of videos through the iPad and share them online.

Here's a guy who's done a ton of awesome Chemistry lessons: http://www.showmeapp.com/jr_orinion

We're huge fans what Sal is doing and would love to see more teachers embrace his approach.

We're still in beta, but I'd love to hear any feedback on the site and the app.
Not a single one of the projects I worked on or was directly aware of, in 4 years, ever used a subcontractor.

That's anecdotal evidence, but it should clarify that though it no doubt happens (and happened more before there was a Solutions Workforce), it's by no means the norm to hire subcontractors to "do the real work".
"Here's the real issue with Patch: They're selling a branding advertising campaign to small businesses that should never put their first dollar in that bucket. It should be on Google AdWords, where it's measurable and it's cost effective, whether it's a Groupon or AdWords type play."

This makes sense. I've been in the newspaper game for more than 10 years, and I couldn't sell a banner ad to an SMB with a straight face because it's not what they need.

What a small business needs is search-engine optimized website with social media hooks. Banner ads are a waste of cash... the ROI is not there.
As the author is a link-bait artist, you are an Apple apologist. Which might have cause some impatient folks to click down-vote reflexively.
I understand the fact about Apple's buying power. But when someone is trying to compete with an established product, you gotta offer something more at some price less to get people to even look at it!

It's going to be interesting to see how the HP Touchpad & Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 do in the next few months. However, the real competition will start when Amazon jumps into the market with their rumored Kal-El tablets later this year.
Limitations of Windows PowerShell vs. Linux SSH/bash
Raffi Krikorian: Meet The Man Behind Twitter's HUGE Integration With Apple
I was going to post a snarky comment about how the Transformer can't compete with the iPad because its not actually shipping yet, blah blah, but I did a search first and found out that it shipped over a month ago.

Which can only mean that ASUS really botched the PR on this one. Neither Engadget nor Gizmodo (arguably the two largest gadget sites) have reviewed it, but the few reviews I did find were generally positive.

I've read about tablets from Motorola, Toshiba, and Samsung, but nothing about the ASUS, which looks to be a decent, relatively cheap Honeycomb tablet.
Its obvious that Apple may want many useful apps on their platform. For many other categories, this hasn't stood in the way of approving an app that conforms to standards.

The factor here is (obviously) that Apple is quashing competition. Working in a walled garden, this is a fact of life. But its frustrating each time it happens.
The fact that there's not already some law against this can only be attributed to the weakness of the pushmepullyou rights lobby.
Size does not matter when defining a monopoly. Monopolies restrict trade. There are many services that are actually equal in price or less than iTunes with similar catalogs. Definitely not a monopoly.
A company the size of HP can afford to give away piles of TouchPads and Pres to developers that might be mildly interested. HP should have somebody hunting down the twitter accounts of prolific app developers and mailing out starter packs of hardware. Google has been handing out hardware left and right and doesn't seem to be slowing down one bit.
When you put it that way, it sounds exciting.

Sometimes I wish the world had forced me to go and do other things in between my undergrad and my PhD. Once you're on an academic career track it's hard to take a few years off to do something else.
Pricing is also signaling, so you have to be careful undercutting someone if your story is "we have a better product". If the TouchPad is destined for failure, undercutting Apple isn't going to prevent that. The market's already said "$499 is good for a tablet" so it's smart of them to listen to that.
It seems you're rationally aware of the choices, the actions and the causes. As for the problems, from what I understand about entrepreneurship so far, its always going to be challenging and that's exactly why it chooses people like you who are inherently blind to comforts in 9-5 jobs and who hate routine. If not positive, you're gonna stay rational and thus focused. Don't worry much. You're just feeling alone and with a planet full of 7 billion people, it's not gonna stay that way for long :)
FWIW, Asus Transformer was reviewed at Engadget not too long ago and it got a good review.

The fact that it's been sold out from Amazon, J&R, etc. every time they get a new shipment says that it's atleast partly successful. What doesn't help right now is the supply chain issue that Asus has been having. It has been limiting them to just 10,000 units a month.

Anandtech Review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4277/asus-eee-pad-transformer-...
Given that governments are immune to the rule of law, why do they bother to lie about their actions? Waste of time and paper seems to me. They choose to distinguish between 'censor' and 'remove' claiming that one is not the other. I'm sure that all of the users involved will clearly understand the 'subtle' distinction involved in the Orwell-speak...
How about p2p cloud ? Where volunteers run p2p client on their desktop, which contributes space to p2p cloud and users can store data on p2p cloud.
Cassandra requires multiple good engineers to admin effectively, and 3x replication is a bit overkill for home storage.. RAID 5 would be good enough I'd think. Also, you really don't want to internet-expose an unauthenticated thrift server.
A lot of the U.S. power comes from our currency and its stability(relative to the rest of the world). To challenge this would mean an increased risk, both financially and militarily. That being said, I think instead of attacking this rising trend, maybe an open(more likely not-so-open) discussion is needed from many branches of the government and a lot of simulation to assess systemic risk.
... in Malaysia.
Citigroup: Hackers Accessed Customer Data For 1.5 Million Accounts
With this server code implementation we can start to liberate .net from IIS,the web applications in .net can start to stop using IIS and start to use customized and autocontained web servers. Kudos for Demmis Bellot and to change the ideas of how we can make webapp with .net.
You don't need to know this. You make an image of the text for every combination possible, apply the blur algorithm, and see which one is a pixel-perfect match for to the image on the web site.

Or rather, you don't do this, you write a program to do it :)
Have you encountered a hardware defect yet?
If/when you do, it represents a lot of technically dead time that was spent looking at code. I'm not saying either premise is right but I can appreciate his philosophy here.

For the record, I killed four weeks digging through code and running tests and it turned out that temperatures in winter coupled with some bad soldering was the cause of the issue. D:
The only Rudin book I've worked through is Real and Complex Analysis, and it is very dry indeed.

He also seems to favor some less intuitive proofs sometimes, which while correct and complete, leave the reader in the dark as to the intention behind it (the proof for the Lebesgue-Radon-Nikodym theorem given is an example of that.)
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What people seem to forget while talking about how awesome iCloud is, is the fact that iCloud is only offering 5G of storage for free.
It is cool and hype to have access to your data from everywhere, but this will unpersonnalize the computer. Since all you care about is your data. Your data is your computer. with iCloud, welcome to the era of the unpersonal computers, where a computer has nothing to do with it's user, except being, well, like a cable to connect to the cloud. An empty cable that a lot of people can use, but nobody really owns it.
What I think people should do, if they are against this path, is to build a system where you can install a personal cloud, using an external hard drive. And be able to sync, automatically, all your data with all your devices. It is way cheaper to buy a hard drive than to buy storage on the cloud. Build your own iCloud.
M'eh, I think that's more comparing Apples to Oranges. I really like this list. It's a bit more academic, and like someone else here said, it's a great resource for those who have a weakness in one subject they'd like to tighten up, or just learn more about what's on the frontier or CS classes these days. The 4chan one seems more like a how-to guide. Just my 2 cents :)
Why growing and preparing your own food is the future
My startup is working on that. Sign-up at http://degoo.com and we'll let you know when we have a beta ready.
/Shameless plug.

I can e-mail you my Master's Thesis, which covers some of the theory behind it (although, it's in Swedish).
Yes, you have to track them down, yes it takes forever for the hard ones. But most of the time it Isn't hardware, most of the time it my own bug and I can fix it.

It definitely takes some experience to be good at debugging. I guess that's why all the emphasis on development environments these days, where the hard stuff is being debugged by someone else and I can work on my app-level stuff in peace.
The icon was a mix of the Mac's wifi and sync icons. For all we know Apple didn't want their icons used by someone else, that's a legit reason that's been used elsewhere. Also judging by the comments on the TUAW post of this topic, the app was low quality, and the support was even worse. Apple don't like that, rightly.
My reaction is similar. Specifically, I recall reading a few years ago some stories/comments about differences between banking in the U.S. versus Europe. For example, IIRC, one reason Europe had... I believe it's called "chip and PIN" on banking cards, was/is that banks are financial liable for losses.

Occasionally, a good article will appear that discusses "risk". I've come to assign great relevance to the term; many circumstances and changes "make sense" when you look at where risk is or is being shifted.
Yeah, but if you're writing a "history of hacking" article you should cover the question of how the meaning of the word has changed over time.
After centuries of dispute, a theory rooted in common sense wins out
CLI is out. A large majority of people do not use it.

You can still ride horses (and for good reasons!). Doesn’t mean that horses are not out.
Ha! And my sister went to Egypt and looked up the gps distance to home (Iowa): 8000 miles. Off by 50%. Why? The programmer was doing cartesian distance instead of great-circle. So yes, if she drilled a tunnel through the Earth's core, it was only 8000 miles. :)
The Economics of Men Behaving Badly
Perhaps this is also internal vs. external insight. It seems like from swombat's and other commenters who have worked there, the consensus is that there are many talented people who work at Accenture (and other big consultancy firms). However as an outsider, when looking at some of the work by these types of firms, you generally don't gain a sense of confidence in the people working there.
Sharing the Inheritance Hierarchy
good. it's about time the legal system starts fighting back against this abuse.
Geek anti-intellectualism: replies
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Just because it's driving an uptick in print doesn't mean that it's working.

We'll have to see how the total impact is on the company's bottom line. If the uptick is 1% of print subscribers, and it costs them tons of unique web visitors and google juice, it may still be a losing proposition.

<For the record, I think it will work for them in at least the medium term, although the subscription plans and costs are way more complicated than they should be.>
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Non-totalitarian governments are not immune from public opinion, and, more relevantly, individual bureaucrats and politicians are certainly not so immune.
Bayes’s rule was of course the basis for pg's "A Plan for Spam,"

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

which he updated in "Better Bayesian Filtering."

http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html
HP TouchPad Tablet Hits U.S. Stores Early Next Month
No problem man, I'd been fiddling with that idea for a while, but I wasn't making much progress, figured I'd share it with someone who had something up and running. Let me know how it turns out. Good luck!
No, the joke is that no human being is capable of reading Knuth tomes cover to cover. They are very dense, and cover some not-so-simple topics.
Even though I get things done late night I wanted to get up early and get to work early. The only for it to work is if I get to bed early which I struggle to. Would be nice if there is a simple way to consistently get to sleep early.
It's a tradeoff. On the other hand, you can more easily implement backup systems that copy directory trees, using hardlinks for files that haven't changed. For example.

I don't know the details of how specific filesystems are implemented, but it seems that if it's reasonable to achieve the locality you want, then it can be done for the first name a file has. Subsequent names wouldn't have good locality, but second and third links to a file are much less common. If you want other links to the file to have good locality, then simply make a copy, doubling your space requirements.

Hard links are useful, and you don't necessarily need to sacrifice locality in the common case, and in the uncommon case you can still choose between good locality, or good use of space and the sometimes useful semantics of two names by which to read or write a file.
Good news. But that is one tongue-twister of a headline there!
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Filesystems are NOT on the way out. User-visible filesystems are. iOS has file systems. iCloud will still store the files as files on your Mac/PC.

The point is to reduce complexity for the end user. Think about Google Docs for a minute. I don't know if they are storing all my docs in a database or in a filesystem and it doesn't matter. I can still get to them right? When I download them on my Mac, they are on a filesystem that I can see.

End users (think parents, grandparents, etc.) should not have sysadmin their own machines. Removing the whole user visible filesystem is a step in that direction. Google gets this, Apple gets this, nerds don't.

People pay for convenience, not features. Dropping the user visible filesystem is convenient for the majority and that will make Apple money.
I investigated that option before building my own NAS, but decided against it. Plug computers offer no way to build RAID'ed systems, apart from maybe software raid over multiple external usb harddisks (I haven't tried it but I couldn't find anyone who did it, and I'm skeptical of performance of such a system). In the end I settled on a micro-atx board, a high performance power supply and lower energy use harddisks. I suspect (but have no data to prove it) that this uses less power than separate power supplies for each of the usb harddisks if one were to build a plug with those.
Engadget reviewed the UK edition of the Transformer in April and seemed to generally like it. http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/18/asus-eee-pad-transformer-...
You don't have to get to Paris or Berlin. You can email them (that's what I did).
How does a computer restart itself?
That's a nice chunk of change for a Cydia-only app.
How Apple Feeds Its Army of App Makers
CLI is so not out. Perhaps among (l)users and Visual Studio types but not among the thousands of people who keep the internet running.
Might be worth writing a 2-5 pager in english summarizing some security features.. I'd sign up if I read something that made me feel safe putting my data on it.
Whatever you call the organization behind creating bitcoin fundamentally it's still accountable, even if it's a loose, self-selecting group of open source developers.
Ask HN: non-traditional resume advice
DISCLAIMER: This is NOT spam, I am not looking for job offers or anything of the sort - just advice.

I am about to start applying for positions for a developer at creative studios in my area (marketing/ad agencies, boutique web shops, etc). To try and stand out a little bit I created a resume that is pretty non-traditional for a developer, though many graphic artists do similar things. I am just looking for some advice from people who have done the same, or who have a hand in hiring for such places. Is a resume like this a good idea or should I scrap it and stick with a more traditional resume? The design is intended to be printed with no margins, and I believe it will be nice to hand out at seminars/events as well as mail in a nice envelope, though I am worried about the fact that the digital version is not quickly searchable/selectable like a normal doc or PDF.
ANY advice would be greatly appreciated!
here it is: http://ecaroth.imgur.com/resume
Same trick. Configure the proxy to forward to a static page instead of Tomcat.
10 lb/day in 100 ft^2 is ~36.5 lb/ft^2/year... sounds really high. Can you post more details?
good god, i wrote this nearly -five- years ago

please do not take it seriously at this point, its completely outdated
Ask HN: Why Jailbreak my iPad2?
I have always thought I would be against jailbreaking my iOS devices. I have friends that have done it but they dont seem to have any real reasoning or take advantage of anything spectacular. One of them simply jail broke his iPad so he could password protect his apps (i.e prompt for a password on app launch...)

Then I got to thinking. What are the real benefits?

I code in C/C++ and standard web stuff. Could one then load gcc some how?

Are there better network tools like nmap, wireshark, etc, etc

Can anyone explain some true advantages to a developer/hacker/someone who always needs to help someone out in a pinch and would rather not carry a MacBook around all the time?
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Pay-Per-Install a Major Source of Badness
I'm not talking about subcontractors. Most consultancies, including Accenture in my limited personal experience with them, staff up with new hires (preferably cheap new grads) whenever they get a new contract. When business slows down enough that people are lingering on the bench, they get fired. They are essentially high-end temp agencies.
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