skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual paper cited (http://ftp.iza.org/dp5726.pdf) is referring to Silicon Valley in the late 90's, during a very tight labor market.
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Oh man- this could be bad for my productivity... Does this have the blessing of the creators/copyright owners of Set?
There's some precedent both ways:

You can't be forced: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html

You can be forced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher

Though, in the latter case he had previously given access to his system.
I think Rdio will be fine, given that Grooveshark has been around in the same space, does all the same things as Rdio, and is free.
I'd actually argue that now that Apple's trajectory wrt cloud music is pretty clear, Rdio and MOG probably are breathing a bit easier that they can fill a niche without worrying about iTMS just outright replacing them.
I agree. I think "They Compete. You win." is a better tagline without the "No bullshit." not because I'm offended by your word choice, but because it's more succinct.
I don't have the data, but I wouldn't be surprised if DropBox had a disproportionately large market of users that were purely on the Apple stack -- and tended to share with other Apple users (when they did share across ppl).
I'd go with BS
At the moment our target customers do horizontal scaling in the application layer, and we built exactly what they need (they wouldn't use the horizontal scaling features).

V1.1 of RethinkDB (currently in QA) will include replication. V1.2 will include full-blown clustering support (currently in development).
A great site that's been doing the rounds for "eSports" TV is WarpPrism. Has different channels for games and allows PiP: http://warpprism.com/
No, they might not be deserving of customers trust but that doesn't mean that throwing egg on their face is helping the situation any. If the hackers were doing it for the good of the community then it's counter productive. They should have informed Sony of the issue. They are kids who do not understand what effect the situation has on the economic climate.

Also, defacing the other music sites does nothing more than raise the profile of their hacking "skills".

As I mentioned, yes they are making people aware that there are security issues that companies need to iron out and Sony are having some serious bad media recently but who is this really helping? It's not helping the market and its not helping consumers?

You and I both know that they should not be storing stuff plain text or with some bad security practice and we understand what it takes to make it right but to the common person they are instantly put off all places where they have to put card details. The overall perception of the web is stepping back 15 years in the eyes of the general consumer, soon people will be afraid to put their details anywhere.

I agree completely with what you are saying but that's from my point of view, I'm thinking general consumer confidence.
True of anything anywhere. Apple is not only your platform, but your competition.

Utility apps for Windows have been getting squashed by new versions of Windows for years and years.

- I used to run tools to move items around in my Task Bar. Now I can just do that in Windows 7.

- Or add-ons that told you the resolution of a photo without having to open it. Now you just roll your mouse over it.

- Red-Eye elimination and other basic photo functions showed up in Vista.

It's the way of the world. If you are a utility, you may become standard issue.
It's not the size, but the legality of downloading copyrighted material in something that's surely going to be a criminal investigation.
In some countries (the UK at least) you don't own MP3s ripped from a CD you bought. I can't help but feel this service is going to take a while to reach these shores for even sensible uses...
great article, elad. i actually prefer working for a longer period of time together, like a week, pay for their time and have a specific goal/project in mind, to get a mutually better sense of what the day to day is like.
https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/77799506602762241

Glad I've invested in social and editorial features. Not dead yet!
Frankly, what do you expect them to do? They are in it for the money. Operating systems in the narrowest sense (scheduler, memory manager plus file system) became commodities decades ago. Graphics libraries, networking, printing, video and audio player libraries, databases, etc. followed. Even DOS had a fullscreen text editor, in later versions.

With complete 2GHz systems costing $250 or so, they would have a hard time selling people "we worked hard for a year, and here it is: it does the same, but it has a slightly faster/more memory efficient/more robust kernel" (battery live drives developments here a bit, but that is about it)

So, they start adding features. They could have made APIs for features and allow third parties to plug into them, but I guess doing that would have been more of an effort than building a good one (Android has it easier there with its Java infrastructure), and it just isn't in their DNA to sell a Lego set or to focus on making money from their hardware.

Yes, this will hurt some third party software, but I can understand why they 'have' to do this (and no, I do not think they could have gotten away with adding a totally new set of original features instead; people would still have complained about the lack of a decent notification system)
Definitely. But you're suggesting a real change: the current model is researchers -> papers -> popularizers -> books -> science journalists -> articles -> Wikipedia editors -> Wikipedia, or something like that. Reducing this to researchers -> papers + wiki -> Wikipedia editors -> Wikipedia would definitely improve accuracy, but I think both sides would need to learn a lot about the other to make it work. There are benefits to that, but I don't see it happening.
Awesome! There should be much more borrowing going on. Especially Apple is often reluctant to flat out copy good ideas of others. It’s nice to see that all the great features – especially of WebOS and Windows Phone 7 – might not forever be doomed to be absent from iOS.

Now Apple, what about copying Aero Snap from Windows 7? Or the multitasking UI of WebOS?
Give it time. Most knee-jerk early down-voting on HN tends to get corrected over the next hour or two. It's annoying when one or two people unfairly down-vote a comment, but at least the system usually self-corrects.Once a thread is a few hours old I seldom see comments down-voted into grey oblivion that didn't obviously deserve to be there.
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with such windows apps, you don't need to worry about Microsoft removing you from the only approved sales conduit.
nathanb: why is Apple being criticized for doing X?

pyre: Apple is doing X.

Your comment doesn't really address the question, which is, "Why criticize Apple for not implementing it, then criticize them later for implementing it like you asked them to?"
.. and Microsoft apparently isn't allowed to bundle Windows Media Player with Windows.
Dropbox is in no way threatened. Dropbox works on: Mac OSX (10.4+), iOS, Android, Linux, Windows. The new feature works on: Mac OSX 10.7.

Sorry NYT get your facts straight.
Except that here the walls of the walled garden aren't obvious. What's going to cost and what's free is very confusing.

And in this case, it's not a walled garden per se. Apple is providing a storage service on its own terms. AppStore is more like walled garden - Apple is providing a service with its own terms which are unnecessarily limiting the producers. Even that is upto debate but we can agree AppStore is more like walled garden.
Obscuring the URL from brute forcing would make it difficult to find random information site-wide (but using a hash is probably asking for trouble; just generate a long random string).

However, if I knew a specific person were using this service (which, since this is a public website whose URL you share with one or more other people), I could find other ways to find it and then break the application or server behind the firewall and have access to a multitude of juicy information to steal. It's kind of like saying to an attacker: "hey, instead of attacking a random web server you could attack the developer's workstation!" Black hats like lulzsec, etc would have a ball.

I recommend a simple username/password combo at the very least to prevent unauthorized access. The whole 'access-behind-the-firewall' concept still gives me the heebie jeebies though, and I think short of a VM on the developer's workstation I would be very afraid to use such a service.
And the prior took place at the border, where the Bill of Rights inexplicably does not always apply.
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Wow, I read something a year ago saying they were making $30 million that year. They must have crazy expanded.
Potentially this uses more space that a "true" overwrite.
No evidence whatsoever that Apple is going to do this with the affected app developers. And it seems like a pretty unlikely move.
It's weird -- you're the only person in this thread so far that's got the same takeaway from all of this as I have. I was starting to wonder if maybe I missed something.

I've been using and developing on Macs for as long as the Mac has existed, and I've never been more pessimistic about getting in bed with Apple. It's clear that they want to own their entire ecosystem; they want to own the application delivery, they want to own the advertising delivered by it or associated with it, they want to own the hardware and peripherals, they want to own the social atmosphere associated with it, they want to own their customers' data storage ...

And that's fine, for Apple and for their customers. But, I can't imagine any reason why any developer in their right mind would see competing with all of that as anything more than a short-term prospect. If you're successful, Apple will eventually try to own you (either by buying you, or, more likely, rolling out a competing product leveraged by the rest of their ecosystem); if you're not successful, it might not be worth doing in the first place.

Short-term (say, 1 to 2 year) projects can make decent money, and I guess that's good enough for most people, but there's no point to trying to develop longer-term relationships with customers, or branding, or a market of your own.
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The same can be said for services like Yelp. Yelp might drive people to restaurants, but it doesn’t benefit Yelp if merchants don’t attribute the new customer to Yelp. And how would they know? It’s not like you walk in the door and tell the restaurant owner you just located them on your iPhone via Yelp’s app. Foursquare hasn’t solved this either, despite having 250K merchants signed up and literally inventing the act of announcing your presence to the world. Both are great companies solving problems, but only Groupon has closed this attribution loop.

Hrm... maybe because most service companies that care ask how you found out about them in the first place? Well, most should. The fact that most companies don't try to determine that source when they're serving you (restaurants, haircuts, pet spas, printers, etc) is more an indication of really not understanding business and marketing in the first place. Outsourcing some of that - in this case, to groupon - may be a short term win, but you've just handed over your customer relations to a third party who has no real incentive to get those customers back to you any time soon.

Small service businesses need a strong CRM process. I don't think groupon is it, although it could morph in to that.
Joel Spolsky spoke about this on the SO podcast a while back in terms of people who develop extensions for Visual Studio (though it extends to all IDEs and indeed a lot of software).

He described certain applications as grabbing nickels from the path of an on-coming steamroller. Effectively what he was saying was that there are things which are going to be added to products eventually and while there is money to be made by getting there first, the developer needs to accept that it's inevitable that they're going to be ploughed down eventually.

But this isn't just Apple and it's not just iOS, it's software and in particularly operating systems everywhere (or does someone want to tell me that the differences between Windows 1.0 and Windows 7 hasn't impacted on any developers anywhere?).

If your business model is taking what someone else does and doing it just a tiny bit better this comes with the territory. You either need to live with that or keep doing it better so they don't catch up.

Marco Arment wrote a piece on how he didn't care about a rumoured forthcoming addition to iOS despite it competing with Instapaper because he felt he could bring more to it than Apple would and in fact it might bring him new customers by raising awareness of this sort of feature.

If you're not thinking that then I'm sorry to say that your product really wasn't strong enough or different enough in the first place for it to be anything other than a short term venture.
I have 10.5 and held off on purchasing 10.6 because I was waiting for 10.7. It bums me out that now I'll need to purchase both 10.6 and 10.7, regardless of how much the Windows upgrades cost. Judging from some of the tweets & comments I'm seeing elsewhere, a lot of other consumers are bummed too.
Which they then removed and replaced with "Ouch."
This is tangential. I'm not really agreeing or disagreeing with your main point(s).

I miss browsing. I miss (good) record stores. I miss (good) used bookstores. Some of my favorite memories are of browsing used bookstores in the five boroughs of NYC. Nearly all of them are closed now. The Strand sells mostly new remainders - though I go there anyhow, because I miss browsing. You can sort of browse online, but it's really not the same at all.

I grant that I can search online and get books from all over the world. I do it all the time. So, it's not all bad - not at all. (Nowadays searches for a specific target go much better than in the past at those random used bookstores.) The future is amazing. But I miss browsing.
This is an example of why I like Wikipedia and was an Editor there for several years: they handle drama and follow a set of principles pretty rigidly. NPOV is a clear rule to follow and it's great when I see it being enforced without flame drama to distract.
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To further venture down the rabbit hole: it's unlikely that anti-matter actually has negative inertial mass though. Since that would result in an electrostatic repulsion from normal matter (which would, for example, prevent an anti-proton from annihilating with a nucleus). The observational evidence is pretty strong that anti-matter has at least a positive inertial mass. There is a remote possibility that inertial and gravitational masses can be different, which would be a very unexpected result.
Do you have days to spend talking to police and lawyers instead of working? I'd rather not.

It's not 'clicking on a link' that's the issue, it's making a copy of sony's website's source code, which is very possibly a felony.
I'm not sure who you're speaking to here, but I'm the author of the post and I wasn't criticizing Apple at all. I'm just explaining why it is the way it is.
It was fun hunting for things. It was fun finding out about the best record stores, which were always skillfully camouflaged to look like run-down used record stores. It was fun bumping into people and it was fun to have your cred affirmed by approving comments from the clerk when you bought a CD or asked them to order something from a catalogue.

But it is better this way for everybody but the middlemen.
Fair enough. I highly doubt they'll target people who simply download the file, but then again I can afford to take that risk. Others may not be able to.
iCloud doesn't allow me to share files between people. (I have to resort to emailing them. Yuck.)

I also can't share folders of documents relating to a particular project. As a web designer, I might have a PSD for the design, some Word docs for the copy, a PDF of some flyer I have to convert to a web page, and a Keynote presentation to pitch a particular feature to management. With iCloud, I can't view these documents as one collective project. Files are stored per application, not per project.

Dropbox does all of this today, without the need for my applications to be updated or me to rethink how I store files. I think they're going to be just fine.
Is there any way to disable those Apture Wikipedia pop-ups and just get to the real Wikipedia directly? The article refers to the Paul Revere revision page, but there's no clear way to see the revision history from the annoying Apture window.
why, they have removed apps for "duplicating iOS functionality" before.
I don't think Hacker News has any interest in comparing itself to other news sites, but direct comparisons have been used successfully in advertising before. I don't think it's annoying in this case because nerds are typically just not drawn to the whole sports scene (at least the ones I know). I see this more as a message to nerds saying "hey we are running this type of sports broadcasting that doesnt suck because it's not boring. By the way, it's going to be huge--tons of people are already watching."

It's not really a direct comparison though, this is more of a category comparison of esports vs traditional sports. It's not like JustinTV is saying "our site is better than MLG and GOMtv combined!" I see them as promoting esports in general, which is actually very good for the gaming scene overall.
Or android. Same criticism applies there.
Seems like it! Cool, thanks.

(At work, so can't say definitely yes/no without studying).
If they did that there would be cries of evil Monopolistic Micro$oft.

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I think it's a rhetorical question.
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it's been done over and over and over and over and over. not to say you couldn't succeed, but you've got a lot of competition, and research to do:

http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/

http://www.irislink.com/c2-1626-189/IRISnotes-------The-Digi...

http://www.pegatech.com/

http://www.iogear.com/product/GPEN100C/

http://www.anoto.com/?id=19146

http://www.digitalfieldsolutions.com/

http://www.logipen.com/

http://www.paperiq.com/content/sections/dpfb.aspx

http://www.intellipen.co.za/

http://www.magicomm.co.uk/

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-io-Personal-Digital-Pen/dp/B0...

http://www.destinyplc.com/flash/

http://www.mintgadgets.com/stationary-gadgets/pentel-airpen-...
Sorry, I should have clarified pivot was from one of the founders (@skanwar) but ouch says the same thing ;-)
Your article came off fairly neutral, yes. But a lot of people seem to be taking an upset posture. Your parent comment seems to be speaking to them, on the same topic as (but not in contradiction to) your post.
You could maybe have a lot of fun with this, without actually triggering fallout from the easily-offended crowd.

e.g., "No bulls hit!", with a drawing of a surprised or relieved bull. Or, "No bulls sit!", with a drawing of a crowd of standing bovine...
From a tax point of view, sure. As a personal financial risk, no way. If the startup works out, you'll probably have enough money to cover the risk. If it fails, you've thrown good money after bad.

The #2 piece of advice about investment (after #1, which is to make sure that you are living within your means first) is to diversify your investments.
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Torrenting those files will still be illegal and that doesn’t change after you sign up for this service and pay. It’s not an amnesty. (Also: Pirates are usually not caught by looking at the files they have on their HDD. Whether you have the original torrented files or Apple’s music files around doesn’t make a difference.)

You can get those pirated files in slightly better quality and you won’t have to upload them to Apple if you want to use their music locker. Big deal.
Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but I love your site's design. Very well done, and very tasteful.
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Apple’s DRM container files used AAC encoded audio. (This service seems to be without DRM, though.)
Thanks! I know that it's been done before but from what I have seen (haven't gone through all of the links) it typically requires special paper.

I'm proposing more of an e-ink system.
IMO, most of the mentioned services are not in danger if they focus on differentiation:

Dropbox: How long will it take until all Dropbox-enabled apps are upgraded to iCloud and Dropbox integration dropped? Differentiation for Dropbox: Ease of use across MULTIPLE platforms.

Camera+: Has a lot more to offer than just crop and rotate. Focus on best post-processing and sharing, turn it into a universal app. Camera+ can read the photo roll, so it can be used to optimize photos taken taken with the new camera app as well.

Instapaper, ReadItLater: Focus on social features, cross platform sharing.

Flipboard: Nothing in iOS5 seems to come near a "personal magazine". Newsstand? Not really something that comes near a 'personal social magazine'.

To-do apps: What about cross-platform, collaboration, reusable lists? Lots of room to differentiate.

In addition, all these developers either have made money through direct sales or advertising. Money they made by using an ecosystem built by Apple. They may make less money in the future if they can't differentiate. But as long as Apple isn't banning e.g. Dropbox-enabled apps, I don't think they are so 'unlucky' souls and nobody is forced to abandon these apps.
It is in-place with a reboot.
Yup, it's the Constitution-free Zone.

http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...

The authors of the Federalist Papers were against a specific enumeration of individual rights because they feared that those rights would become the only ones we had. They were prescient in some ways, but I doubt any of them foresaw the entire Constitution being suspended.
Have they removed any, or simply not approved them in the first place? (Honest question.)

It would be pretty unexpected for them to be retroactively banned.
But how big is the risk really, unless you are thinking about living all your life with income from just one app, or if you spend to years working on it and then Apple makes it obsolete before you had a chance to release your work.
Otherwise you make some money, then make another product and make more money from it. Or is my thinking completely off the track?
You know the old saying.. If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't.

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