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You know, when I first learned android development, its similarity to web development stuck me. Xml layouts (html), content resources (rest), the back button etc etc. I don't think its a coincidence or my web dev background
My understanding is that REST imposes a bunch of restrictions about how an API is suppose to work.

For example the idea that you can just communicate a single base URL and document formats, and other urls are deduced from that. Which add complexity, but make the system more able to evolve.

My thinking is that these constraints are inappropriate for an internal API, where you could embed knowledge of how to construct a number of URL's in clients.

Also some tools, like .NET, have good support for mapping XML schema's to classes, and I don't know of equivalents for JSON.
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I downloaded it and gave it a try. I couldn't get over the fact that I can't open things in a new tab and the keyboard shortcuts I'm used to for opening new empty tabs also don't work. Those issues will get fixed soon I assume but it makes this basically unusable for me right now. That said, it's always nice to see innovation in how people interact with browsers and I'm happy that Mozilla is working on this.
Ramsey-based security firm finds success, not riches
Bah, they can have the verb. It's the noun, 'hacker', that doesn't have a satisfactory equivalent, IMO.
P2P Lending Company (Lending Club) Kicked out of Massachusetts
I'm not sure that if you go back to post reformation or post enlightenment Europe you'd be doing any better than countries where those movements did not take place. Racial oppression the US between its founding (Jefferson & Paine or not) and relatively recently was awful. Women's suffrage and social equality spread over the 19th century, 200 years after Kant.
This is before the Great Renaming, I don't even know the structure...
Antimatter has opposite electrical charge (and magnetic moment) from normal matter. It should have the exact same mass and interaction with gravity as normal matter.

An anti-electron is called a positron because it has a positive charge instead of negative. Antiproton (sometimes called negatron, but rarely) is just a proton with opposite charge. You can even make a hydrogen atom out of an antiproton and a positron, called antihydrogen. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Antihydrogen
There are two diet changes the best doctors in the world will give you the day you are diagnosed with cancer:

1) Eliminate sugar from your diet
2) Eliminate red meat from your diet

This improves survival rates by orders of magnitude.

The sugar cancer link is becoming increasingly apparent, and is the elephant in the room. Excessive red meat can be a problem as well, but from everything I gather, sugar is the real culprit. Sugar raises insulin levels, promoting cancer growth, causing metabolic problems, and inhibiting apoptosis, then feeds that cancer with excessive glucose in the bloodstream.

Want to avoid or treat cancer with your diet (along with diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune diseases)? Stop ingesting sugar!
But you make a giant mistake assuming that everyone is writing big web apps.
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How do you know if I'm being uncritical about it? You're putting the cart before the horse.
> Fix 1 – Existing Exploits & Keygens made obsolete – Sales up 70%

A 70% increase in sales should be enough to justify it, no?

Honestly, I think the monetary cost of implementing DRM is vastly overstated.
What can Google do to help say webOS become faster at mobile web access?
OP isn't asking about doing things that would be normally regulated by the DEA.

I'm just using Shulgin as an example of somebody who went "screw it" and kept researching things on their own.
Waving goodbye to Google - on the exodus of Wave engineers
> There will be a scanner on the airport line that would detect antimatter atoms in quantities of more than a few thousand atoms, which is what you would need to create an explosion.

If I've got a kilo of antimatter in a briefcase, I'm just going to set it off at the scanner then, killing the ~10k people in the airport... and half the city it's part of.
He says that it would be game-changing for iOS devices.
That’s most definitely true. I don’t think he says that
it would be a game-changer for the industry.

Fair point. First time I've heard "game-changing" used in such a limited sense, though. Usually, the game is played with other people/competitors. But I do agree that Apple/Gruber are so narcissistic as to consider playing with themselves to be game-changing. [EDIT: eww.... That sounded very different than I intended...]
Couldn't get it to start in Ubuntu (couldn't find module "connect", totally unsupported on Centos.
To me, throttling and chatty APIs seem to be orthogonal. These apply to REST or SOAP or any other API.

EDIT: I'm wrong, chatty is specific to REST.
The medical establishment has promised a cancer cure for more than 50 years and has nothing significant to show for it. "Cancer centers" will stop at nothing to get money from cancer victims who apparently will spend their last dime in futile attempts to "survive". "Children's" cancer centers are absolute pits of despair and hypocricy.

We should terminate federal funding of cancer research (its a government white-collar jobs program for the medical field) and face the fact that we all die someday.

Simultaneously significant effort should be spent ensuring that death from cancer is not painful. That is, give cancer patients the drugs necessary to relieve their pain. For some reason I am reluctant to watch yet another cancer victim writhing and sweating in pain as he/she slips into a 3-week coma and imminent death.
Some quick advice:

1) Pair Program w/ someone Senior - best way to learn is to ride shotgun, literally.

2) Fix bugs first - trace a single feature, take things apart

3) Use the Source - Make sure you've got the source to both the primary product any any 3rd party/open source libraries. You should be able to chase any line of code down to it's source.

4) Draw Diagrams or Make Tables

5) Don't Hesitate to Break Out the Debugger

6) Use source control "blame" - find out who wrote the code and talk to them about it
I haven't played with the Lion developer preview myself, but here's guessing:

One of the "features" of Lion is a restore partition—I think that means a partition that is simply a copy of the install disc. That, combined with the fact that OSX has been able to in-place resize mounted volumes for a while now (originally coded for Boot Camp), makes me think that when Lion installer "app" starts, it simply makes 8GB of room at the beginning of your hard drive, writes its disc image there, then reboots into it.
scrypt is the sounder scheme, but bcrypt is far more widely available. Both are fine.
I meant falling downwards towards the surface of the earth which would experimentally show that there is an attractive force between matter and antimatter. Experimentally showing that antimatter gravitationally attracts antimatter is next to impossible for technical reasons but there is even less doubt about this than about matter attracting antimatter. No matter how sure we think we are about something we can also be wrong though. Experiment gives us the final word (albeit with statistical limitations) and there have been numerous times in history where established theories have been flipped upside down by experiments.
I don't need to prove that bcrypt has a "preset list of salts". Read the paper. Or even just Coda's summary of the paper. What an extremely silly objection to raise. Why would any cryptosystem embed a preset list of nonces?

How frustrating to have to argue about a system with someone who clearly hasn't done any reading on it at all. It's a Usenix paper. It's not a EUROCRYPT paper full of math. It was written by systems programmers, then from the OpenBSD project. You think the OpenBSD programmers devised a password scheme with a "preset list of nonces"?

"MAC address of the network card plus the current time"? To get a random number?
Completely agree with you here. Gruber does have miserable blinders when it comes to pointing out how completely flawed some parts of the Apple experience are, and usually points out only those elements that literally 100% of the universe is in complete agreement on (Hello, Notifications).

I am the most idiotically brainwashed Apple Fan Boy around, ipads, MacBook Air, iPhone, watch all my TV on iTunes (though, 100% of my books are on the kindle) - and even _I_ can point out how miserable the iTunes experience is for media. What, precisely, am I supposed to do with the last few years of TV Shows that I've purchased? When it was in DVD format, I could simply pack them in folders, at 32GB/page in my binder - 1.5 Terabytes/binder. Easy to lend, share, store - never lost a single file. I have three of those binders now.

With iTunes, what happens when my stupid 128 GB Hard drive fills up? What options did iTunes give me to managing / shifting TV Shows/Movies onto a NAS. I have to do this godawful copy / move / delete dance to manage my media, and, should that NAS crap out - everything is lost.

iTunes has been a _horrible_ long term media management experience for me, and adding the "cloud" feature, in the same way Amazon has done for books on the kindle (and, now that I think of it, Music on their storage locker) - is just bringing them up to the status Quo - it's a case of _stopping the pain_ - not really "game changing"

So - yes, please add the Damn "Cloud" already, so I can win back some of my life that I've dedicated to being a .mp4 data sysadmin.

PS: You want Game Changer? Give me cloud access to all the Media I've purchased from iTunes over the last six years. That _WOULD_ rock my world. :-)
Title seems inaccurate. Bounty is being offered by Article One Partners. It was merely linked to by Stallman.
Yes, you can be fined, it usually happens at specific places.

People just have to be smart when jaywalking. Like everything else.
Was I the only one who thought that Richard Stallman is the prize for destroying software patents? As much as I dislike patents, I wouldn't know what to do with a full-size Stallman at home.
In the photo it looks like our classmates from Foodoro, Adioso, Wattvision, Echodio, Jobpic, and a dating site.
Google's mod_pagespeed (http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html) is an example of something Google did that can help everyone on all platforms.

He talks a bit about it in the article too: "At a high level we are planning to tackle problems in three broad areas: The mobile devices themselves; the services they connect to; and the networks that connect them. On the device side, we are looking at a wide range of OS, network stack, and browser enhancements to improve performance. On the service side, we are looking at better ways to architect websites for mobile clients, providing tools to help web developers maximize their performance, and automatic optimizations that can be performed by a site or in a proxy service. Finally, at the network layer we are looking at the (sometimes painful) interactions between different layers of the protocol stack and identifying ways to streamline them."
This totally reminds me of a recent incident where someone suggested me to file for patents just because I am not getting success with the products/business I am building/trying to build. I did not get the point!

However I have to admit that I find it difficult to totally deny the existence of patents when I think about it from a specific angle such as "stackoverflow vs scrapers". What if stackoverflow had filed for a patent years back!!

EDIT: oh yes I am aware that content protection is a copyright issue and has nothing to do with patent. And thats why I said "thinking from a specific angle"; which means that it is not the exact analogy, it's just a picture how it might happen in the patent ground. And I am not trying to defend SW patents because they do not make sense, I am just bringing up the point that due credit should be given to original author and if he wants to patent it, it should be respected.
Are you still here or travel back regularly? Would love to meet up.
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Obviously, I agree with you. Continuing: I really don't like the way Microsoft claims stuff they copy as "sparkling new MS technology", but that's expected. I really don't like it when Apple, the underdog, does it, even if they are playing catch-up.
I would hope the db didn't store credit card info or at least encrypted it somehow. Granted that's a pretty big hope. But if you can crack the passwords in the db you have, chances are those passwords will work on other sites. People often use one password for everything.
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Ruby implementation of redis protocol and server.
I, for one, would certainly find a use for a specimen like this, who is fluent in Emacs and C.
Yes. That's not how bcrypt really works.
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Cancer thrives in an environment that allows it to flourish. Dr. David Servan-Schreiber has written a great book that talks about his two successful battles against cancer and how our "modern" western lifestyle and diet(for example, too much sugar as @aneth mentions in another comment) may set the stage for rise in cancer occurrences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDt3AJQ98c
ugh, no thank you.
Not to mention able to keep up with an entire company full of Lisp programmers, fueled only by his rage at the situation. And, obviously, food. Probably a lot of coffee.
You double click the installer.
You take your Mac to the Apple Store.
Seems like apple is still playing catch up. All the rumored features are already on android. But of course I am sure apple's implementations will be considered gamechangers and revolutionary according to the fanboys. What's next? A customizable home launcher?
You could use it as a Firewall
You expect that the third-party co-opting your server resources would be in US legal jurisdiction?
Do you come up with the algorithms, or do you only implement the algorithms? If your case is the latter, I agree with your preference for simply "computer programmer" as your job title. If you generate ideas as well, though, in addition to implementing them, I think that involves doing a lot more that simply programming computers.
China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking claims
Solitaire is a game.
I'm not sure how you're defining 'cut-off' but there's no way he forced the transport truck to brake. There was ample space between the vehicles by the time he changed lanes since the motorcycle was accelerating quickly at that point.

Granted it's not recommended, but the likelihood of an experienced rider going down from a short, low wheelie like that is quite low. Saying that it is likely to lead to a pile-up and multiple deaths is hyperbole hardly worth addressing. Pile-ups almost always involve inclement weather.

Anyway, it's no more dangerous than the countless drivers I see chatting on their cell phones, disciplining their children in the back, eating lunch, etc. -- activities that probably the majority of drivers engage in at some point.
What's the Best Source for Browser Usage Stats?
This is a personal opinion, but I find the Ask HN submissions to be my favourite part of HN. I'd love one of these top 100's that was just the Ask HN's :-)
To ease your fear further, this is quoted from the Ministry of Home Affairs website I showed earlier:
"Furthermore, if the accused can prove to the court that he is a chronic abuser and would therefore need to be in possession of a greater amount of drugs for his own consumption, the trafficking charge may be reduced to one of possession of a controlled drug, which does not attract the death penalty."

But then I do agree with the possibilities of a wrongful conviction. I am not a proponent of the death penalty myself but neither do I disagree with it at the same time. What I hope to do is to clear the exaggerated misinformation people have about Singapore.
I suppose the clause is to prevent the (hypothetical) case of an employee working 1 day and leaving with 4 years worth of potential stock options.

A company can certainly do what you suggest (i think), but I dont think companies operate to personally screw ex-employees :)
Or, just as validly in my mind, go the other way, and shunt all the money people are spending on managing cancer into trying to cure it.
Oh.. I tried to predict that almost an year back :P
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474763
This has been posted already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2375656
I'm in the same kind of situation. I live and work here in the US, but under a h1-b visa. Therefore, I'm not allowed to start a business here (And God knows I exactly want to do that).
From what I've learned, the best way is to apply for an E-2 visa, which allows you to enter the country in order to develop a business (And only that). One of the condition is the provide proof that you're ready to invest a substantial amount of capital in the company (A friend and lawyer told me it is usually more than 70k). That capital should strictly be for the company, your living expenses or others expenses are not included.
The visa is renewable every year and with no limit of to how many time you can renew.

For more information go to http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b...
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IRS is a revenue collecting body, not a VC firm. Why would they want to take undue risk?

I see the following reasons (atleast), the proposed solution is a no-go.

a. 17.5% cash >> 17.5% shares of a business, which is struggling to pay 17.5% cash.

b. what happens if the business goes under and IRS owns 100% shares of the business?

c. What happens if all IRS get in payment is shares. How the country economy is supposed to run? (with foreign trade etc.)
Even if it wasn't fad driven, there seems to be a significant trend of the number one site getting eclipsed by new up and comers. Whether that trend is coming to a halt with Facebook or not is debatable (they seem to be staying on the leading edge and more than willing to adapt and take in the ideas any competitors would push, along with the most extreme network effect possible).

On the other hand, I doubt that reddit isn't going to suffer the same fate that slashdot and digg did when something better comes along, though I doubt they are going to make as drastic a mistake as digg did.
By "multiple inheritance", I mean children can inherit features from multiple parents, whatever the constraints on those parents may be. Ruby, for example, uses modules for this purpose.

Because JS objects can only have a single prototype, you can't inherit from multiple places orthogonally. If you insert mixins into the prototype chain then they can't be shared between multiple chains, and so aren't really mixins.
> Yes, but once you are in to the point where you have the db...what else are you going after?

There are many conceivable attacks that would result in a read-only dump of password hashes. An administrator's account would be useful in such an administration, turning your read-only access to read-write access.
Heck, I'd go one further and wish it were a native Cocoa Touch framework.
Technically, you restore from your Mac's original restoration media (either DVD or USB stick). If it was Snow Leopard, then go to the App Store and download the Lion update again for free because it remembers you bought it before.

I assume Apple will sell a DVD version for MUCH more money (full $129 or higher) that you can use to do a fresh install or upgrade from Tiger and Leopard.

I also assume the Lion upgrade in the App Store will be super cheap. Probably $30. Possibly as cheap as $10.
Is Steam horrible? As far as I know you can log in as another account and download games the other account has and play them, and if you log back into your account the game data doesn't go anywhere (so if you buy you don't have to redownload) but you can't launch them from the steam client. Why didn't Apple do something similar?
I estimate 90% of the people who use my app have pirated it. That is based on server communication with the app that would not be easily duplicated by outside sources like Google crawlers. There is some margin of error: Each purchased copy is able to be installed on up to five devices, for example. But I find it to be still fairly telling.

What is more interesting is that I noticed a dramatic drop in sales when it started to be distributed on the pirate websites. I'm not quite sure what to make of that, but it does give some indication that piracy did affect me.

For what it is worth, my app appeals to the geek crowd. From the data I have been able to acquire, I would say the majority of my users, including legitimate ones, are running jailbroken devices. That may help skew the piracy rates towards the higher end.

Ultimately, I'm not worried about it. I wasn't banking my livelihood on the success of the app. It has made enough money to recoup my time investment, which is an added bonus. I do feel for the users who did pay for my app, however. I do feel that piracy has prevented me from spending more time making the product better for them. That is the real unfortunate side.
Nice. I've got a bookmarklet I wrote exactly like this, which has morphed into chrome extension to automatically notify you when their is a HN discussion for the page you are on. Should polish it up and release it. Good work
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There actually is a way to avoid piracy of iOS apps: build an app that requires server-side computation/algorithms of some sort and combine that with the signed receipt capability of in-app purchases. Basically this makes it possible for you to be sure that only a single user of your application is using a single in-app purchase at a time, by validating the signature each time the user launches the app with Apple.
Passwords are frequently reused.
Even if 90% of startups fail, surely more than 10% of the survivors will have Twitter-esque scaling problems if all their prototypes were on platforms with severe performance drawbacks.
It's pretty clear from Gruber's previous writing that he's aware that Apple's reliance on syncing with iTunes puts it behind the curve. I think this article from April (http://daringfireball.net/2011/04/cutting_that_cord) gives a lot of the context for this latest article. For example:

But most iPad competitors have little-to-no reliance on a
connection to a desktop PC, the way an iPad does.
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