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You're almost certainly right that iOS devices probably aren't going to get a hardware back button, but I disagree with you on the usefulness of hw back buttons.

Generally, if I come to an activity from another app, it's to do one specific thing and then I want to go back to the original app. There are certainly cases when I want to stay in the app I got sent to and then hit back and find myself in the original app. The path then to the app I want is the same as always: home button, app shortcut.

Conversely, on iOS, what happens when I get sent to a different app and then want to go back to the original app? Home button, app shortcut. In my experience, the android way addresses the more common scenario.

Also, there are builds of android (HTC's Sense UI, I believe) that do have notifications on the lock screen. Not only that, but the lock screen is configurable, so you can add shortcuts that, when you drag them to the unlock field, take you directly to the app. This is a neat feature that I hope eventually makes it into android proper.

EDIT: Hm, this is factual and fairly uncontroversial. I suppose getting downvoted sometimes is just an inevitable consequence of participating in any dicussion involving iOS and Android? Oh well.
I just got back from spending 3 months in Argentina. I'd recommend the Urban Station coworking spaces as a place to meet hackers. I met some cool tech folks at their Palermo SoHo location, and I think they just opened another location closer to the Microcentro.
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Unless you assume the well-ordering principle.
They recoup the costs when you buy the highly marked up hardware. I know I've certainly bought enough of it over the years. Apple has incredibly high margins on these devices, and this service is to sell more of them. It's a brilliant plan and everybody more or less wins.
It isn't a subscription to your music, it's a subscription to the matching service. The point of iCloud is that they'll sync all of your music that you've bought from iTunes to all your devices. No more connecting your iPhone to your computer or managing the 2 computers you have with iTunes and how they get copied and such. Now, for music that you've ripped or bought from other sources, Apple is offering a matching service. 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.

So, the tracks don't expire and you'll always have them. It's unclear if the subscription is for the syncing and the matching or just the matching. If it's just the matching, you can basically import your old music into your iTunes purchases and then not have to continue paying for it (assuming that you don't get new music outside the iTunes Store). The subscription also seems to cover syncing music that isn't in iTunes via uploading your MP3s.

So, it isn't a music subscription as much as it is a service/convenience subscription.
I think you misunderstood my comment. It is legally impossible for a state law to pre-empt a valid federal law. However a state law may, in certain situations, enact additional regulations on types of conduct already covered by federal law.
The same way they make money from itunes on windows. I own an iphone and an iPad , but i use windows and linux. Shouldn't i have access to my data and sync?
I used Pandoc at a previous job when I got frustrated with writing documentation for our customer in OpenOffice.

Instead, I started writing markdown and wrote a script that used Pandoc to convert it to LaTeX, insert headers/footers and company logo etc, and finally used latexmk to output PDFs. This looked far more professional than the word documents we shipped previously.

It also successfully separated content (markdown text files) from presentation (handled by script), making sure all PDFs had a consistent look.

With documentation being just another buffer in emacs it was more often written/sketched when implementing, instead of being a task to do last when you had already run out of time.

It is also much easier for developers to follow changes to the documentation in the version control system, and merges are a breeze instead of a time-sink.
It's an additional $50, as per http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/

The upgrade path for existing Server users is Snow Leopard Server to Lion, then Lion to Lion Server.
What I don't get is why it isn't just a generic music streaming service?

That's easy: iTunes is already the biggest music retailer, and there's ten billion plus tracks out there that don't need iTunes Match at all.

If I have to pay...

You don't. The $25/yr. is for an entirely optional service that you have not previously paid for.

this is actually encouraging me to go illegally download music

Nonsense. You're complaining that the service is only giving you the ability to do something you can (supposedly) already do, yes? Something you already (supposedly) paid for: what you call "access". But if you pirate, the same thing is true. If all you want to do is have "access" to the music, you already could have gotten that by pirating. iTunes Match doesn't change that at all.
A fair point. The process of analyzing Kaprekar numbers could certainly be applied to other numerical sequences.
What about angel-gate!??!?!

The only gate near and dear our little-HN hearts!

(Other than nand-gates)

/s
ICloud will get me Off Google
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Just out of curiosity - does anyone plan on migrating from Magento to another platform as a result of this acquisition?
So Apple’s basically betting you’ll pay $25 a year to legalize all your content[…]

I really don't like the part about legalizing my collection. The music I ripped and encoded myself from hundreds of CDs that I bought retail are just as legal as tracks from iTunes.
Not really for application specific images. However, vendor, lib, and engine images will be copied into public in production. Keeps you from manually having to keep somebody elses asset dependencies updated in your app.
Strange Google Earth image resembling a structure on Mars?
Anyone know what this could be?
I generally prefer to have unpolished features available to me to use or not use. If they are polished enough to be useable for me, then I use them. If not, then I don't. I like being able to decide. Which is why I generally prefer android to iOS, I guess. Many others obviously prefer otherwise.
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Rdio will undoubtably be faster at delivering a "random song", that is, one that's not already downloaded to your device.

Often times I'll be somewhere remote and want to listen to an album I haven't listened to in months. Without having to download each file first, Rdio starts playing instantly.
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Not likely, few clients even know what markup is. I'll take the extra traffic and suffer the occasional nosy client any day.
Yes. I'm not a mathematician, but I believe Gödel's incompleteness theorems only address arithmetic. I heard of a book that focuses on common misuses of Gödel's theorems, but don't have a reference. Anyone know of such a book?
I'm not referring to the way UI is described with XML, although as I've mentioned there are people doing UI with HTML/Javascript (see http://www.phonegap.com/ for starters).

Android apps can have multiple entry points, just like web apps by means of URLs. From one app you can jump into another app while opening a specific screen. Android apps have a functional back-button that works by default (as in, the developer doesn't have to do anything to benefit from it). Android apps are very composable as normally they expose APIs that can be used by other apps (the environment encourages it by means of intents, services, broadcast receivers and the multiple entry points I mentioned above). Android apps give the impression of being always on, since you can't rely on an app to stay alive you have to implement life-cycle management (e.g. save the user's data and the app's state as soon as you can).

What I describe above is by no means unique to Android apps (iOS apps are usually as well behaved, or even more so), but Android makes it natural. On the other hand, Android apps in Google's market look like shit but the stock widgets are getting better so hopefully people will stop feeling compelled to color their buttons blue :)
My iCloud is Youtube, Vevo and other legal services I access from my mobile to my non mobile computing devices. THus and for me I dont understand the hoopla of music in the cloud as it exist ubiquitously now and is free.
But you had to convince your users to sign up for something that costs $100 per year. Now it’s free and comes by default with any device running iOS. That’s a rather significant change. (Oh, and that functionality is now open to iOS developers which are a much bigger deal than Mac developers.)
Same situation. Not sure how that’s going to work for us as we’re a Mac shop with the exception of the sysadmin’s box and the internal servers (Ubuntu throughout). We don’t have a company App Store account - not sure such a thing even exists - and we don’t have any OSX servers. Maybe it’s time to consolidate some of our elderly rackmount equipment onto virtualised systems on a MacMini server or two? Hmm.
It ran, but it didn't "work". Spaghetti is an understatement.
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Actually, this is first Pro-Groupon argument I found remotely convincing.

The point isn't so much that it shows Group will succeed, merely that it makes an argument that they could succeed. A Ponzi or pyramid scheme inherently cannot succeed. If an enterprise is Ponzi scheme, the smartness of the management, the prowess of the employees, the enterprises' momentum and everything else does not matter. But if an enterprise is not a Ponzi scheme, you can start looking at these factors.

Groupon may or may not succeed like Amazon. But if there is a massive opportunity "out there", this means it is not completely irrational for investors to give them rooting around in this market until they succeed or convincing fail.
The first part of today's keynote had a strong emphasis on multitouch and gestures being integrated into the OS. As a BTT user myself I'm very curious to see if BTT has been obsoleted by Apple.
Not just hardware. Kernel file systems and block devices have write caches.

Storage systems have write caching.

It is a pretty important mechanism, and may or may not be painful depending on reliability requirements.
Fuck him. Really, is the web black market that big of an issue? How about the fucking economy?
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I miss NYC so much; SF is just such a disappointment as a city.

My bodega 2 doors down in the upper east side was a full deli with fresh chicken, turkey, and pork everyday; $6 huge sandwiches made fresh; coffee; and they were open 24 hours a day. Plus they took credit -- once the people at the register recognized you, you could could run a tab up to a couple hundred dollars and pay on the first of the month. It was wonderful to go downstairs with just the keys in my pocket and have someone who remembered what I wanted for breakfast, that I like my eggs fried (unlike SF where they normally microwave in a plastic bowl), and that I take coffee with just a hint of cream and no sugar. Plus, from their perspective, I paid the tab every month in cash so no fees. I've never found anything like this in SF.

I mean, Andy at Que Tal recognizes me, but it's not the same :(
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What does this have to do with him being iOS-only? If he build iP for Android, wouldn't the overwhelming majority of his revenue would still come from iOS, and be just as threatened?
Data quality as a business value
I only realised when I got to the bit about barbecue manufacturers.
"Given the volatility I think the people speculating in Bitcoin purely for financial gain are nuts" - that's a strong statement mate. Any reasoning behind it or you just like insulting people?
As someone working on his own idea right now, I'm also afraid if I take on another 'co-founder', he/she will not work as hard as I will because it was originally my idea, and I work really really hard (sometimes to the point of being unhealthy). I highly doubt I can find someone as devoted to the idea as I am.. even if I gave him less than 50% equity, say 30%.. I still doubt I could find someone who could work half as hard as I. People have day jobs, families to take care of, etc... Somehow I feel BOTH founders need to reach the idea together for both of them to be 50/50 partners.
In general the service seems really neat, but I have to admit I find their storage and pricing system a bit confusing. How is the average consumer going to react? I can't imagine explaining this to my parents...

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So...it stores all my files?

Yes. Well, sort of. If your apps use the iCloud API.

What?

Nevermind. Yes. It stores your files, and sync them across all your computers.

What does it cost?

It's free.

Awesome. And I can access them any time?

Yep. Except photos. Those are only stored for 30 days. But the copies stick around on your devices. But only your PCs - your phones only keep the last 1000 photos.

Oh. But what if I want to look at older photos on my--

Put it in an album. Then it's always available.

Oh...kay. I guess that makes sense. What about music?

If you buy it from the iTunes store, then it syncs automatically to all your devices!

Sweet!

Up to 10 devices.

Eh, that's fine, that seems like a lot of devices. What if I don't buy it from the iTunes store?

You can sync that too!

Great!

It costs money though.

Wait. I thought you said it was free.

Non-iTunes Store music costs a yearly fee to store ($24.99). Although you're not really storing them. See, iTunes will scan your music and try to guess what music you have, and then grant you access to the iTunes Store copies of it. Unless it gets confused and thinks your Bob Dylan is Jimmy Hendricks. But that probably won't happen.

Er.

But you can "store" an unlimited number of songs!

Unlimited? That's a lot!

Yeah, you can also store things like mail, documents, and backups on there too!

Are those unlimited too?

No, those have a max of 5GB. Except for Apps, iBooks, and iTunes music. Those don't count. Oh, and neither do photos. The ones that we store for 30 days.

What happens if I use up all 5GB?

We're guessing that most people won't.

You should see my inbox.

We'll probably have a plan where you can pay more money to get more storage.

Ah, okay. So...

Yes?

It's free. Unless I want to upload my non-iTunes store music, in which case it's $24.99/yr. And it has unlimited storage for App backups, iTunes store music, and iBooks, and a 5GB limit for documents, e-mail, and "other stuff", and a 30-day cache of all of the photos I've taken. And it happens automatically in the background, provided whatever App I'm using is correctly hooked into the iCloud service, which may or may not be apparent at the time.

Yes.

Ohhhhkay.

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My parents have started to use Dropbox ("put stuff you want in the folder") and really like it. I'm not sure they'll understand how this service works, if they understand that it exists at all.
In fact, it says that 6174 is more than just a fixed point, it is also the only fixed point, and an attracting fixed point. That is, every four digit number with transform to 6174 in finite (indeed, less than 7) steps under Kaprekar's operation.

This is significantly stronger than just being a fixed point. As an analogy, when modeling population dynamics, one often finds both stable and non-stable equilibrium solutions. The stable ones are the only solutions that can occur in nature, and so their stability is an important thing to note. This stability often (I hesitate to say always) is the result of the solution having the same attractive nature as 6174 does.
I'm not killing my Rdio account either, but that doesn't mean iCloud isn't going to be terribly painful for them.
My claim is that if a project that uses Agile fails, the participants still have an incentive in dysfunctional cultures to blame each other, it's just that the structure of Agile makes it harder to blame individuals. So I am not claiming that A is better than W or W is better than A at shipping software, I am claiming that W is better than A at blaming people for failures.

I might have confused the issue by trying to draw a distinction between blaming the process from the inside and from the outside. My claim is that it is much easier to blame a process if you aren't a participant in a failing process. For this reason, it is easier to evangelize a new process of any type as a consultant or as a new face than it is if you are an old hand who may be accused of having been a cause of previous failures.

I think this second point is true of any process.
This just sounds surreal.

So instead of buying music, you can now "pirate" it, then allow iTunes Match to "legitimize it" for you.

Bingo, free "legitimate" music (I assume with artwork/etc included).
I see it more as adding value I want instead of a moat/lock in. If integration in Apple's ecosystem gets me Applications synced across multiple devices, music, photos, calendars, apps in iCloud (including your ripped content), etc., count me in.
The Android back button works exactly the way it should. For example, if you go to Gmail from Twitter and press back, I DO want to go back to Twitter, not to my inbox.

But you're right, there isn't a good way to go to an app's home screen if you enter from a specific activity. That's something that needs to be looked at, but not at the expense of changing the excellent back button functionality.
>From the article, it's not clear what the "it" refers to; while it's possible it refers to bitcoin in general, it sounds more to me like he's talking about the use of bitcoin on silkroad

Knowing what Bitcoin is and what money laundering is is enough to tell you that he's talking about Bitcoin, not Silk Road.

Legit business can and often are used to launder money, but a drug market cannot.
I think it should be called "The importance of not commenting out your entire post". Or "When HTML comments attack!"
That is sharecropping. If you play on another corporation's turf, expect this to happen and expect your income to be destroyed with zero days notice.
You're taking the author's words out of context and misrepresenting his opinion. He actually agrees with you. Here's the relevant text:

The really awful thing, though, is that we live in an age where, on every level, it is considered a sin to be wrong. From advertisers to kids on the playground to the world of corporate PR to politicians, the all-too-common wisdom is to defend the indefensible. That's what Palin is doing and that is what her renfields on Wikipedia are doing, and that's sad, because as anyone remotely successful in Silicon Valley can tell you, without owning our mistakes we cannot learn from them and without learning, we cannot win.
I'm prepared to agree that the post makes an enthusiastic case for points 1, 2 and 3 with respect to Groupon :-)

And I think that the expression "Ponzi Scheme" is ridiculous, and you don't need this essay to know that Groupon are not paying dividends to public shareholders with money they raise selling stock to other shareholders.
I've stopped being angry about Palin and have just entered a morbid sadness for this country.
There was so much bad PR, noone would bother. They tried to give corporate customers (select agreement sized ones) free copies and they said no.
> http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

That's not a case of Apple stealing good design though, that's a case of them buying an Audion competitor.

I'm sure Marco would have been far happier if Apple had bought instapaper. Or TapTapTap if Apple had bought Camera+.

Hell, that would have been rather cool, it could have given third-party developers an interesting incentive: build something Apple will want to integrate in their core OS, and they'll buy you wholesale.
Not that I want them to go, but Square and Oyster should be next. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_(payment_service) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card
Ask HN: What apps/businesses has Apple just rendered obsolete?
Of course Apple is not coming out with all features supported by the apps below. But for average users like myself, Apple's new offerings will force me to abandon these apps, as they seem to cover most of my needs.

Off the top of my head:

- Dropbox (cf. iCloud)

- Instagram (cf. iOS5 Twitter integration in Photos)

- Zinio, Flipboard (cf. iOS5 Newsstand)

- Instapaper, ReadItLater (cf. iOS5 Safari Reading List)

- Camera+ (cf. iOS5 Camera)

- reQall, Remember-The-Milk, etc (cf. iOS5 Reminders with location support)

Any other unlucky souls?
Purchased music won't count against iCloud storage. With that in mind, this is brilliant. Convincing enough to be habit changing. Pandora and Grooveshark apps are the only reasons I might not pay.
Is there any way to see the age of the text on a wikipedia page? Might be a good way to combat the sense that everything on the page is solid. If most of the page is years old except for a couple of sentances from the last two days, I might check the history to see the motivation behind the change.
There is way too much questionable information at this point and conspiracy theories abound.

I have no clue what to believe other than "Holy shit - it is bad"

What I find interesting is that there have been higher than normal storm activities between .JP and CA --- I personally like the conspiracy that some are promoting that HAARP is being used to create precipitation to drop the radiation into the ocean rather than let it get to the US coast.

Sure, far fetched - but sounds awesome. Although, it goes against the other conspiracy theories that US used HAARP created the quake in the first place in order to shore up the strength of the fiat US dollar as the double dip 2011 comes to hit hard....

If anything, I like living in science fiction.
They would still be threatened, but less so, because being multi-platform is a feature that differentiates from Apple's. I'm pretty sure Read it Later isn't sweating as much about this, because they have the single best Android app and the single best Web app of this category.

They also have a very good iPhone and iPad app that some iOS-only users will have a less of an interest in. But for others they can sell on larger availability than what Apple offers.
Exactly what the guys above said and more. With a coffee shop, you can't order just-in-time, rather you are forced to order a surplus by the baker. They don't want to deliver 2 donuts and a bagel, rather they make you order a bucket of stuff... every day! Now John doesn't have to do any of it; all he needs is to wake up 20 minutes earlier and put the bread in the oven!
I made a similar comment in one of the "Apple" threads going on.

This is sharecropping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
any news on whether it is for 64-bit processors ONLY? my core-solo mac mini wants to know :-S
> Non-iTunes Store music costs a yearly fee to store

My understanding is that it only costs a fee if you want to "upgrade" from your matched ripped tracks--matching means you don't have to upload it "manually".
Piracy is still going to happen; this way the record labels get a cut. If they make it easier than pirating it will be popular. I switched to amazon downloads because it was much easier than buying a CD and ripping it and I cannot live with DRM. Not to mention faster than waiting for the package to arrive.