skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>This kind of technical view is religious but is usually not called religion.

This poorly constructed sentence shows me to be wrong does it? It somehow refutes my claim? How exactly? Have you ever heard the phrase quasi-religious? Perhaps you should have some sympathy for someone with Andi's dearth of vocabulary. It adds nothing to his earlier comment and takes nothing away from it either.

You are making Andi out to be the unabomber, he does seem like a reasonable person - you are completely overreacting to all of his comments for some utterly bizarre reason. His comments are irrelevant to what we are talking about. Your whole basis of argument now is that Andi is some sort of certifiable nutcase. Time and again I've said his comments are not relevant, nor do they show anything of the sort, what has you so agitated about the one in the link you provided?

Even if you were somehow magically correct in delivering a devastating psychoanalysis of Andi, over the internet based on some comments, you can't argue with this: there is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations. But you continue to. Do you disagree with this statement? It's what I'm calling you out on, and you seem to have a massive problem with it.

What proof of principle solution? Your oil well suggestion is no solution to anything. Are you referring to something else perhaps?

I'm sure they have pulled and will continue to pull lots of useful materials out of the areas and people near e.g. Fukushima and Chernobyl that our past, current and future research will make useful for future generations: cancerous thyroid glands, contaminated milk, water and aquatic life with 2Sv of radiation in it, irradiated metal and farmland.

To demonstrate that there is a net cost of nuclear power to future generations: accept that nuclear plants are supported by tax breaks, and the cost of shutting down nuclear plants is so great that it cannot be undertaken by their owners and caretakers. This must be undertaken by the state taxpayer. After they have been shut down, the waste cannot be processed by current technology and must be stored and protected by the taxpayer. When the plants are no longer generating profit - the vain hope for the enterprise to benefit future generations is that someone invents some way of processing their waste. This is the same vain hope those had when they built these reactors in the the 50s/60s/70s. Sure, they produced power for a few decades - the waste however will cost taxpayer money for millennia.

I will repeat myself again, perhaps you may notice this time: there is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
There's a little bit of a difference here in that Apple has set a precedent of removing applications in competition with features provided by the OS itself.
Given the limitations of iCloud (only backs up purchased music, only syncs productivity docs created in iWork, etc.) I really can't see it killing my love of Dropbox.
I'd be willing to bet eBay is preparing to use Magento to roll their own turn-key hosted storefront service.
Also, Tungle.me got bought by RIM, so I'm not sure how much active work they'll be putting into non-RIM device support (for the calendar owner...of course device support across bookers is still valuable).
I would much rather use Instapaper as long as the features are there. I don't really care about the social stuff. I care about the bookmarklet, and I care about the effort that Marco has put into making Instapaper the one major app I tell non-technical friends about (usually, responded with, "What, I click on the bookmark and it goes to my phone? Wow!").

I see no reason to change to Apple's version for Apple's sake.
Would you say this is the year of Linux on the desktop?
Jay Walsh's estimate for the number of articles under protection is quite a bit off. I count 7631 right now, not 1500 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ProtectedP...). His count is pretty close to the number of fully-protected pages, so he may just be confusing the two numbers.

Still a small number of the total articles, but I do regularly come across articles that I want to do some editing on, and am unable to without logging in (or in some cases, without being an administrator).
LLVM has almost no support for GC and it is about the biggest problem that just hits you in the face when you use it.

What I've been doing for my own experiments is very naive (and quite possibly broken). I've been implementing an interpreter with all GC done on the "compile side" of the Jit. What this means is that to allocate at runtime it reaches back around and calls functions which are pre-compiled into the interpreter codebase.

The interpreter itself uses linked lists extensively for its symbol table and to hold references to memory that it needs at compile time, and this is just hooked into by Jit compiled code at runtime, i.e. there's automatically an object associated with each allocation done at runtime because there is an object associated with it at compile time which is stored in the symbol table. Once a given object is out of scope, assuming no other object (which is still in the symbol table) holds a reference to it, the GC can then see the object can be cleaned up.

[And just writing this I know this sounds very much like nonsense. After all, once something is out of scope at compile time, what is to stop the GC cleaning it up before runtime? Indeed one has to be careful about this. In my case, the source code itself is connected with the symbol table. The source code is itself represented as a linked list and the symbols in it are the symbols in the symbol table. Until the source is relinquished, the part of the symbol table that is currently in scope is not relinquished. And of course the source is not relinquished until after it has been "evaluated", i.e. Jit compiled and executed.]

So far I haven't managed to trick it, and it is very efficient. But then again I'm using Boehm-Demers-Weiser which is possibly so conservative that nothing is actually getting cleaned up in the examples I am running. I simply don't know.

I do know that this is a technical kludge and (I think) I can see it isn't going to work for a compiler, only for an interpreter.
Maybe the first time someone gave a reasonable reason why a startup may want to consider getting IP protection on HN.

With that said, is there anything stopping Apple from adding terms to their app store requiring you to license their technology to them, w/o limitation, for free? Given the strength of their app store, I could see them doing it if they needed to.
"There is nothing wrong with building on good ideas."

This is the key point. Apple may have copied a feature, but I think they usually put their own spin on how it should work or try and make it better.

I feel for the Camera+ guys though. I am glad that the volume button for taking pictures is back. But I hope they allow TapTapTap to put the feature back in and do an update.
it made me think of Joomla (you need a beefy server for what seems to be a simple site)
IOS 5 developer beta is online
It's also possible to provide a sufficiently large moat in your product that Apple wouldn't be able move across without some decay in focus. E.g., suppose you created an amazing CAD software for Macs. Not just a 3D sketch, but a heavyweight competitor, analogous to AutoCad or 3DStudioMax.

Apple can't take your lunch without crossing your moat.

I see these addins to the OSX deployment as things that did not have a sufficient moat to cross. And let's face it, if you can build it alone in 6-8 weeks, so can most other hackers, and when a big player comes in, 6-8 weeks is dried peanut shells to them: you lost the game (unless you can move into a niche they won't steamroll over).
If you patent it, Apple will look at all the patents your app is infringing and do their app anyway. If you decide to sue them, they'll get back at you with all the patents you're infringing. Remember, patents are only useful for patent trolls (who don't sell software and therefor can't get sued) and for huge companies who have enough patents and money to retaliate.
Marco had two arguments on Build & Analyze for why he wasn't overly concerned with Reading List.

First, he didn't expect RL to have defer-reading, readability, and sync. But, like everyone's saying, it does. Shit.

Second, the defer-reading market is theoretically huge. It's something everyone needs to do. A tiny percentage captured off that market is worth millions of dollars.

iP is currently the best synced defer-reading app around and probably will remain so even after Reading List is released.

But more importantly, how hard is it to come up with 2-3 killer features to further differentiate iP from Reading List for the tiny fraction of the market required to be successful?

I'm sure it's dismaying to see what he expected to be an afterthought feature showcased in the keynote, but I'm still with him on the dynamics of this market. Reading List is not going to be the final word in deferred reading.

For whatever it's worth, Marco is the one I feel bad for here. Most of these other applications were so clearly implicated by Apple's roadmap that it's hard for me to get too worked up about it. How do you not cheer for Apple taking steps to replace SMS?
As a Chrome/Instapaper user, Apple has not killed Instapaper for me at all. Then again, he's already got my $4.99, so that's probably not much of a consolation.
Would have loved for this to have a more expensive option so we can finally get Napster/Zune/Spotify-style jukebox subscription.
What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper
Wouldn't a majority of iTunes users already uploaded a list of all their songs to Apple when activating Genius?
> because he felt he could bring more to it
> than Apple would

Until his next update is rejected because it duplicates functionality that iOS already provides and would 'confuse' consumers (so could you please stop attempting to compete with us, please?).
I am not so sure about flat sale of iPhone and iPod but have no data on that, so won't argue.
Comparison of Android vs. iOS devices bothers me a bit every time, because it is just one manufacturer with handful of products vs. dozens manufacturers with gazillion devices.
And be ready to spend money to defend that patent.
Made a visualization: x coordinate is the initial numbers, y coordinates are the "intermediate" numbers hit on the way to 6174. Diagonal is obviously the plot of the starting numbers. :-)

http://i.imgur.com/DfxRB.png
Apple removed Camera+ after it was in the app store. They removed them since they found a way to use the volume button as a shutter. Welcome iOS5.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/08/apple-removes-camera-ipho...

The reason Apple gives is priceless:

Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion.

Of course, now it's standard. Say cheese.
:) Thanks.

Design is the work of @eoghanmccabe - our lead visual designer & CEO.
Please provide double-blind test results showing you can distinguish between FLAC and an iTunes Store copy.
Smaller is better: designing for usability
More people use Lua than Javascript? lol
the default relevance algorithm uses hotness to sort results
Agreed. I understand the outrage & fear, but in the eyes of their customers & shareholders, this is exactly what they should be doing.

I believe destraynor realizes this too. He wrote, "Apple always look out for their customers." And that's exactly what businesses should do.

However, I hope, Apple can handle their relationships with their development community better than Twitter did. I'm curious to see how they'll deal with that.
Well, I used folders and filenames for years, from 1998ish through June 2003. Worked fine; I mostly wanted to listen to entire albums, which mapped well to folders.

Then I got a Mac, and pointed iTunes at my music without backing it up first (because, after all iTunes was an MP3 player, and why would it write to my MP3 collection?!). Oops. Later I found that there was some import option I shouldn't have checked, and iTunes happily moved all my MP3s from their well-sorted folder structure into "Unknown Artist - Unknown Album - Unknown Title". Yay.

Even when I eventually got some software that would use a music database to figure out what tracks were, there were a distressing number of tracks that it couldn't identify (hundreds), and of the ones it could, it mostly did so in a very literal way, such that I have a lot of folders like "Movie Soundtrack - Artist Name" with a single track inside.

Could I fix all this? Of course. Eventually. Can you tell I'm still, eight years later, extremely angry at iTunes?

Now I just listen to Pandora. Screw it.
I'm not a US citizen or a lawyer but is the separation of implementation and exploration really required by the copyright laws (ignoring patent issues)?

I can understand that exploration/implementation division as a preemptive "don't sue us" move, but do US copyright really provide that such strong protection that someone who has looked at a decompilation can't be writing an independent implementation? It seems to me the writing an implementation with a different structure or in another language ought to be different enough for copyright reasons.
Agreed, but then those people and the people gambling in Vegas aren't approaching it as though it were a rational investment strategy.
> IMHO living for centuries with the body of a 90 year old wouldn't be so bad. (Supposedly there's a point where the body stops getting any more frail.) And as long as you can keep mortality risk to a low enough level for long enough, it's just a matter of time before youthfulness-restoring tech comes along.

I'm sure you've seen http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-w... already, so you know you can't live for centuries with the body of a 90 year old because the decay and mortality is just too bad, fancy exosuits or no.

So this leads to the kind of odd thought experiment which runs more accurately like 'imagine you have the organs and general health of a 12 year old, but are weak and debilitated and functioning at a low level (though not getting any worse); would you still find life worth living today?'

I'd say the answer is yes. Elderly suicide is more frequent than among the middle-aged or younger, so life isn't as good (not a surprising claim), but suicide is still rare, so life is still somewhat good.
I think you right, companies like Devexpress and JetBrains who develop .NET controls, add-ons seems like doing great. They are making money by being one step ahead and they always will be, therefore developers will keep spending money to resharper even though VS.NET 2010 comes with refactoring features.

If you are willing to be more agile than the vendor you'll always have something, but if all you do provide something basic which can be simple replaced by the vendor, then yes, all you can do milk it as much as you can until vendor get there. (and for small project, one-man shops even this makes a lot of sense)
Isn't offering an I.O.U. exactly what a credit card is supposed to do. They are doing such a bad job for merchants he would rather run the I.O.U. service himself than use their product. It seems like a business ripe for disruption - who really likes Visa/MC/AMEX?
> It's clear that they want to own their entire ecosystem

Hasn't Jobsian Apple always been like that?

They want white-knuckled control, unless it benefits them to cede a little, and they never remove their hands from the wheel, they just relax the grip a bit. But they're always spring-loaded to grasp it back.

This was my biggest hesitation in switching from PC to Mac as a personal usage platform: the controlling nature worried me. A couple years after switching it still bugs me, but not enough to act as a deterrent.
I wrote almost the same essay in 1997 and nobody cared:

http://www.honeylocust.com/nc/
Ask HN: What do I need to learn for mobile app game development?
I'm interested in developing games for mobile apps, both iOS and Android. Apart from learning iOS and Android development, what other technologies do I need to learn?

I have a CS degree and I know C, C++ and Java. What else do I need to know?

Thank you
This is a treasure trove of marketing information. Apple will know your entire library and what you are listening to and when. Not exactly a privacy concern, but its something they can potentially make money off of somehow.
I found Dropbox's UI so easy & sensible that I'm surprised the iCloud folks didn't try to model their product more on Dropbox. But perhaps they will in a future version.
Did Apple Just Backdoor Their Way Into the Game Console Market?
Here's one datapoint:

http://gigaom.com/apple/iphone-flat-in-u-s-as-android-takes-...

Apple has great margins, so they'll do fine, even if they stay at 25% marketshare forever. But it seems to be clearer that Android is going to run away with this.

The only real question is, who takes the #3 spot. RIM, MS, or HP? I think there will be 3 players in this space. Two are locked in. The last has yet to be decided.
Its an official Debian package of dropbox. Official according to Debian, not necessarily according to Dropbox.

Raphaël Hertzog is fairly well-known in the Debian community, and is a Debian developer. Note that its hosted on people.debian.org, which is an official Debian service for hosting Debian-related material from Debian developers.

See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resou...

Also, see the new queue (linked in the blog post too) http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html where you can see Raphaël has uploaded it to the official archive. Or the details here: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7-1.ht...
Thanks for the link. Taking songs legit for 1,000/$1.00 is incredible. Even with Apple's large downpayment(s), I still can't believe the record companies agreed to this.
In a perfect world I'd have the power to downvote links to articles regarding "tiobe".
Spotze app speeds up Boulder dining experience
Apple just pulled a Twitter!
It lets you redownload them in 256 Kbps AAC with no DRM. How can it make you keep paying to retain access?
The reality here seems to be, people don't get busted for the 2TB of unlawful music they keep on their hard drives. They get busted for the gigabytes of music they actively transmit on P2P networks. So while this is a valid geek conundrum, it may not be of any practical import.
This is just like the time Apple integrated social networking into iTunes and killed Facebook and Twitter.
Has that ever happened? I've seen small companies sue large ones -- but I must admit I've never seen a large company retaliate.
Pretty amazing to see Apple building best elements of Dropbox, Kik, Instapaper and more directly into iOS.

Quite the emotional rollercoaster for Marco - http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/06/apple-killed-instapaper-r...
Or better yet, rather than complaining that your market niche didn't exist, unchanged, in perpetuity, embrace competition and work to differentiate your product and make it better than Apple's offering.
http://spreecommerce.com
There seemed to have been a lot of pessimism regarding Apple announcements that seem similar other offerings like Dropbox & Reminder apps.

Marco has the best response.

He’s rightly convinced of the superiority of his product. Apple is chasing him at his own game. When people realize that there’s a whole untapped market for content reading services he’ll definitely stay the upscale, market leader in the field.
"Oh, really? That's interesting, because honestly? I don't think you guys have a chance." - Steve Jobs, from the above Audion story. The parallels are striking.
That removal was not for duplicating existing functionality, as you correctly point out. So it's not really germane.
10.6 is fairly easily piratable, though.
No, actually, I want my browser to take minimal CPU and minimal RAM. The browser is not the point of my computer use. Usually my editing and compilation is what my computer is for, and I hate every cycle that slows down my workflow.

And, for what its worth, I clocked FF as breaking 500MB only a year or two ago, and I run under 10 tabs.

Chrome does this better (or should), since it uses process-based tabs, which allow the kernel to manage memory, not the browser.
Learn to Program By Giving Yourself Open Ended Problems to Solve
Lean Designs &gt; PSD2HTML
I used the OWC disk-doubler to replace the optical drive in my MBP and love it. The only "gotcha" that I ran into was trying to install from the wrong OS X disk. Apparently MPB needs the version it came with or newer to function.
See http://www.wikitrust.net/

I just tried it on the Paul Revere page and it said "There is no trust coloring information currently available for the revision you requested. Please try again in about a minute, when the coloring should be complete."

For comparison, I tried it on Halitosis and go this: http://imgur.com/PNBXU

The colored stuff is newer.
You could just rip the trends information from Last.fm.
A lot of these arguments just don't seem very well thought out.

Apple's todo-list is going to kill Remember The Milk? Maybe, but there are hundreds of todo-list apps in the store already, all with subtly different semantics and presentation, none of which appears to have achieved dominance and killed all the others, even though many are free. Why should Apple's fare any differently?

And it's like that in every category. People predicted that Time Machine would kill SuperDuper. Well, it turns out that Time Machine is totally not a replacement for SuperDuper, and SuperDuper is very much alive, thank god. And Time Machine thrives as well, which is good, because the tools have different audiences and purposes.

Seems like any article like this one should include a link to that classic article about the guy who had a Starbucks open up next to his indie coffeeshop, and then a year later started looking around for locations near other Starbucks stores to open coffeeshops in. It would be a useful disclaimer, because sometimes the big player co-opts your niche, but sometimes it justs makes your niche more mainstream.
What apps has Apple ever removed because of a feature added to iOS after the app was originally approved for sale in the market?

I can't think of any examples.
Oh, please. I am not buying it. The selling point of iOS is the user experience, and part of that experience was that hardware buttons act predictably, in every context. Was. Realizing how important the camera has become, they are reprioritizing the photo experience above the universally-consistent-hardware experience. If you don’t think this topic was internally debated over and over at Apple, long before TapTapTap submitted their app, you don’t get Apple.
I saw some improvement. No hard data though.
Well, iTunes is on the PC. I'm sure Apple is already working on PC integration including Android.
haha,

There is a pirate party in Sweden and sites like thepiratebay get millions of visitors per day.
Cool app, but how exactly is it 3D?
Never that I know of when the functionality came first from the app then from iOS. This accusation is outlandish FUD-raking, not intelligent discussion.