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The OP is complaining about Game Center being usable for pirated games. The problem there is though: How would Apple be able to find out that your installation is pirated?

Checking the signature? That can be patched out. Make it so that only accounts who have bought a game can be used in Game Center?

That's the obvious solution, but it would really hur people sharing an itunes account in a household. My girlfriend also uses my apple account, saving us the money for buying apps twice.

And while this might feel like exploiting the terms of services a bit, think of children's iphones sharing their parents account which is probably even OK from a TOS point of view.

Should these children (which are a huge part of the Game Centers audience) be unable to use the game center features?
"off topic" But I cannot remember when was the last time that an article from yahoo.com got over 50 votes on HN !
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Good idea. Rather than post my advice here and have it lost in the noise I will write a new post over the next day or two pointing out exactly what you suggested, common themes, common mistakes, general advice, etc.

Great shout.
I understand your point, however I think the idea is validated by looked at google search results: 40.000 people look for exactly how to compute their BMI. I also saw that there were several sites built around the purpose of calculating your BMI, however I think they are executed poorly. So there's a market for it, even if it's only to make passive income.

To justify spending 200 euros: 200 euros is really not much in the grand scheme of things and considering the above, I think it's worth the expense. When asking for links and you have a good looking site, your requests are more likely to be answered than if you have a garbage-looking site.

Regarding whether it's a wise investment of my time, it's harder to say. There's the time developing it but also (mostly) marketing it, link building etc. I think at some point you have to go with your guts, you will never have all the data you wish at the beginning. Then if it works really well, I can look into adding more features, more calculators, more content etc...
Thanks! I'm located in Singapore!
The piracy numbers don't surprise me; as a long time game developer, I've come to expect that kind of piracy turnout.

What surprises me is that gamecenter allows cracked apps to appear on leaderboards. Maybe I'm missing something, but since gamecenter requires an iTunes account, and iTunes knows what apps you've purchased, why would gamecenter allow data from iTunes accounts it knows don't own the game?
While I agree, I think this boils down to a broken windows argument. Is it better to spend some money dealing with piracy, or not worry about it at all.
I found this funny.

Reasons:

1) His profile photo is hilarious given the context.

2) ColdFusion.
Calling it "always play catch-up" is unfair. It's really "See an existing product and try to execute it better" with catch-up as the first phase.

And oftentimes when they do play catch-up they certainly don't have to for long. If anything, for the first three any catching up to do is going to be the other way around.
I'm pretty confident that a lot of them were lurkers. The grammar and general literacy levels seemed to be well below your typical HN standard. ;)
IDC: IT departments are delusional about consumerization trend
Transformice
Cool Game...Believe Me it will more fum when we play with multiple user, most of them who are friends.
Why to Get Hold of Some Twitter Apps Store?
Do you feel that your Twitter experience isn’t that great as it is when you have some wonderful third party applications around to help you do some of the most exciting things which can’t be enjoyed otherwise?
I rather like "make". Far preferable to "ant", IMHO.

Some make features are perhaps a bit obscure, but the basic structure of:

output.file: input.1 input.2
build_it input.* -o output.file

is quite straightforward.
Best line in the article: "If the studios were smart they'd go to the mat and create a massive one-stop shop for TV and movies, find a price point they can live with and then set programmers loose to make the thing as easy to use and ubiquitous as possible."
Relax. I'm not saying I don't think IDEs are useful or that I don't use one myself. The point of TFA is that there's some benefit, especially when learning a language, to just getting down to the business of writing text, compiling, and running it with as little other cognitive load as possible.

"Right, because using vim or emacs is a matter of apt-get and off you go rollseyes "

Uh, yes? Isn't that exactly what was demonstrated in the article? Substitute Notepad or whatever is on hand instead of vim/emacs if you want - what configuration could possibly be needed for producing a text file? Fancy editing features are nice, but again - the point is to just get down to writing code. Maybe your overreaction to the ghastly notion of using vim or emacs belies your assumption that hipster straw men are trying to steal your IDE from you and make you write Rails code in Vim.

Anyway, I'll bet you an upvote you couldn't present a similarly concise example of how to write, compile, and run an Erlang program using an IDE.
I was wondering if some of these same principles didn't apply to Comic Sans while watching this.

Unrelated to dyslexia, I noticed watching some old Mac world videos that Jobs used to use Comic Sans a lot.
Please note, bold design and strong typography !== hipster.
The dyslexie font did remind me of Comic Sans right away.
Make a 'Celebrity BMI' facebook or iphone app and go viral in no time.
They are built into Excel -- you can show them in a single cell.
But if the article is touting it as such I think they would have mentioned those.
The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus
I agree.

I read the tables in the thesis. There are 12 comparations between the Arial and the Dyslexie fonts, but only 2 of then have p<.1 and none of them has p<.05. So it is very difficult to know if the differences between the fonts are real or come from random noise.

They made a font that they think is better for people with dyslexia, they tried it, but they found almost no difference. This work is only a master thesis, so perhaps they are planning to continue working on this. But for now it is not a "cure" for dyslexia.

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I think that the problem is that they didn’t do enough "beta"-testing. (Perhaps they did it, but it is not in the thesis.) With infinity time, money and resources, they should:

* Find a small group people with dyslexia.

* Do some A/B testing on them for one year. Compare two fonts with very little difference. For example in one font the dot of the i has the normal size and in the other font the dot is bigger.

* Perhaps, from time to time, change the group of people, to be sure that the font is good for "normal" people with dyslexia, not only for the trained group that is in the laboratory.

* Perhaps, from time to time, try some bigger changes, but measure the improvement.

* Find a new bigger group people with dyslexia.

* Compare with this people the difference between the original and the final font.
I think the majority of people in the 10-20 year old age group get their iOS devices "for free" from their parents, and don't want to negotiate with said parents every time they want to buy an app.
I couldn't find any extensions that did this, obviously I didn't search enough... Also I wanted to practise with extensions building...
WHile part of Live mail the hotmail addresses are still valid. The interface while still not to my liking has improved to a usable level in the past year.

To give credit where it's due, the spam filtering has improved dramatically. I've used my hotmail account as a utility email account for at least ten years. I get several hundred spams a week. They are close to 100% in filtering accuracy for me but YMMV. The only problems I've had is that spammy things I've signed up for can be filtered the first time in.
I don't have much trouble with reading text but I am prone to transposing digits when I read numbers (particularly long numbers such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers). I wonder if there is a sub-type of dyslexia that is limited to numbers?
The first time I contacted Apple developer support was because I wanted to change one letter in my first name (the system has messed it up so that random numbers were displayed instead of 'ł' letter).

It took 3 months until I finally leared that this could not be done and that I should create new account. My emails were usually responded after one week and not read at all, instead I was given the same automated responses which had nothing to do with my problem.

The second time I wanted to ask whether it is allowed to recreate the look and feel of Aqua widgets in my app, so I have emailed the legal team. I recieved an automated response which was suggesting that my question might not be answered at all because of the high volume of questions that legal team is currently dealing with. I haven't heard from them since then.

Ohh... and yes, I also had to fax my credit card details in order to sign up for developer program, I can't think of any other online service that would have such requirement.
I guess I'm being all Statler and Waldorf here, but the hipster 'look at me I only need a text editor' is bullshit.

I'll grant you that it's been a fairly annoying meme over the last year or two, but people are being productive every day using text editors and they probably don't care whether you think it's bullshit or not. Be productive and use what you like. Since you have such a strong reaction to it I'd love to know why you think it's "bullshit".
A shame, I have a Pre 2 and it's the best phone I have ever owned. Sure some things could be better - screen resolution for one, and battery life. But it's fast, as smooth as IOS and stable and the UI is so well thought out. There were problems with the original Pre but these have been resolved.

I also own an dual core LG 2X flashed with CyanogenMod but the WebOS UI is a class apart in terms of usability and polish. So much so that I am selling my Android. And so developer friendly - entering the Konami Code to enable developer mode FTW!
This is funny, because I haven't received an invite yet (and I'm a longtime GMail user). A couple of my friends have G+, but never use it. They created profiles with great excitement, but in a couple of days it petered away.

Until I can try it out it's hard to believe all these numbers. Only time will tell, I guess; but one should be wary of the people who chase the next shiny thing, for they are fickle indeed.
He probably knows how to help himself, but that doesn't necessarily mean he knows how to help others.

However, I did find some ideas that I thought might be helpful. In particular, making each letter bottom-heavy and making each letter different than other letters, so that if you rotate them, they aren't identical.

Sadly, it appears that either doesn't work, or he didn't make drastic enough changes.

I actually like the look of the font, though, when it's large enough.
Crap article which headline ignores the more immediate and perhaps even more intriguing results in favor of link-bait bullshit from the last paragraph, probably said in passing and almost certainly pulled out of someone's ass:

>Finally, according to Chee Wei Wong, the lead researcher, this breakthrough might lead us towards a cloak of invisibility. We can now control the flow of light, the fastest thing known to us. This can [potentially lead to] an approach to cloak or hide objects, at least in the small-scale.

What utter garbage.
Kleiner-Backed Lockerz Acquires Social Sharing Platform AddToAny
Or, more importantly, you need to be able to tell them apart when they're not side-by-side at all, shown 3 days apart. I thought that was the author's point, but the solution seems to have the same problem.
>>There's dozens of existing ways to have public posts that people can subscribe to (twitter, blogs, mailing lists, etc).

>But unless I use one medium for each audience, there will be overlap.

No, that's what hashtags on twitter (surely twitter clients do filtering??) and topics on blogs and groups on Facebook and search wherever is for.
Good luck to you. In my personal experience, many Clickbank products are simply garbage.

I had an Adwords account banned because of a Clickbank product. What was this controversial product?

Instructions for building a chicken coop. There are more "legitimate" affiliate companies you may want to try. Amazon, Commission Junction, etc.

I am no longer able to use Adwords...ever.

[UPDATE]

I have also had Facebook Advertising suspended because of Clickbank products, too.
whining won't get you sales

Are you sure?

It drives page views. I mean, I had never heard of this game until this HN post, and I never would have heard of it otherwise. There are many, many thousands of alternatives in the App Store, and I don't play a lot of games.

So why stop complaining, necessarily? It doesn't cost much, and it helps your paying customers feel righteous, which provides additional value for the dollar.

These complaints often have a certain Br'er-Rabbit-and-the-briar-patch quality, and this one is a particularly good example of the genre. "Oh, please, pirates, please don't think our game is so awesome that exactly 15,950 of you download it in the first few days, making it look like a runaway success and building an enormous community of fellow players who will vie with you on Game Center if you buy the game at the absolute bargain price of $0.99!

"And, whatever you do, don't make us write a blog post talking about our awesome new app and how people can't stop downloading it, even breaking the rules to do so, because it's so crazy and viral and addictive.

"And don't make us complain about how we took a risk and sold our valuable app for the low, low price of $0.99.

"And, whatever you do, don't generate controversy that will get our blog post upvoted to the top of news aggregators. And don't slag on us in the comments, forcing us to issue a poignant reply that will also get upvoted on news aggregators.

"My god, if the controversy gets big enough Apple might actually respond, which might drive this issue into the mainstream news, where millions of people with iPhones and money might accidentally read the name of our app and learn how many times it has been downloaded. What a catastrophe that would be. Please don't let that happen. Please stop, pirates, I'm begging you, stop talking about our game and forcing us to talk about our game."
Can someone please photoshop the background image to spell something, ahem, more interesting? http://dragon.ak.fbcdn.net/cfs-ak-snc6/84980/796/hack.jpg
Interesting, thanks -- I'll watch for that. Until now I haven't paid much attention to it since I'm not responsible for that part of the configuration.
This is par for the course for RIM, Microsoft, so no surprises. I get the sense lately that Apple is unraveling. They're starting to make decisions based on fear, not evolution.
IE9 doesn't even let you open unsigned binaries any more without going through quite the amount of questions and expanding collapsed UI elements, so that might actually be a bit better.

On the other hand: the only thing that accomplished is that I now stopped using IE even if I quickly have to download something inside my development VM.
Citrix Acquires Cloud.com
When I clicked 'watch', it prompted me to buy just the 15 credits needed. I'm not sure why that was different for you.
I thought the most enlightening part of this article wasn't about the slopegraph itself, but on visualization in general. To me, this was a very effective message about the care necessary to avoid imposing an interpretation on the data.

By selecting the two scales used, the designer of the graph -- whether intentionally or not -- is introducing meaning where there might not actually be any.

For example, should the right-side data points have been spread out so that the highest and lowest points were as high and low as the Switzerland and Mexico labels (the highest and lowest figures, apart from the US) on the left? Should the scale been adjusted so that the Switzerland and/or Mexico lines ran horizontally? Each of those options would have affected the layout of the chart. I’m not saying that Uberti should have done that -- just that a designer needs to tread very carefully when using two different scales on the same axis.
To be honest, almost none of the people who pirated your App would've bought it in the first place, so it's not as if there's lost revenue, you wouldn't have got it in the first place.

Common pirate argument #1. Prove it. Surely this is a falsifiable claim; do you have sources to back it up?

The people who pirate your app, act as advertisers, others see them playing the game, and then some people go any buy the game legitimately.

Common pirate statement #2. Prove it. Surely this is a falsifiable claim; do you have sources to back it up?

Also, the fact that people are pirating your app in the first place means is obviously very good and you should be proud of that.

Bad software is pirated just as good software is. This isn't meaningfully indicative of anything. And if it is good software (I'm not in a position to judge, it doesn't appear to be a game I'd be interested in), then I can very much see it being difficult to "feel good about it" when the compensation that they're due is not being paid them.

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These arguments are silly and demeaning to people who actually create things. They excuse bad behavior. Some people, I'm sure, pirate because they can't afford things (though how did they get an iOS device?). Others--and intuitively I think this is a large portion, but I'm at least honest enough to admit that I can't prove it--just want things for free.
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Where Can You Win
Yeah it corresponds to what I've been reading lately on customer acquisition: build the list!

Very nice ideas on how to take it to the next level, thanks!
4  of first batch innovation works’ companies got investment after 10 months
"Fanless" in that it is a fan itself.
Have you used a Pre 2?

Mine doesn't lag at all. It's a night and day difference compared to the original Pre/+, especially if you install the 'smooth scrolling' patch from Preware.
The new HTML5 layout looks incredibly slick. Whats even more amazing than the layout is the fact that they were able to pull this off while going through an IPO and without making a mess of their current service.
A few people have mentioned how difficult it will be to get people to upgrade to iOS 5 in order to use iMessage. Yes, a lot of people never sync and a few don't even connect to WiFi, but it's important to remember Apple is in this for the long haul. iPhones are going to be around for a while. When my iPhone 3 dies I'm going to go to the nearest Apple store and get a new iPhone with iOS 5 or higher. In other words, even if I don't sync I will eventually be upgrading. Apple would love it if everyone upgraded tomorrow, but they will settle for everyone upgrading eventually.
Should you be unit testing in C or C++?
thank goodness! I was honestly preparing to write an article on why and how a multi-billion dollar valued tech company could have a site that wasn't crisp to use or nice to look at. but it looks like pandora beat me to the punch, and that's a good thing!
Code Correctness and Unit Testing in .NET Applications
Why should I found my innovative, game-changing startup in litigious America?
I'm a young American entrepreneur who has spent the last five years (full-time) researching and building the technology for our Lisp startup.

Set aside the details for now, because they don't really matter to my question. Just assume for the sake of argument that our startup has something quite a bit more interesting up its sleeve than some new photo-sharing app---and that we proceed to draw the anti-competitive ire of the established players. (If you're not comfortable with that assumption, instead fantasize about one of your own startup ideas. It's much easier to imagine that those are great.)

Cutting to the chase: the more I learn about the U.S. legal environment for software businesses, the less I want to actually start my business here. Among other things, the depressing history of DMCA jurisprudence; the new Nortel Cartel; and the profound dysfunction of the USPTO (and increasingly, the Library of Congress) have got me in a funk.

To sum up: as our project becomes more exciting, my gut feeling becomes stronger that I should take it outside the United States. As an American I am profoundly saddened by this.

So, can anyone on HN explain convincingly why I should bet on America?
They are an overly-specific interface to what can usually be done with applicative functors or even just functors.

This trend originated with Haskell and then when people who learned monads without understanding the other (often better) abstractions spread them everywhere else, we got things like this article.

Using monads, especially in a language like C++ templates or Scala, but also in Haskell, can overcomplicate things and make things longer than if you just solved the problem the direct way.

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As an example of where monads are overused, look at the Maybe/Option type. I've read several articles that advocate using bind and/or Haskell's do-notation to move a string of null checks out of the main program.

This is great, but it's much more easily and expressively done with applicative functors. Instead of assigning all the intermediate results to names, you can just do

someFunction <$> Just 3 <*> Just "Something"

and it looks like regular function application. Because Applicative is a more general interface that Monad, it also has the plus of working with more types.
The difference is that recruiters get paid by clients and sell candidates. The candidates are the product, and when they can't sell one, they just drop them.

I try to never give negative feedback on candidates back to recruiters, or else they might not be sent on any more interviews (or worse, bad mouthed). Ultimately, the recruiters won't get nuanced critique.
Thanks,
It's up now :)
Accel Leads $6.5 Million Round In The DoubleClick For Mobile MoPub
makes life so much easier while you are at your desk.
Samsung wants most of Apple's external lawyers disqualified
Neither did most of the other comments at the time of posting- "How long did it take you to guys to read this post?" and "This is fantastic" add about as much or less. At least this one was a little thought-provoking, even if it looked dismissive.
How many people will know to go and rate their downloads after using them enough to have an informed opinion?
I'd almost rather the person who ran the site certified software rather than crowdsourcing it.
What you are describing is exhaustive search on the state space and is orders of magnitude slower than the randomized algorithm, especially when executed by humans (which is why I added the qualifier "efficiently"). Also, A* is for finding the shortest path, and the length of the path in this case is irrelevant. In fact the length of all paths is the same.
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Speaking of which, I highly recommend World War Z by Max Brooks. It is a brilliant book and provides an amazing insight into human and society behaviour in time of crisis.

http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/03073...
It's really not a one-to-one. You are allowed to purchase an app and install it on multiple devices, say for your family members. There may be several AppleIDs that could legitimately play a game besides the one that purchased it.
What you're saying is true.

In a Phase II, the deliverable is normally a prototype. But since it is by definition research, it's expected that some of these projects come against problems that are not reasonably solvable. Therefore, you can fail on your deliverable and have that be completely ok.