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>Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT: Grandparent should read "use asterisks for empahsis". Sorry for the brainfart.
Exactly. Not to mention 3.0 has been out for less than a month. Are you really acting as if the fact that major distributions haven't switched yet is a point against it?
Have you checked out GoodReader? You could make an App that works with that, GoodReader registers as a file handler for PDF
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True, as I understand it though they still have a fair bit to go to bring it to a sustainable level in that sense.
Automation is bad for the economy. Think of the tens of millions of phone operators put out of work by rotary pulse dialling exchanges. Where are they now? Those 100 or 200 million phones worldwide won't connect themselves!
I actually agree with you, but it tests well with a high percentage of small business owners ;)
Thanks,

Actually the bigger challenge is going to be the "sync" between our file/web server and the iPad app.

It will have to be a custom app because we want to make it all work a certain way, and provide a secure login since they are confidential files.

-Jessica
Use it, perhaps, pay a monthly fee - definitely not. Perhaps Flattr or donations (avoid Paypal).
Can you imagine a future where most of the menial and factory tasks that are now jobs are performed by robots? In this case it certainly does eliminate jobs, with no guarantee that others will be created.

The wealth created goes to the company that made the robot, and the one that utilizes the robot. The people who used to have jobs get left out of the wealth transfer.

I'm not saying this is necessarily bad, just that it will happen and maybe we need a new economic model to deal with this future.
I'm very curious about this as well. I was always impressed by the demos I found but never managed to find anything that showed me how to break into the community. About the only thing I gathered was it was not so common in the US.
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The syncing part of this problem could indeed be written as an iPad app, fairly trivially. Present a list of files from an FTP server, let the user select the ones to sync, re-sync when needed, etc.

The geolocate part is going to be a lot harder. iOS has the MapKit framework, which makes it easy to draw a map, and put a pin into it for your current location. But using an existing PDF as the background? I'm don't think that's doable without a monumental amount of effort. The original map data is in tiles, so it stands to reason that the PDFs would also have to be tiled appropriately. And that's just the first thing that pops into my head.

If you do decide to hire somebody to write such an app, I could do it pretty easily. Here's some of my earlier work:

http://www.platinumball.net/portfolio/
I don't think there are any comments saying things like that :)
Full screen apps in Lion just may be the best productivity boost I've had in a long time. Need to get away from distractions? If the program you're using can go full-screen, you're set.
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I too run it on a 2006 MacBookPro1,1, and while it may not be lightning fast, it certainly is not slow. I've heard reports that running in 64bit mode also adds a bit of overhead, which may be impairing his performance, and which we cannot experience because we don't have 64bit processors.
$ grep 10080 /etc/services
amanda 10080/udp # Amanda
amanda 10080/tcp # Amanda

Incidentally, you're lacking this one too.
I think people are looking at this the wrong way. Look at the history of manufacturing in any country, at any company. They may start off by taking advantage of lots and lots of inexpensive low-skill labor (even Ford did), but as they grow over time and become more successful they start taking in more and more revenue. And that revenue allows them to accelerate their capital investment, making increasing use of automation for example. It happened with manufacturers in America, and Japan, and Korea, and Taiwan, and it's happening again in China. I don't think it's necessary to invoke any other motivations.
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If the same software performs better on other platforms then the one platform that has the biggest problems should do something as well, that's what I am saying.
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The text loads slowly. It actually freezes if you're in another tab, which IMO is a poor implementation decision; it means you actually have to sit and watch it come on the screen word by word.

For those who either don't want to wait for it to load, or didn't get to it before it got taken down, here's what it says:

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To the Syrian people: The world stands with you against the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Know that time and history are on your side - tyrants use violence because they have nothing else, and the more violent they are, the more fragile they become. We salute your determination to be non-violent in the face of the regime's brutality, and admire your willingness to pursue justice, not mere revenge. All tyrants will fall, and thanks to your bravery Bashar Al-Assad is next.

To the Syrian military: You are responsible for protecting the Syrian people, and anyone who orders you to kill women, children, and the elderly deserves to be tried for treason. No outside enemy could do as much damage to Syria as Bashar Al-Assad has done. Defend your country - rise up against the regime! - Anonymous

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Once the text has loaded, it links to several revolutionary sites, and also scrolls images across the top that apparently link to youtube videos.
Some things to think about...

1. Maybe there's no good reason for the files to be so large; for example, maybe the maps are at an extremely high resolution that will never actually be viewable at the original level of detail on an iPad. Should some effort be spent up front to create iPad-sized versions of each page of the PDFs? This type of thing could be automated with the right software, e.g. something that goes from page to page, scales everything down to 30% and writes a new PDF (and you'd want that, so that modified versions could be shrunk in a push-button way).

2. Look at on-the-fly compression/decompression. The device could hold compressed versions of each file that are decompressed on demand by an app.

Smaller files would not only allow the device to store potentially everything, but it would make any transfers/syncs that much faster.
Yes, Artlebedev studio ends most of its products with generic latin name sufix.
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Inspirational talks or videos for my near-retirement age dad?
My dad and I just watched Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement speech, and while he acknowledged the value of Jobs's message (follow your dreams, live in full while knowing that it's short), my dad essentially gave up on the idea of his own dreams or passions.

I'm not asking for miracles - I don't expect any TED talk or video to convince my dad to take up programming and join a start up - I just want to know if there's anything out there that can put a little more spark in my dad's life. Inspiring stories or videos of older (more refined?) people turning their lives around or reorienting to pursue their dreams. If you're an HN reader and you're in that position, I would love to hear your story.

What can inspire a man nearing retirement age to live the life of his dreams?
With the amount of competition in the iOS app store, how easy is it to make more than $100 a week from an iOS game anymore? There may be more people doing it there but there are probably also more apps languishing in obscurity. Android is gaining in popularity and it seems like the situation for developers is improving. I think the main challenge is creating a unique, engaging game for any platform.
Jonathan here:

Thank you so much for sharing your story – it really made my day. "Kindness that spreads uncontrollably" perfectly sums up my highest hopes for this experiment.

Best,
j
Thanks, I will get in touch this week. What would you foresee the server side looking like?

I think the sync feels complicated because the app has to ask the server how much data exists for the user, check itself, allow the user to select certain permits then download it. And occasionally resync to get the latest permit info.

On the map side I found a couple API's that I think will be useful. No clue how the map framework works.

-Jessica
You really don't need a car to live in Singapore. Most of the time, driving will take you longer than getting on the metro. Remember that Singapore is an extremely small country and you can easily commute to anywhere on the island with a pushbike (even in the rain, most offices have showers).

Renting or buying property is the expensive part of living in Singapore. However, it is quite inexpensive to get a live-in maid/nanny.
Getting a visa is a major hurdle indeed. Do not attempt this without professional help, the slightest formal error can cause your application to be rejected and require resubmission (which means paying the submission fee again).

If you're serious about this, I'd recommend getting your ass over here on some of the 6 month visa waiver programme (no work permitted) making contacts and attending interviews. Stick to large multinationals, small companies/startups will be hesitant to sponsor you due to high cost and long waiting periods.
They actually are fairly small files but the number of permits available to certain users will be monumental. Each file may be 5 to 40MB but some users have access to thousands of permits.

-Jessica
[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago.

I'm interested to know what the proportions of OSes are today.
Please try both and share your findings with the group.
Let's be frank. I'm not getting into Stanford.

With that out of the way, how can a non-student get the benefits of the Stanford campus without actually attending?
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Which market is the best to put Android apps? How about all of them? I love the fact that you have choices. There's only one iOS app store, so you're putting all your eggs in that basket.
Their VIM plugin crashes using RubyMine for me so often that it is very hard to use. When it crashes, you have to restart the entire program or disable it. If you choose to ignore the error and continue, you may be unable to enter text at some point.
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Companies become more dependent on automation in order to increase efficiency. In the near-term this leads to higher profits. However, because automation reduces overhead, competition will result in lower prices. The end result is that increased profits are only temporary, ultimately the main result is merely cheaper goods. And cheaper goods mean increased amounts of discretionary income. That money ultimately goes elsewhere, creating new jobs that didn't exist before or causing growth for old jobs that used to be niche.

Yes, I can imagine a future where most of the menial and factory jobs are performed by robots. Just as I can imagine a present where the majority of the population isn't farmers, or where "computers" are devices rather than people, or a present without elevator operators, switchboard operators, lamp lighters, or milkmen.
This is true, yet often when it is brought up as you have done it is a straw man. The OP has in his mind that taxes collected are excessive. If you show him that rates are progressive, he won't decide that enough money is being collected after all. He is only using the tax rate as a rhetorical point -- he points elsewhere for proof that too much is collected.

Edit: should clarify I prepare taxes among other things. I'm NOT saying the brackets aren't progressive, just that this guy isn't saying, "gee, if only we progressed up to 35% things would be fine."
the form seems to be not working anymore.
That wouldn't fly with the many cities that depend on traffic tickets for revenue.
Is your “cyber security expert” full of s***?
Yes, but everyone knows that one app store. It's too much of a pain to manage multiple markets on Android. Especially when some do reviews and others do not.
Pixel precision means that we can send a standard PSD to a client and they can style it and send it back so that we can slice it up and deliver the finished app.

Android's layout is definitely more powerful but you cannot set every property in code that you can set in XML.

We've started using separate layout files for every screen resolution tranche (e.g. layout-land) but I am still hoping for a way to preview multiple resolutions simultaneously.

Thank you for respecting the Android consumer and not doing something like a "Back" navigation button on-screen.
Jonathan here:

The beauty of this is that one person can't ruin the fun for everyone involved. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I think people who don't get the concept are in the minority. Their behavior will be overrun 100x by people who do get the concept.

We'll see what happens soon enough...
j
> Why haven't Windows 7-only applications caught on? A major reason is consumer expectations coupled with only a marginal effort required for backwards compatibility for a big increase in market. .NET was a technical back-end change that isn't user-facing, so it competes with legacy code-bases and existing experience.

And that's reason enough for Win8 applications not to catch on, unless microsoft manages to create a substantial "other" market in the form of phones or Xboxen. Whether or not they succeed, we will have to wait and see.
There are a lot of seasonal candies that are not available out of Japan. I don't live in the US anymore but when I did I never saw any of the more original candies in the Japanese groceries...
For example, at one time, they had wine kitkats in Japan.
I like using the VCR gem with remote services that my Rails apps call: https://github.com/myronmarston/vcr
for the server: my first thought is to continue using your existing FTP server. If you want to restrict access, just make a username for everybody, and make app users log in to start. I haven't looked into it, but I'm pretty sure I could get a decent FTP or SFTP client going on iOS, using existing libraries.

And yes, there may be a mapping solution that would make this possible, but I haven't looked into it. I have used the existing MapKit framework, though. It's good for what it is, but it's also notoriously resistant to doing anything unusual, like adding your own map tiles. If you need to do that, then you typically must discard MapKit altogether and go with something else.

We should probably take this offline after this. My email address is in my profile.
As a result of the spending cuts, the discretionary budget will be 0.6% lower in 2012 than it was in 2011 and 18% higher in 2021 than it is in 2012.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/de...

Those democrats, how could they agree to such harsh cuts!

(The media is describing it as a "cut" because the growth rate of government spending has been cut.)
The Soviet era is over. In my home town supermarkets are opened in the buildings of closed plants and filled with imports. Authentic Soviet artifacts are rarities.
Judging by the number of uncompleted projects littering my hard-drive, this idea obviously has a wider application.

I think Mayer's real point is that, unless you finish something, you don't gain the benefit of the experience of completing something, and you can never get to a point where you can judge your results.

In my case, I've switched to using git which encourages me to make lots of small commits, and I'm really making an effort to 'push the big boulders up the hill', just a little at a time. I just have to finish more apps, both because I need the experience, and I need to improve.

You might write shit code, or you might write great code, but unless you finish, your work isn't going anywhere.
Zabbix works great for this, is stable and whilst it's still a serious undertaking to properly configure it, it's at least not as bad as Nagios.

It's also extremely flexible in how you deploy it (distributed monitoring, proxies, agents or direct checks) and what you monitor (custom scripts for oddball stuff are pretty easy to write for it, SNMP and many other common things are already included).

If you want free/cheap hosted monitoring, have a look at Monitis (Warning: they were extremely clingy when it came to cancelling our account once we switched to Zabbix)
Job creation for the sake of jobs is wasteful. And these are crummy jobs being replaced by robots; just look at the suicide rates. Regardless, robots still need to be maintained, they increase energy consumption, and they lower costs. Workers will be needed. Just elsewhere.

The wealth goes to the people creating the robots and the people maintaining the robots.

Automation is a great thing. I'm still waiting for an economic model to be put into place where (decent) food, shelter, and health insurance are provided free of cost because of automation. The necessity of having a job is so ingrained into our culture, I want to see what it'd be like when it's entirely optional.
I looked all over your website and didn't see "the catch."

I don't buy from any unfamiliar business until I know the catch, even if it's just that you're priced to break into the market.
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I agree that your website is pretty ugly, but my Flash blocker makes it bearable (heh). I don't have a project with a billing component right now, but if I did, the rest of your site looks good enough to get me to kick the tires on your service.
I can imagine a future in which robots are cheaper and more capable than a broad swath of humanity at everything. Jobs will be lost.
> Java is notorious for having over-engineered frameworks

You've got to separate Java the language from all the other stuff. You aren't going to use J2EE for Android so how does that affect you? Java may not be the most elegant language but neither is Objective-C without warts.

> And, more importantly, the market isn't just there for Android apps.

Now you are just moving the discussion.. this is not what the OP was talking about nor was it the point of this discussion.
Rodney Brooks stressed how the first nation that embraces new robot technology in their industries will have huge economic advantages over other nations. (he's a highly influential roboticist, MIT AI researcher, co-founder of the company that makes the Roomba and other robots (military mostly)).

He stated in a conference (2009) that for robots to be successful in manufacturing, they needed :

1- object recognition skill of a 2 year old child

2- language capability of a 4 year old

3- manual dexterity of a 6 year old

4- social understanding of an 8 year old

I guess Foxconn is eyeing robots that are close to reaching those numbers.

ref. : conference I mentionned: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Rodney_Brooks_Remaking_Manufacturi...
I have always used Macs and good lord, the days of Mac OS X being out but the processors not being Intel were truly some of the most embarrassing years for Apple computing.

I remember owning (and loving - for some reason) an iBook G3 that was basically unusable for a few months whilst I awaited more RAM for it. I think this was when their laptops had 64Mb RAM but Mac OS X really needed 512Mb. And remember when Mac OS X had OS 9 built into it? Ugh.

It's crazy to think how dominant Apple is now, compared to those days, and the even more pathetic days before that.

I cannot even think of a reason why any consumer wouldn't now go out and purchase a Mac or iPad for their next computer.
It's not just coding.

The challenge is two parts: 1) creating an app that does what you want and does not ANR 2) creating an app that looks good and responds well. I stress that the 2nd part is what the users notice the most - they don't care about your well-designed network processor logic if it takes too long or lacks the shine and polish of an iOS equivalent app.

I'm not saying it is easy to polish an app on iOS. We've spent months polishing an iOS app to client satisfaction. The thing about Android is that clients are willing to accept less polish.
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Unfortunately the author seems to ignore the fact that even if many wanted to, they'd probably wouldn't be able to get accepted into Stanford. And it's unnecessary for success.
As someone who also like random candies, I wonder if it is cheaper to just order candies straight from Japan (Amazon Japan or maybe Ebay?) I am stealing idea here, but that would be another way to get more candies.
There's no doubt that iOS apps are bringing in more money now. However, the Android market shows you actual sales stats for apps and its clear that some people are making money on Android too. I also find it hard to believe that Android's current hardware sales volumes aren't going to eventually pull up market sales too. They may always lag behind Apple's but I'd be very surprised if the ratios stay as skewed as they are now.

If you're already established and successful in the iOS store then it makes sense to stay there. If you're starting from scratch then it's not quite so clear-cut, I think.
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Jonathan here:

Thanks for your input, and perhaps for paying my bridge toll ;)

You wrote:

"Unfortunately it's one of those things where one anonymous bad egg will ruin it for everyone else. Some way to restrict it to a community with less anonymity would help."

I see where you're coming from, but I believe that A) nobody (with the possible exception of Starbucks) can ruin this, and B) the solution to the bad egg problem is to be more open, not more controlling.

Stay tuned...
j
* Only use it for the iOS simulator (I'm doing some HTML5-type development, and I want to see what it looks like on an iPad ...)
Hey I'd love to pick your brain about Kenya if you are up for it.
The rat the cat the dog bit chased escaped.

Googling for literature on this sentence, I found this [1]:

Chomsky (1965) expands on this point when he makes a distinction between the acceptability and grammaticalness of sentences like "the man who the boy who the students recognized pointed out is a friend of mine". He writes: "The notion of "acceptable" is not to be confused with "grammatical." Acceptability is a concept that belongs to the study of performance, whereas grammaticalness belongs to the study of competence."

This reminds me of code succinctness vs readability. The difference is bad readability in programming is acceptable because code's first purpose is to communicate to a machine.

[1] http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/04/the...
[Ask HN]Your ideas about a game site
About one year ago, i build the site http://aeongame.com/ . It is a game directory now, almost no traffic.

I am not a game fan, any ideas how to make a web site or service about game?

Thanks for your suggestion.
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This is assuming that there is no price collusion and that capital costs of market entry are generally negligible.
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