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> But I think it’s curious that Facebook has reacted so strongly to Google+: for such a small network (relatively) they seem quite afraid of it, going to the point of trying to match all of its innovations.

Why is this curious?

A giant, appallingly successful company (believed by many to be "the internet") launched a beautifully designed, direct competitor to your only product. They promote their competing product on every webpage they own, and they have gone so far as to stake employee compensation on the success of their competing product.

Why on Earth wouldn't Facebook be afraid? Why wouldn't they react strongly?

This post fails to support its titular claim: that Facebook is "stumbling" all over itself. Normal, ad-clicking, non-social-media-expert users love Facebook. They love being connected, and they love broadcasting to world. Facebook is stumbling only once those users leave.
I often struggle with this as well. It is just so much easier to give something away than charge for it, and if you want your products to be used, you try to limit the pay barrier.

Dustin is absolutely right that people will pay, but you have to make it easy for them.

I always look at the success of iTunes as the prime example. There is no shortage of free music (even if you don't include stealing), and yet people have happily paid to buy their music because it doesn't ask very much of them at all.
On android they are more properly thought of as URI's than URL's. The point of a URI is to give a canonical representation of an object, and an URL represents the location of that object (or representative).

Web intents are great because I can say "I want this song, Android please let the best app respond (which may be a browser)" instead of "I want to access this song via Spotify, even if its not there and it is on X provider that I have access too."
This is just one of the reasons I got out of politics several years ago. Simply put, things don't work the way most people think they do.

Policies are decided behind closed doors, by people with vested interests, and then presented to the public - who are by and large uninterested, uninformed, insufficiently educated and unwilling to consider anything but their immediate short-term interests.

As Mark Twain is supposed to have said, "If voting changed anything,they'd make it illegal."
I'm Indian and already on the marrow.org donor list. Is there anything I need to do to see if I'd be a potential match?
I've wondered about this myself - while I admire his accomplishments greatly, the stories of the kind of fear and admiration of Steve as a boss makes me wonder if that type of personality would have jived well with my wanting constructive feedback and positive reinforcement. It appears that in his later years (2000s), he attributed credit to his team and thanked them for hard work whenever he introduced a major product.

Tangent:
One person would have first hand knowledge of Steve's management style: Andy Hertzfeld of the original Macintosh team: https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts
Steve Jobs - On Education
A question for those who are up to date with their particle physics: how does one know that the neutrinos detected were the ones that they actually sent? Is it based on the direction they were sent from and the amount of neutrinos received?

I asked because the one thing that the media repeats is that there's a lot of neutrinos hitting us right now, so how do we know they're the ones we're looking for?

Also, is there a normal speed that neutrinos travel at? Can you catch one at rest?
Even if you're not a fan of Steve's style or products, he was a market maker for Apple's competitors. Great example is the modern smart phone race - if not for his zeal to create the iPhone experience, I think we'd still be lusting after Nokias and Sony Ericsson phones. shudder
The line that made this seem more than a PR move to me was this line:

"...without disrupting the space combat simulator that many of you are, or at least were, very much in love with—and without delaying..."

It's one thing for a CEO to say they were wrong. But for them to say that customers might have been right to fall out of love with their only product - that takes balls.
And then there were Pixar and Next.
I'm not sure your realization brought you closer to the truth. Yes, Palantir issued some denials, but you'd be better off reading the emails...

http://politics.salon.com/2011/02/15/palantir/
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. Being in that position sucks. I'm always an advocate that you reward people accordingly for what they have done; particularly the early employees who were there from the beginning.

If it's possible, could you elaborate more? I.e. was your shares were diluted to nearly nothing, preferred/common stock, VCs screwed the whole company, etc.

I'm sure the HN community will be interested to learn from this and take measures so that it doesn't happen to us in the future.
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You can vote for the second review here.... ;-)

http://www.amazon.com/American-Atlas-Expanded-5th/dp/0935127...

edit: whoops direct link should be:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2BNKSLH3PYOCR/ref=cm_cr_dp_per...
Not sure what you're talking about, it doesn't need JS. Works fine here with NoScript, and the source clearly shows the content directly in the HTML.
Does it work on the iOS 5 GM yet? This may be the only thing holding me back from upgrading…
Funny that both devices cannot really be made without air in them.

That first iPod had a hard disk. Hard disks have disk heads that float on air.

Typical lenses aren't flat at the back; CCDs or films are. You could fill that void with glass with a different index of refraction, but that would only make the thing heavier, not smaller.
These guys print cash like the Fed. The valuation could be double that and I wouldn't be phased.
"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone
We almost met once. There was a get-together of NeXT developers in France, and we set up demos at tables around the room. Robert Cailliau and I set up the WorldWideWeb.app on one table. Steve arrived, and started making his way around the tables chatting with each project. He didn't get to us before he had to leave.

What if he had made it around the room and seen the WWW demo? Would it/could it have been another moment like at Xerox' Palo Alto laboratory, when he saw an early GUI demo?
Very humble article. He is bold to say that Steve was always ahead of him. The “It’s your heart running around outside your body." quote is just another pearl.
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Steve Jobs Explains The Blue Box
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Over the course of the summer, KPCB Fellows will develop their technical abilities through paid employment and mentorship by engineering executives within a startup company. To complement the work experience, KPCB Fellows will also be invited to exclusive events hosted by KPCB-funded companies, where they can meet other talented engineering students, network with technology luminaries, and explore the San Francisco Bay Area. To ensure that KPCB Fellows have the best possible experience during the summer, the program will accept only a limited number of top students. KPCB anticipates having 25 KPCB Fellows for the summer 2012 program.

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Disclaimer: I work for Atlassian.

Yes of course they'll support github too. Check out the facts in here: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/acquisition-faq/

Here's the quote:
Will SourceTree drop support for non-Atlassian products (e.g. GitHub)?

Absolutely not! Atlassian is completely committed to empowering developers to use whatever tools they choose; artificially limiting choice is simply not on the agenda.
"The fact that two teenagers could build this box for $100 worth of parts and control hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure, in the entire telephone network, from Los Altos and Cupertino California... that was magical. And experiences like that taught us the power of ideas."

"If we hadn't have made blue boxes, there would have been no Apple."
Interesting comments about this company here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ks1qu/how_to_ro...
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Getting sued successfully under federal racketeering law is kind of another red flag.
Your code won't break. And you probably won't even have any difficulty populating the database on new installs, since your OS provider is probably mirroring the current database.

But there are "between 20 and 100" changes to the worldwide timezone-set per year. So three weeks from now, someone's gonna change their timezone rules, effective perhaps 2013. Maybe it'll be Bolivia. And then three weeks later, someone else, maybe some part of Indiana. Then three weeks later, maybe a civil war in some ex-SSR or something finally resolves, and the two different halves end up using different time zone plans (one of them uses DST, the other doesn't, and neither of them use the USSR regime they had last year).

So now a year passes, it's 2012, what're you doing? Is your software using a database that's a year (and maybe 50 events) out of date? Or did you hand-maintain it, because you care about Indiana, and you got 10 of the 50 events? Or maybe you used the Debian fork of tzdata?

And what am _I_ doing? Probably not the same thing as you. And now when my software and your software try to interoperate (maybe our iCal calendaring, maybe our enterprise order management integration bus service routing frameworks, maybe we just want to agree when your mother's flight will land), guess what. Sooner or later a relevant event happens in one of the altered timezones, and someone misses a flight, and we get a very very difficult-to-track-down bug.

Actually, it's not that terrible, as long as every time event you care about takes place in a big important time-jurisdiction that'll be maintained by every tzdata fork that every software you care about will use. Which I guess could theoretically apply to me or you. I don't actually care about Indiana, so I don't care if time events that take place there don't synchronize.
There may be a lot of neutrinos around, but they are extremely hard to detect. The fact that you see a bunch of them at a time and a place where you expect based on how they were created makes it very unlikely that they are not associated.

There are craploads of neutrinos left over from the Big Bang (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_neutrino_background) but they are very low energy and are impossible to detect. They are likely the closest you can find neutrinos at rest. How fast they go depends on their rest mass, which we only know to be small but nonzero.
How is this a constructive comment? For that matter, how does that even remotely follow? This comment baffles me on so many levels.
Unlikely that this would be possible as the data can no doubt be compiled from other sources. Besides they're still selling the atlas. Seems more likely that some lawyer has noticed the reference and convinced them to take it up.
Very good stories. I wish someone can compile a list of stories about Steve Jobs from the people interacted with him, and put them on a website.
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Dataflow as a pattern is not constrained to Scala or Erlang specifically. In fact, the "Further reading" article[1] is about dataflow programming in C++.

[1]: http://drdobbs.com/cpp/224202533
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It's not really clear that they are in fact growing. Nobody even knows if they are or could be profitable and they both won and lost several large multi-million dollar purchases of their software in the last year.
Always assume "equity" has zero value. Any payout will go to the investors first and the founders second, with employees benefiting significantly once in a blue moon. If a blue moon shines, hurray! But don't plan your retirement on it.
This is a great list. Thanks for creating it.

There's no mention of PagerDuty in the Alerts / Monitoring section. There's also nothing in the way of DevOps tools a la Puppet / Chef, and metrics tools such as Graphite.
He mentioned them because of the deep influence Jobs had on each one of them. This is so, so much better than empty statements like "Jobs was a visionary", because it actually shows why Jobs was what everyone is saying he was.
I worked for an overly demanding boss and would not want to repeat that experience. He was demanding in a petty way about things that didn't matter such as turning up the temperature of the thermostat in Winter when it got too cold. It was due to insecurity and ego that this boss went on his power trips.

I would have loved to work for Steve Jobs as he's passionate and demanding about things that do matter. The perfection makes a difference in the product rather than making a difference in his ego.
Apple IIgs was my first computer and 6502 assembly was my first computer language. Woz was an amazingly talented guy, though I remember I had a hard time dealing with the non-contiguous video memory that he came up with on Apple II.
Woz was the technical cofounder and Jobs was the business cofounder, in today lingo.
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1. That's iOS and I have no idea why anyone would want that. Like really, what value does that add?

2. Yes, like I said, Android has already implemented that. I think it's a fine idea. I love that I can click on Youtube links and choose to open it in Dolphin, the YouTube app, or the YouTube downloader app.

3. Why would the web service take the URL. Like I already said, model this off of browser protocol handlers and Web Intents. Let web application register as possible handlers, let the application choose whether to open in a webpage, or another web app that is capable of consuming and understanding those URLs (which is exactly how it happens in Android). Again, how is an "app url" any more useful than a regular URL in this regard?
Well, it doesn't produce the correct result for us, where bandwidth costs are more than 7 times storage costs, so we get our warning far too late.
Doing as exhaustive of a search as I could, I found a couple of interesting things. The Sony version of the parable seems to center on the Walkman (as opposed to a camera), which was built in the late 1970s, and either Akio Morita or Masaru Ibuka (co-founders of Sony). However, the earliest reference on the Internet to it I can find is from September 2002 [^1], about a year after the iPod was released, making its origins inconclusive. The fact that it is linked to multiple founders of powerful technology companies suggests to me that it is apocryphal.

[^1]: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&me...
Just showed this to some people at a company I'm working at. I'm guessing they are going to spring for it - 4 seats at least :P Good job dude.
This book isn't about presenting data; it's about analyzing data, i.e. basic statistics. His later books are on data presentation.
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Remember the man for the person that he was, not for the person that you imagined him to be.

Is this actually possible of anyone?
Is there someone keeping track of all the famous (or not famous) people sharing their experiences with Jobs? I feel like every website I've visited since the news hit features someone writing something valuable, fascinating, and interesting about him, and it would be nice if there was a central clearinghouse for it—a recent Folklore.org, if you will.
Is someone tracking all the stuff people are posting about Steve Jobs? 
Is there someone keeping track of all the famous (or not famous) people sharing their experiences with Jobs? I feel like every website I've visited since the news hit features someone writing something valuable, fascinating, and interesting about him, and it would be nice if there was a central clearinghouse for it—a recent Folklore.org, if you will.
You don't need to ignore products of American companies to ignore the American government. I'm sure Google or facebook won't stop refusing service to Sweden, no matter what happens in politics. Physical products will still be available through other countries, if you really need them. Of course other products will be probably easier to acquire, hence the boon to friendlier economies.

Furthermore, if countries start doing this en mass, like I'm suggesting they should, one of two things would happen:

1) Companies would move their Corporate HQs outside of the US. Most already have significant resource outside the US (like for instance, their factories..).

2) or, Enough lobbying pressure would be put on the government that the bully-tactic legislation would stop. If other nations stop responding the way that American corporate lobby groups want them to, they will have to change their tactics or suffocate.

"America's entertainment industries are the biggest in the world."

Well that's kind of the point of this discussion isn't it? Just let your people download what they want, and give the US the finger.
We all know texting is big among teens,but how popular is it among Adults?
Have you played with the experimental sound API in Chrome? It's not perfect (latency is an issue for sure) but it's much, much better than what's out there otherwise. The Mozilla audio API is decent, but doesn't do 3d AFAIK.
They are. You only hear the loud ones.
So, it seems like "ship spinning" is the equivalent of wandering around World of Warcraft capital cities only by way of spamming jump? Thank you for the details.
How did a British polytechnic graduate become its design genius?
I think the point is to achieve what Android has without waiting for Apple to implement it. Since iOS app devs are stuck with internal URIs, a translation webservice would alleviate the problem.
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The point was that Steve wanted it smaller so he made a dramatic gesture to demonstrate to the engineers that he would not accept no for an answer.

Steve understood what is important in a product, and more importantly, what is not. The Linux community, for example, has spent many years divided, building several window managers and hundreds of distros, never focusing on what is really important to consumers, in general. The iPad already has more Internet market share than desktop Linux in a very short period of time.

Was that better guys? Personally I like my first response better. Definitely had more flavor, but hey, this is HN and one needs to tread lightly.
I can never see this happening but it'd be incredible if this was similar to iTunes Match. But this could only happen if the music industry was in an even worse situation.

Freemium never worked for Limewire which was eventually shut down, I wonder if this move will lead to further legal disruption for them.
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Church leader tweets picket of Jobs' funeral--via iPhone
Well, they are incredibly cheap relative to the value they provide. They aren't yet NetSuite but $50/month is not going to break the bank (and that's for a deluxe plan). There are plenty of upscale restaurants and successful businesses (like Salesforce, Oracle, or even Google/Facebook) that don't front page the price.
Not here. The source of this blog post is a script tag that writes a script tag that actually writes the post content. The content isn't in the source.

http://pastebin.com/CXh0nvXm
I'm using a fairly experimental JavaScript-driven system right now. It's totally overkill for a blog, but it's my blog and I can do stuff like this for fun. No offense, but if you disable JavaScript, you get what you deserve.
Actually, I think the "official" expansion for URL is Uniform Resource Locator, not Universal. But either way, I believe that it refers to the property of not being tied to Web specifically, but rather any resource in the internet. All URLs require more or less specific application to handle them; web browser for http-URLs, mail client for mailto-URLs etc. I don't think that fb-URL is any worse. You could register your browser to handle them, or use a native application, based on your preference. If Facebook would be forced to use http-URLs then you wouldn't have that choice.
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> Steve Jobs was one of the greatest men to have ever lived.

Don't you think that's a little over the top?
Thus the interest that many of us have in reducing the size of government and in general the concept of limited government. Unfortunately the general direction seems to be in increasing the size of government and the rationale seems to be 'so it can fix everything'.
Another thing to consider is in general the screen bezels of phones is getting thinner too as the screen glass size grows, a 3.5" (88.9mm) iPhone has probably a 1/4" (6.3mm) bezel surrounding the screen.

Someone with an iPhone would be used to the "hand feel" of a 4" (101mm) iPhone if the screen bezel were thinner.
Sorry but I disagree. I'm not sure how he holds his iPhone but I cradle it with my 4 fingers with my pinky supporting it from the bottom. This allows my thumb to extend well past the edge of the iPhone.

I think he's reading too much into the design. Larger isn't necessarily better. The iPhone 4's screen is good enough for me, I've never had any issues except for trying to read pdfs, which is one reason why I keep considering getting an iPad. But for everything else, I find the screen more than good enough and it's still small enough to fit in my pocket.
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Hey! I am in the process of making a super-simple feed aggregate aimed at hackers. It is currently a minimum-viable-web-thingy and in obvious need of some features.

Or maybe not features, But more sites for sure.

If you think you will use it: make suggestions!

Else: keep it to yourself please!

Find it here:
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I'm just now learning about how Android solves this problem. That's great, but the problem remains on iOS. Protocol handlers in browsers don't help here because the problem has to do with http urls.

If iOS allowed me to launch native apps with http URLs, I would never have written this post. They don't, they only suport custom protocol schemes. I'm trying to lessen the importance of custom protocol schemes here by providing a service to silently map http URLs to the custom URLs so users never see them.
But this would still require OS level abstraction to even submit the web URLs to the webservice to look up an app-specific URL. Unless I'm missing something.
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I've asked the question in this same comment thread, but how will this webservice idea solve this problem? Do you not still need an OS or browser level abstraction to look up (every?) url with this webservice to determine if there is an appropriate app specific url? What if I don't want to open the (limited) Facebook app?
And now "industry" analyzers making $6500 per post make a living trying to explain why Steve Jobs had dirty shoes.

Unbelievable.
It's worse than that since you do it out of reflex and it is less engaging than what you're describing (though I never played WoW).
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