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Wow, my post read almost the complete opposite of what I intended. I meant to say that the author gives another argument for why IP is NOT a natural right.

Spell checking is nice, but my main problem is writing the opposite of what I mean.
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you have more than enough to make a good clone of it

You are being naive if you think that given enough money, you can clone any product. That's simply false, especially for large orgs where more money invested towards a project can even become more of a problem than aid.
Apple Q4 earnings fall short of expectations
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Down 23 points at the moment in after hours trading. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl
It was interesting to see the perspective from the Greeks point of view.
I knew all these and I am self tought. Never did too much actual programming but I just enjoyed reading about this things and understanding how they work so over the years I've gained a ton of technical knowledge that (according to what I'm always reading on HN and reddit) the average programmer doesn't know (or care to know).

Can I get a job with the Ksplice team? :)
Dropbox doesn't post much to the YC listing, but we are hiring for basically everything: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs

You can email me directly if you have any questions too: ivan@dropbox.com
This too.

Apple profits jump 54% on record sales

Only idiot Wall street analysts would be disappointed by a 54% jump in profit.
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Maybe, but now you've changed your argument. Previously it was that they weren't learning at all, now they aren't learning as well. Even so, there are points in response:

1. I'm really not equipped to show him the multiple images of a coat or someone putting on a coat, or other children doing signs of coat. The video is. I don't know if this matters or not. It's certainly possible it doesn't.

2. I have to make dinner for us all at some point. As much as I'd love for my 15 month old to patiently engage in conversation with me while remaining a safe distance from the stovetop, it just doesn't happen. There are times when a parent's attention just cannot be 100%, or even 75% on their child. So yes, maybe he would learn EVERYTHING better if I were there to teach it to him, but the fact is that even the best parents can't be.
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thanks, shereef! a product with a clear value proposition - and real problem solved - is always easy to write about. :)
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And iOS 4 was certainly bigger then gingerbread.

iOS as a whole is also still a tad bigger then Android although that shouldn't last long.

That said I have no problem with the assertion that ICS may eventually outinstall iOS 5.
I've had a real job and it always felt attacking problems with bruteforce (ie. something not working? add moar manpower!) just made things worse.

As in, it's better to step away and go for a walk, than to pound away furiously at the keyboard.
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The stock is down over 6% in after hours trading.
Thanks Jon! I imagine the prices would go up only temporarily.
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I doubt anyone's disappointed that profits jumped 54%. The disappointment is that the earnings did not meet the street's expectations.
Ask HN: What process monitoring solutions do you use?
I'm looking for something like Cloudkick/Exceptional but for process monitoring rather than server/webapp monitoring.

I have multiple programs/scripts running that are not webapps that need to be monitored for any sort of failures or just to make sure they're doing what they're supposed to be doing.

Some sort of monitoring of stdout or communication over AMQP with a web interface would be ideal.

Hopefully I've described what I want correctly. Does anything like this exist?

Thanks HN
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I would disagree that saying yes to an enticing offer is the same as looking for a quick buck.
I'm a little confused about the need for this service. What languages don't have decent email support at this point? I guess I've never run into this before.
I'll be in SF next week onwards for 1-2 weeks. Will get in touch.
They'll still get the paid keyword data, but it's going to be more difficult to figure out what keywords you need to pay for when you don't have a good picture of your organic traffic.
I'd emphasize more that you can use the service without teachers giving the students their personal numbers- I can see it on the first page, but it doesn't jump out at you.

Another idea (and you may already be doing this) would be to log all communications, and maybe even make them visible to everyone in the "class" via a web login. People are less likely to say something stupid if they know it's being recorded, and it gives teachers an easy resource to fall back on if a "he said/she said" scenario comes up with a student.

That being said, I think it's a great way to mitigate risk for the teacher, but I wouldn't let that overshadow the main benefit, which is ease of use.
"Apple’s own guidance for the quarter was $25 billion in revenue" - So they didn't miss their own goal.
Here you go: ffmpeg rules. Zencoder, Panda, and Encoding.com use it. Sorenson doesn't. That's part of the reason why our video quality > Sorenson. Also here: http://zencoder.com/opensource.

Big shout outs to x264, libavcodec, gpac, mediainfo, lftp, curl, mkvtoolnix, oggz, sox, lame, Ubuntu Linux, C, C++, Ruby, Rake, Postgresql, Redis, Dennis Ritchie, Steve Jobs, vim, emacs, and a hundred others. We couldn't have done it without all of you.
Everything else are sunk costs. So, for existing miners, all that matters is $/kWh.
In other news, Singapore becomes world's biggest stock exchange.
a lot of people don't know what they want until its given as an option. Regardless, its exactly why A/B tests exist
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Same here. And when I was at it I looked at Twitter.
Have you asked? I wouldn't go out of my way to let a webmaster know, I would just be annoyed. From the looks of HN replies, this is not uncommon.
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There are tons of great Rails tutorials out there, so the focus on security is a great and important one. But anyone know any written Intro to Security for Rails tutorials?
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thanks!
My reading of it has them blocking referrers even if the target page is https. See: http://searchengineland.com/google-to-begin-encrypting-searc...
It's nice having official servers to send email from. I had a simple little app a while back that sent email via Python's SMTP module, but most of the emails I was sending were getting caught by Gmail's spam trap. Using Mailgun to send those emails worked just fine, plus their api is nice.
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Thanks!
And these sales were not reported in the aforementioned quarter. I think this sell-off is extremely stupid and short-sighted. Q1 will be huge for Apple, especially with holiday sales.
A standard here would be very welcome, though I still haven't seen anything I'd call intuitive. Visually distinguishing tap, double-tap, and "long press" is pretty difficult.

The Open Exhibits Gesture Library is another option. It looks like they broke the old link at http://openexhibits.org/gesturelibrary but you can see an example gesture at http://openexhibits.org/support/gestures/35/two-finger-scale and click around for the rest.

The Cue icons will be clearer at small point sizes, but if you have enough pixels the (mostly) graceful hands in the Open Exhibits library feel more appealing than Cue's big fingernail.
It depends on which memcache lib you're using for PHP but it can be disabled if I remember correctly.
Maybe I am in the minority here, but I don't really care if companies use my behavior/information in order to serve up ads.

I don't see how advertisers having access to what brands I associate with or what my interests are has a major impact on anything outside of what I do on the web. Even on the web, the only way it impacts my experience is that I am served up more relevant ads. I don't think that advertisers having this information (or sites I use selling it) is a real problem - especially when it results in me not having to pay for a site or service that I value. Am I really alone on this?
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This is not a story about Apple Computer, this is a story about analysts who mis-predicted something. Apple had predicted revenue of $25 billion, and they actually had revenue of $28.27 billion, their second best quarter ever.

So why did this fall below the expectations of the analysts? The article gives one clue:

"Well, even though Apple’s own guidance for the quarter was $25 billion in revenue, analysts seem to have wised up to Apple’s always-low estimates and were projecting numbers far higher: they were looking for around $29.5 billion. Apple came in at $28.27 billion."

The analysts assumed that Apple would do so insanely well that the only way to accurately predict how well they would do was to wildly overestimate. Turns out, they did overestimate.

Here are a few alternate headlines that could be applied equally well to this story:

"The iPhone 4S launch gives Apple second best quarter ever"

or

"Apple exceeds their expected revenue by $3.27 billion dollars"

I'd rather read about what actually happened and why, then to read about how somebody misestimated what was going to happen.
Time to buy Apple shares if you have any money to invest...
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I pulled the MBA link only for convenience. In my experience competitive undergrad programs are similar. Certainly companies have responsibilities too. In general I think a year is the right period to stick something out. If you hate the industry you hired into, backing out isn't awful.

Let's take a step back and go the case in question. Here the individual just wants to see if they could get accepted later by interviewing now. In my mind that is both unethical and carries negative consequences.

I promise I'm not this preachy in person!
I love the idea of using an HTTP POST to send email. I guess I'm the guy who has no idea how to use MIME, but find HTTP painless.

Plus, whenever I try and configure mail on a new system, especially an EC2 instance (or whatever) there are always lots of issues.
This anti-TV meme is mostly luddite fearmongering intended to get joe and jane sixpack to stop vegging out in front of the TV and start being engaged as parents.

That is not what the Academy of Pediatrics is actually saying. They specifically say that you as the parent is not required to engage with your child the whole time - however if you are NOT engaged with them, you are still better having the TV off, because children gain valuable skills from solitary play.

In other words, it's not a simplistic case of "Parents better than TV"; it really is a case of "no TV better than TV".

Obviously with all these things, quantity does matter.

I should add the other benefit of no screen time before two: when you finally do introduce programming, at least in my experience, kids are far more highly engaged with it, so when you expose them to it later it seems to "take" better. Anecdotally, the kids who are exposed to it as babies seem to also not to focus attentively on it when they are older, so if you do want to take advantage of the screen's great educational potential (not talking about the Baby Einstein crap), you do seem to be better off holding off for the first couple of years.
Actually, from the sound of it, the iPhone 4S launch is not even in that quarter.
I've reread my posts, and don't see where I said children weren't learning. The science shows kids who watch TV speak later, period. Anecdotes (your kid learning some signs from a DVD, the earlier poster learning to read from TV) don't change that. Sorry, but they don't.

As for point 2, I don't disagree at all. Everything is a tradeoff, no parent can be perfect. Most kids turn out fine anyway. If you have to give your kids TV (my 3 year old gets about two hours a week, for instance) then do so and don't feel guilty. But don't try to justify it as educational; the science disagrees.
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I have actually programmed for an architecture where sizeof(int) is 1. Yes, a very unusual one.
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People should not do studies into parenting. Parents should use their damn common sense. Everything in moderation.
Ask HN: Typekit for website backgrounds?
I'm looking for a service that offers curated backgrounds for websites. Typekit for backgrounds. Stock image galleries contain too much garbage.

Does this exist?
She's not alone. On average teachers spend $430 out of pocket per school year on school supplies.

We don't want to add to that burden, and would really really like to find a way to have the schools pay.
These questions just show that C is inconsistent. If you have int x[5]; then sizeof(x) is 20, so x is some data of size 20. Yet if you do int y[5]; and then y=x, C refuses to do this even though the types match. That's because it is inconsistent: x is not really an object of size 20 to C, it is also partly a pointer. But then again it is not really a pointer. Which it is depends on confusing rules. If instead y and x were structs with 5 int fields, y=x would work.
Mailgun also allows to receive emails, it will make http post request at your end-point. very neat stuff actually.
You mean the support for MIME in stdlib, right? Based on the questions our customer support gets, quite a lot: just like we explained in the blog post. And based on the number of malformed and broken MIME we get via SMTP, even those that do aren't easy to understand for many.

Based on the calls/emails I personally had to answer, things like encoding, or making sure that HTML and text parts are specified in a certain order, or the aforementioned "Bcc mystery" bite quite a lot of people.

EDIT: forgot to add something: check out the "test mode" feature, you'd be amazed at how many people call us to flush up their email queue because they ran their unit tests on the production database! :)
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My 1.5 and 2.5 year old kids are both well acquainted with "Sprout" Channel, a preschool channel, and have been for over a year.

Not only do they know what they are seeing on the TV, regularly talking about various stars of the channel, such as Nina and Star, but the 1.5 y/o can even ask for the channel by name "I want sprout", and the 2.5 y/o can additionally even work the remote to get it, and say the numbers "1","1","9" as he's pushing them. Finally, my 1.5 y/o is already addicted to books and will page through them when there is a commercial or something she's not interested in.

They both learn a ton watching sprout. My 1.5y/o does dances and things that she sees, as well as says things I know she never learned from us.

We also have a large selection of YouTube playlists of childrens songs, age appropriate cartoons, and slightly non-age appropriate cartoons like 1940's vintage Micky Mouse cartoons. Again, they both ask for the playlist they want "I want Micky", "I want Dragon", "I want Caillou", etc.

Kids learn by observing the world around them. When I was a kid, I was watching my parents work a cattle ranch. My kids are often stuck in the house for five or six hours at a time, because I don't have a cattle ranch. They've explored every room, cabinet, jar, and canister that they have access too, and their huge collection of books hold no mysteries for them. You can only sit and try to read for so long, before you're sick of it for awhile, and they know all the pictures and can correctly tell you every animal, vegetable, vehicle, and geographical feature those books contain. What they see on the TV and computer supplements their learning opportunities.

Based on my experiences, I have to call bullshit on this politically correct article, and those like it.
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Wow, thanks for pointing that out. That completely invalidates one of invalidates one of the alternate headlines.

My reading-comprehension-fu must be weak right now.
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I learned a lot from this, thanks for posting. Mostly I learned how rusty my C skills have gotten in the years since I last used them.

Maybe time to bust out my K&R again.
What the heck is "all or most of the time"? Which time?

What if everyone including the child is regularly out of the house for all but a few waking hours per day?

"the television" -- which one? Does the one in the teenager's bedroom count? How do computers factor in?

Please tell me they used stricter and more thorough criteria than that for "heavy media use".
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> most of the emails I was sending were getting caught by Gmail's spam trap

The solution I came up with was to simply use GMail. With their business suite, you'll be able to use your own domain and get access to their SMTP servers.

This won't work if you're sending thousands of emails per day, but a few hundred should be ok.
The one provided by Ruby on Rails covers quite a few basics: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html

Not really text, but the text version of Railscast #178: http://asciicasts.com/episodes/178-seven-security-tips
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Awesome!!! Love that Mailgun specializes and focuses on making email easy for me. This means that I get to focus on what I do well and let someone else worry about the details of email stuff.
I've heard that it can lead to less frustration when the child has a means to communicate with the parents. If they know enough to be able to sign their brains are developed enough to want to communicate something.

As a counter-point, my daughter did not pick up on sign language at all. The advice that we got was to stick with a single sign and keep at it until she signed it back at us. My wife chose "Milk," but that was probably a poor choice. I don't think that she recognized "Milk" as being an object until well after she was speaking. It wasn't until she started drinking non-breast milk that she started saying "milk."

Now she's 19 months old and the only sign language that she know is "more," but she has an great vocabulary. She can even say her own name and the names of all of her friends. (It's also really cute when she says 'zombie')
I think this is the key point here. I believe that these estimates would have been met had 4S sales been included in the earnings.

Did these analysts assume that 4S sales would be included? Are they simply overlooking those sales for next quarter?
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And how did you measure the quality of the outputted file? This matters a huge amount, it doesn't matter if you are 4 times as quick if the output is not up to the standards needed by the client.
So basically, if I get this right, Mailgun is an abstraction for SMTP? Sounds quite useful, actually. I'm tired of setting up SMTP servers...
cool idea but many schools have policies where the teacher /ta cannot reach students on personal emails/phone other than school email
Dropbox does in fact use mach_star.
Yes well, regardless of what any SEO blogs may say, the fact is that browsers do send referer headers when travelling from one SSL page to another.

So unless gAnalytics is going to be deliberately ignoring incoming referer headers in particular circumstances from now on, things should remain the same if your page uses SSL.

I willing to believe however that they actually are going to be deliberately ignoring/discarding the data even when it's available. That would certainly make the EU happy.
Cool! This will be awesome for implementing feature on cross-platform devices. I can definitely see a use case for standardizing mailing across, e.g., several different mobile platforms. Just keep the POST request object across all of them and send the request however is convenient.

Great idea.
The name pains me. Everyme? Who’s the target market, Agent Smith?

Congratulations, though, and best of luck – looking forward to enjoying better contacts.

Just don’t take a cue from your competitors and start selling my info / interests…
If by "stable enough" you mean "not very stable at all."

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=price+gold

A graph that looks like that is nature's danger siren. As they say in prospectuses, "past performance does not guarantee future results."
I have a slightly different problem, which resulted in writing UState: http://github.com/aphyr/ustate.

It's a state aggregator with an HTML dashboard, email alerts, state combiner, and more. Outputs to graphite, highly extensible, simple wire protocol. Makes it easy to monitor the thousands of services we have at Showyou. See http://aphyr.com/data/journals/215/presentation.pdf.
However, as mentioned recently in an HN comment somewhere there are architectures that can only operate on 32-bit or larger chunks, so sizeof(char) == sizeof(int) (I think it may have been an older Cray). I can't find the specific comment, but here's one that mentions a platform with sizeof(char) == 16: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3112704
http://db.tt/fEOrPj4 - nice, thank you.
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Thank you!
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I want this for snailmail.
Luxembourg is tiny, multilingual and anglophone enough to make a great beta country. Oh, and I live there.

My calendar uses more than one language, how will you decide how to parse it?

Some of my contacts would find it weird if I message them in english, others wouldn't even notice, a few wouldn't even understand the message.
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html looks pretty good. I'm coming back to rails after a few years and I honestly can't believe how good the official guides are. Clearly written & brilliantly organized, I wish all frameworks were this well documented.
Seems to me like this has the potential to be something I'd pay for, but confusingly the article focuses on MIME, when the real problem you seem to be solving is providing a more usable abstraction over the complexity of sending email in general.

Having wanted a service to send emails to customers recently, I hit upon a distinct lack (or apparent lack at least) of services that allowed me to do this. While this should sound ridiculous, sending email reliably is a hard thing to do these days.
This is a great resource. Do you know of any libraries with photo backgrounds?
My service relies on Zencoder. before we ended up with them we tested most of these services and build own stuff. result? we are very happy with zencoder as we found similar results. its really fast(you will notice difference once you switch from their competitors) and works all the time.

disc: I am not affiliated with zencoder in any way.
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I had a mini-rant about this the other day, except Smartphone vs normal phone.

https://plus.google.com/112673498012307585136/#1126734980123...

Converting to USD, my yearly mobile comms bill is around $400 and that includes a new phone every year and I don't pay for calls or texts.
Heh-- What do you think the odds are that Apple will let 3rd party devs play with Siri? Fingers crossed!
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If Steve was going to crush them, why bother to buy them, especially for nine digits?
The thing I noted was their guidance for next quarter which is $37 billion. That is a helluva lot of iPhones.
I have my processes dump messages into a MongoDB database, I give each process a single document and in it's an array they put messages and errors in, removing the oldest item beyond a certain size.

There's probably something more elegant but it's working well and it's a negligible amount of code to put messages in or pull them out to display.
Apple's guidance has historically been laughably low.
Apple shares fall after iPhone sales disappoint