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I was, perhaps, a bit unclear. I was meaning specifically different ventures to operate specifically in one country and offer deep expertise and service in that one country only. The OP was about Australia. I suspect there's some legislation which makes is hard for viable competition to get established, but I can't imagine it's totally impossible. Once a more customer-oriented cc gateway/merchant vendor was operable, it would provide some competition to the established players.
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I think your sarcasm detector is broken.
For better or worse Google is the gateway to the internet. If your site isn't on Google it is virtually invisible to most of the world.

Since Google has such an enormous position of power, they are really going to have to do better with customer service (and by customer service, I mean providing a way to talk to a human on their end).

I understand it's expensive, but if it doesn't get any better, eventually some government somewhere (that has jurisdiction) is going to regulate them.
Seconded! Writing this out as a guide would be great, e.g. you can do an iPad app where the drawing would be done on the device, too.
TheDroids:

You obviously don't understand how the HN discussion system is supposed to work, and you've been hellbanned to boot (which is why I am responding to you here), so you might as well just stop.
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I remember your app! The one that would automatically hit the shutter when a face was detected? That was an awesome use of OpenCV.
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I see the drug overlords have again down-modded me for not being a troll and merely stating my opinion on the matter.

"Your welcome to believe that it is bad for you and that you don't want to do it, but I disagree that that should translate to you saying other people can't do something."

I'm fine with it as long as users of these drugs have to pay higher medical fees (if we ever have government-run health care).

The MJ bill in CA that didn't pass also would have made it difficult for an employer to fire an employee that uses regularly. This isn't okay with me.
And the Hacker News elite rewards my poor joke with swift punishment.
"Two of the biggest pot heads I know are starting a company and already have a dozen clients, and the others have 6 figure salaries waiting for them on the West coast."

Again, why are people defending pot here like a second girlfriend?
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No, if I had said the iPad was not successful, perhaps the article would contradict that.
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"Does Anheuser-Busch engage in lethal turf warfare in the manner of Al Capone? Yes, I agree that the cartels would move into legal territory but quite frankly, as someone who spends a lot of time in Mexico, the country would be happy to see the terror gone, jobs created and the tax benefits reaped."

It won't happen. Mexico's entire system is completely corrupt. Legalizing drugs won't fix the problem.
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Well, the Android emulation is pretty good with GPS & call simulation, only limitation is Eclipse which only let you control 1 emulator (or device) at a time, but if you connect to the emulator port, you can manage quite a lot.

If you start with video (or even audio) displaying/capturing then the emulator is pretty fast useless indeed.
Don't write unsolicited POSTs into your page if you don't want crawlers to execute them. I think Google's doing the right thing in this particular case. If a post is happening automatically for all users, then crawlers must do it to ensure they get the same view.
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Everyone who has literally answered the question "Why?" has completely missed the point. What would PG say about a primary site feature that is so completely broken that it drives users to complain actively, and maybe stop using the site? That it is their problem because they don't understand the technical details? Well, obviously, no one is losing any money here, so maybe that's the answer after all.
As if I needed more incentive to buy the book.
IndexTank acquired by LinkedIn, Sapus Media's Cocos2D acquired by Zynga, two examples of excelent and very focused Argentinian products. Hope to see more from the south in the near future. It shows that there is light and a lot of value beyond software factories.

Congrats to Diego!
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"I really don't see this as the most likely scenario. Why would it follow that legalization of a drug would lead to more addicts? Cigarettes are legal and addictive and I don't smoke them"

Many people do because they are easily available in pretty much any 7-11 and gas station.

"Legal doesn't imply uncontrolled and unfettered access by all"

Then there will still be a black market and it still won't solve the issue at hand.

" the people who want to experiment with them already do so regardless of legality, health effects or cost"

Many people don't experiment because they don't know where to get them. Legalizing them also implies that they are okay (if it's legal..it has to be okay..right?)

"Sin/vice taxes already fund dozens of other things besides adult health care costs, if anything I would expect them to be exploited as a revenue generating machine that politicians could gouge for cash since it's so easy to demonize"

I would just rather not have the increase strain on our already over-taxes medical system.

Everyone that's pro-drug wants the government out of their lives, yet they are fine with increased taxes and regulations to support more and more social programs. Government taxation and regulation = control.
I think it'd be silly to block POSTs in cases like this. The page makes an unsolicited POST. It's quite reasonable for any crawler to do the same. How else would they get an accurate representation of what the user sees?

Now, if Google is sending random forms, as another commenter claims, that's a different case. But unsolicited POSTs coded in the page's scrips? Send 'em.
I would pay for 'kid-safe springboard' for iPhone. Basically something that lets me quickly switch to a 'kid mode' where only apps that I want my 5 year old to play with are available, and maybe even disable Internet to those apps. Sometimes you just don't have their device(s) handy when you'd like to occupy them, and you don't want little one replying-to-all in email... That would be acceptable also -- lock-out of certain apps/groups. And for regular, not-jailbroken iPhones. I do realize this probably isn't possible given what Apple lets you officially access. But maybe there is something creative possible?
I'm sorry that you dislike my slang. It is true, I could have elucidated my thoughts at length, using ancient and time-honored words with many syllables.

But I was pointing out something I found humorous in a joke checklist.
It was not "kind of similar", it was exactly the same phrase. A phrase that only occurred 26 times and most of which were quoting the original source.

As someone who has written research papers, and read quite a few by colleagues, this struck me as significant because people really do have neat, unique phrases that they like reusing, especially when explaining concepts in their field.

But yes, it is still circumstantial at best. And the author acknowledges this, because they weren't going to publish this except as a response to a more recent article.
Also, on the emulators you don't usually have Sense UI, Motoblur or any other custom crap the manufacturers decide to put on the real phones. At one point I had 10 Android phones for development & testing just to make sure everything runs the same way on all phones
Printable solar panels, fast and cheap DNA/RNA sequencing, teleportation, space elevator.

If you're talking about software, a true photoshop alternative (not GIMP) would be cool, a cheap Splunk alternative (their licenses are insanely expensive for large sites).
We had one of the first touch-tone phones in my house when I was a kid. We later moved out to the country where the phone system was on rotary: we picked up an antique handset and asked the operator for a number of 3 digits. I was perplexed and a little disappointed but also delighted - I remember feeling that I had come from the future, and having the recognition that technology 'existed'.
"Well if ICE can do that, why can't we?"

Someone should head down to their local branch of the Occupy Wall Street gathering to see if they can convince some people to add this to their list of grievances.
> (edit: nginx is released under a very liberal license, so it's entirely thinkable that, nginx would be OpenSSH'd: OpenSSH AFAIR started as a fork of the last Free version of ssh. And now just look where OpenSSH stands compared to non-free ssh)

Wasn't nginx imported into OpenBSD base not too long ago? I imagine worst case scenario they just keep maintaining their version (like they did with apache).

However, I am hopeful for Igor. I have used (and benefitted from) nginx quite a bit. I wish his endeavor the best!
It doesn't befit the HN community to be ridiculing the Perl community.

Dude!

As soon as you use the phrase "the language of the future", the mammalian-mating-ritual-inspired-games have begun!

Seriously. Different languages can and should talk about their appropriateness to different contexts. But "the future" isn't a particular context. It's more of a "I deserve more mindshare now!" statement. And while your special language might indeed deserve just that, you'll have to survive the charge of other long antlered types to prove it. Good luck in your quest but ridicule is part of the charge you'll have to survive after you enter this arena - stop frickin' whining it, just stop...
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Do those wikis also have JS that attempts to delete content without user interaction?
> Everyone that's pro-drug wants the government out of their lives, yet they are fine with increased taxes and regulations to support more and more social programs.

Everyone? Well that's convenient. That people who agree on one issue would all also agree on several other unrelated issues. Very convenient indeed.
Very odd. I can find no reference to Sony's uniform having been designed by Issey Miyake, even in Japanese, other than this one anecdote.

Edit: There is some allusion to it, yet no direct reference .. However, it seems he was generally interested in using Japanese fabrics to make clothes for workers in the 1970s, so it is definitely possible.
(http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/7275/824) (http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/83/824)
(http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/9341/824) etc.
I'm pretty sure that having different search engines indexing each other would be bad. Don't cross the streams.
oops, that should be "not"
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What is a mobile developer? Someone who spends 2 weeknights worth working on an app? Or a guy who does nothing but that for months, hiring full quality artists, etc.

I think the issue is many mobile apps aren't fully baked ideas implemented with the full range of work.
This is moronic. The pages are "autogenerated" because it's a web app. They have affiliate links because that MAKES TOTAL SENSE given the nature of the app ("show me as many products as possible that cost $X").

You know who else generates infinite autogenerated pages with affiliate codes attached? GOOGLE. http://www.google.com/search?q=teen+sex&tbm=shop&hl=...

It's scary that Google uses "logic" like yours to make these decisions. No: It's terrifying.
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"." can be used any place you need to explicitly indicate a file in the current directory. Your "remove file '-f' from the current directory" is a fine example, but your "...can be used on non-executable files..." makes me cringe slightly - it won't magically execute a non-executable file (I do realize this is not what you mean to say...)

It works exceptionally well if you need variables for directories in a shell script. For example, if your script needs $PKG_HOME to be defined, it could be set as "/usr/bin/pkg_home/" or "./" to be prepended to other paths in the script. Setting it to "" would surely work as well as "./" but being explicit improves readability and communicates the author's intent more clearly.

So, absolute paths start with "/", relative paths may avoid "." and ".." and "/", but an explicit relative path would use "." and/or ".."
But Google had to spend resources to crawl those other sites, collect the data those sites created, evaluate and order the results excerpting those sites' data based on a user's query, clearly adding value for the user performing a search... Oh, wait.
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"Second, addiction is a public health issue, not a law and order issue. Do you know how expensive it is to imprison someone vs sending them to a rehab program? Take a look at Portugal - treating addiction like the health issue it is works and it's cheaper"

I looked, and I'm not surprised by the results:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-Po...

"Today, more users are in rehab, but drug use is on the rise, and reporter Keith O'Brien says the policy has made the problem worse."

"personal drug use over the course of their lifetime has gone up about 40 to 50 percent in the last decade."

Drug use is actually up...because there is no legal risk.

More from the article:

"They would meet with the person who had been picked up in possession of whatever drug it was and discuss the issue. These CDTs would then hand down various, sort of, not punishments, but treatments. Some people would, you know, be asked to enter counseling. Some people would be banned from, say, going to raves, if that's where they were doing their drugs; or banned from attending certain concerts or bars, if that's where they were doing drugs. And, you know, this is very controversial, even in Portugal, as you can imagine."

Do you really want the government telling you you can't go to a concert or rave?

I would really like to see the long-term numbers for Portugal. I predict they will be bankrupt within 15 years.

"I won't argue the premise but surely you would agree that a backed up court system beats DEA agents getting their heads blown off on a regular basis"

They still get their heads blown off for things like Vicodin (a legal form of heroin), so how will legalizing all drugs be any different?

"Take a look at Portugal - treating addiction like the health issue it is works and it's cheaper."
Although the story begins by describing a search for a team uniform, it seems he adopted the standard dress for convenience and, as you note, personal efficiency.

But you lose me with the last sentence. Nice cars allow busy people a couple pleasurable moments to themselves - moments well appreciated by those of us taking little to no vacation.
I wonder if you could add your POST URLs to robots.txt if you don't want the crawler to access them.

If other crawlers start doing this, it should probably be added to robots.txt formally.
Not sure why that's controversial?
"That people who agree on one issue would all also agree on several other unrelated issues. Very convenient indeed."

No, they are hypocritical to say that they want the government out of their lives and then also want increased in more government control. You can't have it both ways, sorry.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073521
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I checked out the powerball rules and what I do is perfectly legal.
Did anyone use AdMob's now-deprecated Download Exchange? Was it useful?
Did anyone use AdMob's Download Exchange? To good effect, not good, or imperceptible? Would love to hear any comments.

More:
AdMob used to offer a download exchange for apps, which Google did away with.
http://helpcenter.admob.com/content/download-exchange
It was basically a link exchange for apps -- where developers could put "Exchange ads" promoting other participants’ apps will display in their app. In trade for showing these unpaid ads, ads promoting the developers app will be shown on other apps in the AdMob Network."

However, Google sunsetted it. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/03/google-sunsets-admobs-cross-promotion-download-exchange/

Would love to hear from users.
Ahhh, "write once, debug everywhere", where have I heard _that_ before?

(for me, that was a lesson learned in 1995 doing Macromedia "cross platform" Mac and Windows development)
I don't disagree with any of the comments about missing things in my wallpaper. There are many more ways to accomplish movement within Vim beyond this image.

Available space, both on the screen as well as in a beginner's brain, was my primary motivator for limiting what I put in the image. When I created it, the vast majority of Vim shortcut wallpapers and cheat-sheets all had an order of magnitude more commands on it that I think often scares off beginners. With that in mind, I tried to limit the commands to those who's primary use was easy to visualize spatially from the "center" of the screen (plus a few really useful extras).

That way, if you know you want to get to something "below" your current cursor position, you can just scan through the 10 commands represented to see which one fits.
i read it as making fun of knee jerk anti-new-language types, as in, all their arguments are pat and repetitive.

maybe that's just my perceptual bias, but perhaps also the greater context of hacker news that you point to in your comment. i tend to believe that things are posted here in support of experimentation.
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Great post. Reminded me of the following for some curious reason :

" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. " - Aldo Leopold
I ended up buying the popular phones (HTC Desire HD, Samsung Galaxy S2, etc.) just for testing, I'm on iOS myself.

But just working from (non reference) phones is dangerous too, it's so annoying to implement the volume controls with a BroadcastReceiver for the ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON Intent (works great on Motorola's), but fails on HTC, and you should just override onKeyUp()... all (Android) phones behave differently, and not only in (screen) specs. Samsung Galaxy S (<2.2) is notorious in not following the Android specs, for example it shows the versionCode instead of versionName to the user [http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/versioning.htm...] and if you do some (proxy) audio stream playback there is the [http://google.com/search?q=PVMFMemoryBufferReadDataStreamImp...] error with no real solutions...

The problem is, in the end, it should work on the popular devices, not the 'perfect' Android reference phones..
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"So there must be some really enormous cartels engaged in alcohol bootlegging, and "legally partnering up with companies in the US" in the process. Right"

The US isn't as corrupt as mexico. You don't have illegal alcohol cartels because the US has done its job at stamping them out years ago.

The cartels also have had many more years to build up their multi-million dollar businesses.
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Why not show stuff in public after a year?

If Apple was not able to use his inventions in a year - it's unlikely Apple would ever use these inventions efficiently.
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A bit of a meta-comment, but I'm starting to think that I'm going to end up reading all the surprising and interesting segments of this biography as blog posts. By the time the book arrives, I fear all that will be left to read is the boring stuff.
For me, that "dongle" is a ~$70 prepaid android phone (a Huawei L8180). I strongly doubt any low volume developer aimed hardware could be built and sold for much less than that...

I figured it was important to test on a low end phone, right? ( see how I nicely justified my cheapness there?) The downside to that plan was the jQuery Mobile bug that only showed up on top end devices (now the Huawei has a Galaxy S2 siting next to it...)
Read the post that was made on Sept. 22 at 6:30pm. It's a tear-jerker :(
Actually, googling "三宅一生 ソニー" returns a Sony time capsule:

ソニーのユニフォームは何回かデザイン変わってますけど、1981年に採用が決まった最後のユニフォームはなんと三宅一生氏のデザインですよ。

Translation: The design for the Sony uniform has changed several times, but the last uniform for the hiring of 1981 was a design of Issey Miyake.

Ref: http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule...

Edit: there's an English version here http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule/0...
I think the downvotes reflect the fact you are belittling this post when it is clearly brilliant.

Your reasoning that "he doesn't keep the car on the road" misses the point. He's demonstrating abstraction itself, and using a medium (reactive documents) that are really engaging.

Focussing on the car itself, kind of misses the point.

Calling his examples "dumb" just looks petty and deserves the downvotes, there is nothing about this that is "dumb"... it verges on "genius".
I was going to say NAB, since they offer a multi-currency account that is quite expensive and onerous to acquire.
I'm an engineer at Thumbtack. And yes: we have noticed that Googlebot does seem to obey robots.txt even when issuing these AJAX requests.