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I was surprised at the iOS 4 omission, but for the love of god, please don't argue based on the version numbers alone. They never tell the whole story, and it depends on both software maturity and industry whether an upgrade is major or minor. There's also the fact that enough minor upgrades with a feature here and there over time can definitely accumulate into what would otherwise have been a major release.

For example, Android 2.2 added huge performance gains, which definitely makes a difference for what app developers can do and what you can run. It also added very useful new features like wifi hotspot that make the device much more useful.

Meanwhile 2.3 had a streamlined UI theme and added a new keyboard, NFC, gyros, WebM/AAC, multiple cameras, etc. Is that just minor?

As an Android user, I feel the graph is pretty representative of the ecosystem and how my experience compares to iPhone users around me.
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Two points.

One, datacenter failure happens with any hosted application that runs within a single datacenter. Most other types of hosting also have a litany of other failure modes that go away with cloud, to be replaced by other modes. For example, you no longer have to deal with failures of individual hard drives, but now you have to deal with failures of EBS clusters.

Two, cloud provides a standard system that makes HA easy. Rather then having to do dual dc failover in hardware and having to deal with bgp, anycast ips/dns failover, dealing with splitbrains and hw stonith/etc. All of this is just taken care of for you and/or made a lot easier.
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Google having a spotty record, does not take away from the fact that its good for the public to know what is going on, and Google is helping do that. It is hard for me to beleave a company can be completly good or bad.
I heard him talk last week in Zurich, and got a chance to ask him about those of us that work on what he termed as "custom software" for our clients, and whether this non-free software is bad. He was of the opinion that it does not involve the oppression of users, so is not ethically questionable.

I think topic is still open for debate.
If they release the links to the public those videos would gain more popularity and it may look like an attack to the US police.
I work in a small enterprise and Macs have slowly taken over and especially now that Macbook Air is out the mobile users are almost exclusively Macs. Some of the things we found were Virus scanners didn't really work on Macs. They predominantly scanned Word documents for virus macros so we dropped that requirement and pushed scanning onto the network. I guess workgroup rights work for us. We aren't very large so having lots of hierarchical rights doesn't make sense. One of our founders still hates OSX but found the Macbook Pro to be well designed, so he's gotten that far.

Security is a bit of a strange one. We have some clients where we can only access their network using a cardkey or thumb scanner. I still haven't figured out how to do this on a Mac. Apple used to go after the Enterprise market in the early aughts but I think Jobs just didn't care about it. Preferring the consumer and education markets instead. I don't blame them, if you look at Microsoft they were keeping a dead browser going because enterprise clients kept throwing money at them to support. To me, some enterprise software is just badly written and since the company has a lot of money tied up in using and supporting it they want their vendors to also support it. This is something, I doubt, Apple is willing to do.
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It completely misses the mark in my view: The problem is an overall decline in quality (i.e. mediocre articles). The presented solution fights spam. Two very different things.

Systems like this get gamed pretty heavily too. In this case a spammer could simply set up a bot that downvotes everything with <0.

I'd much prefer a system that subtly boosts the voting power of certain users. Preferably based on something that is difficult to fake. e.g. Seniority + Karma. Assuming that it is indeed true that the old members perform better than the new ones that should improve quality. This would probably create a HN elite...but if that is what it takes to improve the quality of articles then so be it.

Giving the Guidelines a bit more prominence would help to. e.g. linking to them in the submit page. If new members are anything like me then they simply do not look at the bar at the bottom of the page & so never see the guidelines.
Amazon.com was only recently transitioned, but AWS was used to host ecommerce apps for partners, iirc. before it's public debeau. This is what it was built for.
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I'm working on a productivity software startup which is currently working on the flagship product. In the interests of starting small, I'm targeting the platforms I have easy access to: x86 Linux, AMD64 Linux, and Win32. My dev machine allows me to test x86 Linux and AMD64 Linux builds, and I have been building binaries for Win32 and doing basic testing under Wine, with plans to test on a real Windows system using AWS or similar.

A service like this would make it easier for me to support Mac OS X; to build for OS X, I would most likely try to set up a build VM on something like PureDarwin, and test on something a real Mac using a service like this.

That said, I don't think there is a good reason to hold back my release for Mac, so it would probably be worth waiting, and if sales go well on other platforms, I would probably be better off investing in Mac hardware.
This is very exciting for me. I have a communications background, and zero coding experience. (I've tinkered with Wordpress, HTML, and CSS, but nothing anymore hardcore than that). I've started using code academy and it seems great thus far. However, as a non-coder, they do seem to run through a lot of stuff quite quickly - am I supposed to remember everything I learn after I run the code and steps just once?
Me too. I imagine the next iteration of Macbooks will basically be an iPad-formfactor device, albeit with Macbook-scale screen sizes, and a removable/attachable keyboard/trackpad combination, with some variation in the onboard OS that allows either 'iOS'-style touch interaction, or traditional OSX WIMP-style interaction for those that need it. I'd certainly buy an iMacBook-thingy that was a 17" iPad'ish thing, that could work in both modes.

Going to be interesting times .. I suppose I have to hold onto my aging 2007 MBP another year or two and then upgrade on the next generational bump.
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it's great that they share their findings and part of their code, even if I'm not a .NET dev I find the blog posts really interesting and their approach/tools inspirational.

But wasn't slashdot the first high volume site sharing their solutions to performance issues?
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What is link-bait? Seems open to interpretation. Some topics are highly controversial and bring passionate views out, but should they be banned because of that?

Honestly, I much prefer the pure coding articles or stories about code or coders than the "how I launched in 36 hours and had one million users" articles. In my opinion, the latter are link-bait and decrease the value of HN.
I bought a new TV a couple of years ago and was most disapointed to see the same old garbage spewing out of it.
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It's not that obscure. You can buy Metallica and Beatles tracks in FLAC.
whats the timezone shown in the pop out? Is it mine or can the user configure the timezone to be specified?

what if i have multiple google accounts and i want to show the aggregate availability. for example i have four sales reps and they all have free time between 10 am and 11 am. if all four are booked the end user should see the time slot as full, else till all four are booked the user should be able to book that time slot. if that possible?
Or months ;-)
Can't seem to get it in the UK store...
Your first point is fair enough, it is not the "simplest" substitution cipher one could imagine (one-to-one mapping), but I would say it's still a fairly simple mapping.

The reason I mentioned that none of the researchers speaks German is remarkable in two senses. First, it is the only reason they had to use machine translation in their approach at all! It was only for their testing the quality of their intermediate results, and not - as theregister suggests - a central part of the deciphering. Second, the fact that you don't have to speak the target language gives some credit to their methodology, because to some degree there's hope that the complete algorithm could be automated.
At the same time, the US is one of the biggest markets around, so it provides a reasonable case study and it tends to be the first to get any upgrade. It would be a nightmare to try to do the same for Europe for example because of the fragmentation.
I think printing QR code on a receipt would solve fraud issue, but again, requires additional investment.
> How would you feel if the car manufacturer attached locks to the hood of your car?

Interestingly cars are increasingly heading in this direction. The level of on-board electronics is raising the bar significantly on exactly who has the ability and equipment to service or fix a car. Even something as simple as resetting the service indicators often requires specialist equipment in newer models.
Don't Quit. 6 months is just too short of a time. No matter what you do afterwards it will always leave a question mark why you left so early, in particular when the start up has so much traction. That the founder sucks is too bad. However, to get along with people on a professional basis is way different than getting along with them on a private basis. Think of the army. Imagine people would quit just because they dont get along with the General. Persevere and try to stay at least a year...
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The iPad is all about user experience. I like the design,typ and details like the dingbats in the title field. Keep up the good work.
Nah, they're the ones who also respect Hitler - they're up voting you. ;-)
I think it used to be just okay, now I believe it's one of the best.

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Maybe he was getting confused with Quicktime's rubbish H.264 encoder (or the low quality of the open source AAC encoder)?
Nice icon and name but not a fan of the typography. Where do the articles come from? I don't know where this fits in my life.

I love Reeder, it's a great app. I also enjoy Zite and Flipboard for taking the news posted on twitter.
I agree this is a totally valid option, trouble is we have no c experts on core team so it would raise the cost of maintaining. Also the code is fairly complex, moving to structs was fairly simple compared to a c port.
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Is there a similar WinInCloud, where you're able to easily rent a windows pc in the cloud? Needs backup, automatic upgrades and web interface. I know WMWare and others do this for enterprise customers all the time, but I am a private customers.
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"I see a gap in your resume. Why were you out of the work force for 10 months?"

Is asking this question illegal? Girl or Boy - Shouldn't it be OK for the candidate to give an answer to such a question.

I'm failing to see anything offensive in the nature of the question.

Please let me know about it, I'm about to interview someone and I don't want to look offensive or rude.
Although not exactly the same, honeypots are similar to meta-moderation on slashdot. I am not sure if they still have it, or if it played any part in slowing a decline, but slashdot is very ordinary these days.

Personally, I would love to see more startup related articles. I don't care about the stuff I might pick up from elsewhere, such as Techcrunch articles, or Gruber's opinion,
or how A sells more than B, or Politics.

IMO, front page can do without:
1. Google denies requests to hand over data
2. Samsung overtakes Apple. Last week, Apple overtook someone else.
3. Gates to students, "....."
4. Righthaving, copyrights and piracy
5. Forrester's thoughts about supporting Macs in IT
6. Stallman v/s Steve Jobs.
7. Ripples visualization.
As a new user, I can say that what attracted me to the site is its quality and the number of links that lead me to the edges of my understanding of a given topic... I feel pushed to learn more.

At the same time, I would like to contribute and also feel compelled to express my opinion at times, but don't really feel free to do so unless it is an area where I feel pretty confident that I either know what I am talking about or have something to say that wasn't already said. I've noticed that just saying "wow that's cool" is frowned upon. I've also seen several threads where comments are downvoted to invisibility and I can't figure out why. Sometimes later they are upvoted again, sometimes not. But I feel like I am learning what is and is not acceptable... and as I increase my knowledge on topics that I came here to learn about, I hope to have more insights to offer back to the community (right now I can't say that I do).

I guess my points here are:

A) It's already a great site with quality much higher than a lot of other message boards.
B) It's hard enough to figure out what is ok and not ok to comment on.
C) To keep the community vibrant, presumably there should be some tolerance for and encouragement of growth in posters' ability to contribute.

This talk of "punishing" is discouraging. I suppose if there are already enough people here to understand what the community is supposed to be about, and if that group is self-sustaining, then there is no need to worry about attracting new users and exclusionary tactics are not a problem.

Quality is what you (or we) make of it. I've read thought-provoking comments on topics that are probably a bit off the reservation... and seen interesting segues inside threads that take me places I wouldn't expect.

Another approach might be to seed the front page with articles that are good examples of what the community is striving to focus on. Maybe put a green sprout next to it or something. Add one more voting mechanism for people at whatever karma threshold: a vote for "exemplary" status. I suspect that not every regular upvote would translate into an "exemplary" upvote... the front page would reflect the interests of the community, and if it was bare of exemplary articles, I have no doubt users would soon vote some quality articles onto it. My own preference in dealing with people is to give them an easily accessible mechanism to exceed your expectations instead of finding ways to punish them for not.
>It could be that "the 1%" are simply creating more than their previous share of wealth.

No, the 1% are generally company executives. The company is indeed creating more wealth but right now executives are taking a very large portion of that created wealth and actual workers are getting a very small (relatively) portion.

>those who get rich by creating wealth

Here you probably have in mind people like Zuckerberg, the google guys, etc., but this is a small minority. Most of the guys getting capturing so much wealth are just executives. They're creating wealth cut are they really creating hundreds or thousands of times more wealth than the people actually doing the work?

>to put it charitably, off the political map.

Anything that would actually help is off the map. People want sound-byte fixes. Something you can describe in one sentence. What is actually needed is a multi-pronged approach to encourage the right kind of change. Personally, I would like to see a law that says companies must disclose full compensation for every employee. They don't need to say who gets what but they would need to list each position and what the total comp was for it (this could be made a bit more generic so it's harder to tie to exactly who gets what). The free market works for buying products because we see what the product costs and we see what everyone else charges. With wages it's hard to pin down exactly what market rates are. If this data were forced to be disclosed I think it would strengthen workers' position in negotiation, hopefully driving labor prices up (and hopefully this combined with market competition would force executive salaries down closer to realistic numbers).

And that's just one thing, we would need a great many changes to encourage markets to correct after years of various interest groups doing what ever they can to distort markets in their favor.
I bet it is. For one thing you can rent half-million per month homes for your daughter.

But I'll let that slide since he is giving away all his money to great causes and the medical research he has funded.
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> Users do not mess with their car's firmware.

Lately Jaguar recalled 18000 cars because of a potentially lethal firmware bug. I'm pretty sure a common, generalized open-source automotive embedded platform would be a huge enhancement in all respects.

> Regardless of Stallman's contributions, the whole point of "free software" is no longer relevant.

On the contrary. At times when our governments are moving away from democracy and computer software are always more important tools of control and enforcement, Free Software is more critically relevant every day.
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The reason you can't hide Newsstand in a folder is that it IS a folder.

Limiting yes but it's not "preventing" you, it's just a constraint.

I do agree that it's irritating that you can't uninstall certain stuff though. Stocks is the main example which I think a majority of users have little or no interest in and up until iOS5 the Apple weather app was decidedly meh.
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Thank you - I've gone through seven revisions until I finally came up with this one. The standard user interface font is TimesNewRomanPSMT, but you can change the reading font to: Baskerville, Palatino, Optima or GillSans.

The articles come from standard RSS feeds. Clear Read is a term I coined for downloading and de-cluttering the full article - it's very similar to Readability in Reeder.
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There are a number of ways to take screen shots on a Macintosh using the OS-X operating system. To take a screenshot of the entire screen simply hit COMMAND and SHIFT and the number 3 at the same time. This will create a PNG file and place it on your desktop.

To take a screenshot of a part of the screen hit COMMAND and SHIFT and the number 4. This will put a box on your screen with handles. Select the part of the screen you want and release the mouse button and a screen shot will be saved to your desktop.

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There are a number of ways to take screen shots on a Macintosh using the OS-X operating system. To take a screenshot of the entire screen simply hit COMMAND and SHIFT and the number 3 at the same time. This will create a PNG file and place it on your desktop.

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