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It seems that developers are positive about the store, but feel that Apple could be doing more to help them suit their business model. I feel it's also a question of what developers expect the store to do to their business, at the moment it lets ordinary unsavvy consumers develop a trust relationship with a developer who they may have never had any interaction with. (Thus a great opportunity for the developer to market their other wares to the consumer.) Apple is passing on their seal of approval to all items available in the store. It's a Disney approach, but it's a significant barrier to many developers.

I feel that some of the perceived negatives are the result of counter intuitive thinking. For example, a general lower pricing is the result of competition amongst commodity applications. While unique apps can demand a higher price. This is good for consumers, but bad for developers who may have been relying on the status quo. This allows new developers to challenge the incumbent, and potentially unseat them.

There is the issue of the upcoming sandboxing, which while everyone understands why it's necessary, it still has many developers worried. I feel this is mostly for 2 reasons: Information from apple doesn't seem to be 100% defined leaving a question mark over some developers apps, and knowing that change is coming without the full details makes planning difficult. I suspect apple are mum on details because they're looking for more feedback from developers, I imagine that they too aren't interested in neutering the apps that are available on the store.

Many of the other concerns relate to backwards compatibility, something apple is known to be brutal with (often no more than 5 years of backwards compatibility) - this is the most realistic concern, although it's not unique to the app store. Mac os is constantly being revised sometimes introducing bugs or in the case of PPC apps, having support dropped entirely. This requires developers to stay on top of beta releases and conduct appropriate testing.

Overall, the app store leads developers to do a bit more work on maintaining their app. Of course this is in exchange for continual revenue from sales of that app. Which I feel is more tailored to career developers and not casual devs. For consumers this isn't entirely a bad thing, it promotes better apps, app refinement and makes the store not worthwhile for developers who are unwilling to deliver - leaving this ripe market available for those that want to deliver a good experience.
Does this mean we finally get Pink Floyd and the Beatles on Spotify?
I think that was written by an experimental robot, like the automated sports coverage that StatSheet generates.
Direct link to the project:

http://www.release-project.eu/

Synopsis of the project:

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~trinder/RELEASEfactsheet.pdf
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It appends the "new" history lines to a $HISTFILE by default, unless other file is specified.
I think this should be filed as a bug. The fact it's a compiler appears to be a remarkably well kept secret.

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I kind of understand why they want to stop giving them shares, as they no longer need funding from little people.

But it seems a lot like tearing up a term sheet 5 minutes from signing the final contract, just because you managed to shop for a better deal. It might be legal, but it's just not done.
If you have travelled to India recently you will be surprised how far money takes you in terms of social status.
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isn't that what SPEC is about?
XML, RDFA, Dublin Core and other structured specifications have very solid use cases, but those use cases do not account for the majority of interactions on the Web.

Frankly, this couldn't be more wrong. Every website in that list has plenty of semantic structure that is lost in the HTML.

- Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Wordpress (not to mention HN) has plenty of structure that could be surfaced by SIOC[1].

- Wikipedia is the king - see DBpedia[2].

- Amazon (and to a lesser extent, eBay) are a perfect fit for Good Relations[3], which is already used by Very Big websites to provide value to customers.

The problem with this post is that reduces the Semantic Structure movement to HTML5. Yes, HTML5 semantic tags may not be worth it, but there's much more to the semantic web technologies than that.

[1]: http://sioc-project.org/
[2]: http://dbpedia.org/
[3]: http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/
No it has not, November and December are dead months for hiring, hiring explodes in late January and February the fact that it is even close to level in these months is a testament to it's popularity.
An OS designed by programmers. What could possibly go wrong?
No - it was a limitation of the test design, but it strictly measured just click-through performance for one step of the sales funnel. Other (equally important) considerations measuring quality of the interaction weren't measured. There's pros and cons of setting up the test this way, but I think that could be discussed for years :)
Coupled with social security at near minimum wage levels they combine into literally the most amoral situation that exists in this world.
The license file is gibberish

It clearly says that Orto is free for non-commercial use, but otherwise you need to contact them for permission. For all practical purposes, though, I think it's safe to consider it effectively public domain at this point.
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The ball pickup is ingenious, but I'm not sure about 100% more flingy. The one shot they showed of it actually tossing the ping pong ball went straight into the ground a foot in front of the bot.
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A few issues. Typing "ire" lists Ireland last with 2 entries not even starting with "ire" above it. That's kind of annoying. More importantly "Ireland" refers to the island, as opposed to the country which is the Republic of Ireland.
It couldn't be forgiving.

If you look at the standard 3x4 phone number grid, each row or column had a specific frequency assigned to it. A single button would play both the row and column tones simultaneously.

edit: I just remembered, it's actually 4x4. There is a fourth column labelled ABCD. Forget what it's used for. I was mostly a theoretical phreak :)
Yes? ;)

No, sorry. I guess it really was a redundant response. Anyway, I used this reference for the first time. I said it because I think a JVM written in JS is remarkable - This is something I would not have expected anyone to do. Not at all. Yet, technically, it was predicted by said law.
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While I think that's true, my point is that product quality in the long run isn't best represented by engagement now because Facebook is already soaking up all the engagement. Engagement is not going to grow quickly when you have two very similar products, one which has almost complete dominance, and a new one.

And, yes, in 2006 Facebook was the underdog compared to Myspace but had high engagement levels, but at that point not everyone had a Myspace. There was plenty of people who have never used a social network before. Whereas today, everyone has a Facebook.

So engagement shift from Facebook to G+ (if it happens eventually) will be very slow at first, but I think that in the long run, people will choose the better product.
With bash putting a command in <() uses the output of the command as though it were a file. I use it to diff the output of two commands: diff <(command 1) <(command 2)

I've never used it, but I assume >() uses a command as though it were a writable file. So instead of history -a file writing to file, he does history -a >(logger) to write to the logger command. Seems pretty clever to me.
The justification for at-will is that without it, hiring anyone is so risky that companies will avoid doing it.

I strongly support, for instance, laws making it straightforward for people to sue for discrimination and sexual harassment. But after 15+ years in this industry, it is impossible for me to deny that discrimination and harassment claims are routinely abused by deadweight chaff employees to extract settlements from employers when they're terminated, or, worse, to keep their jobs and continue inflicting themselves on their teams.

Discrimination and harassment are two narrowly defined public policy exceptions to the rule of at-will employment, and by themselves they already create a huge amount of pointless† risk. Imagine if instead of narrowly defined exceptions, employees could evaluate every performance, compensation, and staffing decision a company made, and then litigate over them. Welcome to the United States Postal Service.

You might as well have this argument with the wind, by the way, because America is not going to move away from the at-will employment doctrine. It is a fundamental difference between the way the US and Europe conduct business, and most people who run companies would rather the world worked more like the US than Europe in this one regard.

† but: see above
Awesome. Thanks for the heads up, especially about snapshots.

Signed up for the trial, and it looks like their auto-deploy script links are broken (support.serverdensity.com 502's). I'd like to see if there's a way to generate keys somehow, because it looks like it requires a unique per-server key. I suspect that is what their auto-deploy script does.
I have a very low voice and enjoy singing or humming along with the bass line in music some times. While I was singing along with a song, all of a sudden my monitor started to go a bit nuts and wave. When I stopped singing (or changed notes) it stopped.

I turned to my roommate, "Can you see that?"

"Nope."

It turned out that if I sang a note at the same frequency as my monitor's refresh rate, the image on the screen would start to modulate up and down in a wavy sort of way. But to my eyes alone. Must have been something with the motion of my eyes or my head matching the refreshing of the screen.
You're also missing the fact that joining an early phase startup carries non-trivial risk, and part of the reason early equity grants are large is to compensate for the risk one assumes by joining.
Will definitely give some shape to the service according to the usage patterns. Your motto suggestion looks good =)
I used to be able to do this too. i worked out from the crack-crack-crack-crack sounds when I let the dialler rotate back to home position.

Man, I do not miss dialling phone calls mechanically.

I also set up an old dialler to be able to enter numbers into my BBC Micro, which is hopefully the sort of goofy stuff that Eben Upton et al are going for with the Raspberry Pi.
This made me feel special as an entrepreneur and it's an interesting, entertaining read, but ai must call bunk on this one.

Entrepreneurs are a special breed but we don't defy all the rules. We still need to go in order. We do sacrifice our health and living conditions at times but by choice. If you have the option to make a conscious decision to live on Ramen for a year then you've already gotten up the pyramid some ways. Those who are barely meeting this level of needs without choosing to are not entrepreneurs. They have a long way to go.

We don't sacrifice Safety without already achieving it too. First we secure employment and everything that comes with safety, then we become dissatisfied with the situation and, again, make a conscious decision to throw ourselves into the great unknown. We cannot make this choice without having achieved this level first.

These last 3 are tricky but the rules still apply to us. No one is an island and so if our personal relationships suffer during the course of starting our businesses that doesn't mean that this level comes at a different time for us, has a different importance or isn't necessary. First off, we have to have relationships first before they suffer. Secondly, we gain and absolutely need relationships with customers, prospects, vendors, partners, employees etc. this is a case where the hierarchy isn't flipped on its head but just takes on different terms.

Then self-esteem and self-actualization go in order as we need the rest in order to get there.

Sorry to be so long-winded but I just disagree with the premise that the hierarchy applies differently to entrepreneurs. It just doesn't. Nothing against the author, I could definitely understand his reasoning and think this is something young (young as in just beginning, not age) entrepreneurs could read and be inspired by and feel special.

I guess I'm just in one of those cynical moods today or something.
Compile is in quotes because it's actually translating into source that is native for a platform. So, it can translate to Objective C/Cocoa, Python/GTK, Java/Android, etc.
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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I totally agree about the performance hit. I'm still thinking about the interface and what methods Moka should provide. After that, I'll make a pass to optimize constructs as much as possible.
Ask HN :Join a Startup vs Amazon in India? 
I am a lurker here since a couple of years and I am in need of some advice. I have 5 years of exp in Java dev at a couple of big companies. I need to select between the following two options

1. Smallish startup in Bangalore that is doing reasonably well. They have <50 ppl on the the tech side. They are offering around 15 lakhs with a 20% variable pay included in it.
2. Software Development Engineer in Test at Amazon, Chennai. I would be working on test frameworks and automating test cases. The pay is almost 20 lakhs I've experessed my concern of wanting to work on dev and not QA. The HR has told me that I can move into a SDE role after a year and relocate to any amazon office after 18 months.

I personally want to take up the first option since I'd get out of Chennai and working for a startup will be more fulfilling.
I don't really enjoy testing and would be stuck in Chennai, but working at Amazon would improve my profile and could get me a chance to get to SV in a couple of years.

My dream like many of us here is to start a startup.

I know that it is ultimately me that has to make a call based on my priorities but I am finding it very difficult and some perspective could help.
Slanted and biased. I mean, just look at the author's name :)

Actually, I quite agree. The days of being able to make sense of web pages via markup are gone. It was a good goal once, but the effort has failed. Time to move on and find a better accessibility solution.
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> BN can examine all patents held by MS

You know how ludicrous this is. "You have done something wrong, but I won't tell you what".

This is how 6-year-olds do business. I expected Microsoft's legal to employ adults.
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In my world, concert festivals & blogs have replace the need for major labels marketing role

In your world perhaps, but a lot of concert festivals and blogs have heavy involvement from major labels in promoting content. It might look like these blogs discover bands out of nowhere, but I promise you they are forwarded a ton of content from labels.
They're not the only company who lost money on Google TV.
I love the concept but it seems to lack substantiation by students. Could this actually work in a lecture where students don't know what's coming next and how it relates to what was said 20 minutes ago?

And what about the fact that far too much information is presented in a given class to possibly fit on a notebook page?

I suppose the software is meant to address these impracticalities, but again I don't see the proper substantiation by students to lead me to believe that this product could be widely adopted.
at least not in the slave kind as is offered here

This would be my fear, one only needs to look to the middle east in which Asian labor is imported and then is basically indentured once they get there, even the US bases take advantage of the captive "contractors". The fact that ages are probably a big factor with these endeavor the propensity for these to truly become slave ships beyond the reach of most laws is concerning to say the least.
To argue that he deserved it is to cede the point. It was what he signed up for and google was right to respect that agreement.
Yup, that's what it does. Shortly speaking <() or >() in bash that creates a temporary pipe.
Any reason why, or just offering an opinion?

My opinion: I've used qunit and I don't like it. It's better than nothing, but not what I want in a testing framework. The syntax is awful.
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Looks like people have known about many phases of water for ages: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html

Oddly, it appears that Ice XIII and Ice X exist, but not Ice IX.
> The shift from transistor-based computers to quantum computers will be akin to the shift from vacuum tubes to transistors.

The shift to quantum computers will be much larger, more akin to the shift between the Jacquard loom and Turing equivalent languages.

Transistors were (initially) an incremental improvement over tubes, which were themselves an incremental improvement over relays. Admittedly these "increments" were order of magnitude jumps. But you still had the same thing - it was smaller, faster, more efficient but still fundamentally a mere digital switch.

Of course chances are good that we'll miss what quantum computers are really capable of (superposition) and just use them as better single-atom switches.
or what if there exist many goods with same unique barcode, scattered around the world.

this requires a mean to identify where the unique good is (if it exists at all). would rfid fix this? hmmm shrug
Is this just an addition to the already-known 15 types of ice? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases
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Out of curiosity: why did you made the switch from a bigger monitor to the smaller display of the macbook?
I think that's exactly right. Try chewing crackers or chips (the crunchier the better) while looking at an LED clock (like a microwave). Most work, depends on refresh rate. There's a good chance you'll see the same sort of waviness.
How does one track an RFID chip? It's not a homing beacon. One would have to be constantly bumping up against readers to get that effect.
Ask HN: best resources for warm-up coding before interviews?
What would be your (free) online resource of choice to warm up coding before an interview? You know, those little exercises that average companies (not Google) ask for. Thanks.
As someone who did computational modeling of water, this strikes me as kind of odd. The "hello world" of computational molecular dynamics is simulating water in different phases, phase changes, etc. (including the different ices). I'm interested to hear more, but incredulous.
Thanks for the link. "Build habits for consistency" is exactly they way I view. I believed strongly in "discipline" for a long time, but never built any strong habits to reinforce what end goal or lifestyle I was trying to attain. Inevitably I would build this heavy daily schedule, work incredibly hard for a period of time, and then just completely break down from exhaustion. Afterwards I would feel guilty about not being able to accomplish even small portions of my daily schedule and then eventually give up all together.

Working hard is admirable; but, when you don't have the capacity to do so, you have to build that capacity first.
Could you demonstrate that for me please?

Here's a simple little page that is vulnerable to XSS but not to CSRF:

http://brlewis.com/demo/xss-csrf.html

It works by GET or POST, so it should only take you a minute to craft a link that you can post right here in HN that makes that page pop an alert up in my browser.
Although I agree with your point, I think you've misread the nugget you've quoted.

Every website _does_ have plenty of semantics lost in the HTML, but considering the majority of interactions involve sighted users looking at individual sites using conventional browsers, the author is correct.

Part of the issue with the Semantic Web is a chicken and egg problem. Articles like this quite rightly say that it is not widely used by consumers, but then they fall into the Luddite trap of declaring it pointless because no one uses it. If popular sites provide it, and other popular sites and/or popular browsers leverage it, then you bet that consumers will start using it.

With only one mention of Google (in which he mentions SEO, rather than anything more useful), the author has missed out on the powerful use of both RDFa and Microformats in extracting semantic information from pages to display Rich Snippets amongst search results.
In your world, but pop-radio and top-40 still drive a majority of music sales.
Just to clarify, this isn't a fourth state, this just seems to be a different liquid phase. Water has a hugely complicated phase diagram -- there's fifteen phases of water ice known experimentally and a few more predicted in theory.

I haven't been able to find the original paper (damn you discovery.com) so let me know if you find it.
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We do a lot of rich internet apps which are heavy HTML/JS and get asked a lot "Are you using HTML5" and I'd go down this whole spiel about "well really we like the CSS3 features" and "a lot of what we do isn't HTML5 its just HTML4 and Javascript" or "Maybe we try to use local storage but have to fall back to standard cookies, and backend persistence for legacy browsers".

Eventually gave up and now when people ask if an app is "HTML5" I just say "yes".
When money printing can be translated into wages (such as raising the minimum wage), then this sets the stage for consumer price inflation. When the CPI goes up, people demand higher wages, etc.

This is why in the US we probably* don't need to fear hyperinflation: we're not seeing a translation of Fed printing to wages.

*When the Weimar Republic hyperinflated, it was made possible by the fact that large numbers of people were employed by the state, whose wages increased with inflation. I've heard some statistics that place a substantial portion of the US population on government inflation-index income (be it something like social security or something more indirect like Medicare). As to whether it's to a great enough extent to create a Weimar type situation, I don't know.
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To those new to Open64, it is a high-quality compiler, with some good internal design and good optimization phases. SGI's former compiler team was highly respected within the compiler community.

It is unfortunate that it is not more well-known. However, it is used by a lot of compiler research groups to prototype new ideas.
My understanding of the Beatles situation is that it isn't label-driven. I'd love someone to clarify that.
>> Neither; it's capitalism as usual.

Can you elaborate? I don't understand what you're trying to say.
I haven't seen this brought up before on HN.
Look closer, Ice IX is on that phase diagram. Temperatures below 200K, and a very narrow pressure range just above I and XI.
From the looks of the article, it seems like it's meant for people who are interested in popular science, but then the author uses degrees Fahrenheit everywhere.