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Mozilla to reveal allies for B2G mobile browser OS
Let's say I create an innovative, software based, method of doing something faster/better (like the ALEKS method of education say). Without a software patent to protect my creation, why would I ever release it to the world?

Ridiculous patents like this for "ifnot" are one thing, but patents for very useful software functionality and features are another. Don't be so quick to dismiss their usefulness in encouraging innovation.
lol It might sound like a troll question, but honestly, my primary Mac still is a PowerMac G5 2x1.8GHz bought in 2004 ...

But no worries, I'm going to replace it the coming Summer with an iMac 27"
then native apps with massive restrictions on what you can do and how you can build them

No. They originally allowed any programming language, then played a bit with disallowing anything other than C/C++/Objective-C.
As someone who has Gruber's musings on baseball pop up all over his twitter and RSS clients, I'm inclined to disagree.
Do you have any recommended tutorials/walkthroughs for building a REST API?
Yes, because then they don't all start at once, fight for RAM and swap around while leaving my computer a useless lagging mess when I just want to open a browser. It's probably okay in some cases, but it shouldn't be the default. Instead of prompting before shutdown, it could display a dialog on boot with a list of applications that had been running. Click on one to restore it, and have a "Restore All" option at the bottom.

I'm a huge fan of the inverted scrolling, though.
New in SQL Server 2012 SEQUENCEs: Why They Aren’t Just for Surrogate Keys
"somewhere fun" sounds good too. It could keep track of your ratings of places you've been and recommend new places based on that.
Introducing new features that aren't completely open is not the same as taking away existing freedoms.
AFAIK, it is Perl project. And I remember seeing it showcased at Catalyst website, so it likely built on top of Catalyst Framework
Again, I have to heavily disagree with your post. It's far too easy to simply dismiss Apple's success as one of shrewd marketing. It's way too easy to simply wave Apple off as expensive baubles for image-conscious, vain consumers.

> "but it wouldn't matter much to them if the brand wasn't known at all."

But yet, it would. Consumers can feel quality when they come upon it. The LV bag without the luxury branding would still be far more successfully than a bag of lesser-quality and equally nameless brand.

Going back to what I started mentioning with the last post - a product is perceived at 3 levels. Visceral, behavioral, and reflective. We've already covered the visceral part.

Behavioral is the actual function of the product. How quickly does the kettle boil water? Does that teapot drip when poured? Does my phone actually send the SMS or will it leave me in limbo with no confirmation?

Reflective is the higher, consciously engaging aspect of the product. Does it make me look good to my peers? Does it bring back memories of a bygone era? Does it appeal to my ego? etc etc.

You're positing the Apple's claim to success can be largely accounted for via the reflective angle - whereas I'm saying it's impossible to be successful on that angle alone. A truly legendary product is wildly successful at all 3, and executing on all 3 is what has powered Apple's meteoric rise.

Android in its current state really nails behavioral, but it's half-assing visceral, and the reflective is practically non-existent.

Not from your post, but to aggregate my reply. To the mention that Android shouldn't be playing Apple's game by Apple's rules. These aren't Apple's rules. These are time-tested rules consumers will apply to any product they come across.
Is it just me or recently Apple is mr me too? I mean, this is a lot like WhatsApp, except it's cross platform, which i see a big no go for me really. The new OS from Apple also has a ton of apps that were created using the successful models they found in appstore, if they like them so much why don't they buy them.
Geekiest job description ever
In an ideal world, I'd put every piece of JS I write first through jslint and then through jshint -- maybe even using git hooks
Apple: Privacy Policy For Apps To Change
Sex and war would seem more accurate; porn being just a subset of sex.

And I suppose one could argue that war is often just a manifestation of a desire for sex or power/money as an intermediary to sex.
I don't know what I did, but after I doodled a bit and scrolled the page around using the middle mouse button, this youtube video popped up over the page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6x_-xKl-Fg

Also the konami code makes the same sort of unicorns appear that were on the video.
go to emacs M-x picture-mode and you do the same.
go to emacs M-x artist-mode and you get the same.
This start-class Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity

discusses some of the issues around "sensitivity" of a test (the tendency not to have false negatives) versus "selectivity" of a test (the tendency not to have false positives). And of course what level of each to trade off for in a particular medical situation depends on the seriousness of the disease, the selectivity and sensitivity of other kinds of testing, and what happens to a patient if a true case is missed or if the patient gains a false diagnosis of having the disease.

I'd definitely like to see the approach mentioned in the study

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201116...

replicated by other researchers

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

before figuring that blood tests will replace patient mood self-rating scales for diagnosing depression, but this is an interesting approach. And perhaps identifying reliable biomarkers for depression will suggest new treatment approaches.
Heh I thought it's about computer memory.
" It's like patenting a mathematical formula." More like an Mathematical Algorithm but even then, most devices are physical representation of a algorithm in some way. I don't see how this is a valid attack on software patent or patents in general.

I don't support software patents but I have a problem with the whole "it's patenting a mathematical formula" argument.
Huh? Like "don't read the article, that's just details, make something!".

But it can't be Linux-based? Or use makefiles?

To "make something" you do need to care about details. At least a bit (depending on the complexity).
How to Submit an Item to Microsoft Connect
Ideally, you won't be using the web interface, but running the command line utility version.

My company recently implemented this as part of a git pre-commit hook so that we're less likely to have a silly syntax mistake cause problems.
Features, not specs.
Iranian Web Programmer’s Death Sentence to Be Carried Out Any Moment
You may want to see a doctor. It's quite possible you have STCTD Disorder. (Sensitivity to calling things disorders)
Hahaha I know and I do but a lot of the time it takes 3 to 5 calls before someone answers and even then it's not a guarantee that they're free. I figured this could be a nice little short cut if it was out there. It seems like not too many others have a problem with this though so it might just be a specific problem for my area. My high school class only had about 110 kids.
How stable is Pegasus now? Is anyone using it for realworld applications yet?
This is a great question.

In our experience, we've found that creating your own mnemonic is usually the best way to really deeply encode a new memory.

But a great mem from someone else works almost as well. And it's a lot easier to breeze along, giggling at other people's imagery, occasionally coming up with something new of your own.
Related HN submission:

Death sentence for Iranian web programmer – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3484674 (28 days ago)
in hindsight this comment seems a little harsh. It's not fair at all to compare the two in terms of performance when google is a huge multinational with servers all over the world and ddg only has a few (I imagine)
As well as advertising networks and referral schemes.

Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
My mistake!

It definitely requires 10.7.3

Sorry about that.
Honestly, yes.

This is a much smaller burden to me than having to wait for OSX to launch all sorts of random apps after every single reboot. Most of which I simply close right away anyway because there's no point in having them clutter my screen until I actually need them again.
Scroogle May Have Been a Victim of Hackers, Not Google
Can Tesla Survive?
Was I the only one that for some reason got a Youtube-video that all of a sudden popped up and started playing a short video about ESPN being hacked or something?

Might have been a glitch of some sort, but I'd suggest OP should check his source code to see if he hasn't been compromised of some sort.
Nothing exciting. Let me quantify this before I get shot by the Apple fanboys. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy either but I am not buying the hype and feature sheet.

Example:

1. iCloud. Have Windows Live ID and Live Mesh integration in windows for nearly 3 years now. Works across mobile devices already.

2. Messages. Windows Live Messenger has social integration already which is on par with this.

3. Reminders. Windows Live calendar does this and gives you alerts through windows live messenger and email.

4. Notes. NOTHING on this planet compares to Microsoft's OneNote.

5. Notification center. Windows live has one built in that you can integrate with. Oh and you also have the system tray.

6. Share sheets. Windows has had "sent to" since about 1996.

7. Twitter. Windows live integration.

8. Game center. We have shops for that and Steam and all sorts. It's an open market.

9. Airplay mirroring. Woo yay etc. Windows media player (!) does this with my Sony Bravia with no complaints. I can right click a video file and select "play on Bravia" and it appears on it straight away. This required NO CONFIGURATION and no special boxes. Both have wireless cards in them. No store or DRM available or required.

10. Gatekeeper. Windows firewall is actually on par with this and is an application AND/OR system level firewall. Microsoft security essentials is the rest.

11. Chinese features. Windows is the mainstream OS in china for a reason (i.e. excellent language support).

The only thing above that cost anything is Windows (which cost effectively nothing as it came with the PC) and OneNote (which cost me 200GBP) and included Word, Excel and Outlook as well. Oh and the nice Acer TimelineX machine only cost me 400GBP, TV cost 300GBP so total 900GBP

Compare that to a MacBook which cost more than that to start with at 999GBP.

Oh and I don't have to pay 99GBP to write software that works on it. Visual Studio is free.

Doesn't add up.

Hmm.
Amazing how much has changed in 18 years.
The next time Apple does this style of announcement, I'm inclined to believe that they may release the info themselves half an hour or so before their embargo ends. The first I heard about this, before there were any changes to the Apple site, was a tweet.
If you think it's that possible then why not contact your congress person/senator and have them look into this? In fact, talk to them about drafting a law against not being able to install software of your choosing on a machine you buy. Or, at the very least, a law for being able to take your data with you when you decide to leave a platform. This wouldn't help China, Iran, Syria, etc. but it would at least give US citizens some protections.

Personally, I'm not very afraid of option 3 ever going away but I also am ready with a FreeBSD VM instance.
PPI Claims
Banks have set aside £9 billion for PPI Claims and if you have had a credit agreement in the last 10 years, with any of the banks mentioned below then it is more than likely you will have either been Sold PPI or you were offered it and could be paying an expensive PPI policy, you do not want or need.
We added the garden narrative in Spring 2011. The goal was to wrap our internal model of the state of your memories in a visual metaphor to make it clearer and more vivid for you as a learner.

We've improved the underlying algorithms a lot since then. Do let us know if you still find the garden confusing.
Outlet: new Lisp that compiles js/lua with eval and debugging
How To Recruit A UX Designer | Smashing UX Design
I have written several knockout/coffeescript apps lately and am wondering the same thing...
omgosh, or: https://github.com/mikejs/gridfs-fuse
Kölle Alaaf! :)
Yes, but Apple doesn't want to allow people to pay to get into a Beta. They want only devs taking part. A fee to enter the dev program seems like the best solution to me. Honestly they should increase it to $199 to help weed out the app spammers.
Pinterest adds disclosure on how they make money. Pinterest CEO comments.
Since Hacker News provided so much discussion of the original Pinterest affiliate link modification story, I wanted to provide an update on the situation including an error I made in the original piece.
3 reasons why Start-Up Chile is awesome
According to PAIR, this has been abandoned for quite some time (4.5 years). In the first action, the Examiner noted "!=" in Java and MS elected not to respond.
I've been spoiled by Dojo with these components:

- Rich DataGrid with ajax pagination & filtering

- DropDown with ajax source for typeahead feature

I also think Bootstrap needs an initial set of distinct looking themes. Not just different colors but fonts, padding, sizes etc. It would help me feel confident that I would be able to create something that doesn't look like everyone else's site.
You're thinking in your perspective. That's perfect for Apple.
Android relies on different apps running as different users for security. Rooted devices bypass this and destroy any notion of inter-app privacy, which basically nullifies the entire security architecture.

Casual root users are at enormous risk of malware, like running XP without a firewall levels of risk.
Hipmunk has an amazing interface, but I have yet to actually use it to purchase a flight. Quite often I find better deals elsewhere. I really want to use it exclusively, but I just don't trust it to have the best data yet.
Replacing Javascript with a better language has not been possible thus far. There have been many attempts, but getting every browser maker to agree on something is like herding cats.

So, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. We're stuck with Javascript. Personally, I think running the code while you're developing it is a brilliant way of dealing with the problem of how to do proper autocomplete on a dynamic language.
Agreed on performance. I guess it's a matter of having servers all over the place like Google.

As for having mail, maps, etc. I prefer they don't. That'd basically mean tracking. Just set up your browser to have it accessible if it's a big deal for you. Can be done in several ways.
Making Sense of the Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" Timeline
they never gave you that choice on iOS, so they never took it away, did they?
Bulgaria and the Netherlands withdraw support for ACTA
I remember flipping channels one day and saw Bryant Gumbel on screen with an email address superimposed. (Was he on "Today" I never watched those shows so don't remember which one it was).

He said that viewers could contact the show via email, and he read off the address. It was something like today.show@nbc.com (I made this up, not exact, but I remember it having more than one dot in the address).

Gumbel didn't say "dot", he just did a long pause when he got to each dot, which I guess were periods to him.
> On the other hand, it stops tons of malware. Signed binaries is considered one of the most successful anti-malware strategies by security experts. Are you saying otherwise?

As you've decided to pick anonymous security experts, I thought I'd chip in. I don't know if I'd call myself an expert but I've over a decade in industry breaking systems, fixing software and booting out bad guys, I'm speaking at BlackHat EU next month and I co-founded a security conference so I guess that means I'm not a complete security chump. I can categorically tell you that signed binaries are only part of a strategy, and not necessarily the best one at that. If your goal is to increase the cost of exploitation then signing can help, but so can a decent access control model (into which signing becomes a part thereof).

To put it another way, it's possible to defeat applocker (windows binary signing), iOS code signing on iOS 5.0.1, the XBox and Xbox 360's code signing restrictions, the PS3's code signing restrictions, and more recently, an analysis of RSA keys showed that between 2 and 4 out of every thousand keys are insecure due to weak randomness[1].

The bottom line is that code signing, like placebos only work if you believe them to unless they're backed up by something more solid to augment them and they form a stronger coherent strategy.

At this stage all code signing settings will do is encourage developers to get Apple IDs and for customers to use the App store as they know "it's safe". Even though we know it doesn't mean anything[2] to the end user in reality. The real thing that Apple will do is further on the line when they decide to make it so that you can only run signed apps (and this is at least the direction apple are taking) through their app store.

Your edge case point applies to countless open source developers, including those that worked on the original FreeBSD code that went into Darwin. Apple are of course, under the licences they've inheritied allowed to implement code signing, but please don't think this is an anti-malware measure, it isn't. It's about control of distribution. Anyone that wants to bypass code signing on an Apple product will find a way to do it.

[1] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/16/crypto_security/
[2] - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/02/15/what-ios-apps-are-g...
So i need to reboot my Mac after installing the Messages demo? Can't remember ever seeing that with an Apple product other than Xcode.
> Command and control, of what? The ramp instances?

That's what I was thinking. But I'm just guessing without having downloaded the package.

> Why would they need that?

It's hard to know the motivations behind the person who wrote the Pastebin, but if you were to go to all the trouble to amass an army of bots with the capability of sending arbitrary packets with forged source IPs, wouldn't you want to retain some degree of control over it?

> And if the actual attack is direct, how will they escape the ISP's filters? According to The Spoofer Project[1], no ISP lets you spoof packets with IPs outside of at least the same /8 subnet. Can you even get a consumer connection with an IP in those subnets?

(Thank you for that fascinating link BTW.)

I dunno, the same thought occurred to me too.

Note that they encourage the use of "VPNs", though they don't specify to where. Maybe "VPN" to their audience is expected to represent some sort of anonymizing service (e.g. for illicit filesharing) that typically terminates at a backend datacenter which might not have effective egress filtering.

Again, just speculating.
Not sure what you're arguing. I was using Adsense as an example of a toxic product from Google.
"Why do so many web developers think that tablets are an excuse to break the functionality of the web?"

Web developers have been breaking the functionality of the web for years. A lot of 'feature-rich' web apps today are almost unusable on a mobile device, much less for a disabled person. So instead of making a 'mobile friendly' version of their site, they made an app.

Maybe some day they'll find it cheaper and easier to just make one site that works for all devices. But that probably sounds crazy.
Is Twitter Used More For Promotion, Or More For Information? [STUDY]
Re: iCloud, Messages, Notes, Reminders: Apple has technically had all that for years too, these are all renamed apps. The thing is, now they have a massive mobile presence and they are working on integrating that with the desktop. That is the news. Feel free to compare when Windows grows a comparable mobile presence again, if ever. (Sadly, imho)

> 10. Gatekeeper. Windows firewall is actually on par with this and is an application AND/OR system level firewall. Microsoft security essentials is the rest.

Gatekeeper and the App Store is not about firewalling, but sandboxing.

> 11. Chinese features. Windows is the mainstream OS in china for a reason (i.e. excellent language support).

Maybe, in any case, that doesn't make catching up less interesting. I would also wager that most people in China use Windows for the same reasons for which they use IE6. I only know about Taiwan, but when your bank's customer support site only offers an ActiveX-powered video chat, then you have little choice.

> Oh and I don't have to pay 99GBP to write software that works on it. Visual Studio is free.

No, you can download Xcode for free, write unsigned apps and other people can choose to run unsigned apps.
How I'm bringing myself up on RoR outside of my day job

1) In the middle of creating a simple CRM for a boutique marketing firm catering to startups. This is especially cool as they brought in a very sr. RoR dev to mentor me, although I'm doing the bulk of the work.

2) After that project is done, partnering with a friend who has a business that does project management for law firms, another CRM in that space. I want to have domain knowledge in that field and be exposed to his client base.

3) Further down the road looking to collaborate with a local well known Realtor here in downtown San Diego who is a data hound. I love the insights he draws from his monthly newsletters which are pretty much data driven/minimal fluff, and was surprised to find he hand compiles this data. Want to see if there is some opportunity to apply quantitative analysis to that data and make it more valuable as we enter the next real estate boom.
Another cool use case: mounting a Dropbox :) https://github.com/arekzb/dropfuse
Show HN: I just redesigned my college newspaper's website (and it's responsive!)
Link:
http://bupipedream.com/ -OR-
http://bupd.me/

After a long winter break of coding and my first all-nighter in college, I've finally completed (sort-of) a redesign of my college newspaper's website!

It is now powered by WordPress and features a responsive design.

Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions!
I have been using the jshint vim plugin

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3576

https://github.com/walm/jshint.vim

This has really helped catch some dumb errors and even make some nice recommendations.
I am most excited about AirPlay Mirroring as well. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple pulls some BS like it only works with 2012 Macs.
> Oh and I don't have to pay 99GBP to write software that works on it. Visual Studio is free.

Not sure what you're talking about, XCode is free. Visual Studio is $799.
Patents have become like pixels. Collect enough of them and you can draw a picture of any technology imaginable.
Living online in the afterlife
Whatsapp chat interface design actually copied from Apple's SMS app.
It's not just tablets, I get that junk on my other android and iOS devices (nook, phone, etc) all the time now.

For some reason the news sites seem to be the worst offenders.

It feels very much like the paywall thing that devastated so many newspaper sites a few years back. Despite having highly desirable content, they just don't get the internet (still).
Clickable: http://bupd.me/
It doesn't mention Varnish because it didn't exist back then. But he mentions reverse proxies: http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#GATEWAY
If you look at the http headers you'll see that they use varnish to cache the content and nginx as webservers. They probably have a pretty decent CDN to deliver the content to users across the world.

Side-note: I also heard that the founders of Akamai started up after seeing how the porn industry handled all the traffic from geographical different places.