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Here's a timely and somewhat depressing article on one expert's futile attempts to improve a Wikipedia article: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/13...
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The quote from the policy says nothing about using or not using the information about what DNS queries are made for data mining or ranking.
I think it's pretty straight forward. You're being asked to steal. You don't want to steal. So don't.

Sometimes standing up for what you believe to be right is a costly stance to take, or at the very least difficult.

If the worst case is that you get fired...well you were leaving anyway. What's to be lost? Even if for some bizarre reason they did withhold your salary, I'd personally rather than that be an accomplice to their wrong doing.
No worries. After reading it again I see the first half of my comment could be taken the wrong way.
I think this is why I'm such a recluse, I just don't understand human social behavior. Had ->I<- written what he wrote I would have gotten my ass handed to me. When I make statements like that on HN I either get downvoted or my ass handed to me in a reply. This is why I have a psudonym HN account. When I do it, it turns into an arguement, when others do it, people are understanding. sigh I just don't understand you humans...
It would only "leak" information which is already public.
It's times like these I'm glad my WPA password is 63 characters long. It's easy for me to remember though as it's a long sentence. Bit of a pain when setting stuff like Apple TV up though :/
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I don't know why everyone thinks that getting an app featured by Apple is some sort of huge conspiracy. If an app is of high quality and has some traction, it's not absurd for it to gain positive attention from Apple.

In the case of Halftone, the quality of the app is excellent and has significant usage. There are 1100+ reviews that average to 4.5 stars. These numbers would be considered fantastic by any developer's standards.
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wtf is with this guy getting downvotes?
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> "In terms of personal curation, I think Genius solves that. It isn't as complicated or thorough as it could be, but it works."

Genius has never worked well for me, neither in music nor in apps. It provides recommendations that are never wildly off the mark, but it's far from smart.

Certainly I would be extremely reluctant to have it be a primary form of app discovery.

> "The fact that Apple does this already shows that they are trying to get great apps in front of users."

Certainly, but it's not enough. There are millions of apps on the store, and Apple can surface, what, 100-odd apps to a user in a given day? There is a huge portion of great, but not top-100-worthy apps that users would be interested it in.

> "1. The ability to respond to reviews."

Absolutely. I work on one of the top apps in the store, and we get a lot of reviews that are really bug reports. We do have a support email, but naturally not everybody finds their way there. We'd love to improve the software, but it's impossible if we can't communicate with reviewers!
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It depends on your situation. If you can afford to loose your job (so you can find another one) just stand up for the right thing.
But it’s an engineering issue, not a design issue. The iPhone 4 had an external antenna to fit in a larger battery. That’s all engineering.
I definitely agree with you. There are some pages written better than more "real" encyclopedias would do. Ok, other pages could be made better, but the most part of "arguments" have been already treated.
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As someone who has owned both the 4 and the 4S, I can tell you that the antenna issue that was present on the 4 is no longer an issue on the 4S.
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> "what would you like to see AppStore changed so that you might get additional exposure for your software?"

Here's something that'll improve things 1000% overnight:

Separate the Store from iTunes.

Do it Android/Kindle style - if I'm surfing the internet at work and see a cool app, I should be able to install it on my phone without ever fishing it out of my pocket. I should be able to tap download (quickly authenticate, if I must) and have the app on my home screen next time it's out of my pocket.

And 100% web-based, none of this WebView-in-a-iTunes-shell bullshit.

Right now the problem is this: the only time the user is ever in "I want an app" mode is when they're already surfing the app store, and as we've already established, the current app discovery channels (being featured, and being ranked) is pretty limited.

User sees someone share a picture from Instagram on Facebook. User clicks through to see what this Instagram hubbub is all about. Instagram throws a slick video and website at user. User is super sold. User now has to pull out his/her phone, open the App Store (which, btw, is a horrifyingly slow app), search "Instagram", tap Install, authenticate, and wait.

Or, if you're really lucky, user is on the exact computer they sync their phone against (if indeed they sync their phone at all!) - you can do a slick redirect to iTunes, where user can download the app... and have it downloaded automatically on the device too... if user has iCloud enabled... and auto-app-download enabled... you hope.

Geeeeeeeeez.

Here what Apple needs to do - offer a solution for app makers willing to market their own products. Have a simplified checkout page, PayPal style. I'm willing to do all the legwork, you don't need to show screenshots or have long-winded (and poorly formatted) app descriptions for me. I will do the selling, you just guide the user through the checkout in as frictionless a process as possible. Throw in reviews if you don't trust me and want to warn your users. Sure.

Remove the friction between the user and acquiring an app. Make it web-based, make it so that people can discover, learn more about, and buy apps from anywhere, on any device, on any platform.
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What scratches? My five – soon six – year old MBP doesn’t have any scratches. It has dents and some sort of strange chemical reaction happened where my palm usually rests, leaving a spot with small black pits.

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> Isaacson gives the who, what, when, where, but doesn't really explain why.

Most of the time. But sometimes he tries to explain and fails miserably.

It wasn't a newspaper article, it was a book that everyone knew would sell tens of millions of copies (even if the subject hasn't died a few weeks before). If he had sought council of one Apple observer (about his explanations, and whether they were right or catastrophically wrong) before wrapping up the book and sending it to the publisher, the book wouldn't be such a mess.

> Jobs could have picked a lot of other people, but he picked a non-tech, non-business writer. I guess he wanted someone to just tell the story, not the strategy or product vision that makes Apple great.

Or, as John Siracusa said, he might've chosen the wrong guy.
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I am right. There's no reason why specific disciplines can't have their own meaning to words and phrases.

Vector, moment, impulse, circuit, computer, etc. all have historic uses that are largely forgotten today or have different meanings in different contexts. Just because a usage is old, or specific to a certain context doesn't mean that usage should be universal or part of the common tongue. Arguing that language is fixed, and should never change is arguing from a special kind of gross ignorance -- the kind where a person has learned enough to think they know it all, but don't actually know anything in particular.

I think the phrase "know enough to be dangerous" comes to mind with most proscriptivists.

If you think I'm wrong, don't ever use vector again unless it's the one I personally think it the correct singular usage, and don't ever use computer unless you are talking about a person who performs calculations.
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Fascinating, this seems to speak directly to DarkShikari's point. It definitely reads like a mishmash of different people's thoughts.
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You are not being paid to steal, nor did you agree to do so when you joined the company. Your employer cannot legally withhold your salary for not doing something illegal.
That being said, if they want they could find some other reason to do the same.

You should ask them to send you an email, detailing what they want you to do and you can respond to it. I think they will get the message and probably will refuse to do so. But at-least you will have some leverage in case they deny it in the future.
> Do you really think it's reasonable that all that needs to be installed just to tell me what version of the operating system is running?

(assuming redhat-lsb is the package that owns $(which lsb_release) )

No. Red Hat should fix that.
I've had a quick look, and it looks like it's primarily a simple online database, with a basic push notification API.

Obvious use-cases for the DB would be apps that need to share data between phones (e.g. multiplayer games/high score tables/chat etc).

You're right that it doesn't look like it's able to run any server-side logic, and if you need that you'll need a separate server, but it does provide what seems to be an easy way for that separate server to do things like send push notifications.
Ask HN: We are a startup looking for ideas. What should we do?
We are a bunch of guys who want to create some beautiful and usable software that helps people.

We need to know what people want. We could try brainstorming.
But we think generating ideas by brainstorming is a bad idea. It's really just making guesses.

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The DIY biotech movement has been going on for some time now. People are drawing parallels between the movement and the early days of the tech scene, predicting DIY bio will be as big and influential as today's DIY tech scene.

While I want to be optimistic about that, the comment from Declan Soden in the article seems pretty spot on.

Putting together genes into plasmids and bacteria is just the beginning. The main goal is to endow some organisms with new useful traits. The problem is, testing the trait becomes increasingly difficult for DIY biologists because it is rarely as easy as putting the genes together. How do you test if your bacteria has made the desired anticancer compound? You need to chemically analyze your product, and ultimately you need to try it on people.

This is different compared to software. Open source software can become what it is today, because testing the software itself is relatively easy. Want to write a new browser? Just use it yourself. How about a new media player? Use it to play your videos and see how it goes.
This whole "what do you think Steve Jobs would have done" is beginning to look a lot like a "What Would Jesus Do" kind of following. I get it that he was a visionary but come on…
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The only time I've ever seen "beg the question" used in this way is when people complain about it being used to mean "raises the question".

The original use is for all intents and purposes dead outside of a small group of language purists who mostly appear to be using it to annoy people who use the new meaning.

That the new meaning rises from a misunderstanding of its original use is irrelevant - a lot of language changes are a result of "mistakes" of one form or another.
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"We’ve not seen what they’ve done but what we can say is that they don’t have 10,000 people in R&D in the vision category. They don’t have the best scaling engine in the world and they don’t have world renowned picture quality that has been awarded more than anyone else. TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are… great, but let’s face it that’s a secondary consideration. The ultimate is about picture quality and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on picture quality."

That stupid quote sums up why Apple could come out with something mediocre and sell massively. It's not about all that crap, or how many people you have. Apple are coming for the TV because they can beat the current model, not to get a slightly better HD picture.
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Of course copying can be good. Code reuse is a good principle. Generally we want people to most efficiently utilize the resources available. Failure to do so is even dubbed Not-Invented-Here syndrome. Ethics aside whatever you can use to get the job done faster is advantageous.

The problem is that programming is not a cut and paste job. To me the difference between a good programmer and a mere coder is that the programmer has the confidence to solve any problem and debug any issue. Even if you are just doing maintenance work and not working on new features, you need to be able to synthesize and refine an increasingly subtle understanding of the system you are working on. People who don't understand this end when asked to debug something end up just poking at it until they get the output they want. They have no clue whether their "fix" will break 100 other things because they are not forming a proper mental model. I would like to believe that this is inherently obvious to any working programmer, but I can see how it's not if you are under the impression that original work is only done by a few super geniuses, and the vast majority of people in the field are just searching around for something to copy. I certainly have seen this mentality both online in forums, but also in my undergrad CS degree where there were a handful of students who spent extraordinary energy trying to find someone to copy and didn't ever appear to give a rat's ass about any of the material.
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I'm extremely happy that developers can't respond to user reviews. Many developers would just use the opportunity to tell lies about how their users are stupid and wrong.

Of course this restriction is annoying for honest, hard working developers. But if honest, hard working developers have a problem with bug reports in the reviews, they can just as well fix the bugs and test the app more thoroughly before the next release.
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The Web page you linked to lists it as a "recommended" text, which means it is indeed not the primary text. The required text is Purcell.
I'm continuously mystified as to why people who are heavily involved with WP seem mystified as to why the trends in contributions are going into the toilet.

It's really very simple:

1) It's the highly problematic notability guideline abuse
2) It's the deletionists who think it's their job to lobotomize WP and delete knowledge out of the public sphere
3) It's the super editors who enable the deletionists and there's no reasonable mechanism to police either them or the deletionists.

I agree that there's a lack of oversight. The self-licking ice cream cone of the WP community built bureaucracy is finally starting to come apart because there's no reasonable way to participate in the bureaucracy unless you are an established part of it.

In the end, WP will be an interesting curiosity, populated by people drunk on the power their carved out fiefdom in the tangled mess of WP processes gives them, typing furiously about how great their contribution was to the great edifice of WP while their deletionist minions slowly burn the castly down around them until all that's left is a slightly dog eared copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

edit reading through the rest of the comments, this idea is repeated over and over and over again. It's sad really, there are vast communities of smart people actually telling WP what the problem is, and every once in a while a clueless editor pops his head out of the vault and asks "why are edits going down?" when it appears the rest of the planet outside of WP...the potential editor pool...already know the answer, but WP won't accept it.
"Ah, boss, that thing you're asking me to do is, technically speaking, theft. In addition to exposing us both to liability, if it is ever discovered, for example when a potential acquirer or large corporate customer does a line-by-line source code audit like they frequently do, our company is finished."

Boss plays ball: "Great, glad we're on the same page."

Boss directs you to steal it anyway Option A: "OK boss, if you're sure it's OK, I'd like you to send me a written email or memo instructing me to copy this code from their computers to our computers. You should CC it to $OWNER so that he knows we've taken action on the IP agreement we made with him, or if you'd prefer I can forward him a copy."

Boss directs you to steal it anyway Option B: "Alright boss, push or shove time. You can, probably, convince someone here to copy that code for you. If you do, I will hand in my resignation immediately. Think it over."

Boss directs you to steal it anyway Option C: "I quit, effective immediately."

n.b. In many US states you can get fired for just about anything, including "no reason at all." Regardless, the market for engineers is super hot right now. Work for someone who isn't an abusive jerk, because you're highly likely to find that he is not solely abusive to business partners.

n.b. #2: It is almost impossible in the US to get away with withholding salary for work already performed. One complaint to your state's labor relations board and he'll wish he had never been born. This assumes you have an employment relationship with the new evil boss. If you're working without a contract (don't ever work without a contract), you're probably best served by just writing off the three days or whatever you have invested in this job.
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Guys.. really... Does this post really warrant 150 comments... Who cares? Gruber is making a living as a "fanboi", and no wonder he is getting worked up over some biography.. Jobs and Gates are legends and they have left their mark on history.. What have you guys done so far???
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You might able to get pretty close using some kind of Immunoassay. The techniques we have are still very brute force. Give it (a lot) of time.
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Some sources of free ideas:

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

http://androidforums.com/application-requests/

http://www.judegomila.com/2012/01/challengeyourself-in-2012-...

I think you're still going to be guessing though. It's good that you recognise that as you should then move to validate that guess work somehow. Good luck!
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Funny that people notice this. I think this is how all pages on the internet should be!
Lately I'm getting tired of all those fancy Javascript pages or pages build on bloated frameworks.

The speed of this forum has nothing to do with D. You can achieve this in a language like PHP as well.

Just skip the bloat (server and client side).