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Based on the number and independence of the business units at Sony, such a comparison is strained at best. The real reason they shouldn't buy Disney is that it would be an ideological step backward. Disney creates entertainment in the same way it's been done for decades. Apple is interested in how the future of entertainment will be produced/consumed.
While you're right, and any educated programmer should understand the only technical concept in that statement ("directed acyclic graph"), I can't help but be reminded of "A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?".
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no they are spending billions to advertise traveling securely as what they are attempting to secure is so statistically approaching zero to be laughable..

in the 1970s when it was found that people could highjack planes by delivery a threatening note or bomb and using a parachute to jump out with money what do you think the airlines did?\

They took the statistically significant thing and changed how planes were designed to prevent people being able to jump out of airliners through the back escape doors.

It did not cost billions of dollars and no extra xray scanning machines were used either..

First act of de-toothing TSA is putting those qualified on security of airlines..the airlines themselves back in charge of security!'
I see a lot of posts like this one talking about how apple NEEDS to do something to lower its stockpile of money but none of them seem to explain why. could someone tell me why holding $100 billion in cash is worse then doing stock buy backs and or issuing dividends if the market takes into consideration its large cash reserves when pricing its stock.
i'm one of the two founders of crowdtilt, in the current yc batch - our modification on the model is crowdfunding for groups of friends (ie instead of a $40,000 documentary it's a $800 party-bus or $500 tailgate), though now it's being used for bigger things like renting out a space for sxsw or renting out a big house for group vacations.

note: crowdtilt doesn't really enter the discussion of this thread, but figured i'd answer your question above
* The amount of exposure they get*…

I believe you mean:

The amount of exposure HNers give them by submitting and upvoting their posts, and then the endless hours HNers spend debating them…

37S doesn't ask to be on the front page of HN. They don't even appear to submit their own posts. Certainly they don't have a secret vote-sharing group, because HN now has features to discount those.

So personally, I find it pretty hilarious that there's so much sturm und drang about what 37s "gets". Everything they "get" from HN, HNers give them, all on their own initiative.
Update: I didn't know about octopress. much better.
So, what's fundamentally wrong with JS? Not a lot.

At this point the article lost all credibility with me.
It's not misleading, but the comparison to HN and Y Combinator is. HN isn't a product which is for sale. There is no way to pay for HN.
Yes, while this kind of stuff doesn't help either party much in the long run, you do have to admit to chuckling a little at the end when Andrew confessed to sending WP's co-founder's wife an empty box instead of her order.

edit: Yep, sorry, I was not clear, the kind of chuckling one does when a business freely publicizes an act of stupidity that could cost them customers.
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Nice to see such a simple and straightforward approach taken. I'm starting to feel better about AppHarbour now that things seem to be rolling out more regularly.

Currently my only complaint is that we want to run many very small prototype sites and the pricing doesn't work out very well for that.
I don't deny that cracked screens appear to a problem, but surely you agree that going through 15 iPhones makes your case a bit of an outlier?
If you ever find yourself writing an open letter like this, please stop. No one cares that your competitor badmouthed you. It doesn't need an open letter, it needs a normal letter, preferably from your lawyer.
Wow. That in itself is a great story which should be heard.
They're not really threatening anything, they're just asking "please don't cover this story". That's their right and it's not censorship unless the journalist faces consequences for covering the story (no future interviews, harassment by the legal system, etc.) It doesn't seem like any consequences are mentioned or implied, so this doesn't bother me. Of course the TSA doesn't want negative press. Would you?
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I added this for that reason; https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser/issues/2

The issue is, as the above thread shows, that the creator of node-htmlparser does not want to support illegal HTML. Unfortunately that is not realistic.
What kind of relationship does he have with a TSA agent who is mildly threatening him or intimidating him at least?
I've recently made a purchase from WP. During my buying process, I did not know that this other company even existed. Now I do.
The webdesigner version absolutely nailed it.
I'm not sure Warby Parker is justified in picking on them, but even without knowing that they're having a tiff I would have said that Classic Specs seems like a Warby Parker knockoff.
Kind of a fluffy article.
Thanks for the questions, I'll do my best...

1. The API is certainly one of our suite of features, you can also use SendHub via the web or any sms enabled cell phone. We expect to see more competition in the space and will be doing our best to contribute to open source ourselves.

2. A lot of our users have tried other SMS products and found them to be a poor experience - based on the feedback we get. We try to spend our time focused on building the best possible product and let that, rather than our backgrounds, do the talking.

3. We believe so, and our initial sales are reflective of that.
Fair enough.

But note that article is from 2004, and it's talking mostly about funds raised post-1999, i.e., immediately before the dot-com crash.

If you were sincerely interrogating the data, you'd ask yourself how Sequoia faired relative to other funds and asset classes in that same time period. For example, did it still beat the stock market?

You'd also admit that 2004 is right when the "internet sector" saw a huge upswing. Facebook (2004). YouTube (2005). Yelp (2004).

Instead it's clear you're just trying to find data to prove your inane point.

Anyhow, this is really pointless. Enjoy the feeling of internet vindication.
The documentation says it requires 3.2+, but it is working in 2.7 on my Mac, both the 2.7 shipped by Apple and the 2.7 installed by MacPorts.
What?? The pitcher in particular absolutely depends on the rest of his defense.

Batters depend on those behind them to move them around.

I think golf or tennis would be a better analogy for your point.
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3. Having an agenda does not invalidate his results.
This is a really good analogy that I hadn't previously considered. Sony has often seemed to trip over itself as it tries to sync up what's happening in their electronics and their content divisions.
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Thank you, story is on the blog, including this post: http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/confirmed-t...
I prefer it.

I have experience working in good IDEs. For many years I did .NET development, and Visual Studio is very, very good.

However, over time I realized that even with all their awesome features, powerful IDEs were a net-loss to my productivity. They work best from a single machine and that made me a lot less likely to work remotely (I have done my best work in the middle of the night, from home). Their less responsive UIs made it easier for me to get distracted. Their slow startup times exacerbated my natural proclivity to procrastinate.

I realized: My working memory is fine for most projects, and emacs' text-based autocomplete fills in the rest.

All I'm saying is: don't assume that the way you work, the tools you prefer, or the tradeoffs you make are universal. There are a lot of programmers out there, and a whole lot of tools.

(If you really care, I have an interview about my setup here: http://aaron.boodman.usesthis.com/)
What's fascinating to me is comparing the impression you get from the lawyers letter (wow, they really ripped off the warby parker website!) with the response (we're using off the shelf privacy policy, and industry terms.)

It shows just how deceptive selective phrasing can be. "Substantially identical" implies that the text was a copy of copyrighted material, but the selectivity is the bias- they never show that the text was copyrighted or copyrightable, for instance.

You see this a lot when people want to spin something and they are very careful about what they say to give a false impression. I can think of lots of examples, but probably the best is every evenings nightly news. Whatever the story they are covering, political or not, they are putting spin on it. Even if the spin is just to heighten ratings or make the station itself look prestigious, its always there. Yet people live in a perception of reality where they think this is objective information, many times.

Imagine if that lawyers letter had been a blog post about how some YC startups website was ripped off? (much like the complaint 37 signals had about being ripped off...) that article would be the top post, and the rebuttals would be spread out thru the comments, and missed by most people.
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spacemonkey is the new startup that launched at the #launch conference in SF yesterday. It's basically cloud storage meets P2P, perks? 1TB of storage costs $10 per month – in contrast, DropBox currently charges $19.99 for 100GB. Secure? AES-128 and RSA-4096 encryption for partial data on yours and others' hard drives they provide you. So basically it's a decentralized method to store data. I had the chance to speak with the founders (thanks for the T-shirt guys!) but I'm still wondering about the legal implications that inheriently comes with this type of p2p storage. They basically had a clean sweep yesterday and got steve, one of the judges to commit for investment. I'm still not convinced though.
Isn't it solved by just forcing the scanee to turn to the side, scan front rear and sides?

Great - now the time to get through security just went up!

I mean, the TSA idiots STILL require us to remove our shoes because of some joker with a lighter attempting to burn his foot.
Just ship the darn thing. Any money you receive from selling won't be life changing, and will help you out in the short term. Also, it sounds like you're pretty much done with the product development - marketing is important but it's less time consuming, and less stressful than the actual development. Go for the home-run.
i can clearly see me in the first few trials :P
1) send and receive is built in API

2) just keep a db log - simple

3) omg - set an int(12) of time() when you want it sent in DB... run a cron script, check if currentTime>sendTime... send!

4) meh - simple enough

I don't get how companies like this get funding - so simple and do nothing imo except provide another point of failure.
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AppHarbor has a free plan, which allows you to run one web- or background worker for free - should be ideal for prototyping.
Absolutely. I'm pretty sure that I don't like this guy's politics, his manner irritates me, and every time he says "porn scanners" I get douche chills. But by exposing the truth to the people who pay for it, he's doing god's work and I'm 100% behind him. Not in front of him, but behind him, because he's a brave, tenacious pitbull, and clearly not just fighting for himself.

Of course, if some TSA or government representatives show me proof that he was wrong, and in addition prove to me that this is not security theater for the personal profit of government cronies by dismantling some of Bruce Schneier's premises, I'll be 100% behind them too. It's just not likely that'll happen because this guy and Schneier show their work.
We need to think bigger, more long term. You might not get anything out of going deep or into space, but imagine colonizing the oceans or Mars at some point in the future.

Every corporation and many home users have backups of their important data. How long can we flirt total system failure without an offsite backup? When the failover happens and our disaster recovery system works, our new generations will thank us.
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Yeah, "learn python the hard way" is the book I wished I read before I knew anything about programming. it's really a great book, but it targets people who have very little experience in programming.
No, they're not asking ""please don't cover this story"". They are "strongly cautioning" them not to, which can reasonably be interpreted as a veiled threat.
My problem with this, and all other stories on the same theme, is "Why?" Why does Apple NEED to do anything with its cash reserves?

The story says: "Last month Mr Cook admitted that the firm has more cash than it needs for its operations. It’s a nice problem to have. The obvious solution would be to give cash back to shareholders, either via dividends or share buybacks." They claim having more cash than they need as a problem, and then spend 5 paragraphs detailing solutions, without further explaining WHY it's a problem.

Speaking as an (extremely minor) shareholder, I have no desire for dividends or anything else. My AAPL portfolio has gained 100% in 2 years, that's good enough for me.
The government should not be in the business of telling the press what to cover. Individuals and businesses, sure. Government, no. I understand there are occasional exceptions due to national security, but those requests come from the highest levels of government and are rare. This is some asshole at the TSA calling up reporters to spread FUD. Completely indefensible.
I cracked the screen of my iPhone 3G a few years back. Rather than get it replaced, I decided to keep it like that since the touchscreen was still perfectly functional. I thought it made an interesting juxtaposition, and I loved the looks of horror mixed with pity people would give it whenever I nonchalantly used it in front of them.
Well, since the Warby Parker peeps will probably get around to reading this, I'd just like to mention that I love my SALT Topher's and will probably spend another $400 on another pair of SALT's for my spring wardrobe this year as well.
I don't think any one SoC rules all the benchmarks, which is why it's easy for these companies to cherry-pick the ones that make them look good. There is no one chip to rule them all... yet.
Just want to point this out: "strongly caution" is what the TSA flak told the reporter (according to the reporter). That doesn't necessarily mean "don't report this or we'll send you to Gitmo". It most likely was expressed in the context of "you're going to look stupid/spread misinformation if you do."

I'm not saying the TSA flak won't be vindictive if a reporter covers the story. I'm just saying, there's not an immediate reason to jump to this conclusion. You don't get to be TSA flak by writing thinly-veiled threats that are easily retrieved through public records requests.
If I'm on hacker news and I see the word cracking, I immediately think piracy/etc. Cracktros. Not broken glass. :P
This is what I needed to hear. I need to balance the opportunity costs associated with my options.

I re-read this entire thing two or three times. Great stuff to consider. Thanks.
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I don't think it is a bad thing, but it shouldn't be forced and it shouldn't be seen as more morally correct.
Doing what you're best at in a field with limited places for the best - like baseball - may set you up for failure.

There's a relevant concept in economics called comparative advantage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage. Even if you are not the best at anything, there are some things that are "enough" - that create surplus.
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Considering most of those phones all broke and cracked on the very first drop, I'd say not really.

I have dropped my 15th unit, my current iPhone 4 one time so far on the sidewalk of SF -- it landed on its corner and has a dent and a scratch. I feel lucky that I have only dropped it once in 8 months.

The things are fragile. There is no denying that. With the iPhone 4 introduced with now 100% MORE glass to break! (the rear panel) I think its actually irresponsible of apple to not put a lanyard hole on the damn thing.
I respect the balls of Steam. This is something that could have gone horribly, horribly wrong.
https://www.pwdhash.com is a browser extension that does exactly this automatically.

Oh and hash functions won't output symbols or banned chars. They output numbers and you can choose to represent those numbers in whatever mad way that you want, typically as hex, ie. letters and digits.

The length might be a problem but there's nothing to stop you truncating the hash.
So you're saying that screen shot [1] of the redacted email was manufactured, or that the source of the redacted email was maybe trolling Jon?

Or an infinite number of other things. Don't get bogged down in what the alternative scenario is. What is important is that if something is true, we should be able to find corroborating evidence to support it. If we can't, then we have reason to doubt the initial claim - and we can do so without arguing for a particular alternate scenario.
Imo the 'Rant about C-oid languages' part of this article is a bit weak (though I agree with some of it), but the 2nd half of this article is actually a pretty good rundown of Go features.
I don't understand why people equate rebase with lying. I work on a team of 12 devs, and pre rebase workflow, gitk sort of looked like a rainbow due to it showing the actual interactions of each developers branch at the chronological time it happened. It was so complex that git bisect often couldn't find bad commits unless you used it a specific way. Basically it made the history next to useless. Post rebase, we see branch work serially, which makes it easy to find a bad commit, and obvious to see the transformations of the main branch of code.

I think people who complain about this fall into one of three camps:

1 - Are not using a topic branch workflow, and don't understand the hell that wreaks in history
2 - Are doing fast forward merges to merge branches back into the mainline, which makes it hard to see the points that development finished and the merge actually happened.
3 - Are rebasing long lived branches

It is just such a common complaint, and I have yet to hear of any down side that actually makes sense to me as someone who has a fair understanding of git
Well I work in the press and the government can say what they want. It's wrong for the press to obey the government's every wish and it is wrong for the press to immediately ignore the government's every opinion. If a NASA PR person tells me that the agency has determined the Earth to be round that doesn't mean that I need to launch an investigation into the possible flatness of the earth.

There's a difference between "telling/informing" and mandating. The latter is bad; the former is...well, part of a government's job is to disseminate information.
Sure! I can say that my acceptance into the program allowed me to attract significantly better cofounder candidates than I was able to before. I know that they do not discriminate against solo founders in the application process. What else would you like to know? Happy to answer your questions :).
Bahaha... opinions aside on the legality bit, that "ps" (true or not) is pretty damn funny.
I don't vote without at least skimming, so I voted after reading it. In fact my vote was largely influenced by 2 things:

1. interesting study

2. relief that it isnt about cracked software or cracked servers :)
The government supporting the TSA, despite its People pushing against it, is a prime example of failure of democracy in the United States. The People elected a government who does not what they want!

Some countries hold referendums to vote on controversial topics. It would be a great solution to hold one in the U.S. at the federal level asking a very simple question: "Should the TSA be shut down? Yes/No". Direct democracy at its best. Unfortunately the U.S. constitution does not provide for referendums at the federal level... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum#United_States
C, for the level of abstraction it targets is an extremely good language, and this is the reason why it is still alive, and why a lot of big successful projects are written using C. The problem is its standard library. The "get this new language" teams should instead focus on how to incrementally improve C. D was a (bad IMHO) attempt, just retry and make it better, a step after the other. If we will wait the ANSI committee we can all get old with strcpy().

IMHO one of the few things that should be addressed at language level is that structures with function pointer members should have a way to be called with the implicit structure pointer (something like "this") as argument. That's all we need from OOP for C. This makes you able to do:

list *mylist = createList();
mylist->push(foo);
mylist->pop();

That's what currently you do like:

mylist->ops->push(mylist,foo);
Ah, I did, but only in a newsletter on the 28th Feb (with pricing originally planned to come in the beginning of March.)

I guess with the pricing being pushed back a month, this is a moot point. Clearly you're on top of it! Loving the service so far though, so thanks!
They're "fighting up" as a marketing tactic. And it seems to be working pretty well so far. Countless of other startups have done the same thing like Paypal (fighting Ebay), Handspring (fighting Palm), Runkeeper (fighting Nike), etc.
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People need to understand this: it's all about the lobbyists, period. The TSA is nothing but a cash cow for the defense and security industries. Actual security is an irrelevant side effect.
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They NEED to do something with the cash reserve because they are a publicly traded company, and investors are greedy. While it would never realistically happen, a coalition of investors could demand cash distributions and threaten to vote out the board if they don't comply.
Yep, and it is even very easy: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/openstreetmap-s_user-generated_dat...
I think they should of bid for t-mobile to provide network plans for all of their devices (ipad, iphone, and the coming apple TV). The acquisition would pay for itself just in subscription fees. Instead, AT&T is buying it and will probably roll all the customers up into their own network.
I wish there was a good data source on that, because it would be interesting to see.

I'm not sure if the single player play time has really gone up or down to get through the main story, but modern games seem to incorporate almost endless numbers of side quests, self generating quests, achievement junky-only quests (kill 10,000 of X) and also a lot of multiplayer functionality.