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But it is effectively equivalent to sharecropping (with a somewhat lower percentage, I suppose), which some people reasonably consider a form of serfdom. Developers are willingly ceding 30% of their profits for the benefits of using Apple's infrastructure the same way sharecroppers willingly ceded a portion of their crop (typically 50%, but higher in more exploitative relationships according to Wikipedia) in return for the right to use an owner's land.

In both cases, landlord is more powerful than the sharecropper and can set "take-it-or-leave-it" terms (which, if you consider game theory, suggests that the landlord will capture most of the profits of the relationship - limited only by a sharecropper's alternative ways of making a living and their willingness to make decisions that are economically irrational in the short term in order to improve their situation in the long term).

I could even go on to talk about sharecroppers buying seed, fertilizer from the landlord and compare that to developers buying laptops, paying for developer programs and so on, but this analogy has probably been pushed far enough as it is.
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I'm tempted to show this to my mom, but what happens if they go out of business? You've basically sold hundreds of dollars worth of clothes in exchange for Monopoly money.
Starters, as I understand it, are particularly easy to replace. I think there's something about tinkering around on cars that appeals to the programmer mindset. I like working on my car, and fixing it gives me the same satisfaction I get from fixing a tricky software bug.
beautiful post - nice to see someone stand for something :)
You do. I do not have an account yet, but I am already visiting the site a few times daily for refreshment. I plan on emailing info@piccsy and see if i can convince them to give me a few invites. Will def. share then.

EDIT: Email daniel at piccsy dot com. He's the founder.
Thanks - The Per Vices people are reading, and the link is fixed.
Probably not a popular opinion around here but Id say we are well on our way to the precipice.

I hear the line about how the companies are better this time around but I'm really not so sure about that on a macro scale. I'd be much more encouraged if more (funded) startups were seriously aligned to try to combat the country's obvious problem areas - health, education, finance, etc. There are some good ones out there but the majority of funding is getting piled into a lot of stuff that is dead on arrival due to a lack of need and this problem just seems to be getting worse.

On top of it the money and hoopla is exponentially drawing in a lot more folks naively looking to make a quick buck and when they show up in force it usually means the game is largely up.
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Now try getting to that footer on your smartphone (because you wanted some feature of the desktop site that wasn't in the mobile version, for example).
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You build a house for me for $X. Two years later, I notice that if you hang three towels on the bathroom door on a humid day while the living room light was on, the door didn't close properly. Would you be happy if I came to you and demanded that you debug and fix this problem for free? Didn't I pay for a working house the first time?

I very much do not believe that you paid me enough for me to guarantee that my product would work in all circumstances forever. If you did, then by golly I'm yours for life buddy!
In this last case, I just asked on my Twitter account.

But for future, I'd try odesk, elance, and also asking around my network of programmers I already know.
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Let's say you are a "regular" user. You "pin" x number of pins/frequency (hr/day/whatever). This establishes a normal activity baseline. Filter by "pins" that have links that have affiliate codes in them. Now, it has been shown that Skimlinks can identify these links and replace them. If that is the case, they can count the number of affiliate unique id's in their system across pinterest accounts, thereby linking seemingly disparate accounts by their affiliate links. Unless this guy is running game with multiple affiliate links or affiliate links are uniquely generated on a per item basis then I think Pinterest can put a stop to this.
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Really no flutter on this list? These are all great companies but I think flutter deserves a spot as a company with potential to really change how we interact with our devices. It seems like one of the few that is inventing a new space rather than improving on one that already exists (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Authentication in general is the process of proving that something is 'true' or 'genuine', in this case an assertion of identity.

You say endpoint security is obvious, and I usually agree with you. But I can't count the number of times I've had to retrace this methodically with when talking about systems with very smart people. The distinction between authentication and authorization too.

Like you're saying, classical risk management says the $10 asset isn't worth $20 of security. Sony learned the fallacy of that reasoning the hard way. If you have a database of 100K usernames, passwords, and email addresses of folks who entered a contest to win free movie tickets, you might not value that asset particularly highly. But if you don't secure, it properly could cost you $M to clean up later.

Personal information doesn't always behave like an typical 'asset'. Sometimes it's more like having a surplus of toxic waste.

Shoot, I could talk about this stuff all day. :-)
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Looks interesting...my main concern with these apps is always battery life. My battery gets slammed even without location updates running in the background.
Interesting, thanks for the link.

What I find a little disappointing is that the top 3 prizes for this Netflix-Prize-style competition total $7,000 in value. Is technical brainpower, even that of students, really worth that little? Maybe startups should band together to hold their own optimization contests if the 'market rates' are so low.
Agreed. I've been using it to keep an eye on available autos and I find it a joy to use every time. It's so much better than anything I've used before
well, the trouble with the real problems is the barrier to entry.

liberals like to blame the health insurance companies for the problems with health care, and yes theu get some blame, but really it's the doctors and the pharmaceutical companies and all the other service providers. One day I was talking to my doc about a prescription and what it would cost and she estimated it would be $80 a month, but then I showed up at the pharmacy and it was $4.86 and I know that's close to a real price because I'm on a high deductable plan. Now this is a happy ending, but it shows the doc is in la-la land when it comes to knowing what whatever she prescribes costs.

education? well at the K-12 level you go head to head with the teacher's unions and i'll just say if you get in their way they draw blood. now the tenured profs at the college level have "aprois moi le deluge" as their slogan and they've got no reason not to live by that.

finance? who knows? i'm starting to think that those guys from Lagos who say they want to deposit $35 million in your bank account really find completely wack people who expect to get $35 million in their bank account. if some guy who made $20 billion thinks the country needs Newt Gingrich there have to be a lot of rich people who've got no sense at all.

so you go in the problem areas and you know you'll be eaten alive by the incumbents and the unions and the government and god knows who else so you might as well focus on something safe like pictures of cats.
From the FAQ:

>Why don't I see down arrows?

>There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
Most logins are just a way of showing that you are the same person that logged in previously. Gmail is an often public identifier that could link to you IRL.
Yes absolutely. If he made no discoveries at all we wouldn't even know who he was.

Do you honestly believe that using this discussion as a starting point for a general discussion on having scientists on money is insensitive?
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I'm fascinated to see the term Yottabyte (1024^8 bytes) for the first time in a non-academic website.

I wonder if there's any other system that operates at this scale?
That is amazing.

Look at DC, which is the exact same thing - but with masonic symbolism rather than mayan symbolism.
I've been doing Carsabi-style regression analysis to buy cars for years. A little sad that now everyone has access to it, I won't be able to snap up the best deals for myself.
I just gave it a go and my battery didn't seem to drain any faster than usual. I can't wait till these guys make an Android version.
I would consider paying for .net if it received first class treatment on Linux. As someone who has lived through the pain of hosting apps on Windows, I just refuse to do it in the future. I'd love to see Microsoft bring Mono into the fold and truly bring it to the level of the Windows .net implementation.
How about a circuit board layout diagram? It's been a long-standing tradition at my work to etch designs onto PCBs as gifts for employees who are leaving. These are beautiful, and would really raise the bar.
I guess we can be happy that people are starting to notice that:

1. Copyright law has not kept up with current social norms and technology.

and

2. "Terms of Service" are often ridiculous and unreasonable.
Whats the max size?

What if I want a rooms floor done like this?
No worries, I figured you had taken off. Thanks for responding and bringing your other comment to my attention — I glossed over it too quickly to make the connection.

Cheers, best of luck on your new projects.
OpenMirage project is a similar-ish idea, providing numerous implementations of a std-lib for different targets (sample targets: Android, Linux OS, raw x86), and using this limited API. Sure, ZeroVM has it's own "vm instructions" rather than "library calls," but the ideas both reduce to building virtual machines for great glory and profit.
I never claimed they were planning to extradite someone, just that even in the US, free speech has its limits. Check out this post I wrote at roughly the same time to someone else:

Even in the US, you can be sued civilly for hateful comments and jailed for comments that could be construed as inviting or inciting violence.
I don't know the full story, the tweets are gone and the BBC didn't reproduce them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3762691

It really seems like everyone here (including in the other thread) is trying to read more than what I wrote. Both you and the other person I was talking to used the word "crime", when I never remotely hinted at calling it a crime.
One sign we are in a tech bubble: People feel the need to explain why we're not. I'm not trying to be a smartass. Honestly, it seems like we're just all trying to convince each other there isn't a bubble. It's so simple to see and that's probably why no one sees it. We're in so deep that we look at everything but the obvious. We've got a billion tech companies that take funding first and decide how to monetize later. Most of them fail. Those that succeed still don't quite make it to figuring out how to monetize. In essence, we have a lot of neat toys using super cool tech that get funded but never quite get how to be a business in that investors seem to be the only source of their revenue. Eventually someone has to get paid back and if tech companies aren't making a buck and investors are being paid back eventually there's no one left to invest and the bottom falls out. It's more complicated than that but looking at the complexity is what tricks you into thinking the bubble isn't there.
This is one of those areas where the legalese proclaims that the emperor has clothes and all of the marketing copy indicates otherwise. The article's follow-up clearly shows that the Pinterest founder is aware of the conflict, and it's clear that we're at a watershed moment in terms of the legal outcomes.

To my mind, the real question is whether Pinterest pivots like Youtube did and turns into a service where at least a sizable percentage of the usage doesn't violate existing copyright laws or whether it goes the direction of Napster and the lawyers get to it. I wish Ben Silberman all the best... I just don't see a lot of success stories in our space once the lawyers show up.

Edit: Obviously existing copyright law sucks - very few people on HN disagree on that point. My interest is in seeing startups succeed within the context of existing copyright law as I fear it won't be changing for the good any time soon.
> DataContractJsonSerializer has the most absurd way of serialising dictionaries into JSON.

DataContractJsonSerializer is a hack that is built on top of an XML parser.

For the people who are unfamiliar with .NET there is a comparison of Json.NET to Microsoft's two JSON serializers here:

http://json.codeplex.com/ <- Json.NET homepage
Even more fun on mobile. Load 10 scrollfuls of content, and your phone halt to a crawl
Looks great guys, slick UI, intuitive, and something I have actually been thinking about for a while.
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AutoPager is on both Chrome and Firefox and bloody changed my life. Parent was TL;DR: I already knew this is bloody essential, totally the only proper way to do things, and that one cannot go back after having tried.

Of course, the other major split from Atwood is that I think he's dead wrong. It's not about delivering better targetted results. That will, inevitably, fail. It's about the other part he briefly mentions- reducing irrelevant friction. The reason Google suceeded only with shorter results was because the friction of scanning through and filtering a result was so very high (taking a couple excerpts, a title, furrowing one's brow, thinking hard, and making a binary click/ don't click value-judgement guess).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mmgagnmbebdebebbcl...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/
A lot of Universities have intern job fairs, or databases you can add your resume to that gets sent to companies looking to hire interns.
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I'd argue the opposite.
Air planes weren't outlawed and neither was religion.

Better prediction; if you thought the internet caught on fast, look at electric vehicles (sure they aren't 'there' yet but they are close & popular(trendy)). Now take an electric or even gas powered vehicle; and let-it-drive-itself. This will be wildfire to the public once it's pronounced safe and legal.
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Who's got the open radar for this one?
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I'm not too familiar with what Guthrie has done for the .NET community, but Hanselman is a famous proponent of open source and making .NET as fun to code in as ruby and python. His coming to MS has changed the way I look at the .NET stack.
Also, who's to say you're only searching for one item? Ever searched for a used car on Craigslist? You probably want to see more than one result.

Even if you were only searching for one item (say you're searching Google for an article you read a few weeks ago), sometimes alternate results are useful too. What's wrong with discovering something new?
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That is in the works as I type this. We're hoping to get it out as soon as possible!
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders. Althought there will always be a certain level of battery drain from use of GPS hareware, we've done extensive research to intelligently balance location updates with energy consumption based on a number of context based factors.
Articles explaining why we are in a tech bubble pop up constantly. This is the first article that I can recall in the last half year taking the opposite position.
Where can I get one of these bots? This seems too good to be true!
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Also worthy to note that Microsoft's BizSpark program provides free production access to Microsoft tools and products-- not Express editions but versions like Visual Studio Ultimate, SQL Server Enterprise, Windows Server Enterprise, etc. You also get a couple thousand free hours on Azure if you want to go that route. For training you also get three months of Pluralsight which brings you up to speed on the relevant tools and platforms.

I feel it's a really good time to be a Microsoft developer. The products are really solid, the skills are in demand and the barrier to entry is pretty much gone.

I realize after writing the above I come off as a big time evangelist, but this is only because I have had such a good experience for the last decade building on their platforms. Never regretted going all in other than sometime feeling like a black sheep on this site. Good to know there are a lot of other .Net folk on this site. ;)
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How do these scumbags get so many IPs? Botnets?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words#Incitement_vs._f...

Incitement is a related doctrine, allowing the government to prohibit advocacy of unlawful actions if the advocacy is both intended to and likely to cause immediate breach of the peace.

You seem like you're reaching for something to argue about. "Yes, but you didn't use the proper legal term!" You also seem to be confusing the statement I made about civil suits vs what can be considered a crime. But, since two people have been willing to argue semantics in what is obviously not legal advice, I will say you must be right. I concede. Hateful comments could not get you sued civilly and inciting violence is not the same as advocating a breech of the peace. I guess.
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Do not understand the logic. For example, I could say that the proof that God exists is the amount of time atheists spend in explaining how God does not exist etc.
These claims boil down to 1) Stuff is better, and 2) Only companies with revenues are going public.

But fewer companies are going public at all in the US because of the huge regulatory burden of Sarbanes-Oxley.

And more baskets could simply mean more bubbles.

The fact is that the Federal Reserve greatly expanded the money supply and that must go somewhere. It usually flows into whatever has been rising naturally and makes it rise faster. Too fast.

So instead of normal growth, with new industries gradually replacing old, we go from bubble to bubble.
I read from this that one of the core tenants of Web 2.0 was "content generation is for suckers" - Pinterest has in common with lots of other boom sites that they provide a venue for users to share the fruits of their own labors with others, and benefit from that fact, while the users rarely get anything out of the deal.

In Pinterest's case (like YouTube) it's possible, in fact, that their users might get really screwed, actually.
Yep. Our startup has been in the program for a little under 3 years now. It is great!

Edit - May I ask why the downvote? Would you like more information on my experience or something? I only attempted to validate that this is a real program with real companies going through it.
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One can not do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another. Life is one indivisible whole. - Gandhi

The more I live, the more I realize that this statement isn't about moralizing and is about a fundamental truth about our psychology.
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been using it for about 30 minutes - and the battery life actually seems great
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I had a hell of a time trying to actually use the ASP.Net MVC sourcecode on a project a while ago. The problem was that while my own project compiled fine, many of the dependencies I was using were built against a signed version of the ASP.NET MVC DLL. Since the version of the DLL I was using wasn't signed (with Microsoft's key), those dependencies wouldn't work against the version I was compiling. If you compile everything from source, this isn't a problem, but I had a number of dependencies that had been distributed as DLLs, and for reasons now obscure to me (but likely due to time pressures), I wasn't able to replace all those dependencies with source.

I guess the moral of the story is that if you're in .Net land and want to take advantage of this, make sure you do everything with source from the get-go.
Minefold seems to be the only actual business there. Awesome idea.

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I hate pro-infinite scroll nonsense.

But the argument that your "page 867" means nothing remains.

What's the solution? I'm not sure and it probably depends on the application involved.

One idea in search might be to return fifty items and give ten suggested refinements by key word or otherwise.
Once again, software patents to the rescue. If the patents involved applied only to the hardware, then this would not even be a case.
Tumblr implemented endless pagination with exactly this problem. This came up when you tried to reblog/reply to a post or view "read more" content and forgot to open another tab. They have since implemented a regular pagination system that fixes the back button problem.
"None of their options were suited to her daughter, and they all carried hefty price tags—as in $7,000+ hefty. She began asking around to see if PRC or any of the other big companies were planning on releasing an iPad app, and learned that although many customers were clamoring for one, the companies had no intention of meeting their demands. They didn't want an affordable option out there reducing sales of their expensive systems."

Time for their business model to die
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