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Or better yet: Sign up for Apple Developer Program (100% per year), get a private key for signing apps, get the BINARY from SfY, sign it with your key (using iReSign or InstaSign) and profit. Of course if they go out of business (because of lawsuit), it wouldn't work. But then it's not an Apple problem anymore and SfY couldn't create a similar app for Android too, and they're really screwed this time.
Actually, BeOS ran on macs. But the point remains, Apple is not in the market position to force out OS competition. They're in a position to make Their consumer device run their OS more easily than an alternate OS. They don't prevent anyone else from launching Android or Windows mobile devices, and they aren't in a position to. Their strongest anti-consumer position is the app store (in the sense that there is a gateway preventing consumer choice), but if you really care you can get around it by jail breaking, or just leave the platform. And if developers cared about their position, they should flood the android market with the apps needed to drive consumers away from iOS.
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Think about it this way. Flame was designed not to spread automatically, only when it was told to, meaning that a targeted attack like this would be difficult to discover since it affected a relatively few amount of computers compared to a virus designed to propagate at every opportunity, as well as the fact that fishing expedition was limited to only persons the owner were interested in.

Combine this with the fact that we're now dating the creation of the virus to at latest summer 2008 [1], and you've got a sophisticated surveillance mechanism that has been installed on thousands of computers and evaded detection for at least 5 years.

I'm sure there's lots more tricks that advanced virus authors like this have up their sleeve, but they're only useful to someone if they actually get used, and this seems to have paid off for whoever was behind this.

[1] http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-engli...
I'm 6 months into an independent game studio. Right now it's just me and some freelancers.

I'm in the process of finalizing all of the paperwork for the business and hope to have our game in testing by the end of the month. The bottom line is it's way more work than I anticipated. I'm not inexperienced either, this my third company.

I've been running a software business since the beginning of 2011. The amount of work in one game dwarfs the amount of work in a utility app. There's just no comparison. I'm confident we're making a unique and fun game (iOS first, later Android) and I am paying a lot of attention to promoting the company and our game, but I really don't expect to make much money this year on it.

Two years before the company is paying off seems about right. My first company (bricks and mortar) took around two years before we were out of crisis mode. I think the app stores give people a false impression of what it takes to build a business and see your hard work turn into something meaningful.

The upside is there is incredible upside potential in the video game market, especially if you're running a lean shop. Having said that, I'm not doing it for the money as much as I'm doing it to build something that I'll be happy working on 5 or even 10 years from now.

I don't think people should approach it (unless they are just hobbyists) because making games is fun. It's not really fun after the initial conceptualization is done. It's mostly just hard work. Dull, repetitive, never-ending work. I get through it by exercising religiously and paying attention to my diet. I also take off at least every other weekend to relax and hang out.

[promo] If you're interested in hearing about the game's progress, please follow us at twitter.com/rapidfirestudio [/promo]
> The content is only relevant if it's from someone you care about. If it's from a bot, or some anonymous internet troll, the content is irrelevant. Discard it.

I don't think that's true. There are lots of cases of disturbing content containing specific knowledge of and threats to the recipient where the source is an anonymous internet troll. The latest case is here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/laurie-pen...
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> And here the phrase, not from the actual paper, appears in yet another ALARMIST article claiming that total irreversible planetary doom is CERTAIN if PURGES do not begin.

I put three key words in bold above. But I want to focus on this:

"doom is certain if purges do not begin."

Please point me to where that was said, either in the paper itself or in the co-author's summary. You don't be able to because it doesn't exist. They didn't say that. You said that.

I just grepped for "purge" in the paper and in the summary and article you linked to above, and they both yielded 0 results. The paper:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/pdfs/Barnoskyetal2012...

?

I would argue that your comment -- where you falsely accused them of claiming that doom is certain if purges do not begin --- is the one being alarmist. I am certain of that. :P

Also, strictly speaking, one possible explanation for why you might be seeing a seemingly growing number of recent "alarmist" articles about the climate & population impact, etc., is because, perhaps, the folks who are studying these areas are actually becoming increasingly alarmed. If that's happening, and they're sharing that with us, that's a good thing. "I wish that darn burglar alarm would stop going off every few weeks!" Well, are you more concerned about the inconvenience of repeatedly hearing the alarm, or that your house keeps getting robbed? :) Let's err on the side of the latter case, if any.
Exactly - the other point is that a lot of businesses will favour a developer who has some prior domain knowledge over one who just knows how to program.
Separation of power, like Democracy and other such ideas, don't necessarily belong in every system. Politics/government is not an optional system; everyone has to take part (whether they want to or not.)

Consumer technology is not enforced by police and armies, and should be free from the demands we may rightly have on our state.

Besides, how would you like to buy a hardware-only car? What about a fridge or a plane without the code that makes it work? The hardware/software dichotomy is only an abstraction---the instruction set of a processor is software, but the hardware must be designed around it.
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If they're discouraged because I'm asking their names, than it's fine. There is nothing I can do about that.
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You're right, I'm wrong! There is indeed a notable difference between ACTUALLY extending, and "de facto" extending of a patent, by patenting a slightly different aspect of the same drug, such as delivery, or changing a trivial aspect like color or labeling and re-patenting the same drug. One is a use of a bad system, one is misuse of a system.

Thank you for pointing out what I wasn't able to push through my thick skull!
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The people don't consider it as severe, because? Well, because, as i said, android just has a lot more different devices and manufacturers. And that can't be helped either :)

Fragmentation in my point of view is just a fact of life and has been there in IT for decades on PCs and even the pre-PC era, so what the hell.. live with it ;)

btw. the comment still had 1 point, but i felt it would only lead to a small flamewar. In the end i shouldn't have started the discussion, i guess...
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Most LEDs don't heat up that much... they're usually cool to the touch.

I'd love a computer that glows brighter to release heat when it gets too hot, though :-)
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There is a particular issue with software though. A software patent for the one-click-buy is more like a patent for explosive powder, rather than the exact composition of gunpowder. It is more like a drug to reduce brain swelling, which would not be patentable because the implementation is not obvious. With software, there are many ways to implement the same feature, so you can implement something in an entirely novel way and yet infringe a patent.

Patenting the workings of an internal combustion engine is one thing, patenting a horseless carriage is another.
No idea why you're being downvoted for your opinion. For the record, I agree - intelligence is vastly overrated. I've been called intelligent my whole life yet there are people who are apparently dumber than me who have achieved a lot more. Intelligence as an end is nothing more than mental masturbation.
I wrote a blog post a while ago on motivations for open source: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/why-open-source/
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Curious to know why you want to do most of those things?

Why not just leave them on? Is it a battery issue?
In this post I look at a way of obscuring passwords stored in the database. Maybe this could be a service? Though it would add significant load times. Or would it be worth black boxing password encryption using a complied app??
Thought I saw this in the video on apple.com... Saddened to learn that I was right.

My PC loving mates are going to tear the ass outta me on this...
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a bit of perspective for those thinking Songza came out of nowhere and stole Pandora's thunder.

Songza was created in 2007 by Aza Raskin and Scott Robbin. It was a music search service back when that was a popular meme. It was bought by Amie Street in '08.

for more http://www.crunchbase.com/company/songza
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Apple aren't legally preventing you from running anything. If you're clever enough to do it, go nuts. If you think they're making it too hard, tough luck. Their products aren't built to spec; you're not entitled to a product that works any differently than the one they sold you.

If you buy a microwave and you want to run custom software on it, that is your problem, not the microwave manufacturers.
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There's a great alignment I think between having the consumers themselves invest the money. I read somewhere that VC's who invest in startup's actually lose money on average. The reason they're doing it in the first place is because they represent pension funds and similar who want a finger in 'that startup action' for diversity, with no one monitoring the eventual results closely enough (the consumers probably end up with +1-2% overall)

If point of capitalism is the efficient distribution of resources to the places they need to go then the VC's are actually doing a pretty bad job of it (on average)

At least with crowd sourcing it's a step in the right -direction- toward funding ideas that seem popular, that a bunch of consumers who invest would hopefully be doing so because they also want to use the product.

I'm sure there'll still be serial swindlers and greedy investors who get scammed, but in a utopian world it'd be great if it was sort of like Kickstarter, where you put in $50 with no guarantee of actually getting what you're funding, but now there's a chance you'll not only get that product, plus your money back, plus a nice little bonus sum if the company succeeds. I guess the key is managing the expectations of the investors
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Up to where I read, this is excellent advice. Especially the "Unpaid volunteers will, more often than not, give up when things get hard. They may also not tell you that they’ve given up and waste a vast amount of your time." is something I burned myself with many times.

But way too long as a blog post: I would would suggest to break it into many posts, or even publish it as a free ebook and just link it in the blog.
Weird, the earlier discussion is still around: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3127635
PRC's product isn't as good for this family as the software they currently use.
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You're focussing on one thing, while ignoring the main message.
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>It's very hard to find design decisions at Apple that seem to have 0 thought or discussion behind them.

That doesn't mean the result of said thought was good, however:

http://i.minus.com/dQhzPuq2CZUc/264182-apple-mac-os-x-lion-1...
It's a really great concept, though unless you're trying to target 'technical people' I'd make the colour chooser simpler.

I suspect most people looking to buy a nice handbag or teacup don't know or care what CMYK, RGB, HSB or Hex mean.

Same goes for "Search Results for '#f3a4b4'" - While we all know what this means, most shoppers won't.
Arh yes. Thats almost exactly what I was talking about. I think its a good idea, although getsatisfaction's implementation (language, high fee to remove competing ads) is not great.
> It's not as if anything Apple did was truly original (suit on), they are great finishers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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(rant) Since Rails devs don't appear to believe in databases (and to be fair, if I was targeting MySQL version 3 I'm not sure I would believe in them much either), they don't bother using database features for binding. Instead having their own half baked (well, it 90% baked now, but it still has the occasional squishy bit) binding system.

Same for validations, foreign keys, primary keys, indexes, enumerations, etc. (/rant)
My guess is that it's not the HN page itself but their MTA that is configured probably to restrictive.
It's probably something in your domain config (SPF, DomainKeys set right?).

If this would be your own mailserver you could easily check if an attempt is made but fails out of some other reason.
Now, the only thing to check is someone from HN in the mail relay log files or someone from google in their logs ;)

In the end, i would bet that you missed some step in setting up your domain that needs to be done for Google Apps :)
This is an interesting point. It is valuable to have this kind of engineer instead of a Yes-man.

Steve Jobs was famously difficult. Certainly not the kind of boss I would want. But the turnover in his inner circle was really low. Craig Federighi who on Monday demonstrated the next OS X is a Guy from the old NeXT days. I think Jobs selected people as underlings who were able to stand up to him (sometimes).
That's pretty much exactly what I was saying. And this is why Apple would be hesitant to open up the hardware configuration.
We were talking about bubbles in 2011 too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231352 .
I'm sorry. Nothing can be done. Trust me. I'm serious.
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Dear god, I would not want to work in this company. I want a job, not a religion.
Sorry if the title isn't the best it could be, I wasn't sure how to title this. Once you see it, you'll see it's a little hard to explain in a sentence. =)
My impression is that older people stop listening to new music, so at some point that's not true anymore..
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How will anyone create apps if the openness of macs is removed and they turn into big iOS machines?
Can we have a Markov chain diagram for the chord transition with the relevant probabilities, pretty please?
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> someone's got to pay

I don't believe that. The app has been made, the app has been purchased, and it's not taking away from PRC's sales because PRC's devices are not an option.

I also dislike this culture in that everything has to have monetary value. If my house and food was provided for me, I'd love to develop apps like this for free, because in life, helping others is far more important than material gain.
> I'm licensing it, and it can be taken away, or I can be forced into "updates" that may change it in ways I don't want.

So, iOS apps are like web apps then?
Why not do this with a geofence? Then you don't even have to remember to 'check out' with your phone when you leave the house...
Not everyone is on the 3.2.x branch yet.
I don't think the majority of the feature exclusivity is hardware, it's about differentiating the devices. iOS hardware seems to have hit a convergence point. Although the specs are different, the perceived difference due to the hardware is slight (if there even is one). That means Apple needs to do something else to encourage people to buy a more expensive device, software is now the discriminator instead of hardware.

The iPad 1 corroborates this. It's got the CPU power of the iPhone 4 and the RAM of the 3GS, both of these devices get iOS 6, the iPad 1 does not. There's no apparent technical limitation, they're doing it to differentiate product lines.
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> The cable companies should've known from the beginning what they are getting into as "ISP's"

I'm a strong proponent of net neutrality and I would like very much for the cable companies to become dumb pipes, but remember that many of these companies predate even the idea of the internet as a entertainment platform. Road Runner came along in 1995!
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LinkedIn, that's not how to hash passwords. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/, or for the more advanced http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html.
Your entitlement is disconcerting, depressing and enraging at the same time.
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I agree with your points in the large, but don't fault the kids. Youthful hubris, especially on the scale you've highlighted here, is ridiculous, hopelessly naive, indescribably arrogant, and... breathtakingly wonderful. That ill-founded self confidence will fail every single time - except when it doesn't, in which case the results are magnificent.

My own optimism is nearly spent, which often leads me to hopelessness. That's held at bay by listening to these kinds of kids talk about their ambitions. Don't worry, they'll figure out it's hard, and in a few years some of them will laugh at their former innocence (or blush at their swagger). In the meantime they'll have swung a hammer a few times at the infinite brick wall. Please don't wish them away.
Well seeing as that 3 US presidents (aproximatly 6% of them) have been Rhodes Scollars he might want to re think that :-)
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>I'll happily sit in front of the computer the whole day, and if the kids distract me when I'm in the middle of something, a certain amount of cursing might happen.

Hahaha I love that Linus :-)
Well you can use a Bluetooth Low energy tag like the Nordic Semiconductor nRF8002, to create a geo fence as well, as you can create a much more precise geofence, but you cannot turn off Bluetooth when you do that :) .
It's not about vacuum being weightless. It's about vacuum being an active stress factor for the entire construction.

It will _want_ to collapse. It's not sitting there doing nothing.
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If you put a piece of metal in a very hot oven it will emit light without any electric power input whatsoever. That's one way to see that this is indeed not magic. The accomplishment here appears to be to get the same result at lower temperatures.
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I don't see it as cynical. Open source works when the community is able to foster a sense of economic interdependence and people get out and give in. This interdependence is perhaps a more important good than the software freedom itself, although I don't think you can get there without the software freedom (BSD licenses are no worse at this than the GPL v2 license).

If we are all better off by contributing to eachother's well being, we will do it over and over, and we will all benefit economically and even in a sense spiritually, in the sense that such a community nourishes the spirit in a way that other models don't.
Would it be wrong to put the LA Times' own phone number there?
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Who at Apple made the decision to remove it? There should be a name attached to that removal. And why hasn't this been elevated to the attention of Tim Cook?
I like seeing this data charted out. For hardcore musicians, it's probably pretty common knowledge, but it's interesting to see it in chart form.

It actually makes we want to try writing some things avoiding the most common progressions to see what comes out.

With regards to other genres and other time periods, I think you'd find pretty similar data with what was "popular" at any given time. Although there have been composers who push the limits, and with some success, our brains seem to be hard wired to react well to the mathematical correlations that are present in the chord parings. On the other hand, perhaps the more exposed we become to varied chord progressions, the more pleasing they would sound.

There is a very interesting RadioLab episode exploring the rage that incited at the premiere of Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring". Essentially, scientists are learning how the brain reacts to dissonance in music. The story begins about 32 minutes in.

http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/
There should be optional(?) "Location" header pointing to url where you can download the restricted document from. Might be magnet link.
You could buy it twice if you'd like to give the creators a bit of a tip! :)
I kind of expected this as the Airs have the same, can anyone that knows a bit more about hardware maybe tell if this is because of space concerns?
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>> you're not entitled to a product that works any differently than the one they sold you.

Right, because you knew what you were buying. However:

>> Apple aren't legally preventing you from running anything.

They tried to, though.

>> Apple's request to define copyright law to include jailbreaking as a violation was denied as part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#United_States_...

There's a big difference between "we're not going to help you do X with your purchased item" and "we legally forbid doing X with your purchased item."

The only thing keeping companies like Apple from doing this is our insistence that they don't.
How is this news? I think it's well known that the new Retina-MBPs have made some hardware-upgradeability sacrifices in exchange for portability.