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Totally agree with all you say. The current philosophy of just adding more and more disjoint functionality to existing apps is simply creating one hell of a mess. A mess to use, and (I strongly suspect) a mess to maintain.

Remember the old UNIX philosophy: Write programs that do ONE thing and do it well. Whoever is in charge of overall software development at Apple (both apps and dev tools) needs to have this drummed into him. Preferably with a large hammer. ;-)
1&1 spent $185M (Q1) advertising MyWebsite. Which is an early version of Jimdo.
Thanks for this report. My kid loves math, and so I bet he'll love this (he's six as well).
Most useless discussion ever. But still, how do you define "turned the industry on it's head"? By the amount of money that is made in a market segment? I developed mobile apps long before the iPhone existed. I still get requests for web development.
I wonder what the limits are here in the long run.

Will we be able to print cooked steaks or will cooking still be required?

Will we be able to print a cooked steak, with off the shelf materials from the grocer for a reasonable price?

Will it be simple enough that I can press a button on my phone and have the steak ready by the time I arrive home from work?

Will I be able to order a pizza from a "designer" and pay for them to remotely print it to my house rather than deliver it?
Capdevilla was fantastic, but I'd say Jordi Alba managed to improve on him this euros. Incredible LB.

Villa and Puyol haven't been properly replaced though. Playing Ramos as CB left Arbeloa on RB and he's not at the same level.
o....k. So, there is one Higgs field in the world which belongs to one Higgs Bosson, and there are no more Higgs bossons in the world?

Or does it mean that there are more Higgs fields in the world (and, thus, every particle can have a different mass depending on in which field it is) and there are therefore more Higgs bossons?
This is called Quantum Field Theory. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory.
There's no other vendor than Apple providing access to HTML5 content on iOS. Apple forbids it.

Similarly, there's not other vendor than Adobe providing access to Flash.
Love it! I've been thinking about this idea for a while now, and I have some suggestions.

Besides being a good way to check out a technology before using it, I think the more important thing here is to be a way to discover tech. Its getting harder and harder to keep up with every new tool/framework/language but they can have enormous value if a dev knows about them before starting a project. If this can be a way to quickly discover AND judge the benefits/flaws of new tech, that would be a great success.
"Error establishing a database connection", so Google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:semiac...
Managing package dependencies is now a lot easier thanks to NPM
Its also a factor of a team making best of its constraints. The best players in spain are diminutive and not as physically strong as the other teams.They cant compete with the physical game style of England or the stronger players from Germany(who by the way are also technically gifted, thanks to a total overhaul of their footballing structure which started 10 years ago.[1]). And hence the tiki-taka philosophy of football which deprives the other team of possession. On average this year at the euros Spain had possession of the ball about 60% of the time in all their games(except the final). They conceded just 1 goal in the entire tournament.

[1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jul/02/world-cu...
I am objecting to the content of the post because I don't think bigotry has any place in a civil conversation.

If this guy was a stormfront guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_(website)) instead of a "socially conservative" guy, you would never dream of entertaining him.
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My Dad was director of the Marine Physics Lab at Scripts for a while. In addition to Flip, their 'Golden Orb' was interesting: like a donut that was open to the ocean in the middle to provide a flat calm patch of ocean. A funny coincidence was that I consulted there for a short while as a weekend gig in the late 1970s (many years before my Dad was there).
If Used Software Can Be Sold, Why Not Used eBooks?
It's not available for Canadians on iTunes store. Does anyone have a (high quality) link?
No, that is the simplified explanation of how the average person should think about it. We are talking about the definition and a possible way to get the odd results the OP mentioned observing.
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Make your Firefox into password stealer
Firefox, you can use as a password stealer. Unfortunately this trick will work only on on firefox 3.6.5 or older. When you open a firefox, it asks you to store your username and password for any website if it has login functionality. But after using this trick it will never ask to store the password but it would automatically store all the password. This trick is useful if you want to get the login credentials if some one uses your computer.
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I've only filed a couple (against Quartz), and had a similar experience. They'd maybe ask for a reduced test case, then nothing happens for 3 months; the latest patch of the OS comes out and the next day the bug is closed. I don't mind if they fix the bugs, but the stony silence is a bit frustrating.

One that never got fixed was crashers in Console. That's been going on for years now.
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That's why I said extreme case. Even if people sold games only after having finished them, the consequences would be tremendous. So tremendous that it'll never happen in a large scale: either downloadable games are somehow made excempt via some sort of contract, or games will continue their shift towards being SaaS, ie. you may resell Diablo 3, but you can't resell your Battle.net account which is strictly required for playing the game.

The publishers in the US hate the retail used games market with a fiery passion (and it's not hard to understand why). And by and large I think very few people make use of that, most people -- I'm extrapolating from myself here -- are going to be too lazy to carry their games to GameStop for a couple of bucks, and most buyers are going to be too wary of complications with a used game to save a few bucks.

A digital download used games market would be way more convenient for both sellers and buyers. It would also be much cheaper to both start up and operate for a middleman, who could get by with much a lower cut than GameStop.
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Slightly off topic:

I admire this method of conveying ideas and information (animation). It's a great way to consume these clips.

The RSA has a whole series of 10 minute lectures which they animate on a whiteboard in this style. The illustrations are brilliant.

http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/

(search for RSA Animate)
Boy, some of that described experience is pretty familiar.
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Villa would come back for the world cup and Jordi Alba was just plain awesome. The bigger concern for me would be how to replace Xavi who would be 34 by the time of the world cup.
HTML5 is definitely not the only way to write a game for iOS. It seems glaringly obvious, but the OP could perhaps try writing their game as a native app.
Not that I think there is any practical impact, but could I resell just the part of a GPL distribution that did not include the source code? If so, what license does that resold portion now fall under? Doubtless, getting a hold of the original GPL distribution should be relatively trivial, but suppose the code was tweaked and not resold? Now that may seem unlikely, but suppose a vendor added and tweaked some stuff, sold it under GPL to a "straw" reseller, who then proceeded to strip the license terms and resell without the source code?

I am not a big GPL/Open Source guy, but since Copyleft is derived from Copyright (from which software license arise) an attack on one is an attack on all...

My real issue is that while the EU court is going about invalidating licenses (regardless of their intent, and whether or not their intent is "good") unforeseen consequences may ensue.

Disclaimer: I am no legal expert.
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I think this is only one dimension. Player height, weight, left-footedness or right-footedness might also be crucial in figuring out how to beat Spain. At the very least, you know that Xavi is a key player in the entire network - of course, from mere observation, many have that assumption already but from the graph, you'd know who are the top 3 passers to stop.

I'd also take into account the positioning of the players on the fields, the runs that they make and etc. It'd be interesting if someone can build a simple simulation of how Spain's positional play (measuring distances between the players) based on tracking the last few years of the Del Bosque's management.
So if I've got this right, mass shouldn't be thought of as the "bulk" of a thing, it's simply thought of as a charge within that thing. So a photon is a particle of substance that contains no mass charge on it, despite the fact that it has some amount of volume?
Ask HN: I just saw a $10 rebate on my AWS bill
I have no idea why they gave me $10 off of my bill unless it was a refund for the recent outage. I just got my monthly bill. Anyone else see this?
I just submitted WTFPL[1] :)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
I couldn't help thinking of the backronym: "Really Bad Shit".
Don't worry, don't worry. This one of the most complicated theories in physics (apart from string theory) to grasp intuitively. I'm a physicist and I could try to help you.

Think of an excitation of the field. One of the "axioms" of quantum field theory is that the energy of an excitation is related to the inverse square of the wavelength. Don't ask me why, it's just like that. Think of UV radiation or X-rays, which are just light with a higher frequency and you know those radiation is more damaging to the human body than for example radio waves.

Now, are you familiar with Fourier decomposition?[1] It's the idea that all functions are the sum of a waves (sines and cosines). We do the same thing in quantum field theory, we have our quantum field and we write it as the sum of our elementary wavefunctions, which are called plane waves[2]. When you look at a wave packet[3], you can't really say what its wavelength is. Wavelength is not a local concept, as for example the height of the wave, but the wave differs from place to place, so it's impossible to give it just one wavelength! We don't have that problem with plane waves. Because they're the same all over the universe, they have a clear wavelength and thus a well-defined, unique energy. This concept, an excitation of a field with a well-defined energy (and thus a well-defined mass!) is what particle physicists call "a particle".

When a collision happens in a collider, we're actually preparing two plane waves and pointing them in the same direction. As they collide, the wavefunctions of the various fields become incredibly complex. We humans can only "see" excitations with a well-defined mass, or better yet, our detectors can only detect excitations with a well-defined mass. And thus instead of a complicated field, we see a mess of particles going in different directions and having different masses, energies and speeds.

Does that make it any clearer?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_wave
[3]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Wave_pack...
I stay with Firefox for daily use because I like a lot of the available addons; it makes it my browser, not just Firefox. Chrome just doesn't have enough specific addons or customization for it to ever feel like my browser.

Tree Style Tabs is always the first addon that I install in a new Firefox, followed closely by All In One Sidebar, It's All Text and Uppity. Then come Pinboard, and adding DDG to the search bar.

I've tried many times to like Chrome, but being a bit faster doesn't make up for less customization, for me.
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Do I need to license it on every machine I own? OK, how about if I know I am the only user (to put aside the case where I fiscally own every machine my kids use), and will only be using it on one machine at a time?
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Slacktivism is a business. I personally regret that one particular good engineer was put to jail. But again, it is the war going down there. And it is not Syria, but the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are responsible for this disorder n bloodshed. Believe me, if you see the war is near, grab your G.O.O.D. bags, family and run if only you are not on duty of protection of your country. This guy could be detained for whatever reason, its a war. Stop the war, he'll come free if he is still alive.
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That's what Apple wants to push developers towards. Regardless of Jobs' anti-Flash post, HTML5 is simply not a priority for Apple.

If this bug was in the actual native API, it would've got fixed in the next minor patch.
"ignoring licence terms" is a basic, common thing that's relevant to much of agreements, especially in EU. Law text trumps agreement text. Have a statement in an agreement that sells you in slavery? Not valid. Have a statement in an agreement that waives your consumer rights, warranty, etc? Not valid. Have a statement in an agreement that says "I may change terms of agreement w/o notice"? Not valid. Have a statement in an agreement that says "all disputes will be resolved in an arbitration instance that I control" ? For consumer contracts, not valid. It doesn't matter that you read them, understand them, signed them - such terms are just as binding as an agreement that sells your soul.
All the legislators and courts understand that otherwise the intended limits will just be circumvented by companies adding disclaimers to their standard agreement templates - so the law (at least in EU) tends to be quite strict that the restrictions apply no matter what was in that boilerplate legal agreement.
The first iOS app for the new Basecamp released by Rounded Development
It only matters that the client is open source (note I didn't say free software). This is so you can read the code and be proactive about issues in it. For example the mixpanel client for Android caused one thread to be created whose sole purpose was to fire a timer event every 60 seconds, which was used in a second thread to see if there was any work to do. It is a lot easier to figure out stuff like that is happening from the source than to try and work out who is responsible for extra threads showing up in the debugger. If there is a suitable license then you can at least modify and redistribute the changed code.

We do actually do our import and custom processing in MongoDB, so that side is covered.
Of course it implies movement. You have to move your finger to touch the screen. If it said straight down and had no qualifier, then it would be confusing as then down could have two common meanings. However it does have a qualifier within the same statement that makes it extremely clear that the motion described is not a motion across the screen.
I suppose you want the candidate to point out that returning pointers to local variables of a function is a bad idea? (and tell you to either declare the variable in a bigger scope or allocate it on the heap). Seems like a really easy question, so I guess it could be a good question to quickly weed out bad candidates.
This article should be renamed to "On Starting a Project". You built something using some cool technology, bought some Facebook ads because some of your friends had some luck, now you have to get paying customers.

Until then, it's all just a (side) project, not a startup.
Actually, the goal of a business is to create a customer.
It isn't ambiguous in the slightest as it tells you not to move your fingers on the screen

Heh, and that's exactly why it's ambiguous: the first part suggests movement; and the second commands against it.

so the only reasonable conclusion from this is...

You can make an educated guess at what's intended, but you're still guessing. What if "fingers" was a typo and "finger" was written in its place? You couldn't say for certain, and that would give an entirely different "reasonable" conclusion - all based on a typo.

And this instruction is part of the same statement

And it contradicts the first part of instruction.

Also, I was not meaning that the person reading was stupid, but that they were careless in their reading of the instruction, which is the sort of thing that can lead you to counting in base nine for the rest of your life

Your concern is for my well-being is touching, but I really do take exception to your claim of careless reading being at fault. If you don't understand an instruction, sure, go back and check that you haven't missed a bit, but the best option afterwards is to seek further clarification. That's a good life rule, and I absolutely have no shame in asking when I don't understand something.

Plus, unlike guessing at "the only reasonable conclusion," I think this approach will lead to counting in base 10 for a while longer ;-)
Another particle, another Nobel prize.
You'll be able to get a new liver on demand! Jeez, forget about the steak!
Native applications is the way to go.
That would be a bit counter-intuitive, as OP's product is an SDK for HTML5 game development on iOS.
You Can't Be Truly Successful Without Self-Awareness
Being critical is great. Creating workarounds is even better. Being entitled is not so great.

If you want to talk about how Apple is terrible to developers, fine, talk about the App store double-standards and the developer agreement. But this is hardly an exceptional case of a company being 'anti-developer'.

I can't tell you how many bugs I've filed from OS X, chrome, to various python libraries well the response is pretty much "welp its broke" (if that). If you depend on some sort of functionality that you're not getting, it's time to move on or create your own.

The tone of this post reminds me of 'why I'm not developing for twitter' post ... where the take away for that was be weary of developing on platforms you don't control. I would assume that most of us have learned that the hard way with esoteric libraries with ghost-maintainers. Myself, I'm becoming weary of turning every inconvenience into some sort of political issue. This is _hacker_ news. Can we get back to making clever and disruptive solutions please?
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TenXer, the quantified life & the quantified hacker
Yes, somewhat. Thank you very much.

I've enjoyed pondering this stuff since the 70s when I was a child. How much I've 'gotten' it has varied over the years, but it's never been very deep.

Your description, I think, deepened my understanding a good bit.
This works for small services and apps, but I think it'd be quite a maddening exercise to try and keep a large codebase consistent and organized with that method.
There is a single Higgs field. But the Higgs field can be excited in many different places! Same for anything else, like an electron - that's why we say that two electrons are indistinguishable from each other. Fundamentally, they're made of the same "stuff": the electron field that permeates the universe.

Particles get mass by "coupling" to the Higgs field. I.e. the excitations of the electron fields - electrons - interact with the excitations of the Higgs field - Higgs bosons. This, through a complicated process described by quantum field theory (that I don't admit to fully understand), gives the particle what we call mass. Different particles couple to the Higgs with different strengths, yielding various particle masses. The Higgs even couples to itself (rather incestuously), which is why it has mass!
The pnly plus for me is that MSIE6 installation base will be contracted. For those who already paid over $100 for WinXP->Win7 upgrade, this $40 figure looks ugly.
The touchstart event isn't fired. There's no 'event' object to access.
> they call themselves “domain investors” and believe that they’re a legitimate market force. But all they’re doing is stifling innovation

You can't get the domain name you want for the price you want to pay.

Boo-hoo.

I can't get tons of things for the price I want to pay.

That's life.

You've got no moral claim on a domain name that someone else already owns.

If you're use of that domain name is going to generate a ton of value, you'd find a way to get the money and buy the domain.

In fact, you don't do this. The market is working properly: you're not prepared to demonstrate with cold hard cash that you're the best use for the name, therefore you probably are NOT the best use for the domain.

* UPDATE *

Just noticed this:

> when multiple people register a backorder on the acquiring backorder service, there’s an auction held for a few days and the domain goes to the highest bidder. It’s capitalism at its not-so-finest.

What alternative do you propose? The person who really really wants it bad gets it?

Isn't that what's already happening?
ScreenB.in, short URLs for screenshots
Hi all!
I've been looking for an app like this for quite a while to no avail, so I decided to create it.

ScreenBin (screenb.in) lets you paste a screenshot from your clipboard directly into your browser (Chrome only) and instantly receive a short URL to your screenshot. The designer on my dev team has demanded this for a couple of weeks, and I only recently found the time to make it at a hackathon I attended.

This is my first time posting to Hacker News and my first live open source product so I'm too sure what to expect, but would love any feedback on the app and suggestions for features and improvements.

Todo's:

- Google Drive support, so I don't have to host all the images!

- some UI for cropping (but that might get in the way of the simplicity)

Fun facts:

- It's named after its spiritual predecessor (which was a downloadable application found at screenbin.org).

- Only works on Chrome as it allows me to extract the clipboard data. Hopefully other browsers adjust their security standards in the near future.
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what that article says is "Even if it Italy(and all UE) the law says the hardware provider must grant 2 years warranty, Apple does not care and gives only one, and asks for money if you want the second." Explain me how this is putting the customers before the money.

Apple shows a nice face to the public but then does only what it's needed to get more money. proved by both this article and how they treat developers.

If it wasn't for the developers that filled the appstore with content apple would be still years back. But apple doesn't care.