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I don't agree, and I think you completely missed the point of my original post.

Is technology somehow good for its own sake, or is it good because it makes individual people better off? My view is the latter. Therefore, the answer to the question of who should get moral credit for bringing a technology to life is: everyone that had a consciously played part in making it so that person X could have thing Y in their lives.
Ask HN: Please Stop Complaining About Title Moderation
It's poisoning threads.

Face it: you've been heard. Nobody with permissions to moderate titles on HN can at this point be unaware that title editing is upsetting many vocal users.

Before you decide to occupy all the "above the fold" comment real estate with another thread about title editing, can I ask you to please consider a few things? They include:

• HN is not just a message board; it is also the front-end to a number of Y Combinator business processes. Paul Graham cannot just elect random HN participants to help moderate.

• You have a very limited ability to persuade anyone to change the way HN is moderated.

• The Internet is full of other message boards that are run in ways more congenial to you, and HN is moderated accordingly.

• From multiple independent sources: the primary challenge occupying HN's operators is abuse prevention, and this challenge swamps every other objective they might have.

• "When in doubt, go with the original title" is a policy simple enough to delegate to a couple trusted moderators and forget about. Any alternative policy is likely to be tougher than you think it is, or to result in even more pointless bickering.

I'm not naive enough to think this posting will convince anyone that title editing is OK, but if we can at least centralize the "debate" (such as it is) and keep it out of the other threads, that's a win.
It's okay, I guess. It's a lot less smooth when scrolling and animating than Twitter for Mac is, and this trend of Mac apps not looking like Mac apps is really tiring.
Yes -- if it weren't for the package sales strategy, this loser with his own journal would be writing for no one but himself (and I'm sure Elsevier wouldn't pay him to do that).

This is a great example of how Elsevier uses its position in the industry to extract money from universities far out of proportion to the value they provide. I hope academia gets fed up with this soon and stops paying.
"companies like Youtube actively work to prevent restricted music from being uploaded"

Search for The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Pink Floyd on Youtube and let me know what you find. None of those artists want any of their content digitally distributed (none of their content is even on Spotify). So, unless they have some sort of deal with these artists that I don't know about these are all unlicensed recordings.

And I do realize that a lot of these are live recordings, which have their own issues. But, plenty of them aren't and have millions of views.
You should try it for yourself. The public alpha is free for everyone.
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Many Android phones allow sideloading, yet virtually all apps are in the store(s) because they need the exposure.
If everyone had to prove that what they said was absolutely true before saying anything then nothing would get said as it is almost impossible to prove a positive.
Awesome blog post Dan!
My thoughts exactly. With that wording, why did Ouya need Kickstarter to do this?
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Always the same joke, only the buzzwords change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso (I think they're still funny).
Truth can be stranger than fiction, what you described already happened. Back when everybody was going gaga for Kevin Rose's "Milk" startup a parody mobile app beta that pre-oink'd Oink called Jotly put out a video kind of like the Vooza one. The developer of the parody vid actually went on to release the app.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/jotly-parodies-our-mobile-l...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes...
I don't know about you, but a bunch of my friends go to Youtube precisely because they can listen to pirated music. In fact, sometimes when I'm at parties, people pull up their own youtube playlists that are exactly the same content Grooveshark would have.

I also think Grooveshark's service has become less of a place for popular music consumption than indie/ self-made content because there are, quite frankly, much better options (ITunes, Spotify, Rdio) if you want to listen to your Billboard Top 100. And I think indie artists actually love having their content on Grooveshark. Grooveshark runs site-wide campaigns for new bands, they have a sweet bus that goes to concerts and records artists unplugged, and their radio service is very niche focused.
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I have loved this idea for years. I had wanted this same app when the iphone first came out.

However, it would be great if some of these activities can be triggered based on GPS location rather than clicking.

What about setting waypoints to track between. I set a waypoing GPS location for my home. Then I set one at the rain station near my house, then again near my job and finally at my job.

Measure commute times between all these points automatically.
Any call to end any kind of specific artistic expression is (rightly) going to be met with resistance and derision. Whether that be sex, swearing, misogyny, what have you.

Attacks are of course going too far, but not expecting some form of legitimate resistance is naive, at best. Combine that with the outrage the internet tends to generate, and this behavior, while reprehensible, shouldn't come as a surprise.

Morals never have, never do, and never will dictate art. The sooner people recognize that the answer to something offending your sensibilities is to move on from that particular thing, rather than writing screeds which will be ignored by the perpetrators at best and heckled at worst, the happier we'll all be.

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Guess that's what I get for not reading the link. Site's being websense'd, so I can't actually see it. Thanks for the editorialized, BS headline, submitter > : (
From the original article in the NYT, this story is from 2009?
Kickstarter as a whole broke it's all time pledges yesterday taking in $3,174,820 [1]. At 5%, and if all pledges pay, Kickstarter took in $158,741. Not all pledges follow through on payment.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/ouyas-big-day
I once wrote up a short description of how to beat a certain puzzle. For "how to beat X" where X is the name of the puzzle, my page is #1 in both Google and Bing, and has been for years. Top 10 when "beat" is replaced with "solve" or "win at".

My site is nowhere near the top million, so anyone having trouble remembering my solution who went searching for it would notice if only the top million sites were indexed.

BTW, the reason I am not naming the puzzle in this post is because I've done no SEO on the page, and I think I've only posted links to it maybe once or twice, 7 or 8 years ago, in comments on Slashdot or usenet. According to Google, no one links to it. Yet somehow the search engines found it, and decided it was the most relevant page for beating X. I'm curious to see how long that continues, and don't want to do anything to disturb the natural traffic.
You're overlooking Amazon's go-to weapon: price.

Price is tricky - you can already get free subsidized phones - so I'll be interested to see what they do here. They'll really need to work with a carrier (Virgin? Cricket? Sprint?) to offer a breakthrough value. In any case, I don't think they'll put something on the market that doesn't have attention grabbing value.

I don't think the OS is that important. %90 of people use computers much like they used them 10 years ago, and we're nearing that point with smartphones. If it has a browser, e-mail, a camera, maps, and good hardware most people will be happy.

The OS wasn't the Pre's problem - it had questionable hardware (slow, tiny screen) and was attached to a dorky brand. If it had a 4" screen and said "Sony" on the back, it could have been a hit in 2008.
Sell it cheap.
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Gotta say, I wasn't expecting this result after the opinions expressed in the comments of the original Ouya HN post. Maybe HN just likes to grumble about everything.
As long as you have iOS 5 or later, you should be able to install it. To add to what Daniel said, once you get that error, your UDID (an identifier specific to your iPhone) will get sent via TestFlight to me. I will add your UDID to the distribution profile so that you will be able to access it (you should get a notification at this time). I hope you enjoy it, and since we are very actively developing it, any feedback would be useful for us. We encourage you to send an email to feedback@evertracker.com.
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How about this one: http://twitterphishr.com/
Blizzard has done this basically forever. If you want a great example of a cancellation flow, try to unsubscribe from World of Warcraft.
Macs have never really been appropriate for embedded computation, and it doesn't come up much in practice.

I work with people who work with lab software which is happily running OS X 10.2 Jaguar. It's no different than the XP box in the corner, as long as everyone understands that the checkbook has to come out when it breaks.

On the other hand, the quarter million dollar cytometer is going to be running Windows NT 4 Embedded, and when that ATA-66 hard drive fails or the software becomes unable to talk properly with the modern world anymore, it's on the vendor to make it work again. The support typically blows, but it's their problem to handle and none of them are going to be relying on Apple's memory-hole platform.
I think the difference is, Ouya doesn't have to actually deliver a product.
Apple maintained Classic compatibility from ~1984-2006 and Carbon PPC compatibility from ~2000-2010. It's a long time but it's not forever.
"On the other hand, assuming this supplements rather than replaces a normal vacation, it could just be a fun and relaxed way of brainstorming."

I agree. I'm not against "team building" vacations, but I don't think they serve the same purpose as the vacation type being advocated in the article.
Did you do research on how long it takes to resolve trials in England vs. other countries before writing that post?
> First off, this story is pun central! "... has not exactly advanced with the speed of Usain Bolt." Zing!

How is that a pun?
OS X 10.7 or later :/
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If you are reading HN because you are bored at work you need to try this
It's just generically incredibly difficult to switch jobs mid-career in Japan. The vast majority of hiring is done w.r.t new grads, who are then groomed (read: brainwashed) into drinking the company coolaid.

There are four options I can think of:

1. You are a bonafide superstar and manage to switch into a solid company (my boss when I was in Japan managed to do this).

2. You become a contract worker.

3. You go to a smaller (less prestigious, usually lower pay, less stable) company.

4. You go to a "foreign national" company (European/American companies' Tokyo office)
The ElevationDock can undock without the dock moving as advertised. It looks like he is bending the phone forward and then pulling it out - that pinches the connector and will certainly cause it to hang. Video just shot showing that - https://vimeo.com/45589974
You have to have had some sense of irony when writing this meta Ask HN... Your first three augments apply equally to posts like this...
I think this calls for a public shaming. Be sure to blog about it and post it to HN.
This product should have been funded, clearly. You are saying it shouldn't have been because the execution didn't match the (perfectly reasonable) hype.

One problem highlighted by this situation is the lack of an advisor. There should be an advisor (essentially a board member) associated with sufficiently large projects to make sure that things progress (and to give the inventor the ability to communicate changes without it blowing up like this).
Unfortunately your commentary was only valueless, so sit tight at 0. It takes actual work to make something properly inflammatory - you gotta earn the negative scores.
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They "stole" visual diff and project templates? Maybe you should have tried to patent those innovations.
It's a poor headline, the goal that's earned her all the hate is this:

"This video project will explore, analyze and deconstruct some of the most common tropes and stereotypes of female characters in games. The series will highlight the larger recurring patterns and conventions used within the gaming industry rather than just focusing on the worst offenders."
Any attachable keyboard on the iPad will be the same. When the keyboard hides itself (on the home screen, or any other screen without the keyboard input selected), you are left with a keyboard covering 25% of your real estate. However this review seemed to note that it is possible to click through the keyboard, which is a good thing in that regard.
I have no real knowledge of the law. But I thought it was more along the lines of, you have to have sufficient evidence. If it transpires you were wrong you're ok as long as you had good reason to think it was true.

I'm very intrigued to know how exactly the law works now.
Disability insurance seems like something everyone should get if they possibly can -- if you're an entrepreneur and often move jobs, it may be worth having personal coverage vs. relying on employers, since they change and may have inconsistent coverage. Probably the most important coverage after basic health insurance and auto coverage (if you drive).

I'm kind of on the fence on long-term care insurance, though (independent of disability). It is dramatically more expensive, basically prepaid nursing care, and depends greatly on your assumptions about the cost of health care and general inflation.
You really don't want to pay tax on $1M+ in gifts.
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Calling something a name isn't much of an argument.
You basically have no choice but to use your "paid vacation" days to conduct a job search.

If you're based in Tokyo, switching jobs is much easier because (a) there are a lot of companies in general there, (b) the culture of the companies are a little more westernized than the rest of the country, and (c) you have the option of going to a foreign national company.
> Christian, husband, father, software developer. In that order.

Maybe this is a horrible thing to say but when I read something like that I just completely turn off. Religious fanatic sick? Their invisible space god can take care of them! I love how he put his stupid superstition not one, but two places ahead of being a father. That's really cute.

I donated to the Python programmer with ALS but I think I'll let Jesus help this guy.
Really? I thought it was almost impossible to prove a negative.

"You eat babies in your spare time!"

"No, no I don't."

The 1st can produce a picture of the person eating a baby, how does the 2nd prove that he doesn't eat babies?

If the person who had the claim made against them had to definitively prove that beyond a doubt he doesn't eat babies - he'd have to have had someone recording him for every minute of his waking life, including those moments prior to the claim.

The only way to prove a negative is to run a (perhaps nearly) infinite number of tests and never get that result.
I see no reason to spend the money to replace my currently 3 year old MBP in the foreseeable future. Barring breakages, I will probably be using this thing in to 2015, even if it isn't getting OS updates by then. I wonder how long Apple keep stock of replacement batteries for older models.
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Somebody Zero Cool, Acid Burn, and Crash Override - they can now rollerblade up to payphones again.
> Submitters do occasionally badly editorialize titles so there is some need for editors to fix them

Someone should try making a website like this, except use the upvotes and downvotes of its users to determine which titles and articles are worthy of being shown.
I think the best lesson here is that if you don't have some amount of traction or cash pile to back yourself up, don't share unpatentable ideas with someone who's legal army outnumbers you.
We already have that. It's called TVTropes.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

In 1817, William Hone, a satirist, defended himself against multiple charges under Britain's then-antiquated libel laws. He won, despite all odds. Read Ben Wilson's recent "The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press" for more.

What boggles my mind, what truly causes me little conniptions, is that even after supposed reform of the various UK libel laws, they are still used today to silence one's opponents. IANAL, etc., but these laws do seem, uh, heavy handed and unfair, arming the slighted with fully automatic sledgehammer launchers to use against any foe, real or perceived.
I think that you're demonstrating the problem: you're reacting to actions that you think she is demanding, instead of reacting to what she is actually proposing.
I had given up on the (practically abandoned) official Twitter for Mac and switched to Osfoora a few months ago. It's been great but I have some minor issues with it (Space pages down instead of up, lack of keyboard shortcuts for interacting with individual tweets).

I've found Tweetbot to be rather stable for an alpha release, and I think that Tapbot's strategy in releasing this early is to get people to fall in love with the app ASAP so that everyone will raise hell if Twitter takes action against third-party clients.
Has Sarkeesian made a "call to end any kind of specific artistic expression", though? Last I heard, she just wants to make a documentary or two exploring the treatment of women in video games.

If she's trying to highlight a disgusting trend of misogyny in gaming culture, I would say she is doing an excellent job.
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Having the burden of proof on the defendant is a terrible idea. The imbalance in the UK libel system has given rise to libel tourism [1]. This is something the UK has been seeking to reform [2].

If you're a public figure or an organisation then we have to accept that some people are going to say some crazy things otherwise it would be too easy to use the courts to silence legitimate criticism.

As for Elsevier's package pricing strategy, it's interesting how similar this is to how cable companies price offerings.

In the case of cable companies (IMHO) we need structural separation between those that own the physical network and those that provide services on it. Around the world telecommunications policy is slowly heading in this direction in relation to the "last mile".

In the case of academic journals it seems academics are victims of themselves basically. Prestigious journals carry weight because academics give them weight. Promotions and continued employment sometimes revolve around getting published. At that point the academics are captive to those that provide those journals.

Previously distribution was a key problem. Now obviously it isn't. Some disciplines have taken a far more open approach to publication and peer review. This problem will probably be solved as more disciplines get organized and go their own way.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel_tourism

[2]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8379196...
Of course they do. That's the point: better here than in a comment thread that has any hope of being productive.
I think the reaction to Anita's Kickstarter campaign has gone WELL beyond resistance and derision, and into scary hostility. I don't get what motivates people to respond in this way—why does the accusation of misogyny in video games kick up a more vicious and hateful response than some many other topics? Is it just a defense mechanism of sorts?
I'm working on a Reddit app in Xaml.
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They don't have to be stuck with a Tegra3. Arm Mali such as the T658 could offer an even better experience than the Tegra3. The beauty of Android development is that any OpenGL supporting graphics chip would work.
Linked article is scant on details. This all appears to concern this Kickstarter project, which is to create a series of videos that survey common themes to how women are represented in video games: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-wome...

Here is the author's blog, which has a lot of updates about the harassment she has received as a result of it: http://www.feministfrequency.com/

There are some truly shocking and disturbing things in here, like the screenshots from the "game" someone made where you can beat up a photo of her face: http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassm...
I wonder how long it'll take someone to set up a fake hotspot with an identical name right next to it.
This post says just as much about Kickstarter as a platform as it does about Ouya. It looks like the time required to raise $1m for a worthy cause is quickly approaching zero now, which is simply astounding. If I were a VC, I'd think long and hard about what value proposition I can offer to entrepreneurs over just raw capital. Because in the (near) future, it doesn't look like money will be the differentiating factor.
Look at Facebook, they took the same route with their apps. The reviews on the app store were horrible, and it now appears they will be making a native version of the app.
That said, the blog post was well after the trigger point where the donations and their associated rewards are locked.
I love tweetbot for ios and it seems to be the same, minus touch-based actions for os x. Is there a new rule with stylized mac apps ignore the double tap to minimize the window action?
I'm not sure it is fair to call video games male dominated. There are a number of game genres that are predominantly populated by women.

One big challenge is that women are so harassed on these services that they mask their gender, and make it really difficult to know what the M:F ratio actually is.
Don't mistake the fact that normal users aren't interested in current tool chains and coding means that they aren't interested in being able to solve problems creatively. Kay mentions Hypercard in this interview, which had a long history of drawing normal people into designing solutions to their problems from scratch.

Back in the mid/late 80s I used to do work for a public library and helped set up several public Macintosh computers that had, in addition to word processing and spreadsheet software, Hypercard installed. I was amazed how people "got it" so quickly. From kids, natch, to street people to soccer moms. And by "got it" I don't mean running the built in stacks, but in creating their own.

Before long I was helping people make some really interesting projects. Some of them were beautiful monsters, but others were very well thought out. And all of them solved specific problems, many of which would not have had enough general appeal to be marketable or even transferable to anyone else.

And there's real value in having that ability. But these days most people simply can't get past the gatekeeper of beginning complexity. To be sure, in Hypercard you quickly ran up against a wall of limited extensibility in terms of its objects. I can easily imagine better.

But Kay is right, The web and most modern OPP aren't it. And modern tools for software development are a nightmare.