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All analogies are strained to the digital world. HN is not a 'printing press': it's not the mechanism of reproduction. Maybe the server is. Maybe the ARC code. But also the wires. HN is the editorial process.

But I suggest that friends of free speech, and against government censorship, should adopt an expansive definition of 'speech' and 'press': everything that's part of the communication creation-delivery process.

Quibbling about definitions and analogies with regard to fundamental rights helps those who want to grow and abuse their power. The FCC does censor. It enforces wiretap requirements. It has, through licensing and ownership rules, created market concentration in other media industries, and preferentially rewarded politically-connected entities. Its board members and staffers are the same kind of congressional-staff/lobbyist/political-partisan lawyers who draft things like SOPA/PIPA for big donors.

Yes, I know there are federal shipping regulations too: and they're also unnecessary and abusive, benefiting large incumbents no matter their initial supposed pro-competition rationales. They are another example of how neutrality regulation will, no matter its initial form, be perverted over time by the political process.

Let Time-Warner or Verizon try such blatantly discriminatory policies. They will be ridiculed, consumers will choose other providers, a blossoming of circumvention technologies will arise. Bits are bits, the Internet works, and it doesn't need an overbearing big brother at the FCC to protect it from such trifling (and still almost entirely hypothetical) provider-meddling.
This caught my eye. 26 million iPhones. Galaxy S III just did 10 million in 6 weeks since launch? That's 20 million in a quarter. Assume the iPhone number is a blended number too between older and latest model. So did we just see the first real example of one phone model legitimately challenge the iPhone? The argument was always that Android success was across so many phones. Now is the breaking down? Please don't flame me as hater or fan boy and just help me with the question of whether this is meaningful or flawed.
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Note that were are talking about some degree of melting occurring over 97% of the surface of the ice sheet, not that 97% of the area previously covered in ice has melted, which is how I read the title.

From the article: "Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick (3.2-kilometer) center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface"

edit: poor grammar
It seems to me that there really are very few people who actually deny the earth is warming. There may be a very vocal minority in your circles but I don't see it in my travels. The only real question is how much of the warming is caused by humans and how much is part of a natural cycle. You did read the article right? This is part of a cycle. Perhaps there is some human influence on this cycle but how would the researchers know? Maybe in another 150 years when the ice sheet has already reformed and then begun to melt again repeating the cycle? Level heads are needed; not panic and politics.
I think the poster child for operator overloading abuse is iostreams overloading << and >>.

However, operator overloading is very much needed for when creating user defined types that have arithmetic properties, such as bigint, or matrix.

As for the confusion about whether + means "add" or "concatenate", that is unresolvable. The D programming language deals with it by introducing the ~ binary operator to mean "concatenate". No more problems.

Although in D one can overload operators to mean any crazy thing one wants to, the consensus in the community is to eschew non-arithmetic use in the same manner that the C community has condemned:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }
Can you tell me what exactly you need for Newsstand? We support Newsstand pushes; what do you need on top of the newly added in-app purchases?
A move like that, especially after hours, is almost always news (earnings in this case) related.
"There are tremendous disincentives in the system for innovation"

I feel that's overstating it but even if not, is it worse than industry? I've found academia to be very accepting of different viewpoints and depending on the field, experimentation is encouraged.

In my viewpoint, if an advisor in academia calls something 'high-risk' it's within the context of the overall work. For example, in grad school, the aim is to make a contribution to the field and get a PhD. Several students I've known have followed 'promising' lines of work (after disregarding advice to contrary) and ended up with nothing.
He could get locked out of using any U.S.-based payment processors on his website.
the fact i still love this app despite their terrible security problems from the last launch is a very good sign for them. i'd pay for this. don't need the instagram support though. sticking to professional stuff (like docs) seems like a more prudent move. google will be chasing this company soon.
Still, the title is really misleading, even though it may be true in a very, very narrow sense. Tbh. I think someone just went overboard there.
The problem of course is that we just don't know. We have our models, but they are all built on assumptions that can change any day. Some say that long term predictions are much more reliable than short term ones (aka. the weather forecast), yet still we are constantly surprised by climate events. The article itself is quite nice, so why fear mongering title (and I'm not even speaking about the HN title, that one is just completely misleading).
A few corollaries:

Don't hire someone for one of these rolls just because "everyone has an X" hire someone because they are great at it.

The majority of people in these roles aren't great, otherwise they wouldn't be as widely despised
ATT mentioned in their earnings call that they've made it harder to upgrade by extending the amount of time you must wait to be able to upgrade. They did it to boost earnings and it helped. That might also explain the softness in the iPhone numbers.
On it's own, it is just freak weather, which is why I was wondering about the probability of a clump of them, given the description of the weather cycle that triggered this. Lora Koenig, the scientist you quoted, was also saying that repetitions of this in the next few years would be worrisome.
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Pseudo repost, just because I think it is worth saying:

Our company started as one engineer. Second employee was a "business guy" - who stuck his foot in the door and kind of hired himself. Two years later, we are roughly twenty employees large (half contractors) and seven digits of revenue, largely thanks to employee #2. :) Engineers can sometimes be quick to dismiss the value of other roles (I know I have), but without the aforementioned employee, we would have no where near our current revenue (he locks down the contracts and ensures good revenue from them, two things no one else in our company is good at).
How about stop putting words in my mouth, and then making a big deal out of arguing about it?
Ah yes, I can see that now that the site loads in reasonable time.
Just post GPG-encrypted messages to USENET.

There's always the Mixmaster type-2 remailer network, though its current state seems to be in neglect. It's a shame the 90s-era cypherpunks haven't moved on to build more visible tools for protecting privacy,
That's next. :)
Ah, indeed you are correct. I had that wrong.
> The odds of it ever it getting enough legal playtime is slim.

I have some hope, since people have been fighting for years to repeal the heavily racially-biased 'open to public view' loophole in New York's marijuana laws, and Cuomo and Bloomberg recently voiced support for it (though it was right before the end of the session, so take that for what it's worth).

(For those not familiar with the loophole: in New York, possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana is a civil citation (think speeding ticket) and not a criminal offense. Despite this, NYC arrests more people per capita and by volume for marijuana possession than any other city in the entire world.

Why? Because having marijuana either burning or 'open to public view' is a Class B misdemeanor. So when the policeman says 'Empty your pockets for me; I know what's in there', he's essentially giving the victim an opportunity to incriminate himself for a misdemeanor that gets 90 days in jail, as opposed to a $100 fine with no arrest record[1].)

[1] Disclaimer: I'm actually not 100% sure how public the records for possession citations are; New York does this differently from Massachusetts, which passed a much more sensible law in 2008.
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Quite a lot as it turns out. Website Moneymarket has put together this cool infographic, giving you a breakdown of what it costs Bruce Wayne to actually be Batman.
Downvoting seems to be enabled around the 500 mark. At least for me.

Also, I just noticed the flag option for the first time. Thanks for pointing that out.
Dude, stop with the late fees and go check out www.zencash.com. It was built exactly for this purpose. Get a better receivables plan. ZC connects to your invoicing app and will send reminders on your behalf, or if you're really done with that customer, send the bill to collections.

It's not worth the stress, trust me, I've been there. Full disclosure: I just joined the team as DoP.
Apple TV outsells Xbox 360 in latest quarter
Useless to someone with no income but substantial savings -- it refused to get started. A niche group, of course...
It's fascinating to see how supposedly objective institutions are invested in selling environmentalist panic. The greens have certainly won the PR battle.
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Hmm, never heard of College of Albermarle. I don't disbelieve you -- most survey courses get taught in the 50-300 person seater rooms at UNC-CH. I just don't recall grad students teaching most of my courses, even the survey courses, whether they were in CS or Math (my majors) or the graduation requirements from social sciences, philosophy, etc. I had only one course taught by a grad student -- graphics. Which was your major at UNC-CH?
Newsstand also includes background downloading, issue management and an issues list. Some sort of library is also needed, so users can see what they have downloaded and what is on the device. Most indie developers I know struggle with these things if they don't use a pre-packaged publishing suite, like Adobe Digital Publishing or Magster.
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These are the people that make you say: "It would have been hard or impossible to do <thing> without <person>"

It turns out to be a decent test too. If you can't say that at least once about someone it's a bad sign.
Paul -

It's easy to interpret your post to mean that stealing/reusing data just because you can is fair competitive practice. Please do clarify because your words mean a lot to people and your post might be interpreted that way.

Hilarious to expose their sanctimonious nonsense though.
Righthaven is different. Righthaven did not have a copyright use license, so it did not have the right to enforce the copyright. (A copyright enforcement "license" is a non-license, legally, since it does not convey any actual copy "right" such as distribution.)

Craiglist does have a copyright use license, and thus has the right to enforce the license it has been granted.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We strongly believe what you want App.net to be is exactly what twitter could have been (http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been). We are definitely thinking a lot about community building.
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I thought the coca cola logo was white lettering on a red field. Batman logo coloring is dubious at best
Yes it does: "fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers)"
I'm currently working on an open source project. Here is what I've learned.

1. There are two kinds of OSS projects. Libraries/utilities aimed at programmers and full applications (whoever simple they may be) aimed at a specific industry/need. What you choose will depend on your personal preference and needs. In my case, I chose to do an application because it is something that is needed and not currently available (for free, and in PHP (the language I'm using)). I also use it as a personal tool ( I used it to build it ).

2. Talk to people before deciding. I love asking people about their jobs in order to find new needs. My current project was born that way.

3. Pick something simple for your first project. You want to pick something doable. A simple open source project that ships is better than a complex one that stagnates in your file system.

4. Treat it as if you were doing a paid project. Use deadlines, make compromises, and for the love of code, stick to them. I learned this the hard way. Decide and code. Rinse and repeat. Learn to live with your choices.

5. Document it at the same time you build it. This ended up being easier/faster for me.

6. Don't forget to promote it by emailing people with a link to the project and putting a link right here on HN.

Good luck!
In that vein, check out zencash.com. It automates all the backend payables stuff that Monteiro advocates.
Ask HN: How much do you think this domain is worth?
I bought the domain name, GitPush.com, about two years ago with plans of making a git push web hosting service. After a lot of thought, i decided against it but kept hold of the domain.

Now i'd like to sell it on and am curious to know how much it could be worth.

I did a quick check on google keyword tool and have seen that the term 'git push' gets over 90k searches a month with low competition. My guess is that, that should make it work atleast $5k, along with the brandability of it.

Am i wrong here? I don't know much about domaining.

Would like hear your opinions?
> the exercise of ‘writing the ideal press release’ first, before you even write a line of code

That's an interesting idea - Press Driven Development. Has anyone here tried it?
* I picked a color for IBM that was almost perfect (it barely darkened just a bit when I submitted), but it gave me a 3.14.
* Dropbox's logo is colored pretty differently depending on where it's displayed (I colored mine lighter, like the system tray icon, rather than darker like the logo on their homepage).
* For Apple, I tried just submitting without making any changes because it looked pretty close to correct already. I was given a 0%, even though it only barely changed.
Nope, not copyright infringement either.
I think they're just standardising on hardware that is capable of OpenGL 3.0 and above. Most of the older Macs that don't support ML are the ones with Intel chips that only support 2.1 if I remember correctly.
>But things aren’t over for Brennan yet. The TSA is also investigating him to see if he possibly interfered with the screening process. If found guilty, he could be forced to pay an $11,000 fine and be put on the no-fly list. [italic mine]

Wow. What a country.
Send me an email. Address in profile. I'd like to talk to you about this in more depth and in private.
My thoughts exactly. Is it an rss reader too?
This is also Amazon's approach to product development. See the Quora answer at: http://www.quora.com/What-is-Amazons-approach-to-product-dev...
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We have a strict set of criteria when rating a review as positive or negative. In general, if the review is even slightly negative we rate it as such...in the case of Moonwalking, NYT expresses a few disappointments about the book. This is to help surface only the very best of books in each genre.
# of low-quality support requests could work for that.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I guess no, we don't have the support for these.

To satisfy my curiosity, are there a lot of indy newsstand developers? Wouldn't most newsstand apps be made by larger media companies?
Yes, the syntax (or lack thereof, whichever you prefer).

Obviously I'm not entitled to tell anyone how to design their databases. I'm just saying there's good reasons why so many DBs stick to a SQL-like syntax, and that is because the alternatives are usually worse (think: familiarity, tooling, scripting, REPL, etc.).

For example, using the MongoDB REPL, which is probably close to what a datalog-REPL would look like, is rather painful.

This may all be a non-issue when a LISP-language is exclusively used on the client-side. That query-style probably just snaps in naturally there (I don't know lisp).

But if the database is supposed to be general purpose, accessed with lesser languages, scripted, quickly fixed by half-drunk humans at 4am in a REPL... then it certainly matters to have a sane intermediate lingo. Otherwise, at the least, every client-platform is going to invent their own.

I think the example of Cassandra is really a good one to study. They went through an interesting learning-process that seems very applicable here.

Edit: Please see my other comment above. It seems I have misunderstood the project goals and this is in fact not meant to become a general purpose DB. Under that premise my concerns obviously don't apply...
Hi! Fair question. We're trying to build a universal Finder, a single point of entry to all of the digital content you have that's currently dispersed across an ever-growing number of cloud and web services. A bit of this was present in a TechCrunch article earlier today (http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/24/collections-for-mac-instagr...), but we're currently writing a blog post that will more fully explain what we're up to.
Don't some of the large software and hardware companies also support research at universities? I think that some of the research labs at my university get supported heavily by companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm. However, I don't really know the specifics.
Clojure exists because rhickey didn't like the current state of programming languages. Dataomic exists because rhickey didn't like the current state of DB design. SQL is an anti-goal.

"Familiarity" is a terrible metric for new things. New things are not always familiar. As rhickey said in one of his talks, there's a difference between what's simple, and what's familiar. "I don't know German, does that make it unreadable?". German may or may not be the ideal thing, but the fact that it isn't english is not an argument against it.

> Just out of curiosity, what would you call this language then: [:find ?entity :where [?entity :db/doc \"hello world\"]]?

Datalog (or a dialect of it). Datalog is a variation on prolog, designed for querying databases. Just as there are many lisps, there are many datalogs. This one is interesting because datomic querys are valid clojure data structures. It's a great example of code as data. It's trivial to write clojure functions that return data that can be passed as a query to datomic. If you wanted, you could probably even write datomic queries that return other queries. Try doing that with SQL ;-)
You need a better website with a better explanation of what it is that you do. Get a cheap template from one of the big providers, and ditch bootstrap.

Then (drum roll), email people about it.
People could always post to padmapper...directly. Or sell on Ebay...Or post it to the various subreddits...Or to local newspaper's community boards...

There is nothing forcing people to use Craiglist. They are not a monopoly, nor do they act like one.
There's a problem with "critic" reviews, at least from where I'm sitting: critics don't review anything that's not backed by a huge publisher, effectively locking out all of the small-time authors who might actually have something good.

For example, I was interviewed about my book for School Library Journal, but the book reviewer side of the house refuse to even consider it for a proper book review.
Many have aired this, and we've been concerned about it ourselves, but our hope is to subvert and overcome the connotation.
Please put an about/faq page to let people know more about the website. I like the principle behind the design, but it looks a bit cluttered.
The users chose to give Craiglist permission to use their data. They did not choose to give PadMapper their data, or else they would have posted their listing to PadMapper.

They did give Craiglist permission to prevent others from using their data without permission. In this context, scraping any version of Craiglist's site (whether CL itself or a third party cache) falls within Craiglist's rights under the license they were given, and within the user's expectations of what Craiglist will do with their data.
Good luck explaining that to a judge. Would you gamble a company based on that distinction?
Honest question for the devs - why the focus on Instagram? I thought that your original product was fantastic (despite the security problems). I feel like adding in Instagram takes away from the awesome original version: an amazing desktop version of Google Docs.
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Wait I missed the NYT story. Link or title?

edit: found it http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on...
Different priorities indeed, it's hardly about limited resources.
Ask HN: Examples of truly great dashboards?
Every project I've ever worked on has required a dashboard of some sort at some point or another. Yet I've never been able to find more than a few decent examples to learn from. A few that come to mind are:

Chartbeat
Google Analytics

Do you have any web or mobile application dashboards that you love? Or even like?

Thanks in advance!
There are quite a few book sites providing good discoverability combined with community, combined with curated selections, etc. etc.

You've added a nice design, but the categorization of the books is weak as is the selection itself. I looked at History, which seems to be comprised of 'historical fiction' and I looked for "Tony Judt" who was a significant recently published historian but is not represented.
I've tried to rationalize my own jump out of academia a while ago, which I did after passing my mid-term tenure review (I'm currently with Mozilla, happily pushing the boundaries of the web).

In doing so I came up with a (super-scientific!) "professional satisfaction formula":

http://blog.arturadib.com/the-formula-for-professional-satis...
Under the HN logic prevailing in this discussion, that would appear to be correct...

But like padmapper, you would be completely screwed if it turned into a lawsuit.
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CL revised their TOU recently (within the past year, possibly more recently than that). It wasn't a minor edit, it was a complete rewrite.

I suspect this may have been one of the introduced terms.
You can't copyright data, only its expression. That a certain apartment is available for rent is a fact. The text that appears on the CL website is one expression of that fact. The map that appears on Padmapper is another expression of the same fact.
I cringe every time an article says "gutenberg invented the printing press", without comparison to the corresponding chinese invention at all. =\
So a product which recently got a brand new release outsold a product which is over 7 years old, costs twice as much, has already sold 65 million units and only loosely competes in the same market? Cool.

Weirdly all these points were made in the article, but they still went with the linkbait headline.