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From http://hollylisle.com/crippling-apple-ibookstore-ethical-and..., quoting Ms Lisle:

'I received an email from Apple’s iBookstore that How To Think Sideways—Lesson 6: How to Discover (or Create) Your Story’s Market has been pulled for containing links to a “Competing Website” and that in order to have the lesson put back on sale, I’ll have to remove the offending links.'

I'm strongly inclined to believe that she is being truthful and fair in representing that received email based on her tone and responses in the comments [at least] of her site. She seems only concerned with allowing students using Apple products to buy an uncrippled/non-bawdlerised product.

>I doubt just saying the word "Amazon" can really be an instant rejection //

Indeed, it appears she links to Amazon in the ebook as that is [she says] the only place that one can learn the technique she is teaching.

Edit:

Apologies I think I went in too soon with that comment. It appears it is much worse for Apple:

Quoting Ms Lisle again (http://hollylisle.com/apple-made-its-decision-my-turn/?awt_l...) 'You don’t tell someone “The problem is the live links,” and then, when that person has complied with your change request and removed the live links, turn around and say, “No, no. The problem is the CONTENT. You can’t mention Amazon in your lesson.'

So it sounds like she complied by removing links and then they told her it wasn't the links but the content.
Hey, can you email me at garbage1234@live.ca ? I'm interested in a DVI->LVDS converter, would like to talk with someone who has worked with them in the past.
Thank you for the links, I'll look into Sup

SMTP was a piece of cake (apart from a weird SSL bug, which took up the majority of my time), but IMAP does look significantly trickier from the RFC

I would love to be in a place where IMAP isn't needed, and I plan to use my own API's for the client applications

Thank you for the code, in any case, it looks like a good laugh to read :D
If it comes to pass, it will create a huge gulf between people 'with' augmented sight and those without. That would not be helpful.
Relevant: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-a...

...Barnes and Noble’s budget electronic edition of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” had searched for and replaced all incidences of the word “kindled” (a variant of the name of Amazon’s e-reader, of course, but also a legitimate English word) with the word “Nookd.”...
OK, Thank you for the report, I will disable SSL in the future, because the amount of people seeing scaring errors is too high :/

EDIT: OK I won't disable SSL
I've been thinking about Derek, too, and I agree with many of his insightful thoughts. Yet, I think that measuring greatness by "starting a successful business and gaining financial independence" is lopsided on the business side of life.

Greatness and potential are very individual and 'multidimensional'. Not everyone who will be a great person eventually will be a great entrepreneur.
Apparently this news is from about a year ago, and currently there's no such talk of an investment: http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINL2E8IS2GO20120728?i...
You are actually hurting startup founders by farting out this HN-optimized fluff of platitudes and having your co-founder vote it up. Please stop it.
well, we're talking about two different teams in a very big company...
Not true for MacOS, though Apple is not exactly going out of the way to make it easier. Closer to the truth for iOS, where all "advanced user" stuff is not only not made available - but applications making it possible are explicitly banned. I know there are reasons for that - like if you can do power user stuff, you probably can circumvent Apple restrictions that bring them that juicy 30% payment cut - but the fact is the fact.

However, this is the iOS picture, on Mac picture is much better - I could do on Mac almost every power user thing I did on Linux, albeit I'd have to do more research to find the proper docs and the proper tools, and some of the tools may be not free (in either sense).
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I have worked in that type of environment so let me clear something up for you. It's your own damn fault! The code could have been tested on Mozilla at the same time, for example. I was there when people wrote that crap and people felt that running in IE was good enough. Companies should always have been taking the approach that a web browser isn't simply an app from Microsoft.

You either pay a little up front or a lot later. Time to pay up and fix that legacy code that no one wants to touch.
wow, you created your profile to express your disgust of him?
She isn't claiming it is an instant rejection I don't think. But it sounds like they flagged it initially based on links, she removed the links and then they said it was actually the content itself.
Well, it wouldn't exactly be the first time Apple is inconsistent in the application of their own rules.
Your analogy is flawed.

To make it complete, the fictional fire alarm company would not come to you at all. While at your house originally installing the fire alarm, they would grab the key to your house from where it hangs by the door, make a copy (without your knowledge), then hang it back on the wall. Later, when the defect in the alarm was discovered, they would use that copy of the key to let themselves in to your house while you were at work. Then they would replace the fire alarm without your consent or your knowledge of them doing so (well, of course, until you returned from work and figured out what happened when you were gone -- assuming that you noticed the new alarm).

I don't have a problem with companies and other development organizations updating their software. In fact, I encourage them to do so (especially in the case of security issues). However, I do have a problem with said companies/organizations making such updates without first informing me that they are doing so, and getting my consent to do so before performing the update.

It's not your computer. It's my computer. I paid for it. I get to control it. Period. If I am subject to security vulnerabilities because of the browser version I'm using, that is my responsibility.

I detest software where automatic updates are turned on by default, without ever presenting the user the option of turning them off (without having to go hunt down said option after the program is installed). Automatic updates have ramifications. They can screw up working installations. I get tired of having to go and disable automatic updates from applications, browsers, java runtimes (and that stupid Java system tray icon in Windows).

I'm not against being able to turn on automatic updates. There are plenty of users who don't want to fool with it, and that's their business. I just think users should be given the choice up front. We shouldn't have to go looking for it after installation. I am still mildly irritated by having an option for automatic updates being checked on by default at installation time, but I could live with that irritation if all applications were explicitly giving users the option then. However, the trend of late seems to be updates turned on automatically, without even informing the user that there are automatic updates.

I like to know when software is being installed on my computer. I want to be asked before it is installed.
People should implement Mozilla profiles instead of a new version of OAuth.
IMHO, Apple is clearly doing this because they can't get a cut of the revenue generated by the sale of the book on Amazon.

Shallow thinking on their part as (a) they could route the links through their own affiliate account on Amazon, (b) they could cut a referrer deal with Amazon so that it appears to be a direct link, or (c) they could recommend alternative, competing books on iBookStore since they control the user experience.

I have personal experience that they are doing this same thing in iPhone apps, as they have declined an app of mine because there is a revenue model they can't tap into, and they were very clear about their intent.

I just can't work with a company that forces me to change my content/apps to fit their ridiculously greedy model. Sure, she could just go somewhere else, but Apple is in deals with Pearson and Harcourt, and will be handling a significant number of school texts exclusively.

I wonder if they'll force those partners to not mention competing services.

* UPDATE *

Now that I've mulled... I don't understand why she doesn't just upload the 2nd book to iBookstore, then link to IT in the 1st book and resubmit. Sure, it's bullshit, but Apple owns their own marketplace and can do any stupid bullshit they want. If you want to play on their field, you have to fondle, I mean use their balls.

If Amazon reciprocated, they would remove potentially 34,557 books that mention Apple, including over 80 that mention iBookstore. If they just went for books that had LINKS to apple, there's over 2,000 of those. I just don't see Amazon being as stupid as Apple, ever, that they would censor writers in this way.
Is it possible to someone make distinctions in OAuth and OpenID/BrowserID? It seems like a lot of people use OAuth for identity verification rather than accessing data.

Or a different question, would it be possible to craft OAuth 3 in a way that it works great alongside BrowserID?
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'The citizens' is referencing the group uniformly. 'Citizens' and 'USG' clearly have a large intersection, but the point is that importance should be distributed throughout the former. That some citizens are bad actors doesn't change this.

I was drawing a parallel with bank security as the same institution-based priorities apply to the NSA. Their version of 'security' primarily involves securing the position of USG and its subsidiaries by monitoring everyone to gain intelligence against possible threats (including the non-criminal threats). This makes the citizens, who should be the most important, less secure.
>Honestly that video seemed from the start like a horrific distopian nightmare.

I think that was the point.

Personally I thought it was superb and extremely well acted.

As someone who has been a cyberpunk fan my entire life - I am 100% against implant augmentations, for specifically this reason.

Even something as seemingly innocuous as an in-eye-HUD turns you into a complete robot... something no longer human.

The sad thing is that we will get to this reality, and it is from our current outside view that we can see this is not a good thing. When the ops are available to everyone, their view will become shrouded in digital lies.

I have two small children. The biggest thing I can do for them as a parent is to teach them as much as possible to be connected to their humanity.

I loved the vid - for its creativity and its warning.

I still love the idea of all that is cyberpunk, just not so much the reality...
Meta: Is it just me or the typography of the blog post barely legible? Especially the code snippets. Windows 7 on chrome.
Agreed. Maybe an abnormality?
Author here. I wrote this draft a few years ago after getting frustrated with OAuth 2.0. And, whilst I am grateful for llambda for posting it to HN, it was never meant to be published in this unfinished state. So please bear this in mind as you come across incomplete sections.

I never bothered to finish it back in 2010 since everyone seemed quite content with OAuth 2.0 at that time. However, now that it has been posted, I would love to know if anyone would like to see a completed version.

[Edit: Also, any criticisms of what's already there and thoughts on anything else you feel should be included would be really appreciated. Thanks!]
Apple book suicide? Most books sold aren't self-published. This won't even dent iBooks at all. I prefer the iBookstore for a few reasons, but one is that the comments on Amazon are often filled with ranting nonsense. You can't visit a bestseller's page on Amazon without seeing tons of comments about the price of the book and how angry they are about it, while on iBooks, the comments seem to be more reasoned. I don't know if iBooks readers are just more chilled out or it the requirement that you actually have purchased the book filters out nonsensical comments.
You sound like someone personally familiar with depression?

If so, may I ask a question?

I imagine it is true that people who are depressed may have a mental blockade to self-diagnose and independently coming to the conclusion that they may be suffering from depression. But is it also true that people who are depressed may also (always, sometimes) be resistant to the suggestion from others that they may be suffering from depression? ie: Is it common that depression may be accompanied by a self-defense mechanism whereby the afflicted may be highly resistant to the suggestion or any discussion of the topic?

Secondarily....if you are worried about someone, what would be a good approach? Talk to them on one of their "up" days, hoping that they may be thinking more clearly than usual?
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I think the even bigger point is it's never ok to organize data in a way that removal of the UI leaves you with no access to the data at all, even though you could use another tool to do UI if only the vendor gave you proper access to the data. E.g. if Apple stored their RSS feeds, say, in OPML - migration would be easy. If they exported the feed to OPML on upgrade - migration would be not very hard too. Since Apple did everything the wrong way there, the user had to use 3 tools and spend hours of manual work to get her data back.

This is especially bad coming from the company that is known for their neglect to BC and overhauling UIs in most radical way. Their developers must have known the possibility of UI change exists - and still stored the data in a format that turns this possibility into a major problem for the user.

Compare, for example, to Firefox that stores bookmarks in HTML(-like) file. If ever something happens to Firefox project or their bookmark functionality, I can always take the HTML and get the info out with the simplest of tools, and probably I won't have to, since these tools would already exist - since the format is easy to use.
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Seems to me that the article singles out Microsoft because it puts this motion in the context of Microsoft making secret patent deals with Android manufacturers:

I seriously want to see those license terms, and I'd go so far as to suggest that the public has a right to know what those terms are, particularly future victims of Microsoft's patent strategy, and I know you want to know this too, because we've all heard the rumors that Microsoft licenses on very, very low royalties, just to be able to say to the world that Android/Linux folks are paying Microsoft for its patents. I'd love to know if that is true. Plus, if Microsoft paid for Samsung's FRAND patents the fee Samsung is asking Apple for, on what basis would Microsoft argue in its litigation against Motorola, that FRAND patents should be paid for at a greatly reduced royalty?
Maybe not everybody likes this philosophy...
I don't know, really - I can totally relate to most of the items described in this post. Just providing a counterpoint.
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Re 1: The iPad has 786432 pixels vs the iPod 4G's 614400. Not that big a difference, particularly as that mainly affects the framebuffer. If each pixel in the back, front and Z buffers uses 32 bits, that's a whopping 2MB RAM difference, or less than 1% of the total. So, no technical reason, end of story.

Re 2: The android makers don't seem to brag about being environmentally friendly. Apple can be held to higher standards as they're making that a supposed selling point.

Re 3: I guess it depends on the apps you're making. For autorotation and dynamically-sized content in particular it's extremely useful and saves quite a bit of manual work.
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Thanks for your comment:

> You are actually hurting startup founders by farting
> out this HN-optimized fluff of platitudes and having
> your co-founder vote it up. Please stop it.
> -- notbitter

As you might imagine, I don't agree with it. More, I don't actually understand what you're really trying to say. I gather you don't like it, and I do understand that some people will have different opinions to mine, but if you don't explain clearly then I really don't have a chance to learn from you.

So, if you don't mind, could you expand on your comment and make your arguments clearer?

I'm also interested in what seems to be some sort of accusation. In particular, you say:

> ... having your co-founder vote it up.

I didn't write it, and I am not a co-founder of the person who did, so I'd be interested to learn who you think is a co-founder of whom. Otherwise this smells of an accusation of dishonesty.

I look forward to your reply.

Oh, and I just thought I'd add, I haven't downvoted you, not least because I can't. HN doesn't allow downvoting of replies to one's own submissions or comments
I think that's a good idea, but in practice it can be hard to strike a balance that I like. If you get to the question part too soon, or if the question requires too much of a leap or background knowledge, you can hit a brick wall.
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This is the place where the line is drawn, but not when. Check https://www.google.com.br/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=4&sou...

Apple can, and will, decide what expression will be published. It's not a platform, it's more like a newspaper classified section, with bias.
>Get outside, enjoy the green grass, the birds in the trees. Talk to people you know. Talk to strangers! Drive to Wisconsin, and find out whatever it is they do there. Build a treehouse. Park on a parkway and drive on a driveway. Make a macaroni necklace. Visit a dairy. Climb a rock. Seek life.

This is what becoming a parent is like!

Have a kid and you'll do a lot more of this stuff!
> Information has been limited, but it doesn't appear they have any formalized Linux plans at this point but are actively monitoring the space.

tl;dr - No, Blizzard won't be bringing their games to Linux.
Irrespective of whether that was the case, it's abhorrent behaviour. OpenStack needs to sort this out, openly.
The point is this: if malware is published using your developer certificate, then Apple can simply revoke the certificate and by default, users won't be able to install or run your applications anymore.

As for the shortcut keys, they're documented, so you don't have to remember them.
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Considering the fact that if you apply for scholarships, get good grades is high school and good ACT/SAT scores, and you can get funding from the government, college can be relatively inexpensive. I went to a private school with comparable tuition to MIT and I walked out with only around 50k in debt. If I went to a public university, it would have been much less. So, I have about as much debt as this company took to train a bunch of high schoolers.

Although I agree that college costs are high, they aren't insurmountable if you apply for scholarships, government funding (FASA), and you do well in school or sports.
It's not just you. The code snippets use Inconsolata which, in my experience, looks splendid on Linux and absolutely crap on Windows. Presumably he never looked at his site from a Windows computer.
And you don't have to buy your iBooks books from Apple. In fact, I rarely (maybe never) have, but I prefer it's reading experience to the Kindle apps (for whatever reason). I just use Calibre to convert.
I wonder how ibookstore would cope with an accurate history of electronic tablet devices and their influence on book publishing.
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You're right, I overlooked how they restricted their license restriction "The following restrictions apply to everything [..] in these downloads, except for the open source pieces. ". Now it starts making sense.
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This comment may seem trollish or stupid, but it is what I would say to the OP if I met him in real life. If it doesn't sound nice that's because conversations aren't always nice.

Stop whining. Just do whatever you want to do.

As a question to everyone else here: why upvote this shameless self-pity?
Actually, for bookmarks you don't need an utility, since they're stored in plist file. It is not as good as it could be, since it's not human-readable and needs plist tools, which AFAIK are available only on Apple platform, to read - but it can be easily converted using these tools to XML format which then can be processed by any tool. So in this case Apple is not good for regular user, but tolerable for power user.

OTOH, Firefox has its bookmarks in HTML file which you could just open in any browser.
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right, so people in the past are able to predict the future of software markets and sysadmins have complete control over where a company's development resources go. okay, got it.
But your assertion was that this was an easy problem solved with just a few lines of shell code. That assertion is only true in an extremely limited context where the only language possible is English and the only character encoding is ascii. That's where the Unix tools shines because they are great at handling problems easily expressable as regular expressions. But it is not a very realistic example, nor a fair comparison.

> As bryanlarsen pointed out, the shell solution can easily be extended by using an internationalized version of tr.

You should try that and then blog about it. :) I've spent lots of time battling issues with ascii-centric libraries. My conclusion is that it is not easy at all which is not strange because tools like tr and sed were written decades before unicode support became a must have. I can't say that it is impossible to write a shell script to count words in a text written in Arabic script, but it doesn't seem easy.
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Yep. For those like myself who didn't have a german SIM for the week it was very useful.
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No, I'm pretty sure "move fast and break things" is Facebook.
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The importance of a programming language is not domain specific.
They didn't destroy the data

No, they just left it hidden and in an unreadable format.
Yes, but the marketshare is minuscule. iTunes carries UR. I don't know if the iBookstore has it, but it is a novel about a Kindle. Which mentions Amazon many times. I wonder if they would apply the same policy to such a popular author ...
Tried again, that error is gone but now I get another error. opening the app url in browser generates a '404 - page not found'

Further, trying to update the app using 'af update' generates following error --> Starting Application 'appname': ..........................Error (JSON 503): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="u...

seems like you have lot of bugs waiting to be fixed ;)