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I get the argument about the principle. But I guess Steko is nearer on reality that it practically does not matter. Because it really does not "effectively" stifle freedom of press. Especially if the developer himself regards Drone+ as a one trick pony with no downloads. And there are dozens of full featured news apps available who are reporting all kinds of bad news. You can surf the big wide web. An email newsletter would provide the same feature of a notification alert.

A few years ago I read a disgruntled guy complaining that he made a very basic clock App, but Apple rejected it with the explanation there are already hundreds basic clock Apps in the clock category. The other commenters were riled up, how dare you Apple! But in the end there are really enough ways to check the date and time.

> Whether it gets one complaint or a million is not relevant to the question.

I disagree. A million complains have enough weight to lead to a public discussion and the forming of public opinion and pressure. In the hn thread about this drone-topic, which was only 2 days ago, this link was posted:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/apple-removes-gay-cure/

Quote:
"After more than 146,000 people signed a petition against a “gay cure” app, Apple has removed it from the App Store."

I am glad this junk was removed! But from your viewpoint of principle it should be allowed?

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UK developers are already far too effective?
I suppose that wouldn't work at all if you need immediate updates of drone attacks (so that you can respond in some way?) I'm questioning the need for push notifications rather than trying to propose an exact equivalent.
I'm concerned that men are underrepresented in nursing. It's a fairly remunerative career that I'm sure many men would enjoy if there were less societal baggage.
You presume too much. What we, I anyway, want is for the CS "population" to reflect the population of people who are naturally good at and enjoy CS. This may not have the same gender ratio as the population at large, but I'm pretty sure we're not there now either. And that means some people are not doing what they they're best at, what they were meant to do, which is bad for both them and society.

Now as a tactical concern on the road there, there are definitely some men in the system who will not react well to there being more women. Trying to change them with reason will have limited effectiveness. I think what we need to do is put enough highly competent women in front of them that they either have to shut up or look like idiots, thus marginalizing them and their bad attitudes. This will make it easier to get to the natural, aptitude-based proportion of people in the field. This is, IMO, a good reason to encourage well-suited women to go into the field. I don't know of a better way to accomplish the goal of reducing gender bias overall.
If I'm going to pay for a stake in the company I'd like to know a little bit about the people running it. There is no information about the company at all.
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There are lots of simple things that one could do to a roadway to impede or endanger traffic. Consider, for example, the danger of leaving something sharp or slick on a tight turn where people often speed.

I've thought about this for a few years, and as near as I can tell it's either much harder than it seems, or there are fewer vandals than I'd have expected.
This seems like a really bad idea. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you succeed at this, you will have to become a publicly reporting company if you take even 1 more investor.

Isn't there also a minimum you have to invest according to the JOBS Act? I thought it was like $1,000.

Maybe I'm taking this too seriously, this feels very scammy to me, asking people for this money without providing a shred of evidence that this website will ever exist or that you're people capable of doing it.
This is an interesting prejudice. I don't know what makes the author think Google's app will offer poor experience. YouTube app for Android is great. I'm sure Google will try to create a great experience for iOS as well.
I've now become almost 100% certain this is either a scam or something done by people who have no idea what they're doing.

Terribly designed website and incredibly vague business idea with nothing more than a pseudo-landing page and a cash ask? I don't think so.
I agree. These are companies that just duct-tap together high tech, made by others. High tech companies are IBM, Intel, Sun, Oracle, etc, and those are firmly planted outside cities. A good rule of thumb is if the company consists mostly of 20 something hipsters, its not a high-tech company :)
There are 2^(6 billion) subgroups of humanity. A large number [1] of those subgroups are poorly represented among developers - the number is too large to represent with a long integer.

Why do you choose one particular subgroup to be concerned about?

[1] The number is, however, very small in comparison to 2^(6 billion).
> Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

There is no DRM on this book, luckily enough.
Calling it "convertible equity" is a farce... it should be called lazy equity. This isn't a break-through in investment vehicles and no one should be drawn in based on a check-list of convertible debt risks.
I also love how "people" talk about Palm phones even though they've clearly never actually used or seen one. Because if you there is no way you would make a comparison between them and the iPhone. They are world's apart.

Also no offense but you might want to cut down on the hyperbole. Society is not going to be harmed by companies like Samsung having to find other ways to style their phone or design their UIs.
Yeah same reaction here. I have a few friends with crowd funding startups and they're all in demo-mode until crowd-funding legislation is implemented next year. I'd consult an attorney quickly and put this campaign on hold.

I think you're risking being charged with securities fraud. IANAL
As I understand it, Twitter already makes plenty of money off of their data. Many companies are interested in getting access to more data than what's available for free, and they pay for it. Check out DataSift and Gnip: they are resellers of various social media data.
There is practically no information on the site, and the whole thing couldn't have taken more than 15 minutes to throw together.

Sure, take my $100.
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Apple is losing points with me due to...

- Youtube app removal
- New iMaps when you click a map link on a website your built in map app no longer loads showing you the address you seek. Rather, it now takes you to a dead end Google Map in your browser.
- The iPhone 5 if the new designs seen throughout the blogosphere are true then MEH. The S3's design is slick; size of a credit card.
- Wielding their patent power to try & kill the competition, which could possibly back fire on them.

I have owned various iPhone models over the past four years. Though I'm seriously considering a different manufacturer - hopefully one that provides the same level of customer service Apple does.
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Seems like an arbitrary distinction. Job, school, marriage, et al are all social constructs with certain principles and rules to try keep things operating smoothly and beneficially to all participants. You can break the rules in any of them to the detriment of your counter-parties.
In this case, they cheapen the brand of a Harvard degree and potentially screw the non-cheaters if there's a grading curve.
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I'm impressed with how well it works with touch input.
hey djb_hackernews, thanks for catching that. We had this issue logged for Firefox but no one got around to it. I fixed that for you.
"absolute control on a market"

I don't think this means what you think it means.

"exerts its influence on political grounds"

You're assuming Apple is exerting it's influence on political grounds as opposed to simply thinking the app has failed their taste guidelines. I've seen a number of comments suggesting the same thing or that they are buckling to government pressure but without evidence all of that amounts to little more then conspiracy theory mongering.

"Whether it gets one complaint of a million is not relevant to the question"

It's certainly relevant, the force of numbers is how pressure is exerted both in the market and in democracy. I'm sure there's a few people outraged that white power apps aren't in the app store. The key word is "few" as in generally, no one gives a fuck. Nearly every argument slamming Apple over Drones+ seems just as effective when restated for white power political party apps. IMHO that's a sign something's wrong with those arguments.

"if this was the case of ISPs blocking access to a website"

I've already talked about this above. I don't see these as remotely equivalent.
This sounds tantalizingly similar to something I suggested in a blogpost 2 weeks ago:

"So here’s an idea for the next app.net, and there will be a next app.net, people love taking money from [suckers]users. Sell an account for $100 a year (or whatever), but the first 1000 users also get 0.001% equity."

So at $100 per 0.01% for 2000 accounts they're valuing the idea at a grand total of 10000 dollars. Okay, that's a whole lot for a poorly designed landing page, but at the same time incredibly low for a grand and inspiring idea, such as would be needed to part me with $100.

While I obviously support the general idea, I think they've gone about it in a half arsed way.

edit: I'm bad at math, the value is 1,000,000 which is more reasonable. But I still think the website should have gotten a bit more attention than that .... "When you're asking someone for money, wear a tie."
Actually, not really.

Your code breaks on any PHP "callable" http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.callable.php of which Closures are just one.
This looks like a serious productivity boost. Where has it been hiding all my life?

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I don't think it's so much racism per se as a militant nationalism and national-exceptionalist view, as the key defining feature (we are the best nation and will build a glory that will shine for the ages).

Before Hitler forced him to pass anti-Jewish laws, Mussolini wasn't particularly racist, just nationalist. His thing was the eternal greatness of Italy, the connection to ancient Roman glory, the new legions of Italy rebuilding the Roman empire, reorienting society on martial and patriotic lines, etc., etc. The collectivism basically stems from that: the Nation above all. To me, that's a very right-wing sort of collectivism, whereas both the left and liberals have more of an internationalist and multicultural orientation.

It's true that it's not libertarian (either right-libertarian or left-libertarian). But I don't think it's too alien from cultural conservatism and "national greatness conservatism", which also places a high emphasis on patriotism and the nation, and is highly critical of individuals who deviate from what they see as the good of the community (hence the traditional conservative support for censorship of blasphemous, prurient, and seditious literature, as they believe it's the government's job to prevent this kind of deviance). As one litmus test, we might look at which parts of the political spectrum support mandatory Pledge of Allegiance recitation, in order to train the youth to put their Nation first.
Then live in SF. It's really not that complicated. If you want the suburban life, you can get that in NY as well as in CA. If you want the urban life, that's available in both states as well.
So obviously that list will include Google right ?

Because Google/Motorola was refusing to license at reasonable cost H.264 patents to Microsoft despite them being required under FRAND obligations to do so.
Once again, OP and myself aren't against channel owners putting up ads to make money. We aren't against ad supported video services. However, we are ruining user-experiences and basic value add while searching for an ad-based revenue stream. As google has demonstrated with search, there are cases where you can make money from ads and still have a good user experience. How does advocating this philosophy imply that I want more than I rightfully and fairly should get?

When you don't read to understand the main point, and instead allow yourself to react to a knee-jerk reaction of your own sensibilities, you miss out from really hearing others.
> Animal meat, which has an enormous ecological footprint, is on its way out. I'm not a vegetarian, so I'm not saying this on top of some moral high horse, but it's inefficient and the way animals are raised and slaughtered now is insanely cruel.

Actually there are places where plants are worse. How do you grow cereals in hot or cold areas or in the mountains? You'll need irrigation for the hot one and harvesting is going to suck in the mountains. There's also the issue of deforestation. Instead it's better to raise animals like chicken, sheep or goats and let them feed with the grass that's available.

Regarding efficiency of plants I've heard that hemp (which is much better than soy) is easy to grow, but I'm not sure about this. Maybe someone else has more information about it.
I'm well aware of that.

Although it seems PHP tried to treat it as a string callable IIRC.
I think they have no idea what they're doing. I've played with this idea in my head as well but it takes 1 google search to see what kind of shit you can get yourself in.
The docudrama 'The pirates of Silicon Valley' has a small clip with some IBM employees singing some song. I thought it was a one off thing.
Thanks, that's a very good point, and sadly I think you may be right.

It does make me wonder at what point - if ever in our lifetimes - we'll see global market broadcasting rights being offered. Wonder what the disruption will be that causes it.
But defending attribution rights doesn't mean you have to defend copyright.
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As an IBM intern, nothing has made me happier than reading this.

Now I just wish HN had a downvote button so I could get it off the front page and make sure I'm the only one on my team who knows about it, haha
Legal loophole ?

Since when is the concept of trade dress and patent infringement which has been used by countless companies over the years a legal loophole.
Not, but removing hundreds of thousands of taxi/truck drivers will do it
You're kidding me, right?

Currently, you would be taxed 40% of that 100k. So immediately you would only have 60k. Whatever you do with that: spend it, invest it, you only start with 60k, even though your earned 100k.

And most likely, you will diversify... spend some, invest some, save some.
US law is not immutable.
Hobbyists in Germany have already multicopters which are GPS pre-programmed so you don't need any pilots to control them during the mission.

Hobbyists everywhere can have this - Arducopter (DIYDrones.com) and other projects have had this for years. Arduino + compass + GPS + accelerometer + altimeter + optional XBee radio (~2km+ range on some models) + autopilot software... preprogrammed routes, live telemetry and course changes via Xbee and ground control software.
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Yes, that is exactly right.

But bear in mind Google's margin is 24%+
Not quite a secret: IBM's official archive has the 1935 edition as well as some .WAV files (!) and pictures. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_room....

And explanatory text: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_intro...
identification, one set of clothes, and a utility tool, pretty much sufficient for anywhere on earth.
It would be silly to copy an application this simple verbatim, but that same property makes it very easy to read.
web application whose purpose is to spit out PDF files that need to follow a specific format

FWIW, I've found that "generate HTML and feed it through wkhtmltopdf" is a surprisingly effective way of doing this.
I can't prove this is a scam, but I'm flagging it. Too scammy to not be a scam.
It would be a deferred taxation but over 13-years instead of 1-year for the same amount of money earned, if and only if you haven't spent it all.
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You lose control of pagination when you do this, but, more generally, we're talking about business processes where things need to look exactly the way they usually do.

That said: I used to do the same thing, and it works pretty well.
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What I find most interesting is that the second highest trafficked event was in the middle of the UK working day. A lot of employers must have seen some big productivity anomalies during the Olympics.
I'm not quite caught up on the mailing list - but it looks like the last-minute point about traversing an already-exhausted generator (see [1]) has held.

That's really the most important thing for developers to notice - whether you use the feature often or not, you must be aware that foreach() might throw, not just emit an E_WARNING.

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> Edit: I have seen others dismiss racist hatred with an attempt at linguistics

Why is that surprising? Racist hatred often arises from ignorance and confusion, and there's plenty of ignorance and confusion about the meaning of words. Examining word usage is an obvious starting point.

> Where do you guys pick up this kind of "argument"?

It's called fighting fire with fire. Racists tend to be ignorant of the group they hate, and they also tend to ignorant of the various meanings of words. And "antiSemite" is a classic example of a word that's tortured until it means anything.
No; the word "lie" implies an intent to deceive. If I misunderstood your comment, that was a "mistake".
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"That said, I think Apple could some day adopt Mountain Lions new Gatekeeper feature in iOS, if it proofs itself on OSX."

I'd guess more people (self included) think it will head in the opposite direction (OS X -> iOS).

Personally I don't care all that much, robust LTE networks are going to make native apps increasingly irrelevant.
I'll bite... like what?

All of PHP4's syntax is still valid in PHP5 even if it does raise a deprecated notice.

The only real thing that broke in the upgrade is if you had a LOC that was expecting an object to be passed by value. Theoretically possible but practically very very rare.

And of course config settings like register globals being changed, but that's just that: a config change.
I guess you'll be upset then that I, personally, was for it using Exceptions, because Generators are Iterators.
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