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The worst part of this and the Ustream debacle (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4471213) is that many of the takedowns on major video-streaming services to date have been entirely voluntary. You can only imagine what would happen if the government gave the MPAA/RIAA a bigger stick (i.e. SOPA and/or PIPA) than the business deals that they're currently leveraging for this sort of thing.
"advertising is a big chunk but Google have other products"

96% of Google's 2011 revenue came from ads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Advertising

"commercial news still sells paper and has television slots"

Magazine and newspaper sales continue to collapse:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/aug/08/us-pr...

I appreciate you don't like ads; I'm not a big fan either (not that this is what the law is about). But consider the implications of it not becoming viable.

And for the record my company doesn't advertise anything. We just want to be able to use non-invasive features of the Internet like every other country.
To be fair, Samsung almost certainly had a hand in banning the original iPhone for two years in South Korea.
Not trying to troll here, but can someone explain this "fragmentation" issue please? There's a single API for Android; there are also different versions of the API, but there's a same issue in iOS. Is the issue the different screen resolutions? Does all the Android developement require low-level access to hardware?
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I think I covered that here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4479140
Looks amazing. Nice work
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Aaron SW's latest series of articles have informative about tackling the hard problems. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Made to Stick is an excellent read on the subject of branding and marketing. http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/

I used to run a blog in 2008 and I got it to 6.5million page views before I quit it and I was featured in the book "Blogging Heroes" along with the founders of Lifehacker, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Boing Boing.

My key strategy when I was growing my blog was to find existing communities that would like what I was writing and then build relationships with those communities.
Discovery is the new search! And with curation the app reccos are even better. Congrats to ooomf on the last 16 weeks. Has been intense!
I'd suspect that it can be helpful because it distracts you from thinking about other things, and if it's a show you're familiar with (or something where you don't need to pay too much attention) then it doesn't require much active effort from you either, hopefully leaving you in a state where you've purged yourself of too many other pressing thoughts and you're relaxed - both of which should help you sleep.

A book might be better though, since blue light is supposed to promote wakefulness and is more prevalent in light coming from screens that from your average light bulb.

(FWIW - I tend to watch cartoons on my iPhone just before I go to sleep, but only ones which I find slightly amusing and wouldn't watch otherwise)
google have ads above fold, but matt cutts not tell us anything about it. And how it improving user experience. Google now cares only about adwords money, not about quality of their main product - organic search results. All that stories about best possibly user experience it just tries to hide that fact.
Doh! Thank you!
The best part is that keys that don't produce text input have codes on keypress that are indistinguishable from other keys.

from http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html :

> For browsers that generate keypress events for special keys, it is also generally true that event.keyCode will have the same value for "left-arrow" and "%", however we can usually tell which it is because event.which is zero for special keys (there are problems with this in Opera and Konqueror, see above). Versions of WebKit before 525 took a different approach. They invented unique values to return instead of ASCII codes for special keys, and returned the same value in event.keyCode, event.which, and event.charCode. The table below gives the extended ASCII codes returned by old WebKit versions, and also the ones returned in event.charCode on keydown and keyup events in Macintosh versions of IE.
What about android clients for this?
Whether or not I make one has no bearing on this one's quality.
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Looks great! Congrats to the team!
There's time, you just have to figure out where else you're spending it.

Cut out any free overtime at work, cut out TV, cut out video games and books... and there's a lot of time.

I think it would have been a different story for the Luca Redwood if he had a toddler vs having a pregnant wife
As far as zero-sum goes, with the rake [the fee per pot casinos charge] it is negative sum. Further, when ESPN pays Caesars to broadcast the World Series of Poker, none of that money is added to the prize pool, so it is not like professional golf where sponsors help add to the prizepool [or maybe entirely add to it, im not sure]. Some individual players are sponsored so for them, they are "freerolling" [meaning they cant lose money, they can only win as somebody else is paying their way].

For your creativity question, it depends a lot on how players think. There are a lot of small situations that occur in a game where what I have been studying previously makes me think of a better play while I am actually playing, but most of that is based on concepts I have been previously discussing and thinking about. However, Phil Galfond, one of the top players in the world, has said that he learns the most by playing and thinking deeply about every situation and figuring things out on the fly. He is clearly an exception to the rule, and I he is where he is at now because of all the hours he played leading to now as well as how much he discussed the game with other very high level players.
One real-world use case is differential synchronization. Here's a Google Tech Talk on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Hp_1jqpY8

This is for real-time collaborative editing or replication of structured data (unlike Operational Transformation, which is optimized for text). Sending patches back and forth is at the core of the protocol.
So far I'm finding it remarkably pleasant. Some things are more difficult than iOS but some things are vastly easier. Maybe my opinion will change over time but I don't see either platform as a clear winner for the developer.

If anything I think there's an opportunity for somebody to make a Rails of mobile dev. It's a lot more work on either side than it really has to be most of the time.
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Congratulations and best ongoing success to the team.
The UK tried using non-100 divisors and gave up in 1971. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/mo...
I didn't claim the law of demand was perfect or that substitute goods don't exist. I was merely pointing out that wisty was wrong to claim the law of demand requires that "a huge number of axioms hold (none of which are true)." You need only one axiom which is, generally speaking, reasonably accurate.

Further, your example of jeans is trivially explained by noting that "jeans" is a broad category of goods, not a good itself. I.e., there is one demand curve for Levi jeans, a separate demand curve for hipster jeans, and a third demand curve for genuine levi jeans (not jeans that appear at first glance to be Levi, but sold by a shady discount store).

Your critique of the demand curve for jeans applies much better to various demand aggregates in macroeconomics, not the law of demand for specific goods.
Over the long run, maybe and that's if people notice it and if Google isn't able to buy traffic like it does with Firefox. Google loves to test things and they can find the sweet spot on the most profitable SERPs and niches.

The problem for Google is that soon enough people will notice what Panda and Penguin did.
No, Swords and Sourcery is "retro". This is ugly.

But ugly has nothing to do with good.
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I don't think page rank really plays as much of a role as the fact that it is easier to replace a webpage than to remodel it. See the "More" button at the bottom of this page.
Poker is mostly about some weird sort of secret autistic like aptitude that no one really understands. Programmer types are higher in weird autistic aptitude than average.

Moderately outlying poker players can make about as much as they can as Bay Area programmers, and it's kind of a lot more fun to hang out all day getting served drinks in a casino all day than be in the Bay Area, though the Oaks Card Club is quite good for live multi table No Limit turbo-ish tournaments. Email if you want to play sometime there.

Also email me if you know of a Bay Area Startup poker game with a decent buy-in. I only ever find the social club low-limit ones on Facebook.

I didn't read the article and upvoted it.
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thanks for writing this up. I couldn't be bothered to do it myself, posted a snarly reply and got downvoted obviously. Best post itt
This concept is very promising ! Congrats to the team !
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There is a lull before the announcement every year. That said, this is the first time a competitor has outsold them.
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So because he has decided to be more open and transparent than the typical juror, we should all treat him worse than the typical juror? That seems like backward thinking to me.
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We know what's going to be in iOS 6 now and that doesn't leave a whole lot of room for unexpected hardware features.
This person says otherwise: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4479366

Not sure who to believe, anyone have some old links by chance?
The kernel is a drop-in replacement for a BSD kernel, so the OS is still BSD.
So lots of people gather on HN because it is so good and soon enough someone realizes that posting links on HN is a good way to gather page hits. It's downhill from there. People begin to post not only about others startups they find interesting, but about their own ones too for fun and profit. Intentionally or unintentionally astro turfing. Then genuinely intersting links also gets accused of being link bait or of promoting some business.

Not before long you'll find shady ads on various forums selling links on HN: "tons of karma, 2yr acnt, $20$/ppost" Not a single site built on user submitted content have been able to withstand that plague.
The law states: "a person shall not store or gain access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user unless the requirements of paragraph (2) are met."

Paragraph 2 then sets out how consent needs to be obtained, and the test that the subscriber needs to have given their consent before information is stored on their computer.

Cookies, flash cookies, HTML5 databases, etc. are all covered under the general concept of storing on a subscriber's computer.

The original law is here - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/regulation/6/ma... - and here are the recent amendments - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1208/made
As a user, you don't link. You re-tweet. Hoping people will follow you. Because if you have many followers, you have value (being monetizable, or just ego).

As a company, it's the Same thing. except instead of tweets (some also use tweets, obviously) they've an actual website (which has links to mostly itself, and in rare cases, wikipedia)

It's not just bloggers. It's the whole web thing. It was based on sharing and linking. I find that it was very, very cool. Now, it's addresses to webapps.That, and social sites.

So yeah, I like the article, because even it's not 100% accurate it's still very insightful.
Just a heads up, your second link does not discuss any fraud of the players and instead discusses money laundering which the sites had to engage in to pay players from the United States. UltimateBet and AbsolutePoker had a massive cheating scandal, and both they and FullTilt were insolvent and werent able to pay back the players. Pokerstars has shown time and again that they are operating on the up and up, and many of the other pokersites are part of publicly traded companies.

The biggest concern is that of bots, and while some sites arent very vigilant about banning suspected bots, Pokerstars is.

In short, play on reputable sites, and if you are worried about bots, then play at pokerstars and report anything suspicious. Are there cheaters? Yes, but it is easier for a site to detect cheating when they have access to all hands played by every account than it would be for a casino who has none of that information.
These are the same people that could go on for pages explaining why copy & paste was not needed on the iPhone and then spun on a dime when it finally showed up.

Apple does get a lot of things right but some people mistake that for perfection.
The Jitsi guys are currently working on an Android version, let's see what comes out of that.

In general, the reason for the slow adoption of SIP beyond just pure voice telephony is that the SIP/SIMPLE standard with its companions for buddy lists etc. is really crappy, and as a result so are most clients (or the interoperability between them). It doesn't make it better that the mobile device/equipment vendors forked off their own OMA standards, so the situation is pretty bad in that regards.

I still don't give up all hopes to see a proper Android/IOS SIP client supporting voice, video presence etc. while at the same time adhering to the standards.
Ah, good ol' WorseIsBetter.
Of course. The responsibility for maintaining a link lies with the linked to site. My point is there are mechanisms that allow the links on the web to change without breaking it.
Ok, now repeat your setup procedure on 50 machines.

Writing scripts is a medium-long term investment. You're right that for one off tasks it's quicker to point and click, but once you need to repeat that task, scripts are faster.
Are you Macalope? :)
Yeah, but thats beyond even 100 divisions, they had 240. I was more thinking along the lines of 12.
Thanks for the theme. Changed Zenburn with Tomorrow-Night-Bright and feels very good. Zenburn was not able to show visual selections in a proper color. Also, non printable characters were showing very bright.
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I agree. It's also uncalled for.

However, I'll also agree that being rude has some value. It's linked here and on other such sites.

It means they'll have to fix it, but also to be more careful in the future, because being bashed in public is never a fun thing. Unfortunate reality.
It's retro but the pixel art isn't that great and is implemented pretty amateurishly. Seems to drop frames at some points even on a 4S when its really not doing much too.

With a decent artist this would be a very good looking retro game.
Why do you need software? My suggestion is to pick a book with word problems appropriate for her level. Take a look at this article by Prof. Toom on "Russian-style" word problems.

http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pd...
No, from my reading of the guidelines I took that any form of persistent browser storage falls under them.

I'm not a lawyer though, just a British web developer who has had to comply with this law.
That wasn't the debate. It was more that it's retro and ugly but being retro isn't what made it ugly.
I'm not certain if a single handset has outsold the flagship iPhone previously (certainly Android as a whole has). However, I believe this is the first time a flagship quality handset from a competitor that is basically eating the Android market has come out in the few months preceding an iPhone.
"Relicensing GPL code is hard." FTFY.
I would say that Norvig is an edge case both because he is in academia in general and computer science in particular. On the one hand, his website reflects research which has largely been dead-tree published, and on the other, he understands the importance of controlling the database where his information is stored as well as maintaining the integrity of that database.

Incidentally, most of Norvig's personal page is linked to content on Norvig.com, not to other sites.

[Edit] As a qualitative measure of how far Norvig.com is from the mean, imagine the comments it would draw as an "Show HN: Feedback" thread.
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The technorati are still mostly running iOS and as long as the opinion makers favor it the people that make apps to impress that crowd will make iOS a priority. iOS also makes it easier to make the kind of overly fussy photoshopped UIs that people with too much time on their hands fetishize.

But Android has already gone from optional extra to mandatory second platform for any serious consumer-facing app and the sheer number of users is going to make it increasingly important for those for whom an app is just a part of a larger business, i.e. the people that will be supplying the bulk of the capital in the mobile app business.
I played go, chess and many other games. Poker is widely avaible online, could be played for free or money and is quite "dirty". Never seen Jessie James playing chess :P.
Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune's news app team, so I'm assuming Django.
When my gmail was getting slower and slower I just dumped it and got myself a mailserver. It's overkill, yes, but it's a temporary solution (I've got some more in store for that box). In the meanwhile it's the fastest mailing experience I've ever had :)

On a sidenote: The speed issues were not the reason for dumping gmail. Over the years my email address has caught the attention of too many spammers. Additionally I wanted to have my emails on one of my own boxes, not with Google.
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"all hands on deck"?
John Resig did the JavaScript hot-swapping approach for Khan Academy. Watch the screencast here: http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/
It refers to different Android versions on phones which results in developers being forced to test their applications against a lot of versions. Usually like in the case of iOS this would not have been a problem but Android updates are notoriously slow due to various reasons which means that most of the Android users are still stuck on gingerbread while jelly bean is already out. This means developers can't reliably take advantage of features added in newer versions of OS. Of course all this even before we consider the screen sizes.
i can see the value of a build/automation tool written in js but man the resulting code is pretty ugly compared to a typical Rakefile
I don't see how news like this really belongs on Hacker News. Perhaps reddit or slashdot.

It's really just circlejerking for Android fans and Apple haters. It provides no new or useful information that would be of use to app developers (since it's just one phone.) Not to mention it's misleading: it's common knowledge that Apple releases in cycles and consumers stop buying near the end of the cycle. Wait a few weeks until the new iPhone is released and them at least have a fair comparison. The Apple community even has this: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com

Slightly off-topic: I wish HN had "organization" labels next to names like Quora. I've noticed quite a few people that outed themselves as Googlers (anytime someone criticizes the company) and it provides a lot of context on Android/Apple threads.
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To be fair, you have to be < 2 centimeters from the device to see the pentile on the SGS3 due to the resolution (and at 2 cm your eyes will hurt. Mine do.)

I had a SGS (pentile), SGS2 (no pentile), SGS4 (pentile), various iphones (no pentile) and others.

I can only see the pentile on the SGS.

If that's not enough, I score 21 on EU visual tests (maximum is 20, above is/are bonus points for exceptional vision)

I believe the only jokes here are this post and the parent :P
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Back when I dumped my Gmail account I wrote a little Python program using imaplib to download and save everything into a database. The script got lost with my last system upgrade since it was in a temporary directory of which I usually make no backups. It's very easy to write though, just get yourself an imaplib tutorial and hack away.
The key question for 3rd party developers is which platform will make them more money. My understanding is that iOS is still far and away the winner by that metric, even with the smaller installed base than Android.
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This is my experience as well, it is certainly a give and take.

Java isn't my favorite language to use and I really prefer Objective-C, but Xcode is a huge annoyance as well. I would say I prefer Android development as it is my favored OS to use but neither blow the other away as far as development fun.
The title says it all—the team's amazing and can clearly execute! Looks and feels great, big ups
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Unless there is actual customer preference involved this is probably an area where more highly accurate measurements + a better formula + better construction could make this much faster. For people it's easier to fix it after the fact than do more up front calculations, but when a computer is finding the solution they can probably get vary close the first time.
Maybe I'm the odd ball because I don't have a WSJ subscription (and maybe everyone else does) but the pay wall for this is incredible annoying. I hardly ever read the WSJ so it's not worth buying a subscription but at the same time, I wouldn't mind reading an article here or there like this. It's a crumby catch-22 situation.
There's more to iOS/OSX Unix than the kernel.

The Darwin portion is for most intents and purposes based on BSD -- particularly FreeBSD-- running on top of XNU (a hybrid Mach 3.0 microkernel with big chunks of the monolithic BSD kernel embedded).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Kerne...

Concerning the BSD portions, see this from Apple's Kernel docs:
http://goo.gl/1sp69

"Integrated with Darwin is a customized version of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system. Darwin’s implementation of BSD includes much of the POSIX API, which higher-level apps can also use to implement basic app features. BSD serves as the basis for the file systems and networking facilities of OS X. In addition, it provides several programming interfaces and services, including: The process model (process IDs, signals, and so on); Basic security policies such as file permissions and user and group IDs; Threading support (POSIX threads); Networking support (BSD sockets)"

That accounts for an immense amount of what a kernel normally does.

Besides, I have never met a NeXT or Apple employee that didn't consider Darwin to be BSD.

It's a radically modified BSD but I think it's still a descendant.
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Do you know anyone that charges a one-time fee for a SaaS app like pinboard.in does? When do you think/know it makes sense to let someone use your hosted app indefinitely for a one-time fee?
Really happy to see my product Jetstrap on there. Thanks for the mention!
I didn't know about it. I'm sure I had never read about it anywhere, even on HN.
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