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Get the Apple Developer membership.

Create a free iPhone game using your favorite platform (native Objective C, PhoneGap, Sparrow, or Cocos2D).

Sign up for AdMob/Google. Create an app id entry there for your game. You'll get an AdMob ID that you can use to query for ads.

Ad a 320x50 AdMob banner at the top or bottom of your game.

Sometime during your free game (say, the end of level 2) tell them about your premium version that is awesome, has no ads, and has lots more levels. If they dismiss your ad, let them continue playing your lite game.
My advice -- hire a programmer.
Although tempting, debating the meaning of empathy is probably not a beneficial contribution to this HN thread.

But I will say, the initial emotional response (for ex. feeling sad someone was harmed) is largely out of our control. But spending time feeling bad after the fact is a controllable state, and is the basis of a large amount of psychological and behavioral therapy.
I agree, Roy Fielding could take a leaf out of Marco's book and admit he was wrong too:

https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f...

That's another example of abusing your trusted position. Just because you're having a bun fight somewhere else doesn't give you the right introduce "fuck you" changes to your app that affect end users.
I wouldn't consider VeriSign and GoDaddy competitors. Verisign is a domain registry, whereas GoDaddy is a domain registrar.

VeriSign also offers large network availability services for much larger clientèle. While GoDaddy offers web hosting and web services for smaller businesses.
"Good luck if you choose" to start a startup without understanding one of the most fundamental technologies that allows users to view your site.
In addition, I don't know what you'd index if it wasn't through a function. Indexing JSON data as JSON? Why?
I realize that choosing genders by coinflip would give 25% probability of this outcome, and if that's what the author did, I'll shut up, but if not, making the antisocial cerebral character male and the technically weak, pleasant communicator female seems like lazy writing to me.
There are probably implications for cryptography.
Interesting start up. Looking forward to see what happens with this.
Despite us voting differently then and probably in 2012, I deeply appreciate this sort of sentiment. Despite our differences, we are one Nation. I believe it helps ensure civil debates as well as respect during policy discussion.
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but something serious needs to be said about it. Venture funds and this whole startup scene are selling the "startups are cool!" image hard. But it never was cool and never will be.

Step outside of your male-dominated bubble for a minute and talk to the opposite sex. Watch as her eyes glaze over when you start talking about analytics, optimization, and creating the next big photo sharing app. You're an obvious get-rich-quick schemer. There's nothing sexy about that.

The hipster and startup hipster defined by the author seem like lame versions of the bobo created by David Brooks--basically a wannabe artist obsessed with money. And that's what startup programmers will always be.

Those artsy girls you're after will choose the musician behind the counter over you buried in your MacBook every single time. Get some perspective and don't waste your 20s buying into this game.
As much as I admire all that Marco has accomplished as a single-man developer and business, I think this incident represents one of the negative aspects. There is no filter for poor decisions especially those that should be treated as personal.
You realize he's already admitted he did this and apologized for having done so?
> I merely defended myself against a personal attack by you (accused me of not thinking deeply and not knowing basic things about the US government structure).

I did nothing of the kind. Both claims are false. Locate where I accused you of not thinking deeply, or of not knowing the structure of the U.S. government.

The reasons for the above are legion. First, there is no "you" -- I'm conversing with a nickname, not a person. You're personally quite immune from anything I might choose to say to a nickname.

Second, I didn't accuse you of anything. If I say "It's raining today", is it implicit in my remark that you are ignorant of that fact, and therefore my having mentioned the rain is an accusation of your ignorance? You need to think about how you communicate online.
Taliban 'Could Cut Links With Al Qaeda'
I have to disagree with you here. Look again at the rocky steps the robot walks down (0:19 and 0:50), and the slope of the hill it's climbing. It's hard to make a wheeled robot that can climb (400 lb. payload -- 1200 lb. unloaded) a hill of that slope in loose/rocky dirt.
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Ask HN: Is it wrong to read the comments first?
When there is a top story with quite a few comments already, I tend to read them before clicking the link. Basically a way to check if an article is worth reading.

Do other people follow this same process?
I'm a manager who focuses on good communication. I strive to hire and retain Rodrigos. It's extremely difficult to attract talent of that caliber (writing compilers...). My experience has been that when I do build my pure-Rodrigo team that my boss (usually the CEO) just can't deal with employees of that caliber. I end up spending 90% of my time executive handholding because they continuously try to force the team around their (usually primitive) objectives instead of letting the geniuses drive progress forward.

Rodrigo will get his work done 10X faster than another dev, regardless of the artificial deadlines.

I shield my team as much as I can from the bullshit from above but in the end I usually walk because if you're unwilling to take advantage of the resources in your own company then there really is no hope. Executive/management ego is THE problem.

In the future there will be Rodrigos, scripts and the unemployed.
Uninstall Microsoft office profesional
So you retaliate by punishing your paying customers and undercutting your product's credibility?

Why not just publish a rebuttal of the 9to5 article?
I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that the concept of trade dress is being abused here.

Trade dress like trademark doesn't exist to protect design. It exists to prevent consumers from actually thinking they are buying a different product. However much of a "knock-off" this might be, can you seriously argue someone would actually believe this is an Apple? Seriously.
CraftStudio, year one (real-time cooperative game-making)
Good old active recall ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_recall ) and testing effect ( http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#background-testing-... )!
I never knocked. I only said "alternative".
I noticed that Mattdebord's post qualified it by saying feature-for-feature replacement of Mongodb for us. He didn't claim it was for everyone. Why all the hate?
Agreed. It seems that everyone thinks Anonymous is a contiguous group, as opposed to a bunch of loosely, if at all connected basement dwellers doing things under the same banner.
It's nowhere near production ready, so linking fro golang.org would be a bit premature.
Khan Academy videos in Portuguese
My current view on it is that empathy isn't specifically an emotional or a rational response, but is more a sensory mirroring of the state of another entity real or imagined, and I am not sure that you can pick apart the strands into one realm or the other.

It can be influenced by conscious thought and logic, sure, but as it is primarily experiential in nature, I usually have an experience that I then rationalise about, rather than rationalising what my experience will be beforehand.
Just one more post in an argument that is probably misplaced and not very interesting to anyone else besides us :).

It used to be that buying a Mac was a hard decision. Not only were they more expensive (not a great value), but you also had to give up performance (especially in the PowerPC age) and app availability. Today, you no longer have to make those hard decisions, while the PC vendors have gone low end and have let their quality fall dramatically (which wasn't that great to begin with). That I say macs today are the "best" computers we can buy have something to do with Apple continuing to focus on quality, having value that compares to the PC vendors, and the PC vendors having sunk into a race to the bottom with each other, leaving Apple free to reign over the +$999 market.

So just show me a laptop that is "as good as" the the retina MacBook Pro that comes in at +$2000, a price I'm willing to pay (be it me or my employer, I'm worth it given how much time I spend using my computer). I honestly can't find anything that compares in the PC zone, and believe I've tried!
Managing the forward/backward links in a series this long while it is still coming out is a pain. They will be added as the series draws to a close next week though.
> Because I could, for the record, say that Google pulled its Maps app off of the iPhone in iOS 6.

Someone with in-depth knowledge of the licensing agreements! You must know exactly what happened, based on your assertion of credentials, here.

> More likely, Apple had features they wanted that Google wouldn't license (eg turn by turn)

Wouldn't? Or couldn't? Do you know? Do you care? It seems your mind is made up despite not having the inside knowledge you assert.
Agreed.

Marco should've demonstrated more patience in the matter and let the truth about the UDID mess come to light (it just did) which is now discrediting 9to5 (without any effort on his part).

The way to get even with news sites that have little to no journalistic standards is to hold them accountable to their claims the way John Gruber does with his "Claim Chowder" posts.
We all make mistakes. I perceive this is a sign that Marco will act more thoughtfully in the future.
My mistake. I thought the article was a puff piece, but it turns out to much more critical than my first read. Qihoo is a really shady company, and they deserve all the flak that can be thrown at them.
This is what my TODO list would look like if I was you:

* Markdown.

* Remove "guest" from the Users list.

* Reading mode should have much larger text. Remember what sites like Instapaper, Readility, ReadItLater have given people.

* Some way of voting up insightful comments. I don't think the shit storm that you're currently experiencing in spam is currently solved...

* Tiny icons hiding lots of features and the awkward way of getting to the 'reply' links is poor usability.
In other news, Ferrari buys Yugo saying we need an entry-level model for our price-sensitive customers.

It's interesting that I don't have a good impression of GoDaddy or Verisign. One provides sleazy marketing for a substandard product on the cheap, and the other extorts vast sums of money just to provide a guarantee of identity.

I'd be happy to pay a reasonable fee for both to get good customer service, but I'm guessing there's collusion between the certificate providers to keep prices high.

Good luck to both of them.
The complaint usually is "it doesn't look like a native app." Mac users are famously picky about only using apps that look native ;-)
The audio plugin example is typical because the vast majority of music production software exhibits a great deal of skeuomorphism. I personally don't like this because it increases the cognitive load in trying to figure out an interface, and I don't feel like it helps make things more intuitive than a non-skeuomorphic interface -- rather the opposite, it becomes more confusing.

This is one of the reasons I like Ableton Live ( http://www.ableton.com/suite-8 ): it has a simple, consistent user interface elements and the entire user interface happens to be vector based. Not only is it easy to navigate and understand, but the fact that it is vector based allows it to have a resolution-independent interface that can be zoomed in/out. Which addresses another problem with music production software: they tend to use tiny fonts and other UI elements which makes it hard to read when used with a high-PPI monitor and/or when the monitor is far enough away from the user (which seems to often be case in many studio setups). And once you've done a highly graphical skeuomorphic interface that uses lots of bitmaps, scaling doesn't always happen smoothly.

On the other hand, many people like skeuomorphic interfaces when they've had past experience with actual audio hardware. Reason ( http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/ ) is one such example where the interface is so skeuomorphic that is often considered a hardware simulator. People who have past experience with such hardware often love Reason because they are able to draw upon past experience to understand the interface. I suppose in this case, this is a very appropriate use of skeuomorphism.

People like me who don't have experience with such hardware aren't necessarily going to appreciate this, though some people will enjoy it even without past experience with hardware because some people simply enjoy visually appealing graphical interfaces. So it's a tough call which group of people is in the majority and who you want to cater to. Personally I like music/audio software to focus on it's core task of being a music creation tool, and less on being graphically impressive; but that's just me.
Yeah, it struck me as bizarre that he would be so taken aback when someone suggested he was responsible for the leak, but then he made identical baseless suggestions...
Apple UDID hack has BlueToad data
Infants have no ability to care for their parents. Do you truly argue that a child, when they become able, has no responsibility to take care of their parents, when they become infirm?

And metaphor need not hew closely to semantics, but having is, linguistically, a ditransitive operation-- technically stative, but the difference isn't important here. I may have responsibility, and I may have responsibility toward you. Responsibility may commutatively have me toward you, if that made sense, or you might commutatively have responsibility toward me, which is the more sensical. In any event, the metaphor is clear.
I think Marco did the right thing in reversing his decision . 9to5 put his entire business in jeopardy and acted without any pretense of professionalism. I disagree with his blocking of 9to5, but he made a mistake in the midst of libelous accusations. Not professional? Perhaps, but completely within the realm of understanding. 9to5 might as well have called him a 'do-do head' for all their article implies.
Wow, pretty impressive stuff so far. Congratulations on all of your progress so far (assuming the poster is also the author); I'd love to see a blog post describing some of the more technical aspects of the project.
Hah, it's funny (Baader-Meinhof style) that I'm suddenly running into pivory.com here on Hacker News - my first introduction to it was a few hours earlier today as part of a little Bitcoin extortion scheme: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/5p1G9CZP...
"I reached out to co-founder Jason Freedman who said that the company is not ready to disclose additional details about the funding round. That being the case, he (or likely an underling) would have been better off not posting it on the the tech world’s version of the water cooler."

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Well.. I think adding the "(unannounced) Series A" to a job posting wasn't that stupid after all. On the contrary, they just got free coverage from PandoDaily. Probably when they officially announce their Series A in a few weeks they'll get press again. Jason Freedman is a pretty smart guy and I've been following his (old) blog (humbledMBA) for a long time. I would be very surprised if this was mistakenly added to the job posting. :)
Sorry, I read the article wrong, and I deserve my downvote! I was talking about Qihoo a few weeks ago with a former employee, and...its definitely an interesting company. Their product also reflects on us (I work for Microsoft) negatively, so Qihoo really inspires lots of anger on my part.
Marco and Gruber are right on the overall message: those HP devices are obvious Apple design copies. For some strange reason theverge and Engadget chose not to mention this fact. As journalists they have to mention that every single time. And for Josh to say he's being bullied or trolled makes no sense. If HP changed their logo to an apple would it be trolling to critize not pointing that out too? On top of that, getting overally defensive isn't a good solution. Gruber and Marco's claims were a little over the top, but everyone knew they weren't being literal. They, just like I, were confused on how respected online tech news orgnizations wouldn't point out the obvious.

The other part of his post I take issue with is Josh's swipe at smaller blogs. As if only massive blogs are worthy of contributing to the conversation in a community.
When I read (unannounced) in the job posting, I was just counting the minutes..

Curious to know if this was intentional, but probably isn't as you can pretty much get anyone to cover a $5M Series A on your terms..
TDLR; I had legitimate reasons to be upset at 9to5mac for their apparent dislike of me and for unfairly linking me to the fbi issue again. But I overreacted, did something immature in the heat of the moment and I've since reversed my course.
Ask HN: The Downvote
At a certain threshold of Karma (~500), A new HN user will receive the ability to Downvote. Athough per-user Karma is visible, it is so only for your own account and on a net-basis. Meanwhile, the reaction to other user's comments is only visible indirectly, via page rank. Having now a more than theoretical interest, I ask you for your Advice.

Ask HN:

What "Applied Philosophy" do you live by on Downvoting?

How do you use it?

How have you seen it being used? Against you or Others. Etc.

The end goal being a reference:

(1) Increase the data available to any given user from 1 experience (his own) to N experiences; and

(2) Articulate as appropriate best practices and/or debate areas of contention, etc.

Look forward to your thoughts.
I'm shocked that no one else read this article, then thought to themselves, "I've made both of those mistakes before". I know I have. In order to get something really big accomplished I have to break it in to parts and just work away at it.

My biggest failures early on were due to not knowing how to chip away, and my biggest successes have been from chipping away. Breaking a big goal in to parts and in the paraphrased words of Steve Jobs, knowing the dots will eventually connect.

I read this 3 or 4 hours ago and couldn't wait to come back to the comments but I guess I'm the only one that felt that way.

I really enjoyed reading the post today because I was having a tough challenge the last 5 days or so and it made me go back, rethink where I need to be next step and take a smaller piece first, then worry about the big execution later.
The only drawback is that Anki (at least on iOS) costs a lot.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id37349...

If you can duplicate the benefit and make the UI simpler (e.g., simplify it down to two buttons: I got it right / wrong), and make it cheaper, you have an ok chance to do well.
keep up the great work Elisée!!!! :)
Totally agree with this.

At letitcast, we're dealing with large video uploads (up to 500Mo), image uploads and resumes (pdf). Giving to our users a nice experience was very time consuming.

We had the following requirement for the client side uploader: iE7 support (we have worldwide inexperienced users), progressbar, multiple file chooser, client side file type detection (server side too). We ended up using swfupload + a lot of js.
It mostly work but we're not completely satisfied.
Last time we checked, there was at least two popular uploaders on Github but both of them are HTML5-only (vs flash based) and didn't offered the same experience in every browser.

We were first uploading directly to the Rails backend but it eventually killed our frontends. We experimented with sinatra async, eventmachine and node.js and endend up using node to handle file uploads, validations, image processing, S3 storage and video encoding (via zencoder). This was our first app with node and in less than a week we had our app in production, handling hundreds of upload/day.

We also had a few suprises with imagemagick causing 100% CPU load (https://www.google.com/webhp?rlz=1C1CHFX_frFR491FR491&so...).

I'm pretty sure I forgot a lot of issues we ran into.
We learned a lot along the way but it's nice to see some people are trying to tackle this issue.

FYI the guys at transloadit also work on this.
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VeriSign manage .com so they are a supplier. The availability of DNS depends on 'competitors' working with each other. The bigger DNS hosts all have backup servers with each other.

So the headline is a bit misleading and not really the full story.
Simple. It's not a review, a comprehensive analysis of a new product. Not everything needs to link back to Apple.
Did any of the mobile GG2 attempts pan out?