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yes what this person did was wonderful, but it shouldn't blind us away from what the govt. should have done in the first place. He did the work of an entire department under the Bihar state govt. It is kind of annoying that how the govt. didn't even realize it was their job. It makes me think it didn't because they honored him with a state funeral. They should have established a procedure and let the public know that its their job to do such things and how the public should approach them, instead of just making him a hero; making him just a hero implicitly says that acts like that are _encouraged_.
There is no download link on Apple Safari page
Working on New York Times R&D [Front-End-Dev]
May God help these japanese ...
I'd use this! Kudos for implementing it. I look forward to seeing where this goes.
yes this is normal, especially if outside the bay area
Are they technical founders or business based? I have seen this personally from non-tech founders and they use it as a trial. I think logn gave you great advice. If you are interested, negotiate your perm salary and benefits before doing the 2 week "trail".

I say this because I witnessed exactly this just 2 months ago and the small business did it as a way to try and figure out if the developer could do the job and then decided the rate they would pay and it was a bad situation. I was a contractor helping this same business and terminated my relationship with them once I delivered my promises, and the main reason was after seeing their methods to hiring. I feel it was intentional to see what they could use to low ball this dev, who left a full time position.

Just my 2 cents. Doesn't mean it happens like that everywhere. I really like logn's idea, makes perfect sense and protects everyone involved.
OSX does not lead the market.
Spanish Time Banks (bartering hours)
Meh. Not getting any kind of account just to give feedback.
This is why, as the balance of power has shifted towards founders, new things have appeared in the funding rounds.

The most prominent is the trend towards allowing founders to cash out in a portion of their ownership as part of the deal. Another is the trend towards smaller rounds where the founder gives up less control and fewer liquidation preferences.
Just had a look at this one - definitely one of the better flocking/swarming implementations I have seen.
Why didn't they publish this two weeks ago... oh right...

IOS is in refinement, the focus internally is elsewhere.

The iPhone came from nowhere (just ask Nokia) and so will the next big thing.

Of course it might flop, but basing any long-term Apple analysis on IOS5 and iPhone 5 is very short-sighted.
No, it hasn't peaked. iPhone peaked, just like iPod peaked. But make no mistake, Apple is in a favorable position to be the 'american Sony' for decades to come.

Apple TV? Apple watch? Apple console?

Who knows, but whatever comes next, Apple will deliver.
Are you referring to Unix Pipe, which inspired Yahoo Pipes, which inspired ifttt and Zapire? (http://nickoneill.com/the-forgotten-yahoo-project-that-inspi...)
‘We are all in this great enterprise together’
>WebKit
Is originally a fork of KHTML and is an open-source effort that MANY companies contribute to.
The corn's too short for a labyrinth, so farmer makes a "drought maze"
One of the better stories published when he was originally caught living at AOL - http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tire...
I must say, having forgot to make a donation to Canonical the last time I updated my laptop (my bad!) I don't mind this so much.

Depending on what language I am coding in I either have IntelliJ mostly full screen, or I have emacs and a few term windows open that cover most of the screen.

Question: does anyone know if they ads will be visible in these work modes?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558706
Arguably, it is Asus that has been taking the lead on tablet-laptop hybrids with their Transformer series. And even further with the PadFone...
This exists in 12.04
Mark Shuttleworth is a Debian Developer.
Linux Mint doesnt offer Kernel Security Updates... good luck with that.
An estimate of your sales pipeline isn't proof you have traction, it's an estimate: not worth very much.
Object Pools Help You Reduce Lag in Resource-Intensive Games
It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of people (diss)agreeing with pg's thesis by hacker/maker vs. business person.
> Is nobody familiar with the privacy settings?

I'm not, and neither are you unless you work there. They routinely add new settings with recklessly chosen defaults; there's no way to be confident about may be publicized while we aren't looking.
> BTW can't iphone users just bookmark maps.google.com as a "webapp" in the meanwhile?

Erm... the article recommends doing exactly that.

It can also be set as a homescreen "application", and in facts prompts you to do so when opened on an iphone.
Is it a blunder or was their hand forced? We can't know.
موعد مباراة الاهلي في نصف نهائي دوري ابطال افريقيا 2012
Neat project. If I could make a recommendation, I would suggest dropping the capital I. Its not used consistently; git repo versus title of this post versus command name.
>While the headline is inflammatory

In what way? It's three words "Has Apple peaked?".
I work with Matt at Facebook and wanted to reaffirm his comment below. This survey was a small anonymous test designed to improve the systems we use to keep the site safe for everyone. And, we have already confirmed that the responses collected will have zero impact on people's accounts.

We believe a real name culture is core to our mission of making the world more connected and helps us to provide the best possible experience for our users.

PS One thing I did want to note is that we offer Pages where the individual admins are not listed and have been effectively used in the past by a wide variety of groups, movements, brands, and individuals.
Good point, I should have mentioned Asus. I own and love an original Transformer (TF101), but I still believe it is Microsoft who is likely to push the concept into the mainstream.

Having control of the OS gives Microsoft a lot of power Asus doesn't have with their Android hybrids. Also, as cool as the Transformer is, it still doesn't feel quite like a true hybrid device because ultimately you're still running mostly software that was designed with touch-only in mind, at least assuming you're using it to run Android and haven't installed Ubuntu/ARM or something.
Will HN ever stop upvoting linkbait, references to Betteridge’s Law, or self-referential jokes?
That basically already exists on reddit. I would bet that the set of people who type thoughtful, deep comments like the GP and the set of people who communicate well IRL overlap quite strongly.
Yeah, that was when I switched to Mint. Ubuntu without the drama.
Now that (shorting the stock) from a journalist covering the subject. Or, for that matter, investing in stock of a company that you cover as a journalist is just about the worst journalistic blunder you can pull off.

It may also be borderline criminal.
What "pseudo-tool"? And what is a pseudo-tool anyway?
Worth checking out for HTML5 that works the same in IE and chrome (first for me). But that may be the old Amiga art used, fun times.
BaseHTTPServer.serve_forever() polls every 0.5s by default, so you might want to use BaseHTTPServer.handle_request() instead in a "while True:" loop. This might get you out of your immediate pickle.
Is there any type of writing where you're not trying to "manipulate" someone? I can't think of any.
for me, this was the most illuminating bit of advice given in this article. the source is very informative:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/zombie-nouns...
So if I illegally speed does that make me a criminal. Would you classify me by that one action, or the many other ones I do each day? By your definition a great number of the people that live on this earth would be classified as criminals.
I think I can answer my own question: it looks like only the Unity Launcher and some shopping views are affected.

I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon and I am glad Canonical will get a little cut.
Show HN: Musical sound bites at Buskering.com
I constantly record myself playing small riffs on the guitar and have collected a few hundred tracks. Instead of letting these ideas collect the electronic equivalent to dust I created a website where you can upload small (20s) portions of a start of an idea and people can vote on which one they like the best. The site is at http://www.buskering.com. The point of it is that you as a musician might not know which riff has the potential to be a song so you can upload a few riffs and see which one people like the most.

I was a busker over the summer and liked the thought that people enjoyed my music more than the fact they would give me some spare change. I'm trying to bring the idea that instead of throwing spare change you might have time as an internet pedestrian to vote/rate a 20 second music sound bite.

Let me know what you think...

PS - I made this project learning how to code Django and Python and it is a simple voting app like (Fasemash, Hot or Not, etc...) Most of the tracks are of me playing the guitar as well.
thanks for the clarification, this was pissing me off :)
To the contrary, Apple can deal fine with technical problems. Doing good hardware + software is extremely technical. You can't build an entire platform like iOS + OS X without massive technical expertise.

The problem with maps is its irregularity and irreducible complexity. You can't reduce maps to their essence and create a great MVP—if you want Google-caliber maps you need tens of thousands of people on the ground and the bureaucracy to support them. Apple can get there (Apple Stores), but it's not an overnight thing.
SSL client side certificates are already implemented, but they have their own problems:

1) UI is hard to use
http://pilif.github.com/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clie...

2) Can be easily stolen by malware (if client certificate is password-protected then password can be locally bruteforced on attacker's system)

3) It's not easy to switch identities (if you have multiple accounts on some website). And whenever there is no support for multiple identities, there is a ground for privacy concerns.

4) It's almost impossible to enter them from keyboard. How do I enter one on the iPhone? How do I write it on paper? What if I need to access some website from work and from home? What if my USB thumbdrive with client SSL certs fails or gets stolen?

5) They expire eventually, and when they do, users have another out-of-common-sense problem to solve.

So, implementation already exists but it's impractical.
Ask HN: Is this house party app a good idea?
Nothing to do on a Saturday night? Go to the house party app and find a house party near you. RSVP and pay the $10 or so cover and show up to the address. Have fun, meet new people and tap the keg.

Want to host a house party, meet new people and make some money? List your house party on the site and everyone will see it. You can choose who you want attending and who you don't want attending. You can list house rules for people to follow. Charge a cover and get paid for your house party. The website only takes a percentage of what you make.

This is my startup idea. What's good and bad about it, and why?
>I have an iPhone5, but I use a Windows 7 desktop PC.

Can I ask you why? The galaxy 3 is the same price and very comparable. Plus you can just drag files back and forth with your computer without syncing.
Another pet peeve of mine is going the other way: making verbs out of other parts of speech- particularly nouns:

We'll impact that as soon as possible.
I looks like pipe character in github. But i had to drop it here for readability.
If Design’s No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?
Apple loses German patent case against Samsung, Motorola
That iOS 6 maps are bad is well established at this point. No need to run over that dead cat any more.

What would be very interesting for me to understand are the internals of the iOS 6 decision. I am, of course, not talking about technology but rather the business and strategic decisions that led to this.

One could certainly not say that there were quality problems with Google maps. That, particularly today, is self-evident. Why was Apple so hell-bent to jettison Google?

Was it out of fear of the mounting competition in the Android space?

I can understand this, of course. The problem is that you don't complete with your competitor with a product that is inferior to theirs. If anything, the barrier is, at a minimum, to be equal in features and experience to your competitor. And, in reality, you probably need to have a few things on top of them to boast about. In Apple's case, did they think that the 3D view was such a feature? They couldn't have! They are smarter than that. Right? It's puzzling.

Today we understand the value in seeking customer engagement and buy-in BEFORE taking-on, developing or deploying a major product. We know that. I think Apple knows that. How was it decided that iOS 6 maps would clear the Google Maps barrier? Did they actually show it to people? Who? Where? There seems to be clear evidence that this really wasn't widely vetted. How else could one explain airports showing up in rivers or the myriad of funny-yet-sad examples out there.

My curiosity is one of understanding the business process that led to this. From the vantage point of a startup these kinds of moves are suicidal. Apple is likely to survive it. Although, surviving it might mean taking a step that I am sure they don't want to take. Give people what they want: Google Maps.

Prior to this the most prominent example I had of corporate suicide was the UPS "What can brown do for you?" advertising campaign. There I stood in complete disbelief watching a company with a hugely recognized name and service spending millions to actually bifurcate their image and drive name recognition towards a new "brown" identity. Not only did they choose a generic term, but the jokes about what "brown" could do for you when a shipment went wrong were just too funny to ignore. It looks like someone kicked the CEO in the ass and they actually got back to marketing the brand everyone already knows. It was simply unbelievable, just like Apple's move with maps.

I don't know if it is fair to say that Apple has lost its way. Probably not. However, one has to raise questions when a bad decision of this magnitude passes through the company without someone setting the brakes with a clear-minded "We are not ready for this yet".

If it is true that maps are very hard to do well (I don't know maps), then it is beyond obvious that this is not something that can be fixed in six months. The last thing you want to do is make it impossible for your customers NOT to think about your competition. Prior to the iOS 6 maps issue the average iPhone customer probably ignored the entire smart phone ecosystem past Apple. Today you have people making comparisons. What can "brown" do for you?
Most of the effort around Lambda in the JVM has now shifted to implementing the collection libraries. You can follow along here:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-libs-spec-obse...
This question on Quora has a reference to many such other stories (including this one)
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-gripping-stories-in-h...
Oh, I don't disagree at all that it's a smart move. If I lived in an unstable country, I'd likely do the same.

However, the question is is Canada getting the short end of the stick? If you are a Canadian citizen, you get full health care coverage if you live in Canada, you get fully subsidized post-secondary education and your offspring get Canadian citizenship.

I guess the thought is, with Canada providing all of those benefits, maybe the hurdle for Canadian citizenship should be a little higher?

I guess my thought is that Canadians need to decide what type of immigrant they want. One that views Canada as their new home or just a residence of last resort?
Sure. With The New iPad. Now it is already in decline.
This is what happens when ad agencies design your website
When a company has had the run of success that Apple has, there is almost nowhere else to go but down. This article is just capitalizing on the statistical probability that Apple has no way of creating another breakaway product that would catapult them into a hitherto unknown league of corporate success.
Not at all. Why, I expect a thousand dollar check to each household in the US -- not even per person, just per mailable address -- would do perfectly well. Enclose a nice form letter: "This check is a sample of what my leadership as President can do for you."

Finding the optimal value of the check to get a 51% popular share is left as an exercise for the student.
Sleep still seems incredibly mis-understood relative to other essentials in life - like nutrition. If i think about the events in my life that wrecked sleep they were 1) kids 2) stress at work 3) chronic illness 4) family anxiety and they all occurred or accelerated in the back half of life. I imagine this will impact my long term health as much as nutrition. Yet few have effectively studied it like they have eating habits.
Weekends alone are 104 days, in case you forgot about them.
OK, so everyone else has pretty much covered the arguments for "don't do it, run" and for "re-write it". But assuming that you either

a) have to maintain it anyway (can't afford to lose job etc.)

or

b) are going to re-write it but don't have a definte spec to know what it has to do

then you are going to need to try and understand the code base. Here are some PHP specific tools to help you.

- Use XHGUI[1] (which is a fork of Facebooks XHProf) to profile the code as it runs. It can draw call-graphs for you (if you have Graphviz installed) which will help you to visuallise the code flow.

- Use PHPdoc[2] to generate API docs. This will help you get a simplified overview of the code to use as a reference.

- Use Xdebug[3] as you make changes and execute code to get more insight into how it is running and to trace variables etc. through the execution. You can use KCacheGrind [4] to visualise the output of Xdebug.

- Use a staging/development environment for everything you do with this code, and don't push any changes into to production until you really, really have to. When you do, use version control (e.g. Git, SVN etc.) and use an automated build system (Phing[5] is a great PHP specific one) to try and keep everything consistent.

Good luck! Quick plug : I'm currently writing a book [6] about PHP development (called PHP Everywhere : Programming beyond the web with PHP) which covers the tools above (albeit not for the kind of job you are taking on!). The one small mercy you may have when tackling a project like this is that it is written in PHP. PHP is usually quite a verbose language, which while it doesn't always produce sexy code, does mean that its straight forward to read and understand (at the local level!). An extra space here and there doesn't usually alter the meaning of the code as it does in some languages!

[1] https://github.com/preinheimer/xhprof
[2] http://www.phpdoc.org/
[3] http://www.xdebug.org/
[4] http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net
[5] http://www.phing.info/
[6] http://leanpub.com/php
Garbage statement - both you and the NY Times article. Speculation from a position of ZERO information is stupid and transparently so.

No one know why Apple rolled their own Maps and no one could possible know how different it would be if Steve was still alive.

The only think I really know is that Apple is smarter than you or the NY Times.
Goodbye Blackberry
I originally come from same region this story is about and currently as we stand Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Much of road work in Gaya district happens courtesy of Japanese govt. funds (Gaya is a popular Buddhist tourist attraction).

Now back in 1960 I can only imagine the chaos the country was in. We just got independence. State and central govts are just figuring out, how to run a country. How to channel funds where the need is most. There is whole bureaucratic and panchayat system which is still being established. Also a state funeral after 47 years hardly can mean anything other than the deed was well done.

Having said all of above, Bihar is still a poor state. Current state govt. is trying but I wouldn't be surprised if similar things happen again. It is not very unusual for entire river bridges to be washed away during some rain and villages to be cut off from rest of the world (even now).
Can you imagine any other phone warranting this article? "Recently released phone with new parts faster than previously released phone with older parts."
So damn true. Soon grove will add such a notice
I believe the title should be: From the Times, Advice on Writing Well
Privacy is dead. Except where it is still enshrined in law.
I second that one - I have been feeling, well, second class for not making the leap family and all. Well I am - just not the growth startup, just the get rich, slowly startup.

Fingers crossed for you
And since the exact same "fault" appears in 75% of the phones of that generation your point is what? Oh, nothing.
Bluestacks, the project bringing Android to desktop and currently on Windows and Mac has Whatsapp. Could try that.

Sort of related, is there any way to get an activation code without a proper mobile number? I know I should try Twilio and other options first, but I did just try Google Voice and it didn't seem to work. I could be wrong though. So might as well try asking.
Infographic: Who buys the most tech?
How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch
Well, technically it's still there, just checkout 476bb7a.
Get $50 for Publishing an Android App
Cheesus H Crust. Apple has leaped over years of Google development in 1 release and people are complaining? Apple hate has no relationship to reality.
That's an ugly waste of the raw materials and energy used to produce these things.

Also, isn't that damaging public property? Would it be ok if I glued dildos onto train doors?
Ask HN: How much would you pay for your Facebook account?
Say Facebook provided you with the option to have full control of your privacy at a very granular level. They would not store anything you didn't want stored. They would not share anything you didn't want shared. You'd have no ads pestering you and applications were controlled by you.

In other words, you own your person, your data, your profile and everything you post on FB.

Yes, you get to share with friends and family but you have a full guarantee that nothing will go past the limits you impose.

Don't want facial recognition or heuristics applied to your photos and posts: You get to turn it off.

The catch is: You have to pay an annual or monthly fee for that.

Would you?

How much?
Here's a python API that I made but didn't upload till now https://github.com/boukevanderbijl/python-whatsapi
lol!

Motion's a joke - to say it leads its respective market is ridiculous - After Effects leads the motion graphics segment, and Nuke leads the compositing segment.

The only highly technical app Apple has had that lead the market was Shake, and they completely fucked that one up (due to their secrecy and not telling their customers plans for future releases) and ended up killing the product after the majority of the Nothing Real team left and all their high-end customers had moved to Nuke.
That's great, but pretty sure he didn't donate 10 million quid to the Debian foundation. We're talking financial support here.
Apple is all about design and user experience. They probably hate the way a micro USB cable looks and it can only go in one way. Also they might want control of the peripheral market. I'm just guessing here.