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IFTTT.com forced to pull Twitter triggers
This is the email they've been sending out to users:

Dear robgough,

In recent weeks, Twitter announced policy changes* that will affect how applications and users like yourself can interact with Twitter's data. As a result of these changes, on September 27th we will be removing all Twitter Triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook. All Personal and Shared Recipes using a Twitter Trigger will also be removed. Recipes using Twitter Actions and your ability to post new tweets via IFTTT will continue to work just fine.

At IFTTT, first and foremost, we want to empower anyone to create connections between literally anything. We've still got a long way to go, and to get there we need to make sure that the types of connections that IFTTT enables are aligned with how the original creators want their tools and services to be used.

We at IFTTT are big Twitter fans and, like yourself, we've gotten a lot of value out of the Recipes that use Twitter Triggers. We're sad to see them go, but remain excited to build features that work within Twitter's new policy. Thank you for your support and for understanding these upcoming changes. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@ifttt.com.

Linden Tibbets
IFTTT CEO

*These Twitter policy changes specifically disallow uploading Twitter Content to a "cloud based service" (Section 4A https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms) and include stricter enforcement of the Developer Display Requirements (https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-requirements).
> It does feel like something fishy is going on

I'd really like to see the letter.

Even if names and a few other bits are redacted, it would let me tell the difference between:

a) I've got a logo up top, they've got a logo up top [ clearly craziness ]

and

b) I was producing the same three designs two years ago. These kids stole my designs, made the handles 1mm narrower, and are producing the exact same objects that I worked for years to perfect.

Big difference.
I would love to hear a sequence of events that could possibly involve a pilot attempting to land on the basis of information from an iPhone map.

There's whole emergency systems in place to ensure things like this don't happen- you know, basic radio contact with the ground being one obvious example.

Irish Government ministers should be dealing with our sovereign debt crisis rather than spouting crap about stuff they've no idea about.
Maybe this is as good as it gets.

"Sources tell The Verge that Apple began work on the iOS 6 maps system nearly five years ago"

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/3363914/wrong-turn-apple-i...
Once Steam comes to Linux, I don't see many reasons why a lot of gamers won't switch over. Many of the people I who use Windows to develop in Python/Ruby/etc use either a VM or SSH into a Linux box, simply because they want to game. I think many people will not want to pay the Microsoft tax, especially for Windows 8.
What does that have anything to do with Java? It's the framework's problem.
Absolutely, and because his kids are his world, then facebook is dying. Same reason why everybody posts pictures of their kids thinking the world will be interested.
I wonder if this is actually a knock against the common incubator/VC idea that "founders/team are everything".

Clearly that's not how the Samwer brothers operate, where a viable business model that "clicks" for whatever reason is all that matters.

They simply hire qualified people to execute an existing idea, and then pump massive marketing dollars to establish the company. There's ZERO evidence that they go into a market because they have "a great team", which AFAICT, is all something like Y Combinator really cares about.

It's interesting nonetheless -- perhaps there's multiple ways to start and scale new companies?
Pythonic Java
Ifttt and Twitter breakup
I'm surprised they let you delete your account, a rarity these days. Turned out none of my friends are interested in this so I deleted it.
The SaaS Litmus Test
Interesting article, some good advice and a practical perspective. It's refreshing.
Yeah agreed. You've replied to all these comments basically saying its not exactly what your looking for but when it comes down to it you can probably make your linux desktop look however you want if you put some time into it. That's really your answer right there, OP. Customize it yourself, I'm sure you can fine tons of guides online.

If you don't want to do that then just use OSX?
Seems very cool and an enjoyable and solid way to take the time to really absorb this stuff. However, from the description it doesn't sound like anything that you couldn't work through hands-on, from the website within say 1-2 weeks, if you focused on it.

M102: MongoDB for DBAs

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-o...
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-d...

http://try.mongodb.org/ type 'tutorial'

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Import+Export+Tools

http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2011/a-mongodb-re...

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexes

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexing+Advice+and+FAQ

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding+Introduction

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Simple+Initial+Sharding+...

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/sharding-archi...

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/sharding/

http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosf-2011/backing-up-m...

http://www.mongodb.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=19562846

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets
For me (recently graduated in May, in a very similar boat as you), it came down to networking and getting noticed. I attended StartupWeekend/3DayStartup/hackathon events around my town and university. That put me in touch with a lot of relevant people who could give me intros and referrals to startups I was interested in. Also note that many of the sponsors of hackathons done at universities are often from tech hubs like SV/NYC.

I also threw my resume into startup application aggregators such as engineerapplication.com, nycstartu.ps, hackruiter.com, and angel.co/talent. Each of those sites got me 2-3 conversations each.

Once you meet one or two people in your tech hub of choice, it'll be easy to get introduced to many more.
Twitter Cuts off API Access to IFTTT
Details of how to look at a patent are useful, but you don't really speak to my actual question. If I look at a the patent and, in my professional opinion as a developer, believe that the prior art I post covers all the claims of the patent, can I get slapped with treble damages for operating under the belief that my prior art will kill it while it is still patent-pending?
Extremetech.com has never prided itself on in-depth journalism.
I am offended. How could you mix up GPL with OSM? Is this some kind of a troll? If so it is very bad taste.

OSM data is licensed under ODbL. It has nothing common with those "license terrorists".
How can you comment on a patent that hasn't been granted yet? I.e. when it was posted it wasn't a patent. Also, if it was posted/discussed in a public forum before the patent was granted doesn't that violates the validity of the patent?
IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies
Depends on what the terms of the Apple-Google agreement were. It's possible it did not include the additional features.
I don't understand why a company with such a fan base doesn't just add a "Donate" widget to their page and directly solicit donations rather than go through Kickstarter and give up 5-10%?

The power of Kickstarter is attracting fans you couldn't otherwise, but they take a nice big chunk. I always wonder why companies with a great story and fan base just don't solicit their fans directly instead of going through Kickstarter -- am I missing something here?
Stupid encryption tricks, only without a funny YouTube video
Good observation, I've read several posts which complain about factories and proxies. With Grails (which can be all Java no Groovy if you want), Zk, GWT, etc. I can do powerful web apps. No EJB and no Spring needed.
I doubt they sit around writing all day - but I am darn sure they do compiler anaylsis of the human brain.
I don't write any Go, but 'you are doing it wrong, we use a different idiomatic style to handle that' is not a necessarily invalid thing to say.
"Either way, the products seem similar, but what would you expect from a mentor/protege relationship?"

Seem similar in the sense that they are both selling bags? Looking at the products they both look to have completely different designs and styles, I don't see how they seem similar.
If I ran the world I'd ban all links to wikipedia and lesswrong entries on "laws" and "fallacies".

They never actually contribute anything to the discussion.
IFTTT to removing all Twitter Triggers due to new API rules
Way, way, way too narrow. The Java standard library design and "framework meta-pattern" is what's being mocked here. It's java-the-community that we are laughing at via the straightforward label "Java". The fact that java-the-syntax or java-the-runtime can be used to code or deploy good software isn't really the point.
At places like shapeways, they have the big printers. Those can print some sort of metal. I have a sample, it is rock solid.
Better question: are all social networking sites doomed to be fads and thus doomed to die? The answer leads to paradoxical results. If we answer 'yes' then no one will create another Facebook and thus Facebook will survive. If we answer 'no' then a competitor will emerge and thus increasing the chance that Facebook dies.
awesome service, now all i need is more friends
Panic was first with an emoji domain:

http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...

http://💩.la
Actually, when I met him at Noisebridge, Andrew gave me permission to do a knock-off machine designed to be cut on smaller bed laser cutters. I think the design is open, but not on the website.
Seems like a good idea. We'll surely give a thought on this. Thanks
IFTTT Will Remove Twitter Triggers
Funny. I ran into an issue a few weeks ago where coworkers couldn't see me when I was online. Turns out my computer name (🐒💨) caused an error in Adium (which most coworkers use for chat).

Who knows what other weird issues this was causing... so I reverted back to a proper ASCII computer name.
Announcing the 23andMe Personal Genome API
A lot of the value of an MBA comes from the school and not just the three letters. You'd be better off focusing on building something that will wow the suits. If you really want credibility, I'm not sure if an online MBA will bring you that.
We just lure all the Nestle employees into a dark alley... and then we hit 'em up for more candy bars!
The cast of The West Wing reunites for a funny (and actual) campaign spot
The terms in question:

"You may export or extract non-programmatic, GUI-driven Twitter Content as a PDF or spreadsheet by using "save as" or similar functionality. Exporting Twitter Content to a datastore as a service or other cloud based service, however, is not permitted."

So do I own my tweets or not? If I own them, can't I decide what to do with them, such as storing them in a cloud service? Twitter can't have it both ways.
This is great. It seems strange to me that logicless templates who have taken it too far have gained so much popularity in js templating.

For someone considering handlebars, here is what I have found really constraining, note that most of them are by design:

- No builtin equality check between two variables. So, you can do:

`{{#if my_boolean}}`, but cannot do

`{{#if my_variable == 2 }}`

You have two options here:

- Resort to implementing an ifequal helper (and other trivial helpers like gt, lt etc.)
- Prepare everything before handing it to the template, so before passing the json to the template, add another field like, equal_to_two to check for equality with 2.

- Partials lack access to parent.

Say you are iterating over answers of a question, so you do:

{{#each answers }}

{{ text }} - {{ user }}

{{/each}}

At some point, you will want to add some information in the parent scope, so you do this:

{{#each answers }}

{{ answer.text }} - {{ answer.user }} -- in response to {{../user }}

{{/each}}

Now, you may want to register this snippet as a partial:

{{ answer.text }} - {{ answer.user }} -- in response to {{../user }}

So that you can do:

{{#each answers }}
{{> answer_partial }}
{{/each}}

But answer_partial cannot access the parent scope (question item); so you resort to another custom helper "include".

- Lack of keyword and delimiter compatibility with Django/Jinja2; so you need to replace each of your {% if %}'s to {{if}} and so on.

- It is hard to tell what the current context is referring to at times, so, it is helpful to use an additional debug helper (again not builtin) that just logs the current context. Block helpers change the context, except when they don't.

The only reservation I have with nunjucks is that it faces the danger that it might be abandoned like other efforts; other than that, it seems it will address all the painpoints I am experiencing with handlebars, but speaking with jlongster on twitter, he seems determined to keep working on it.
I don't know what it is about Apple that invokes such delusion. Apple has had plenty of unpolished 1.0 releases including a pretty big one - OSX.

I am wondering if it's because of Steve Jobs death that is causing people to almost look for something/anything that show signs of Apple's impending implosion.
I also gave the driving directions a shot, the voice cues are great, the visuals look fantastic and really awesome. Also when you deviate it doesnt give you some "ROBOT RECALCULATING" voice, instead she smoothly cuts over to the next set of directions.

The new 3d looks good, the map tiles need work but they just look DIFFERENT and not necessarily "worse" to me. This is in SOMA San Francisco.
The site is over its bandwidth limit, here's a cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
Why Freemium is Dominating Mobile
IFTTT disables Twitter Triggers in response to Twitter's new policys
I agree with this comment and @donretag as well, the activity stream is much more useful to me and I really dislike both these changes.
Actually, I do like reading javadoc. It's just a pain to create and the code feels a bit bloated with all those comments.
I think stories like this get upvoted because a certain percentage of HN users want FB to fail.

A certain percentage (probably other people) want Google to fail and upvote those stories.

A certain percentage want YC to fail and upvote those stories.

A certain percentage want Apple to fail and upvote those stories.

I don't think anything meaningful can be derived from such upvote patterns.
Css3base
Nothing specific to ifttt here, except that ifttt reacted to twitter's policy change and shut it off.

Similar to the linkedin/twitter situation I think? Twitter changed policy, LinkedIn/ifttt shut of twitter, news stories report twitter shut off x.

But reality was twitter told everyone we're gonna shut you off, then big players started shutting off twitter of their own accord.
"Want free showers? Tell your friends!"

small print- with frictionless sharing of video live streaming to the web. Don't worry, only your friends, family and work colleagues will see it, no random strangers.
You can turn off this feature in Settings -> Maps. Just turn on "Always English" nob.

Edit: Just tested. This does not work for street names. Sorry.
I think the argument is that if Apple made a calculator that looked like the Braun one it would be stealing. But since it's not the same type of device, it's a tribute. I'm not sure if this is a valid legal argument, but I understand it.

Let's not confuse arguments that benefit Apple with blind support of Apple. Intentionally making a phone that copies the iPhone is clearly wrong, IMO. This clock issue is quite a bit murkier.
So they're basically hoping to get free labor using crowd sourcing. I don't see this taking off because I don't see the incentive for volunteers to put a lot of work into shooting down someone's patent. While the result will be less patents, a much preferable situation would be no patents at all.

I really wonder how it's supposed to work with the amount of patents granted nowadays. Say you come up with a new product, can you really be expected to go and read all pending patents in existence to verify you're not infringing? It's practically impossible, so I suppose it's mostly fingers crossed that you won't get sued.
The people working for RI and the incubated companies are wronged. The copying is not the problem. The problem is how they treat their employees. In the Berlin tech scene, if you were working for rocket you are treated as an easy victim. As someone who accepts every insult, being yelled at and every wrong that is done to them.
Okay, I had a few problems with the responsive layout template for mobile apps (so much for that template being "responsive"), and, I tried to throw a few ads up (to offset what can only be described as a "minor" cost of doing business) but that borked the layout badly for certain mobile devices.

So, late yesterday, I got most of that all dialed in now and it should look and perform a little better today (except maybe for folks in very far away places?).

Lastly, I put off changing the full page load into an ajax request in order to generate a new war scenario because, well, some of the most popular generators out there do a full page load (including the ones that I referenced), so why not me? Trust me, I know how to do it, but, based on the traffic and the feedback, it's clearly not holding people people up from using it.

Any other feedback? Performance issues? Mobile issues? Layout? Other suggestions?

Thanks again to all who took the time to comment, especially the critics. It's clearly a site I made on a whim, but, even though it's just for fun, I took the feedback seriously in order to make sure it stays fun.
IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6
Here's hoping for a monospace emoji font variant, so we can use them in our code. That 'pile of shit' tag might come in handy.
If the suit is merely about them copying the website, then it may blow over fairly quickly.

If it turns out that these interns copy/pasted a few lines of CSS, then they will be righteously raked over the coals.
I assume all of the stuff that gets posted to this site is "Patent Pending".
Looks awesome. I hope you succeed but the average person is going to be weary of accidentally auto-sharing that "article" they were reading on redtube.com
Or this story:

Source: Google Hopes To Have iOS Maps App In The App Store “Before Christmas”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/crap-maps
No new information here, surprised this didn't hit sooner when twitter first changed their policy?
Six simple steps to reading more
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found it strange that the founders at Vinted Goods seem to leave their name off of everything. Whether or not it is fair, it makes me think that there is more to the story--particularly when their mentor shares so much about himself and his brand on his website.
I don't think the 'average fan' is ever breaking anything down on their own. It just requires too much dedication and time to build the knowledge.

But the key is that this isn't being released to just the average fans.

What we're more likely to see, is a cottage industry of superfans springing up to 'go-Jaworski' on more plays, more games, etc. And that content will be consumed by the average fan.
The CPSC is busting our Balls
Microsoft Open Sourcing Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub
I like the Aero bars, and every time I visit Canada with someone I hunt down a Kinder Surprise so we can eat something that's illegal in the US :)
> If you comment on a patent that ends up being granted...

This is not really a big deal, comment anonymously.

Problem solved and we have yet another reason to preserve anonymous speech.
In fairness, Notepad manages to basically do what you expect it to.
Stop being a a scared pansy. If everyone had your skills, we wouldn't have a developer shortage. You're perfectly employable by any number of local and remote programming companies based on your skill set.

If you've actually applied to more than 20 places and aren't getting hired, it's not your programming skills you need to be working on.
What's the game plan for Twitter? Shouldn't it be valuable to Twitter to have tweets showing up everywhere? Why stop that?
Asana's Scaling Issues
This needs two things:

1) An additional "this patent is so bad the applicant deserves to be slapped," and a meaningful penalty for submitting atrocious patents (scaled to be meaningful based on who is submitting it).

2) Some compensation for those who are doing a good job providing prior art. This doesn't have to be financial - improving professional reputation would probably be enough, but that's not really going to happen if it's relatively few people on the site. Could we come up with a way of increasing the exposure of contributers (when they want it)?
"folks complain"

I wouldn't, as long as all of the extras can be toggled on/off. I'd actually pay a monthly fee for a search engine which has many features and is very customizable.
Thanks! Automatic sharing is opt-in instead of opt-out, which means you would have to manually add a site like redtube. On top of that, we've prevented our software from ever touching certain sites, including search engines, webmail accounts, banking or financial institution pages, and adult websites.

Check out our faq: http://lookmark.com/faq
If you want to get worked up over that, sure. I won't question that assertion. I'll just point out that other platforms had "app stores" before even the iOS jailbreakers.
OSX, iPad, MobileMe, Motorola iTunes, Retina MBP etc. All have had major flaws in their 1.0 release.

The only people who say "Steve wouldn't have let this happen" are people who know nothing about Apple or Steve Jobs. Hint: "real artists ship"
I'm working on a new service that archives users' data and I wanted to include their tweets. Now I'm unsure if I'm allowed to do that, even on the users' behalf.
Angry Birds is great example of this problem: it is very slow on my phone due to many layers of abstraction.
I agree, although I also see some usefulness:

If your inner function names are sufficiently descriptive, you can write the high-level behaviour of the outer function at the top, first to be read, to get a quick overview of what it does. Then declare the inner functions below that (this also requires that the inner functions must not have surprising side-effects).

I've never seen or tried out code like that in practice, but it seems like it could work.
I've been looking at making a 2D game library for Go based on some older Go code, and various people have made similar efforts, but there's nothing yet that's full and complete. The best option in most cases is to use bindings to OpenGL/SDL/SDL2 for 2D, or bindings to a 3D game engine (Horde3D bindings are available, and there's at least one engine built largely in Go)

There have been a few people making games in Go.
Games:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2066438441/haunts-the-ma...
http://blog.iandavis.com/tag/amberfell/
https://github.com/iand/amberfell
http://www.pokemon-universe.com/
http://code.google.com/p/pokemon-universe/

Engines/Libraries:
http://code.google.com/p/gohorde/
https://github.com/genbattle/Go2D
https://github.com/DeedleFake/sdl
https://github.com/Agon/baukasten
https://github.com/chsc/gogl
https://github.com/foobaz/egl

There's prorbably more stuff around, but this is what I have collected so far. The biggest concern when making games is the GC; you'll either get a choppy framerate from occasional GC runs, or you'll get a consistent overhead from running the GC every frame. If/when the GC becomes concurrent this situation will vastly improve for games.
What about buffer and twitterfeed? Will they be able to proceed?