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> Q: Why did copy paste take so long?

> A: Scott: It's not that easy. There were security issues.

What does this mean? Could it be that with the iPhone, letting the user extract his own data from the device and sending it elsewhere is a "security" issue?
"Hardware is cheap" is a false dichotomy. The implication is that hardware is cheap, but development is not, and performant architectures require expensive development.

In reality, neither hardware or development are cheap, and performance does not inherently necessitate more costly development. The mantra and the dichotomy are false.
I wonder if the buffer is outside the normal application sandbox.
How good the micropayments feature is depends on what their cut on it is. 30% off of 10 cents hurts a lot more than 30% off of $10.00
Is the new OS just for registered developers? How hard would it be for a non-developer to obtain and install it?
I think perhaps it is more "bypassing of security" issues. On the iPhone applications don't get to interact with each other, so a breach must be made in that protection, and once breached it must be guarded.
An example of "regime uncertainty" is the AIG bonus situation that's in the news today.

AIG has multiple divisions. Many folks in many of these divisions (a) have contracts specifying that they get 90% of their annual compensation in a lump sum known as a bonus; (b) did a great job over the past year in areas of business entirely unrelated to CDOs and other issues.

...and now we've got a Republican senator saying that these people should commit suicide, and we've got a Democratic president and a Democratic senator saying that these workers will either have to give their salaries back or they'll be slapped with after-the-fact 100% tax rates.

In a political environment like this, I'd suggest that a lot of folks who can deliver massive amounts of value would be quite leery of signing up for a new job with variable, results-based compensation.

Thanks - that's really helping the economy!
96% of apps are approved? I thought the percentage was much lower. Vocal minority, I guess.
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I think time zones are actually pretty useful. If I have to call Frankfurt or Tokyo, it makes a big difference whether it's 4pm their time or 6pm.

If things were the same worldwide then I'd have no idea if it's the middle of the night in the place I'm trying to call unless I've already memorized it. With time zones I can just look at a world clock.
Just apply! If you get accepted go to your friends and family and ask if they can provide a security blanket in case nothing becomes of your work at YC. That would allow you to find employment if need be!

If you do get accepted stretch the resources as far as possible! Find roommates and eat like a poor man(do not go out to eat)!
But you still enjoy the phone.

Companies that create products that people enjoy tend to benefit from loyalists who will applaud your every move. It's an advantage that entrepreneurs covet as long as they're not blinded by it.
IPhone 3.0: Push Notifications, Copy and Paste, MMS, and More
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"If Django is crucial to your site, you may wish to consider another host since Dreamhost does not officially support Django. In the past, some users have reported reliablity problems; however, others have had no problems."
I'm pretty pissed about MMS not being available on the 2G, but at least now with copy & paste I can finally copy those fucking username/password combinations that AT&T sends me.
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so...we using "cool" for economically competitive now?
It would be great if an one's own ranked list could be exported straight from your website. Maybe you'd want to keep track of individual users' lists anyway, to prevent people from gaming the results?

Great idea :).
I follow the philosophy of 'if it isn't in the book, it isn't cannon' so I strongly disagree with how Rowling actually came out saying Dumbledore was gay. I don't get why it wasn't revealed in a book if the character was actually gay. Aside from the religious wackies (which I didn't presume OSC to be) I think most people in modern society aren't offended by a homosexual character, so it strikes me as moronic it wasn't simply stated. I mean he's like an 80 year old man who has no mention of ever being married, in a relationship or having children, I simply assumed he was gay from the beginning.

I'd argue with you about the maturity of Harry Potter's plot, but I doubt you want a long diatribe about a book series you're not a fan of, so I'll clam up.

I'm aware the plot gets more complex as the series progresses and I've considered reading the books, although I'll likely wait a while after the film series is completed. My opinion of it has changed, possibly because the series does mature as the characters do (which is actually quite commendable), but I believe when I tried reading the first book I think I was already trying to read much more complicated books, it felt like stepping down. I didn't see the reward in reading a book for kids when I was reading adult books, which my opinion now is beginning to change. I respect the YA fiction a lot more now, especially since that's what I'm aiming my first novel for.

So who knows, I might have eventually picked up the first Harry Potter book from a purely research perspective. I mean for all my criticism of Rowling, I do admit she's wildly successful and I forgot who said it but "There's no point in being a brilliant writer if no body ever reads it."
The author is saying that no one at a high level knew the risks that were being taken off the books. Fair enough, that's something we need to fix. Apparently Sarbanes-Oxley didn't work.

But then the author tries to give Cramer a pass ("just an entertainer") by skipping Stewart's point: CNBC touts its talent as experts in financial news. Even the author goes back to calling Cramer a "financial journalist" a paragraph later. You don't get to quick-change between the suit of expertise and the fig-leaf of opinion.

If the CEO doesn't know when his own company is in trouble... that's news, right?
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With what they charge I don't see how you could even assume it's rock solid hosting. I have an account I use for backups and have no complaints. They are asking for a 10 spot in exchange for a year of hosting and a free domain name. Put it in perspective, that's less than the cost of a pizza.
The funny thing is that Stewart never attacked Cramer. He attacked CNBC, and Cramer's clip was one of 8-10 that he played. Then the media cherry picked as usual, and it turned into the "battle of the titans"
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It's just the normal $99 developers. Originally the betas were limited to whoever Apple liked.
This was my initial response as well, and I agree it could be abused by developers.

But I still think there's value in a free app that has paid upgrades, even if Apple has to classify them as "Mixed" instead of Free or Paid.
I'm sure that was just for demonstration purposes. EA tried that in a bunch of games when Xbox LIVE first offered these features. Customers FREAKED and things have been much more reasonable since.
Seeking beta testers for Numbrosia on the iphone/ipod touch.
Send an email to amichail@gmail.com if you might be interested in being a beta tester for Numbrosia on the iphone/ipod touch.

I should have something ready for beta testing in a week or two.
I think this writer is missing the point just like Cramer did on Stewart.

The New York Times doesn't have subpoena power, but there are still a non-zero number of people in power who limit their shenanigans because they're terrified of ending up on the front page.

The government has a regulatory and investigative role, but it can't go out on a hunch or a rumor, a good journalist can (Which is not to say we need witch hunts).

One good journalistic organization can help keep a whole industry honest just by the threat of really investigating things that don't add up. WSJ is good at reporting, but I can't recall the last time they cracked a scandal in the financial world. Feel free to correct me.

Would a diligent, news-y CNBC have prevented the financial crisis? I doubt it. But perhaps they could've prevented or exposed some of the most ridiculous excess. It seems every person 'in the know' I've read has said that in hindsight they thought that Madoff was on the take, they just assumed he was an insider trader.

Would this stuff sell in comparison to Jim Cramer throwing pies? I don't know. But I have a hunch that a financial dateline style report exposing Madoff as a scam would've garnered a few viewers...
Has wxErlang support. Now, GUIs can be built with Erlang!
Much snappier now. :)
Shameless promotion of own website/framework.
CS != programming
Coding Horror is another case. It frequently reaches the front page and generates discussion. IW does not. IW creates noise on New, Andrews does have a point though. Still, it seems there should be a way to mitigate blatent spamming.
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Very nice summary. Negative points to the article for "(just like Kevin Rose predicted)" a lot of people have been 'predicting' this for a while.
More motivation for android based apps.
That should be very, very obvious based on the cost. However, I guess it's good to repeat it because it's apparently not obvious to some people.

For what you're paying, it's actually a fine value. It's only for toy sites and such, but it's good to have a place for toy sites.
I think most people in modern society aren't offended by a homosexual character, so it strikes me as moronic it wasn't simply stated. I mean he's like an 80 year old man who has no mention of ever being married, in a relationship or having children, I simply assumed he was gay from the beginning.

There was never really any reason to say it. I think the seventh book hints at it but there's no point in the series where it would make sense for him to mention it.

As for canon: I think canon is stupid. I don't get into arguments about fictional characters. It makes sense to me that J. K. Rowling would make Dumbledore gay, so I don't care that she announced that, save that I think it might help some kids realize that homosexuality is okay.

I believe when I tried reading the first book I think I was already trying to read much more complicated books, it felt like stepping down. I didn't see the reward in reading a book for kids when I was reading adult books, which my opinion now is beginning to change. I respect the YA fiction a lot more now, especially since that's what I'm aiming my first novel for.

If you haven't read more than the first book I'd absolutely understand how you feel. I was really lucky: I started reading the books at a time when the fourth book came out just in time for me to buy it, and the fourth book is where there's a real turn in how the books progress. (The third book had begun this, and it won the Hugo, I believe; the second book is the single weak point of the series.) So I got caught up at an age and at a time where the series really lifted up.

I forgot who said it but "There's no point in being a brilliant writer if no body ever reads it."

Brilliant writers can't help but be noticed. Even when they're bizarro brilliant, like David Foster Wallace, they find people willing to accept them. And I think Rowling is brilliant too: she's not a brilliant writer, but she's one of the best storytellers I've ever come across.
I wouldn't trust them for anything business, period.
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You download a game. You play it once. It sucks. Meanwhile, it has stolen your mail and phoned it back home to a server in Uzbekistan.
Allow me to clarify somewhat. This isn't the first time I've seen someone make a comment like yours; but I have never seen anyone say "wow, it's really cool that a FreeBSD developer is running FreeBSD on his server" (substitute "nginx", "Apache", "linux", "Xen", etc. for "FreeBSD" as required). It's more the opposite -- it seems that those of us who work on the lower layers only ever get attention if we don't eat our own dogfood.

To turn my question around: Ok, so the blog engine and all the underlying layers are all awesome; but why don't all the underlying layers get as much attention?
It actually depends on where you initially look at the image. I first focused on the torso and saw clockwise, and then focused on the extended foot and saw counter-clockwise.

Edit: Hmm, I guess it's a test of if you're a breast man or a leg man.
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Guess I'd better leave my fillings behind next time I fly.

(Side: Why is it that so many people go "ooh it's neurotoxic!" and when I mention fillings they say "oh but that's different, it's a stable form of mercury mixed with {arsenic, radium, cyanide, other weird thing I don't really want embedded in my flesh}?)
the technology part is pretty interesting, the business model too.

Which brings me to a question...if you are that tech savvy to do all the stuff they talk about under technology...why risk all that for the peanuts they talk about in the business model?
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -- Calvin Coolidge http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340466
Cramer is pretty much the face of CNBC. How many other anchors can you name?
Computer science was never cool. I personally think that's cool.
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Err, no, the author wasn't giving him a pass. He was saying just the opposite; that Cramer never should have copped to being an entertainer and that it was the result of a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome"
As someone who works weekly on such cases I would like to point out that the technical content of this article is largely correct, however the sections about the origins of the abuse and the accused is incorrect.
ha, this is nothing. i'm developing a femtoblogging platform that only allows 1 character posts.
call it terrorists, Enron or Jimmy Cramer, is US tradition to blame one person to the whole problem... and we are happy about it, oh now we know who is evil, lets blame him!
being anal, but I think there is always room for new/interesting social networks.
As the writer of the letter states the majority of this is conducted by the russion organised gangs. Usually as one part of their larger cyber-crime operations.

That entire "industry" is a multi-million dollar one.
Sure, everybody says that want tough, serious, thoughtful journalism. But they vote with their eyeballs (and ad dollars) for the show with zany sound effects.

CNBC is itself a business, after all.
I would walk out of the interview because, obviously, the interviewer (or crafter of the questions) is a special kind of douche bag.
Cool idea - I would change both movies each time, though, if you haven't seen at least one of them (instead of flipping one at a time and keeping the other one up). Also, as people have already mentioned, keep them in similar genres or at least offer an option of "Can't make the comparison," or something similar.
Your message is excessively specific. s/US/human/.

(Or were you going for the irony of demonstrating the fallacy you are highlighting by example, albeit on a slightly larger scale?)
i still like the idea i put forth in that thread.

make it so that you can only submit X number of stories from a specific domain out of every Y submissions. possibly implement a penalty of some sort if you go over.
Not to mention, what happens when inevitably idiots with delusions of competence catch on and everyone from Granny to Clueless IT Manager start saying it reflexively.
Well, it's true -- mercury in an amalgam (normally with silver & tin) doesn't leach out. Most of the heavy metals that are dangerous by themselves can by alloyed or chelated to make them biologically safe.
Micropayments: death by a thousand cuts. Mark my words.
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Maria Bartiromo is the only other one I know. When Cramer was running a hedge fund he used to call in tips to her: http://www.deepcapture.com/jim-cramer-is-a-complicated-man/
If I understand correctly, MMS will be available on all iPhones once they are updated to iPhone OS 3.0. It was never a hardware issue.
Did he really need to engage in monkeypatching even in this small example?

Do you really pollute a class as fundamental as String as cavalierly as in this code?
But it depends on how it's done. "MySpace + Puppies/Dentists/Classical Musicians" may have a niche audience, but it's not in need of funding from a VC.
I don't say you like the blog, I say they are so biased on what they write, Arrington forgot the roots of his blog, which was reviewing and writing about startups.
the link was really good, thank you.

as to this being on HN, i thought i'd just throw it at the wall and see if it stuck. in some manner, it is still an escape from the knee jerk masses because it takes the currently under-reported side of cramer, but i take your point that it's not dealing with these:
http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/further.html#./further:h3
The app store upgrades look like they might be useful for many devs, but to be honest it's pretty hard to get excited over features other smartphones have had for many years.

And of course, users still don't have access to their own data.
This was posted recently on HN, should help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514430
I'm trying not to resort to sarcasm, but honestly. If your evidence of "so-so" hardware is an anecdotal sampling of people who may well have defective units, that's some pretty weak tea.
Well, that's kind of the nice thing about capitalism. If you don't like it, vote (or rather don't vote) with your wallet.
the lack of a bug tracker and a SCM should'nt be limited by language barrier.
yeah you are right...pretty much the only 2 other CNBC anchors people might name is Maria Baratararaamao(since she hosted one of the presidential debates) and Larry Kudlow
Okay, that makes more sense.

I think it's because a lot of that stuff doesn't get as much publicity. I'm fairly clueless about Unix: I know that Linus guy did something, but I am not well-versed in Unix's history.

That might actually be a fascinating thing: a publication or web site or blog devoted to exploring stuff like that, explaining why they're so huge and so important, and getting information like that out there. I feel bad* that I don't know more about my computer and about coding systems beyond that top layer, but at the same time I don't know where I'd start to learn about things like that. (The closest I got was with _why's explanation of why Ruby is neat, and even that was enough to inspire a real fascination with the language. I'm sure that sort of attitude could be more commonplace.)

*Specifically, something to do with Linux.
As I understand it, clang is a C front-end for the Low Level Virtual Machine infrastructure. It's fantastic that the benchmarks show it actually performing better than gcc in many cases, although it's not quite a valid comparison, given that the two programs are not outputting the same pixel values.
Clicking on the link to the article crashes the browser on my tmobile g1 for some reason, anyone else?
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Its all about the percieved value. Its amazing how hackers (me included) don't get this.

Normal people rarely care about the technology, they do care about little things that improve their live
Hundreds of posts on Apple's forums lead me to believe that it's more than a handful of users. To pick just two of those threads:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1387729...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1415343...
precisely. I upvote, what, maybe 2 or 3 stories a day. And read around 20% of what gets posted here.

That isnt bad numbers - the point of the new page is, surely, to filter the crud :) I enjoy doing that!
I think you're being unkind. If you don't like TechCrunch, or Mike Arrington, just ignore them. They'll do the same to you and everyone wins.
Ask HN: I'm about to buy a domain from someone, what escrow service to use?
I'm about to buy a domain for $400 from a private individual.

I figure the best way to do the transfer is to use a 3rd party escrow service. Anyone does this before? Could you recommend anything?

Thanks!
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You could abandon your old identity, take up a new one, and then publicly mock the comments made by the old one, to distance yourself from them.
The copy is weak, but the "time cards translate to bottom line" idea is good. I would lead with that.

"TickStart connects time tracking directly to your bottom line. Quantify your employee's productivity..." etc
No - and I'd also challenge the assertion that Dropbox and Slideshare are mainstream anywhere outside of the tech/early adopter community.

These (and online docs) are products that people who like technology and new things use as a way to get their work done. The vast majority of people - and this is especially prevalent in enterprise contexts - don't care about a new way to get their work done, since the old one seems to work fine.

Want to collaborate on a document? Either use Track Changes or press the "Share on SharePoint" button in Office. Want to share a PowerPoint? Email it. Want to version a document? Load it into the company's knowledge management system. I work on a leading-edge team inside of a very progressive (enterprise-size) company, and it's a battle to get people to use the wiki we have set up.
sedo seems to be the industry standard. looks like they charge $50 or 3%, whichever is more, for an escrow of an outside deal.

http://www.sedo.com/services/s_escrow.php
Is there any help out there to setting up my iphone to be used as a moden for my PC when traveling??
I am guessing that the in-app upsell feature will lead to a lot of apps dropping prices to the lowest level possible and using the incremental purchase options to increase revenue based on what the users what to get out of the app and what features they want to enable. It could basically lead to a-la carte feature & content selection for some apps.