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"Feeling badly" is not enough. If they make statements to the effect that they've understood and learned from the experience that prosecuting these types of cases in this manner is bad, then maybe. As it is, we have no reason to believe they won't do the same again, and again, if left unchecked.
It's the whole "optimised for IE5" thing all over again.

Once you've got in the boat of single platform optimisation (using Apple Computers store for video and music integration in this case) then moving to something that is platform agnostic is hard.

It's an interesting case study though, that it's costing they're losing money (I think that's what they're saying) by creating for the diversity of the Android platform. Would be nice to see the figures.
The ironic thing is that rayiner is displaying exactly the same problematic rhetorical behaviours that we're all so upset with Ortiz for. Wilfully over-narrowing/widening an interpretation in order to win an argument at any cost.

America's slavish veneration of their constitutional text is largely responsible for this poisonous legalistic mode that has infected their discourse at all levels. Discuss.
So, they are telling us that you can't buy iTunes movies and songs on android devices. Of course android sucks because of this lack.

Why does this remind me of Microsoft and IE aroun d 10 years ago? Oh yeah, it's because there's a monopoly and people complain why not everything is working the same way as it does in the proprietory counterpart.
Reality check: outside the tech news echo chamber, the Swartz case and everything related is a pretty minor thing.
I think this really makes sense given that in Germany we have a quorum of 50k with a much smaller population. The same thing is probably true for other smaller countries as well.
There is such a thing as contributing to it. No one doubts that Aaron took his own life and that he had a history of depression. However, add the draconian charges and ....
I wrote most of the Wikipedia article on the Patriot Act a few years ago. I can't think of anything in it that would apply to this.

I'm sure it's violating some part of the U.S. Code, but the Patriot Act ain't it.
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can I filter out all articles with aaron schwartz in them please?
distract people and cause injury and accidents

Like mobile phones then?
You can expire things with setInterval and a counter. You serve a cached response if your server has a cached response, or if you are using it as a fallback you would combine it with something like toobusy maybe so you have a functional (if not fresh) 'under load' page.

Where it gets really fun with NodeJS is you can do all of your data work outside of the requests so you can pull all of your content out at the start and refresh it on an interval independently of the users, which can eliminate some or all of their trips to the database if you're lucky and it fits in ram and is viable etc.

The less moving parts that need to cooperate to serve your site the better - most things don't warrant a deep stack of technology to serve HTML and run CRUD operations.
First of all, this looks very nice and I have nothing bad to say about this particular product at all.

But I can't help but wonder why there are so many apps like this. Off the top of my head there's Notable, LayerVault, Shipment, Cage, Marqueed, Moqups, the recently released Flatsie, and a ton of others that all offer some variation of the "show your work to clients" theme.

I'm really curious what pushed you to release your own version of this. Does Draft do something that, say, Notable doesn't? Or do you think the market for this is so big that it can comfortably support one more similar app?
It started out at 5,000 signatures. Then it went to 25k. Now it's 100k?
and expectedly they will stop ios app magazines sooner or later too and move completely to the web,,,,,
There are 3 battles which are being fought here, and they should ideally be separated out during discussions.

The trial affected a brilliant person who pushed limits of the world around him, to his limits.

At the same time there are thousands of convicts who have committed far more heinous crimes, and others who are being prosecuted harshly for crimes they didn't commit who don't follow this path.

Aaron died not because of the trial but because of depression. Having dealt with depression and depressed people, I know this fact intimately.

Depression and mental illness are humiliating, and with depression things reach a stage where anything and everything can become a trigger.

The second issue is the over-zealousness of the prosecution, . What they aimed to do is wrong, not just for Aaron but for many other accused in America.

And the finally battle is the one for culture and openness that Aaron was a champion of.

So far I have seen people champion the latter two causes (over-zealousness and open access to information) more than the first (depression).
Seriously? How would this be more dangerous than current cellphones? At least with glass you can keep your eyes facing the road while gathering information and I'm pretty sure you don't need your hand to answer phone calls either (tilt your head.).

Also, they wouldn't be releasing a product that caused eye problems.
Selecting the colors one by one is really annoying; I would recommend something like the CSS gradient generation tool[0] where you can easily change the HUE, saturation and lightness of all the colors at once. Presets like theirs would be nice too.

[0]http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
The coolest part of this being, it doesn't have any lens, lens is replaced by a head-up display.

A head-up display or heads-up display—also known as a HUD—is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display
My tip for beginners would be that while ARC is great if you use KVO you need to make sure that you consider the object lifecycles and remember to remove observers before they are deleted otherwise you risk occasional crashes in strange places.
Is this the case, cause from the article it sounds like they failed to compromise (I'm thinking pixel perfect design vs fluid?) to accomodate the diversity of Android forms but that they had managed to create a product but not one that was working financially?

It's not something I use, are there examples of similar magazines that are profitably managing a media-rich cross-tablet presentation.
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It wasn't just Stallman. Hacker subculture has always contained an element that is opposed to unequal access, like locks. And it's still going strong; last month's CCC hacker conference in Hamburg had a large lockpicking workshop. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Lockpicking_Area
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How do I upvote this eleventy times?

"Magazines" are a specific form for delivering content that evolved out of the technological limitations of paper printing, the economics of delivery, and the whim of the market. Delivering them on floppy disks was tried, didn't work. Delivering them on CDs was tried, didn't work. These days, most magazines have web sites -- in some cases, the paper appendix has withered away, or is not as current as the online version. That's as it should be.

It's nice that they were experimenting with bundling their magazine up as an app, but unless they have a focus aligned with the delivery platform (i.e. MacUser being distributed through the Mac OS X store, iTunes Music Review via the obvious) there's no good reason to do it that way.
The site looks great. Simple, to the point with an obvious call to action.

I have one question about the pricing. You say "x projects" and the cost is monthly. Is that x projects per month? If I start a project in one month, and it continues into the next billing cycle, do I get to start two new projects whilst I complete the outstanding third one?
I would take on subcontractors when contracting. Saved me some time but not a huge amount. Primary reason being you need to check someone else's work in detail because they have no real allegiance to you
When I was doing pre-sales work, I also brought the following:

* Marketing collaterals - books, whitepapers

* Portable handphone battery/charger

* Extra laptop battery

* Ethernet cable

* CDRs

* Markers

* Adapter for laptop-projector

* Remote control for presentation
Right now the primary use case of the Google Glasses is as an always-on video camera. Now most people (including myself) don't appreciate being filmed without permission and there are plenty of situations where people could be filmed committing illegal acts.

So I can guarantee you that injury is going to occur at some point and especially in the US a not insignificant chance of being shot.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of content linking Mohamed Bouazizi to mental illnesses... are you affirming that he was clearly very sick because he lit himself on fire?

Isn't this cultural bias? In this light, Quanc Duc(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc), the monk of the famous "lit myself on fire in protest" picture must had to be a clinical mental anything, too, no?
AppCode is $100.

$200 is you purchase a company license, which means anyone at the company can use it. If you are the only person using it, you only have to pay $100.
Last I knew comms rooms aren't generally patrolled on a regular basis .. but then, where ever I've worked the rooms have always been locked.
nor does it imprison more people

At any particular point in time, there is a greater percentage of the population in prison in the USA than there is in any other nation in the world. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. It is reasonable to generalize that to "the USA imprisons more people".

Nice non sequiturs with respect to graph scales and lead exposure, though! Our population hasn't been increasing exponentially: why would any population-based statistic be doing so, and why would we want to hide that fact if it were? Also, tetraethyl lead was used at some time in most countries, and indeed is still in common use in those that don't have strict environmental regulations. We still have the highest incarceration rate.

If you're brave enough to see the real explanation for these trends, take a look at this chart: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/exptyp.cfm
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>Aaron died not because of the trial but because of depression

Aaron died because he decided suicide was the best course of action.
Given that the trial was what ultimately and unjustly squashed him, I would say he did die because of the harsh and unjust trial.

Depression is not a cause, is a consequence.
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If I was a government official and wanted to troll an entire country, I would set something like this up along with a script that behaved as follows: As soon as signatures for any petition came within 4% of threshold value I would automatically double the threshold.
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... which is not really bad... but not really good either. Too exaggerated and populist to be interesting.
Interesting, I didn't know they had quadrupled it back in Oct 2011: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/03/good-problem-have-...
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I'm saying that eventually Android and other platforms will grow to match or exceed the spends of iOS customers.

If it were me doing it now, I would develop for iOS because thats where the money is at the moment. Having said that, you need to deal with the hoops that this developer is talking about. To my mind that is just part of doing business though.
Presumably then they still want to add a purchasing scheme on to the audio/video, I'm guessing that's already embedded in Apple's offering.

E.g. look at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id481037450?mt=8&src=af&..., they have music tracks that you can play (see example pages on horizontal scroll section); presumably you can click-through and buy them somehow?
The official blog post (sorry for the CNET blogspam): http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/01/15/why-we-re-raising-...
We don't want to listen. Oh, you actually want us to? Let's placate the sheep for a few more months.

If a petition ever gets to 100k it'll go up to one million.
Maybe you should showcase some of the press you are getting on you front page. This will help validate that you are serious and that it is a marked for your technology. Maybe make a section for possible use cases also?

Reading your front page I basically thought "that's nice, but why?". Then I saw a small press link at the top and it turns out that this technology has a lot of potential applications :) ( like this: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/01/flicker... ).

Why did you get rejected by KickStarter?
The graphs show membership and signatures suddenly rising rapidly in the last couple of months. The article also mentions it. Is that triggered by the election, and coverage of the various "Allow <state> to peacefully secede" petitions that followed?
Don't underestimate the skills taught at good MBA programs.

However, I'd say that the way to go is to get a position which requires those skills first, some experience, and THEN do an MBA-type program - you'll get far more out of it.

Maybe you can learn such skills as a by-product, but doing so in an organized and challenging way is useful by itself.

Edit: see

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> and who does not believe that anyone is going to believe them

I agree with you.

In "Goodbye to Shy", Leil Lowndes cites research that shows that even someone who is just shy will tend to interpret other peoples opinions of them and of interactions with them far more negatively than less shy people.

It takes very, very little to turn what would be an incredibly stressful situation to most people - innocent or not - and turn it into something substantially worse depending just on relatively benign personality traits.

Much less mental illnesses like depression that can be extremely severe.
I'm sure it is possible. I'm not sure it is worthwhile/profitable to manage, support and test such a set up.
and cars cause accidents.

the future is coming, better embrace it.
So what happens now if the prosecutor commits suicide, after being singled out by an Internet mob for doing his/her job?
Whereabouts was the tramp (hobo) sleeping?
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Actually, The Onion predicted this in 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

And obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-08-03/

(both via http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=ae0b37b2)
They didn't cite a specific reason - only that it "wasn't in their focus".

My take is that they are going to be very selective about admitting hardware projects, given some of the high profile projects that failed to deliver.

Thanks for the feedback. Answering the "Why" is our biggest challenge. More clearly outlining the use cases would help.
> Essentially anything that mentions fragmentation is about spreading FUD.

I am going to assume by this statement that you've never worked on an Android project before. I work for an enterprise company with lots of Android apps and fragmentation is very much real.

The HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S3 are both very popular and still being sold today. It is extremely difficult (borderline impossible) to make one decent app run on both. You have to build two apps.
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And now they raised the threshold to 100,000

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564203-93/white-house-rai...
Is anyone really even talking about the Facebook thing? I actually had to Google it just to find out about it after reading your post.

Even after reading about it I couldn't care less. Facebook already has a search, this is just some types of analytics for your friends, meh...
There is also a pretty cool (and free) alternative: http://mocku.ps
This sounds like a complex solution that would require every program to know which other programs might want to interact with it's particular files.

I don't see why. Any application can register its own file types, and gets full access to files of those types by default. Allow for common file types to be registered as well (the OS provider could start with a list) and some basic grouping ("all text files", "all files") and you've got a reasonably sensible underlying model that wouldn't need a lot of exceptions to be manually permitted once set up and wouldn't need to present users with vast lists of types at installation time.

As I said, we're part way there already. Most OSes these days have some concept of "known types" and the applications associated with them. There are already conventions for things like where applications should store their configuration data on each platform. There are obviously app stores, distro mirrors and such that can cope with installing/uninstalling entire applications including all sorts of horrendous dependency management, so incorporating a simple file type system in there as well doesn't seem so hard.

Given the vast potential benefits to system robustness and security of locking these things down properly, I think you're awfully quick to assume the solution would be too complex to be workable. Compared to the horrors of file ownership and user/group systems on various modern platforms, it's practically a walk in the park. ;-)
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Makes sense. In the UK we need 100k signatures and the population is obviously much smaller. The government probably got tired of having to respond to things like building the Death Star.
The Register is the one doing the editorializing or emphasizing, not seferphier.
cars don't cause accidents, people cause accidents with cars ;)
But iOS users could be using the web version as well ?

So it really doesn't seem that you're in a position to be questioning someone else's logic.
He forgot the human condition when he came up with that...
I would guess the guy feels bad enough as it is without needing to get 25k people to kick him when he's down.

If a federal prosecutor had ever in history allowed that consideration ("he feels bad enough as it is") to temper his zealous persecution of innocent people, then we might consider similar leniency for him. Since it has never happened, we don't need to worry about it.
Saw the world 'electrocuted' being used incorrectly and got annoyed.

For the record, here's the definition: "Electrocution is death caused by electric shock, either accidental or deliberate" (taken from Wikipedia. Google includes injury).
Sure the elephant could have been injured or killed but the article seems to imply that it wasn't.

The correct term, by the way, is 'electric shock'.
One last tip that bit us hard: beware of universal apps (apps designed for both iPhone and iPad).

Once you've published your app as universal, there is no way back. You can't decide in a subsequent update to revert to an iPhone-only or iPad-only app - Apple won't let you.

So if you start with an iPhone app, and then put together an iPad version of the UI just to try out and publish it as a universal app, you'll be stuck with having to provide an iPad version of your app for the rest of times. Even if you realize that the iPad version isn't worth it for your app and that nobody uses it, you won't be able to discontinue it.

So think very carefully before flicking that switch.
we use http://clarify.io pretty cool too (and free)
I don't have any idea about how easy it would be to detect a laptop connected directly to an Ethernet switch, but the court documents do mention that Aaron placed the laptop in the closet on December 26th, and it wasn't noticed until January 4th. Perhaps many of the IT administrators were away on Christmas holidays?
Public efforts regarding Mental Health have been almost completely obliterated by the 1% in their greedy rush to take everything. MH is at the heart of this sick young man's tradgedy and the ever more frequent serial killings.

I don't buy all the victim scenarios for this fellow. He was smart, he knew what he was getting into. He knew attacking the established status quo would have dire consequences. He had plenty of opportunities to change his path to a less risky one. He knew going into this that to challenge these people would bring concrete and powerful counter attacks aimed at him.

What he did not know was how to cope with depression, how and were to get help, and was too ingrained with the imposed taboos to seek help.
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There have been petitions with over 100k signatures. There are open ones (less than 30 days old) right now.
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I love the signup page on this site. The writing style of the app itself speaking to you is a great twist and kept me scrolling at least.

I have to agree with others here that there are a lot of apps in this space, but the interactive demo right at the top is an awesome way of getting across just how simple this is to use, so I can see that going some way to help this page stand out in a list of many.
We solved this problem many years ago with PDF.
The projects limit are the total you can have under your plan, your allowance isn't incremented monthly. So in your example if you require a third project you would have to either upgrade or delete a project.
I think the biggest scare that will happen is when geocoded data of the value-added type is overlayed upon your view.

Imagine these scenarios:

* The gun owners address map re-oriented so that when you look at a house, you see a "gun" symbol over it

* Property value over each home (available from county assessor)

* When Facebook makes another privacy-opening-oops and people with their wall/statuses set to semi-public have a little bubble over their head with their latest status update ("I'm so drunk from yesterday!").

* When you look at people, or their children, they automatically assume you are videotaping them. And someone out there is going to write an app that checks your name against a sex-offender registry and will notify anyone if you have a similar name to said person (guess you'd have to reveal your name somehow...which you might through Google Plus and the required real name)
I would have expected it to be a smaller majority signing a whole bunch of petitions. Interestingly it looks like it was mostly one signature per account, until about a month ago (the x-axis really needs more granularity).

What I would really like to see now, is are the accounts signing two petitions on average, or is it still mostly one signature per account with a handful of people signing three or more?
They did the concept video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 I guess that's the long term goal. I haven't seen any real-world previews yet. I guess that's what is most exciting about the hardware going to developers soon, we should see some images.