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> The only reason I can see to want Apple to be less permissive is if we're beset by a flood of crappy alternative languages and we need some standards to hold language implementors to

I think the reason why there aren't more alternative languages, is that right now Apple is completely arbitrary about accepting a language/environment or not. The fact that one still has RubyMotion, eero, MonoTouch, and a host of others, despite their original stance of no is a nice circumstance. For the most part, they are as I described -- they are architected such that the whole of the SDK is covered automatically, little or no manual intervention required.

Your mind is stuck on "less/more permissive." What I'm asking for is "more explicit" and as a consequence an element of commitment. As it stands now, it's arbitrary, and Apple can just say no in the future.

Apple was bitten once by the Metroworks Codewarrior thing, where a 3rd party environment was the de-facto way of doing development and became a brake on progress with their APIs. Introducing a standard where automatic coverage of newly released SDKs is the central point would get them out of the business of ad-hoc approval of such environments while protecting their interests.

> So I'm a little confused about what you're looking for.

Either you didn't have all of the background info, you didn't bring it to mind, or you think of those circumstances in a different way.
"But it’s an unfortunate fact that there have never been, and I ultimately realized there never will be, any royalties paid to the people who write or draw or otherwise create all the Disney comics you’ve ever read."

Please remember the above quote next time you hear some corporate puppet bring up the "starving artist" argument in a copyright policy debate.
I use the rotten tomatoes API to get the movies and automatically create them as blogs in Wordpress using the wordpress xmlrpc interface. I use the Clarabridge API for classification and sentiment. Facebook's graph search API & Twitter API for the data. And duct tape to hold it all together :).
Same on iOS for me. Totally unreadable.
On what day? Can you link to a graph showing this? I see a more steady progression from 13-15 to 21 over the last 30 days.
I may be an asshole, but I'm not callous or indifferent. Like I said, I think rising rents and other boom dislocations hurt people and are problems to be addressed. But attacking the Asian kid who worked hard, got a job at Google, and takes the bus to work doesn't really do that.
If you want a super high resolution scan of a hundred dollar bill, you can grab all the original tiles here: http://www.tenthousandcents.com/imagebits/
I think the biggest stumbling block for me was all of the stupid tricks involved in the proofs I had to do for school.

"If I add sin(x) to both sides of the equation, then I can use such-and-such identity which makes this equal foo."

If you don't make the correct mental leap, then you get completely stuck and it's really easy to give up.
Ruby pulled me out of C# hell and allowed me to see other open source stacks and for that I love it. I'm so happy now that I can work with a clean language with a small difficulty curve.

I look like a wizard to management!

I'm not working on projects with millions of daily users, just simple CRUD enterprisey apps, and Ruby and Rails are my Virgil, guiding me through programming hell. :P
No actionable investment advice but a fair bit of policy prescriptions in Lecture 2 that are IMO worth a read.
Ask HN: How do you choose a topic when writing?
I want to start blogging, but trying to decide on a topic for my first post has left me in a state of derp (read: http://bit.ly/n5RSlV). I feel like my lack of experience is going to be a huge problem because I simply don't have anything to say that hasn't been said before.

Can HN give me some pro-tips on choosing what to write about?
I clicked on a few random things and got no response, and tried right-scrolling, but figured it out in 20 seconds or so. Still, not very intuitive on Chrome on OSX where the scrollbars are hidden.
I've just sent a gift to a friend
If someone did make an "Uber of prostitution," and avoided being shut down/eaten by the law/established interests, they'd probably become rich.
Why do we have a post about the release candidate? Is this to raise awareness for the release or something. It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version. If we did this, Chrome browser would be nuts considering how many versions it goes through!
I switch back and forth between a crappy desktop PC at work and a nice desktop PC/Macbook Air at home so I'm familiar with Apple thinking it's a good idea to hide scroll bars. That always bothered me.
I agree. If it were a discussion that would totally fit, but it's an announcement so it feels strange be to "talked to" in that sort of abstract and casual tone. Although maybe it's just a cultural thing.
This is probably due at least in part to the Mac's text rendering, which is considerably thicker than Windows. It's pretty common to find text that is ridiculously thin, mostly on designer's websites. I'm no devotee of Windows or Mac (though I don't own a Mac yet), but it seems pretty clear that the design crowd needs to start at least spinning up a simple Windows (or even Linux - Ubuntu's text rendering is in between OS X's and Windows') VM and make sure that their text is readable on the platforms that nearly everyone uses. Even Android and (I believe, though I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong) iOS don't render text as thickly as OS X. Failing to optimize for different text renderings and making your text extremely thin alienates both the mobile market and 95% of the PC market.

Also, Chrome has terrible, evil, nasty text rendering in general, at least on Windows. I prefer it to IE10, but the web does look much better in IE, which actually has decent text rendering.
The silence on these issues is deafening. Neither AirBnB nor their fans have appear to have any intention of voluntarily stepping up and saying something about this. It might spoil the party, after all.

AirBnB's supposed multi-billion valuation is built by completely flaunting the law in its biggest markets. For all the talk of "community" in this annual report, there is no mention of the potential long-term social or economic impact of enabling lawbreaking on such a scale. The fact that none of the reporter's questions in the NYTimes article were addressed in any meaningful way is indicative of AirBnB's overall "whatever we can get away with" attitude.

Oh, and here is another topic I'm sure AirBnB is not eager to talk about:

http://google.com/search?q=airbnb+rent+control+san+francisco
This really makes me wish there were an "AirBnB for groups" -- a way you could make a listing which was only visible to people in a certain community, and then manage the stays (including keys, maid, etc.). I don't think I'd want to go through the process of running a public airbnb property (where it seems the social convention is to accept people like a hotel, unless you're full) and turning a bunch of people down.
Patents provide the incentive to invest in R&D by providing a form of guarantee on their investments.

Generally speaking, the countries with the strongest patent rights produce many of the innovative companies.
You'd get 5 figures for that on eBay, easy. Likely much more.
Whose time is worth more: Jason Calacanis' or Dharmesh Shah's?
As Djikstra said, "two or more, use a for."
Well, you're a bit mistaken. There are a couple of reasons why this isn't the case:

1. C was already pretty much the programming language by the time the Web took off, so it had an inherent advantage in Googlability due to its popularity.

2. The letter C does not tend to be used by itself as often or as widely as the word "go," so even if C hadn't already had an unfair advantage, it would have less of a problem just on this basis. The odds that an arbitrary programming article unrelated to C will have "C" scattered about are not all that great. The odds that an arbitrary programming article unrelated to Go will use the word "go" are actually pretty decent. Put another way, "Go" is a more common word than "C," so it generates more noise.

I don't find this issue to be all that problematic anymore since the search engines seem to have learned that "go" in conjunction with programming terms indicates an interest in Go-centric material, but I did find it vexing when Go was younger and I was first trying to learn it.
Interesting idea; I'd be interested to see a full correlation between Buzzscale scores and other ratings sites (IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes). Based on a quick analysis of the top movies on the front page (vs. Rotten Tomatoes user ratings) it seems to be pretty well correlated. It seems to do a bad job identifying "eh" movies (e.g., Gangster Squad: BS-80 RT-64 and Hansel & Gretel: BS-76 RT-64). Buzzscale scores also seem to be more uniform in nature: pretty much everything is 70-85.

Any thoughts on "ratings effects"? E.g., proportionality to either gush about a movie or pan it, exclusively? Lack of nuanced reviews? (No one goes on Twitter to say, "It was whatever.")
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If it's something you're passionate about, write about it. What you love will really show through your writing, give it a bit of color.

Don't get too hung up on being an original provider of content. Few people are. Rather, think more about presentation. Anecdotes, history, even trying to spin something into a more modern context. They all matter.

Keep writing. Keep writing often. It's the only way to get better.
Yeah, I've looked into this in the past. In fact, it was exactly a year ago that I tweeted that Chrome doesn't support hyphenation. Had to double check today to see if it were still true.

In fact, it seems even more important now that they have Chrome on tablets and phones (this was announced one year ago as well, incidentally).
I don't really get why you feel you need to basically do non-stop blogging. If you have something to say, great - say it. If not, then keep quiet until you do have something to say. What's wrong with that approach?
I think you have to start with "What is your purpose in blogging", for one. Are you trying to make money directly off the blog, via Google Adwords? Are you just doing some personal branding, trying to establish yourself as an expert in a field? Are you blogging to promote your company's products or services? Are you blogging to promote a political agenda? Etc, etc...

In either case, one tip is to keep a wiki page available, or a notepad and a pen, and as you go throughout your day, let "stuff" that you bump into spark ideas to write about later. Write those ideas down. Maybe you see a link on HN and you have a strong reaction to it... make a note, and blog about that.

If you use Quora, go back through all your Quora answers, and take some of the more interesting ones and expand them into blog posts. If you don't have any, browse Quora and see what questions catch your interest. Blog what would have otherwise been your answer.
How does this stack up against something like VendHQ? (Which I hear is pretty awesome because of the Xero integration)
Well, they don't know what 'hack' means.
Languages like ruby and python democratize programming. Learning programming with C is like having a 25 years old mother of 2 as your first girlfriend.
sure... but ruby is on a yearly release cycle and i don't know about you but this does get me pretty excited. brings out the fan boy in me ;-)

also it gives me heads up that hey new release of ruby coming out soon, maybe i should go test the gems i maintain and make sure they're going to be compatible. RC2 is pretty close to p0
Obviously a Boston bias, but cool to see the sensitivity amongst the group.
I imagine there's going to have to be a Rails release to upgrade the Rack versions used?
I guess maybe because a release candidate of Ruby might be the "final" Ruby 2.0.0 and it can make gem mainteners want to check their code compatibility. Web developers have difficulties keeping their website up to date with all browser, so it can be overkill to try to keep up with release candidate of every browser.
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Louis CK on cloud technology
There are other options available for people in Europe:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/in/europe/

Hope it helps!
I agree this seems really stupid. This is like 1998 era stuff. Put the path together, canonicalize it, then decide if you like it or not.
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I wonder why this was sent to the third page...
Maybe utility mill - http://utilitymill.com/ is what you need, if you're up for writing some Python code
Chris Hadfield / BareNakedLadies collaboration
Very inspirational, great song.

While I'm fine with them presenting this as a live collaboration, the truth MUST be that Chris Hadfield's side was prerecorded and played back while they played along to a very precise click track. There is absolutely no way it could have been done with the necessary latency introduced by a round trip to the ISS, even at the speed of light.

Discuss...
You go to their website, and say how much you want to deposit (lets say $100). They will give you a final deposit amount that is pretty similar, but different (e.g. $99.86), which allows them to identify your deposit. Once the deposit is made, they verify it, and if there are any problems, they will request your receipt.
The "bread font"... is that a design term? I like it, and it intuitively makes sense. I'm just wondering if that's a common term or if bread is interchangeable with potato, pasta or some other starchy food that fills you up.
Y Combinator Summer 2013 seems open for application
awesome study, I always knew it was Dharmesh!
You're making the mistake of consulting a medium writable by throngs of InternetLibertarians™. :P There is nothing inherent in the economic concept of a fiat currency of government.

What is a law or a government in any case? Bitcoin is created by rules. The rules are embedded in a program instead of a law-book. The governed users opt in by using the software rather than by living in some geography. The rules are enforced by being mathematically unbreakable rather than with courts and prisons. These factors alone shouldn't be especially significant, other than that they make Bitcoin more just and efficient.
I think the mistake is so popular because we know how to write “ghost” and John.
Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost, in money or time, to get all the heroes in League of Legends? It may be a good game, but it's also outrageously expensive. Unless you like playing a limited set of heroes.
This is exactly what I've been doing for 5+ years. Never had RSI or back problems since.
Angry Birds is already on iOS and Android.
They already did! You just need to buy a bitcoin, and wait 30 days. Coinbase does this to limit fraud.
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"Why should I publish it if it's not going to bring me any benefits?"

wow. has it come to this? really? maybe you should reconsider your career choice
Your beliefs on the length of Swartz's possible jail term are contradicted by the US Department of Justice themselves.

"AARON SWARTZ, 24, was charged in an indictment with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million." [1]

[1] http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....
You misremember.

On Jan 23-24, there is a 36 hour period where it jumped from $16.8 to $19.2. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg30zczsg2013-01-24... That's the closest scenario I can find. Certaintly not "$15.5 to $20+ in 12 hours".
yea, he's the man lol...of course Jason would probably win out West.
I actually have two goals: one short term and one long. The more immediate goal is to build a blog that will tell prospective employers that hiring me is good business. I want to show that I'm knowledgeable about my field and that I would be a good asset to the company. Secondly, I do want to establish myself as an expert at some point. This is a goal to be accomplished in the years to come as I am still a new developer.

The Quora suggestion is great! I don't have a Quora account, but I do follow links from Google to the site every once in a while, so maybe it's time I signed up.
SpaceX Software AMA
Hooray for a cultural environment that supports and condones the dehumanization and demonization of entities designated as enemies.
I usually catch the 9:37, which end up being pretty empty (compared to the earlier trains I ride once in a while). I get why service drops off.

Pro tip: Get off at 4th and King and walk to Caltrain if you are cutting it close. You'll beat MUNI most of the time.
Very inspirational, great song.

While I'm fine with them presenting this as a live collaboration, the truth MUST be that Chris Hadfield's side was prerecorded and played back while they played along to a very precise click track. There is absolutely no way it could have been done with the necessary latency introduced by a round trip to the ISS, even at the speed of light.

Discuss...
There are several lazy guys and cheaters just click in th whiter ones and you will see.
> This is something that could be fixed in R by a package, but no one has done so yet

I'm curious about about what you mean by this. How would a single package fix that? And does "fix" mean to make matrices easier or to make dataframes more broadly effective?
Who said anything about non-stop blogging? I haven't even written my first post yet.
I've been spamming this opinion on just about every AS thread: Plea bargaining should go.

It's a SCOTUS issue, but I can't see how it's even constitutional to punish a person for demanding their constitutional right to a trial. And yes - it's a punishment, as the expected outcome of a jury trial tends to be much harsher than a plea bargain. I really doubt under 10% of defendants would demand a trial if there weren't effectively a penalty for doing so. (Aaron never would have gotten 10 years, but even 12 months would still be much harsher than the 6 months they offered).

The only reason to plead guilty should be to save time, costs, and establish contrition (sorry judge, I did it, and I feel bad ... can you give me a slightly lower penalty?)

I understand that public prosecutors and judges are underpaid and overworked, but if they can't do their jobs there's no shortage of law grads out there. It would cost a little more, but if you're locking someone up for 6 months and can't afford give them a day in court (Aaron's case may have been a bit more than a day, but I doubt the average court case would take much time at all) then you shouldn't be prosecuting them at all.

I guess there's not as much scope for corruption though. Privatised prisons are a massive money maker. Public prosecutors and judges probably don't bribe (sorry ... support) their representatives nearly as much as prisons.
Is not viewable by anyone without a paid Tech Republic account... thanks.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Really?
Is it real or not? What is the evidences?
I would develop a SaaS app idea over your time away from your day job.

Choosing a language or skill that's going to be the next big thing is tough.

Ruby on Rails would be a good choice to use to develop your app and Rails developers are in demand if it works out you go to work for someone as a developer in the future or freelance on projects.

Since you're around 40 I would work toward having your own business rather than programming for someone else with a new skill.

Check out http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/.

They have a lot of good information on their podcast.
I don't understand what about it I should remember. Could you elaborate? I'm also not familiar with any general class of arguments called the "starving artist" argument. What are they and what do corporate puppets hope to prove using them?
For the first time in my 40-something years on this planet, I utilized passenger rail in the US. I recently took a vacation on a leg of the California Zephyr Amtrak route (which goes from Chicago to San Francisco). During a wait one of the stations, I picked up copies of the industry rags. Though I never would have guessed, it seems that there are strong political and financial forces that are very much against a prolific public transit system in the US, with California being quite a battleground of the pro and anti crowds.

Whether or not the tech giants in Silicon Valley are in fact trying to improve the public transit situation, they have a steep hill to climb in order to make any progress.

Though I am constantly surprised by public transit initiatives in smaller inland cities. Salt Lake City has made substantial public transit improvements in the past decade. Tuscon, already having a decent bus system, has a modest 3.9-mile light rail project slated to be completed late this year.

So I have some hope for public transit in the US as a whole.
Very clean. I like the ease of use, natural progression, and the ability to skip ahead or follow the presentation without a ton of overhead or software to install.

Bonus points for killing it on my Android.
Beautiful use of skrollr, it is amazing how the design first philosophy of Brian has created a new standard for marketplaces.
I find the idea of writing non-original content to be pointless though. If it isn't original then someone else has already said it and they have probably said it better.
I'm afraid I don't understand your point. I never said anything about wiping data or canceling a contract...

You said:

You don't officially transfer anything when you sell a phone or a Kindle...

But that's not really true. That's my point. You would follow some procedures, involving the phone company officials (not government officials) to avoid paying the buyer's phone bills or Kindle bills. In this way, the phone and the Kindle are like a car. The transfer of ownership requires official help because the Kindle, the phone, and the car are in a sense just nodes on a network. Other goods, from pencils to diamond rings, are fundamentally different, and don't require the involvement of officialdom when they change hands.

You believe that you can cleave the car example off as a special category of property, different because it's encumbered by government papers. My point is that a lot of electronic gadgetry is already encumbered in the same way. The papers don't have to be government ones.

I don't see the problem as one of proof of ownership. Information that could have helped an investigation supposedly existed, was offered, then the offer was rescinded, then the information was "lost." If a police department had behaved this way, the readers of HN would call it corruption.
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It was, that's true. I edited because I thought it read too harshly and, to be honest, I realized that we'd met in the past, gyardley, and that I liked you and you don't deserve to be the target of cranky responses on HN. For that, I apologize.

But I still disagree with your original comment. ;-)
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San Jose Official Backs Plan For New $82M Google Airport
>“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the >morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he > wants to do.”
— Bob Dylan

Love that quote
That comment about parcelling land reminded me of something I read about the parcelling system used in the French colonies along the St. Lawrence and Mississippi rivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_Franc...

Basically the same principle except in this case the transport system was the river and the land usage is optimized to give as many people access to it as possible. Interesting to see the idea cropping up again in reference to modern public transit.
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