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Because in the game industry studios seldom write portable software.

The business model is that you focus on a specific platform with other companies taking the burden to port it to other platforms.

One thing that helped this mentality was that most studios didn't want to use anything that wasn't developed in-house and the goal is to produce a game, not to be platform friendly.

Only in the last years has the mentality towards middleware use opened up.
Download Atomic Web Browser for iOS. In the settings, select Identify browser as... choose Firefox. Changes your User-Agent. Problems solved.
The tl;dr of the article is to define handling of invalid input, so that all conforming implementations will handle it in the same way, without having to reverse-engeneer eachother to be interoperable.
>> Another role they have is to prevent copying of content or links from one fiefdom to another.

> I have a hard time believing that considering the prevalence of the "share" button in apps.

But a "share" button in a dedicated app isn't remotely a hyperlink. A hyperlink only tells the reader about the destination, but a "share" button also tells the recipient about the source.

>> I think this idea works best with relatively young people who don't clearly understand what they're giving up when they download a proprietary app in order to read what should be a public document.

> Could you cite an example where this is really true?

Sure -- paywalls are a classic example. As soon as we accept paywalls and read articles behind paywalls, we can't share content any more. These dedicated apps are like paywalls taken to the next level.

But young, inexperienced people often don't see the problem with paywalls when compared to a public forum. The same logic applies to these dedicated apps -- they make it harder to share information. Their existence only serves the interests of the companies that create them.

> I'm just wondering what app locks out what would in another world be completely open info.

A browser gives you access to all content. A dedicated app only gives you access to that fiefdom's content. So such an app is not open in the way that a browser is, and you're limited to that app's purview.

Consider a cell phone as an more extreme example. It's a way to take conversation and make it into a product. A cell phone is sort of like one of these dedicated apps, in the sense that you can't freely move between fiefdoms -- and if you try, you have to pay "roaming charges".

The global issue is the commoditization of information -- turning information into property, into a commodity. The idea is to take a public forum like the Web, privatize it, and sell it back to what are now captive information consumers.
They can also be indicative of an author who slept 2 hours before getting up at 1am to spend hours over spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations so to make up for the fact that the shit is hitting the fan on the same day that he has to spend most of it out of the office in meetings, and started commenting on HN as a short break away from working :)

And now it's time to head into the office for a couple of hours!

p.s. Fun fact, the "two" was a genuine mistake. When I don't pay attention my hands often type ridiculous phonetic errors, such as their/there. Heh, even as I wrote this I had "time" instead of "type".
> prevent you from using your phone as a general purpose
> device

So some time ago you were able to use your phone as a general purpose device? Interesting, for me iPhone was the first phone that made web bearable on mobile.
Huh? As far as I can tell, cell phone service is getting better at a good clip. Were you routinely getting 10-20 Mbps of bandwidth three years ago? I wasn't.
> It'd be nice if there was a standard that allowed users to subscribe to push notifications directly from websites without having to install an app.

Is using a single RSS app for all content feeds not sufficient?
I regret wasting my time reading this long and rambling mess...

The author apparently didn't even bother to take a single MOOC class. Instead only acknowledging watching 9 minutes of a single 18 minute video (the class has 13 in total) for Kahn Acadamy's US History class. Strange considering we are talking about college and this Kahn class targets middle or high school students.

The author is also apparently unfamiliar with many of the basic features, such as discussion forums, or major advantages, such as timing flexibility (learn when you can for as long as you can) of MOOCs. Or that many of the students are not even in the US.

However there is a link to an interesting blog post previously posted to HN "Napster, Udacity, and the Academy" which makes the software is eating the world argument for education.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4773857
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> How about adds taking less space?

Or fewer ads requiring less space.
And the scandinavian word "kejser/keisare", which meaning is equivalent to the English "emperor" (As in "Holy roman emperor")
Another trend piece based on two data points:

1)Ignition has stunk lately
2)Investment has not rebounded from it's pre-recession peak.

There's nothing to indicate that the main hypothesis stands.
Hey creator of ShareLaTeX here, we didn't post on here (again) but we have been releasing a lot of new stuff since the last time the site was on the home page about 1 year ago to the day. Split view, command auto complete, multiple compilers and history are all done. Spell check, git integration and dropbox sync are just around the corner.

The main thing that has happend is merging with http://www.scribtex.com with both of us now working on ShareLaTeX full time.

Thank you for all the support and feedback we have been receiving, its been wonderful, please keep letting us know what you think!
The pay wall is lowered for Google visitors.
who took his own life under suspicious circumstances

What in the world is this supposed to mean?
Hacker News should take some kind of stand on paywalled articles.
Please allow the user to disable sending / viewing HTML mail.

This is the number one bug with Apple's built in iOS mail client, imo. It drives me nuts.
I'm one of the co-founders of ShareLaTeX, and there are two main reasons that we've found that people really like ShareLaTeX. The first has been mentioned - you don't need to set up a LaTeX repository yourself. Even more than that, you can work on LaTeX documents from anywhere. It tends to be hard to find LaTeX installed on a computer if you're on the move and not using your own machine.

The other advantage is the ease of collaboration. While there are plenty of people in the LaTeX world who know git, there are plenty that don't as well. ShareLaTeX gives everyone a point and click way to make sure they are in sync with their collaborators. That said, we're getting quite close to offering git access to the projects for people who want it.

Also, my apologies that we keep appearing on the front page (along with a few other similar sites). We're flattered that people keep submitting us though.
I find the default iOS popup advertising an app the worst part, by large the app offers extra functionality over the web. the popup disrupts the experience and I also have the same feelings of rage on random site for some random stupid bullshit app.

The compass in the iPhone for example, does device allow a web server query the phones heading through browser?
Offline modes and caching are features not really possible with the browser.

As for the giving something up, open public web access to proprietary apps, this is very true. I don't see big content moving away from the web though, the app ecosystem seems to compliment it.
Good for you, my rent is more than that and I don't live in an expensive place.
I'd agree that mass volume and high margin is hard to pull off, and often proves unstable. I think this is why Apple often doesn't try to address all of a market. They only produce a handful of desktop and laptop models, they have resisted producing a large format phone (though I do expect that to change), etc. They value product consistency over feature and form factor proliferation. They are perfectly happy to occupy the high end of the market, and leave the low end to others.
I don't know what you do, but I couldn't get through a day as a software engineer without those skills. That said, I'll give you credit for pointing out critical thinking as a rare activity for most adults. ; )
Its just a letter complaining about a product being pirated. It only shocked people because the idea of end-consumers paying for software was novel then.
DR decided on this from the beginning.
I just tested this in Chrome on Android and it's not true; I'm able to browse Quora all I want without downloading any app (although there is a prominent button that says "View in Quora App").

To be really sure I also tested it in Safari on iOS and the experience is the same.

I can post pictures if you don't believe me! ;-)
With widespread adoption, I could imagine software licensing getting a lot easier.
Apparently not, he didn't tip anything to anybody.
How is it different? Aside from "Intelligent tags", "Files" and "Collborate".
Yeah, note that the letter carefully mentions many different products that are available or coming soon
> Is using a single RSS app for all content feeds not sufficient?

Yes, true, but companies can't sell you RSS, it's free in the same way that a browser is free, so that's right out.

The basic idea is to take what already exists and is free, and think of a way to capture it and sell it back to people.
Let's invade America!!!
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Perhaps the HN title should replace 'Muslims' with 'Muslim Terrorism'?
On Amazon, there is a free Kindle version of Meditations.

Here is the URL that worked for me:

http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-ebook/dp/B0082XJGRK/ref=sr...
I'm a fan of MOOCs as well (haven't used that acronym before). Nobody should have to sit in a lecture hall with 300 other people trying not to fall asleep.
"I wonder if some media outlets are rightly masking the customer's personal information but I saw some posts with the fullname in the image."

It's also ridiculously easy to find the original receipt by uploading it to images.google.com
Minor nit: it's a little annoying that the the site takes over horizontal panning. It effectively makes the swipe forward/backward gestures useless in Chrome. The information could have been presented in an equally effective manner with a simple vertical page layout.
> Letter grades from A - F would be a good idea. Their meaning and use has been ingrained since childhood.

In many countries A - F grading system is not commonly used. For example in the country where I was born they use 1 - 5 grading system and A - F means nothing. I think rating with stars is much more widespread and would be wiser choice for any project with global ambitions.
And most apps require permissions that have very little to do with the purpose of the app. Here's what the BBC news reader for Android wants:

THIS APPLICATION HAS ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING:

HARDWARE CONTROLS

CHANGE YOUR AUDIO SETTINGS

Allows the app to modify global audio settings such as volume and which speaker is used for output.

NETWORK COMMUNICATION

FULL NETWORK ACCESS

Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.

PHONE CALLS

READ PHONE STATUS AND IDENTITY

Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.

STORAGE

MODIFY OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF YOUR USB STORAGE MODIFY OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF YOUR SD CARD

Allows the app to write to the USB storage. Allows the app to write to the SD card.

SYSTEM TOOLS

PREVENT TABLET FROM SLEEPING PREVENT PHONE FROM SLEEPING

Allows the app to prevent the tablet from going to sleep. Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
I am not sure why you sound so angry, but let me try to explain: Every time you build in an assertion like that you should have a test case to prove the program handles it like you intended it to.

And concerning the Java FP bug: yes, someone forgot to test the corner cases of the Java FP range.

You don't need to test every FP number out there, but you absolutely need the highest, lowest, highest+1, lowest+1, zero, +/-infinity, division by zero and if you are good highest +0, lowest + 0 and some conversions from and to long, int etc.
He writes about direct value of Bitcoin - but half of the examples he mentions are about crypto in general not about the particular system:

- Smart Property is just a theoretical proposal for a system and the linked page says: Smart property was first proposed by Nick Szabo in his 1997 paper, "The idea of smart contracts". There are currently no implementations of this idea.

- decentralized DNS is realized in a different system that uses the code from bitcoin software but is not connected in any way to the bitcoin system itself: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

I guess you can use bitcoin to do secure time-stamping of messages that can fit into the format of a bitcoin transaction (there is some place for comments or something) - so you can piggyback a message on a bitcoin transaction.

Finally https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts seem to be connected to the existing bitcoin system, but it is not clear how much of it is already implemented in the clients.
Can't comment on the app itself (don't have an iPad), but I liked your pitch of "first 10,000 to tweet get it for free". Clever idea.
> It costs nothing

Doesn't it costs you anything to make a transaction with Bitcoin? That was more than I knew.
There's a lot more than one southern accent. Someone from the Carolinas sounds wholly different from Floridian which sounds different from Texan which sounds different from Oklahoma which sounds different from Louisiana and I think you're getting the picture. I've heard more than one person with that accent of his.
"Dismantling the Web isn't anybody's strategy". How do you know? Have you read the mind of every human alive?
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An aside: most headlines I read that are written as questions invariable end up answering in the negative in the content. So regardless of the solution I'd either not click the link or click it already in the wrong frame of mind.
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FYI, the standard US lunch is 30 minutes and doesn't count toward the 40 hours. It's been this way for a long time.
The biggest risk is not taking one.
On the other hand, activity patterns of C. Elegans neurons can be comprehensively studied, it's behavior is well studied in how it responds to simple stimuli. Simulating it has all the promising properties of good old scientific method.

It is debatable whether building a $1.6B catatonic brain will advance neuroscience more than a comprehensive, experimentally matched simulation of a simpler system first.
As much as I love stargate universe I don't think it would be the best place to start. The audience is a bit narrow and fragmented, they created a lot of disillusioned fans when they cancelled Atlantis and changed the format so much.

Would be great to see a new Star Trek series with SGU like production (visually the show looked great).
And "Caesar" is properly pronounced "kaisar". Try to guess where the German "Kaiser" comes from.
Hmm, not having that problem. Interesting.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/internet-users-demand-less-...
I don't see how a shorter work week prevents anyone from working longer, or even less than the minimum. There are plenty of people working more than 40 hours, and plenty working fewer.

The only that the 40 sets is the threshold at which workers attain specific rights regarding overtime, benefits, and other things.
First off: greatness is not one-dimensional. Remember that you're comparing everybody against your chosen dimension(s) of excellence. Adding a another dimension is certain to make you a beginner in something again. You're a co-founder now so you might want to consider sales (in the broadest sense.)

Secondly, I can guarantee that even in your chosen dimension of excellence there is someone in your town that out-classes you. Try calling the top consultancy in your area, ask them who their best programmer is and buy him dinner. If you can't learn anything from him/her than I'd bet on you being a bad learner.

As a general conclusion: if you keep on improving and taking on bigger challenges then at some point you will reach your limits and you will find something you can't succeed at. It took me almost 30 years but when you get there you'll realize a) who exactly is 'better' than you and b) the degree to which you've been slacking all your life before that.
The Magazine anyone?
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http://seovideostrategies.com It's Andy from Seo Video Strategies. Today I will see what progress we've made with the videos we uploaded 2 days ago. Today is 31st January and we uploaded Tuesday evening. Not quite 48 hours.
Actually, the author is right. In Punjab, June and July is peak summer. April is quite pleasant comparatively. In the Southern part of India, April and May are horrible (I live there).
All these are sort of explainable, Hardware and Audio is to allow the user to control volume or widgets for feeds and multimedia.

Network access is usually reserved for multimedia

Phone Calls - status - is usually because if you receive a phone call any multimedia knows when to stop

storage - to store things to your sd card or move the app to your sd card

prevent from sleeping - if you're watching a video you don't want the screen to sleep.
Amusing that a rant like this reached #1 spot. Take worst case scenario, darken colors a bit more and then make a generalized conclusion on "web vs. apps".
Why do you even look at it as web vs. apps? Are we still fighting radio vs. tv vs. movies vs. theater?

If your app is nothing more than webview loading the same content, it is stupid.
To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid. To pretend that web tech is always superior… well, that just shows you don't know much about either web tech and native frameworks.

And you know what? It is not that app developers want to kill web, it's the opposite—some web devs want to kill apps "before it is too late". I have no idea, why.
This is sad, really, and even more sad when prominent figures in web world start spreading FUD, sometimes even presenting it as "disspeling myths".
How about putting your insecurities aside, take a deep breath, spend some time thinking what the web is and what it is good for, what an app is and what it is good for and act accordingly?
Haha. I'm a Linux Newbie, so the tar command is a daunting beast to me, yet a necessary one. Thankfully, there's always man.
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Title is less clear than original article, and I'm not sure it's relevant to HN, interesting though it is.
All android browsers (not sure of ios) have view in desktop mode.
Can you track changes? If you can this would be Very helpful for authors like myself that use LaTeX to write books. Could just invite the proofers.
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Well EU needs to keep humanities grads employed somehow.

But seriously, this project has all the hallmarks of becoming the next Nanotech. As in overly broad, loosely defined, overfunded and with little practical output for the money.
It's a subjective experience, sure. I don't doubt you found some amazing words and it stayed stuck in your head.

Though, which is more likely? This world of people remembering lines to Star Wars or this world remember the explicit teachings of Jesus Christ?
Of course one can speculate on the Creator's intentions and desires for us. I even ask God about these things every day, and ask Him to guide me. Dictating how the creator "will welcome you", as indicated in the first comment, is another thing, though.

And I am sure you are right, I probably am a little crazy :-)
But that is okay, as my hope in God is an anchor for my soul, firm and secure . . . (Hebrews 6.19)
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I am using Chrome on my Mac. The horizontal rolling is very very laggy. Usually, when I swipe right, I can go back to the previous webpage I was on. But I can't do that with this website.
Kind of sounds like YouTube.
The article agrees with you, "it was fought against a powerful Indian rajah, an Indian equivalent to a king or warlord."
I only see redirects to an itunes search.

curl -I http://appstore.com/startrekapp
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: somethingNice.
Date: Tue Jun 1 12:48:03 PDT 1999 PDT
Referer: http://appstore.com/
Location: http://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?mt=8&path=apps%2fstartrekapp
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 470

If you don't launch iTunes, it results in a bland/useless page in the browser. Lot more work to do before this could be considered a "vanity URL".
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The problem is that none of this is new and our tendency to rank rare risks that make for good stories above common risks that kill so many more is known. Alas, not by the right people (and the general population which probably wouldn't allow a politician to remain in office for long if they dared to drastically reduce inefficient spending of money, such as for DHS or TSA).

I think Bruce Schneier has long since ceased to even comment anymore because he made the point way too often by now.
Atheism isn't dogma; whereas theism is. I will show you why.

We have both argued that we should approach this rationally. My reason tells me that I have been given zero proof for the existence of any of the gods described by theists. Kant himself (who you mention) discusses various proofs and dismisses them. What we are left with is the puzzle of existence itself and this feeling (that we all have) of wonder at the majesty and mystery of the world. I am disinclined to attribute any of this to some supernatural agent. Why should I? I see no reason to. Clearly I cannot rationally know there is no god or gods but I as Douglas Adams pointed out I'm not going to take some kind of wishy-washy hedge my bets stance on the matter. When talking about the existence of some kind of objects that has the attributes that god or the gods are claimed to have the burden of proof lies with those who assert this agent's existence. Therefore I shall continue to believe in the non-existence of a god or gods. Show me my dogma: I don't assert the existence of anything without proof, I reject the proof claims of others and assert the non-existence based on lack of evidence.
My experience (in Australia) is not this. Sure, the number they write on the advertisement keeps getting bigger. But my mobile phone on Telstra CDMA circa 2001 was orders of magnitude better at making voice calls than my 3G Android phone today. It was a gradual decline. As the years went by, and I "upgraded", the quality of the phone call aspect of the device just went down and down and down. The computing and data aspect has got miles better, but the voice call 'feature' is now what I would consider broken.

I feel they are focusing on the data networks over the voice networks and phones are now computers, and all I really want is a reliable, robust voice call device, but I suppose I am not "the market" and the market wants shiny bells and whistles and apps that download content. Who makes calls anymore? I do.
The fee system is pretty complicated. You can get some transactions through without a fee, but I doubt that this will be the case in the future, when transaction spam will be increasing. The required fee basically depends on the generated transaction size (in bytes).