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This is very impressive, particularly the map reconstruction stuff about half way through. I would have imagined that was a fairly trivial problem before reading this.
[4 Aug 6:47pm UTC] andrei@php.net

Win.
More people = less consistency. A common complaint among developers has been the inconsistency of approvals, where one app may be rejected while another one with similar features is improved.

Right now the approval delay is about two weeks - that's not bad. Your testing cycle should be longer than that. An extra two weeks should not be a big deal.
I'm just trolling (in the benign sense) for other HN members that might be film/video oriented. I don't get on that well with art-school types but it would be nice to know more creatively-inclined HNers in the Bay Area.
Bit of a prawn salad in your view, then?
I saw Scott Rafer talk a few times around the height of Bubble 2.0, and was impressed with what he describes as "low-cap" - a real focus on keeping costs down and growing revenue from day 1. Another sad story.
He had a legitimate point: this may not be appropriate for HN. (note: I'm not saying its not appropriate, thats not for me to decide). I, personally, just don't think the OP worded his post as well as it could have been.

And FWIW, I haven't seen any ads on TV for this. I don't watch much TV though.

//edited for clarification. The irony clarifying a post saying that someone else may not have been clear isn't lost on me.
I for one am sick and god damn tired of sci fi films not even trying to make sense (internal consistency, or even just basic logic). not going to spoil distrcit 9, but god damn, can you at least consult a sci-fi author? any author will do. any plot holes that he points out within 5 minutes are probably pretty glaring.
It certainly helps to explain the seeming arbitrariness of some decisions. In fact, I'm inclined to think that the reviewers must be a heroic bunch not to screw up more than they do!
Whether or not a given measure is effective has little to do with whether it is an achievable goal in the U.S. political system.
i think if these guys aren't the entrepreneurial types someone needs to contact them and find out if this could be produced for cheap (just a laser pointer and sensor I imagine). this could be a really cool toy. pong with your hands, make the cat freak out etc.
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* However, criminalization hasn't reduced their availability.*

I suspect that if that were actually true, prices would be an awful lot lower.
I have not seen it yet - but I suspect it's another Monomyth : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth ... it that is true I'll pass
Can bing be trusted?
I have been experiencing ridiculously high inbound linking from bing in my web analytics. So high that I find it hard to believe. Has anyone else seen this in their web traffic?
There's a notion that when you start creating, your "taste exceeds your craft"* - that is, you have high standards and can't create anything up to those standards. You think everything you do sucks. You have to motor through it though, or you never get any better.

* could not find the exact quote - something about taste vs. craft or art.
I think it's because the final two vowel sounds, 'e' and 'i', are created using the same basic mouth/tongue positions, and thus, to differentiate the two sounds, you exert more force in controlling your muscles. On the other hand, with 'e' and 'o', the mouth positions are so different, that you can be a lot more loose with the vowel sounding and still get the final vowel combination to come out right. I hope that makes sense.
flagged. don't fucking ruin the movie for me, I swear I'll see it next week!
District 9 is an expansion of ideas that Blomkamp first explored in Alive in Joburg, which was released in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_in_Joburg

And as the previous comment notes, this movie is not quite just an apartheid allegory. That would be too easy. Instead, it's largely about present-day Johannesburg, with its massive population of unwanted illegal immigrants, its poverty and its horrific xenophobia. Just a few months ago black foreigners were being burnt and hacked to death in Johannesburg's streets, so the attitudes this movie alludes to have a fair bit of immediacy.

Honestly, this is one of the few movies I've seen recently that I feel perfectly confident in recommending to anyone. It truly is excellent.
Unearned revenue seems like a very dangerous thing for a most startups to have.

It makes accounting more difficult, and unless you are careful not to spend it, you risk a 'run on the bank' if a large group of your customers demand refunds.

And unlike a bank, there is probably no insurance for the customers' "deposits". Also, if you need to raise your prices, do you allow people who already deposited money to have access to the old prices as they might expect?

But it sounds like Tarsnap has addressed these issues carefully, and the transparency is a great thing.
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The UN's obscure subdepartments can demand, but Japan doesn't have to comply. And considering the size of the market for hentai, I don't think it's going to go away any time soon.
s/boarhound/boarhog/
The general holiness of the plot was pretty bad, 'twas true. I still don't quite buy the central element of the plot: that these refugees showed up here in such bad shape because their brain bugs died, but look here's one left over and he'll go get help!
> Historically, the only real test of "Jewness" that matters is this: if the Nazis were around, would they want to kill you?

It seems sorta sad if that's what the Jewish community uses as an 'Are you a Jew?' litmus test.
Agreed. Why spend four hours creating a CSS layout that still won't match the height of the two columns when you can create a table in two minutes?
comefrom is an excellent and seriously useful instruction.

My team has (kind of) implemented it in hardware as a way of patching ROM code in RAM. When the PC becomes equal to an address in the comefrom table, the PC is loaded with a RAM address and execution continues there.

If you have a big chunk of code that could need small tweaks, storing it in ROM and implementing a small RAM alongside it saves a lot of chip area.

I'm almost 100% sure Freescale does this on some of their 32-bit microcontrollers.

Yes, I design ICs. No, I do not work for Freescale.
"That’s a lot of apps. 8,500 per week with 40 reviewers works out to 212 apps per reviewer per week — about 40 per day."

Plus each app is allegedly reviewed by at least 2 people, so make that 80 per day, or 10 per hour. How thoroughly can you review an app in 6 minutes?
The original post was not to make HN readers aware that the film exist, but rather to recommend it as something that this very specific demographic would probably enjoy.
No, it subverts it rather effectively. I agree, this plot structure has become horrendously overused in the movies.
Which is the cutoff?

Pick one arbitrarily. It's inelegant, sure, but we use it for all sorts of other things. Significant example: are you an adult? All sorts of perfectly intelligent, rational arguments could be raised saying "It depends on the person, now doesn't it?" The law, however, says: If you have been alive for X number of years, you are an adult. Otherwise, you are not. It seems to work halfway adequately for that.
Um, please consider deleting the spoiler for the sake of people who haven't seen it yet.
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I would discuss this further if I could only find an email address for you somewhere.
Don't you think, maybe, thinking of a pack of wolves tearing away at a dead carcass, or a kitty coming to your outstretched hand, a flock of colourful macaw parrots flying in the Amazonian basin is more friendly than a dryly spoken PointToPointChannel, PublishSubscribeChannel and CompetingConsumers in camel case?
It is understandable that application programmers demand simplicity. As they need to implement these patterns, why not change the name?
Just thought I'd point out (as a departing JPL intern...) that Spirit just reached sol 2000 on Tuesday, more than five years after its original 90 sol mission.

Even though it is still stuck (Free Spirit!), it's still performing useful science, as is its twin Opportunity on the other side of the planet. Great rovers and a great team at JPL who build and keep them running. I can't wait to see MSL touch down in a couple years.
Yeah, but they wouldn't be making those sweet margins either, I suspect :-)
This is exactly my problem as well. I still enjoyed, but was expecting something different, something bigger. Not just another chase film, where one man and two aliens take on an army.

Still the best sci-fi film for a long time. (Haven't seen moon yet).
More colourful, yes, but I couldn't see the reason behind the names immediately. "Dry" terms that actually happen to _describe_ their behaviour are immediately grasped and understood.

I understand that perhaps colourful and friendly names can be fun, but I suspect you'd have a hard time getting these accepted among the people that actually use the protocol.
When you're writing something that's modeled as a state machine, it's easier to use goto to jump between the states, rather than simulating it with a while loop, state variable, and case statement. Making the program's behavior conform to a flow chart would probably be about the same.

I wonder: would goto have a better reputation if flowcharts were used more often?
That's frankly idiotic and unconstructive.
There were. Also the truth is a little bit different. See:
http://wings-of-wind.com/2009/08/21/2nd-virus-threat-now-muc...
Very cool. Now I want to think of useful applications of the technology (beyond toys). Again, very cool.
I've always wanted an "all modifications allowed" olympics. Athletes on three kinds of steroids, runners with /wheels/, whatever. I'd pay to see that.
maybe - but I found I could perfectly understand each pattern by relating the analogy of the fun colourful names to the behaviour of the problem. Well at least I can say it worked for me ;)

I walked away from the AMPQ design specs, feeling a bit tense. Though I immediately grasped restms.org meaning. I think it is well written, describing the point accurately and in brevity. Once you clone the repo, there are more docs in there which are quite a good read - specifically the restms_developers.txt doc.
Which text books? I don't think there are texbooks for the courses I looked at. For example, http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-431E...

Or did I miss it?
http://github.com/pieterh/restms/tree/master
you risk a 'run on the bank' if a large group of your customers demand refunds.

Most startups deal with this by putting a ginormous WE DO NOT OFFER REFUNDS FOR ANY CIRCUMSTANCES disclaimer on it. Personally I always hated that so I offer refunds for any circumstances. Since only about 2.6% or so of customers ask for them, I don't need much of a cash cushion at all.
The question is, is there anything else that is universally useful that we can use as a basis for the currency?

How about something like Amazon Turk? Except you don't get paid in cash, you get paid in points. All points had to have been generated by somebody doing a small, useful service for somebody else.
My guess: Apple has decided that they want to implement Google Voice, Skype directly into the Operating System. Just like Copy-Paste, you won't hear about it until a couple of weeks before the update.
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I think that needs to be a new Internet meme: "Free Spirit!" with a link to the Mars Rovers page.
Google never said that their application was rejected:

Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store.

(As pointed out by Gruber, over at http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/apples_fcc_response)
Which goes into "Reverse Housecat", "Multimaster Housecat", "Wolf Call"... I can't say they are obvious at first glance.

Metaphor is great for explaining things - and as a guide. Those names might make a great sidebar. I just don't see the need to rename things when it's a firmly established domain.
If Apple was so damned worried about Google controlling so much on their default user experience, maybe they should have thrown Yahoo a bone past just the Weather app. Or given AOL/Mapquest the Maps app. Apple has only itself to blame for giving Google that much control over the default apps, and thus, the default user experience.
I hadn't heard of it. I pretty much only hear about new movies if the actor comes on the Daily Show or something. I'm thinking about going to see it now, and appreciated the post.
What is the best tool to draw an idea?
I have one twitter based idea which I have put in words. But I would like to have a prototype which contains screens and will show how exactly the homepage, other pages will look like. Basically it should explain the complete flow of the application. What is the best and easiest tool to do that?
I enjoyed D9, despite a lot of internal inconsistencies, nonsensical yelling, and implausible violence.

But, I also enjoyed HN more before testimonials for heavily-promoted mass-market movies -- number one at the box office last week! -- were top stories.

There's tons of such general-interest, pop-culture, pure-entertainment content out there -- even if filtered for techie/scifi tastes. (See a blog like io9, for example.) It could fill much of the front page, every day.

But I guess there's nothing to be done about it; there's 43 upvotes and counting, and it's number one on /classic too.

So I, for one, welcome our future of big-budget movie trailers, funny robot videos, and debates about 'Lost'/'BSG'/etc. Forward, to mass appeal!
I completely agree. They had something great going, and then got carried away with the theatrics.
If you're on Mac, OmniGraffle!
http://balsamiq.com/ on the web is good for prototyping as well.
Windows, hmmm .... Vizio???
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Ok let me try it. Thanks.
If they're not verifiably either, it wouldn't be "fair" to have them compete against either group, would it?
The stock app is also from Yahoo!(finance). Given that Maps/Youtube are from google,that puts yahoo/google at 2 default apps each.
From now on, I'll be appending my PGP signature to all chromosomes that I leave at crime scenes. A = 00, C = 01, G = 10, T = 11. If it's not signed, it didn't come from me.
HTML is good but I guess it may take more time
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A very controversial post.

I do get tired of bloggers disputing what should be fact by mixing it with rumors or secondary sources...

[techcrunch quote]:
"The first part of Apple’s argument, that they never rejected the application, is “a total lie,” according to many sources with knowledge of the Google Voice application process." ... "There is overwhelming evidence that Apple did in fact reject the application."

[daringfireball quote]:
"Google’s initial statement regarding this did not use the word rejected either. Their spokesperson told TechCrunch: “Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store.”"

Who is trying to mislead us here? Techcrunch throws unnamed "overwhelming evidence" and unnamed "sources" at my face, while daringfireball talks about Google's "initial" statement. Was there a second or third statement that cleared things up?

Anybody have the facts?
And see, here's a place where an ounce of credibility would really come in handy for TechCrunch. And there you have it. Are these anonymous sources any better than the anonymous sources they had for Last.fm?
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Not sure why you don't like the new additions. In general you don't have to use them if you don't want to.

I don't really disagree with you. That said, it's a little bit of an opt-out, in the same sense that arguing that C++ is just as clean as C because "you can avoid all the ugly weird parts if you really try" is something of an opt-out. (I'm not trying to comment on the relative merits of C++ and C (edit: or, for that matter, on Java <1.5 vs. Java >=1.5), so much as on the relative levels of simplicity of the two languages, just to make certain that's clear).
Gruber at Daring Fireball also retracts when he gets things wrong.
Well, maybe "reality" isn't interpreted :)
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I don't see the problem here. TechCrunch is reporting info from Sources where as DaringFireball is quoting from the official statement. These are two different things and more to the point they're two things that almost always contradict each other (there's no point in quoting sources if those sources are just repeating what the official statement says)
What's with Newmogul - saw it for the first time. A HN clone with biz focus?? Interesting.
Air hockey might be a cool idea too.
I'll be around practicing startup business law as usual, and I will be making occasional contributions to the site in that area.

I really appreciate the people here and am not suggesting in the least that I feel alienated from you, only that there is a mismatch between my world and the hacker world that has led me to conclude that my general (non-law) contributions to the site do not really add anything meaningful to the discussions.

Thanks to all for the kind comments (and, no, I won't ever be doing Erlang, whatever that is, not after what I saw yesterday).
Did anyone try calling (801) 415-2566? Supposedly it's Jonathan Gilette's number. If this really is _why, which I'm not sure, and I'm kinda doubtful.
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Personally I always hated that so I offer refunds for any circumstances.

Me too -- tarsnap close their accounts and get a refund whenever they like. Not many do; but in the rare case that someone decides to stop using tarsnap, I'd rather refund their money than feel bad about keeping it.
There are certainly a lot of jobs that don't really require a college education for a person of decent intellect, and some kinds of programming are some of them, but I do think there are also careers that require a level of dedicated study that is really difficult for most people to accomplish outside of a structured learning environment like college and where it's difficult to quickly learn it on the job.

FWIW, I didn't go to college. I've often tried to follow lesson plans for the fellows that have, but it can be hard to crack into certain markets without work experience or verified education in an area.
Anyone want to crack my secret message?
I made this for fun one day but none of my friends were interested in cracking it...

http://www.polemicpost.com/thelab/secretmessage.php

Is it too hard?
re⋅ject
3. to refuse to accept (someone or something);
source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reject

Seem to me like the "reject"/"not approve" disparity is splitting hairs.
I'm all for giving shares based on performance, not on day 1, both for 'advisors' and 'engineers'.

Prove it, then get rewarded.
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You'll be missed George, you're like NYC on /. only (much) less abrasive.

There was some pretty good stuff in your postings, I know I learned from them.

I hope to see you back here some day!

this one should probably be in your bookmarks:

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I don't think Apple is developing a competitor to Google Voice -- which is probably part of the problem. If they did build a competitor, it really wouldn't matter. Apple could do it better and more seamlessly.

However, what's really happening is that Apple is seeing the writing on the wall. A lot of the core functionality of the phone, like Maps and search, are already provided by Google. Once you add in Google Voice with call management, voicemail, and SMS then suddenly it's not really Apple's phone anymore -- it's Google's.
Yeah, we all knew autoconf was not too great back in 2003 when this was written. It hasn't gotten much better or much worse. I think the only thing that has really changed is that there has been a gradual convergence on a smaller number of "platforms" (hardware, OS, and language VMs) so that it is no longer worth the effort of maintaining yet another obscure toolchain to deal with the corner cases. If the standard makefile (or rakefile/setup.py/Makefile.PL) works for Ubuntu, Redhat/Centos, and OS X most developers would consider the job done and move on; they now seem far more willing to tell the people running obscure hardware/os combos that they are SOL unless they can hack the makefiles themselves.
There's probably been a change in mindset at Apple over the last 2 years, from seeing Google more as a partner to seeing it more as a competitor. Unless something from Google (like Search/Maps/Youtube) is obviously of big value to most iPhone users, Apple would probably want to keep Google on the outer side of the wall.
I'm not going to claim to know how long Apple should be allowed to "ponder" the Google Voice app, as they said they are doing in their answers to the FCC's questions. Six or eight weeks seems like plenty of time to decide.

However, there is a big difference between an app being still under review and being rejected.

Arrington's language claiming that Apple's answer to the FCC was "a total lie" reminds me of Dick Cheney talking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There's "overwhelming evidence"? And that's enough for you to accuse Apple of lying to the FCC on TechCrunch? Obviously not all journalists hold themselves to the same standards.
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One problem I see is all the people here that misunderstand what Hacker News is about and think that the only thing on-topic is discussions about programming.
what about spring mvc/webflow? I worked never on it a month back and now am ready with our Intranet portal within 3 weeks
I don't think you should take what happened yesterday as reflecting on Erlang in one way or another, that was a very limited number of users behaving in a childish way.

But you are reinforcing a point I made elsewhere already, that tricks like that actually hurt the Erlang community.

I don't know much about Erlang myself but it seems a nice enough technology.
I don't understand how an in-depth article like this can not include a mention of RabbitMQ. Did I miss it somehow?