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Now they may be able to monetize these as collectors' items by turning them into NFTs.

Start a startup and create your own job?

Awesome: this will be really useful for the Unity game devs I know.

In one sense, it's actually the opposite. In iOS 5 and earlier, they were at the mercy of their arch-rival.

Now, by doing their own map, "crippled" or not, they're independent. They're less at Google's mercy than they were before.

If the Apple Maps app someday becomes as good as (or better) than Google Maps, this move will be seen as genius.

They depended on craigslist too much. It worked really well when craigslist wasn't stopping them from using craigslist. craigslist is international. Does craigslist have listings for Cologne, DE, Berlin, or Tel Aviv, IL? If it does, they would have appeared on PadMapper. I've used PadMapper before. I didn't even know they had any other sources; I thought it was strictly a mapping of craigslist listings.

Depends on the app. I personally developed a dozen native mobile apps, and I wouldn't have done it any other way -- but that's because of the nature of the apps I created.

An organization that had goals similar to the BBB's would be very valuable for many consumers. What are some of the BBB's competitors? What's currently the best alternative?

what's the Free Software clone of a game?

No mention of Bitcoin? :)

pg is concerned with startups, and I am too. But I think a lot of the rest of the world is concerned about what's going on between, say, Apple and HTC.

Reminds me of this:

"Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God."

- 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NLT)

What's your OS? Here's how it looks to me:

http://twitpic.com/69kqzg

Mac OS X 10.6.8 / Google Chrome 13.0.782.112

Honestly, his comment changed my mind. I hadn't read that "timeline" pdf before. So to me, his comment was very interesting.

You sound like Ron Paul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul

I don't understand this link. Why is it hosted at pavietnam.net?

What's your broadband? FTTH? DSL? Cable?

I'm in Vietnam, and we're able to download Lion over FTTH.

Does Hacker News have a black bar at the top because of Google+?

(The same thing happened to my Google today: the top bar turned black.)

I'm an independent iOS developer. My paid apps have sold over 100,000 copies at 99¢ or higher. In total, my iOS apps (including free apps) have been downloaded over 7 million times.

I took a look at your app in the App Store.

Here's your problem: your icon.

The icon is the most prominent thing the user sees when first looking at your app in the App Store.

Change your icon, and you'll get more downloads. Trust me :-)

Feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss good icon design, or other under-appreciated aspects of selling an app.

You're right that it can't be strictly enforced, but I think the added inconvenience would be enough to subtly change the behavior of the majority group. Most people won't bother to create multiple accounts or install a browser extension.

In a similar fashion, nothing prevents someone from writing a browser extension to add comment scores back today, e.g. http://hnpoints.com/ ; The scores aren't official, but they serve the same purpose. Most people aren't going to install a browser extension. Of course, some will. But most people will just use the site as-is, out of convenience.

I use bitcoin and I jailbreak my iPhone.

iPhone OS 3.0

(now called iOS 3.0)

- iOS app developer who was there when Apple explained it

"there is no indication to the user at all that the camera is in use unless the app provides its own. There is no permission alert, nor any LED indicator like a webcam. An app could secretly be recording your face with the iPhone 4′s front-facing camera and sending it to who knows where."

http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-ios4-camera/

As a fellow iOS developer, I believe this is true. It's pretty amusing that there's a guy on the Apple Discussions forum claiming that this is impossible. Actually, it's very possible.

They do this already. It allows the phone to detect whether you're in the same place as someone else: if two phones are hearing similar sound, then you're likely to be next to each other. Color shows you photos taken by people near you. Audio is one signal for detecting who's near.

Note: GPS sometimes doesn't work indoors, where there's no line of sight to the satellites in the sky. Cell towers and Wi-Fi work, but aren't as precise.

Paul Graham wrote an essay related to this: http://www.paulgraham.com/discover.html

yeah, let's meet. this will be my 3rd time.

minor typo: discreet -> discrete