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We've had a couple of popular hiring threads in the past so it'd be great to have some updates. "Are you hiring? Does your company (or your friend's) have openings? Let HN know!!! …

People have been installing their own software for decades. I don't see why it should be any different on a smartphone.

I don't think you understand how college admissions work. Students are generally accepted based on their overall academic record. Grades, SAT score, extracurriculars, etc. Students…

I don't think the licensing problem can be solved with money. TomTom owns the mapping data and obviously wouldn't let Google provide a navigation app since it would put them in dir…

Droid is CDMA-only but at some point, AT&T will have their own Android 2.0 device.

I think it'll be a while before Google is able to provide mapping data internationally. That's why Google Maps Navigation is only available in the US, where it's a perfectly suitab…

Google Maps Navigation is only available in the US. I don't think it's really reasonable, at this point, to expect a GPS device to work worldwide. Are they supposed to store the wo…

The navigation app is only available for the US, where data plans allow unlimited data so price shouldn't be an issue.

They could also get a lot of third-party revenue by wiping out all of the native apps and letting other people sell them. At some point you have to worry about the value of your pl…

I think always having a network connection is sort of the point of developing this application for Android. Their address lookups are sent to Google's servers and the guy in that d…

Google didn't previously own the map data (Tele Atlas did and they're owned by GPS device company, TomTom) so it wasn't theirs to license. They only recently started using their ow…

Speaking of hiring... any startups looking to hire? The HN jobs section has been empty for a while and the previous "Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)" thread is a bit stale. http://n…

No, that's incorrect. It's related to the format of the video rather than browser sniffing. Firefox only supports Ogg Theora for HTML5 video, but the video on the page is MP4/H.264…

There's a video link on the front page to: http://www.apple.com/imac/the-new-imac/ The video provided is MP4/H264 so it'll only work under Safari (maybe Chrome?) with the tag. Fire…

When was the last time you used Midomi? I think it's pretty well established that Midomi is faster and has better music recognition than Shazam. There's a few video comparisons out…

Wolfram is not the sort of company the engages in marketing ploys. They've always charged a hefty amount for their products, from Mathematica to their crazy prices for API calls. T…

The iPhone application still requires Internet access. If you seriously needed to reference Wolfram Alpha for your work, then you would most likely be within reach of an actual com…

Actually, only blatant violations are rejected. There are a lot of apps out there that make use of a few private API calls so I wouldn't say that Google has "special access."

Special characters are substituted in double quotes. They're treated as literals in single quotes. Seems pretty consistent to me.

That's ridiculous. Why should I let Palm decide what I can install on my phone? Android, Windows Mobile and PalmOS users have been doing fine with having the option of installing t…

Will it be possible for me to host the app so users can download directly from my server?

Google doesn't have special access to the iPhone, they use the same SDK as everyone else with the exception of a couple of private APIs though that's fairly common. http://daringfi…

You're still tied to an AT&T voice plan unless you don't intend on receiving calls. Applications still aren't allowed to run in the background so you'd need to have your iPhone on …