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Identity theft is a real theft. When I copy a song, or a bit of data or whatnot, and then use it, the only consequence to the copyright holder is potential loss of a sale. A sale is not something that is guaranteed -- a sale not made does not take something from the owner. If an unmade sale was in any way theft, then rude sales clerks would constantly be going to jail for theft.

Identity theft on the other hand does real damage to people. A stolen identity has components of "potential damage", this is true. It also doesn't change the fact that damage is realized -- changes to credit situations cause real life fees and interest rate changes. Withdrawals from bank accounts are real, not hypothetical losses to the original person.

Once again, there is a difference between "causes a loss" and "does not cause an increase". Theft is simply causes a loss.

Are you now going to claim that withdrawals from bank accounts don't actually count either, they are after all just data being copied around.

As for: Copyright infringement takes away the credibility of the content holder and reduces the value of that content. : Are you sure it isn't that copyright artificially inflates the value of content?

Now about your last statement: you and every other person would try to poach the leaders. Here is the fundamental flaw with that business model: should someone be actually innovative, you could never catch them. You would constantly be losing to them because by the time you get the copy working, they have moved on to the next step of progress leaving you and your competitors to fight over the scraps.

The welfare thing: copyright is assistance handed out by the government, in the form of "if you are stupid enough to base your earnings on something easily copyable, we'll force people to pay you anyway." Police on the other hand are there to stop people from causing harm to another. Most of the scope of that is outside of the realm of copyright by a long shot. The little overlapping bit is this: when my property is stolen (actual property, earned an in existence, not the hypothetical copyright stuff) they deal with it. This is not the government giving me a handout, it is them providing a service I pay them for. (Welfare programs are the government giving you a service I pay for).
Consumer reports used to have credibility. I remember trusting them for years. I stopped over a decade ago when I thought they were slipping... but this latest fiasco shows they are all about the links and the hype and not about the integrity.

The iPhone 4 is the highest rated phone they have tested, yet they refuse to recommend it. IF there was a problem with the phone, this still wouldn't make sense, as this problem would legitimately cause the phone to have lower ratings. Every handset maker deals with this problem in various ways, and by all accounts the iPhone 4 is at the top range for doing it right.

There is no problem with the iPhone 4 that every other cellphone on the market doesn't also have, yet consumer reports is capitalizing on this fake "controversy" for attention.

Shameful.
I love these 826 stores. I've got a set of time-travel travel posters from Echo Park and some cans of immortality and omnipotence from the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company as well :).
Is there a plausible way to spread disinformation about your activity, such that if anyone ever brought up your past electronic activities you could show that there's no way to tell what's a true record and what's just random shit created by some service?
Again, everybody likes to justify their own decisions.

And the more they secretly suspect the other possibility might actually be better, the more they feel the need to poop on it. I don't feel the need to loudly proclaim how much it must suck to be a garbageman, but I do feel the need to loudly proclaim that I sure am glad I'm not earning six hundred thousand dollars a year at a big hedge fund.
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lol...He's Gaurav Oberoi, not Vivek.

Btw, even I am one of the (now bugged) users of Billmonk. Enough said.
Assuming California law, I'd say there a fair number of potential violations available for prosecution with a focus on Penal code section 502 http://www.privacyprotection.ca.gov/privacy_laws.htm
Though I am no lawyer, I'm sure a civil case could also be made. Will be interesting to see what actions the affected parties take.
Only if you're dumb enough to live like you're earning $633,000 a year. If you lived like you're earning $100K and put the rest into a savings account, you could quickly overcome all your financial worries.

I doubt anyone is that clever, though, especially if you're surrounded by other folks earning $633K and feel the need to keep up. Entire industries exist for the benefit of those who make $633K and can't think of any sensible way to spend it.
With CSS positioning and using lots of images it's theoretically possible to code any photoshop design.
Hell, even the mess of tables Photoshop outputs with "save for web" can be an adequate design for a simple site, no coding required.

I think you may be confusing design and functionality in your comment.
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They wouldn't be very smart if they remained in a job that was making them unhappy, would they?

Seriously though, all the (limited sample) of google employees I know seem to be happy with it. I'm sure I'd rather work for Google in 2000 than Google in 2010, but it's still a much better place to work than a lot of other places.
That's a decent solution, and one of the nicer demos I've seen in quite a while. Having a floating window makes a fair bit of sense from a programming / UI standpoint.

Makes me want to make it system-wide, however. As useful as a floating window is, unless it has a way of supporting click-through (which is still guaranteed to be more cumbersome than not having a floating window), you still can't interact with things properly.

Hmmmm... you've given me yet another thing to add to my list of things to program. I think I'm thankful for that, though I'm definitely thankful for the link :)
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Nokia never made much headway in the USA because all of their good models were GSM phones -- in the US that meant t-mobile or AT&T -- and back before the iPhone appeared most US cell phone users were on CDMA networks (Verizon and Sprint.) Nokia decided to roll their own CDMA chip instead of paying off Qualcomm (big mistake) and ended up with a weak presence in the CDMA market. Nokia screwed the pooch all on their own when it came to fumbling the US market.
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Make it look like a winamp skin from the late 90's -- but a round one, not rectangular -- and I want to be able to see the desktop behind it.
Something like one of these:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GGYg1kts8gE/S0lGIjFiOPI/AAAAAAAAA7...
Rather than rebutting your rather strong feelings towards smokers, would you mind talking about your feelings about the push for legalization? Part of the sigma attached to cannabis smoking is directly linked to its "illegal" nature and misinformation spread by the highest parts of our government and media.

Take the DEA controlled substance scheduling which places cannabis as a schedule 1 drug:
(1) Schedule I.—
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."

Science can and has refuted all 3 points, yet we're still having debate over the extreme dangers of legalization. Clearly something is irrational here as well when a plant that has not directly killed a single human being or cause violent withdrawal symptoms sits at a higher schedule than opium, cocaine, PCP and benzodiazepines. Even the synthetic THC pharma drug Marinol (Schedule III) can cause death at very high doses.

So long story short... are you behind maintaining status quo hypocrisy purely because of personal reasons?
Bing gained market share at the expense of Yahoo. Google's market share remained flat for the year. The net effect is that Bing + Yahoo has not gained ground on Google. So back to my original question, what is the strategic significance of Bing overtaking Yahoo in market share?
the questions I were asked were stuff like what is an inode, where are inodes stored, what is a scheduler, what is the difference between /dev/mem and /dev/kmem

Precisely what I mean by unix trivia. What's the difference between /dev/mem and /dev/kmem? I think it's memory vs kernel reserved memory, but in my 16 years as a unix admin I have never once needed to know that. If I did, I'd go look it up. That is why I consider those questions trivial: they're not fundamental, although you can make them sound like they must be.
Well the lesson that I've learnt here is that when adjusting something like this up temporarily it is a wise idea to add an event to your calendar to switch the thing back down to normal levels.
meh, been using Ubuntu on Ec2 for almost 3 years. The official AMI's are known suck.
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One thing every historian learns early on is that there are no perfect sources, no single narrative. (Go watch the film Memento if you want to see some fantastic philosophical musing on this topic: we can’t ever completely trust things written in the past, especially after we’ve lost the full context of an author’s motivation) The real world is big and complicated and messy. One thing a show like The Wire gets to do that would be nearly impossible for an academic paper is follow dozens of characters, their relationships, their private lives, their motivations, their interactions with public institutions.
I invite you to try to not make your acquisition deal with the crap - especially when you're acquired and haven't yet reached self-sustaining profitability. I've worked in that situation, and the problem is that while the acquirer/upper-management may think you are your own nice business entity - they still cut the IT guys, marketing, and sales staff, and upper management you had as a startup as they're seen as overhead.

They tend to only purchase the talent expecting them to do just fine on their own, but you end up dealing with the same crap you had to do back at a startup in terms of dealing with training new folks - but under a pretense that you're just another acquisition. Instead of continuing executing, you spend time repeating yourself.

I wish 37s was insightful enough to articulate the deceptively good scenarios that occur post-acquisition, instead of coming-off as linkbait.
Previous news stories? Such as unauthorized access of Sarah Palin's email.
Isn't purchasing health insurance privately cheaper than orchestrating a move to Canada?
Ask HN: Venture backed consumer software startups with 5M+ in revenue.
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>and its taken too long to train users to this level to just throw it away.

Users have been trained? Since when?

Though I do agree this is likely to only make things worse in that area.
Wait, are you saying that we should be reacting to the PR (we didn't, he was let go some time ago) or to the act? I would always rather we react appropriately to the act. (disclaimer, work at google, blah blah blah)
If nothing else though, it's a well executed "this is awesome" generator. There are too many shoddy "awesome" executions out there.
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You hire 20k people over 10 years and make not one mistake? Iknow you are being snarky, but there is no perfect hiring process, no matter what you measure.
Yeah, on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.6, Core i5 2.4GHz) I got

Safari 5 11018.2ms +/- 0.3%
Chrome 6.0.472.55 15342.7ms +/- 1.0%
Firefox 3.6.8 18917.6ms +/- 0.1%

Interesting (but maybe not surprising) to see that Safari is consistently being reported as faster than Chrome on OS X, but not on Windows.
I strongly disagree with your initial reaction (as do most people, it seems), but I upvoted you and am a bit perturbed that you were downvoted so heavily. Nothing in your comment was offensive or silly. You asked good questions respectfully and clearly gave lots of people the impetus to post their own thoughts.
"Everyone else can buy a Palm Pre" ?? :-D
Interesting way to end an article. I did like how the author kept summaries of recent events one sentence long though. High signal/low noise is what I like in writing.

Honestly though, Apple shouldn't have retracted from it's promise of free iCondoms. The margins are high enough to accommodate for them, and taking away features is never accepted well by the consumers.
"...pulled up the person's email account...[and] a list of other Gmail addresses that the friend had registered but didn't think were linked to their main account—within seconds"

This surprised me too. In the absence of any further comment from Google, I'd be very interested to see some journalists doing some investigation here.

Assuming that this is real and not mis-reporting or user error, I'm guessing Google links using either their google.com cookie, IP address and/or browser identification. Any of those methods have potential for errors (in particular they mean you should never share a browser with another person in case your account ends up linked. That seems.... extreme..)
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Man, I saw you guys present at the Quantified Self Meetup in NY (either late last year or early this year) and I thought, man these guys have a great idea, and are waaaay ahead of my "track your daily activities" project. Sorry it didn't take off!
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So it's designed to make me say "this is awesome" twice. That's really manipulative.
I've got two back home. Is there some reason the ULA will eventually die on it's own, or are they safely stored in the closet for the generations to come?
Not a hologram, but a very nice technique.
It used to be impossible for me to use my cell phone in my apartment. To save my life, I couldn't get a call started most of the time. Calls I brought in from outside would drop as soon as I hit my kitchen.

Then I bought my iPhone 4.

Calls go through immediately and don't drop. It's like I moved or something.

It's an outstanding phone. I haven't had a single issue with the antenna or call quality.
Affiliate marketing/PPC arbitrage is by far the easiest way to build passive income, especially the amount you without high time commitment or too much risk.

Find some offers to promote, make some PPC ads for them, test, rinse, repeat.
Ask HN: How much is a typical publishing deal worth?
I know this is likely unrelated to HN directly, but it's something that's alway fascinated me. How much is an average publishing deal worth for a work of fiction? Let's say a (new) author has written a novel, and is selling it around. Let's say the novel is around 500 pages, and for some reason one of the publishers likes it and decides to take a stab and publish it. How much would said author expect to earn on something like this?

I've been curious about this ever since that Twilight author sold her first book. I'm not a writer by any stretch, but am interested in how much aspiring novelists make as compensation for a 500pg book.
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What is the objective of the pivot? Cash? Users? Pictures? Something else?
The idea was born based on the observation that most people can’t remember what they had for lunch two days ago. However, stopping to take a photo (and optionally sharing it publicly) adds both accountability and an element of fun.

A bunch of my friends will occasionally post pictures of their meals on facebook -- either because they're eating out somewhere particularly awesome or because they've cooked something themselves which they want everybody to see. I can't imagine anyone wanting to photograph everything they eat just for the sake of keeping track of it, though.

Definitely need an iPhone/Android/whatever app. Email is too much effort.

Also, a facebook app. Once food photos start showing up in my newsfeed with "Posted from eat.ly" under them, I might start checking it out.

I'd de-emphasise the "health" and "calorie counting" side of things and play up the "food porn" side of things. I don't want everybody to know about the boring healthy salad I had for lunch today, but I do for some reason want everybody to know about the delicious foie gras risotto I had at l'Atelier de Joel Robuchon the other night (as proven by the fact that I just found a way to brag about it in this very comment. nom nom nom)

Maybe provide a way to rate things by delicious-looking-ness? (You might want to think of a better word than delicious-looking-ness.) People could compete to have the most delicious-looking food on the entire site (like hotornot but without quite as much potential for ego shattering).
Why wouldn't you have an iPhone app? It would make sending the pictures much easier. It's a small revenue stream, but it is one.
I can relate with the article in that I've noticed in myself that if I ever go a week where I watch more movies/TV than usual, I VERY quickly notice myself feeling like it's OK to watch that amount, or more, in the future. Actions of that comfort turn very quickly into habits, and that's where the real danger lies - falling into comfort. It's really why so many people work boring jobs. I bet you a good amount of them have dreams, but are too comfortable and lack the "metacognition" (or vision, self-control, foresight, execution skills) to take action.
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Also, why not pivot into the diet/accountability market? It seems a bit skeezy, but people might pay for it.
We agree about that - I'm just concerned that our technological ability is outpacing the responsiveness of our legal system. Like, imagine you were in court and someone pulled out a scrap of paper from 2004 saying 'gone 2 lunch, back in 15 minutes - Jacques' and then argues that you were actually gone for a full half hour, and that this calls your entire character into question. You're not wrong about people needing to be more careful; I just have reservations about the ramifications. I rather like the European approach that internet companies have a responsibility to wipe the data they host after a certain time rather than keep it online perpetually.

ps Ephemera, not ephemeral. Damn auto-correcting phone :-)
Example: this http://schadenfreudepony.blogspot.com/2009/03/gay-star-trek-...

is just trying too hard.
To be fair, this isn't Consumer Reports itself writing this article, this is a (likely heavily spinned) summary by a third party.
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You must introduce me to these people you know.
Let the CR hatefest begin.
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I like the look of the actual menu pages, though I was overwhelmed a bit by the front page. And I really like the ratings of individual dishes.

Since user generated content is going to be the limiting factor, have you considered integrating something like the Yelp API onto your ratings/review section?

http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/phone_api

Might give you a bit more content at the restaurant level, "5 recommendations: 2 onsite, 3 offsite"
though I've heard in the case of Yelp they have severe API restrictions.
I agree, creativity and freedom to do what you feel/want are very connected. However, if the project is large enough, self-control and discipline is required to turn that project into something great, especially for entrepreneurs who wear many hats.
And presumably instead of hiring you, they hired somebody just as capable but with a higher tolerance for solving boring problems for insufficient pay?

Sounds like a win-win.
Or a monopolist.
The good news: It sounds like you've done a lot and are relatively internet competent.

The bad news: You're not an expert yet.

I would say you could easily do online marketing, wordpress installs, SEO, etc. Basically, anything a small business would need. The key here is finding the right small business.

Here's what I look for when contacting small businesses to do contract work:

1. They sell to larger audience than the local area. This means having a web presence actually matters, because everyone doesn't already know about them.

2. It might be hard to tell from the outside, but look for businesses that could potentially have their crap together.

3. Call them and tell them you were looking at their website and saw some ways you could improve it. Ask if they'd be interested in hearing about it. IF THEY ASK HOW MUCH RIGHT AWAY...RUN! RUN! RUN! You don't want these people.

I was able to bill $35/hour on my first project like this. That works out to working about 30 hours/month (billable) to get the $1000. Depending on where you live $35/hour may or may not be the right price to start at. I just did what was considered a good wage around here and took it to a multiple of 2.5. I'd start higher rather than lower on whatever number you use.
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Wrong URL.

Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Day
Perhaps they just mean that it won't work out-of-the-box on real, physical servers (due to the lack of a bootloader, hardware drivers, etc)
Not really. For instance, I could probably solve the problems, but I don't care enough to try, so I'm obviously not sufficiently passionate about it.

Now if they'd asked me the infinite-grid-of-resistors problem...
Wow, this is pretty awesome. What would people use it for, though?

Now if only we had math notation in all the browsers!
Retracted from its promise? They were well clear from the get go that they would only hand out free cases until September 30th.
Jesse, I'm sorry for being an asshole. I've sent you an email with a proper apology; but I wanted to apologize here as well.
As many others have said, iPhone app definitely. This will make the site more casual.

For the "pivot" i'd perhaps suggest trying to get people to document recipes with multiple pictures, this lets you target the more hard core user. Theres an excellent blog that i love reading that gives a good example of what im describing: http://smittenkitchen.com/
Hi! I live in Australia, where the majority of people on ADSL2+ have speeds less than or equal to 4mb/s. Due to the geography (technically, topography) of our country, high-speed internet is particularly tricky to roll-out. Not for perhaps four years more will we have any speeds greater than there are now.

So your comment sounds particularly naive, in this part of the world.
All depends on your definition of high intelligence. I know some very intelligent (rapid cognition, knowledgeable, very capable of thought...) people, who completely lack any form of self-control and are essentially bums.
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You just repeated verbatim my review of "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World."
I'm hoping for an ABC parser to complement the tab. Unfortunately I can't read music no matter the notation.
Yep, we should all be crafting personal projects that double as severely frugal boot strapped startups of one. :)
You will still be able get a free case. It will just be a more involved process, you will have to call Apple and ask for one.

”A small percentage of iPhone 4 users need a case, and we want to continue providing them a Bumper case for free. […] Users experiencing antenna issues should call AppleCare to request a free Bumper case.“ — http://www.apple.com/iphone/case-program/