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Add support for other phones and the ability to migrate between them. The more major devices you support, the wider your net. The ability to sync/migrate blackberry to whatever phone I get next (and back if it doesn't work out) in a common interface would be your main USP.

Other stuff - small scale library management for media. Let me drag and drop music, ebooks etc. onto my phone window and have them sync over into the right folder regardless of which phone model I'm using.

That consistency is something that the vendors can't do. That's your second USP.

The first one is good for new customers, the second is good for retention/upgrades.

Just my 2c worth, you've probably got a better idea of the market than I have.
I think your reaction is reasonable.

In exchange for loyalty to a venue, customers expect and deserve a little "extra", be that in the form of benefits over-and-above, or simply taking extra care to not be rude!

If it's a new employee it's obviously a grey area - it's no one's fault explicitly, but management could have prepped the new employee better. The employee thought they were doing the right thing, which is unfortunate.
The headline is a little misleading. AACS and BD+ have been cracked for some time. What they found is the HDCP master key that would allow a company to product an HDCP-compatible device that would strip the encryption from the HDMI/DVI signal and allow another device to capture/record/play the digital signal.

This is really a bigger deal for VOD with cable boxes and the like where the content going to the TV over HDMI could be intercepted and recorded, allowing VOD content to be ripped and pirated in the original digital quality (with some data loss to to decompression/compression).

Intel has already confirmed that the key is legit and can be used to generate new keys for unofficial HDCP compatible devices.
Actually, the contributor agreement is about getting the open source community to contribute a large percentage of the work and aggregating the copyright so they can sell it to other companies via dual-licensing, without giving the contributors the right to do the same thing.
A small pet-peeve: The downloads window calculates the speed in a non-intuitive way. I understand you display the average speed over a time so that the speed does not fluctuate too much, but the time is too long. (Or are you using the total elapsed time to calculate this?)

For example, say I am downloading at 100KBps. Even if for some reason my download stopped (due to some connection issues) the speed displayed will not immediately go down to 0. Instead it will take a very long time to gradually go down to 0. I am not sure if it will ever reach zero. Obviously this can be corrected by using a smaller time frame say 1 minute to calculate the speed of download.
The VCs definitely wanted to sell. Mark wouldn't let them.
I'm more inclined to go with larger sizes since my SmartPhone covers ultra-portability and one-handed usage. I think tablets might mimic laptops with a broad range of sizes being popular for different needs. Maybe anywhere from 7" all the way up to 17" as more of a tablet-top device.
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It looks like a great release, I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I think putting Dean Hamatchovich on IE was a great move, I am a big fan of his work.

Three things:

a) Can you do a separate self-contained package of IE9 on MSDN? ie. the entire app in a single folder, so that we don't have to update the core OS. This will help those who want to run older IE's concurrently.

b) XP support. I know Microsoft want users to shift to Win7, but there are a lot of XP desktops still out there (I run it in a vmachine). Is there a technical reason why it doesn't run on XP? We have all of .NET on XP - so is this a political decision rather than a technical one?

c) Chrome style extensions with HTML + JS etc. These are so easy to develop, and compatibility with the Chrome manifest files for extensions would be a big win for developers, users and the ecosystem.
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I'm not familiar with the AGPL.
Does this mean that I cannot modify the Diaspora source code to run on my server for my business needs, without giving join ownership of my modifications to Diaspora? / without releasing the modifications to the public?

OK that's a letdown.
Or groupon gives a better deal to there sales reps with there is no cap.
This would be great in theory, but however you cut it, it really sucks when the most capitalized companies are all colluding with eachother to prevent the market from working efficiently.
There is this old fashioned notion that sometimes you put the health and safety of others ahead of your need for immediate profits. That is, you don't sell someone something that they can't afford or that will cause them harm, especially if they there is a serious information asymmetry. If this seems quaint, antiquated and foolish to you; well that would be unfortunate. And it is unfortunate that our national character has changed to the point where we lionize people who became rich selling shady financial instruments, and pushing bad loans. _Caveat emptor_ is a good motto to practice, but taking advantage of those who are deaf to the caveats does not make you good, or right, and it is not a sustainable success.
Coffee at Starbucks is a lot less than $4. Also, you aren't just buying the beverage but also paying for a reasonably comfortable place to sit and drink it.
Still though, well-written and clear, as always. Kudos.
On Linux, Chrome is very memory-hungry. I'm using 1.2gb for 20 tabs on a fresh startup/tab restore, and it sometimes leaks like crazy, using as much as 2gb in a single process. The leaks seem slightly mitigated in the 7.x betas, but static usage is exceptionally high.
How does this compare to OpenLayers? Does it follow the OGC specs such as WMS, WFS, etc?

Edit: okay, it does vector tiling. That's very nice. OpenLayers' vector support scales badly so this might help.
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Yeah, this is a classic passive-aggressive reframing move, throwing up dust to obscure what the original problem was. The glowing, 'happy client' email sounds like it was written by a PR drone, and even then it doesn't even try to address the substance of the problem. It drove hits to the website?

The thing that gets me is when he says "If they have a great business, we’re the best amplifier out there." Every small business owner thinks they've got a great business! I'm sure their number one sales tactic is to exploit people's vanity, which may be perfectly legal, but it's a still pretty messed up thing to do.

And then he says "But we used to be all about helping people raise money for charity, we're good guys!" Yeah, but now you're pocketing other people's money, I guess things change.
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Assume that the caller or user is an idiot

I think this is not helpful at all, probably harmful. There might be use cases for my code I did not even think about and third-party programmers should well be able to use it as they wish. And if they feel like modifying internal state (which the author deems fragile in his article) -- oh well! We are all adults here.

NB. I agree that the library he's examining is sub-par quality and is well worth a look.
Sure, it is the shop owners fault, she admitted that.

Still, a partner that drives you out of business is not good to have. This is not good for groupon, they should have done things better, made sure that the owner could afford the deal for one. If margins are that thin, maybe they should be looking at not such a good deal, or no deal at all.
The word "maps" on the start page is actually a map. :)

You can zoom and drag the map around, in the letters.
Yes, but it's still a massive body of water. Local heating of the water may be an environmental issue (although a small one, I think), but heating of the entire Baltic Sea is absolutely negligible.
Ouch. From comments:

The best thing? That the previously searched items may be saved on your computer (or internet browser). In my case, everything is still there!

This. More than once since Instant arrived I've seen an intriguing result go past while I'm typing, but been unable to get back to it. It's OK for routine lookups I do regularly, like seeing what movies are playing; but for investigative, knowledge acquisition type searches I'm finding it more of a distraction than anything else - especially on multiple words, where it feels biased towards the later ones rather than weighting all terms evenly.
I really don't want to troll with this comment, but this kind of information is widely available on sources such as Wikipedia. If you'd read that generic information first, and then came here to ask about specifics or anecdotes, the discussion would be more valuable.
Yup. Everything he says is true. I've been self employed for 10 years and it never gets easier. I'd even say it gets harder every year. And I don't have a family or a mortgage to deal with, I can't even fathom trying to support a family as a freelancer.

Oh and try applying for a job after only ever being self-employed. That one is fun
Yep. My mom did it, without any instructions. I sent her an apk in an email, thinking I would tell her how to install it later. Then she called and already had it installed.
The thing about Firefox is I can just pick up my profile and take it anywhere; Mac, Windows, Linux, pretty soon even Android tablets (though the utility of that has yet to be seen.)

Chrome will get there eventually.

IE? I'm not interested in being bound to Windows devices.
They are being sold in Germany for over 1000 euros, there is not way they will be this cheap.

They are aiming for the subsidized market, where it only costs $100, but you pay $50 for 2 years.

If you are one of those people who ignore the delayed cost, then this is a great deal for you.
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> "There's a bug in the interface code for non-Chrome browsers" - thank you for the explanation, now this suggestion is clear.
Which ones do you mean? There are several app stores for Android already. In fact I am concerned that every vendor will try to push their own App store.
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The final logo remains unnecessarily complex thanks to Microsoft's penchant for including the Windows trademark in every product name these past few years.

"Google Chrome" vs "Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 9"
Thankfully the DMCA only applies to one country and not all the other ones..
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Just for once I'd like someone to write something about X without using the conceit that all instances of X will be immensely similar to the author's immediate experience with X.

Everybody is different, significantly so even. They have different personalities, different educations, different ways of working, different skillsets, different passions, etc. That's why people have different jobs, different hobbies, different friends, different ways of living, and why people do their jobs in different ways. Saying "freelancing will be like THIS" is about as silly as saying that if one were to start painting their experiences would be identical to Van Gogh's, or Michaelangelo's, the likelihood is comparable. I've seen people of equivalent intelligence, equivalent education, equivalent cultural backgrounds doing the same exact job for the same exact salary and having experiences as different as imaginable. Working in completely different ways, generating completely different results, taking completely different degrees of personal satisfaction from their work, working different hours, and having completely different levels of work-related stress.

That's humanity for you. There's a huge degree of diversity out there, and that's true in every career path, don't insult us by pretending that freelancing or working a cubicle or any other human experience can be summed up in one tidy little package with minimal deviation.
I think it's just that people show their intrinsic motivation in different ways.

I consider developing to be a creative kind of job, one where more arse-in-seat time means lower or even negative productivity. Our designer gets off with even less work than my developers. It's about keeping a fresh mind so you can churn out your best stuff. Instead of churning out a lot of mediocre stuff.

Perhaps when we're big enough to have code monkeys there will be time for people wanting to spend such insane hours working :)
I especially like the tiled approach to data streaming that Polymaps implements, though I wonder if it's inefficient if you have really large polygons and a small grid (I'm assuming that if a polygon intersects the grid it'll be streamed rather than being chopped up).

Get ready for all these client side 2D mapping libraries to get a big speed bump with the onset of HW-accelerated Canvas/SVG rendering.

The online mapping world currently dependent on tiling to get literally anything done. It would be nice to see some variety.

Maybe the ability to handle more data faster will spur innovation in lightweight GIS data messaging formats.
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I don't think social networks need the same architecture as file-sharing networks. I want the data I publish on my social network node to be available 24/7 to my network friends. Since neither I nor most of my friends have a server at home, that means hosting the data on some server in some hosting center. So Rails isn't a necessarily stupid idea for a social network consisting of people like me.
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I reckon you should start hacking on your project first, once you have a working prototype, come back to HN & do a ASK HN thread. Follow-up in the replies that you are seeking a mentor. It will convert better.

See it this way, I am a potential hacker, here's what I made. Help! I need advice. The take-up will be much better.
Agreed. However, in my case, I need help with the business/commercial aspect of the project than the technical/implementation.
I have actually started working on the project along with a friend and are a couple of weeks away from stage 1 (alpha 1 I suppose) so wanted to get a head start on the other aspects.
Agreed. Many people juggle with multiple devices: personal iPhone + work Blackberry. A "hub" would be useful.
So when Intel says 'This will not affect many people because you would need the key embedded in silicon to do anything with it' they are mistaken because in reality only one dedicated person needs to create the device you mention and release the unencrypted version via traditional download mediums?
they would be able to decrypt these movies using this key.

Actually, no.

Movies are encrypted using AACS or BD+ on the actual blu-ray disc. The player decrypts the disc and re-encrypts it for HDCP, which it will only do if it establishes a valid HDCP handshake with whatever device is plugged into its HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort port. For a software Blu-Ray player, the HDCP handshake is delegated to the graphics card, and the player software will refuse to run unless the operating system guarantees that the handshake has taken place.

For an open source Blu-Ray player, you need the AACS/BD+ keys (which do periodically turn up, and then get changed on the next batch of discs), not HDCP.
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I hope this means I can watch a movie I have purchased without 10 minutes of unskippable commercials in front of the feature.

Just like mp3s, decss, etc this will not decrease the amount of money I spend on entertainment, it will only increase my options in how I store and watch it.
BSD license is such a failure from the perspective of the copyright holder. It's a bunch of OSS guys working for free to enrich parasites who don't give back to the original developers.

Society benefits, sure. Those who use the code benefit, yes. But the guys who initially develop the software get little back. Charity work should be for poor people.
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This would be a very fun undergrad capstone project, and a project that would get someone an amazing job even if they only did a partial implementation.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could build an HDCP decoder using an FPGA. Distribute devices built with that, and when newer keys are released, update the FPGA's configuration via an SD card or so.

I don't even see why the HDCP handshake would need to be implemented in hardware, you'd presumably just need low-level enough access to the port from software.
Since the sentiment here and in the article seems to be overwhelmingly negative, I'm curious what people think the Diaspora team could have done better. (Not rhetorically, actually curious.)

I guess "be experienced web developers" (or hiring some) would have helped them to avoid writing insecure code. Retaining a security consultant would seem extreme given that this is an early code-only release.

Is their real mistake simply not doing more to counter the hype? I mean, if you take some code you hacked together over the summer, put it on Github, and non-developers start clamouring to use it, that's a vanishingly improbable best-case scenario for some software developers (at least you think it is until you get the bug reports :)). I guess they should have gone out of their way to say "please don't host this without big scary BETA warnings"?

It seems like the most irresponsible parties here are whoever is hosting these services that uninformed members of the public are signing up to.
Leave your jaw on the floor, a quadrocopter will pick it up for you shortly.

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Thanks for the post. I organize Hackers and Founders SV, SF and Berkeley, and we're seeing tons of people show up at our events that have just moved to the area.

I keep saying that H&F really needs to set up a Silicon Valley Startup Wiki, but between boostrapping, Newsley and H&F, I simply don't have the time. I'd be happy to contribute content, because I answer these questions repeatedly at H&F events, but I don't have time to maintain it.

We also wiki topics covering about basic legal issues, incorporation, vesting schedules, equity stakes, term sheets, etc...

Maybe it's not a wiki. Maybe it's a Q&A site, but either way, there needs to be more content about the meat and potatoes of starting a startup, and less blog posts on "I did x and it lead to Y awesome thing for me".

This blog post is a great start. We need a ton more content like this.
> I feel that we hired someone who wasn't sold on the whole startup thing, and treated an early stage startup as if it were a regular job.

Or maybe he realized that working long hours on the same thing with no breaks would actually bring productivity down below what a normal 40 hour week would after just a few weeks. You know, maybe he actually kept up on the science of productivity.
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Followed up with:

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Some quick points:

- Spell check - that's something people use a lot and rely on. Right now I type this comment and make some typos here and there. My browser highlights them instantly. In IE9 I have to double-check each comment before sending it.

- Bonus point for taking grammar check from MS Office. It has some pretty powerful checks for some languages, notably Russian - it's amazing how far it goes! (To people unfamiliar with the matter: imagine a spell checker that checks only top 1000 words - that's how other grammar check in OO.o, Google Docs, etc. feel compared to MS Office) Actually as I think about it I become really sure that I would switch to IE just because of that feature.

- Redesign the download manager - it should be in a separate tab - not window. Trust me - that's so much more convenient and consistent!

- Do something with the top of the window. Right now it's just empty and takes some space. Either let it collapse in fullscreen so the tabs touch the top of the screen like in Chrome and Opera or put the page title there like in previous versions of IE.
Obviously I don't because I keep getting downvoted for it.
The key is necessary to build an HDMI sniffer, which involves special hardware. If all you have is a blu-ray drive and a blu-ray disk and a PC, it doesn't help you at all.

Intel's usage of the word "affect" seems limited to "helps directly with copying".
I'm an independent consultant.

I live within my means and never worry about money, much less have cash flow problems. Considering I get to do what I love in the process, every day is like Christmas when I put it in perspective.

I have health insurance. It's actually cheaper than what my contribution was the last time I had it "provided" as a benefit, for about the same coverage. Being part of a big risk pool is nice, but at least hedging against catastrophe with "self employed" insurance is too cheap/easy not to take advantage of.

If you don't make time, you'll never have time. The author seems to be falling into the all-too-common trap of equating long hours with productivity. You can find yourself on that soul-crushing treadmill regardless of whether you drink your morning coffee at a cafe or in a cubicle.
It uses Direct2D heavily for its graphics compositing operations - an API that was introduced in Win7 and backported to Vista but didn’t make it as far down as XP.
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However, they seem to think the understandability of the name is important. Internationally, they are more likely to be known as "The Phone House".
See the problem in this case is that Diaspora was open sourced in such an immature state that it's almost certain that a large chunk, if not the majority of the development will be done by people other than the initial developers. Large portions of the codebase are already being rewritten by outside contributors, because of all of the security holes.

Now add to that the Contributor Agreement, which assigns joint ownership to Diaspora, Inc. (who is free to license their work to other companies under any agreement of their choosing), compared to the contributors (who are bound by the AGPL).

So who's doing the charity work, and who are the parasites getting enriched here?
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