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Scott Adams on the Evolution of Cartoonist Tools
EFF Wins Landmark Ruling Freeing Promo CDs for Resale
This obviously depends on the app, but my gut instinct says that the mobile app pricing model is not going work for desktop software. I buy a lot of niche tools, so I'm happy to pay the $20-$80 it costs to get a good app. For me, this low cost, high volume business is best reserved for throwaway apps and service-based businesses.
interesting, I've never heard of BODMAS... just PEMDAS.

Same thing, different acronym. (parentheses, exponents, multiply/divide, add/subtract)
Having moved from physics to biology, I am amazed with the difference in what the consensus of 'significant' is. Some of the difference is due to necessity, but not all.
I actually use my hosts file, and block all the common time wasting sites I like to waste time on. There is no time period - the sites are off limits for the computer, period.

I have another computer in another room for time-wasting - with no restrictions. But sitting there is acknowledging that you're wasting time. You can't fool yourself or anyone else that you're being productive, otherwise you'd be at the 'real' computer.

I find this to be far more effective than a periodic-blocking application. Because anything you can turn off with the click of a mouse, will get turned off just when you need it the most. Editing a hosts file is a major PITA in comparison.
They're not against making it more complicated, they're for making it less complicated and desirable for them, unless I misread the post. They're for making it "less complicated" with the goal of it changing to covering what they do entirely so Universal etc. can't sue them any more.

"...respectfully submit this opinion in support of such adoption..." (from the letter they want users to send)
Isn't the rule "If you touch it more than once a day, move it to flash, if you touch it more than once an hour, move it to RAM?"

That is, for data which is touched daily, it's already less expensive to use flash than magnetic drives. The problem with Hard Drives is that in order to get the IOPs, we always end up buying a _ton_ of drives, plus the chassis to support those drives, plus the licenses to support the amount of storage represented by those drives, etc, etc, ...
People do care. They care about price too ;-) Android is heading to US$99 or even cheaper devices (in which I am not sure whether GPU is an option).
single user only os?

i'm sorry, but there's no way that it can become popular with that limitation. security is too much at risk here, didn't we just manage to convince microsoft that computers shouldn't start as root all the time?

also, seeing that it's geared towards multimedia, there's no way that any real multimedia company will adopt the software with no file permissions and user access to all root powers.
I used to run BeOS on a Umax c600x280 Mac clone (PowerMax, Umax, Motorola days). I loved it because the UI was responsive. There was no lag. It also introduced me to the command line.

The previous year, I tried an mklinux install. I couldn't tell upside from down. I didn't know enough to "man" a command, let alone which commands to man.

I'm sad Be never became OS X. I wonder what Haiku/Be would be today. Remember the first OS X version? It was slow and buggy. 10.1 was usable.

Maybe Apple would've made a slow, buggy OS B. Back then, it was on.
Though it seems they will give you 50GB free, you have to pay for anything but the basics (such as if you want to access it as a drive on your computer). Otherwise you only get a 14 day trial for these 'advanced' features. Where as DropBox is free.
The fact that BeOS is single-user is news to me. I have to wonder what the security model looks like without a 'root' concept - this article's dismissal of the problem seems pretty shallow.

Obviously the "Change the World" title is just linkbait. Thanks for renaming.
This cannot be turned off with a click of the mouse (see my warning below) :-) — although, one who spent 5 minutes reading the source, could turn it off! But still, not click of the mouse.

And yes, a second time wasting computer would be ideal but ye I don't have one :)
Ask HN: Does anyone here work as a "trainer" and/or in the training field?
What does HN think about a career as a trainer? Is there any potential in it? What's the market like?

I have been working as a trainer for the last couple years training our company's clients on our products. But I started this job straight out of college and I don't really know much else. So I am wondering if I should stick with it or if I should look into moving into other areas (Support seems like a natural transition).

I do like doing trainings and I think I am pretty good at them. But I am just not sure what the market is for this field.
Doing what Spotify did isn't that easy. They had years of lawyer negotiations before they got any label to sign up. They had to have some serious dough before they could even broadcast the first tune. And that's with the swedish STIM organization that pretty much lets you broadcast any music as long as you pay per listener.

Grooveshark is trying to build a business. To build a business on music you have to let people listen to music. Once they have working business-model (if they ever get there) they can get to paying the artists.

I agree it's somewhat twisted, but I think that's what is necessary.
Several things

1. I'm an OS junkie. I love installing, fiddling and learning new OSes. I installed BeOS and used it for about 2 years (no joke) back in the day. LOVED IT. I even had it replace my Slackware instance for about 6 months as my primary system.

2. I love seeing OSes still actively developed even if they aren't popular. I think it keeps driving ingenuity and pushes other people. But, I don't get why we have to have rewritten older systems...lets try to advance OSes.

3. The interface has to go. It was clunky back then and now it is downright horrendous compared to nearly any interface we have. Gnome might feel like 2004, but this feels like 1997.

4. The biggest problem with BeOS back in the day was lack of applications. I don't see this being fixed with Haiku unless they have translation layer.

EDIT -
One thing I forgot to mention about BeOS back in the day. It booted in about 15 seconds. It was amazing. Right now the fastest I've seen is an Ubuntu box getting from start to internet in about 7 seconds w/ a SSD etc but for 1999/2000, it was amazing. Astonishing, really.

I would also add in this edit that I think the state of UI on current OSes is a bit disappointing. I think Ubuntu is trying w/ Unity and even that has a ways to go before I see any real innovation in interfaces. It feels like we've got a modality that worked 15 years ago and we've sort of massaged it, but haven't really innovated or pivoted on the concept too well.
So why would people want to be Facebook users? What value are they getting besides targeted ads?

Erm... people like talking and interacting with their friends, and facebook makes that extremely easy?

Ways it could make money in the future - since it could act as the online identity of a substantial portion of internet users, and gets the attention of a significant portion of those daily or weekly, there are a hell of a lot of ways.
That is what happened to me at a couple of previous jobs. At one I blacked out some clauses. At another they forgot to get me some contract or another, and I wasn't going to remind them. In both cases someone noticed a long time later during a paperwork audit and I had to do it over.
Javascript random() isn't a crypto-strong PRNG. Depending on how any PRNG is seeded, guessing it's output may not be very hard at all - especially if you've seen it once before.

Eg, I once had a Poker playing game on an Amstrad that used a PRNG with a very predicable seeding strategy. I could amaze my friends by knowing exactly what cards I would be dealt.
and how many studies did he throw away, when they didnt get the statistical significance he was looking for? now lets average all of them together
Monitoring all the electrical and hydraulic appliances in your house
"Luckily"? If the protocol were to catch on, imagine how many terabits of bandwidth would be wasted by such an unnecessarily verbose and redundant protocol. Imagine how many CPU-years will be wasted parsing and unparsing the packets. Imagine how much memory wasted because packets can't be processed as they come off the wire, but must be buffered in their entirety before they can be parsed.

This is exactly the sort of thing libraries like Google's Protocol Buffers and Facebook's Thrift were invented for, both of which are open source.

Optimizing for human readability using netcat just doesn't make sense for potentially core protocols such as this one.
It's okay to make things that aren't intended to become popular or to take over their niche commercially. Haiku's makers loved BeOS and are just remaking it. It's very charming and human.
Good point. This is approaching the "enough space to be the only drive" threshold for me, so this is pretty exciting.
I'm sure that's true. I'm just saying, contracts aren't mystically invalidated because they have handwriting on them. The signatures themselves are just evidence of the underlying agreement, which is what's enforceable.
Surely the most important fact to consider and the one that over-rides everything else is that the person who created the content has the ultimate decision on what it's used for, who is allowed to use it and how it's allowed to be used. Surely if an artist creates a something it should always be their right to decide what happens with that music, whether they want to sell it for $0.99 a download or $1,000,000, or even give it away for free, who is anyone but that artist (or someone they appoint) to decide? So what if they're "stifling innovation"? It's their content to do with what they see fit.
My computer comes with this built in: http://cl.ly/3sRk
BTW Person I replied to, changed their comment after I replied and I can no longer edit mine. Also, I was wrong about the exceptions: sorry bout that.
A study confirms every suspicion you ever had about high-school dating
Really? I think they can cross that bridge when they come to it. For now, adoption is critical.
So it's okay to abuse the law while building a business because it's "hard" to do it legitimately? You can't be serious? If it's too hard to do it legitimately, you don't do it. Spotify have proven it's possible to do so what on earth gives Grooveshark (or any company) the right to abuse the law and make money from things they don't have the rights to? I don't get it...

I must be misunderstanding your argument because that makes no sense on earth to me... couldn't the same lines be used to justify the BP problems ("when we have enough money we'll follow safety regulations") or even drugs ("when we have enough money we'll start a florist")? If you intentions to build a legitimate business at the end, who cares what you do on the way?
Now, seriously, Windows failed once on RISC platforms because software vendors were not interested in supporting them. Can an ARM-based Windows desktop function when the only software it runs is Windows?

I guess a lot depends on how much developers embrace .NET; .NET apps are compiled to CLR bytecode which presumably could run on ARM devices just as easily as on Intel.
Haiku... has font smoothing? In fact, they just recently activated hinting. Icons are anti-aliased too. I guess I'm unclear on what you're saying.
I wonder about brushing without toothpaste?
Mass media headlines seem more like The Onion every day.
Your complaint against them, in your original post, is a legal one. They are advising that action be taken such that they are no longer in such a precarious legal position, which would seem to appease the complaint you made. Absent other reasons to support your position (a few of the many potential reasons: "Copyright is a moral right", "I support the status quo against all comers"), I'm not certain what your argument is.

Edit: To further sate my curiosity: you have repeatedly said that Grooveshark "abuse" the law, which strikes me as a strange choice of word. Do you mean "break"? Or do you mean "they don't break the law, but I believe that what they do should be illegal"? Or something else entirely?
When I saw this title, my brain read what it wanted, which was that you had written an app to prevent other apps from stealing focus (like Adobe popping up to tell me that Acrobat has an updated (who cares)). Wishful thinking?
Betcha that only works if you match an ancestral diet.
I don't know if its encouragement but its definitely what he did.

So we can take away one or two things:

1. His rapid maturity as a developer, and deeply expanded network came at a cost to time. If he had worked less, perhaps he would have known less people, been talked about less, and consequently had a smaller network. Also, the amount of time he put into the job might be directly related to the expertise he got out of it ("Practice makes perfect").

2. His type might just be your competition at an internship.

To be honest, while you're young spending 12 hours per day away from home isn't so bad. In high-school track, we'd regularly put in 3 hours mandatory after a 7 hour school day, then do one or two more hours if we were varsity. We were just teenagers.

Now adays, I can't imagine expending that much time on a single thing (school related stuff in this case), because I have so many competing interests but then single-minded devotion was the name of the game.
Uhh.
I accidentally searched reddit using this number for other posts about it, and then I refreshed the page and the site is down.

Am I being paranoid or did I accidentally break their server?
I believe the high end Crucial drives use Sandforce controllers, which are currently the top of the heap, and OCZ uses them in their best drives. Current Sandforce controllers beat out the Intel G2, but I don't know how it's supposed to stack up against the G3.
Be fair now, these hypothetical arm devices can't both be filled with bloat/crapware and not be supported by 3rd party app developers.
Might be for NAT traversal, ala something like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching

One of the wiki pages (https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/wiki/My-Understanding-...) specifically talks about working with NAT: "Packets can continue to pass through NAT network devices like home routers"
So now under this ultra-hardline view you can't even quote short snippits of an article it in criticism of it, without first getting permission from the author?
Keep in mind that content isn't created in a vacuum, and any content that an artist creates draws significantly from prior works.
He added this in the comments:

Adjustment time is not immediate, when you stop using soap/shampoo shit goes crazy for a few weeks, too me over a month to balance out. After that it was amazing. If you stop expect things to be really weird for a few weeks, then they level out.
Frankly, as an "immigrant" to the big city, I found myself constantly flabbergasted by the things most people couldn't do that we'd just sort of taken as said back in my little Northern Ontario mining community. Hell, I even remember a minor rush on the documents supply trade when someone decided you weren't allowed to wipe your solder joints anymore when plumbing (there wasn't a plumbing code book to be found for miles around for months). Yeah, there was always that guy who couldn't swing a hammer to save his life, but he'd almost always know what to do even if he couldn't do it himself.
There are more reasons to doubt our results, so we lower our standards of evidence?
> introduce an x86 compatibility layer.

On ARM?! ARM is not so fast. I can imagine ARM reaching Atom on single-thread performance, but nothing near Sandy Bridge.

That said, DEC had it for the Alpha, but only because the Alpha made the Pentium look like a toy. And it was not fun to run Pentium software at Pentium speeds on what was supposedly a very fast computer.
Sales Have Slowed To A Trickle On Google’s Chrome Web Store
The Control Group for Science
Why? Well, first of all, the UI is confusing and complicated (a majority will call it ugly) compared to Dropbox.
Re: Bands Pivoting - Happens all the time. They try out new drummers, new singers, new bass players. Sometimes they go solo. They keep experimenting, either with their style, or their bandmates, until they find something that works for them - both artistically and commercially.

Sometimes it never goes anywhere - but that's true of startups as well.
OT: this seems to be one of the most bizarre things I have seen on HN. For some reason my comment and the reply seems to have rubbed some the wrong way. It has been cycling up through -1 and 4.

Not complaining about the down votes, (and surely not about the up votes :) just that it is quite weird, and unlike anything I have experienced here on HN.
> CLR bytecode which presumably could run on ARM devices just as easily as on Intel.

It's doubtful if performance would not degrade so much as to make desktop software made to run on the x86 .NET runtime unacceptably slow on ARM.
Windows phone 7 is based on .NET, so they already have an ARM backend for the runtime.
My Blackberry Is Not Working
Recent sketch from The One Ronnie on BBC One. Brilliant
I also use iSoap.
by abuse I mean they take a piece of law (DMCA) and then manipulate it. I absolutely suck at explaining things, so forgive me if it makes no sense, but imagine your parents said to you when you're a child "You can't watch TV after 9PM on a school night" and then at 1am you watch TV and say "but mom, it's not a school night, it's the morning!".

The way Grooveshark do it is by having users upload music, if they wanted to be legitimate they could easily require anyone uploading music to call and verify their identity (how many record labels are there out there?) but instead they have users upload and that covers them under the DMCA, so they can then make money off those uploads and when they're notified it's there (which they of course know it is, that's their entire business!) they say "oh hey, so sorry! We thought it was you uploading, sneaky users eh! We'll delete it now for you" when if they had wanted to make sure the rights owner was uploading in the first place, they could have done.

I have a copy of Rihannas latest album here, if I wanted to upload it to Grooveshark right now for other users to listen to I could, they could prevent that if they wanted but they don't, they use the DMCA to build their business off those uploads.

I hope that explains it, if not I guess I'll just have to give up :( I guess a simple way of explaining it is that without the DMCA, grooveshark could not exist.

Edit: Actually I thought of a better way to explain it, one that I think matches the idea of a hacker more. They had a problem: they needed to stream music to users and cover costs without having the rights to stream that music, they realised to be able to they'd need money and they didn't have it. So they found a solution: DMCA, that would cover what they wanted to do as long as they responded to labels who didn't want their music and they had deniabilty when it came to how the copyrighted content ended up on their service: users uploading.

So they had a problem ("how to stream music that requires rights to stream without those rights") and they found a solution ("dmca") and used the requirements of the dmca ("users uploading and removing when requested") to shape their service. Does that explain it better?
Good point.

So, they probably won't have subsidies. That'll make the Linux versions cheaper.
I've gone without shampoo for many months now, maybe a year. I keep my hair very short anyway, so it doesn't matter very much. It hadn't even occurred to me to try going without soap. I could probably see it working fine now that I think about it.
The "Shield" Bill, A Clear Danger to Free Speech
There was another article of this sort too. I'm curious about how soap itself originated though. It's alright if someone somewhere had an 'aha' moment and started using soap for hygeine, but for practically the whole world to use it, something interesting must've been happening?
Have you tried running Office 2010 on your phone?

WinMo 6 has a .NET runtime too.
> I'd really like to hear how the voters are responding to such an issue. Do people understand, more or less, the technology, the ramifications, the options?

The vast majority don't (yet). That's one reason why the Pirate Party is going to have other policies as well!
Because the massive corporations the artists are "appointing" are abusing their power. And neither the artists nor the consumers benefit from that.
I'd like to believe this story

In the russian versions of the story the expert usually hits the object (server, or the machine that stopped working) with a huge hammer in the carefully identified spot. The result is the same though - the system resumes working as intended.

But, well, that's just the cultural differences in the ways the things are usually being fixed.
I'm 16 years old and confused as hell.
Not something I'd experiment with. Your teeth don't get dry, greasy, or smelly from cleaning too much and you only have one chance to properly take care of your teeth.
I remember being able to play 4 qvga sized movies simultaneously on a Pentium (the first one) running BeOS with no hiccups. Impressive in those days.

Honestly, after all these years, I had major doubts that Haiku would ever be released. Glad to be wrong.
My MacBook Air also boots in 10 seconds. But who cares .. I reboot it maybe once a month.
That's the artists choice though, no artist is obligated to sign to a major label, they can do it independently or join a smaller label. It's not the governments job (or any businesses job) to "liberate" the poor artists who sold out to big corporations. Ownership rights should be treated the same be it a small indie guy with 20 fans or a huge corporation with hundreds of acts and billions of fans worldwide.
Soap I can kind of understand, but I definitely can't see how no shampoo would work for me. If you ever put any kind of product in your hair that seems out of the question.
What about when he actually gets dirty? Some stuff doesn't come off your skin without soap.
Huh, I could make this for free as a side project. Hmmmm..
It depends on what your app does and how you get traffic. Writing a game? http://cd34.com/blog/boring/social-gaming-design-requirement...

Monetizing becomes - ad network (rockyou, adsense) or selling virtual currency through offerpal/superrewards, etc. There is a section in the developers forums that talks about monetization (http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewforum.php?id=8) and mentions all of the latest players. Offerpal was super on another app I did - it just didn't get the traction it needed to make more than a handful of bucks.

If you go with a completely viral app that isn't a game, you don't get the return visitors but you might get the mass numbers. If you can get into a vertical niche, you can go to connectcommerce/cj.com or something similar and run targeted ads for affiliates.

I did a quick two page survey app that hit 40k DAU at it's peak and has about 400k total installs that made roughly $800. Not a bad return for 40 minutes of work, pylons/nginx/uwsgi and a small database. Replicating that with different angles never met the same success. Timing probably was just lucky on that app. Once in a while a small uptick on adsense comes in - and someone has stumbled across it and their friends all start taking it again, but, never with the original zeal.

I have an idea for a social game that has a different twist. While I found I could write software, knew the psychology behind it, I found out I'm not a game designer. I wrote all of the code but lost the motivation to finish it.

It works, you can make money at it. Writing a Mobwars/Mafia Wars clone is the quickest way to money. However, designing something viral just requires a lot more traffic to make the same cash. Neither is incredibly difficult.
Why are you telling us?