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Can't believe it. When I was getting bored of discussions like "trying to hire an igloo", "move to California" over the snow-storm, this HN came along and made my day/night. Hacker of the year award! Maybe YC should start such an award if it doesn't already exist.
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This is the whole point. Non-chemical-rockets are the jump to the next hill that Stephenson says we aren't making.
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Hi John, to say there was some deliberation on the pricing model would be a gross understatement. I sweated over this for some time but ultimately it came down to looking at the data on how beta testers were using the product, a number of pricing surveys with different user groups and one-to-one chats with individuals.

The most common use case was users hooking it up to a cheap netbook plugged in to a HDTV in the office or displayed on a 2nd monitor. In this case most small companies would use 2 devices max, a machine to configure and another to display. Perhaps unsurprisingly larger companies used it on more HDTVs (some use upward of a dozen) but they would rarely have more than one dashboard.

However, there are certainly a number of different use cases. Solo users, SMEs, large enterprises and agencies all have different usage patterns and finding a one-size-fits-all is almost impossible. I evaluated 'per device' to be the least bad option based on the data at my disposal. That said, it's early days and there are no sacred cows here, I'm always open to suggestions.
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They basically said "OK we'll take it down, but we're in Norway, so that law doesn't apply. Please prove this was copyright infringment".

They should have just said (potentially in Norwegian) "We're in Norway, that law doesn't apply. Please contact us if we are breaking Norwegian law"
It could be that the rep was scared to let anyone to know he messed up, so he didn't escalate the issue. Costumer should have asked to be connected with supervisor.
Very interesting. This makes a lot of sense to me because that's probably how we would end up using it (we have an in house equivalent called, jokingly, Boiled Parsnip) that it visible on two monitors in the office.

The thing I find restrictive is that sometimes you'd want people to be able to access it to get status information while on the road or at home etc.

Have you thought about a 'simultaneous users' model. I could imagine paying for something like that where I know I've got say three monitors set up (two here in London, one in California) and then I could allow up to three other people to log in temporarily if they needed to.
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That's an complicated ethical decision. On one hand some local clothing manufacteurers are out of buisiness. On the other hand a whole pile of people have cheap, high quality clothing.
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I think that tax preparation services were salivating at the prospects. Mine sent a letter with our tax prep organizer explaining the change and offering their services to prepare them for me.

I agree that it is absurd.
Hey Loren, this really got the gears turning in my head. It covers two things I've been thinking about a lot lately:

1. Low downside, high upside: You got in for $8 and a few hours, and it had a shot to do some great things... I think taking these low-investment shots at doing things can add up really fast.

2. Getting in front of trends/timely marketing - I think there's a ton of potential in this, and I've been thinking on it a lot lately.

Thanks for sharing this - very cool stuff here.
Their post yesterday [1] notes that accordign to Norwegian law they have to take down the repositories:

Norwegian law commands us to respond to such notices by removing potentially copyright infringing content until it’s legality can be fully clarified.

I think this is a classy response; they took down the repos because they kinda had to. But now appear prepared to fight the corner for their users, and if Sony doesn't give them something solid... I guess they'll put the repos back up.

Calm and cool.

1. http://blog.gitorious.org/2011/02/02/gitorious-receives-dmca...
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>Where is the non-Google page of links?

There are no non-Google page of links. The only association between these terms and the page exists on Google.

FTA:

>To be clear, the synthetic query had no relationship with the inserted result we chose -- the query didn’t appear on the webpage, and there were no links to the webpage with that query phrase. In other words, there was absolutely no reason for any search engine to return that webpage for that synthetic query.
What is your experience with online backup solutions in general?

I tried mozy and a few others, but I always struggled with rather slow upload speed, and ultimately found the much easier way is to buy USB harddisk, which I hide in my workplace and just bring it home once per month to make backups. (I store online only a few files I am actually working on, using Dropbox).
I use gkrellm in the top right corner, and a small vertical panel in the lower right corner that has a clock and notification, nothing else.

I find that tucking the clock away in this place where my eyes scan to last causes me to look at it very little except when I want to.
MetaExtension is my current project.

I started this project after noticing how little usage most Chrome extensions get, even though many of them are quite useful. Most decent Chrome extensions have just some thousands of users, even though there are around 100 million Chrome users.

The idea is to have a directory of apps that go well with certain websites, exposed through a Chrome extension that then informs users if any apps are available for the website they are currently visiting.

It seems this would benefit both users and the app developers.
gave you so much traffic

Traffic to his website is not as important as sales. I suspect a poor percentage of visitors from HN converted to sales.
Have you ever tried a restore from Mozy? I backed away from them when I did. Apparently, there is no 'resume' functionality when restoring. That means putting down a laptop to restore 50 gb, have a connection failure or needing to move the computer from office to home after 30 gb, and then needing to restart from scratch. That make me go %( - and I still haven't been able to cancel my Mozy account, after 2 months, because despite what the documentation says there is no 'unsubscribe' link in your profile and the customer support seems to be an email black hole.

Just venting I guess, but beware if you are trusting your data to Mozy...
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"Nobody breaks even on day one"

When I co-founded a company we boostrapped by finding a contracting client who we managed to negotiate with so that they would pay us immediately in cash before the end of the month. So for the first few months we still managed to pay our salaries, make a profit and we had no overheads as we were working on the client site.

After we had some cash in the bank we got an office and purchased our own kit so we could work off site (the client wasn't bothered as long as the work got done). Eventually we got to the point where we decided to focus on product development and we got VC money and moved to only having product related revenue.

So yes, I think we did break even on day one.
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That it's exactly what verizon does not want
But then my music files, which I edit the id-tags for, will show up as different than other people's when hashing.

It would be interesting for Dropbox to release numbers on how many music files are identical between different people.
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This doesn't seem like a terribly convincing response from Bing. The "honeypot" test seems like a pretty conclusive result to me.
I know that, and (clearly) you know that, but this is a nice demonstration as to why one must be careful.

I'll be interested to see how many times the page is accessed. I find that very few of my mathematical oddities get upvotes.
PirateBox-based internet?
Most of us have probably heard of the PirateBox in the last couple of days. (In case you didnt: [wiki.daviddarts.com]

I saw a comment somewhere that you might even be able to inter-connect those boxes. (could be lifehacker, not sure) Could that hypothetically mean that you can set up your own "grassroots internet"?

Anyone you'd want contact with would have to be connected to the same network of course, but if it's something that grows really big, then you don't need isp's etc.

Problem of course is inter-continental contact, but are there any other things which would make this not work?
As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com?
Me and my co-founder never thought that one of the most difficult tasks in starting a project would be the choice of a domain name.

As everyone knows, it is incredibly difficult to get a good .com name. Unbelievably difficult. The amount of names of new startups which all sound a little bit as dog names proves it. And the reason for this is obvious — everyone wants a short, pronounceable and a remarkable name... as a .com domain. However, what I cannot understand is why on earth are .com names so important? I mean, there should be a real reason why startups pick names like reddit, okcupid, gowalla, tumblr, quora, etc, instead of going with simpler and more prominent name in another domains? Since a few years there is a tendency of picking domains like .ly, .me, .io, etc. but I cannot think of a single successful project with a non dot com domain. I rather see another cases, like if a project gets popular it buys a better name (dropbox, facebook, delicious).

If the argument is that .com is kind of a "default" domain and everybody will type "name.com", then I would disagree, since no one is typing a url by hand. We use google, bookmarks, links, so the domain itself seems to be quite irrelevant. Maybe it is the appearance that matters? Or the ease of pronunciation? But the latter obviously suffers for names like flickr and tumblr.

What do you think? Why is e.g. roollr.com better than roller.at?
That's crap, the law in this case is like "guilty until proven otherwise", isn't it?
They are already doing some deduplication. From https://spideroak.com/whyspideroak :

> Greatly reduce backup & sync time through comprehensive compression and advanced de-duplication (saving you time)

> You are only charged for the compressed de-duplicated data amount (saving you money)

Still it is not clear if they do cross-user deduplication, but I think it is very unlikely because all the content is encrypted with an user-specific key, which I think they don't have access to.
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This rings true to me, and I'm finally following my own intrinsic motivation.

But it can be really hard to find a job that lets you do this. If you do, the first step is to realize you're in a rare position and take advantage of it.

I'm lucky to have a work environment (go ahead and ask) and a home environment that lets me follow this path to the extent possible.
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If you have a licence and people who know Oracle I'd definitely choose it. Look at and compare the feature lists - there is quite a difference even before you look at performance and scalability in a transactional system.
OK, I can accept that. But would it not remove instead of "could remove" the SQL layer?

The author(s) just doesn't seem to have a sense of understanding about the subject matter. It appears they are just throwing buzz words and jargon into sentences in the hope that some kind of substance ensues.

I'm sure the author(s) have good intentions and it all makes sense to them, but it is very misleading information at the end of the day. And to quote their About page "Do you love high quality, trusted, and authoritative news" ..
Yep, totally crap. It should go "Dear provider, here is why the stuff you host is illegal, please remove it".

Sadly it doesn't. I don't blame Gitorious for following the law, and I support them fighting back.
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The 'simultaneous users' model is intriguing and certainly something I'll explore further in this context. I had originally discounted it when focussing on agency users but, while not a perfect fit in all scenarios, it's probably more palatable for most than the existing model judging my much of the feedback today. Thanks.
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> What a product needs to survive, of course, is cash. And that has to be baked in from the very start; the product-baby must be trained from infancy, as it were. A product’s gotta have what it takes to convince people to turn over their hard-earned money… or it’s going to end badly.

Amy's been putting out some really, really good writing lately. If you missed it, definitely check out "Don't Follow Your Passion" too -

http://unicornfree.com/2011/dont-follow-your-passion/

I actually laughed out loud at the "It’s an age-old story" intro when I read it. Very good stuff.
Yeah, the sub-reddits are what make Reddit great. If you are stuck reading the default front page, you're doing yourself a great disservice. Browse through, there are a lot of excellent sub-reddits.
Sure, it has and is being done.

GuiFi is a running example of a mesh network in Spain.
http://guifi.net/en

Friefunk are a number of networking running in Germany
http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English

Village Telco is a project using mesh wifi to provide voice telecoms in remote parts of the world using custom hardware
http://www.villagetelco.org/

The issues come with a smart mesh protocol. There are many around, 802.11s, oslr, BATMAN, etc. (Village Telco & Friefunk use BATMAN).

See Project Serval for implementation of BATMAN on Android devices.
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One particularly interesting tidbit I learned in one of my engineering classes: hydro dams are like giant capacitors. If you can't "push" more energy into the power grid, then you also can't push more water through the turbines; it gets harder to turn the turbines due to electromagnetism.

In dynamo-generated power it's harder to turn the tubines when the electricity is "used," that is, when there is current flowing. The more current that is flowing the harder they are to turn.

Turning the wires of the coil in the magnetic field sets up an emf. If you allow that emf to drive a current, you now have current-carrying wires moving through a magnetic field feeling a force opposite their motion. This is felt as resistance by whatever is driving the turbine. So, when you "use" the electricity the turbines are harder to turn, not easier.

This also makes sense in terms of conservation of energy. You are taking the energy out of the water and using it to power the users connected to the electric grid. The more power you want to supply, the more you must take out of the water (or steam, if you are using steam to drive the turbines).

So the inability to push more water through the turbine is due to the turbine delivering max current (that is, it is at full load). Any less load means less current and less resistance.

In fact I understand (not an expert on their construction) that it is a problem when the load reduces at some types of plants because you are still driving the turbines with the same fuel but their resistance drops. You have to adjust the fuel to the turbines to keep everything balanced.

With Nukes this may be a slow processess, so that is perhaps why you hear of plants "dumping" energy-- using it in some (wasted) way just to keep the current in the coils high enough to provide resistance to whatever is driving the turbines.

I've heard of places that pump water into elevated storage so as to use it again when demand suddenly picks up- kind of a capacitor effect- but I don't know anything about it first-hand.
Are these actual flaws, or just some woman's negative assessment based on her perspective?

If you can fix a legitimate flaw, then do it. Otherwise, it sounds like a confidence problem. Find something to help you re-build your confidence.
It's worth noting that the article that always gets cited every time the Dvorak keyboard gets mentioned, ("Fable of the Keys", claiming that it's a myth that it is more efficient than Qwerty) is based on the near religious belief amongst certain groups of economists that path-dependency of this sort doesn't exist.

They believe we use rockets/Qwerty/Windows because they are the best and the all seeing market has chosen wisely, not because of a series of effectively random decisions and coincidences that occured in the past.
Isn't that a "Schrödinger's cat" kind of situation? As long as you don't look into the box (or in this case, into the TCP packets) the fact that the outcome is predetermined or not doesn't make any difference. Anyway, disregarding that, these games are always futile statistically-wise.
Joshua, if I may ask: would you mind elaborating a bit? Is it the fear of letting someone down, concern you may be making a mistake in passing, something else? All of the above? Thank you.
Unfortunately all praying is waste of time...
Its good but doesn't work on the corporate wifi wonder what port they use for this?
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Ironically, I noticed this about two years ago but concluded it wasn't actually a big deal. They are pretty clear that it's a game of chance - not a game of skill. And analogous to actual scratch cards.
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In playing this Game, Players acknowledge that it is a game of chance, that the outcome of a Play in the Game is pre-determined by the Interactive System at the point of purchase, and that the winning of a Prize in the Game does not involve the exercise of any skill or judgement by a Player.

It does say this fairly clearly - although the author is correct in that by determining the outcome on the server side means that even if the game isn't completed, you can still be credited for the win.

There is even an option to bypass scratch card play and get the prize immediately (Reveal Instant Wins outcome automatically.)

There isn't really much skill involved offline (compared to none online). That being said, I wonder how many people don't spot winning prizes when they buy a ticket in the store - if I find a ticket, I might check!
Damn! thats exactly what i needed. The only problem i have with it is that realizing how much I needed something like it makes me feel dumb hehe
If it is a simple KV store then there is no reason to use Redis. If you want the ability to search keys then Redis will most likely suit you better.
As long as the server is playing it fair and sending over the expected amount of winners, I don't think there is a material difference.
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I recently paid both Tapjoy and AppRebates to launch an app and I can say that your contact form is a problem.

I'd like to be able to login and start a campaign without having to fill what I feel like is an old-school style form.

I also think your site could do better with a re-design, including a removal of the video or finding a better thumbnail.

How much does it cost you to run, and are revenues going higher or lower?
It would be utterly futile, if you'll _never_ see a winning scratch card.

However, the fact that the 'randomness' has already taken place when you receive your card (vs. happening while you scratch), makes no difference concerning your chances to win or loose.
People trust .com more than they trust .at

Worth bearing in mind even if you're not thinking of the very small minority who type in a domain name and just hit CTRL+Enter to autocomplete to www.domain.com

Domain hacks are also difficult to remember and type. Devs will get it, understanding that the dot comes before the last two or three letters, and that as the last two or three letters identifies a country .tld whether it is 2 or 3 letters. But end users... imagine how many are getting it wrong and letting Google intercept. This may be acceptable to you, but it's hardly a sleek and uninterrupted experience for the end user.
Exactly, it doesn't make a difference to your chances whether the game picks your numbers before you scratch them or after. If they did it the way the author would like it would just mean server requests for every revealed square and session tracking etc in case of lost connections.

What's kind of interesting is games like Pachinko, which in real life rely on the random fall of steel balls over metal pins. A game like at http://games.ladbrokes.com/en/games/arcade/pachinko actually sends you the number of wins and losses when you place your bet, then you get to watch all the balls fall into their predetermined slots at the bottom of the board. You even get to pick the power of the shot for each ball so it's very deceptive.
I use HNdroid from time to time, it's very slow on big comment threads and doesn't format everything properly. I think I read it's because there's no HN API so it just parses the HTML. Are there any plans to provide such an API? It would make it much easier to... hack on top of the website.
It's an interesting psychological issue that comes up in AI sometimes. There's a certain cachet to something being "online", in the sense that it's literally generating something on the spot, even if it's with a fairly simple process. But consider this transformation: take a generative art piece, pre-generate 100 billion output instances, throw them in a big database, and then the online code is: randomly select a piece of art to show the viewer. No actual practical difference, as long as you've pre-sampled so many instances that the user could never reasonably see any repeats. The space of variation is the same; in terms of what you get out it's just as generative as before, just with a different choice on the typical algorithmic time/space, online/offline tradeoffs. But the rhetoric is a much harder sell.
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It's almost analogous to actual scratch cards: while on actual scratch cards the printed numbers are given, online the order in which the ('printed') numbers appear is given.