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"You can buy music from Amazon. You can load that into iTunes. You can then play it on your iPhone/iPad/iPod. Why can't you do the same for Kindle (etc) books?"

When you buy music from Amazon, it's in MP3, a format that iTunes supports natively. For ebooks, Amazon uses the proprietary Mobipocket format, which only their Kindle app can read. Apple's ebook reader app uses ePub, as do most other ebook resellers, like Barnes&Noble. That's why ebooks bought through Barnes&Noble work just fine in Apple's iBooks.
That's only because AJ is still produced in a male-dominated society. Emotional news is one of the consequences of feminism, prevailing in the West.
I didn't mean thievery in the classic sense. Only in the sense that he/AAPL didn't come up with the innovation of the GUI as the parent was suggesting.
No. I don't have an iPhone. After watching Apple sell a Title I junior high where I was interning a lab full of IIGS machines in 1991, I haven't had much stomach for them.
Google is also in the ebook business. I doubt they are going to try to take a percentage of Amazon or B&N's sales.
Let me get this straight... You're advocating more violent forms of revolution and arguing that gun restrictions should be removed so that the people might be more capable in the event of said violent revolts?
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I prefer to see apple.com as the source of any posts titled "Apple Responds". Otherwise it's just accusations, hyperbole, and speculation combined with bad "journalism", with a heavy emphasis on the quotes around journalism.
This is great :-) I hope more Internet Service Providers follow suit! I'm actually glad for once that I have comcast.
wiki about everything we have found out about him:
http://knol.google.com/k/eric-leschinski/recover-wael-ghonim...
I'm guessing you were born after Margaret Thatcher left office.
Your intentions are excellent, but this is already being done on a larger scale: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtUC5Tzt8MFudF9rYXR...

Keep in mind, Ghonim is not the only person missing.
You give them far too much credit.
Maybe if we had a la carte cable, but we don't...
"They're either parsing the query out of the url, or violating robots.txt to fetch the result page, almost certainly the former."

Where's your evidence for any of that?

There's another way. Store the input of any Text Box which is immediately followed by a form submit,(search term), and then store the href of the subsequent click (the result which the user finds helpful).

The above is a way of handling it (naive and abstract) which doesn't target Google, and in fact would work for insite searches as well, or any search engine.

Since you've already made up your mind that your two ways were the only way of doing things, what's your opinion given the above?
Penny Arcade labeled this phenomenon the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory"

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
Those who bought the Nook or Reader knew that from the outset. This isn't a move against Amazon - I expect that Amazon isn't going to lose any sleep over pulling their app from the Apple App Store. This is (would be should Apple enforce this against established players) a move against people who bought Apple products expecting certain services to be provided, much like Sony's decision to remove the OtherOS feature from the Playstation.

Only unlike Sony's removal of the OtherOS feature, Apple doesn't need people to buy Apps through them to turn a profit.
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Maybe Al Jazeera should just run with being a 21st century, Internet delivered news channel.

I mean, I don't get Al Jazeera on my TV because I don't have cable or satellite anyway. I do have Netflix, etc, though.
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How about comparing it to the BBC, NPR, and PBS?
I hate to say it, but Microsoft has a _lot_ more experience in bare knuckle fighting than Google does. And, I'm betting that Microsoft is very interested in getting into a brawl over this one.

I really don't think that Google wants to get into a fight over who sucks up users click streams to advance their business...

Those who live in glass houses really flick boogers.
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How about this analogy? If Company A publishes a book and Company B somehow manages to get the content of the book from its readers (with their consent). Then B publishes the same content as if it is original content, how does that sound to you?
>Doesn't sound like Apple apologism to me.

There's just a hint:

>It’s hard to imagine Amazon accepting a 70/30 split from Apple. But I can’t see Amazon pulling their iOS Kindle apps, either.

In Gruber's mind, Apple isn't responsible if the iOS Kindle app gets pulled, Amazon is.
Can we please, please, PLEASE not call this Binggate?

Not everything needs a pithy one-word term of endearment.
seems pretty stupid. I can understand charging on a per email basis...but storing lists of contacts won't cost them anything.
I don't think that this guy has immediate money laundering needs.
If we had a la carte cable, they'd offer what they seriously thought people would specifically seek out and buy. FOX News is a shoo-in, but PBS and Al Jazeera would be much riskier bets.
We're concerned about that as well. The basic game dynamic that we're employing will only go so far. The key is to enable interested parties to share with other people who will also be interested. There's a lot of ways you can do that, and we're thinking hard about them.
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Love the service - discovered it when the iPhone twitter app implemented. I've always wondered why you haven't tried to increase traffic to your site and run ads.
The difference being that an SCM records the history of your project. It would certainly be possible to record this simply as a "forced overwrite" in the history.

Which git sort-of does (reflog). And then, after it prevented you from shooting yourself into the foot, it gives you a loaded Howitzer pointed at your face. (git reflog expire/git prune/git gc)

I love git dearly, but that's still a large flaw in its design. There is no reason to ever lose history.
Remember, in any corporate fist-fight, it is the media that is going to benefit the most, so if there isn't a fight occurring in the wild, it makes sense to stage one.
If you look at Microsoft's anti-trust case (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft) government imposed several rules on Microsoft e.g. required them to publish all protocols and APIs (e.g. Exchange protocol) so that other can create interoperable implementations. They were forbidden from doing different OEM pricing (so they couldn't strong arm OEMs by requesting that they pay more for a Windows license unless they make some concession in favor of Microsoft) etc.

More generally: "the Settlement's requirements were primarily designed to ensure there were stringent oversight procedures and explicit requirements to prevent Microsoft from engaging in "Predatory Behavior" or other practices that might form a "Barrier to Entry"".

It's not hard to identify Apple's 'predatory behavior' that creates 'barrier to entry' that could be rectified by government imposed rules.

One such 'predatory behavior' that creates 'barrier to entry' is inability to sell (or give away) applications that are not approved by Apple. Solution: Apple needs to allow installation of applications without approval by Apple. Technical solution: sideloading, third party stores like on Android.

Another 'predatory behavior' is the rule under discussion i.e. Apple disallowing all forms of commerce other than iTunes (which results in 30% tax to Apple). Solution: the rule needs to go away.

There are more predatory rules in the app store agreement (like inability to write interpreters which means no Firefox for iPhone) but they wouldn't be important as long as the biggest predatory rule was eliminated: inability to install apps that are not approved by Apple.
Scary scenario: Lets say Apple and MS get to 50% share each on desktops/laptops. Won't that mean they could do whatever abuse they want to without scrutiny just because none of them is a monopoly?

>But you can’t say it’s surprising that the rules are evolving toward more money for Apple while improving the experience for users — that’s win-win from Apple’s perspective.

How is it an improvement to be unable to read the books you've already bought or movies you have already rented on the iDevices?

Even Microsoft didn't pull such shit for Netflix on the Xbox 360. And the consoles are subsidized for a big loss which was to be made up by purchases by the customers.

Apple makes a profit on every iDevice sold, every iApp sold, through iAds and on the $99/year developer fee. No wonder they're literally swimming in cash but still pull such new shit for even more control and money. If Microsoft did something like this with Windows, they would have more money than what the US has in circulation, which is probably where Apple is heading.

At some point the industry is going to tell Apple to get lost and stop supporting the iDevices which is going to hurt Apple, which coupled with Android's rise might push Apple into a niche like on the desktop.
Well, at least Bing will get a pagerank boost from all the new backlinks in the press coverage.
Apple has 17.25% of smartphone market share.

http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/01/the-iphone-share-17-25-of-s...
For $25 a year, I would expect them to have some backup policy!
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I am not watching Al Jazeera because of their underlying ideology, but because they are doing the best reporting on Egypt. If they were to continue to provide such powerful reporting on other topics I would watch them for that as well.
It sounds like you're suggesting that successful companies should help their less successful competitors rather than competing.
There has been a lot of commentary on Reddit about this author's presumptuousness in posting the video showing how to crack this lock behind a password-protected site. I'd be curious to know what the HN community thinks about that.
My understanding is that no services have been removed. Users can still use the Kindle and Nook apps, and can continue to buy books using the Amazon and B&N websites.
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You're right; you have to be louder than the satellite's EIRP, not the satellite's actual radiated power. In theory there's no ceiling on how directional the satellite's antenna could be, is there? But I'm guessing your 20–30dB guess is right.
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If you can't come up with any other conclusion, I'm not sure you're really sorry about having those doubts. Here's a few alternatives off the top of my head:

0. There might or might not have been a control group, but its results didn't matter since:

0a) the whole purpose of revealing this was to make sure that blackhat SEOs could start abusing the system, and MS would thus be forced to stop doing it.

0b) the whole purpose of revealing this was to shame MS into stopping the practice, and for that purpose it didn't matter whether the system was specific or generic.

0c) describing the full experimental setup and the gazillion things that were tested would just have distracted from the core story

1. There was a control group and it suggested that the mechanism wasn't generic, it just wasn't mentioned because:

1a) it was held back as a gotcha in case Microsoft started lying about what the system actually did.

1b) positive evidence from the control group couldn't actually prove anything, it'd be suggestive at best.

2. There was no need for an explicit control group since:

2a) they actually observed the network traffic of the toolbar, and it only sent the relevant information for Google and not other sites.

2b) they disassembled the toolbar and found out it had Google-specific code related to this.

3. There was a control group and it suggested that the mechanism was generic, but:

3a) they thought that the the mechanism being generic didn't matter, and what MS were doing was still equally dodgy.

3b) they thought that MS would not be keen on trying out a "oh no, it's not just Google whose algorithms we're leeching off when spying on users, it's every other site too" PR strategy.

I have no idea of what actually happened. In all likelihood it was something not listed here, since these were just random ideas. But at least I think many of them are way more plausible than the silly "maverick super-senior engineers botch the job, leak a flawed story, PR coverup follows" theory.
People have been 'buying' PBS for many years now.
startups hiring is awesome. that's where I originally saw the posting and applied to Lot18 from.
Comcast also caps usage to 250GB per month.

http://customer.comcast.com/Pages/FAQViewer.aspx?Guid=3ca542...
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I'm a sophomore in a high school that allows, but does not require, a laptop. Two of my sisters go to separate schools which require them. I can't speak much about how well that has worked out there, but at the very least they haven't revoked the policy yet.

Last year I brought my laptop to school to take notes on. As someone with terrible handwriting, it was was enormously helpful. I will admit, though, that I did not hesitate to browse the web during class. Sure, the school put up filters, but HotSpot shield (and in my case, an SSH tunnel) could circumvent them with no trouble. A few students spent all of their time on sports websites, only getting minimal notes for the purpose of plausible deniability.

So your old high school should know that it is impossible to block students from messing around. However, laptops can be very useful. At my sisters' schools where laptops are required, teachers are using tools such as Moodle for homework, and email for communication. These make it more convenient for everyone. Whether the latter balances out the former is difficult to judge.
Serious question: Is it within the terms to charge extra to make the 30% back?
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As other people have already posted, the founders of Quora and Reddit have admitted to generating "fake" content on their own to attract users to the site. Reddit supposedly did this for the first few weeks until it got going. I also remember reading that Quora put in a lot of hours generating the "fake" content, but it has seemed to pay off quite well.

When looking at your community, find ways that you and your friends/cofounders can easily generate lots of hiqh-quality content. It's important to set the tone of the site when you're generating the content. If you make lots of spam or low-quality content due to time constraints, the site will get a poor reputation and new users will continue the trend of making bad content. So make sure you generate the content wisely from the beginning :)
Bump for the wine (though you should update your HN profile).
>Apple makes a profit on every iDevice sold, every iApp sold, through iAds and on the $99/year developer fee.

What evidence do you have to support the allegation that Apple makes a profit on every App sold?

Firstly, there's the cost of having the application tested, approved, uploaded and categorised. There's also the cost of hosting the app as well as the credit card processing fees. Users have the right to re-download any app they've purchased in the past. What about a 99c app that weighs in at 2GB? Does Apple really make a profit after credit card processing fees and bandwidth costs?

As for the $99/year developer fee, there are costs involved in providing support, moderating forums, and approving applications.
I'm a iOS developer with a UX fetish. I'm not directly interested in regular contracting work, however I'm thinking of attending Google I/O and WWDC this year (may-june) and would love to experience a YC startup from the inside.
My startup history consists of creating a sms compression app for "dumbphone" devices back in j2me times (german news:http://goo.gl/fEkdr, http://goo.gl/PmgIc) and a lingerie business in Malaysia (http://d.pr/nF3a). In both, I did all the graphics & UI work. You can find my portfolio at http://mocava.de

If anyone would be interested in sponsoring my trip, I'd be happy to work for free for my time of stay.
Posting under a throw away account?
I'm advocating more forms of resistance for the law abiding citizens, who are the only ones to abide to gun laws in the first place.
Apple may not have a monopoly on the raw number of physical devices in the world (except tablets), but aren't they "winning" from a profits perspective? Isn't that what Gruber has celebrated for years: that Apple makes more money selling one phone than any other company on Earth? That they're beating Microsoft and Google at the only game that matters to a corporation, the bottom line? But since the global market share of iOS devices is less than 50% + 1, Apple can do absolutely anything they want?

Sorry for all the questions. But Apple can't have it both ways: either they're a plucky underdog fighting tooth and nail against the big boys, or they're in a dominant position and have some responsibility that comes with leadership. Specifically, not jerking around other companies with fickle, frequent policy changes.
You might find this thread I started a few months ago to be valuable, it discussed a variety of different online backup tools at length:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946416

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Other options, taken from there or elsewhere:

Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com )

Crashplan (http://www.crashplan.com )

Backblaze (http://www.backblaze.com )

DropBox, Arq, others as mentioned already...

Hybir: https://www.hybir.com/

Amazon S3 (in conjunction with some services like http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/ or http://amanda.org/ or https://www.jungledisk.com/)

I didn't find a solution that matched my needs exactly when I found myself in your shoes, but at least there are a fair number of choices there!
I'm guessing you haven't argued with very many feminists. Thatcher isn't exactly a feminist icon (WP: "Many British feminists regarded her as "an enemy".") and a lot of feminists I've encountered consider rationalism and emotional reserve to be artifacts of patriarchal oppression. adscft is overstating the case, perhaps, but his point isn't entirely baseless (and your response is quite the non-sequitur).
I'm willing to bet money that you will find members of the BDSM community who will know the exact process and are more than willing to hook you up. (So to speak ;)
Um, I think their "underlying ideology" is doing the best reporting on Egypt, and everything else they cover.

These are seriously hardcore journalists with a very global perspective. I suspect they're currently being flooded with resumes from disgruntled / disgusted / dismayed reporters at CNN, MSNBC, and even FOX - all of whom would give up their first-born to get back into real reporting, instead of the dreadful corporate infotainment that's busy getting relegated to the sphere of complete irrelevance and risible self-parody.
As you have mentioned Python, let met tell you that the Python community on SO is awesome. People generally upvote all the good/correct answers to a question. This will not only appreciate their good work, but also make them answer more questions. In recent days, the percentage of questions on HTML/CSS, jQuery has increased greatly. The questions related to general purpose programming languages tend to be more unique than HTML/CSS.
F# does have a full REPL - and its imperative/OO behavior is fairly close to C#.

More people(on .NET & otherwise) should look at F#.
I think their good reporting is a result of their underlying ideology, which they explained in this article:

"Through investigative and on-site journalism, our ultimate goal is to bring greater awareness, painting a more complete picture of the Middle East's realities. Armed with more information, we believe the people of this region and further afield can make better choices to guide their lives - hopefully ones that will lead to a more peaceful and democratic future, regardless of where they live."
Come back with figures please, not conjecture.
Are you saying that a freemium service should never delete data—or that a customer service rep shouldn't be able to do it?

I can see why Flickr might engineer things this way. Most of their users don't pay (granted, this guy was a pro user). Deleting images when an account is deleted saves money.
Yes - I think it totally and completely and wonderfully fine for Apple to forbid competitors from having access to their tablet.

Apple needs to focus on one thing, and one thing alone - user experience. Unless they have a some clear monopolistic position, and attempt to leverage that into a new market - they are also well within their legal rights.

If Apple loses sight of the user experience, and if they screw up my Amazon reading experience (I've read north of 20 books on my iPad - so this _directly affects me) - my next tablet will not be an iPad - I like the amazon reading platform - and I'll go see what Android, or, hell, WP7 tablets look like. Apple doesn't need to care about Amazon, or Sony - they need to care about me.

Apple should feel free to abuse the heck out of their competitors, as long as it does so in a legal way and doesn't impact their users.

I note that Amazon hasn't been too generous allowing me to access the Apple or Barnes and Nobles E-Books on my Kindle? I find it strange that nobody is complaining about that lockhold. I don't even have the option.
And our company IActionable is one of them! Our company started around the same time Azure was released. It has definitely been an interesting year 'growing' along side them.

Azure is far from perfect though... in fact I would consider myself to be one of their noisier customers. Hopefully they keep listening to these customers and work fast.
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I discovered a handy way of making throwaway classes this afternoon using Class.new. I thought it might be new to others too.
Some US Gov't data sites no one else mentioned:

http://data.govloop.com/ has data and lots of pointers to local government data.

Also I'm surprised no one mentioned Carl Malamud's site: http://public.resource.org/ - Lots of US gov't and legal data in friendly formats.
Make it easier to post to HN and the quality of the submissions will inevitably go down.

There are downsides to everything good in life.
The last tweet he sent out was really freaky:

http://twitter.com/Ghonim/status/30748650980249600#

"We are all ready to die"
18 quintillion . . . why?
And for those who wonder what the heck "skeuomorphically" means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorphism
If you're a bartender at some crappy bar full of derelicts I doubt you'll get a great reception, so if you're going to tack on "hottest club/bar in town" to bartender, the equivalent version for programmer may be "Apple/Facebook". That may get you a few "Ooooh"'s from the interesting people.
Their own pre-emptive attempt at exculpation "So you’re upset that Apple wouldn’t approve your money-grubbing stupid idea?" is pretty much my sentiment.

Come back when you have a legit gripe. Just because others get away with something is no reason you should get away with same. "Hey, officer, I saw other people speeding too and you didn't cite them, not fair!"
Yesterday a caller phoned in from Cairo and was falling over his words just spilling massive amounts of useful data and the anchor woman interrupts him to ask him about his feelings

What's nauseating is knowing they broadcast that because they show what people want to see.