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The only pages I am using the Readability bookmarklet on are those that are impossible to read in their native design. Rewarding authors of such pages (and effctively excluding well-designed blogs from the rewarding process altogether) seems counter-productive. Also this gives them a tangible incentive to not improve the usability of their websites. I'm all for micropayng for the content, but this solution is backwards.
Seems to be a riff on flattr / kachingle / contenture / others I can't remember right now. The key difference is that they value-add through the Readability reformatting service.

I've seen this called a number of things -- crowd funding, social micropayments. I had the same basic idea (Contenture was closest) back in August 2008. By carefully hiding the idea I have parlayed my insight into literally zeroes of dollars.

Personally I call it microsubscription.

One thing that Readability have solved neatly is the problem of trustworthy allocations by requiring users to go through their application. My own secret sauce (apart from the business model) is a prototype secure protocol for tracking users in a fraud- and theft-resistant fashion without relying on a trusted application -- just a web browser.

While announcements like these continue to fill me with fear and dismay, watching the rise of Facebook over MySpace et al has taught me not to be such a giver-upper and to get into it. After the fashion of Messrs Page and Brin I am planning to do it as an honours project this year. Might as well double up on the benefits.
if you're a rockstar developer and need a sufficient salary, my best recommendation would be to follow the money.

use http://crunchbase.com to find out some of the latest deals and how much the companies received in financing.

if you want to make some 'good' money while working at a startup, i'd make sure to pursue the companies that have received a Series A at the very least.

last tip...i know quora has a running list of some of the best opportunities in each of the big tech hubs.

hope that helps!
If I understand the model correctly, they want you to browse various sites through their applet. They'll dish out money based on which sites you visit.
Some of the errors are in applications of methods that I don't feel should be documented. I would be worried if I saw someone explaining what they did to find P(AB), even if their method were correct. Of course, I would be extremely worried if they claimed it was max(P(A), P(B)), as the original article quotes!
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Sigh... this idea has to get thrown out every time there's an IPv4-exhaustion discussion. I guess I'll be the one to do the public service of debunking it this time.

* You can assume that each of the /8s have plenty of infrastructure relying on them, meaning $millions in migration costs. Do you think that the holders will just give them up tomorrow, or do you think its more likely they'll sick some lawyers on the problem? So even if you CAN get them back it'll take years.

* For each /8 you successfully extract this way, you buy the world mere WEEKS of time.

IPv4 allocation isn't completely efficient -- we all know that. The real problem, however, isn't efficiency. 2^32 is just too small of a number.
This is an easy trap to fall into, thinking you've solved a problem when you've actually just specialized for one use case. 45° is all it takes only if you use Luka's four-space configuration (in much the same way that the current functionality is ideal for a two-space configuration). This "redesign" doesn't even define how other configs would work, much less improve on the status quo. Solutions are always easy when you leave scaling as an exercise for the reader.

And all the solutions I see in the comments either bring back the major complaint about the existing functionality (unnatural navigational rules) or just scrap Luka's design and suggest something else.
The guy who did the demo was visibly shaking, I think the errors he made were more owed to his own nervousness than flaws with the software. We will see, this is really you would have to use to see whether it works.
> ...give most of the proceeds to the authors of the pages you choose (by using the Readability bookmarklet on them, or adding them in other ways)

I'm glad "in other ways" was added there. To me Readability serves two purposes - To make long-form content nicer to look at, and to make awful websites bearable. I can understand people supporting providers of long, interesting articles, but I'd hate to accidentally donate to a site covered in obtrusive ads because I thought there might be some interesting content hidden somewhere.
I think it took so long to be implemented in OS X because it's actually not a big benefit when you have a nice windowing system with drag and drop that works everywhere (in fact the benefits of drag and drop are significantly reduced by using virtual screens and the benefit is -- for most users -- outweighed by the cost).
They've promised to open-source the UI and put out most of the functionality in a blob that the UI talks to, maybe over D-Bus or something I guess. That was quite a while ago, though.
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i think you've identified an opportunity, but i think it's crucial to define exactly the types of startups you'll be covering. you should establish a set criteria for startups to be considered. (e.g. <$1mil in funding, ___ traction, etc)

not sure if http://killerstartups.com has a real growth strategy, but they'd be a solid place to get some ideas.
And almost 10 years later, in 2006, Jobs sent the following note to his employees:

"Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/technology/16apple.html?pa...
At home I find that even with multiple traditional computers, I resort to using my smartphone for convenience and enjoyment reasons a lot. Little things like looking up a movie review, pulling up a phone number, or to answer questions like "what are the guys who play that position in the NFL?" I pull it up on my smartphone and voila.

Now of course the restrictions of the smartphone are a bit of a pain. I would like something larger to more enjoyably interact with, hopefully with a higher resolution, but small enough and easy enough to use that it's just some accessory sitting on a coffee table. Of course in the connected world it can also control the cable box, start DLNA streams, etc.

That's where a tablet comes into play. Preferably one in the 7-9" range.
No, SSH does not. Have you ever actually verified a host fingerprint? Of course not, no one does.

That's the way it's supposed to work. You know the first time you logon to a server and it asks if you trust it? You're supposed to call up the server admin and get them to read off the fingerprint, or have them email it to you, or get it from some other out-of-band channel.

And no-one, nowhere actually verifies host fingerprints. Even security conscious people. And what do people do when they get that warning about a modified fingerprint? Just delete the entry from authorized_hosts and re-connect.

So ssh actually does a really shitty job handling key exchange.

Anyway, the closest thing to a real alternative to https and CAs is monkeysphere (OpenPGP WoT for servers), but no-one uses that.
I often feel like my reading on the Internet is more hurried and distracted. Part of that is due to the medium, but I wonder if part of it isn't due to the writing style of writing for the Internet. It will be interesting to see how writing on the Internet changes if this takes off.
>Are you seriously trying to tell me that a company with a thousand users requiring 100kb/day versus a company with a thousand users requiring 10GB/day has exactly the same costs apart from just the upstream bandwidth?

Assuming the same customer port speed for both? actually, yeah. costs would be almost the same, ignoring upstream bandwidth costs (really, costs would be pretty similar including upstream bandwidth.)

1000 customers, 10Gigabytes a day, you are looking at something like 1 gigabit, if that 10gigabit is even, and anymore, all modern networking gear does at least one gigabit.

edit: I'm assuming a smooth distribution and that you are willing to run the thing full on, both of which are bad ideas. give yourself 50% headroom, and buy two. Gigabit hardware is so cheap, you might as well.

You seem to imply that older networking equipment is cheaper. It's not. Sure, if you come by the office, I'll offload some crap on to you for free. This doesn't mean that it's cheaper than new stuff in production. There are many places in my network where a 10mbps switch would be plenty fast, hell, I even sell 10Mbps ports to some people. but I don't want the headache of dealing with ancient crap. I'd rather pay the up-front costs to get new(er) stuff than deal with the operating expence inherent to using old hardware. If I sell someone a 10Mbps port, I'll take a gig switch and step down the port speed.

Anyhow, I guess at this point we're just arguing to personal authority, and I don't even know who you are or what you do. If you have knowledge of what the cost of a copper pair is, let me know.
Nice touch with the sample report - I particularly like the 'interesting results' tab under each member's drop-down menu.
Thanks. Glad that seemed good -- let me know if there's any sort of data that would be interesting to add.
It's been a week or two since I've been on /b/... is this just happening, or did it happen out of the blue?

Maybe Snacks is back?
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And today, Apple is worth well over 10x what Dell is.
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That's like saying: wouldn't it be great if your filesystem kept all your files no matter what. Well, no, there are instances where you want to actually throw things out. The push man page specifically says:

-f, --force
Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an
ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. This flag disables
the check. This can cause the remote repository to lose commits;
use it with care.

And even with that, the commit wasn't lost yet. It likely in the reflog of the remote repo, and in the history of whichever repo the change was originally pushed from.

That said, there are ways to lose work with git that aren't recoverable ("reset --hard" silently overwrites uncommitted work), but this isn't one of them.
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I don't really understand the rationale behind 'closing shop' in this scenario. Why would they close up shop? To make Dell's life a little easier? They wish! What a difference that would have made! :P

Article isn't very clear either,

"Apple is reportedly planning to come out with network computers that would require high-end servers to function."

I understood the sentence, but its kind of ambiguous. Would these be remote servers, in-house, etc? Did this ever come to fruition?
That sentence sounded to me like he was making a reference to something. Just picking fax machines (of all technologies) for no good reason seems arbitrary and strange.

It would be anachronistic [1] and no dictatorship was actually brought down but maybe he is referring to this: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957964,00.h...

I would pick TV. Revolutions always have a myriad of causes and a myriad of factors that help or hinder them, a technology alone is never enough to bring down a dictatorship. I do think, though, that technologies can help revolutions and maybe even be the one deciding factor that makes them successful.

Take the peaceful German revolution in 1989: East Germans weren’t hungry, they weren’t even poor, they weren’t unemployed and their tyrants were, as tyrants go, relatively mild. But East Germans could watch West German TV and compare, see that West Germans were richer, had more choice, more chances, more freedoms and more attractive holiday destinations. Would there have been the same mass demonstrations without West German TV, without information from the West?

The trigger of the fall of the Berlin Wall itself was of course famously also East and West German TV and radio [2].

[1] Is this a correct usage of “anachronistic”? I got quite confused as to whether it is, searched around and eventually gave up.

[2] In 1989, the East German regime wanted to slowly and in a controlled fashion open the border for their own citizens because of continued mass demonstrations and pressure from abroad. The plan to do so was announced on November 9 at a press conference. Asked when the new rules would come into force, a member of the Politbüro said erroneously that they would come into force immediately. West German TV and radio quickly spread the news that the Wall was open and because of the masses of people coming to the Wall it was actually really open that same evening. Wikipedia has a longer writeup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall#The_Fall
Actually 12x :)

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/28418/
Yeah, exactly. We (GitHub) use reflogs on the server, so everything that was pushed was in the repository and can't be gc'd out for at least 90 days. The master branch ref was just pointing at the wrong commit due to the forced pushes.
Even with git gc you have to try pretty hard to lose updates -- I believe by default it will leave stuff only reachable from the reflog around for 90 days.

(I <3 git.)
A billion here, a billion there. Eventually you start talking real money!
Ah I was confused, I thought the comments were recent. Maybe the OP can plop a (1997) in the title!
Of course. Protests and revolutions are dangerous business. It makes me thoughtful about whether I'd be brave enough to take advantage of these kinds of tools should the necessity arise.
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This was written over a decade ago (in 1997), when Apple was in a much more precarious situation than the one they are in now.
That's what George Washington advocated, but then in times of an extremely different nature. (There are subtitles, but his primary position was isolationist to protect the growing country).
We will consider it.
I wonder how that would have changed the industry if they had shutdown, for whatever reason. Would we all be working on Dells?!
Solid article on the mindset behind building scalable designs, which I could've read this months ago!
ugh's comment deserves to be upvoted because it links to benchmarked testing of Apple's SSD-bearing devices.

Yes, and I upvoted him for that. He provided an actual answer instead of just knee-jerk condescension and deriding me for even asking the question.

Since you seemed to be teetering on the side of Schadenfreude with your original comment, I'm going to guess that you generally avoid Apple products and had genuinely wished that you were right or will be proven right.

Yes, I suspected that this was your opinion based on the tone of your post and really, you have no basis whatsoever for reaching this conclusion.

Not that it should even matter but I have a 13" MacBook, a Mac-Mini at home and an iPhone 3GS.
So maybe you should remember this the next time you start to make assumptions on a person commenting without knowing anything whatsoever about them :)

or, better yet, look up some hard data

Yes, some people knowledgeable on the topic commented and showed that my original hypothesis was wrong, and that's fine. I was looking for a reason 'why' disks would work, and I got it.

Your comment provided no such value to the conversation.
By alienating their own customers, Bell will just drive small ISPs to colocate their own routing hardware like Primus already does, so they can continue to offer unlimited plans at competitive rates.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/sma...
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"There is some concern that Apple will have a hard time recruiting a top-notch CEO because of Jobs's presence."

I think he's done a passable job.
It's Bell's home and small business customers that will be receiving usage-based bills, not Canadian data centers. I'm pretty sure the government of Canada doesn't subscribe to Bell.
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FYI 13 years in the computer industry is like 65 human years.
I asked the same question in a discussion with one of our founders and he said to me: "Even if they are a one trick pony, its a great trick"
Please people, put the year in the title when you submit old stuff.
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BitTorrent might save the day on that one. It is one of the few things that will be impacted negatively for "normal" users.
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We don't want to stray too far away from perfecting our core competency so we're evaluating the integration of an outside chat software to compliment our existing product.

Can anybody point me to any other quality options outside of meebo? Thanks in advance!
Thanks Julio. I should have written it months ago but you know, procrastination... ;)
I agree, I only use Readability on sites that are difficult to read in their native format. It seems that the Readability guys are presupposing that most users use readability on everything, and that the user would be happy to see money going to sites the user likes and visits often. However, I don't really like most sites I end up using Readability on, and they also rarely need any more money. This will probably last a short time and spend most of its lifecycle entirely gamed by publishers.
That's probably the precision limit of 64-bit floats.
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A truly great startup story that PBS did back in 2000. This video was released recently on the Creative Commons License.
To be fair to Michael Dell, this is what AAPL looked like in 1997: http://bit.ly/fyjoqu

And this is what DELL vs AAPL looked like in 1995-1997: http://bit.ly/hhKZGH

While Dell was clearly wrong in the long run, he was surely not the only person to believe Apple was through.
You can do this in most desktop managers for Linux as well, where Spaces fails is how each workspace in managed. In Gnome each workspace acts almost like a new lite session, for example only the applications in the current workspace show up in my task bar (this is optional by the way) and when I alt+tab then only the applications on the current workspace are tabbed through. This works very well because when I switch between different task (say photo editing and programming) I don't want to generally think about what other non-related task/applications are running on my system. In Spaces every workspace is part of a kind of global workspace and there is no hiding of task environments.
'Artificial petrol' - alternate hydrogen based fuel
http://www.cellaenergy.com/index.php?page=technology

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1351341/Relief-pumps-Revolutionary-hydrogen-fuel-cost-just-90p-GALLON-run-existing-cars.html

Fellow HNers, what are your thoughts about this 'artificial petrol'?
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Uhm.. isn't this what SMS is for? For one it is way cheaper for the callers, for two it innately enforces the Twitter character limit. Doing voice to text seems like a pretty roundabout way to do this, anybody have any clues?

It's nice and all, but just seems like a solution looking for a problem.
And submitting this story as NoKarmaForMe for that little extra real-world Karma.
I think the lesson here is that for all our high-minded self-esteem, Hacker News is just as susceptible to hive-mind behavior as the sites HN users like to pooh-pooh.
Can you double check that? You have a space between -off and -bool, is that correct? I tried it, restarting finder with "killall -KILL Finder" but I still see the animation.
It was an honor being in the same YC class as you, and I wish you the best of luck!
Okay, here's another ponderous question then: How many of those individuals have any qualifications whatsoever that would indicate they are in any way knowledgeable about digital media and the internet?

Why are we allowing broadcasters, journalists, former telecom execs and bureaucrats to rule on a topic and culture they clearly don't understand?

Furthermore, where are the consumer advocates? Clearly the companies they're regulating are well represented. Where's the other side of the picture?
The really interesting bit is where it says that developers won't be able to "let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store".

Amazon has worked around Apple's rules by always kicking users out to the browser to complete the transaction. This apparently kills that.
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Who's keeping up with the commodore?

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You're the first person I've heard describe OS X as having a "nice windowing system". OS X has many good traits, but I've always thought of the WM as being rather poorly done. As far as I can tell it lacks proper maximization, horizontal/vertical maximization, snapping, mousefocus, intelligent raise behavior, tiling, tabbing, omnipresence, pin-to-top, pin-to-background, keyboard move-resize, and meta-key drag+resize. Not to mention configurable bindings for any of these.

Now there's single-app mode, which I take as a tacit acknowledgement that real maximization instead of "zoom" was a good idea after all. How long did that take, again?

I really really want to like OS X. It does so many things right (focus-stealing, DnD, and copy-paste among them!) It's just so painful to use after having a real WM.

[edit] For reference, I use Openbox; the listed features (except for tiling/tabbing) are what I use everyday. I expect the awesome/ratpoison crowd has slightly different but no less valid criticisms.
I think Sony could probably use the same work-around Amazon appears to be using for its Kindle app: tapping a button to shop for books in the Kindle app opens a browser window allowing you to buy a book on the mobile version of the Amazon.com site. Then when you go back to the app it automatically syncs with your book collection and downloads the book. It makes one wonder what other App store restrictions might be circumvented by clever integration of Native and HTML5 apps.
As an Apple owner of all their hardware and devices this is pretty lame and really hope it does not affect Amazon/Kindle. I have never owned a Kindle but prefer Kindle books and love them. I read them on PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, but mainly my iPad. If it weren't for Kindle, I may have bought a few more books on iBooks just for the iPad, but there are far fewer books and I like being able to read them on multiple devices.

The whole point of an ebook is to read them on multiple devices.
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A working pgdn key, for example.
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