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> Didn't Apple say basically "if you can sign up in the app, you need to be able to sign up in the app in a way we get a cut". So as long as linode doesn't take on new customers in the app, no problem?

From the press release[1]:

However, Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app.

So no, any SaaS that can take on new customers on their site has to give their iOS app the same ability at the same price, with the requisite 30% cut to Apple for those subscriptions. They don't get to choose to not offer it at all.

> Similarly amazon could have a free iOS reader, no problem, from which you cannot buy any books. it's when they want people using the iOS app to buy books but not pay apple a cut that apple is unhappy.

Amazon already has this. You can't buy books from the iOS Kindle app, you can only do it through their website, with a link in the app kicking you out to Safari. That's also forbidden under the new rules (again, from [1]):

In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html
37628 is a permutation of 32768, which is (1 << 15) as a 16-bit unsigned integer, which is -32768 (minimum possible value) of a signed 16-bit integer in "2's complement" notation.
There's a related thing that happens in the virtual world Second Life (SL). Many SL residents have passed away over the years and it's common for the friends and family of the deceased to build a statue or other memorial object. People leave flowers when they visit. There are even graveyards and memorial parks with several memorials collected together.
I think the thing people aren't taking into account is risk. Sure, you don't get to capture all the value you create, but you also aren't (usually) liable for any value you might accidentally destroy, and you still get paid even if your project generates $0.
Humorously enough, the "Individual freedom" you desire consists entirely of the freedom to prevent others from doing things (translate works, create derivative things).

Thus you are saying public laws should exist to give private individuals the right to restrict other private individuals...
I'm guessing it's futile but I have to ask that we not up-vote this content. While his health will have a direct impact on Apple I think we should just leave this alone.

We're going to see it plastered everywhere else so no need to have his illness be a hot topic here too. I would say this of anyone, be it Gates, Arrington, etc.

my 2 cents
Aside from the subscription model involved, this is identical to (but with a better producer margin at 70%) what Handango and other PalmOS app distributors offered.

I remember developers being up in arms because (a) Handango wanted a 60% cut, (b) you had to offer the same pricing on the Handango store as anywhere else, and (c) you couldn't direct people out of the Handango store.

The clause you're talking about is pretty standard in reseller contracts everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if there were one in the distributor contract for selling software in boxes at Apple stores, where the manufacturer makes 10% or less of the retail price. Also, Amazon has to make certain deep discount prices only visible after clicking or putting into the customer's cart because while they can sell for less than the MSRP, they aren't allowed to advertise (or let searches advertise) at that deep discount price.

Edit: Added (c) as I remembered it while rereading this.
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Apple's new subscription model will cost more for end-users on all platforms. The new terms mean ~50% subscription price hikes across the board. Services can't reduce costs, and they aren't going to give away their profit.

Ironically, it also creates incentives for competing platforms because the profit will be 2-5x greater than on iOS.
That's not how people's brains work. When Mom first sees a smartphone, it's a cool new thing. Yeah, there's a learning curve, but it's new, so that's obvious. She'll deal.

Fast forward three years. Mom has developed a lot of habits and expectations. Time for a new smartphone. When Mom buys a new smartphone, if it works differently than the one she had before, it is confusing and you just can't do anything with this piece of crap and why oh WHY can't it just be like her old one?

And asking people to just throw away everything they own and buy it all again? Not only should that extra cost factor into your decision, there's a wealth of evidence that people irrationally weigh sunk costs more heavily than they should.
I have a 2006 Core Duo MBP also. Running file on the binary produces this:

Pixelfari: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Guess I'll have to find a 64-bit Mac so that I can play with it.
Interesting to contrast Google Apps Marketplace: It charges 20% of "the total amount your customer ends up paying you for your application and related add-ons", specifically including recurring revenue but also excluding sales of items like books (unsure how they would classify e-books for this purpose).

http://developer.googleapps.com/marketplace/fees

20% off the top line for all revenue from a customer they acquire for you. Seems like a bargain for a one-time sale; seems costly in the out years when it's you, not Google, putting all the work into retaining the customer.

Not complaining. Just contributing a data point from a similar effort in a slightly different space.
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The humans can predict when the light will come on before it actually does based on when Trebek finishes reading the question. Watson can't, and that's what Welty meant. Also, Watson buzzes in via the same button the humans do, not electronically, so there is a window after the light comes on but before Watson can physically depress the button.

That said, it was obvious last night that in practice Watson has a significant advantage in buzzing in. The supposed advantage of predicting when the light will come on doesn't cancel out Watson's reaction time advantage. I'm guessing the reason for that is there's a significant variation in the time between Trebek finishing reading the question and the light coming on (because the light is triggered by a human), making it hard to predict.
Poorly designed Evernote clone raises 7 million.

Bubble.
To provide a better challenge for both the humans and the machine, you should be able to buzz in as soon as the question is visible. Watson no doubt is doing most of the work in the time it takes the humans to load up the question into their mind.
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What laws were broken? Who broke them?

For starters, fraud and perjury:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/why-foreclosure-fraud-i...

The verification of the specific data that is mandated legally is not taking place by bank executives. Reviewing a file can take anywhere from, 20 minutes to well over an hour. Yet some bank employees are testifying that they have signed off on as many as 150 per day (Wells Fargo) or 400 per day (Chase).

It is impossible to perform that many foreclosure reviews and data verifications in a single day. The only way this could happen is via a systemic banking fraud that orders its employees to violate the law. Hence, how we end up with the wrong house being foreclosed upon, the wrong person being sued for a mortgage note, a bank without an interest in a mortgage note suing for foreclosure, and cases where more than one note holders are suing on the same property that is being foreclosed.

This is more than mere accident or error, it is willful recklessness. When that recklessness is part of a company’s processes and procedures, it amounts to systemic fraud. (THIS IS CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE PROSECUTED).

The next step in our cavalcade of illegality is the Notary. Their signature and stamp allows these fraudulent documents to be entered into court as actual evidence (no live witness required). Hence, we have no only fraud, but contempt of court on top of it (BOTH OF WHICH REQUIRE PROSECUTION).

Law firms preparing the legal documents are not doing their job of further verifying the information. And, it seems certain states such as Florida have foreclosure mills who were set up from the outset as fraudulent enterprises. (EVEN MORE PROSECUTION NEEDED).

Lastly, some service processors are not bothering to do their job. This is the last step in the foreclosure proceedings that would put a person on notice of the errors (YET MORE FRAUD).
Guess who makes the laws.

Copy a CD you own to an MP3 player you own and you're breaking the law. Sell a bad debt to a client and then bet on the same client failing and you get a bonus.
There's a fair bit of noise for content preceding design in web mockups, same principle.
There's no way to force it to interpret the bits logically, rather than as a floating point number?
'normal' people?

Normal people is a pointless term. You may as well just say people.

Saying 'These things weren't difficult for me, but they're a pretty big hurdle for people.' would sound horrible and arrogant, but at least it would be honest.

You, and the author of this article, shouldn't use such a lazy and condescending phrase.
where are you located? there are meetups specifically setup to help you find a co-founder in austin tomorrow night and in nyc next week
http://www.centernetworks.com/co-founder-meetup-nyc-austin
Your favicon says it all. Congrats!
It'll probably read Ken's wikipedia page out loud.
Or RealPlayer, MediaCenter, or Songbird.
IBM Watson: The new Internet search engine?
What would the Internet be like if IBM Watson was doing the searching for you?
Time to start thinking about shorting that Google stock?
I was curious, and looked through his blog - he references that twitter account as his own here:

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=2437
Having to support what I write in production situations let me to choose vim over emacs long ago. The biggest con about emacs that's not mentioned is that it's just not _everywhere_. Even if I have to log into a firewall to make some emergency change, odds are even that has vi installed. When you start looking at doing embedded work this is even more of an issue. It's hard to rapidly iterate on a prototype when you have to make a change in your sandbox in order to use your editor of choice. YMMV of course.
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Cause they're able to get laws written to suit them, cause they're richer and more motivated than you are.
Unlikely. I think it's just supposed to be a joke.
This is one of those rare times that I agree politics should be avoided on HN. This comment is simplistic and seemingly driven by emotion. There's no development to any of the points. You lay them out as a given without any support.

And people are upvoting you.
On a related note, there was an interesting article in the Economist on the implications of the anticipated widespread use of 3D printing in the near future.[0] It will be very interesting to see how the manufacturing industry responds to this change and the similarities/differences compared to digital products.

0: http://www.economist.com/node/18114327?story_id=18114327
Saas does not sound like a subscription service to me, not in the traditional sense.

Content subscriptions are timed releases of packaged, curated content pushed to you on a regular schedule.

Saas is a portal that lets you access data, information and tools on an ad hoc basis.
Agree that the above doesn't sound good and should be investigated. But to be fair, this is something that happened in the aftermath of the crisis, and had nothing to do with the greater causes.

Edit: A bit surprised at the thoughtless downvoting for not agreeing with the common narrative
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Hey cellis, thanks. What I see in cases where we come up higher in SERPs is that the crawler just hasn't found the best content in google groups yet, if ever. I scratch my head over that one too, but
ours is not to reason why. I don't see the index pointing to the same content in the landing pages typically either with my queries.

UI: LOL, yeah, it's a toss up here whether to make it prettier or keep it a bit old school.
(b): because things like personal responsibility and basic, common-sense personal finance were long ago replaced in our national culture by blaming the other guy and a sense of entitlement.

I'm actually on the side of putting more of the blame on the consumer than the banks, for that reason--but there's still plenty of blame left over for Wall Street.
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Part of the problem in my opinion is that the financial industry is faster at creating financial instruments than the government is at creating regulations. Afaik there is little regulation in place for trading in dark pools, collateralised debt obligations and for what exactly constitutes conflict of interest.
When banks sell "bad debt" they are acting as principals - this means that they explicitly state to their client that they have no obligation to look out for their interests.

Every security has a price, "bad" securities are just cheaper than "good" securities. Participants in the markets always have different views. A bank (or any other principal) is not obligated to make sure that you're aware of their view. By definition, the person selling a security thinks they are better off selling it, and the person buying it thinks they are better off buying it.
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gury is a JavaScript library designed to aid in the creation of HTML5/Canvas applications by providing an easy-to-use chain based interface. With gury you can create a canvas tag, resize and style it, add renderable objects, animate those objects, and place it anywhere on the page in a single chained expression.
Apple reportedly testing three iPhone 5 prototypes
To be clear, I don't actually care about how much Amazon actually makes on each copy sold. What bothers me is that Apple has seemingly made it economically unviable for distributers to exist in the AppStore at all. This means we have to rely on Apple for content on our iOS devices, and until Apple scales up its content sources, the users are losers in this deal.
The quote was regarding vimscript, not Elisp.
Seems to be a fleeting effect. Impressive temporary bump though.
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We have an app in the Android Market and the same type of app in the App Store. The Android app makes about $7500/month and the iOS app makes about $3000/month.

We're about to release another paid app in March on both platforms that will be give us more data about the performance of apps in each marketplace. Maybe I should write a blog post about it...
He gives one example, of an SEC investigator who got fired just for trying to talk to John Mack, now running Morgan Stanley, about a suspected case of insider trading. (An associate of Mack suddenly started buying a company's stock in huge amounts, shortly before the company was acquired, and made $15 million. The acquired company had been a client of Credit Suisse. John Mack interviewed at Credit Suisse just before this, and had been leaning on his associate for a piece of another deal. The implication being that Mack picked up some info at Credit Suisse about the upcoming acquisition, passed it to his buddy, in exchange for a piece of the other deal, which I think made Mack about $10 million.)

Morgan Stanley had a bunch of their lawyers pressuring the SEC above the investigator's head. Most of those Morgan Stanley lawyers were former SEC or DOJ bigwigs themselves. As a result, the investigator was fired, even though he had recently received sterling reviews. The fired guy eventually won a $750k wrongful dismissal suit against the SEC.
And while bolt cutters are common items that can be used in plenty of legal ways, it can be illegal to have bolt cutters in some situations. Ever heard of "Possession of Burglarious Tools"? (varies from state to state) Intent / purpose matters greatly in the eyes of the law.

Check out these jury instructions from Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/districtco...
I wrote a script while stuck at home in NYC during my xmas holiday.. let's see what changed from that date! I had seen a couple of PURCHASABLE domain.. (like 69.io)

https://gist.github.com/830829
I've been using taskwarrior for organizing/scheduling most everything: http://taskwarrior.org
Because what they did was unlawful, but legal.
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I hate to be one that argues about definitions, but:

generally known and talked of; especially : widely and unfavorably known

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/notorious
Absolutely, keep moving forward. Go out there and do!

I know it's a bit cliche, but I love Roosevelt's Man In The Arena:

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
Statement one and two are somewhat related, but three is a non-sequitur.
Not your link, but Edward Tufte's site itself is hard to parse. :)
If I remember correctly, Amazon's planned Android app store caused a giant ruckus a few weeks back because of the ridiculous pricing policies.
If you know they are bad and are intending to make money out of destroying your client and the client is relying on a rating agency that is prepared to give it a AAA in order to get more business from you - then I think someone is being a bit naughty somewhere.
This looks absolutely amazing.
Even works great on Powerpoint Slideshows.

I'm curious, is there anyway to programatically change the currently viewed page? I assume you could just call a 'click' event on the PageDownBtn, but it would be awesome to have some sort of API for making a slideshow presentation....
And the rest of your time in a text editor, right?
A common format for most profiles would be interesting to explore.. When you look at a hardware review or game review you almost always see things like "setup" "performance" "pricing" etc. Key information like initial round size, conservative/aggressive growth, exit strategy (ipo? acquisition? billion dollar private co?) Might help readers choose which profiles are going to be interesting to them. I'm sure there's plenty of other variables that are common to most startups that could fall into this sort of sidebar type info.
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I made this last weekend - http://bigbigtweet.appspot.com, and thought i would share it. Looking for feedback, thoughts.
Built on top of goog app engine, python, yui3.
I also wrote a post about my experience making it - http://meeech.amihod.com/43210729
Did you miss the part about the revolving door? There are no legal issues because the ones that need to make sure everything is happening legally are bankers themselves or close friends of ones. So you standing there and saying "I see nothing legally wrong with this so therefore it's not criminal?" is one of the many reasons bankers continue to defraud common main street investors.
Money is power, and with power you can manipulate the system around you for your own purposes. Simple as that. It provides additional incentive to do a good job, provide superior goods and services so you can get a few "get out of jail free" cards.

I propose we formalize this so everyone in the working world has an equal shot at getting out of jail. Earn 20 million dollars, you get a pass for 2 premeditated murders, earn only 2 million and you get a pass for 1 hit and run.

The system is unfair as it is. We might as well make it not fair equally for all exceptional wage earners.
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Hi Andreas! Congratulations!

I'd say this is amazing but I know the amount of work you and your team have done. It's well deserved.

Dan (from Chicago)
I'm waiting for Apple to apply a per-MB charge for all data you access on iOS via WiFi or 3G that doesn't come from Apple.
The difference is that Amazon allows publishers to recoup the overhead of the platform in the subscription price, whereas Apple does not - i.e. charge a premium due to the charges Amazon imposes.

From the article:
The Economist costs £9.99 per month on The Kindle store, almost £20 more expensive over the course of 12 months than a print subscription that also gives access to the digital editions (excluding Kindle)
It is exponential, but it's more a result of the exponential growth in hard drive storage space and internet bandwidth.
"Cloudera builds something called Hadoop"

Umm... no mention of Doug Cutting or Yahoo?
Sure, improved search algorithms and speed are nifty. Watson is therefore nifty.

What I dispute, however, is the point of the original suggestion: that Watson represents some kind of massive conceptual leap over Google, one that could translate into a threat to Google's business.

Today, Watson has two advantages over Google's search engine: It plays Jeopardy -- which is a very impressive demo; it's hard to be impressed by Google search anymore now that kids have grown up with it -- and it gets to work on one question at a time using a profoundly expensive pile of special-purpose hardware. These things are awesome, but they are not actually magical. By the time Watson's tech becomes available on the web for everyone, Google may well have it too. By the time I can afford my own pocket Watson, Google may well be selling a competitor.
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"But will this be true for long, now that this particular shoe has dropped?"

iBooks is still an also-ran. Publishers pretty much have to work with Amazon. iBooks is easier to ignore, I should think.
Looks interesting. We're doing something similar for internal development.

My only question is how well does the suto generating of client libraries work?
Short version:

1. Watson has an unfair advantage in reaction time and Ken and Brad have an unfair advantage in timing their button presses. On balance the buzzer surely favors Watson though. An obvious rule tweak would eliminate this issue.

2. Humans are still vastly better at understanding what is being asked and vastly worse at knowing the answer.

My verdict: This is super impressive and will be super useful. It might not even be too hyperbolic to anticipate this saving lives or otherwise making the world awesomer. Still, in terms of true natural language understanding — having a normal conversation with a computer — this seems to be pretty minuscule progress.
just you.

(Not capitalized to drive you crazy).
1/30 chance of having the first day off? They have four days too, it should be 4/30 each of the four days, for overall odds of just over half. I ran a quick monte carlo and it said the same thing.
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