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Do you have more info on this? If true, the ability to export to ePub would induce me to buy books in kindle format.

[edit: looks like there are some python scripts to do this. http://pastebin.com/f696ea728 This one claims to do the job. ]
Here is the rent Amazon charges for using their infrastructure to sell with (i.e. selling your stuff on their website).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1...

Selling a $9.99 book would end up with Amazon taking 28.5% or 38.5% (the lower percentage only if you enroll in the Pro Merchant subscription program for $39.99/month) of the price.
I don't think coaxs have a 'return' on the actual cable. The outside part of a coax is just a screw for holding the cable in place. It could be made with plastic for all it matters.
lol whut. THATS TOO EASY!
That's very different from what the press release said this morning on App Store [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html]:

“Our philosophy is simple—when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

In other words, for Kindle, if a new subscriber registered through channels other than the Kindle iOS App, then Apple does not take a cut.
Apple should be careful about creating a MAP in a roundabout way.

http://elr.lls.edu/issues/v21-issue3/elahi.pdf
Same thing for my iBooks, which filled with PDFs and epubs, organized into Collections.
When jumping on a new project I want to read through all the messages, but there isn't a next/prev button. You have to go back to the messages index page in order to get to the next one (including finding you place). And some of their pages take awhile to load.
I really could have used this tutorial a few months ago. I made a bit of a toy node/backbone app. My first iteration attempted to unify the models across frontend and backend, unit testing them, etc, but it ended up being so kludgy and hard to debug that I went with frontend only and just stored the JSON on the backend. The benefit of the OP's strategy however is that its much safer to have the parsing and validation on the backend so people can't put bad stuff in your database as easily.

In the end I ended up redoing the project as a CLI app in Haskell.
Ask HN: angel/series A startups located in NY?
Would love to see a list of startups located in NY that are angel or recent series A.
The hypothetical Hot Beverages As A Service device that exists only in my head doesn't use NetBSD, it uses a custom standalone stack running on a PIC/AVR. So there.
According to US News [1], it's ranked 17th which is decent, but not great. On the other hand that ranking is for graduate schools though, which takes into account things like citations of research published, which is less important at the undergraduate level.

I'd say at the undergraduate level, Harvard is a top CS school if only because the competition is so fierce to get into it at that level, the students will be among the top. And, in my opinion, the quality of the students is of more importance than the quality of the teaching at the undergraduate level, when you start talking about the top 20 schools anyways.

[1]: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
If I recall correctly, you can't even pull that sort of a stunt on Android, now.
"Perfect for simply getting things done in a business context when things like price and portability are not a concern. (When they ARE a concern, then by all means use the LAMP stack and C# is not for you.)"

You've been brainwashed by Microsoft. No one using LAMP cares about price (that much) or portability ('L' is for Linux). Freedom from vendor lock-in (and in this case, a predatory, vengeful vendor) is the biggest practical advantage. Stability and the thing actually fucking working is another (I never enjoyed babysitting Windows servers; do you?). It's also easier to build robust applications with LAMP.

Enjoy paying your Microsoft tithe, peasant.
The author of the article was referring to a method of learning a proper security mind set. Its a classic self learning vs classroom based learning.....
What's the argument here? That Apple isn't entitled to a slice of revenue generated on its own platform?

I missed the part where the author explained why this is a reasonable stance to take...
> chrome has proved that continuous release cycle can produce the most stable and performant browser around.

I respectfully disgaree. New Chrome releases have broken both cosmetics (rounded corners, just as the CSS3 version was starting to take off) and basic functionality (H.264 support for the HTML5 video element is disappearing in about five weeks, even though it's there and basically working today, as far as I can tell for purely political reasons).

By the way, the word "performant" is real but does not mean what you think it does. Even if it did, I think you'd still be overstating the case. Chrome is probably faster than Firefox and IE in some respects today, particularly where JavaScript is concerned, but the gap has been closing for some time now. Once IE 9 and Firefox 4 are out, it looks unlikely that Chrome will still be significantly faster for typical real world browsing, which as I've noted previously, I consider to be more important than things like synthetic benchmarks or the speed of features no-one is using yet.
Because no signal is transmitted on the outside part, that is just used to secure the cable to the port. If you look at a coax cable, you will see it is essentially a copper wire wrapped in shielding wrapped in a vinyl(?) casing and the end is terminated with a connector that feeds the copper into the port and secures the connection.
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Given that they were advertising for "rockstarninjas", I suspect it was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
That's all very fair, but I think what people are taking exception to is Apple's attempts to prevent their customers from accessing other content distribution platforms where Apple doesn't get a cut.
What HN used to be above is this stupid pedantry. 300 lines of code is a euphemism for a simple system. That's it. Who gives a shit if the actual system was 800 lines, or even several thousand lines?? The system they made was simple.

Notice how it's a self post? It's not some grand ploy to get more pageviews for a blog. What's bullshit is that half of the comments section is being taken up by this contentless debate. That's the actual poison on HN.
Wow. I could just tell my wife, and it would be fine. I guess I'm fortunate.
I don't know how New Coke was, but I can tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi any time. I could even tell you when you're giving me a mix between the two.

I prefer Coke Cola as I indeed drink larger quantities, but my wife prefers Pepsi. And I don't mind Pepsi, but when I tried Pepsi Blue, the taste was so awful it was nauseating, although I did like the commercial. And if they gradually migrated old Pepsi to Blue, I don't know if I would notice what's going on, but I would stop drinking it.

IMHO taste matters.
> For their continued survival they need people buying newer versions of the same software.

Or they need people to be paying for commercial support of existing products. I'm not privy to any sensitive details, but I'm guessing they make the bulk of their real money from businesses, and that most large/profitable business customers have some sort of ongoing/bulk deal with Microsoft rather than paying for licences individually. Curiously, those large/profitable business customers are probably also the ones who don't like things like pushing updates every few weeks, because they (perfectly reasonably, IMHO) want a controlled software installation on their standard staff PC and they want to test any changes in-house before committing to adopting them.
(All headlines on Google reader + Click through around 20 headlines that are interesting).
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Of course I can't rule out them getting it right in future releases, and I hope that they do. I was talking about what is out there in the MS ecosystem, today.
Note that 4-bay may be overkill depending on how far out you are.

I can get all the stations possible in my area with just 2-bay.

So build with 2-bay first and test maybe to save time/money.

I also did not need the reflector, in fact it made things worse.
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Ireland has 24Mbps for €24 per month (approx. $32.40) if you are a business.
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In a supermarket, shelf space is limited. Online retailers like Apple and Amazon have virtually unlimited shelf space. That's one of the reasons why distributing paid content online is so much cheaper than in print. Compared to print, Apple's 30% take for payment processing, marketing and distribution is a great deal. That's how News Corp can offer a daily newspaper via the App Store for only $1 a week, for which you would normally pay $1 a day.
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Should have heard the talks at Schmoocon.
Probably the less complexity also means a much bigger amount of messages per core.

With Redis in an entry level Linux box you can process 100k messages per second per core. I'm not sure if current AMQP systems can handle this amount of messages with commodity hardware.

Another reason why Redis can be a good approach I think is that it is a simple system: simple to understand, simple to deploy, very stable. There is support for Pub/Sub. It also supports many other data types, so for instance, want a priority queue? Do it with a sorted set. What some special semantic for your message passing? possibly with BRPOPLPUSH you can do it. And so forth.

A common case of this flexibility is shown by RPOPLPUSH (without the "B" so the non blocking version). Using this command with the same source and destination list will "rotate' the list providing a different element to every consumer, but the data will remain on the list. At the same time producers can push against the list. This has interesting real world applications when things must be processed against and again (fetching RSS feeds, for instance).

So Redis is a pretty flexible tool for messaging, and I think there are for sure great use cases for AMQP but with big overlaps with Redis, and also with use cases where Redis is definitely a better alternative.
If you downvote please provide me with some feedback.

Apple has a very closed ecosystem and they like to exercise tight control over it. That is a fact.
I like that there won't be any commercial interruptions during any of the Criterion movies; seems like a good move for Hulu to gain more traction in the subscription video department.
>Maybe I'd get something with a 75 foot tower

1) Attach 75-foot wire to TV
2) Attach other end to weather balloon
3) Inflate balloon
4) Watch Jeopardy

Maybe tie some brightly coloured threads onto the wire at intervals to stop birds flying into it.

Note: there are probably many other reasons why you shouldn't do this. Make sure to let us know when you find out what they are.
If you include grad school it seems fairly common.

Sergey Brin "is on leave from his Ph.D. studies at Stanford."
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When you have it you'll find good use for it. With that bandwidth you can start using cloudservices for backup and storage for starters.
Currently I'm dumping photos on amazon once in a while as my sole backup, but once I've routed some cables from my new 100Mb line I plan on taking more advantage of the cloud and in the process throw away a few annoying external harddrives.
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XP needs to die. It's a walking security trap. MS ending support for XP is just as important as them ending support for IE6. Frankly I wish Chrome and Mozilla would also stop support on XP.
Actually they do.

You see, Amazon has been around quite a bit longer than apple as an online book seller. The books in iBooks? Well, those are a strict subset of what the Kindle has available. I think this might be part of Apple's motivation -- to push iBooks to the forefront, at the risk of loosing BN/Amazon's support for the iPad.

It sucks for the consumer, but it'll be interesting to see how it works out...
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my experience the bandwidth sucks. You get nowhere near advertised speeds on wireless networks and the international connectivity is highly contended on the wired links. My links in the UK are much faster for comparable cost.
You could also do AOF with group commit where every N milliseconds you do an fsync and only ack write commands after the fsync completes. I hacked group commit for Redis:

https://github.com/rbranson/redis
True that. MTNL was surprisingly efficient though. Accepted online payment (&cheap) + least paperwork; I signed up for a 2 year certificate.
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector is available for C++.
I agree, most of my business and personal life (sadly) revolves around access to my computer and pertinent data.
More specifically, individual invites. They were a smart what to roll out Gmail, which could be used on an individual basis (i.e. I don't need all my friends to sign up before I can start using it).

But isolated invites to a collaboration platform? That is jaw-droppingly thoughtless. Had Google adapted the strategy to the product by ensuring that invites went to people who already worked together as a group (i.e. established partners on a research project, members of the same design agency etc.), then the fate of Wave may have been very different.

But by making such a galacticly dumb opening move, they left smart people wondering "what other major problems have gone totally unaddressed? And do I want to invest an hour? a day? an entire weekend? to find out? By myself?"

And with that, they lost all support from the early adopters willing and able to validate the concept, replacing it with a bunch of bad buzz (no pun intended) that poisoned the whole thing.
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I think you have this backwards. Apple doesn't provide distribution for Amazon Kindle. This is like if you bought an HP laptop and charging 30% for each purchase you make with an application simply because the content falls within a certain category. Nothing is stopping Apple from declaring tweets news feeds and charging per transmission. It's not likely to happen but they can do it at any point. This just illustrates the danger of doing business on a closed platform with absolute control. They are looking more and more like Microsoft everyday. As developers or businessmen you would be a fool to support Apple.
Correct. They even pulled a Kongregate app because it looked too similar to an app store.

Of course, this being Android, it's easy to just install it from an apk.
That particular case related to escaping characters that can be significant in HTML (quotes, ampersands, etc.). It turned out that IE honoured the named entities for exactly those characters specified in the HTML4 documentation when rendering an HTML4 document, while Firefox and Chrome also translated some additional named entities that were required by XHTML but not in HTML4. When it came to filling in form content from a database via AJAX, this led to a portability problem where you had to decide what to escape and what to put in verbatim.
Why are you even buying iBook books?

While I can't speak to why other buy via iBooks, I have made exactly one iBooks purchase which was for a title that was not available in Kindle format. Everything else I get is in Kindle format that gets the DRM stripped and is then put back into iBooks because I prefer it to the Kindle app for reading. I have no idea why some books come out in iBooks first, but what was a non-issue at the time is now a minor annoyance.
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Depends on the ratio. If they get 1g downstream but only 128k up than you are correct. If the current ratios maintain you will see more abuse.

I am all for every man, women and child having cheap reliable access to the Internet.
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Non-iPad owner, so forgive me if I missed the joke, but can you seriously not do that on the iPad/iPhone? Weird. I use my Droid as a USB drive all the time.
Of course you can do that on an iPad.
Enjoy the pyrotechnics during the next thunderstorm.
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>Your standard roof mounted antenna is shielded between the antenna and the tv because you don't want interference between the two points.

To clarify this, with a roof mounted antenna the wire needs shielding because it is typically running down the middle of the house and thus would be subject to interference from the many electronic devices therein.

With this guy's solution, the wire just runs out of his window, and therefore as long as he doesn't have any ageing analogue equipment (speakers, cordless phones etc) near his TV or his window the issue of interference is minimal.
IE needs to stop being boring and actually try to implement some draft features and help contribute to developing these standards.

But the second this happens, I guarantee that people will loudly complain. IE10 comes out with a slew of new features and MS puts them on the docket for standardization. People will say that MS is trying to hijack the web or standards process.

For all the grief MS is getting by being behind, they'd get a lot more grief if they were active and out front w/ respect to features.
dom rendering speeds even up to ie8 lag far far behind what chrome and firefox have been capable off for years, everyone on the internet uses dom rendering and RIA's are not possible without being able to do fast dom modifications, most real world performance benchmarks have problems even running in ie because it is so slow.

h264 was a conscious choice, nothing "broke", I dont know which rounded corner issue you are referring to, it certainly isnt "broken" and remember you are referring to features which do not yet exist in any release of ie
Really? Which version of it do you think they would use? In most of these bleeding edge cases, there is no standard way of implementing the functionality yet, and even in quite common cases (e.g., CSS3 gradients), the syntax is completely different in Firefox vs. Chrome, say. Do you really want a web development world where you have to reimplement every little detail for several different platforms and nothing is standard? If everyone shifts the goalposts every few weeks, any more uniform alternative is going to be difficult to achieve.
I really like a lot of Boylan's products, but not their cola. On an intellectual level I can reason that it tastes very good, but it just doesn't taste like what I'm looking for when I'm in the mood for a cola.
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Jared Loughner isn't going to be put to death for his search history, he's going to be put to death (or more realistically, lifetime psych containment) for killing six people and wounding more than a dozen others, including a prominent public figure.

Library records have been used in this manner for decades, if not longer. The records are obtained via due process of law. What's the issue here?
I was very excited when I saw a demo of this, but the review I watched seems to imply that it sucks for bluetooth connectivity. I'm wondering inPulse has the same issues.
No, this does not open Apple up to lawsuits. Any corporation has the option of telling you what configurations are supported, and choosing to not support configurations that are the result of extensive tweaking.
Hmmm... wiktionary includes a definition of "performant" as computer jargon meaning "capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency" [1]. I find it hard to disagree that this informal use has entered the computing lexicon (and don't personally object to it).

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant
I doubt their margin is over 30%.

Personally my bet is on an HTML5 kindle reader webapp. Only disadvantage is that you'd need a web connection, which you don't always have on iPad and iPod touch.
While I think "the next day" is obviously a bit of hyperbole, how do you think that the IE team is going to cope with HTML after the HTML5 spec is actually released? It's just going to be a living document going forward, totally unversioned.

Firefox, the WebKit team, and Opera are basically already operating on this model. Team IE isn't.
If you're more lazy and don't mind watching someone watch the show, this worked at 7 PM Eastern yesterday: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/final-jeopardy-man-vs-machine
Unlike on OSX, IE can only use publicly disclosed APIs. Anything IE can do, Firefox can also do in Windows. On OSX Safari can, in theory, access acceleration that no one else can. Although I don't know if they do.
It appears that Apple is throwing caution to the wind and opening themselves up for a slew of lawsuits over… iBooks. Really? Even if a corporation doesn’t like us messing with their perfect OS, they can’t stop us from doing what’s legal.

Sigh. Someone else who doesn't understand our rights include the right to enter into a contract that places burdens on both parties.

There's no legal or moral reason that Apple can't say "I'll sell you this for $X plus your promise not to do $Y.". You don't have to like it -- in which case you shouldn't make the agreement -- but it's certainly not wrong.
it can get a little hectic when a lot of feedback is coming in and attempting to find a certain message/file can be cumbersome, if(most often you do) you have a lot of projects you are working on at once. Also I am not sure how it would work, but some sort of way to divide up long term projects and short term projects if that was known.
I always thought that cola had lavender as one of its ingredients..
Ebay takes $2.00 minimum (~ 20%) from selling a $9.99 book plus you have to pay for payment processing yourself.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

Payment processing with PayPal is another 6% (2.9% + $0.30) of the $9.99 price (and that's just for domestic payments; international is more).

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving...

So chalk it up as 26% minimum to sell your eBook through eBay.
with a whopping 60GB cap! Think of all the midi files you could listen with that kind of bandwidth!
+ touchscreen for +$100 and I'd buy.
The Forbes article misses a few key follow-on questions:

1. How many other "security" firms offer the kind of borderline illegal services that HBGary Federal offered? HBGary Federal probably isn't alone in any of this, or is it?

2. Has the Chamber of Commerce or Bank of America, or indeed, any other Fortune 500 company or US government agency taken up a "security" firm on this kind of a proposal? If so, how often does this get done?

Once you ask those two questions, you have to ask yourself if all the cyberespionage attributed to the People's Republic of China is validly attributed.