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> My read is that Apple is looking ahead at a future full of small/startup ebook publishers.

If I was a small/startup, I would happily give over some percentage -- possibly even 30% -- of my revenue to Apple in order to avoid building my own payment system. The App store is really nice, and if they want to compete on the merits of the store, then that's great.

But Apple isn't doing that. They are using the power of their marketshare to force publishers into paying a 30% tithe to Apple just to put an application on the device. It doesn't matter if you are Amazon or the New York Times and already have your own subscription system -- you have to eat the 30% cut.

That's what bothers me about this. If Apple wants to compete by providing a more cost effective point of sale system, then that's great; everyone wins. But they are abusing a monopoly position to force publishers into their system, and in that game, Apple is the only winner.
It works in latest versions of all browsers, including IE9 Beta where it's almost perfect - don't have the RC at hand to try, but hopefully it improves the few glitches I'm seeing.

The good thing is that in IE<9, it just shows a white box. But it's still perfectly readable and usable, it just looks less fancy, which is an acceptable loss in some cases.
Paris (France) is listed in the available cities, but there are no results...? (Why list it then?)
Yeah, I know what you are saying. I started on FreeBSD Jails; and god damn, that was /hard/ - the heavy disk users would wipe out everyone else's cache, and so for the light users, when they logged in? the system would behave as if it did not have any pagecache. Moving to Xen, even without doing any I/O limiting, was world changing, simply because heavy users could not overwrite the pagecache used by light users.
For iDevices, yes.
So what if the room has a 100 billion people, each simulating a single neuron, passing messages to each other as if they were firings along axons.

Searle's argument is that consciousness cannot arise from computation, and he makes his point by making the converse seem laughable. But I don't find it laughable - I find it plausible and intriguing.

Searle offers no insight as to what consciousness is, but merely asserts that because his vision of computation cannot possibly create consciousness, then consciousness cannot be embodied in a machine.
They still have those ASCII art and scene dumpsites. Problem is that someone with access to scene material takes that, and then retags it with their shitty website and uploads it to bittorrent.
Of which 50% are abandoned and 25% are alpha. And 12% are duplicates and you need to decide which to use. At least that was the state in the 90s when all I did was Perl. [Fixed some English]
Dell Streak PR stunt goes horribly wrong, leads to arrests
git repack won't delete any files until it finishes creating a new packfile. You might end up with a window in which the deletions are synced but not the upload of the new pack - this means git operations from other hosts may error out, but there'll be no permanent damage once the sync finishes. Additionally, git won't delete orphaned objects in automatic GCs until a certain time period passes - so no problem with concurrent commits. And if all else fails you can always undelete every file under .git/objects through dropbox :)
Having been part of the "XviD scene" for many years in the not too distant past, I have to say that the whole angle on this being profit-driven is just... wrong. NFO-files have been around since the early days of BBS trading in the Amiga scene and the PC scene alike, and the presence of web addresses in these files today doesn't change the reality that people just don't care for reading the NFOs when it comes to audio and video, and the vast majority don't even care when it comes to software unless they absolutely need to check the NFO for instructions on how to apply a crack, a registry key or similar. Furthermore, people don't give a damned about looking for web addresses in the NFOs to find out where to "get more"; they don't need to, they already know where to get their warez. To say that there is anything close to even moderate traffic going to the various groups' ad-laden addresses is a gross, gross exaggeration.
You could probably try getting started by reaching out to some EU-focused angel investors - there's quite a few in london.

I keep a list on Twitter with a few who are active: http://twitter.com/#!/list/f/eu-angels
There's also AngelList for Europe here: http://angel.co/europe

There are also other options. Since you're aiming for 20k, which is not a high amount, you may want to try the 3 f's first - Friends, Family, Fools. A personal loan might work too. It boils down to how much risk you're willing to take. (I'd go with angels first, because investing is what they do and they can help you more than just providing you with cash.)
The thought of tearing apart/desecrating a written book gives me the shivers. It doesn't matter if it's in a language I don't understand. Or maybe it's just me :)
If there's some policy at work that allows you to know what kind of information might be in a footnote, fine, you can indeed eliminate clutter in this way. Only putting sources in footnotes works, for instance.

But authors who tend to put asides in footnotes sometimes put such crucial material as definitions in footnotes. Don't you ever find yourself switching from main text to footnote when rereading technical material?
+1 I am surprised to see that someone even LIKED this link in google reader.
You do have to be a bit careful not to introduce broken revisions as a part of your history-rewriting there, of course. Generally if you only use squash (which is sufficient to clean up "sync to laptop"-like changes) it won't be a problem though - it's when you start deleting or reordering commits that interesting things happen.
I see this as a problem. The free market in IP only works when we pretend reality is other than it is? No wonder things don't work!
Putting up a registration page does not equal releasing an API. I'm not sure why every tech blog seems to think it is the same thing.
No, the first article shows Goldman engaged in prop trading. That's not a crime, or fraud. That's what every single person in the financial markets does - they sell stuff to other people when they expect it to go down, and buy stuff from other people when they expect it to go up. Are you guilty of fraud if you sell AAPL before it goes down?

The second article showed Goldman didn't disclose something that no one has even been forced to disclose before (identity/motives of the counterparty). In fact, it's often illegal to disclose this. They did disclose the exact composition of the product they sold (and bought for themselves), and by the nature of a synthetic CDO, there was always someone betting against the bonds going into it.

But I'm really curious - can you explain to me why Goldman would defraud themselves? Remember, Goldman bought a piece of ABACUS and lost money on the deal as a result. Why would they buy a bond they knew was designed to fail?

The Stanford scandal and the Porn scandal are relevant to the SEC's motives - just by pure coincidence, they hit an unpopular company ("giant vampire squid") with a really weak case, alleging the company defrauded themselves, at the exact time they were about to get a bunch of negative media attention. I'm sure the two were completely unrelated.

As for fined/settled, it's not semantics. If the SEC had a solid case, they would have demanded Goldman admit guilt. Goldman just paid a bunch of money to get their name out of the media and avoid uncertainty.
Firstly, this is not financial advice, I'm not a vc (I am a business coach, fwiw) etc. See these as generalisations, not guaranteed cases for any individual situation (such as your startup).

As a general guide, Banks won't lend money against a start-up business. The business is not a secured asset at this point. For £20K, you may be able to get a loan against other assets you have (such as a house, though if you've just arrived you probably forgot to pack one of those) or even an unsecured personal loan (more difficult, particularly up to £20K, and I've just experienced my own no-credit-history fun having moved to London so I know there aren't many organisations or banks with lazy cash to splash around).

Start-up seed funding is often called the 'Friends, Family, and Fools' round. Since £20K is a small amount (compared, of course, to bigger amounts), it may be possible to borrow it from friends and family who know and trust you, or 'fools' who don't know you but decide to trust you anyway. This is, generally, your best bet for amounts of this size. You mention looking to gain contacts - is it possible to leverage the contacts you already have?

Finally, in regards to taking investment from someone who is an investor. They will probably want to see a business plan - more specifically, what are you going to do with £20K? I'd say your lifestyle will be different to mine (I have, for instance, an international mortgage and a beautiful wife to part-fund) - it costs us just under £5K/month to live reasonably well in London, and a single in a shared flat could probably get by for £2K - do you want £20K so you can live for ten months, or is some of that specifically earmarked for marketing, training, software programmes etc? It may be easier to find an investor for slightly more money, if you have some specific investments planned, than for a smaller amount designed solely to rescue you from 9-5.

Once again, these are all generalisations. You already have the web startup created and a couple of products - that may be all you need, with the right introduction, to progress. Oh - I'm always happy to make time for coffee to discuss - see my profile for contact details.
See, everyone breaks this out as an argument for responsiveness - but is Chrome really any better on this front? If I open half a dozen reddit tabs (or any other site that loads slowly) in Chrome, I cannot interact with (or often even SEE) any of those tabs until ALL of them have finished loading. This effect is normally limited to tabs all on the same domain but I have observed it on occasion cross-domain - tab A on domain A says it has finished loading, but I can't do anything until tab B, on domain B, has finished loading. The second tab B's loading icon stops spinning, tab A starts working. I would say this is a clear case of one tab affecting the responsiveness of another, so I don't think separate processes is a panacea for these issues.

That said, from a security perspective, they enable some clear benefits, so I am all for it - it's just not a cure-all for responsiveness issues.
In the state of Texas, software is considered a "tangible good" for the purpose of taxation.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have only six weeks to live
Palm’s amazingly user-hostile sign-up process
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Amen - also, it's completely possible to crash the whole of Chrome from a single tab. It certainly doesn't happen very often any more, but when Chrome was brand new it was hardly a rare occurrence. Separating tabs into processes doesn't magically make a browser fast, secure, or stable.
Yeah, that's interesting. I always do it the same way as you, but I decided to do a quick analytical calculation. I wrote it up here:

http://maxbrunsfeld.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/on-the-mixing-o...

my result agrees with your intuition.
No it's not. Git stores all it's internal data as hashes, and the chance of a collision is really small.

It was designed so it could be accessed via ssh for instance with multiple people pushing into at the same time.
Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone
SPAM!

Anyhow, my tip: Be yourself. It shows, and if you're interviewing at a company that will work well for you (and you for them) it'll be a definite weight in your favor.

My last interview was almost decided before the interview because I had a chat with the interviewer on the phone beforehand, instead of merely setting up a schedule. (Granted, it was his idea.)
I have a free android live wallpaper, based on them: https://market.android.com/details?id=info.jaisharma.antsliv... . You can create/delete ants, the patterns they draw is always interesting specially since multiple ants affect each other's state and since a human draws ants at random location and time.
It's cheaper and easier to use dropbox. Price is free, and no configuration.
And then art happens in a horror game trailler
Chances are whatever you need to do, someone has written a module for it

This used to be a big argument for Perl 10-12 years ago when I was actively working in Perl, and one of the things I kind of missed when I first switched to python. However I've found that many languages have caught up with (and in some areas surpassed) Perl in this regard over the past decade. What CPAN libraries are there today that are class leading and for which no reasonable equivalent exist for other languages?
Two second-hand interviews conducted by the National Enquirer are the story's only source.
It is interesting, but, pardon my ignorance, is it appropriate to call this "a behaviour" (in the traditional meaning of this word)? It looks to me like "just" playing with numbers, i.e. normal phenomenon ultimately describable with some math theory. It looks far-fetched to me to describe it with the terms like "simple rules can result to complex emergent behaviour," etc...

I remember there are some number sequences generated by some rules, which seems random at first and then some sub-sequence repeates. Now this looks similar to me, except it seems to more mysterious because someone described it as "ant doing something". ;-)
I did something like this a while back (http://1week1project.com/tagged/week-9?chrono=1). The hardest thing was trying to set a price, ie Should I pay myself $25 to schedule a dentist appointment?

It would be really cool if you were able have some better way to determine the payout for a certain goal. Perhaps you have your friends vote on it or something like that.
Why are you pushing shitty "not done but commiting because flight is boarding..." to the server? Surely they are only pushed to your local repo and then squashed in a commit to the main server. Or worked out on a feature branch then merged into the mainline?

You know you can git commit to you local repo without needing an internet connection.
Why Game Publishers Don't Get It
The win is the dropbox is free while github charge for private repos.
It was a pleasure to cut?
But they make it very clear that the iTunes store is the only authorized/approved means of doing things on the device, and try to make it illegal to do otherwise (although the Library of Congress put a temporary stop to that agenda). And while they don't go after the jailbreakers, they do try to diminish their experience with things like the iBooks jailbreak test.

When you combine this behavior and stance with the "charging through the iTunes store" policy, it becomes effectively a mostly successful attempt to charge for doingsomething with the device. The Apple Tax in isolation, while disturbing, isn't intolerable. It's when you combine it with their other policies surrounding the platform that the real problem arises.
Just to note, I live in central London (as in Zone 1), on around £1500 a month quite comfortably. £2k a month is excessive
Except, uh, without the monopoly.
Ask HN: Parallel Algorithms
Hello everyone,

I want to directly cut to the point:
for a university project, I am required to think of an algorithm, implement it, make it run on a cluster in parallel and compare results, write a report, ...

I have a few ideas, but I already know those algorithms quite well and would like to use the chance to learn something new and exciting :)

The question is: which algorithms can you think of, that would be fun to choose?
Great data point (I was actually going to ask for one, but it would have made my point a little unweildy). I certainly do live a pretty good lifestyle, plus some good debt (eg, my share of rent + mortgage is almost 1500 a month).
But now you've added a non negligible amount of water to your coffee. Nothing worse in the morning than watered down coffee.
Obnoxious set of labels for the jobs. But for that I would have enjoyed it more.
Still the same. Also, few people look at bugs reported via cpan. I never got a response to any of mine. At least you can see some packages going red on more and more systems, so it's quite easy to spot the useless/unmaintained ones.

True regarding duplication - if I had a penny for every new incomplete logging framework uploaded to CPAN, I'd be a rich man...
"But Yahoo's financial reports show that Web advertising is a very poor revenue generator"

And then there was Google.
Thank you for the excellent advice, and know my post was quite general, but you've hit the nail on the head with your comments.

I would love to meet for a coffee sometime - will be in touch. P.s. I'm a kiwi!
That's cause your in zone 1 as you've said. You don't have to pay for an expensive travelcard :)
Any questions,will be glad to provide answers okeyoe@gmail.com
Amazing that such a reputable source includes the Jurrasic Park classic ("This is a Unix system. I know this") without also pointing out that the application shown in that scene is indeed a real program, FSN from Silicon Graphics.

See http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool... for more information.

With that in mind, I don't think it's at all unreasonable that a 12-year old drops the distinction between "a Silicon Graphics system" and "Unix".

Of course, it might be a bit beside the point to nag about factual problems in a movie about reborn dinosaurs. :)
Based on the current Roadmap, tabs as separate processes using electrolysis (e10s) is a goal for Firefox 7

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap
Acceptance tests with Cucumber, Devise, Omniauth and Twitter
You don't have to be famous to be nefarious.

flagrantly wicked or impious : evil

Origin: Latin nefarius, from nefas crime

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nefarious
Of Development :: Of Robotics

For Developers :: For Robots
Same here. I might be easily more frugal than the average, but I definitely have everything I need for around £1500 per month.
angel.co ! That was the site I was after ... will check it out, thanks :)
Should I quit my job over intellectual property rules?
I got a job doing Rails development for a company three months ago, I read over the Non Disclosure pretty carefully and thought I understood it to say that the company owned the copyright to any work that I did for them, which is understandable so I signed.

Fast forward two and a half months and my manager tells a group of us he's trying to get management to loosen the language around intellectual property. So I go back and reread and can see that the language could be applied to anything I create anytime. I'm an entrepreneurial type person and always have side projects going, so this is a huge deal to me.

Today my manager clarified that we are free to contribute to open source but "Any commercial endeavor is off limits, whether designed to be monetized now or in the future."

Is this kind of thing common in dev world? Would/do you work under these kinds of rules?
It's weird, but the kindle changed my relationship with books. Before the kindle they were something sacred, and a I had a big spreadsheet with the books I had, I had read and I wanted to have, and annotations regarding the lent status.

Now I read more, but value each individual book less. It's weird.
And a diagnosis made by a doctor who just looked at a photo.

But hey, that worked with Terri Schiavo, right?
Screencast: Watch Me Patch Some Rails Code
interesting points made about this tool and in regard to licensing and cloud computing. I agree this tool is useful in checking /testing licensing schemes, and as i am in the process of completing the development of a dual key encryption system for windows apps (web apps later maybe), i will find this tool very useful, however, the software business in my opinion is ultimately about the total cost of delivering the app/data to the end user. Cloud computing probably is the main platform for future apps as the platforms for delivery are so diverse, windows, mac, linux mobile ... but keep in mind, total cost of cloud computing could rise, and there are some apps which have to be run locally for any number of reasons ...
P.s. I'm a kiwi

Nobody's perfect.

(Actually, I'm enjoying the fact that on this side of the world we're best friends, not mortal, sheep-tossing enemies.)
The best possible outcome is when technology that makes jobs obsolete is low-cost and accessible to everyone; jobs are lost, but people don't need to work as much to make ends meet.

This is tricky because we constantly move the goalposts. What counted as "making ends meet" in 1950-1970 era is now counted as "poverty" today, and is mainly limited to a few unlucky souls living on Indian reservations and other such depressed areas.

(This report from the census makes that exact comparison:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fuZGrQqyd9QJ:w... )

If you truly want to make ends meet 1970's style, you don't need to work more than 26 weeks/year. Millions of people do this.
And definitely apply to Seedcamp, €50k funding is available, and it's by all accounts an excellent programme.
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Your best bet might be to apply to seed accelerators for that amount of money. £20,000 seems an odd amount of money to want to raise, accountancy and legal fees will probably eat up a decent chunk of that, if you're going after angels it might be easier to raise a large amount. What's your plan for spending that money?

How far developed are you products and what markets are you working in? - if you're in the b2b space another option might be to approach potential customers and see if they're willing to finance you (or even if they can provide an letter of intent saying they intend to buy your product; you may be able to use that to get a bank loan).

Another option could be to become a contractor for a while, 20k isn't a huge amount of money, you could easily earn that much money in 3-6 months (if you take payment through your company and re-invest it in your startup products it also means you won't have to pay any tax on it).
should be "...which is known as a dynamic IP address."

Actually, it is a bad sentence, 'which is known as' is referring to 'cases'.
If so, then he has the blood of another potential transplant patient on his hands.
Or it could make for a great xxx domain...I hadn't even tried pronouncing it like that!
I think you missed my point:
I'm not feigning outrage at the fact that I can't transfer everything I bought for phone A onto phone B.

I'm saying that shutting out apps because they don't cough up Apple's ransom only hurts the customer and that customers won't necessarily vote with their wallet and move somewhere else because they have already invested in their current platform/device.
Yes, it appropriate to call this the behaviour of a mathematical system.
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Mmmmmmmm. Mountain Dew.
Never yield when you're inches from the finish
How to use Dropbox as a git server?