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That's a reason for some geeks to buy one. It's the reason I looked at buying one - not so much for Android, but for something to build a DIY dynabook on. I still probably will when someone makes something closer to Apple's industrial design, but I don't think that's going to help a whole lot with market share.
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This argument is my biggest issue with chrome os. Im all for the browser as the os, but I can't put two tabs side by side. A really common use case is writing an article where you're referencing other online sources. Really easy with a two screens or a split screen... really hard when you're switching back and forth.
Great Work. Like the design and the intuitive design a lot.

One small grammatical error:
On the companies page, you have "Founder this company". Perhaps, you could change it to "Founder"/"Founder of this company".

Example link: http://ycpages.info/companies/143-answerly
This analysis is pretty poor. The insider trade made a million dollars in a day. The author is arguing that he could have alternatively made $10mm in two years if he hadn't have sold.

But of course $1mm in a day is a much better return than $10mm in 2 years. And of course the trader's money wasn't sitting idly since this trade -- he was probably making other illegal trades based on non-public info -- so in the end his return might have been much higher than if he had bought and held after the private information became public.
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How does this affect copyright issues? The domain is registered in PA, USA, so how long before you guys get shut down by the feds?
SJ believes that his job is to make shareholders rich and by doing so, gives them the means to be charitable. I would tend to agree with him.
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Would you rather have to support IE6 or IE8 in your webapp?
This is fascinating - can we hear more about the architecture and policies?
I believe the computer term came first and so the "human" term only has meaning as analogy to the computer term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking
What sort of enhanced user experience do you see this providing? Automated change summaries?
If you should do that then I am certainly doing it wrong by running and cycling and letting my arm muscles atrophy. Sure, they'd win a rock lifting competition. And if weight lifting is so good, then they should win a pull-up competition, since that's also what they're training for and it's not what I'm training for by virtually only using my legs. My point being: take this article with a huge grain of salt and train for real fitness not for how much kg you can lift. The easiest way to improve that is to become very fat.
“I never have anything go wrong,” he said later. “Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything else.”

I guess his doctors are too kind to tell him that he's senile as hell.
IANAL, but it is not a general prohibition on circumventing "access controls", so he may not need to rely on an exception.

17USCs1201 (added by the DMCA) says:
(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.
- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that
effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take
effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the
enactment of this chapter.

So the technological measure must "effectively control access to a [Copyrighted work]".

Jailbreaking a games console does not circumvent the technical measures that prevent copying - at most, it might circumvent technical measures that prevent someone from circumventing technical measures.

The Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (including California) has a precedent that makes the anti-circumvention provision rather broad (more than a plain language interpretation of the law would otherwise imply); other circuit court rulings have interpreted the law to be much more narrow and not cover circumvention that doesn't allow / involve copying; presumably this is why Sony wants it heard in California and Geohot wants it heard in New Jersey (under the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit).
This would certainly explain the market share of IE in general, but IE 7, 8 and 9 each support ActiveX as well, so I can't imagine that alone is a factor.
It's amazing, thousands of years ago, with no concept at all of nutrition, people managed to put together fantastically complete (and tasty) diets.

I can't tell if you're being really subtle here, but the causality is probably reversed - people ate whatever they could get away with, and over the course of many tens of thousands of years they evolved to process that food efficiently. Anatomically modern humans evolved approximately 200,000 years ago, and agriculture was only invented 10,000 years ago. And industrially produced processed food didn't become a staple of most Westerners' diets until 65 years ago.
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> And it would be the government saying you can't do something, not BMW or Colt handguns.

I think this is a key point. Is it the government telling you that you can't do something (that is against the law) or a company using the law to prevent you doing something that they don't want you to do. I would guess that the former would be governed by criminal law and the latter by civil law - please correct me if I am wrong.

In this case, it is Sony using the law to try to prevent people learning how to root their PS3s and doing so through civil courts.
This seems interesting, but I was even more interested in the payment system, minno (https://www.minno.co/). The screencast shows that they are using Facebook for authentication. I wonder if it's just for authentication or if they are planning to use Facebook Credits. I wonder what Tipjoy's Ivan Kirigin think of it.
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IE6 market share globally is much higher (15%) than it is in English language markets (1-2%).

Lies, damned lies, and web statistics, as they say.

IE6 is indeed dead.
Thanks a ton for sharing this. What a great resource.
If you are interested in datacenter design, distributed systems or just large services, I would recommend following James Hamilton's blog: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/.

James covers a very wide range of topics, and is great about linking to source material and related articles.
I would like to be able to edit my profile, as a YC founder.

Also I would like to be able to edit my company's info.
I don't design for tech impaired ducks, but if I would I'd refuse to suggest to them an upgrade from one pile of shit to another. Maybe pile of shit 9 will smell less, let's pray.
It would be nice if you could have the option to have them mail you a DVD. After all, if your connection is spotty, a direct download isn't much better than a torrent.
Good. Charities usually squander their money.
- More meaningful information about a particular commit.

- Robustness of versioning. Certain types of errors will become extinct. For example, refactoring will update a variable in all 10 places instead of 9/10.

- VCS can take on tasks of an integration server. The VCS now will be able to make sure that your project "compiles" before accepting a commit.

The real motivation behind this would be to make branch management easier, since the VCS has now more information.
You know, the problem with God is that it isn't really a falsifiable notion; but here's something to chew on ...

Do you admit the possibility that tomorrow, based on weird but explainable phenomenons, molecules in the air might collide and materialize a tuna-sandwitch right before your eyes? Think about it - possibility is so close to zero that intuition would tell you that it is impossible.

And yet atheists are ready to admin that this wonderful and full of life world that we live in (which is a lot more complex than a tuna-sandwich btw) - came into being by way of some kind of cosmic accident that we'll never understand, with our universe instantly expanding, forming lots of hydrogen-burning stars and rocks of all shapes and sizes - and somehow on one of these rocks, carbon-based life not only happened, but it also gave birth to sentience.

This story is even more unlikely to happen than a tuna-sandwich integrating right before your eyes tomorrow, or having a man in red suit driving a sleigh with flying reindeers and yet we consider it natural because it already happened.

That's why I said atheism also requires faith.
I would like to have a rss feed for your jobs page
Looks like the problem here is the judge. She doesn't even know how internet works. "Retrieve all the code"
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Wait, banana peels?
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I would think the problem with that would be that it is ok to burn something like Ubuntu Live CDs, but people would start asking to burn illegal software, and since it says on the site they don't endorse piracy, it may get a little tricky.
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If you want to save more?? switch to debit/plastic. It would be greener then paper OR coins and harder to steal (although only slightly)
The difference is that XP can be coerced into a reasonable semblance of security, whereas IE6 is unfixable.
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Ah, yes. Probably not the best color choice there.
It's interesting. I played on "veteran" and lost quite badly over ~20 rounds in spite of trying my human best to pick randomly. Then I enlisted my computer's help.

perl -e "@a = qw/rock paper scissors/;print $a[int rand 3];"

34 wins, 31 ties, 35 losses

I had assumed there would be more bias in it if it were trying to exploit human patterns and that choosing randomly like this would in turn allow me to exploit it as it looked for nonexistent patterns in my choices.

Apparently there wasn't that much bias to take advantage of or it learned that I was choosing randomly and compensated by doing the same. Or maybe I just didn't choose a large enough sample and got unlucky, I'm not too sure. I will say that I was winning a lot more during the first half, though.
Ask HN: Paywall systems comparison?
I'm looking for a comparison or some experiences using the different turn-key paywall systems (Journalism Online's Press+, Clickshare, and Google Onepass for those who have managed to sign up.)

After extensive Googling, I came up with nothing terribly useful. For anyone who has used these systems: could you give your experiences? What were your difficulties with integration or setup? Any gotchas to look out for? For anyone who has used more than one, could you comment on how they compare?

TIA.
Companies don't usually put off upgrading for lack of money, rather all the outdated internal software that will have to be fixed.
The only people who visit this page are probably already on a different browser.
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I think the solution to this problem for tablets isn't having multiple apps running in the same screen. It's having multiple screens. Tablets are relatively cheap, what's missing (currently) is transparent communication between them. Once that happens, tablets will actually become more humane than a single huge desktop. Just buy three... :-)
This is an interesting pricing model. Most of the others are going for a fixed monthly rate. This is very fair. Let us see how it works.
Indeed, he speaks so loudly at times, and in such a declamatory manner, that it cows people, who sometimes assume they’ve angered him. “When I open my mouth,” he noted, “the room rings.”

“I’ll match wits with anybody,” he says. “I don’t care if they have the top degree in the world.” He notes that everyone on his research campus’s board is a Ph.D. or an M.D. But he, the high-school dropout, presides over the meetings.

This guy must be fun to work for...
Things I didn't know (no idea how accurate they are, if anyone has more detail, chime in):

On the Enron Corpus:

"He bought a copy of the database for $10,000 and made it freely available to academic and corporate researchers. Since then, it has become the foundation of a wealth of new science — and its value has endured, since privacy constraints usually keep large collections of e-mail out of reach. “It’s made a massive difference in the research community,” Dr. McCallum said.

The Enron Corpus has led to a better understanding of how language is used and how social networks function, and it has improved efforts to uncover social groups based on e-mail communication."

On future law employment:

Quantifying the employment impact of these new technologies is difficult. Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, is convinced that “legal is a sector that will likely employ fewer, not more, people in the U.S. in the future.” He estimated that the shift from manual document discovery to e-discovery would lead to a manpower reduction in which one lawyer would suffice for work that once required 500 and that the newest generation of software, which can detect duplicates and find clusters of important documents on a particular topic, could cut the head count by another 50 percent.

The computers seem to be good at their new jobs. Mr. Herr, the former chemical company lawyer, used e-discovery software to reanalyze work his company’s lawyers did in the 1980s and ’90s. His human colleagues had been only 60 percent accurate, he found.

“Think about how much money had been spent to be slightly better than a coin toss,” he said.
> All files and database entries are deleted after 24 hours.

If I can't download the file within 24 hours, it is gone?
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they have me solving captchas. If anybody needs me I'll be over in the corner rusting for the next, oh, one million years."

-- Marvin the Paranoid Android (with liberties taken)
Thanks for the feedback -- the health of the torrent ecosystem is very important to us. We seed to 1.2 or we kill the seed after 24 hours, whichever comes first. We delete all records associated with each download after 24 hours in order to protect the anonymity of our users.
Crazy.

Mark a dot on the treadmill track.

How is the person moving relative to that dot?

How is the air in the room moving relative to that dot?

That's basically all that can distinguish between running at constant speed on a treadmill vs. on level (non-treadmill) ground.

If you're running 8mph on a treadmill, it's like running 8mph on level ground, with an 8mph tailwind.

How do you fail so badly at physics?
What is the single most influential book every mathematician should read?
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This is a classic example of how the culture of home parenting, and individual choices made by the parent, has a big impact on kids. Having your mom, of all people, reading code listings from a software magazine, typing them into a computer with you, pretty much puts you into the top 1% percentile in terms of parental engagement in their child's intellectual development. Race itself is irrelevant compared to this. Nationality itself is irrelevant to this. What the parents do: extremely relevant.
There's a lot of little icons already, but how about a link to each founder's HN handle?
Not sure you can lump all Android phones together against the iPhone. To me it seems Android is now the new baseline. All phones to come out from now on have to be at least this level or they won't sell. Google has now given each carrier the possibility to hit this baseline with relative ease compared to the past.

A fair comparison would be if Apple licensed iOS for any manufacture to put on their phones. Then it would be an apples to apples comparison.

Right now people are comparing a licensed OS with an unlicensed one.
Is there a reason that Google isn't offering patent indemnification other than that they aren't sure WebM is patent free either?
It is interesting that him, and other rich men like Kurzweil are choosing plant-base diets instead of the Taubes, paleo crowd-pushed meat and fat diets.

They can't be both right.
Well, it's not like they're toxic... Have you seen the movie K-Pax?
Yes, all records are destroyed after 24 hours in order to protect the anonymity of our users. You don't have to pay unless you actually download the file, and our downstream bandwidth should give you ample time to complete the download. If you don't receive the download then you can always re-download it at no extra charge.
That was my first introduction to the notion of checksums and parity bits too. Very practical, in your face, real world consequences kind of impact. Excellent way to learn the concept. I don't miss having to type in all my software by hand, but the sort of forced physical learning and in-your-face impact of syntax and data patterns was really effective and something we should miss.
Ask HN: Getting started with Python for web development
I am an Interface Designer by profession. Lately I have been trying to teach myself to teach programing language.

The only prior experience I have is a bit of C, just enough Php to get through to make WP themes from scratch and just finished the MIT OCW 6.0 along with the book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.

Also I know basic MySQL, thanks to my job as an Analyst for over a year.

Now I would like to get started with exposing myself to the part of building apps even if they are the most basic ones. Where should I begin with Web development using Python? (I know Php should have been the logical choice but I am just in love with Python for some reason; seems just right to me than C or Php)

A point to note is that I am highly inclined for Pylons framework over Django because a project on which I want to work on later with other serious/experienced programmers requires it due to its sheer scale. I do not expect to be doing the same level of coding as them but at least I can help them when I am done with the design and UX part of the app.

Should I go for a basic thing like web.py and learn the building blocks or choose Pylons? Please keep in mind my understanding of server side programming, MVC etc is very limited.
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Is this really possible right now? For me it sounds like science fiction. Next we have a tricorder.
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I've started seeing design patterns in a vastly different light once I realised that, in PHP, all of the Abstract Factory pattern can be replaced by a simple:

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I've heard that Darcs had a plugin that did this, but it was hella slow (like much of the rest of Darcs).

It's generally a very hard problem to go from a series of character updates back to a semantic update. A lot of people say "Well, just parse the source code before check-in, diff the parse trees, and store the parsed representation." The problem is that a lot of information is discarded when you go from flat text to parse trees. Comments, whitespace, linebreaks, code-formatting, etc. What happens if you rename a variable, this makes the line grow longer than 80 characters, and that forces you to add a linebreak and reindent the lines following it? That's trivial for a human to do, fairly hard for an automated refactoring tool (trust me on this ;-)), and nearly impossible to reverse in a manner that preserves the original formatting intent.
Sounds like he's got tiger blood.
The point he's making is that we don't know what this means about the Charlie Sheen account in particular, because there is no context. One would require the same stats for at least one other account to make any conclusions.
We completely protect the anonymity of our users. We do not condone the downloading of illegal content. On the back-end, we run a separate sandboxed instance of transmission-daemon for each download request. Interestingly, although the backend is written in Python, more than half of the code is bash.
I think for most people, if these extreme measures brought them another 50 years it may be worth the effort of being perfectly disciplined. But even if he is onto something, which may think they are using conflicting methods, it's probably going to buy him an extra few years over just being healthy without being obsessive.
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What a silly excuse to give nothing back - both Apple and Jobs individually are sitting on ridiculous amounts of money regardless of what their shareholders do with their own money.
If you could upload a public key, and they would encrypt the download with it and send you the result, that would be a pretty effective workaround for any legality issues. After all, no one but the intended recipient can then determine what's actually on the disk. And, as long as the download and encryption are done together with no human intermediary, nobody at the company can say they knew what was on the disks either. Bam: average-sized safe-harbor provision.
Well, close enough. :)
Ironically, they'll be guilty of the crime "battery".

Anyway, I think we all wish companies would take their revenge in the form of actual violence so that they would actually get in trouble, but they are smarter than that. Emotional pain hurts more than physical pain.
One might even suspect that obsessing over your heath so much is actually unhealthy...
To play devil's advocate, the relevant number is expected future earnings, not current ones: at a 0.95 discount rate, $75 billion amounts to an income stream of $3.75 billion a year. Clearly they're not making that now, but:
1) there's a good chance that they will have far richer data, and therefore the ability to target ads better and more profitably, than google
2) there's a nonzero chance that they will be able to monetize micropayments in a far bigger way than paypal ever did.

There are plenty of other potential revenue streams, but these two alone make the valuation seem like not so much of a stretch — they might just be a $20b company, but then again, they could conceivably end up being a $200b company.