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I partly agree. Free software works that way, that is: It allows this. And that's good. It's the reason why I care about it and I guess lots of other people feel the same way.

That you _can_ do things doesn't mean that it's nice or morally okay.

Looking at the numbers: Yes, I don't know what Canonical needs or not. If it makes a dent. I hope that I clearly marked this parts of my opinion as nothing but guesswork. Looking at the numbers the banshee project made public I still stand to my claim though and feel that this - so far - is not money you need to tap into as a company.

Regarding the switch: You seem to imply that this is kind of a nice thing. As if Canonical was 'allowing' banshee to be the default player. You indicate that this is a kind of 'benefit'. I'd say that the users just wanted that music player and Canonical (or, the Ubuntu project) listened [1], [2], [3]. Providing a music player of their users' choice is not a nice gesture where they help out a weird, unknown & tiny project, they are choosing a product that was available (although optionally) on their platform for a long time as a new default to suit their business needs already.

Again: In my world, they are already profiting from the banshee project, ignoring Amazon sales. Integrating Ubuntu One sales was a (fine, great, understandable) business decision. Implying that they can change a 'buy here and you make Amazon donate to Gnome' (yes, the wording is obviously not neutral) plugin, because they are nice enough to distribute the banshee product as a default media player in Ubuntu is outragous in my world.

Edit: Just stumbled upon this part of your answer: 'I think it's a bit presumptuous to assume that Canonical doesn't need the revenue from the music sales.'

This is mightily misleading and misrepresenting my post. I'm not sure if you don't know or if that is a mistake, but Ubuntu/Canonical DO (potentially) already get money from banshee users. Their own store is integrated in banshee as well [4] and the decision that they backed off from [5] was in fact that they wanted to ship only their own plugin. Which would've been fine. With that decision users by default would've been forced to

a) buy using Ubuntu One (100% to Canonical) or

b) buy elsewhere, possibly using the disabled by default Amazon extension, which might donate to the Gnome Foundation.

They changed their route and I have a hard time understanding it (mind you, again, not from a business perspective. If you like to tack the Greed Badge on your shirt, and probably you need to as a company, this is fine. If you want to have code monkeys working for you for free however, this might be the wrong way to take).

1: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2073/

2: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9761/

3: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11731/

4: http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/lucid/banshee-extension-ubuntu...

5: http://gburt.blogspot.com/2011/02/banshee-supporting-gnome-o...
Quora on Designing an Organization That Designs Better Products
Actually, PC-BSD is not at all behind FreeBSD these days: PC-BSD 8.2 was also released today.
Definitely not. Firewire is MUCH faster than USB2, and it's still slower than having a drive connected directly to SATA for example...

This new technology should allow external drives to be as fast as internal ones.
Facebook releases HTML5 Games Benchmark 0.3
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Reminder to HN: Think "how will this software get my users laid?"
Why shouldn't the OS treat the HDD/SDD just as it does RAM: use up as much as possible in the background, while always ensuring the user's immediate needs come first? In other words, empty disk is wasted disk. Lion could quite easily use 'empty' disk space for document versioning or local backups, and immediately reap those versions/backups when the user actually does need that disk space.
I'll be that guy.

What is this doing on HN? This isn't technical. This isn't about startups.
PayPal Statement on Courage to Resist Situation
All that Apple hatred has some funny results.
I heard apple charges $4 per unit.
No - USB 2.0 is 80 MB/s theoretical, and you're lucky to get half of that sustained in practice. 20 MB/s is normal in my experience. Meanwhile hard drives have exceeded 100 MB/s on sequential read.
It doesn't seem that YCombinator really does have to answer to investors. The amount of money invested into YCombinator is trivial compared to the profits those same investors made (and will make) off of the exits that YC helped generate. VCs look at YCombinator as an efficient sales pipeline.

"Who do we invest in next quarter? Whoever we can from this quarter's graduating YC class".
Word definitions matter, significantly more than grammar and spelling.
How Watson Could Have Been Defeated on Jeopardy [comedy]
Social applications between phones and a TV using NFC
A colleague has a Vaio with that resolution running Win7. It doesn't seem to respect DPI settings system wide, he is continually adjusting font sizes. I don't know why he puts up with it, it seems much more hassle than it is worth.
I dig the use of PubSubHubbub. It's very similar to some ideas I've been kicking around (I have an experimental/incomplete Node.js PSHB implementation). Take out all the stuff about hub discovery, feed content notifications, and xml, and you're left with a simple protocol for users to subscribe to updates on a given topic.
>I'm not even sexist

... and yet in reply to a completely neutral comment proposing that the article might be relevant because one of the two people in it was just featured in a very highly rated article last week, you create a one-off account and go on a full paragraph gender rant ...

Edit: I agree with the top poster, I was expecting more in-depth analysis when I hit the link. But voting up a follow-up story to someone who was just highly featured in the community is not exactly an inexplicable response.
Answer in rot13:

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From someone who's been failing startups since 2000, I can't imagine what I would do with that much money... It's really baffling..
If you use a CDN isn't it cached across multiple sites?
Migrating SVN repos (with full history) to Git
The people who write the articles are different from the people who write the headlines.
I think it's inaccurate about the deal with SV Angel and DST, isn't it SV Angel and Yuri Milner as an individual?

As for breakeven, I wonder whether that's accurate, but considering the low percentage of shares YC takes I wouldn't be surprised if lots of successful but not blockbuster spawn could still leave them without huge returns.
"The papers are thought to be of particular historical value as much of Turing's war-time work was destroyed under the Official Secrets Act and the man himself kept few personal possessions."
Wide vs. Deep
I believe the new macs still have USB ports, no? So what incentive do peripherals manufacturers have to use Thunderbolt and target just the new macbooks vs USB 3.0 and targeting everything?
Naruto 200
I hate to derail, is that ripped from Greg Proops?

If you're going to steal, he's a great source for material :)
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At my address it finds me several companies that are only offer business solutions with a choice of T-1/OC48/etc. Not exactly consumer broadband...

I like how the redirect to some of the providers' sites is a redirect to http://, even for big names like Comcast. If it does have a site, it's a redirect to e.g. http://http://example.com
I would have thought the opposite - the more you know about JavaScript the more you will probably like jQuery!
http://betterpal.com is free :)
Cargo pants with buttoned or zipped pockets, bag locks, and never letting go of your bags will go a long way in preventing theft while traveling. Also, the ol' money belt may make your butt sweat, but it's the place for passports, cash cache, and backup credit cards.
Rather short and disappointing article given the headline. I took a long sip of my coffee, reclined and looked forward to reading something much longer and better...but alas it wasn't to be!
He is not being tortured. Here is what his lawyer wrote that his typical day is:
http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2010/12/typical-day-...

<snip>

The guards at the confinement facility are professional. At no time have they tried to bully, harass, or embarrass PFC Manning. Given the nature of their job, however, they do not engage in conversation with PFC Manning.

</snip>

He gets to watch TV, write letters, and have visitors on the weekends. He is isolated, but his treatment and living conditions are a far cry from torture.
I don't follow how being a better desktop disqualifies the mini from being a desktop?
Ever wonder why you read stories in the foreign press about France, Germany, Italy or some other European country deporting its Roma (Gypsy) population? Well, now you understand why they do it. And before anyone says, "He never said they were Gyspies," he's from the U.S., doesn't speak Italian and obviously isn't savvy enough to pick them out, at least when they aren't trying to be noticed. Gypsies do stuff like this to tourists through out Europe. They are a menace, and resist any attempt to assimilate them into modern society, preferring to live in their camps and beg, cheat, and steal to sustain themselves. Yes, downvote away, but it is true, as any European can and will attest.
Most books have problems and most have solutions guides for about half of the problems. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Spivack yet:
http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098...
Let me get this straight, have they replaced the 17Gbps displayport with a 10gbps thunderbolt port and call it an upgrade?

17Gbps fits nicely with the next upcoming standard display size: quad HD, AKA 4K, 3840x2160. It seems insane, but it's not -- it's retina display at 30" or standard monitor quality at 80".

Sure, Quad HD doesn't matter now. But Thunderbolt isn't going to matter for a few years either. Sure, Thunderbolt may eventually going to scale to 100Gbps, but the baseline is now established at 10Gbps and few items will support more than it, I bet. How many HDMI ports support 2560x1600 resolution even though it's in the HDMI 1.3 spec? I don't know of any.
I'm in Manhattan (so a rather large city) and use Time Warner which isn't listed for my address. My anecdotal evidence aside, this really cost $200 million? I'm pretty cynical, but there must be more to it.
I'm not really sure what you're responding to, specifically. You do realize that jQuery UI (and jQuery Mobile) are both ARIA compliant, right? This means that it's actually far easier to use these UIs then you might expect.

ARIA is very cool stuff - definitely recommend that you check it out!
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
Ask HN: My company is now disallowing Dropbox...
Is this an unsolvable problem? What questions can cloud services answer and finally get through to corp IT? Who's startup is grappling with this problem and winning?

To be clear, I know how I could get around it... and I am not planning to do that... I am asking how can we progress the IT point of view and allow enterprises to adopt these revolutionary tools rather than fear them. Is it a lost cause?
I think dropbox it's not going to be acquired by google...
DisplayPort isn't 17Gbps, it's rated between 1.62Gbps and 2.7Gbps. Just like you mention about Thunderbolt, the theorethical maximum for DisplayPort is 17Gbps, not the actual throughput for devices that are out right now.

The actual throughput for the Thunderbolt port on new MacBooks is well above what the DisplayPort on the older models was.
That's just the point: it doesn't just work. My phone has Zebra Crossing (Google's open-source barcode reader), which scans everything from UPCs to QR Codes to Data Matrix... but not Microsoft Tag or AT&T's mobile tag format. Given that I am not keen on the idea of installing three new apps for these various proprietary tag formats, it doesn't just work. Instead, I have to recognize it's in a non-standard format, find/download the right app, etc. That's a big pain for something that already works quite well.
I think it is sad that they got rid of the old page, which was so nice and helpful (and obvious and free).
Lowering the interest rate is not equivalent to printing money. If you want to redefine terms, you can prove whatever you want to prove.
I really enjoyed my last position. I was a team lead of a team of junior programmers, but the other teams had better programmers then me. I got the best of both worlds.

Helping someone learn new, cool shit is just exhilarating... Almost cooler then learning new stuff yourself.
Yea I don't understand the resources tab. It's just a mess right now with a huge list of files. It seems like it would be a good place to list what stylesheets were loaded and such, but it seems like the network tab has taken over most of that. I say get rid of it or rename it and move it to the end of the tab list, considering how useless it is for the majority of cases.
Awww, shucks, thanks!
Um, be drafted? Pay taxes? Yes. We can force each other to play by rules.

Fundamental human right? Bah.

It's well established that in the US companies can be forced to do business with minorities, protestants, females, Democrats...plenty of people they may otherwise wish they didn't have to (well, maybe not Democrats).

This idea that companies should be able to do whatever they can is nonsense (in fact, I'd go so far as to say it's poisonous, but that's for another post).

Besides, I'm not forcing them to do anything. They are welcome to move their company to Sierra Leone.
Does vmware fusion's support for installing OS X Server guests allow Lion Server?
Sadly, 100K isn't that much these days if you have a family and you live in an expensive city like Toronto or New York.
It exists and is called Dragons' Den.
Indeed,

Suppose every single person adopted the "I only want to play with a people better than me" approach?

Well, then those people you want to play/program/etc with... they don't want to play with you!

Ad-finitum till you get Grouch's "I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member"...

(there's lots of "interesting" game-theory/mating-theory describing these situations but I still don't find them appealing)
Slight OT as it's more about ad-supported apps but...

With "Today's News", we really struggled to make any reasonable revenue from mobclix, despite huge numbers of requests.

We understand from contact with mobclix support that returns are incredibly dependent on the ad format you use.

Our app used mobclix in it's initial version but we've since moved to iAds (as an experiment as much as anything), which make more money. However the inventory is pretty narrow so despite a high CPM we still aren't making much money.
Web host LunarPages heeds Anonymous and takes down algathafi.org
I caught it about 2 days after it happened, and got the bank involved and had my money restored in a couple more days - that wasn't a big deal. The frustrating thing was that this was just 100% glossed over by law enforcement. This wasn't a $40 meal splurge by a petty thief - it was a freakin bedroom set.
It's a day for someone to add all three of the formats listed on that page to Zebra Crossing. Now people may not want to do it for political reasons, that's fine. But I have no empathy for that.

If I had an Android phone, I'd do it myself.
I had the same problem with a pretty well-known tech company in Cupertino(but not THAT one).

Any phone calls that involved me getting back my hotel costs were not returned, despite promises to the contrary before I interviewed.
Seeking Co-Sponsors to bring TheRibWhip BBQ Truck to SXSW
Watch Bob Arno (who's quoted in the article) ply the trade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bsbL74YaE
Also, what's the deal with that stock images that doesn't add anything but noise?
...and like "Plays For Sure."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure
I wonder if "Clever Tricks Rapists Use" is next.
Lowering the interest rate isn't printing money, it's making the money they print to give out as loans to corrupt banks cheaper to obtain, thereby causing them to print more of it. Where do you think they get the money for these loans? The Fed's whole reason for existence is to create money. Greenspan or Bernanke would tell you that.
American version is called Shark Tank, and based on the deals the investors offer, it's aptly named.

Mark Cuban has signed on to be part of the next season!
The software layer for memory protection here is the AOT compiler. As you alluded to yourself, if Mark Dowd finds one of the bugs in your AOT compiler, then you are toast.

The nice thing is that these protections can be applied ahead-of-time rather than at runtime, as the MMU does.

It has been shown (see Native Client) that even a slightly restricted subset of x86 assembler can be made verifiably-safe. In principle, you could do the same thing with C - in fact, you likely wouldn't even have to change the language definition, since the egregious abuses in C mostly result in "undefined behaviour", which allows the implementation to detect and trap them rather than hose the machine. (It is a curious fact that C itself isn't inherently "memory unsafe" - merely almost every implementation of C ever written is).
It gets the providers right, but completely and utterly misses on the speed estimations.
I've noticed a corresponding tendency, but amongst the most experienced (But not most capable).

The longer someone's been a '.Net Programmer' (rather then a programmer who does .Net) the more likely they are to over-architect, over design and use frameworks and tools that are just...wrong.
I'm running from the head. And yeah, I was aware of the default gemset. The problem I ran into appears to be that if you don't have a named gemset (other than default, apparently) then the shell script can't figure out the name of the ruby it's running and gives up. I found an alternative way to figure out the ruby name from the environment, and I'll probably send it to Phusion. Because those guys rock.
"What is a good idea? One that happens is. If it doesn’t, it isn’t." – Paul Arden

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything." – Dwight D. Eisenhower.
No. That would be one hell of a creative definition for 'break-even'.
Do tell -- this is Apache's mod_dir -- what's the bug?
New evidence of Android apps running on BlackBerry phones emerges
So this version has:

- an ubuntu netbook remix clone (OMG A SCREEN FULL OF ICONS!) but with even more blur,

- built-in F11 key

- Compiz ring switching plugin

- a trackpad, but rebranded!

- automatic saving, but rebranded!

- time machine, but rebranded!

- "suspend" instead of "shut down", but rebranded!

- thunderbird's default email layout

- gmail's threads, but rebranded!

- ripoff of giver (a Novell engineer's 2007 hack day project, see http://code.google.com/p/giver/ )

- ripoff of LUKS

- a "server" control panel program

Why do people pay for this?
nah, it's the first and probably last someone relevent context available where people will still have this fresh in their minds. The fact is you proved the point. Instead of addressing any points you called me a sexist and downvoted. In formal argument this is called ad hominem.
His conditions are withering him physically and psychologically. He's not allowed to exercise whatsoever, or to communicate with anyone except on weekends. These conditions may not be direct torture, but they are most definitely a form of indirect torture, a claim which is supported by several psychologists. It's a form of punishment before trial, which is absolutely unconstitutional.
You don’t have to pay for a data plan. I use one of those prepaid 3G USB sticks and pay 2.50€ for one day unlimited HSDPA internet access (limited to GPRS speeds after 500MB).

That’s perfect for me since I’m maybe six hours in a train two or three times a month and no flatrate can beat the five or eight Euro I’m paying.

There are dozens of other options available (at least in Germany), suitable for pretty much any conceivable need and some will come with extra SIM cards for your smartphone or tablet.

How about this one: 15€ per month, unlimited HSDPA internet access (limited to GPRS speeds after 1GB), 9ct per minute for all phone calls and SMS (as always in Europe, incoming phone calls and SMS are free), two SIM cards. You could order an unlocked iPhone from Apple right now (I don’t know whether that’s possible in the US but it is now in Germany) and put one SIM card in the phone and use the other one for your laptop or whatever other device.
The reason that enterprises have IT departments is so that they can control everything in house. The saas model (dropbox and similar remotely hosted services) doesn't really fit here because it separates IT from the services that it is supposed to manage (think of the legal and security mess of spreading your company's data to a bunch of 3rd party services).

Your best bet is to find some white-label/internal solution similar to dropbox and get your IT guys to install it... but it'll be tough to convince them that the benefits outweigh the costs (everything IT does costs 10x more than you think it should).
All these are really good points in my book. Unfortunately, very rare.

What's best in my book is saying "well, we have a prototype and a bunch of customers lined up, a board of advisors, some people close to investing, done enough customer development to know what people need, we just need someone to take our prototype or screens and make it production ready." Then I'll think, "Well I could start at the very beginning, or..."
lawlz...that was the reason i clicked it to begin with...but no, it was just a tease...
work for the government? i wouldn't call it success though
Linux users only have to reboot on kernel updates (say, twice a year, only if you want a new kernel, which often isn't worth the trouble).

It isn't that you've wanted "restart" from an operating system, it's that you've wanted an operating system where the paradigm is such that no restarts are required.
In the US and Canada you don't get anything like these offers, and Apple's not the kind to redesign their hardware just so that some people in Europe can do something easily accomplished with a smartphone or a $50-100 USB 3G modem.
"Sometimes we just get waaay too caught up in the metrics rather than focusing more on creating more impact."

Wow! I agree 100%. Now, click-thru ad-rates are important, but the impact on your clients, customers, and how they perceive you & your business is also super-duper important too. I like to say: "what produces me to use this product, or download this app, or use this "service", and what I find, is that I'm always looking for: who built the app, who runs this company, and what impression I get from the web-copy/content. The cloak and dagger approach does not work, especially if you're trying to get "respectful" clients; clients that actually pay for the service you render or who respect what you do as a company.

People forgot that we are human, and when you make someone feel that humans run a company - your impact will be huge, and you will notice this with customer satisfaction, and retention.

Take the social approach.. Be open, show who runs the company, have a blog, communicate with your customers, show them that you're real and have fun. Some companies that do this: dropbox, google, tendeapp, Ycombinator, Fogcreek, etc. etc.. the list goes on, and how many people use their service, or even pay?
One of the main problems with USB is the software implementation of it. Theoretical and practical are a wide split. Firewire is better in this regard due to the transfer protocol being done primarily in hardware. USB is designed to be more "Universal", so communication is delagated to software.
You must also live in Toronto :)
happens all the time.
Thanks. Funny you should mention it, I'm working on something about just that...
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