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I kind of wonder: do people really have the kind of data plans that can take advantage of this?

Maybe it's because I'm stuck with my AT&T two gig/month plan, and I don't personally know anyone with an unlimited plan that wasn't grandfathered into it, but I have to imagine there's a lot of people with lower-end data plans who couldn't use something like this. I wonder if the Amazon player has, say, a bitrate option to help people use less data, but I would be surprised if it did.

Everyone's talking about moving data into the cloud and assuming that everyone has a high or unlimited data plan, when, in my personal experience, very few people do.
"Half the price of dropbox, this is just begging for a kick ass desktop/mobile app."

And I want a pony.

No client sync software, no sharing. I think the Dropbox folks will sleep well at night.

Smooth client software is half the value of paying for Dropbox and I don't see an Amazon side project challenging Dropbox in client usability anytime soon.

This looks more like a middle finger to any eventual iTunes cloud strategy.
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I think Amazon is trying to become the backbone for the 'alternative' set of Android core apps that will inevitably be developed. These apps will appeal to any carrier/OEM that wants to stop licensing from Google, or from companies like Amazon and Facebook who may launch their own devices with splintered versions of Android.

My guess is that Amazon will own content delivery for these devices (books, movies, TV, music) and that Microsoft will round out the rest, with a Bing Maps app and an email app that supports Gmail etc but syncs nicely with Hotmail (which has been totally overhauled since you last tried it). This is entirely a guess on my part, mind you.
I pay $25 a month for unlimited data and text on Virgin Mobile. Granted, nothing "unlimited" is really unlimited, but I stream music on my Android phone on this plan all the time and have not hit any soft or hard cap.
is there an S3-like (or simplified) API for this service?
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Due to lack of any good metrics, I always take all "Review my startup" links with a grain of salt. I try and keep note of the ones that look interesting, but generally after perusing the site, I forget about it. Some are downright ridiculous, others look interesting. There's an opportunity here somewhere, I just don't see it. :)
how long until Dropbox makes a full-featured Cloud Player of their own?
That and the Cloud Player can be accessed on Android devices. Meta info wins me over. It's frustrating to see inconsistent meta tags on things like Grooveshark.
Consumer services don't have SLAs. They just don't.
Hello cloud based iTunes.
on ubuntu desktop: "The Amazon MP3 Uploader only supports Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7) or Mac OS X running on Intel-based hardware."

yet the normal clouddrive uploader works. weird.
In addition, it sounds like any songs you buy from their MP3 store are not counted towards your storage.
Dropbox is on Amazon. You're paying for the kickass desktop/mobile app. Sure, I wish it was less, or that you could get more than 100GB…but this isn't a replacement.
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Works for me in Australia with a UK Amazon account :)
Won't happen, as long as their costs are at least as higher as amazon's
Putting aside the point of whether or not it was actually prudent to buy the domain, you take on an attitude that suggests that saving the $500k would have led to a better product. With $41M at hand, I'm not sure that's the case.
I'd be very surprised if they replaced all their Java code within 15 years. But even if they do change over, it's still a very good investment for them to continue maintaining and updating Java for the short term.
Just out of curiosity, what made you choose HN as the place to ask?

I'm game, if you'd like to email me, HedgeMage -at- binaryredneck .net
Other directors are big enthusiasts. The makers of RED have been pretty upfront about some of the drawbacks of the RED ONE from the beginning. Everyone was pretty much using a beta product at least for the first couple of years. They've said that EPIC wont be the same way; it will be a complete product from day one. Perhaps that's why it's taking so long to release. RE: price, compare it with its direct competitors and it's something of a steal. Lots of people that bought the RED ONE made a killing from their investment.
The MP3 uploader seems to look for and scan an iTunes directory for music. Linux's lack of iTunes could be the issue.

edit: It also imports playlists, etc.
How long until someone posts their username(s) and password(s) to their whole music collection(s) ....
OT: If I understand correctly, CMake was purpose-built to support building Kitware's visualization application. Their app uses Tcl as an embedded language; how they could already be using Tcl in their app then insist on building an ad-hoc language into CMake (versus using Tcl, which already supports looping, conditions, variable setting/getting etc) is an occasional wonder to me.
You won't get much help with a post like that. You need our time? Take 5 minutes to put up a clear, detailed post on what you need and why.
I think you need to re-read the whole thread more carefully.
I never suggested that Google needs to adopt a java competitor (and I don't think they do), much less Mono. I was only responding to the hypothetical that someone else raised and said that if Google wanted a java competitor, they could just use C#. I personally can't see why they would want one.
> As a non-US there is no way for me to use this.

I'm in Australia and that's what it looked like to me initially too, but after manually uploading an MP3 and then attempting to play it, the Cloud Player then worked.
I use an Android as my primary phone now after a year with iPhone 4, so I'm well aware of the capabilities. I refrained from comparing it with anything else for 2 reasons:

1. The iPhone was the first out the block, so I didn't want to compare it with a product that came after. and
2. I want to save the comparisons for a later post. I left notifications out again for the same reason - I think they deserve a whole post of their own.

WRT "slide to unlock" I think there are many easily obvious metaphors/ visual cues that could be used to make the action apparent. For (stupid) example, they could have used something like a translucent zipper. Or a real lock. Almost any metaphor would have worked.

Using text to prompt the user to perform simple, should-be-dead-simple actions is just lazy design. This is the same thing that was annoying about the "click to begin" bouncing arrow in Win95. You make a grey button on a grey taskbar, place it in a corner, so you need to add an animated arrow+text pointing to it because users don't know where to click.
Most important part to notice here: Amazon just told everybody loud and clear that you can't rely on S3/EC2 as a critical infrastructure piece - they undercut every single storage provider relying on S3, pricing-wise.

You are still good if you offer significant value-add over base services since it's expensive to replicate that, but basic storage/compute services don't look so good.
See, I pay $20 a month for two gigs (family plan for texts, so I don't think I can really compare that).

Also, Virgin Mobile in what country? I'm kind of curious if that plan's still available; seems most providers are scaling back.
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Many hackers, myself included, are awake all night. One benefit of this is less traffic on the road. But there's only so many places to go late at night. In San Francisco, there's a 24-hour Starbucks on California St. and a Safeway on Market St. But where else can you go when you're awake all night?
One would hope this would prod DropBox into offering more fine grained pricing tiers and a sharing tier less than $700/month but I'm not going to hold my breath. The money they are pulling in now is too good to bother.
It's not horrible, but we should expect better, especially from Apple, and there's no harm in setting the bar high for Google and MS as well.
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I can't speak for this model. However, in the past, the problem with the RED has been the rolling shutter, the same problem you find in DSLR's.

Instead of capturing full frames, it's scanning from top to bottom at 24fps. It's fine for static shots, but as you introduce motion, or fast moving subjects, you get a "jelly" effect.

I have a friend who does highend visual effects. In his experience, the RED also isn't suited for green screen work. Can't remember off the top of my head if it's for rolling shutter or the dynamic range, but it's another limitation.

However, it hits a sweet spot for less demanding productions, like The Social Network.
True, but I don't see him excising them, either. It's the worst of all possible choices - leave it in and don't maintain it.
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I think it's a combination of not wanting to deal with approval and Apple (their Kindle app theoretically could be dropped for not using Apple's in-app-purchase system [which is pretty much impossible for an app with 5000+ IAPs!]), the rumored color Kindle running Android (which would likely use the Amazon Android Marketplace), and their various efforts in the general Android ecosystem including the Marketplace.
Wish I did but it's buried deep in the archives of the twoplustwo.com forums. You'd probably stand a better chance of finding it by contacting Nate and seeing if he has a copy of the writeup lying around still than using their godawful search interface.

Not sure I understand your other question. There are no percentages in particular that I would 'expect', but if you ran the sim enough times then yes they'd revert to some mean. I've never done such analysis so I don't know what the results would look like.
they didn't specify efficiency criteria.

Was it input solar energy to O2 output? to H2 output?

Was it input solar energy to electricity output - trees doesn't directly produce it, so what thermal efficiency coefficient they applied to calculate conversion, if it is the case?

...
Can anyone see AmazonMP3 tracks in their library? I've purchased tons of music from AmazonMP3, and Cloud Player shows an empty library & 0 purchased songs. It seems like a big miss to launch this way. Hopefully it's just a bug.
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In fact, 18 universities _applied_ to an invitation by NYC. The HN headline is rather misleading, making it sound like Stanford has independently decided to branch out into New York.
I have started a number of successful businesses. Startups do not need "help" from the government. If you need "help" to start a software company that requires almost no capital investment, you are probably very incompetent or have chosen a very bad business plan.

Here is what startups need from government: nothing.

I don't mean no chance, I mean nothing as in the less the better.

Less paperwork, less harassment, less bureaucrats nosing around and screwing up things and creating a HOSTILE environment to do business so that their friends in the giant corporations don't have any pesky little upstarts upsetting their apple carts.

That's what small business needs to succeed. Less of everything, and preferably to be LEFT COMPLETELY ALONE.

Anytime the government is making pronouncements about helping small business and entrepreneurs and spending money on publicity campaigns and billboards and adverts and passing new laws with regulations to tell us how everything is going to be done under the new system, you can be sure of one thing. The intent is not to help small business at all. That claim is just a cover for whatever the real agenda is. Usually it is to protect big business who is entangled with various politicians.
Investing. And related to that, risk taking.
Until end-to-end bandwidth improves and per-terabyte prices drop significantly, I'll wait to move to the cloud. The value isn't yet there for me.
Great. I'm saving all of the links in my Evernote but am wondering if I'll be able to find people in the future through my comments/submissions/threads or if I should save them too! Thanks for your help!
I don't think it's a bug; the site is pretty carefully worded. For whatever reason, sideloading from the MP3 store is not retroactive.
The laptop is a HP Envy running a full-screen OS X Firefox. Man. Seems most designers can't fake a realistic chrome for web pages.
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If you want a free service to stream your music from your home computer to your work computer/android/iOS device, check out my service: http://www.audiogalaxy.com

Since we don't store the music in the cloud, we don't have any size limits (the current winner has about 530,000 files). Obviously this only works if you leave your home computer on, but we've found that isn't a problem for most folks.
That's great for SA's who are working in the racks.

Not so great for SA's that are administering the boxes remotely, devs trying to figure out what machine they are on, or teams trying to troubleshoot an issue.

If a box is no longer a db machine, just rename it to something descriptive.
I'm surprised the number 1 wasn't higher up because of the slider (since it defaults to 1). I guess people aren't as lazy as I thought they were and actually took the effort to move the slider :P
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How's that North Carolina data center coming along, Apple?! ;)
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You could always use a truecrypt volume if you're paranoid.
But they don't change course that fast. They have great velocity, but only average acceleration. These copters have really good acceleration at low speeds, so they should be able to get in the way of a missile with a known target really well.
Five years ago I met with some people from google and some then colleagues of mine. I was trying to recruit developers to make then, what today is the Atrix.

Specifically - I had spec'd up a dist of linux that would work the way the Atrix claims to today... it was based on a kiosk computing design white paper I wrote in 2002...

I couldn't convince anyone at the time with my main premise which was that going forward 100% of our digital identity would be carried in the phone.

The problem that the current implementations of such systems have is that they are being driving by the wrong organizations - Carriers and Handset Manufacturers... the parties with the least innovation incentive. The ONLY incentive ANY of these companies have is incremental profit.
When I was younger, we used to invade the greasy-spoon diner at a local truck stop. They had outlets at all the tables, and the food was cheap.

Now that I'm a boring old mommy type, my late-night coding happens at home. Whether alone or joined by my fellow hackers, it works out pretty well: my favorite tea, a comfy spot, and my own bathroom.
Didn't Audiogalaxy used to be a P2P service in the early 00s?
You agree not to do that, and Amazon has your real name if you've ever made a purchase &| uploaded >5gigs of music. Most people I know use their Amazon account for other purchases and won't risk their account being closed for violating the terms.

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Yeah, the culture surrounding poker is quite seedy and materialistic. I much prefer the hacker community.

It also doesn't feel great to think about where the money is coming from. Who knows if that pot you just took off a degenerate gambler is his mortgage or child support for the month. I'm not trying to accuse pros of anything unethical--people are responsible for themselves and he's going to blow that money anyway, so you might as well take it. Just the rules of the game. But still, I feel better about creating value in the world than taking it away from someone else, even if it's fair.
There's the possibility that Apple simply wouldn't allow the player at all, and if they did, Apple would take a 30% cut of all in-app purchases. Amazon may not be able to sell music with Apple taking a 30% cut, since they likely have contractual obligations to pay a certain percentage for their music.
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No linux?
Amazon is going to be one of the biggest tech companies of the decade for growth and innovation. I'm going to invest tomorrow.
Not at launch.
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Not yet -- I am bummed we haven't been able to make it happen yet but it is definitely on the list.
Just that I don't listen to many of bands/artists that put their songs on Amazon MP3 may make this offer less appealing.

I don't know much about this but cdbaby[1] will do that for what seems like an affordable price. It just takes a bit of effort and sacrificing some profits in lieu of better distribution. I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but it's possible to get music out there if you are an artist. And cdbaby will let artists choose where/how they digitally distribute so artists could just choose Amazon MP3 if they wished.

[1] http://members.cdbaby.com/whatwedo/default.aspx
Streaming seems a bit silly when I've got 16 gigs sitting empty on my phone. I just want synching. I'll use Pandora if I want to stream. And then I'm not restricted to just my library.
I tried uploading a file to the cloud drive using Chrome, and then I viewed the file. I copied the URL and pasted it into Firefox, where I was not logged in to amazon.com or their cloud storage. It still loaded the file. If you tried doing this with a gmail message, gmail would prompt you to log in. I am not too familiar with cloud storage. Is this a security issue?
I have a grandfathered in unlimited data plan, but even if I had a 2 gig plan, I don't actually use nearly that much very often. Most of my data usage is on wifi (when I'm at home, at work, or usually when out at lunch it's on wifi; when I'm on my commute it uses 3G).

I don't know whether Amazon's music player streams the music or whether it syncs and caches the music, but if the latter, most of the transfer would probably be on wifi as well.
what field are you interested in?

You can post a poll here, a reverse AMA on reddit, post on Quora etc...

What specifically are you interested in.
the osx version seems to be a very thin veneer over an adobe air app. I can't imagine why linux isn't supported.
Also, another comment... Cloud Drive needs an API or client side mount support to really take off.
As a C++ programmer dabbling in Objective-C, I have been extremely impressed. After clearing the "weird syntax" hurdle, Objective-C is a beautiful language. It is object-oriented, type-safe when you want, dynamic when you want, and C-compatible without all the problems C++ added.

However, much of joy of using Objective-C is Apple's Cocoa Foundation classes. Stuff like autorelease and NSString are not part of Objective-C's core language. And support for Objective-C or Cocoa on non-Apple platforms is limited or not well-supported.
Interesting, especially since Dropbox stores its files on Amazon's servers (S3).
Except for everyone on Verizon, TMobile or Sprint whose unlimited plans are cheaper than AT&T's slow, capped, and not unlimited plans.

I know it's not for long, but you can't blame me for being happy while I do.
And the point about the former services keeping a single copy and this one keeping one per person. I'm sure thats a key distinction. The former services like mp3.com were not positioned so much as "upload your mp3's here" but "put your CD in the drive to prove you have the rights" which gets tricky.

Which brings the point about how they're offering Amazon purchased MP3s stored for free. Wonder if for these they are keeping a single copy or actually duplicating them. And potential issues there ...
"Fully encrypted, with the key derived client-side from your username and password" is easier said than done. It means that the key is as weak as your password and that you need to download a special client or plug-in on every device you want to read your files from.

That key will almost certainly be cached and persisted on a device. Otherwise, you'd need to enter a password every time you need to decrypt a blob of data. That means you need some way to revoke a key when you lose a device. You'll also need some key recovery mechanism when users inevitably forget their password.

Sharing files effectively becomes a key distribution problem. Another consideration is that you can't just upload diffs of files when they change or easily perform data deduplication.
The $25 plan is US. I just picked up the Optimus V and love it.

Here's the link to the plan: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
Steve Huffman did Reddit through YC and then Hipmunk again. I'm sure you would get an even better deal on the second round, so not sure what the downside is. The upside is still big.
Am I correct to say that this is essentially a web based version of iTunes?
I learned this two days ago, so I'm still embarrassed about it because I should have known about it 10+ years ago.

In an autotools based project (one with a configure script) you can build it such that intermediate files aren't created in its source dirs. For example:

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make
It says on the landing page that purchases pre cloud drive are not synced. You'll have to go back and sync them with your pc.
If you are serious about wanting to bypass the paywall, you should probably wait until their entire server admin force isn't hovering over the console and server logs monitoring the launch. Just saying.
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It was magnificent back then. I know it's not the same thing, but seeing the logo and installing the new 'helper' gave me a good feeling.
There's an "upload your own mp3's" feature. I think this means I can stop waiting for google music.

Except:

> You have 5.0 GB of Cloud Drive storage. Upload your entire music collection.

I don't think this is going to work...
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