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Wow! I'd been thinking about researching iTunes -> iPhone streaming apps, but now I don't even have to — I know wholeheartedly that anything y'all put out is going to be awesome. It's weird to realize that 'brands' really do have worth.

Audiogalaxy 1.0 was the first to really execute on an amazing new UX since the days of IRC Fserves and Napster, and after your legal problems it wasn't till OiNK (and now what.cd) showed up years later that anything nearly as good was available.
Evolution "optimizes" for a lot more constraints. It needs to be self-healing, and work for a long time without any outside maintenance and monitoring. It collects its own energy, and competes with (unpredictable) other organisms for nutrients and sunlight.

Good luck engineering a system like that. Elegant mathematical solutions are great, but only exist for limited, well-defined problems.
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It's surprising that their player doesn't work in Mobile Safari. On my iPod touch, I can load the page and see my music (though it helpfully tells me I should upgrade to IE), but nothing will play.

I notice that they used Flash for the uploader. Surely they wouldn't have used it as the only option for the player.

Strange.
Entirely possible. Currently I am a dropbox customer and see no benefit in switching to Amazon. The only thing that would make me switch is if they came out with a Linux ARM client. It's the only hardware I have that doesn't have a native client and as more and more ARM devices are coming to market, more people will be wanting that.
As a Linux developer, it does feel as if Linux is a third world citizen and the company I work for has offered to do the work for them in porting it to ARM but with no response. If Amazon were to make the ARM client they would definitely see uptake in clients on the devices.
Upvoted - I agree on the first part. As for his incompetence, the worst thing that a company can do is "promote" someone to a position where one "can't do much damage". It's damaging for morale of employees who are competent and hard working, but not properly rewarded for their work when compared to "non-damaging" ones.
I am reassured by facebook's enormous, gigantic attack surface. I am sure that anonymous would be able to wreak absolute ungodly havoc upon it if they decided to.
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Yes. They tried to send in robots to observe and help the liquidators move debris at Chernobyl, but they didn't last very long. It isn't so much the radio signal as the electronics get damaged very easily by radiation.
If this product urges Dropbox to release the web api version 1, I'm happy.

That alone will put Dropbox in the top of the game if it's not already there, as tons of devs will rush to develop 3rd party apps for it.

The same doesn't apply to ACD, yet.
For the curious ones, this is the service mentioned in the interview : http://www.lovemachineinc.com/

I would say "divide and conquer model of social coding."
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Bingo. They encourage you to upload your Amazon MP3's directly throughout the launch site. This is a licensing issue.
Any non-privileged user can "dump the proc table" with ps(1). It's somewhat harder to break process address space separation (root privs, physical access, ...).

It's not "fear" but rather "defence in depth" or perhaps "security evangelism". If we don't critique this kind of sloppy use then we tacitly condone it. That leads to (for example) people running "mysql --password=..." and wondering why their DB on shared host got owned.

"But the ssh keys aren't readable unless... and we never reuse passwords and...". This kind of analysis is complex and (thus) error prone. Passwords on the command line should [almost always] simply be taboo, period.
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I encourage our community to assess the costs of file-sharing in the context of the benefits afforded by a liberal stance on technical mischief. I prefer to have rtm as a phd rather than as an inmate.
Is this really feasible?

It's hard enough getting regular electricity in places like Bangalore and Delhi, won't it be much worse in the countryside? What about Internet connectivity -- do we have broadband penetration outside the cities?

I do agree the bureaucracy is getting better. However, corruption and the political climate is getting worse. I'm still not sure where we're headed ...
Convore looks promising, hope it will get support in clients soon .. either twitter-ones like tweetdeck, or im/irc ones like pidgin.
Take a look at point 5.2 of the Term of Use.
Link: http://amzn.to/eeSaB3
Quote: "
5.2 Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law." ...
not that encouraging imho.
Congrats to Sahil and his co-founder for making an awesome product. It sounds like Crate is going places.
Dropbox feels very integrated though.
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How are you planning to advertise and sell this book? If you're happy to discuss some details, I might be able to help you. My email's in my profile.
Reading these lines I can't help but feel how distorted & out-of-touch the author is with the facts.

"Over half-a-million highly-educated and skilled immigrants are stuck with temporary, non-immigrant work visas like the H-1B, which don't allow them to start a company or even change jobs. Pushed to a corner, they come back to India, where the entrepreneurial climate is far from ideal."

Being an Indian who chose to come back from US after couple of years, I know this is not true, but this statement is being made as if its authentic. There will always be a genuine few who are trying to start a company and stuck due to these issues.

But saying that half a million can't change jobs due to this is ridiculous. They choose not to change jobs, because they want to get their permanent residency status in US. But they know it is their choice.

And if ALL these are people who want to start companies & do well, I can't see why they cannot come back & do it. It is not necessary that you need to have the "perfect" environment before you start something.

If you can't see a change happening, be the change yourself. If you want to do something so much, just do it anywhere.
The article mentions the phrase "when he didn't win the visa lottery...". Just to give people some context ... a few years ago, so many people applied for the H1 visa, that the visa quota finished on the very first day.

I know a student who went to school in Canada and had a good job offer from a large US software company, and was negatively impacted by this (while a Canadian software person can indeed work in the US on a TN visa, an Indian who went to the same school in Canada needs to be on an H1 in order to take that same job). The poor guy got hit thrice. The first time was just the year before the H1 oversubscription ... he didn't have his physical degree in his hands by the time the visa quota finished. The next two times, there was a lottery and he didn't make it :(
What is a fake Facebook thread tool?
I'd read that some key-value stores are implemented using hash tables and erroneously assumed that was the general case. Good to know it isn't.
> Over half-a-million highly-educated and skilled immigrants are stuck with temporary, non-immigrant work visas like the H-1B,

I don't quite understand this. On one hand, it would probably be in USA's advantage to accept more skilled people as permanent residents. But given it's a temporary, non-immigrant visa, why do people act surprised/outraged when they find they cannot stay indefinitely? And why would someone start a company on a temporary visa at all?
My music sits on a ReadyNAS Duo (fantastic value, low power, always on), which runs Debian. It would be very nice if the helper application worked there too.
From https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/html5boilerplate/dNb...:

> This is the first time I've heard of Mobile Boilerplate. Can you provide
> some background info? Specifically I am wondering, why desktop/mobile are
> separate rather than combined into one download? What is the suggested
> implementation of a site with both desktop & mobile versions?

HTML5Boilerplate is the one you should use if you are getting started
on websites. It is optimized to work and adapt on mobile browsers.

Mobile HTML5 Boilerplate is optimized for web apps that are explicitly
written to have different UX while on devices other than the desktop.
* This means they might want to imitate the UI of native applications
or be close to it.
* They may make heavy use of touch-based UI paradigms and other
interactions that are not possible on a desktop browser.
* They explictly use media queries and other ways to detect a
non-desktop browser and serve an experience that is different.

When I say web apps, I mean websites that are used intensively to
accomplish certain tasks (like twitter.com / gmail.com / facebook.com
/ admin interface of wordpress.com ). These sites are required to take
advantage of the space available and help users accomplish their tasks
with minimal effort no matter what device.

On the other hand, we do have websites that users visit occasionally
because they found it on some friend's email or on reddit which has
content but users rarely interact with it (other than just visiting it
or at most leaving a comment), in which case html5 boilerplate would
be a good template to use. This would be a good option for most sites
that are content-rich and require minimal user interaction.

Unfortunately for us, mobile platforms are also creating silos by
specifying custom meta tags to use to optimize for their platform.
E.g. Apple recommends using apple-touch-icon meta tag to specify
things specific to webkit mobile browsers. Nokia has its own. We did
not want html5boilerplate to add such cruft to the defaults, but this
would be necessary for someone writing an application tailored to take
advantage of non-desktop devices. There is already a lot of
consistency, but we wish there was more standardization of mobile
optimizations.

Please do contribute suggestions for improving the mobile boilerplate
here: https://github.com/shichuan/mobile-html5-boilerplate/issues
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Maybe it's possible to make this a closed circuit by channeling the "burnt" water back into the solar cell. This way, the daily water consumption could be brought down to (almost) zero.

I guess that this would need distilled water anyway.
No, I really mean it. Some noise (e.g. in the form of this meta-discussion started by RiderOfGiraffes) is OK if makes people think twice before submitting more noise.
The slightly less Orwellian version than imagined here seems pretty likely to me. If there ever is an online national ID system, I'll bet 100 to 1 that you'll be able to port your facebook identity directly across to it.

That said, there's an interesting Silicon Valley goes to Washington -- courtesy of its Harvard roots -- story here -- it may be that Zuck is just that much more forward thinking than the rest of the nerds, and wants in on the Washington game in a proactive way, rather than as a mission of last resort when dragged there by some other group, a-la the MPAA.

That would, in my mind, bookend the 'geeks' era of technology companies -- 30 years or so from long-haired off the grid types hacking Apple II software in shacks outside of Big Sur to 20-something billionaires hiring up Washington talent.

If I understand my major industrial history correctly, that's about right, maybe a bit slower than the oil industry. Look for Biotech to get smart on this in the next 10 or 15 years?
You think they're cute? I think they're incredibly sinister.

Maybe you haven't played Half Life 2?
It doesn't seem like they currently do this, but it would be great if Amazon applied file de-duplication (like Dropbox) to at least music files. If I'm trying to upload a song that Amazon already has on its own servers, it should just use that copy instead of uploading a new copy from my computer.
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I purchased a ticket personally as it was worth attending from a personal stand point back in 2009 even coming from the UK.

You have to wonder whether the developer part of the conference should be ticketed separately from the keynote, as I would happily miss the keynote for access to the information. From what I heard in 2010 a lot of people only attended the first day to see what would be announced, you would think the price would be enough to deter bloggers etc but apparently not, the same goes for Google IO
If you toss out the GUI stuff and the boilerplate encryption algorithms, the amount of important code in TrueCrypt is fairly small. It has, naturally enough, been subjected to attempts to break it:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2008/07/17/s...

Writing a sentence like "Some folks claim it has a backdoor" is painfully dishonest, manipulative, and scummy.
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I can't say it's among my top concerns in the world right now. The quest for political influence isn't automatically a crime. Facebook obviously has a big interest in FCC policy for example. If they choose to opt out of the political games it puts them at a disadvantage especially when big telecom is one of the most powerful lobbies in the country. Ironically when it comes to issues like net neutrality Facebook is actually one of the few big tech companies that doesn't have any major partnerships with carriers to consider. I find the whole national-ID angle implausible but let's say it was true. Do we feel better if Google or Microsoft, both with considerable Washington connections, are the ones lobbying for a national-ID jackpot? In a strange counterintuitive way more competition in the high-tech influence peddling business is probably a good thing. Better than just conceding policy influence to Microsoft, Google and the other big established players isn't it? I sort of feel like Americans have been deeply naive about how much influence big corporations have and now they're confronted with it on a daily basis and it's a big revelation? It's basically always been this way, or worse, and we managed. No need to get terrified over it now.
Well said. Business plans suck time and energy. They are usually required by time wasters (investors you should avoid anyway) and waste valuable time (when you could be iterating).
They are proposing 440 or so students to start, eventually 2,200. They ideate bringing West Coast entrepreneurialism out to the East Coast; a nice idea!

I think what's likely to happen is that they will graduate 380 people who suddenly discover a love of quant-finance.

Look for Stanford school of Applied Math to launch soon. : )
I think that this article is a bit short-sighted. Facebook has a massive, massive network. I should know - I briefly interned on their TechOps team (and switched teams partway through). Their slice of the internet is truly massive, and worldwide. The amount of bandwidth consumed by the Photos product alone, much less the rest of Facebook's properties, is gargantuan.

Now take a look back and notice just how deeply the telephone companies influence politics. Do I even need to provide examples? Think about Net Neutrality. Facebook doesn't just want it, it depends on it to keep its costs down and its site fast.

Explain to me, how can they battle this without having the ear of Washington? It's a good strategic move, and I expect that far more of their clout will be focused on maintaining the status quo than federally mandating Facebook use. As an organization with a great deal of hackers (as in hacker news 'hacker'), I think that enforcing a global ID would face major resistance even within the company. Far more plausible is that they're looking for influence to keep the internet open, as that is in their best interests.
I've said it before, I'll say it again:

( http://swombat.com/2011/2/22/predictability-of-closed-platfo... )

> I would argue that only one thing is entirely predictable about closed platforms: they will do whatever is in the business's interest. When building your business on someone else's platform, you should always assume that if it is in the platform owner's interest, they will shut you down tomorrow with no warning.

> So, you need to do two things at the very least:

> 1. Ensure your goals and the platform owner's goals are always in harmonious agreement.

> 2. Have a backup plan for what happens if your access to the platform is revoked tomorrow.

> People seem to keep learning this lesson over and over again... with Facebook, with Twitter, and these days with Apple...

And these days, with Amazon?
fortunately my wallet's content will not be impacted by this news. Being in Italy helps you spend less money, Yay! :(
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Robots don't have true intelligence, that's why.

However, if someone could create a general way to power robots with intelligence, i.e. plug a robot into the intelligence grid and there it goes, they'd be billionaires.

Anyone figure it out?
no, you are using a unix-like system. if the user does not have root privileges, they cannot perform your ridiculous suggestion.

the correct way to elicit a password from the user for ssh is to use ssh-askpass. a safe way to pass this to processes such that it does not appear in the process table is to pipe it.
The Russian P-700 Granit anti-ship missile can operate in a networked swarm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit
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If you ever get the chance to read Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto I highly suggest it, it's very eye opening as to the origins and reasons for mandatory schooling.

Also when reading John Taylor Gatto, please ensure you do not conflate schooling with education. You'll not like him very much if you conflate the two. Unless you really are against education, in that case please reply :)
I can't speak for early 2009 when that article was published, but does any of this stand true today still?

They have a changelog here: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=version-history
Their contact page says they're registered in the US and gives an address: http://www.truecrypt.org/contact

OK, can't speak for their forum banning as I'm not familiar with that situation and correct I cannot find any public repositories - but that's not too rare for some open source projects.

The reasons for being partially anonymous are pretty clear, I doubt various governments are a great fan of TrueCrypt especially with its plausible deniability.
Reminds me of when I co-founded a University spin-out in the UK during 90s - the only offer of help we got was an offer to lease us a building!
This looks beautiful!

How are you planning to drive traffic to the site? I think as profquail suggested, content is king. Building a community around learning and teaching about beer brewing will probably do you a lot of good.

In the demo video, please show a real recipe instead of filler text like "Demo". Your users should not get the feeling that you don't know anything about beer brewing.

Add more recipes under "Shared Recipes". When I clicked on the only one there is, I got an error:

http://skitch.com/hrishimittal/raf6b/homebrew
Internet penetration is 10x better than it was 2 years ago with wire-less broadband devices and with so many cell-phones around, almost everyone I know "at least" has a GPRS.

Electricity is getting better but till then power back-up ftw!

I find it strange bootstrapping startups complaining about environment, looks like someone wants to be mouth-fed.
Only for a year and only for US customers.
Is their a way to see the specific names of each user who shared the URL on Facebook. For example, if a URL has been shared on Facebook through 9300 Users is it possible to get a list of all the users name(s) or is their a easy wat to see which users shared the url.
I'm in Scotland - I've always wondered about shutting down the monster that is Scottish Enterprise and using the money saved to reduce the CGT rate for startups.
Not to take away from the obvious coolness of it all, but am I the only one who was disappointed to see that "juggling" here didn't really mean "3 balls in the air at once"? The headline led me to believe it would resemble a circus routine...
For Stripe, YC was actually the first firm we took investment from. Doing so was a very easy decision.
Mark Zuckerberg is the #1 target for manipulation of every intelligence agency and influence centre on earth.

His 26 year old mind is up against the intelligence apparatus of multiple nation states that want to use his possessions.

He has no chance. All of his meetings with various power brokers and law enforcement representatives are well known. The fight is over. He's a unwitting puppet. All of the information that reaches him is carefully monitored by tens if not hundreds of professionals in the business of information trafficking and control.

Something with the value of Facebook either survives through rigid ideological principles upheld by a mesh of ideologues, or it falls to outside influence.

I think Google's built in iconoclastic values gave it some level of inoculation against government influence.

But Facebook has no values aside from power and money. Zuck is the classic power monger geek, a true successor to Bill Gates, except Bill Gates was not nearly as much of an obvious target because the stakes were not understood at the time.
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I tried that some time back. It did not work. I also the got the feeling that this was dragging my other sites' adsense earnings.

So I took it off.
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They can't guarantee not accessing the files you store on their servers. That makes sense, though it's a bit creepy.

If you store encrypted files with them (and not store the encryption key in the same place) I guess it's not really an issue.
Agreed. It's generally a bad idea to build your entire product around a missing feature in the Big Guy's thing.

The surprising thing about Amazon, however, is that they've gone out of their way to be the exception to that rule over the last 4 years. JungleDisk was the posterchild for "business that will only last until Amazon incorporates their product as a feature", and yet it continued to survive as Amazon released infrastructure product after infrastructure product. And in the few cases where they did move into a space where somebody had built something, they did it delicately and cooperatively. They really were the Good Guy.

I'm hoping that this was just the one space that so obviously needed filling from a Company Strategy perspective that they're making an exception in this case. They've built up a lot of goodwill. It'd be a shame to see it squandered.