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There was never any risk of v1 of FlipLive cannibalizing the teleconferencing business - it was one-way only - no way for the 'viewers' to send a stream back to the publisher's camera. BTW - I wrote some of web software (the ActionScript) for FlipLive.
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> which can't possibly be learned from noisy, real-world experience in so short a time,

This sounds very much to me like a "God is in the gaps" fallacy.
haha rereading my post I guess that would be my first thought too - I actually do some recording of events for my university. And its a real bitch trying to get the equipment functioning, a plug and play like option would be ideal
There's a benefit to having nuclear power plants around that is worth the risk (in my opinion) even if we accept that there will be some nuclear safety issues over time. The positive benefits of nuclear power are so astronomically greater than the negatives that it borders on criminal to report in it like the media has.

When coal miners die in China, you don't hear the media clamoring to shutdown every coal mine. Or perhaps more apropos: when there's a coal slurry disaster no one calls for halting all coal mining everywhere.

The real reason is that nuclear is scary because people don't understand it.
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Dropbox-style mirroring is still susceptible to the hypothetical "service problem killed/corrupted a file, the mistake was happily sync'd down to all mirrors."

In short: if you're reliant on the cloud service for your backups (as distinct from your sync'ing), you're at risk.
The Amiga 1000 was launched as a computer, but the product Amiga Corp (or Hi-Toro?) had developed when Commodore bought it was initially conceived as a videogame console. It was developed as a computer only after the games market collapsed.
> Google ... to offer a service that doesn't make you hate yourself every time you have to interact with them.

Except Google is not exactly known for their stellar customer service, either.
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Is there a reason to not use the Apple COM SDK for iTunes? link: http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunesvisualsdk.html Or are we (you) talking about something more app store oriented?
Probably ARM support thats coming with newer code out of Microsoft. May have been too costly and had too many breaking changes to get it on Vista. Just a guess.
Actually, since SugarSync inaugurated the shameless plug portion of the thread, let it be said that Google Apps is hard to manually backup. That why we automated it at Backupify. http://www.backupify.com

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We also backup your Twitter Feed, your Facebook Pages and your Flickr or Picasa photo albums, should the need arise.

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Let me guess, US only?
No, I was talking about TiVo, as a follow-up to your comment ... and your assertion that GPLv2 is flawed because it allowed for such usage.

All I'm saying -- it depends on who's perspective you're relying on, and since when talking about TiVo you're mostly talking about the Linux kernel, I gave it as a shining example of a project who's main founder disagrees.

The part about Torvald ... he merely tolerates it

He has no reason to "endorse" it either. Tolerance is what we should all be striving for. IMHO, the free market rules work just fine, except when the market is not really free, by means of natural or government backed monopolies (like patents). Worked great for other industries.

That said I completely agree that Motorola are assholes.

But you cannot change their behavior, unless you're going to do it by means of healthy competition -- simply because if Android were to impose stricter rules on locking, Motorola wouldn't have joined the party, and I'm pretty sure they are still skeptical about their choice ;-)

Imagine if Android somehow becomes the standard, just as Windows, but for mobile phones. And that you can run your apps on every phone, and thus have no vendor lock-in (like people have with iOS for example) -- the truth of the matter is that software is much more bigger than hardware, and mobile phones themselves will be a complementary to software (just as PCs currently are).

In this instance do you think Motorola will afford to lose market share to smaller, more open manufacturers that will be dying to grab a chunk of the market by any means necessary?

Which it the reason they probably are trying to do lock-in now, when the market is unprepared for it -- you're witnessing a land-grab. Apple does it too -- the more they shove on their customer's necks, the more they'll have in the future when competition will be stronger.

The important part of this story is that other manufacturers will be able to join the game, and unless something is yet to unfold, this is precisely what Google wants, as it is in their best interest. Not only that but they are putting pressure on it by releasing unjailed devices like Nexus S.

Have some faith in humanity dude :-) Software is a relatively new field versus all the others.
This is very similar to my routine.

6am I lay in bed going over emails (my co-founders are GMT -6 while I am in the UK so most emails come in over night for me) so I don't wake my other half.
7.30am ish I'm at my desk till noon. If it's a gym day then I'll be out till 2pm, otherwise I tend to only take 15 mins for lunch.
Conference calls at 3-5 every week day, I then take an hour or so for dinner and then work till 10 or 11 at night.

Sat/Sun I tend to work 2pm till 6 and then a couple of hours in the evening.

When I worked for big companies I was a proper 9 on the dot, organise my day so I got out at 5 or 5.30 on the dot and drop work thinking like a heavy coat as soon as I was out the door. It's amazing what believing in what you do can do for your mental reserves though. The hardest part is convincing my partner that it's how it has to be for a while.
How about a company that doesn't force me to code against paypal that my customers can just do a one time buy for. I would be willing to pay for that what paypal charges...
Perhaps a new business school...certainly not all of grad education.
Get a VM with it.
A payment processing platform with no indication of who runs it? Anonymized whois info? Really? Unless this info won't appear before you market-launch and you're not US-only I don't really see your point, sorry.
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I believe this is an artifact of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

On the other-hand, MS is under the pressure, like never before to prove itself on the web, and few hard-choices need to be made for it o be nimble.
How can they measure to give more meaningful prices?
I don't mean to come across as combative but how is that fair?
Then they should accept responsibility for the outcome of their decision when Google backing up their stuff isn't "backed up enough".
Stammy?
Is this market getting saturated? Just how many potential customers are there in this Subscription service market? Enough to sustain all the providers?
"TechStars NYC killed it today with its first ever Demo Day in New York City."
FlipLive is kinda awesome, but as you said... when you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot... Personally, I cannot think of too many occasions where the average person is: 1)in range of wifi, 2) has something worth sharing with an audience who are available there and then, 3) wouldnt rather use Skype video conferencing so as to get two-way communications. There are a few, but I'm not sure there's enough.
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Does their DNS do MX records? It only mentions A, AAAA, and SRV.
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I know, that's what I said.

But if you really don't want to be tracked, can you trust marketers to respect this header? If not, what's the point?
Stealing is a strong word. It's just business. It isn't AOL's fault your parents don't know better. BTW if you think that's bad this is still around for your grandparents:

http://www.webtv.net/

In 2005 WebTV was still grossing US$150 million per year in revenue with 65% gross margin.
We're using Braintree here at Loggly, and like it quite a lot. The API has a neat little Python library that we use on our backend, and is pretty well documented.

The indirection involved in posting billing forms to them means you wind up doing some interesting gymnastics if you want to include a billing form as part of a larger user signup form. You may want to check the JS on our paid signup page -- go to https://www.loggly.com/register/#woodpecker do an inspect element on the submit button, and expand the inline script a few lines down. The script creates an (unfunded, inactive) user on the server, receives a token pointing to this user to use in posting to braintree, and then posts the braintree form.
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Please stop paying them.. companies seem to only learn through the wallet
I'll argue that the most important part of grad school is/was the people. And that is the element YC nailed for me.

I also had to teach myself a bunch of technical stuff to get xobni off the ground. Unlike grad courses this stuff was practical by definition.

For me YC and YC alums more closely fit the profile of an engineering grad program than a MBA program.
I'm presently using iSSH, which supports port tunnels (SSH Port Forwarding as PuTTY calls it).

Could anyone enlighten me as to whether or not it supports SSH port forwarding and how well that works? iSSH works pretty well, but it pops up regularly warning that it's going to disconnect due to inactivity (despite the fact that I'm actively using the port tunnel to RDP into something).
They still don't seem to work with the app though. I've tried multiple approaches and it keeps claiming the key was rejected by the server. The ssh log only shows:

Apr 14 21:20:51 ip---- sshd[31560]: Received disconnect from ---------: 11: Normal Shutdown. Thank you!
For 265 color support you can use this:
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You seem to think that a negotiation requires an exchange of money. Nothing could be further from the truth. The dictionary that comes with mac dashboard defines negotiation thusly:

negotiation |nəˌgō sh ēˈā sh ən|
noun (also negotiations)
discussion aimed at reaching an agreement

There is very little difference in negotiating a salary and negotiating a romantic relationship at the end of the day. You try to reach an amicable agreement that both parties can live with. The reason I recommended a bar/public venue is that you can get way more practice there than waiting for your next salary offer.
Its a pity this wasn't upvoted more ... I guess we'll have to wait for an incident of this to actually happen before people come back to this post to ooh and aah over how prescient it was.
Good writeup.
JVM bytecode isn't that far away from machine code.

It is far away in the case the type system is a complete mismatch, like Haskell. Or in the case of Scheme, if you want to have continuations without a huge performance penalty, you've got to put some effort into it.

For these instances I've see advices on Lambda-the-Ultimate to just go for native-code, as it is easier to experiment since you have a lot more freedom.

That said, building on top of the JVM can have advantages other than being easy to write the compiler.
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I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer.

I totally disagree with this. You have to remember that a sizable portion of computer users don't really understand what a browser is. To these people, IE = internet. So for Microsoft to remove that kind of brand equity just wouldn't make sense.
Interesting, yeah I hadn't thought through to the two-way part of it. And I might be totally off-base, but it just felt like it maybe it we edging close.
Right-clicking on the back/forward buttons also works, as it did in Firefox 3.6.

I wish Chrome supported middle-clicking to open a previous page in a new tab.
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Wouldn't they be able to resolve that by packaging their new browser as the default in Windows 8? They could even call it the "Microsoft Bing! browser"
Come now, you can provide a better analysis than this.

>And since then, all we've managed to do is construct the entirety of human knowledge. Atoms, DNA, trips to space..

What does that really do for any individual person. Does simply knowing about atoms, DNA, space make your average happiness strictly greater than that of a hunter-gatherer? Of course not. Unless you can show that technology strictly makes the average happiness for humans greater, it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

What your post comes down to is: "I have all this cool stuff, so clearly we're better off now". How self-centered of you.
Sure, and that's why we're moving off Google for hosted Apps.

I entirely agree- When things are mission critical to you, you need them in an environment where you can control it, back it up properly, and ensure it stays up.

We're not a priority to Google (Understandably.)

For things that really matter to your company, you should bring them in-house, so you can ENSURE they're backed up, and available when necessary. At least that way when things do fail, you can make fixing it a top priority, rather than a nice-to-have.
This is a pretty good characterization.

In CS at least, YC is very similar.

In both, most students don't pay to attend.

In both, most students get some funding -- a small amount of pocket change to buy ramen.

In both you'll work heads down in a way you've likely never done before, nor will do after.

In both your output, will hopefully, have you set for life.

In both you're surrounded by some of the best talent you'll likely see again doing the same thing you're doing.

Just about the only major difference is coursework (HN is really isn't equivalent). Of course, I've probably made some big assumptions and missed things having never gone through YC, but my short take.
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* The practicum is launching your first product.

* The Tuesday dinners are the weekly lectures.

* The coursework is Hacker News.

* Your fraternity brothers are the YC alums

* And unlike contributions to your university’s general fund – when you invest in Y Combinator you get a return.

Wow!
I register all of my domains a Dreamhost—they're a hosting company and their core business is not registration. No problems testing domain availability, no squatted urls even after things expire. Reg. is something like $10, and I'm not going to sweat $1 - $2 over the piece of mind.
I'm working on a registrar that just focuses on domains. I want to be the Chipotle of domain registrars. Life has been happening and putting me behind, but if you are interested I'd love some more people to e-mail when I finish it: http://nameptr.com

Sorry for the shameless plug... but this the third or fourth post I've seen, and I had to mention that I am working on something :)
So are you actually switching off Google?
It's common now for ad networks to use "Flash cookies" -- meaning if you clear your cookies, they will just recreate them next time you hit their server using a cookie stored by Flash.

Remove them here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

Be sure to delete both Flash and normal cookies at the same time, since if one is present and the other is not, they will recreate each other. Better yet, use FlashBlock.
Two vendors, browsers, and operating systems competing in the same space. Expecting one of those competitors to support its browser past a certain number of OS releases without expecting the other to is a double standard.
Hey HN

I've been working on this project on the side and now I'm at the point of getting close to a golden release. AppDK is a Dev Kit for iOS developers and our goal is to make developing better mobile apps with as little effort as possible.

We're launching in a few weeks and we'll be happy to talk to iOS devs on HN to get feedback, suggestions or anything to try out. Hope to get feedback from everyone else here on HN, if you got any ideas that you want to throw our way free feel to email me AppDevKit at Google's Email Service.

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There is enough to begin a discussion about it. What is one of the top 2-3 things everyone wishes for? Health. He makes a convincing argument that hunter-gatherers were considerably more healthy than agriculturalists.
Some scary guy tracks every vacation Notch takes.
People use "top-shelf" for this as well. Like, "This bottle of cognac is top-shelf".
Hah, I don't disagree. And they aren't going to stop anytime soon.

And from the webtv site "Sorry, MSN TV hardware is no longer available for purchase from Microsoft. Microsoft continues to support the subscription service for existing WebTV and MSN TV customers."

they still support the subscription service.
Not a lot. I think Ghostery is best for ABP without NoScript. People that don't like to manually allow everything, but want to block tracking javascript easily by default.

Aside from that, it may add value in telling you which of those javascripts are for tracking. This is usually obvious, but not always.

tl;dr: If you want a lean install, it probably is not necessary to add Ghostery to ABP+NS.
While the domain costs $8.99/year, you have to "deposit" money to your account that the cost is subtracted from, and if you do it with a credit card there is a small fee associated. I think you can deposit $10.00, from which they take $1.00, then they give you a $0.25 "rebate", leaving you with $0.26 in your account once you've paid for the domain. It varies depending on how much you deposit, but in general I just think of it as more like $10.00/year for a domain.

That being said, I'd pay a lot more than that just for their clean (although slightly dated looking) interface. I'll be switching the rest of my domains to them in another month or so.
The consensus seems to be "it's solid, but not special". I guess RIM needs to keep working even harder now to actually determine whether their tablets make it or not.

The good news for them is that starting 1 year behind the competition doesn't necessarily mean they won't be able to carve out a profitable slice of this rapidly growing market in the future.
Perhaps this is just the clarity of hindsight, but it wasn't surprising that operating expenses have shot up due to the competition in hiring and its recent across-the-board raises. I'm actually surprised the impact wasn't greater.
I really enjoy your rational comments when it comes to this whole higher education vs. dropout ("uncollege") debate, which seems to have engulfed HN lately. Thanks for being a voice of reason.
I was curious about how this would compare to large concert venues / stadiums / convention centers?

Anybody know how much those cost, ballpark?
As another example of handling cloud services going offline, consider this case by SmugMug:

http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-sl...

"""So what are we doing differently? Simple. Amazon serves as “cold storage” where everyone’s valuable photos go to live in safety. Our own storage clusters are now “hot storage” for photos that need to be served up fast and furious to the millions of unique visitors we get every day. That’s a bit of an oversimplification of our architecture, as you can imagine, but it’s mostly accurate."""

You can always maintain a hot-backup, fail-over of your site on your own servers -- perhaps with reduced functionality until the scalable cloud services come back online. For a mission-critical site, this would seem to be a reasonable tradeoff.
This is precisely why I think it's insane that people trust their email - the nexus of their online presence, normally the key to every account and their primary communication tool for everything from conversations to account statements to a free service. It's not 1996 anymore, this stuff matters. I pay for Rackspace email. When I have a problem I can call a human and get an answer. As far as I'm concerned it's a bargain.

Google doesn't do human, it doesn't matter if it's a free gmail account, a serious-money adwords account or your entire business on apps, you're just a number if something goes wrong you're on your own, shouting at the unmoving monolith.
I hesitate to say this but that sounds moronic.

What, in your opinion, are they trying to achieve with this sort of "scrutiny"?

Are they trying to stop Iran from developing a range of super-shuttles with lasers?

Presumably they're now going to pension off all NASA staff to avoid them sharing such expertise (like which way round to wire a motor) with outsiders?
strangely enough i agree with this pretty straight-to-the-point comment. Craiglist is a good example of a good barebones design, and it's not to say craiglist is correct but they've placed importance on clear functionality over beautiful graphics. Others that come to mind following this similar pattern; reddit, hackernews, stackoverflow
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I have thought about this a lot in the past and came up with a simple solution.

The easiest way would be to track the search terms and the ip address/mac address used with the search terms. If google sees them come back to the site and google the same/close search terms as the last link the last link they had is -1. If they are seen with different unrelated search terms the last link they clicked for those search terms is +1. If they arn't seen back on the site in x minutes, the last link they clicked gets +1.
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The point is that some marketers are still honest and some also realize that it's smart to not piss off people, but there's no easy to use flagging mechanism that would signal your disapproval without user-experience suffering badly.

Also, some marketers might be honest, but that data may end-up in the wrong hands eventually. So if you care about privacy, any period of time in which you aren't tracked is a net win for your privacy.

Not to mention that this flag may end up being a useful argument in case of a lawsuit.
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If you value software developer's talents at $x per year, it shouldn't matter where they're located in the world. Perhaps you'd pay a slight premium for in-house workers vs telecommuters but only if that made sense for your business.

Whether they're in New Delhi, San Francisco, or some no-name town in middle america, if they've got the skills to develop your software and provide a similar value (compared to each other), paying them a standard rate is fair.

edit: I'll also note that "fair" isn't the standard for business these days, but it's interesting to see some companies attempting to do things differently.
Free ssh client for iOS? Do you have an example? I'm genuinely interested, but haven't found one.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp doesn't require any special browser support