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Excuse me from being confrontational, I'm certainly not judging you but I think you have far more control over your situation than you think.

Have you paid back your debts and used credit responsibily since then? I'd be really surprised if you had made amends and your credit report was still hosed.

Now if you are saying you don't think your credit report should reflect unpaid debts even though they were 'years ago', that is fundamentally unfair to those that use credit responsibly. Everyone else pays more interest to make up for those that default. There is really no argument to be made that you shouldn't have to be squared up on your debts to get more loans.

And no matter how many hours you claim to want to work, if you think not being able to get credit destines you to poverty you don't understand credit. Credit doesn't make you any richer, it just time shifts future income to a lump sum in the present. It is the inverse of savings. In fact it makes you poorer unless you do something with the money that earns a greater return than the cost of the loan.

So are you saying you are going to take out a loan with a 100% chance you need to repay it and start a business with a 50/50 or worse chance of working out? And if it fails you will default on the loan? Because if you are complaining about poverty now, wait until you have a loan for a business that failed miserably, then you will be really screwed. So funding a business on credit a fundamentally risky thing and if you already have one black mark on your credit report it is probably not a good avenue for you anyway.

And don't say that not having credit means you can't start your business. The above paragraph explains why I'm not starting my business on credit. I'm funding it by saving. I work 40-70 hours a week (certainly not 100, I physically couldn't do that). I do 40-50 at my salaried job, and about 1-20 on starting by business outside of work depending on if I work all weekend or not. Does it suck not having free time? Absolutely. But at the end of the day my business is funded from my own cashflow, with no debt or interest to anyone. And no matter how bad your credit history is, you can always save and bootstrap like that.

Blaming being unable to start a business on people not willing to lend you their money is just an excuse. At the end of the day your credit score, whether or not you start a business, this is all under your own control.

(And if HN doesn't mind a plug, I personally learned a lot from Ric Edelman, he has a free podcast and a personal finance 101 book called the Truth about Money that I learned quite a bit from, but the fundamental thing he preaches is simple math. Make more money than you spend)
So what’s stopping you from using Scala for your Android app?

Mirah.

While Mirah is still beta-ish I prefer it to Scala. Maybe it's because I'm already familiar with Ruby, but the "multi paradigm" (i.e. no paradigm) nature of Scala leaves me cold. It's kinda-sorta OO, kinda-sorta functional. But the functional part gives no guarantees of referential transparency or immutable state, so the killer value of FP is lost.

But, language rant aside, even if Scala were the cat's meow, you still have to include the Scala base libraries with every app. Proguard may help, but it seems wasteful.

Mirah, OTOH, compiles down to straight-up JVM byte code. No supporting runtime libs are needed. Very slick.
The announcement seems driven more by why Facebook would want (capturing users, adding a revenue stream) than what users would want (sharing musically cheaply and easily). Hard to see how this competes well with YouTube music videos. Seems like everyone is looking to connect social networking and music. MySpace has (kind of) held on because of the connection but there are many failures including the supposed music heavyweight Apple's Ping.
To be honest, traveling some parts of Asia isn't exactly expensive. Only when you get into Korea, Japan, HK. Most of the other places in Asia are pretty cheap, especially if you're backpacking.
Thousands gather to protest in central Athens
Isn't that a bit like arguing that it's OK to pirate Photoshop because it costs too much?

I think it would be nice if Google indicated in the market which apps are ad-supported, but I don't think it changes the fundamentals.
My premise was that someone might decide to make malware for Macs because:

- users are not expecting it, and have had little coaching regarding malware on Macs

- there is very little usage of antivirus programs

- Safari is not particularly hardened

- OSX lacks various protections present in Windows

- making a mac 'port' of a malware program is probably not difficult

It seems really easy and wide open, in other words.

We have seen a fairly widespread attempt recently to infect Macs with a trojan, 'anti-malware.zip'. I presume most people have seen this, if not: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/19/macdefender-malware-protectio...
I've actually encountered this several times recently - chromium downloads the .zip file automatically when you are redirected to the attack site. What if they find a browser exploit for Firefox or Safari as the next step?

> People write malware to make money. Your premise is that the return on investment for Mac malware is comparable to that of Windows, which still absolutely dominates the market for personal computers. It's not.

Almost all software is written to make money, and still plenty decide to write software for the Mac even though the market is smaller. What's the difference? The revenue potential per 'customer' is a lot smaller for this vs. the programs sold by Panic, perhaps?

I'm not challenging your perspective or expertise of course, these are merely the reasons I wonder about it.
I detect sarcasm, and I agree to the extent that the public debate on this matter is sorely lacking any analysis of why the laws in question exist. Both sides of the argument seem guilty of this.
If you were supposed to be performing technical interviews, why would you base the candidates' ratings on something completely non-technical?
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so .... Spotify's launching a facebook app?
On a related note-Read about Edward Bernays (wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays) , nephew of Sigmund Freud, and his contributions/actions/in advertising..or check out this documentary- "Century of the Self" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_... ), that BBC produced.
Much more distinctive memories have been "implanted" by mistake, such as child abuse.
Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Prog Lang of the Year
Change.org: Inviting 50 hackers who believe they can change the world
The immediate consequence is a trial, not necessarily a conviction, which may or may not follow. The CEO (and just as importantly, his backers) seem entirely prepared to run this risk.

One of the abiding virtues of due process is that it's public. In the event that a cartel captures a regulatory agency, and turns it against the people it's supposed to serve, a system of open justice will force them to fight for their odious privilege in full view of the press. The risk - for the cartel - is that the trial will backfire by spotlighting just how corrupt and abusive their underlying legal supports have become. Even if they do win in court, the victory my by Pyrrhic.

In the absence of a clear (and superior) alternative, the arguments that supported the initial regulatory capture may still carry some weight with an otherwise ambivalent public. In these cases, private acts of cartel-busting may be truly foolish. But in cases like Uber or Airbnb - where the public can not only see the alternative clearly, it can download it as a wildly useful app - it becomes exponentially harder to strangle genuine progress. Extreme and widespread dissatisfaction with the norm (which is very much the case with SF Taxi service) makes aggressive legal suppression even riskier - especially when cash-strapped states and municipalities can be convinced that the new market is big enough to substantially augment their tax bases.

None of this means that the overt cartel-busting approach to business development isn't risky as hell. It is. But timed correctly, and supported by the right technological breakthroughs, it can pay off spectacularly. If anyone deserves the entrepreneur-as-hero laurels, it's these guys.
Disruptive? Please. Uber is a driver service where you simply book it over the web. It's hardly disruptive, or much different than services already out there.
XKCD Wikipedia Philosophy
Wikipedia: Take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy". Via XKCD.
http://xkcd.com/903/
It works. Why?
External Bluetooth GPS support for android
This title is misleading - Facebook is not launching a music service. Spotify already has a music service and it already integrates with Facebook in a nice way, though perhaps some people will like to launch it from the FB website, who knows. The simultaneous play feature is cute, but seems more like something they added for publicity.

I'm expecting more headlines like this as Facebook heads towards IPO.
How I implement static-site search (an alternative to Tapir)
I think Travis enjoys living on the edge. One of his previous companies, Scour, was sued for $250 billion. (Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/travis-kalanick). I guess he fits pg's definition of "naughtiness"?
Buy the CMO an iPad
Cosmic distance record 'broken'
Of course, I meant, hopefully a successful remote wipe will prevent this method from working. (A number of things could go wrong, including no signal, MobileMe being down, etc.)
Travis kind of thrives on stepping over the line - his first big deal was P2P service Scour and he likes to tell everyone about how there was a half-trillion dollar judgement against them. I don't think he's likely to face anything like that with Uber!
Show HN: Inkpond - A web application for creating and sharing digital art
Hey Hackers,

We just went live with a little web application we've been working on. It's called Inkpond (www.inkpond.com). Essentially we want this to become a community for sharing and creating art work.

We are looking for early adopters, comments, and feedback for the site. If you are interested, come check it out.

Thanks,

The Inkpond Team
http://www.inkpond.com
Going to the Moon: Was Apollo a Dead End?
WTF? This is a game for _cats_. Can't your dogs read?
SuperSymmetry challenged: Ultracold measurements reveal shape of the electron
...but on second thought, I'm sure Facebook is big everywhere.

According to this website (http://www.nickburcher.com/2011/04/facebook-usage-statistics...) the US has 150 million, out of 600 million active facebook users (according to wiki), which puts it at about 25% of facebook's total share.
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I hypothesise it's down to the ease of access to pirated content and the lack of money.

I am 19 and make enough that every time I want something (an album, movie, book) I can buy it and I do. I care about copyright, the reason most young people don't is because they don't want to spend their limited income on something they can get for free.

If you give a young person the income to purchase everything without meaning they have to limit their spending on something else I suspect the majority would buy it.
Sorry, I don't think you're dumb for thinking this could happen, but I simply disagree that the Mac malware "market" is going to resemble the WinAPI market any time in the near future.
In my experience in the infrastructure/defense/aerospace fields, you get 2 weeks to start, but 3 weeks after 2 years, plus 1 week company shutdown in December. Plus stat holidays of course (about one week's worth).
>eliminating death

This is a pointless exercise that is doomed to failure. Sure, we may be able to extend a person's life to 200 or 300 years. But will we be able to cure all future diseases (for the next million years), eliminate accidents, natural disasters, and sudden body failure? What about when the sun burns out in a few billion years? Will we be able to successfully colonize another planet while keeping the same safety precautions for human life?

Death is as much a part of life as birth. It will not be eliminated unless you eliminate life. To think otherwise is a denial of reality.
CloudFlare Adds One-Click Web App Installs to Free CDN
This is the right approach. See if someone like Mossberg at the WSJ would pick this up. The traffic increase would be huge.
Why does it matter how many points my comment got?

But, the closest I could get:
UN General Assembly, resolution 41/65, of 3 December 1986: Principles Relating to Remote Sensing of the Earth from Outer Space.

Principle IV: These activities shall be conducted on the basis of respect for the principle of full and permanent sovereignty of all States and peoples over their own wealth and natural resources, with due regard to the rights and interests, in accordance with international law, of other States and entities under their jurisdiction. Such activities shall not be conducted in a manner detrimental to the legitimate rights and interests of the sensed State.

I'm not sure how remote sensing could violate jurisdiction over wealth and resources, but it does not mention territory.

And then there's principle XII: As soon as the primary data and the processed data concerning the territory under its jurisdiction are produced, the sensed State shall have access to them on a non-discriminatory basis and on reasonable cost terms. The sensed State shall also have access to the available analysed information concerning the territory under its jurisdiction in the possession of any State participating in remote sensing activities on the same basis and terms, taking particularly into account the needs and interests of the developing countries.

If prior permission to perform the sensing was required, provisions stipulating that the data should be shared would be redundant, I think?

Source: http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gar...
If there's actually a concrete claim you want to make, something more precise like "copyright infringement" or "violating the license agreement" is probably better. If you aren't accusing them of anything in particular but wish to express disapproval, it would be best just to call it "morally wrong" — though I don't think that would make for a very productive discussion.

"Piracy" is a political term used generically to mean "people not doing what I want who should be made to obey me by force of law." It may refer to actually harmful illegal acts (bootlegging) or things that are simply not preferable for somebody's business model (watching legally obtained content on an "unauthorized" device).
"Public debate"? I pay a cabbie, s/he drives me, it's a private matter between the two of us. It's not the public's business to debate!

The horrific notion of criminalizing a consensual economic intercourse between two adults -- with prison penalties, at that -- isn't an issue of democratic politics, but of basic rights.
Google barely has any music service to begin with. This will be a big blow to Apple actually (and Amazon to a lesser extent).
There are no special cases
I advocate for a lot of intellectual and software freedoms, but abolishing copyright and all intellectual property concerns (of which this one is entirely valid) seems a bit ludicrous.
So what’s stopping you from using Scala for your Android app?

The same that is stopping me from using it for J2EE production code: the insufficient IDE integration.
It's quite ok for unit tests though.
>No matter what I did, someone was going to load an existing blocking Lua library in and ruin it.

I don't think this is the case, the most popular library for networking in Lua has been COPAS, which does nonblocking by using coroutines. And even the canonical guide to Lua, PiL http://www.lua.org/pil/, also has a chapter on using coroutines with LuaSocket to download multiple files asynchronously at the same time. Most complaints of Lua are about having too few libraries, so it's interesting to see an argument claiming it has too many.

If anyone is interested in a nonblocking networking library that uses callbacks (similar to node.JS) instead of coroutines for Lua and LuaJIT, I've started such a project here: https://github.com/davidhollander/ox
People who have lost jobs or have never been hired are less qualified as a group than those who are currently working, they say. People who are out of the workforce for a significant period of time may also have fallen behind in skills.

This is absolutely ridiculous for so many reasons. The first counter-argument that comes to mind is that people who have been "out of the workforce" may actually be more qualified than those in the workplace. Of course it varies between industries, but it's not uncommon for employees to become less inspired, less motivated, and less likely to pick up new skills over the years. People who are out of work would be wise to take the time to brush up on their trade and work on related projects between jobs, not only for personal gain, but to impress potential employers. I am amazed that companies legitimately believe that development and experience only happens in the workplace.

Another lingering question in my mind: why wouldn't these companies use unemployment to their advantage? They could surely offer lower salaries to out-of-work employees (who may be desperate for work) than currently-employed employees.
Where did I say maintainable? This is about stability over time.
Khan Academy is designed entirely for singular at-home study, where OCW is sharing course materials meant for MIT classes which are often difficult to follow if you don't have access to the labs, recitation, textbooks, readings, etc. that are meant to go along with the lectures.
Show HN: StockGurus
Ah, but I have an automated reminder to review auto-paid bills every month!
Carbonite vs. Dropbox - The Economics of Carbonite (or Lack Thereof)
Why not set up a Shoutcast server and stream through any respectable audio player?

A quick Goog brings up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHOUTcast
http://www.serverroom.us/shoutcast
I thought QS was independent of match type and account wide for that KW...
Also interested, standard Verdana in my terminal is unusable.
Your screenshot looks awesome.
Again, clickable: http://shouldibeproud.com/

This is all going to seem very harsh ...

Why didn't you do this yourself? Why have you again not put the URL in the URL box, and instead put it in the comment box, where it doesn't get automatically converted to a link?

And I got 30 seconds into the video and didn't really see where it was going, or what it was accomplishing. If anything. And again, it seems to need me to register before I actually understand what's going on.

Can you describe why I would use your service? In one sentence? What problem does it solve? What pain does it take away? What magical thing does it cause to happen that makes me wonder how I ever survived?

I appreciate that you've taken time to make the video, but I can't see it answering my questions. I need something like:

* Register

* Upload your site

* Use Facebook and Twitter to invite your friends (or enemies) to review it

Or whatever it is your site does.

What pain does it alleviate? There's the question I need answered in 5 seconds.

Create a screen that I can read in 5 seconds and see that it's relevant to me.
Does anyone know if satellite imagery could be used to map ocean floors for this type of use? Or would the water disrupt the infrared wavelength?
> For example, right now and for the past week or so, almost every cab in SF is telling their riders that their credit card machine is broken.

"Thanks for the free ride!" - At least in Chicago, it's a part of the passenger "bill of rights" that you are able to pay by credit card. They've pulled the same thing on me a few times and, assuming I'm not in a rush, I've offered to ride with the meter turned off to the closest ATM...then the machine suddenly works.
Very cool. Though I don't see myself needing the hosted version for a while, I can see how it would be useful for people who need tight control over the scheduling of their job queue.
The real success here is Soundcloud. It's venerated by fans of underground electronic music, mainly due to its simple and effective social features.

It's very much like twitter for music in its social functionality. Once you've hunted out the profiles of your favourite artists and labels, logging onto its dashboard becomes a looked-forward-to treat, because you know that soundcloud is where artists put their tunes first, often before they're even finished.

It's basically taken over the actual use case that made myspace successful rather than the one they tried to monetise, which is a place for artists to interact with each other and for fans to go and listen to a snapshot of their current output. The difference is they have implemented it in a way that doesn't make you want to alternately scream/cry when using it.

Their genius is in not trying to get the public to use it. The interface is entirely aimed at artists. If you sign up and you don't have any music to upload, it says "zero tracks" under your name everywhere and you look like a loser. If you don't have at least some experience with music in a non listening capacity, then the whole interface is probably baffling.

This is a great move: it keeps out the general public who are never going to pay for the premium accounts, and it allows Soundcloud to concentrate on pushing the platform/api side of things, which is rightly what they are focusing on for the future.

The real question is, why have I written all that blurb about soundcloud in a thread about FB/spotify?
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Some of those are really obvious ("treatment for flu" had the highest correlation with flu activity), but "disney vacation package" correlating with a states average rainfall was a bit surprising (in that the highest correlation wasn't a search for umbrellas).
While it's true that they benefit from connections (I've seen SO many smart students lose their lives away through K-12 public education, which wastes FAR more talent than any college/university education system - and connections help them get out of it), the fact is that the Internet is now making it easier for us to make connections with people (you can just email the right person who can pull the strings for you now). In fact, you could get connections simply by friending them on Facebook, and they, being entrepreneurs, are probably more likely than others to accept if they think you're interesting.
IPad 2 Jailbreak Exploit, ELEVATOR, i0n1c and We Silly Folks
ELEVATOR is the code name of i0n1c's iPad 2 jailbreak exploit.Veeence has confirmed that i0n1c has an iPad 2 jailbreak ELEVATOR, a piad jaibreak but STAIRS would be the free one....
How does one get non-bullshit advice?

I understand that nobody wants to be "brutally" honest. And, being only human, on some level I'd prefer to hear that I'm awesome. But it's more important to know if I'm doing something stupid. So is it better to prompt the advice-giver with my own concerns, like "I'm worried that my inexperience at X is going to be a problem"? How do you get people to be straight with you?
High-profile Hollywood celebrity arrested for alleged sexual assault
I'm employed, but taking a job with a company that just throws away resumes from the currently unemployed would leave a bad taste in my mouth. I would find such a list valuable.
Spotify isnt available in the US. http://www.spotify.com/int/why-not-available/

So, the facebook integration is an add-on for users that already use/can use spotify?
The municipal transit authority just voted to allow cabs to raise fares by another 10c per unit (to 55c for 0.2 miles/3 minutes' wait time) and another 'temporary' 10c to accommodate higher fuel prices. SF now has the priciest taxis in the US. The regulatory board is completely the creature of the taxi operators.