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I already use tmux and vim for all my development needs. So, once I'll be able to use a "temrinal" in a browser, I'll easily be able to switch to a desktop-less PC.
I just opened the url in incognito to see and it loaded fine. No where did it ask me to log in.
So if I have music that I wrote and have the copyrights to and give a copy of it to a friend and they then use the iCloud service. How would Apple then handle the licensing, as it seems they have some sort of deal with the big record labels to give them a cut of this 24.99, what about independent musicians?
Visual Studio 2010 is developed under .NET/WPF.
Again, the deal brokered with the music industry equates amnesty. There is no simpler way to look at it. Unlike your Flickr account, for example, you still retain purchase rights after your yearly account expires. The way I see it, that's acquiescence by the labels, via a third party, that you in fact have paid for that music, with the added benefit of an upgrade by a licensed partner. As if you handed Apple a list of music, no matter how big or distributed, that you'd like to own. Granted, under the conditions of their license agreement, but on an average .10% of the cost of the license per song (assuming 25,000 mp3's), shit man, you'd be soft not to take the offer at least once and upgrade your current library forever.

Forever, you say? Once you pay for something, regardless of the amount, it's yours.
There is a currency that has been created in an attempt to have a vehicle currency that is not tied to any one currency. With the US dollar being the vehicle currency of today it ties the US economy with the global economies must to tightly. It's finding a floating exchange rate that isn't closely tired to any one currency. As seen after Bretton-Woods global economies ties to one currency is not optimal. Creating this new currency is the hard part.
If you're willing to call Max/MSP/etc work programming (I am but I'm sure some here will be willing to dispute that), you can add a lot of musicians to the list, including Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and a whole bunch of electronic artists.
Wireless carriers reportedly surprised by Apple's iMessage feature
How is this different than what mp3.com was trying to do about 5 year ago (I think it was mp3.com)? I seem to remember them having a service where you could put a CD into your disk drive, have their service recognize the CD and all of the sudden, you had the MP3s.

I'm guessing it is b/c this is 5 years later and b/c of Apple's clout, but I could also be missing some nuance.
If Reading List gains a lot of ground, it may be time for Marco to think about developing an Android app. I'm a happy paid Instapaper user though, and continue to pay the subscription fee to support the service.
I can't stand bitcoin, but Twitter is a good social media service.

No better or worse than any other service out there.
Is there a way to express the depth of the cursor in the drawing? If I draw a circle on the left side of the canvas, I cant figure out how to draw a line through its center.
Google's regulatory threat is probably stronger now, although Apple is looking to control more of the user's interaction with their product. I think Apple gets away with it because their spread makes sense to regulators: They make the product, make the software to make it work, and provide the services to make it useful. That makes sense to regulators in a way that integrating a browser with the operating system didn't, even though it's the exact same thing.
Five features in iOS 5 that I wish Android had by now
Your experience will differ on Google, depending on what cookies you have.

Some of us are 'partially logged in' and it's asking for a password. No doubt you may not be affected.
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The market for this already exists.

Its called "Medical Tourism". Basically middlemen (or a startup) hook up a potential surgery customer to a hospital + hotel (5 star usually). They sell you a complete package including air fare, taxis, rental cars and hotel stay. And of course the surgery.

And it still comes to about 1/4th the cost of surgery in the US.

Its a $10 billion industry if not more. And its going to grow I believe.
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Weirdly, when I want to share a photo, I want to share it through Twitter and not Facebook. I realize I'm in the minority, but it's a growing minority, and was probably a much better deal to negotiate.
Using NOT NOT IN is a syntax error in any event. I was answering in the hypothetical in any event.
Good point. I had forgotten about the PIN. But that's simply yet another password that amenable to guessing/bruteforcing/keylogging etc. The securid is not vulnerable to such attacks which why is why this crack is a big deal.
Magento can't even do a shopping cart properly. The default is a really messy shopping cart, and it is a pain to customize it. You gotta hack everything just to make a one page checkout.
> Digital cameras now constitute 15% of all cameras sold in the US. 15% percent. It'll be 50% in a few years.

Really? That's the same thought I had the first time I saw a usable digital camera 10 years ago, and I don't think I'm special or that I was the only one...
Thanks, that's a very good point. I'll make it happen.

https://github.com/icelab/tasteful-routes/issues/1
3Months Rdio User: What I hate about rdio is music disappearance. License changes. Hopefully apple has a stronger relationship and a full song won't go 30 seconds as fast as rdio's does
I don't see anything stopping you from doing that with the current messaging app, and GroupMe seems to be doing just fine currently. People are mentioning "group messaging" as part of the potential of the new iMessage and I'm wondering if people have seen or played with this feature yet, because I didn't see it anywhere in the keynote.

Another question I have: does this app make the difference between sending SMS messages and sending iMessages completely transparent for me as an end user? I hope so, but it seems like there are some interesting use cases to work out. And how do you "address" a message to an ipad user? Email address, like FaceTime?

Sorry for rambling a bit, I'm just really interested in how some of the implementation details are fleshed out.
> The worst thing that could happen is One Platform To Rule Them All, if that platform is controlled by a company for its own interests.

The web is not controlled by one company.

Edit: For the downvoters, the html5 APIs are made of contributions from mozilla, microsoft, opera, yahoo, apple, google and many more. How many companies participate in writing the iOS API?
Who cares if internet jokers down-vote you?

It really doesn't matter. It's best to be mature, take the high road, and ignore it.
And ironically his company produces a bug tracker/version control for Windows. Do you think any of the developers inside MSFT see the need for a bug tracker/version control system that integrates with visual studio?
Do you think it's on anyones roadmap?
I'm not sure if I understand how this would work, and I'm curious - I believe the majority of SecurID tokens are used as a part of two-factor authentication to further prove you have the credentials you state you do, in concert with a password - how would device-generated keys work for this?
The template debugging looks awesome. I wonder if there is a project that provides django template debugging as a stand alone thing? I don't see myself ever moving from vim to Jetbrains.
Agreed, the key here is that everything is easily shared and exported via standard formats. If that's the case, there is no lock-in.

The fact that Windows/Android/Linux doesn't have a feature or tool that you can import the data to also doesn't mean you have lock-in. It just means the market is a little inelastic, that's all.
Sounds like both to me! As well as a data locker for my own apps!
It sounds like you're base in another country (not US) from the description. It would probably help a lot for people here to provide advice if you actually list where you are from.
Is it too much to ask to have a Gruber article without the token "If Gruber loves Apple so much, why doesn't he marry it?" comment?

We get it. Gruber is pro-Apple. Can we focus on what Gruber is actually saying now?
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As far as I know it's the ISP which has a cache of it, so I just download from the local server.
it's funny, I mean, many of my suppliers of bandwidth and rackspace accept credit cards. No fee, usually.

I'm amused at this thread because I woke up this evening to a bill from a provider that I recently did an especially good job negotiating with, and the guy wants a 3% payment processor fee on top of the negotiated amount.

(I'm going to leave an envelope with a cheque at the co-lo for him; gotta go anyhow.)
Is it safe to assume this would be like a Consumerist but with a tech only focus?
All songs from iTunes are DRM-free, so they will continue working even if you cancel the service.
Am I in the minority in thinking Twitter integration in iOS is not a good idea?
I already hate most tweets that come from apps (like people tweeting every single song that comes on their Pandora, please stop doing this everyone).

If iOS apps are going to decrease the already really bad signal/noise ratio that Twitter has, then I really hope Twitter responds by giving us more control over what tweets we see (similar to how Facebook lets us hide apps/users/specific posts, etc)
I disagree. No one can do what Apple can do for 'cloud services' so they are taking care of that.

Now if any developer wants to build 'such-and-such' feature, the cloud is ready to sync that data.

Another example: Rich Text Edit: Lots of apps can use that one! I really like what Apple is doing to take care of building services that we can all use, vs. keeping behind some walled garden where we have to either pay to use it or build it ourselves.
it's fairly common around here at the 'independent' gas stations to advertise two prices; one for cash, and one slightly higher for credit cards.

It seems very fair to everyone I know who has ever had a merchant account; people who have not, on the other hand, sometimes think it's unfair.
Looking back to Apple's supposed failed attempt to partner with Facebook with their Ping service, this doesn't surprise me.
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TechCrunch does have pretty low journalistic standards, but in this case the piece's author is famous for his constant praise of nearly everything apple. Apparently there is a niche market that is served by a few blog authors of which he is one, where fans of the company congregate and seek out positive reinforcement.
a source seems to be cited in Apple's slides here (ctrl+f for "2 / 3"): http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/wwdc-2011-liveblog-steve-...
Am I correct in thinking that this breaks ActiveResource?
Except that SMS is not guaranteed and becomes less likely between carriers. "Message delivery is "best effort", so there are no guarantees that a message will actually be delivered to its recipient, but delay or complete loss of a message is uncommon." [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS
Perhaps you should set out to prove or disprove that conjecture, instead of writing an uninteresting post that is just senseless symbol manipulation linked to the base-26 representation of English.
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Apple iCloud: Microsoft's huge misstep up. Again.
The tone of your writing sounds too much like theoretical knowledge and too little of practical knowledge. Maybe try and identify at least one aspect of scaling that you could do a deeper dive on. You might cover an approach to scaling which could include a bit of design, a lot of measurement and a lot of iteration. And I wouldn't leave out caching.
I think most of what you say is generally assumed to be the case although they haven't disclosed this. I think you may have oversimplified cloning a token though.

In order to clone a given token you require the token seed, token serial and its current token code[1]. The attacker my have the token seeds and serial numbers from the RSA security hack but not a token code without physical access to the token or a keylogger.

If the attacker could install a keylogger on some employee computer they could perhaps capture a token code and then use that to start emulating say 20,000 tokens with the seed and serial pairs stolen from the database. Next time they capture a code compare it with all the tokens being emulated to see if there is a match, if yes, possible success, you have cloned their token and a keylogger will also capture their pin. If there is no match, move onto next set of seed serial pairs with the code you just captured.

[1]http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Dec/459
Now this is the BIG HIT !!! Americans send more messages than overall facebook & twitter status updates daily !!!

So who said apple cannot go social ? Android, do something !
Ask HN: What services are good for promoting a new startup?
My little sister and her husband have launched a new site and I want to help them promote it. I've submitted to Killerstartups, are there other sites that help new startups with no clout get noticed?

Obviously there are the big name blogs, but I figure there must be some smaller avenues around to help.
Maybe I'm missing some secret to twitter or something...but if you think someone is tweeting annoying or useless stuff, couldn't you just unfollow them?
"8833 = 88^2 + 33^2"

Hey, that's cheating!
(Yes, I went through over eight thousand numbers to find that one.)
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If the onus is on the authors of backup software to ensure good bandwidth usage practices, then we can rule out port-sharing with real-time application protocols (and HTTPS) as an unequivocally bad practice. Even if we don't, it's still easy to de-prioritize traffic from unknown hosts or on unknown ports or on connections that have transferred too much data. (The popular and easy to use Tomato firmware makes all of that trivial to set up.)

Also, mainstream desktop users do generally know what a router is. The people who are afraid to touch the boxes the cable guy installed and think that IE is the internet are well below average in terms of computer literacy.

Finally, backup software can't ensure that it is well behaved unless at some point it tries to estimate the quality of your connection (which is hard to do accurately), and even then it can't be well-behaved if it is used on more than one machine simultaneously.
I suppose it could be interesting but I was unable to join and was not able to read the text on the How It Works page.

I get a little concerned when I read a statement like "Shoppers have no good way to shop online". My experience is almost diametrically the opposite.
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GroupMe is doing fine from a funding perspective, but they are going to have one hell of a time trying to monetize. I think they have a great app though. Cross platform went to a must have today.
after spending all day in a scrum planning meeting, i really wanted to fill out the survey but as soon as i read "how much of your time is spent" i ran away screaming.

seriously, though, i'm interested to see what comes out of this. what apis are you targeting? social apis? payment processing? provider apis, like libcloud?
Good job, blink-man! I have a feeling you're going to be a superstar before long...
ok, I've use it for over a year now and it works well, but I still don't get why it gets reposted here for the 4th time.
No, just that it reads better.
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I'm confused as to why you even have to negotiate a deal. My Android phone has options for both Facebook and Twitter when you 'share' a photo- any app can plug into the API.
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We should ban the united states from the Internet and leave them with their own will.

Simply, disgusting.
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i'd say that is more Facebook than Apple, fb refused ping. and fb are part of the Microsoft keiretsu
>PROTECT IP = Private Rightsholders Opposed To Emerging Consumer Technologies, Innovation, and Progress

I find it odd that, while I'm uniformly turned off by Stallman's "iBad/iGroan/Swindle" characterizations, I can fully get behind this repurposing of the PROTECT IP acronym. Perhaps because it doesn't reek of Stallman's immaturity, or maybe because it is actually descriptive; I nonetheless find myself supporting it.
If Google wins, Apple can still sell commoditized hardware to a certain extent.
They usually cite net applications or something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Wikimedia stats are interesting although I wouldn't read too much into them:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-05/Squ...

Toss out the wiki apps and do something with "mozilla" (toss it or split among other webkit I guess) and iOS is up in the low-mid 60%'s. That's without making any adjustments for Opera which will be much lower if you are US only.
That's a pretty clunky solution though. Most prolific tweeters tweet both useful and "fluffy" stuff. I'd like to be able to filter out the fluff and still see the quality tweets. And still yet for other users (mostly close friends), I like to see the fluffy stuff. So far I feel Facebook has solved this problem fairly well, and Twitter hasn't even begun to address it.
Dunno about this. It is hard to compete with native features of the OS. Specially on iOS where integration hooks are terribly missing.
Ben, I'm from Uruguay as well.

Playtomic looks awesome.

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I don't understand... do you not typically want to listen to the soundtrack in the order it was in the movie (that is, exactly the case in which a single folder for the soundtrack excels)? If not, how?
I don't think this post was advocating screwing anyone. If you and Joe come up with an idea over drinks and decide to pursue it then splitting equity should be based on involvement/commitment/investment.

However, onboarding multiple cofounders and splitting equity equally for an idea that you just had and has barely made it "off the napkin" (or that you've worked on for a while) is probably a bad idea.

This post is really just trying to get people to "consider the maths" of startup equity for various structures and it's impact on your "take." I started a project with 6 guys (yes, 6) and cut everything equally. But it shouldn't have been an equal split, and thinking about the long-term dilution of multiple rounds and share of possible exit (discounted for execution risk, among other risks), it became a drag on my motivation. Which then made me mad at myself for getting influenced by the monetary aspects of the project, and a vicious cycle ensued. Needless to say, the project failed and we never got close to launch and disbanded.

So this is an important post, and extremes should be avoided (Zuckerberg on one end, open-source on the other - is that a good spectrum?).
I have to say this is an important distinction. Nearly everyone I /text/ has an iPhone, because they are the ones that text back. The exceptions are both Blackberry users.

All of my dumb-phone friends (and my single Android friend), will just call me back if I text them, so I might as well dial them in the first place.
Understanding "Why would Microsoft do that?"
As a former vim user myself, if you do use IntelliJ or PyCharm I can recommend using the IdeaVIM plugin:

http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=164
any different in terms of anonymity

The idea, in theory, is that the use of BitCoins cannot be tracked by a third party. That is to say, Silk Road, you and your dealer are the only ones who know about the purchase. In theory all three of you do not keep records of the sale, unlike credit card companies, which keep records of EVERYTHING.
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Unity3D seems to be a good engine, can port to web, android, iOS, XBox Live Arcade, Wii, etc.

I believe you can write in C#, Javascript, among other languages.
Typically I don't, but HN seems to have less random downvote. I'd gotten -3 in a short time, so I was honestly wondering why people thought it worth downvoting.
And this is why I trust my files with this guy.
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I am with you, vim is pretty awesome. But having used IntelliJ for Java, I'm very excited to see what JetBrains can do with a Python IDE. IntelliJ really is a fantastic tool.
here are few more details of this magic number. This article was submitted to HN but didn't get attention. http://ennovates.com/engineering/6174-number/
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Good article, but the most interesting part of the story (for me) was casually summarized in one sentence. What amazes me is that he decided to start his first business at the age of 61 - wow! Major kudos to this guy for finally deciding to take a leap at an age when others are merely contemplating if their savings will be enough to fund retirement - that takes serious balls.

Sure, John made some great changes and saved his business, but that's what good entrepreneurs do - adapt and move on. He certainly deserves the credit for that, no doubt.
Thanks! I hope so...
All the features Apple announced today are features that people have been demanding from Apple and any other vendor. What's the lock in?

Putting DRM on music so you can only play it on iPod is lock in.

Though I agree Apple is integrating services into iOS that are only available to iOS.So I imagine that gives them lock in.

I don't want to start trying to guess as Apple's motivations, but I don't see them coming out with demanded features as intentional lock in as it appears to be their solution to the problem.
ASK HN: Thank you messages are lost in the cloud?
We believe that thank you messages are lost in the cloud and people are not getting enough recognition for their contributions on the internet. We plan to solve this problem by developing a "thank you button" ( similar to FB like ) which will be embedded under the blog posts and other places like forums, social media sites etc. The button will collect some meta data like the post URL,Title etc. and users will be able to submit an optional thank you note with optional tags.

People will have a thank you score and a profile page with a "thank you feed" which links back to their contributions.

How does it sound?
Eh, just pick one. I actually did use a lua JSON module, but I forgot which one. It had a simple interface, though. They probably all do.
If you have all the features you make the money on the hardware with the features. But describing things as only "lock in" is pretty meaningless as a comment. It implies that all it's doing is increasing switching costs and not actually offering anything to the user.

But it would only increase switching costs in the event that it WAS an attractive feature. Features that are not useful or interesting to users aren't going to affect switching costs, or lock in.