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Dropbox is a lot different, though, when you think about it's core concept. Dropbox doesn't do anything that necessarily is novel. Dropbox allows your computer to function as it should--documents should be backed up, safe, and widely accessible. Dropbox merely supplants the role of redundant hard-drive backups and e-mail file transfer. But we've lived with e-mail and file systems for long before the creation of Dropbox. Dropbox is easy to understand because it hasn't added something new, it just helped us live our digital lives with convenience.

iCloud shouldn't be easy to understand because it's introducing an entirely novel concept to our digital lives, which is to lift the burden of wires and a fixed connection off consumers. This is a genuine step forward in the movement to unleash our digital lives. It's a totally novel concept so it should be difficult to understand than services like Dropbox.
many people came out of it with a well tuned bullshit-detector, easily seeing through the relatively milder propaganda of advertising

I've often wondered about that, traveling in Eastern Europe, are people there really less susceptible to brands? McDonalds, Starbucks, Nike, Coca-Cola, etc...
Another problem is you can't directly access the div after the iframe is loaded if you want to apply styles to it. I had to use Javascript and look for when the div is loaded and then position it.
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Does anyone know of a list what is Gen2/Gen3/Gen4 in terms of chips? Does this include the i950, for example?
tvtorrents to the rescue! and no, I don't think this is stealing since the shows were paid for already anyway.
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Right, but the lower down in the stack they go, the more they deter the "casual" hacker. I think they want to bring down the sheer number of pirates to a level where the vast majority of media won't be pirated.
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I worked for a chap in Yorkshire who had been a miner and had lost his job in the Thatchers war against the miners. He'd taken his redundancy money and taught himself to program.
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That's essentially Flash / ActiveX / Silverlight.
I regret that I have but one upvote to give - thank you for saving my Internet.
Do not believe any programmer, manager, or salesperson who claims that code can be self-documenting or automatically documented. It ain't so. Good documentation includes background and decision information that cannot be derived from the code.
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http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1053354

The project page itself says 'self-describing'
Not sure, but whenever it is in the news that something in fast food or in cola is found to be harmful or addictive or whatever, the reaction of most people is never outrage but more like "no kidding, what did you expect" :)
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in India if you work for a bigger company you have a good chance of getting a better spouse. in first 2-3 years they aspire to buy car, home and a get married.

most employees who leave us dont join startups they join MNC's, these guys feel proud that they are on bench or just need to work for couple of hours a day and can spend more hours in coffee shops.
Well that kind of renders this entire thing pointless. They either make this an open patent free standard or they shouldn't even bother with it.
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Yes, people commenting on the issue at hand. Your point?
Slimy? What exactly would you have had them do? If they let the app through using a non-public API, they have to explain why some apps are allowed to use private APIs and some not, opening a can of worms which it is easy to understand they would prefer to keep closed.

They couldn't change the public APIs until the next release of the software, which is exactly what they did, and I imagine that Camera+ will be able to benefit from that API much as any other app.

Doesn't look too slimy to me.
This is funny but it shouldn't really be possible for it to actually work. Every time they get a payout Google has almost certainly profited more from the same activity, assuming their margin on ads is higher than what they pay out to adsense users. So every time they make money they add more than that to the total value of Google, ensuring they could never buy 100% of it.
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"Unlike those who have gone before, we don’t want to be the sole guarantor of quality in our ecosystem, because that will not scale" -- that's a good remark.
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The news page was last updated in 2007... Is that because the system is just plodding along running itself, or because this experiment was all over and done 4 years ago?
That's how our whole consumer culture is tricked :)
Microsoft opened an office in the bay area for Jim Gray once..
This doesn't make sense, though. You can just share your account credentials and activate your friends' TVs. Then they can watch all the video they want.

Similarly, people don't pirate movies by having a close friend rip Netflix streams. They go on The Pirate Bay and download the torrent. Preventing piracy means you need to prevent people from ripping the disks or streams in the first place... but the people who do that aren't "casual hackers", they are as hardcore as priates get. And if just one person figures out how to do it, it's broken forever. (I assume there are plenty of programs available to rip Blu-Ray disks now, since the key for each disk is known and publicly available. It only takes one person to do that, and then the DRM is nothing but a waste of CPU cycles and engineering talent.)
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In theory Apple can reject any app it deems unfit for iOS without further explanation. So can any door keeper for that matter.
On the "iTunes in the Cloud" page it pretty clearly states that "All you have to upload is what iTunes can’t match":

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
OMG. blinking background! Irritating.

If you want to read those content, disable the stylesheets using "Web Developer Tool".
Ask HN: bad ideas vs letting creativity flow
This is an interesting problem I've been faced with recently, a problem to which I yet don't have a good answer. I feel you guys must have run into it before and would be able to advise me best.

Say you're working with other people, and you're trying to come up with cool ideas / features for a startup. Lots of ideas come up, and a good chunk of the team seems to like a particular concept, even if you think it's not that great. In fact you feel that based on all you know and your personal experience, the idea is pretty doomed to failed, but the rest of the people are really excited about.

You now have the option of either spending hours debating people about why their idea sucks (potentially coming off as the "uncreative guy" who's all about curbing people's enthusiasm / destroying ideas and not really gaining their favor by crushing their dreams) or you shut up and let them go on with it onto the development / prototyping phase, potentially wasting months and implementation on something dumb. You don't want to be the guy who's no longer invited to discussing ideas cause he'll just rip them all to shreds, and so your opinion will no longer be considered.

What's the best way of handling this? I'm all about thinking outside of the norms, challenging conventional wisdom and letting people brainstorm their... guts out, but at some point you need to really see what makes sense, as it will cost a lot of time and effort to attempt to turn that idea into reality.
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But as we've seen that security is only as good as the security on RSA's servers. Imagine if someone more sophisticated had (has?) attacked RSA's servers and avoided RSA becoming aware, how secure would your token be then?
The one feature that made me move to iTerm 2 is separate settings for left/right alt keys (resp. meta/system alt). Essential on a French keyboard, where '|' is alt+shift+L and '~' is alt+N, while keeping meta alive.
You need both (jacob Kaplan-Moss explained this pretty well: http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/what-to-writ...)

I find this kind of features is quite interesting, because API-doc is useful when you need a precise information ("I know there is a function for this, but what's the args order again ?"). When the only doc for a new project I am interested in is javadoc/doxygen, I usually run away.
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This was something that I ran into when when looking for people for my first venture. People aspire for brand names and with brand name comes the status. In a way it's amusing when people say that "I can't join your startup because I'm planning to get married in a year or two". Once one guy turned down my offer because his sister marriage was on the cards and it would have reflected poorly on his family. It happens.
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Non-iTunes Store music costs a yearly fee to store ($24.99). Although you're not really storing them. See, iTunes will scan your music and try to guess what music you have, and then grant you access to the iTunes Store copies of it. Unless it gets confused and thinks your Bob Dylan is Jimmy Hendricks. But that probably won't happen.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is rape! Everyone who signed a contract with Apple is officially fucked. Life is good!
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Then you're giving Google the ability to wipe your phone.
Facebook makes a shitty web of trust.
Well, the poster I was replying to was kind of saying the opposite. Implying that Microsoft 'spoiled' developers by not implementing those things themselves.
Nope. It looks horrible in Safari. It actually looks better in IE9 since Windows traditionally employs much more aggressive anti-aliasing and hinting (something that’s smaller than one pixel or between pixels simply gets bumped up to one pixel and forced onto the pixel grid).

The font would be alright if our screens had twice or so the pixel density they have today but fonts with features much smaller than one pixel just don’t look good.
Any way to get this in Ubuntu soon?
Someone at Google should get a slap upside the head for not getting this spot on.

Google is evangelising performance on one hand and making careless errors on the other...
At the risk of going against the opinions of others on here, my personal belief is no one can really predict what will succeed and what will fail. Many will argue that you can tell what makes sense and what doesn't but that's not completely true in all cases. Some ideas that seem like failures at first have gone on to be great successes. Sure, in hindsight its easy for many to say its obvious but most are just full of shit and they don't even realize it. Even those involved in some ideas admit they weren't sure whether or not those ideas were crazy or not.

Often times, even some of the biggest ideas out there (and small ones too), sounds ludicrous at the start with hordes of doubters. There are also ideas that have failed, not because the concept or idea itself is bad but the execution was wrong or they took the wrong approach, bad timing, wrong features, etc... and were later found to be a success by someone else.

Some ideas may sound dumb (think pet rock) and yet end up making money or are their own success in their own right. You may think that is a one-off example but I've witness enough (and done my own fair share of ideas even I think is ridiculous) that saying you know the idea is doomed to fail is in my honest opinion a bit ignorant and arrogant.

As many have said before me, experience is both a blessing and a krytonite in that sometimes experience hinders you from trying what you think is to be a failure until someone else manages to make it a success. Experience is valuable but so is the willingness to try things even if it goes against your belief.

That said, whoever said you had to spend months developing and prototyping? You can seek the right crowd (potential users/customers) to iterate whether there is a market or not without a product and in many cases, without a prototype of any kind. If you guys always wait till you have a working MVP to determine whether or not an idea is worth building (although in some cases you absolutely need one albeit rare), then you're probably not doing things right already (especially if this is a common topic that comes up amongst yourselves).
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Having worked with Infosys, i agree with most of your points though i think the number of engineers varies according to the market conditions.

80% utilization rate is considered good for these companies and so minimum 20% people are always on bench. As the market started going from bad to worse in Dec 2008, i saw more people being deployed in testing than programming.

And its a shame that an engineering student will say that their dream company is Infosys/TCS/Wipro and not Microsoft/Oracle/Google/Apple. I mean cant they even "dream" about being at M/O/G/A?!!

PS: I got kicked out of Infosys training because i could not learn fast enough for them but since then i joined a smaller company as an iPhone Developer and have had an awesome learning experience while my Infosys friends who passed the training now forward their CVs to me because they often work on maintenance and support projects on obsolete technologies.
By disproportionate, I think he meant that there were more Apple-stack Dropbox users than (% of general pop on Apple)*(Total Dropbox Users)
The main REST framework options for Django seem to be:

* Piston (https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/)

* Tastiepie (http://toastdriven.github.com/django-tastypie/)

* django-rest-framework (http://django-rest-framework.org/)

* Web Machine (https://github.com/benoitc/dj-webmachine)

* Dagny (https://github.com/zacharyvoase/dagny)

* Roll your own (surprisingly common since it's not too hard)

I think it's great that there are so many options but it's starting to get bewildering. I think part of the reason for this is how un-restful the default django routing/view technique is. The code samples in the Django documentation don't exactly start beginners down the right track the way other web frameworks do. You can do it the right way, but it requires a fair amount of discipline.

I've been toying with replacing all of my django routing/views with a framework (or at least a pattern) that encourages more restful design.
Interesting, I've used personal and server based HSMs for XML and PDF document signing applications, I didn't know you got them for SSL as well.
Do you really believe that for all fields? Or just for software development?

I have to absolutely totally disagree with you if you are talking about all fields. Licensing, regulatory and insurance costs alone prove a significant barrier to entry. I also think that as a field matures, so too does the body of knowledge and the amount of time required to become an expert in said field increases. Look at how much more a doctor, lawyer, or account needs to know today than they did 100 years ago.

I also think this is unavoidable in software..though I might agree with you that we aren't there yet? However, whenever I hear someone say "Well, X didn't have those features either when they shipped", I always cringe)
Are all Google's share's on the market? I think the IPO was only for a part of the company, right?
go and read photography magazines from that era. There's was much heated and vehement objection to including articles pertaining to digital photography and cameras. Many photographers at that time were convinced digital cameras were just toys and had no part in 'professional' magazines.

of course, some thought the opposite
I think you're confusing the end with the means. Collecting data is a method Google uses to be able to sell (more expensive) ads. The data collection is not where the money comes from, the ads are.
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"there has not yet been a case"

How would you know if this had happened?
You're absolutely right. My bad. Sounds like a useful service in that event.
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Ask HN: How do I convert a list of startup ideas into a single, strong vision?
Hi HN, I'm the CEO of a small startup in the midwest (this is a throwaway account)

I'm in the process of quitting my moderately successful company to start anew. I made the choice once I realized that 1) I'm no longer learning new stuff every day by having to meet new challenges and 2) my current startup has created a great brand but is catering to a small market: After six years in business, it will not grow much further without a large change in product strategy. I would rather put it under different management than bet the company on satisfying my urge to start from square one.

For my next startup, I'm currently looking at the ebook space or doing something having to do with daily deals, following the groupon craze but for a different market segment. I also have an urge to go into the app space, developing games or this idea of an awesome social weight-loss app I have.

My general problem is that I generate too many business ideas: I have a list of 50 or so put together during the last two months. I'm passionate about each of them for a day or two and I need to convert that day-long enthusiasm into a long-term passion.

My current idea of solving this problem is to let it sort itself out. I'm betting that I'm in the middle of a process that will end up with me churning my ideas down to one single vision.
But here's the question: is there any way I can hedge this bet? Have you been in a similar situation and/or have any suggestions on how to put the process on fast-track?

I'm grateful for any suggestions, including "shut the fuck up and stay with your current company, dimwit", if that's your sentiment.
"Reductio ad absurdum". Keep asking about the details till either you no longer think it's stupid, or they see some downsides to it.
Yeah, how dare they say the lowest-performing option first in an in-passing comment! What if the user knows nothing about performance and stops there! Their page will load 8 milliseconds less quickly! Amateur hour!11!

(</sarcasm>)
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Sure but you are paying 4 times as much to get the Mac hardware.
Wherein I review the Cr48, partly in contrast to the iPad
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There exists a good middle ground in India too - companies that have some of the advantages that Infosys or TCS offers (like the extra comforts) and the advantages of a start-up working with more modern technologies. Companies like Bosch, Siemens etc. I worked in one of those earlier, and I am quite happy that I had that experience - both in my engineering career and in my life.

I've moved on to a startup in the recent past. Even though I find it more fulfilling - I believe that it's a good idea for young engineers to experience that slice of life, atleast in a company that doesn't stunt your learning experience.
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I hate the word startup (in the definition sense) because by sheer definition of the words, it just means to "start up" or start something. ANY business technically would fit this description.

The valley (or rather the tech related community anywhere really) however prefers to attach its own strict definition to startups. Even something like Facebook with thousands of employee, billions in revenue, been around for years, and a ton of raised capital, can and still be stupidly labeled as a startup. Like WTF. Seriously. They are NOT just starting up.

I have my own definitions regardless of what the textbook definition actually is and I don't really care whether or not others (particularly Angels/VCs/Incubators) agree...

You're a startup if you're less than 2 years old, have less than 20 people, or haven't made over 2 million gross. If ANY of these (and maybe a few other factors I'm not naming) is ever not true, including the age of the company, you're not a startup. I don't care if you're still pivoting, still trying to grow fast, blah blah blah... or whether its a coffee shop or a scalable tech company.

If you want to define it as a scalable company or tech company, then by all means reference it as something like a scalable tech startup. Maybe its because of the words start and up but I hate trying to warp the definition to something else just because people are in specific industries and want to give it various definitions to correlate to what they do or what they invest in. I mean do people feel offended just because a mom and pop coffee shop calls themselves a startup because technically they are just starting up simply because people may think it demeanors the word and makes what they're trying to do sound less cool? I don't really get it.

If I had to venture a wild guess, the term probably came into popular use in reference to companies that were just starting out and were possibly looking for venture capital to scale. So sure, there's correlation to how it may evolved and get labeled as what it is today but that probably isn't a precursor to defining what the actual word presents.
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Is it about the use of a private API or just the violation of the Human Interface guidelines? Everything I've read has said it's just about the guidelines, not because an API needed changing.

For me it's all about the timing. They should have relaxed the guidelines and/or policy about reusing the volume buttons for other purposes (not just for use as a camera shutter, presumably) at some point before they released an implementation of the exact same idea as a third party.
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Old windows user? you can crash a brand new Windows 7 with a "rouge" application. :)

Just try Starcraft - Broodward on a Windows 7 64 bit, it will randomly crash your system to the point where you have to manually reset the system. Yes I know it's a legacy application(whatever that means) but still the OS should not let an app freeze the input.