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> I know this sounds extreme, but are we witnessing the end of Sony as we know it ?

Well, Sony (and the rest of Japanese industry) has been on a downward spiral for the last 2 decades. This is just the final blow. Their end has been in sight for at least 5 years now.
On the surface $25/year seems too low to cover a music subscription service but there are about 140 million iOS devices out there and probably 50 million Macs? If 50% of them were to signup for iCloud and pay $25/year with 70% going to the labels/publishers they would make about $1.7 billion dollars. The entire digital music market was $2.2B in 2010. It's definitely in the ballpark to replace existing iTunes music sales. Apple may have sold the labels/publishers on the idea that a low cost service that gives people what they really want, unlimited access to endless amounts of music, is viable if it's priced low enough. It would probably turn a lot of career pirates into paying customers.
I think a major potential for disruption is right here under our nose. Instead of approaching it from a political point of view (blame those politicians!) why don't someone with money create an alternative community-supported system of work attribution?

You can imagine each company keeping a private/internal log of innovation in Merkle trees (with timed signatures by some central authority). All innovation and production is assumed to be original works of art until proven otherwise. In the current patent system, all innovation is public, but there is only 1 winner. In the new system, everybody can win if we all arrive at innovations independently.

Problem solved, + you enforce good documentation practices.

This is an engineering problem. Why don't you fund a startup that builds this system? If we all start using it, that's when we have the power to change the status quo. If we don't know what alternatives are out there, we have no chance of disabling the current system.

I doubt that keeping the government out of software IP disputes altogether is a good idea, because realistically that won't work out -- it'll encourage stealing and the playing field will change for the worse.
While I think the whole bitcoin thing is profoundly silly, I don’t think the comparison with the hiring thread is fair. Bitcoins provoke discussion between people who think bitcoins are sticking it to The Man and people who think, well, that they’re profoundly silly. On the other hand, if I post “startup XYZ in Boston is hiring”, what is there to say in response? “No, they aren’t”?
Sorry, but no.

If you buy an iPad etc at full price at store then you can do whatever you want. However, Apple has a discount on promotions and if you want that discount you need to sign a contract that specifies what constitutes a promotion. (AKA they only give the discount if it's useful promotion of their brand.)
Whatever individual 37 Signals people's actual thoughts about VCs and valuations, don't believe that it's necessarily what they write in their blog. Their blog is not an informal discussion medium. They make it out to to be but it isn't. It's marketing. 37 Signals have a vested interest in creating an enemy and drama because that brings them exposure and sales.
Can't use Apple's trademarks for a giveaway promotion? OK, I see the legal basis there. "We have iPads. And we're giving them away for free." Looks like that avoids their concerns.

I don't get the point behind this move by Apple. First-sale doctrine. That is all.
An excellent explanation. Sadly, I can only upvote it once.
Apple signs Universal Music to iCloud
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That was one of the best articles I've read in a while.
Those are good questions if I was sitting next to one in a bar and starting up a conversation maybe but since most of the questions can be answered on the VC's web site (including
lists of companies they have already funded), in an interview I would concentrate on discussing my proposal.
Doing that is senseless. Does it really matter what I do with it after I buy it? Why does it matter if I bought it as a reseller or not? Is it just a money grab? If I'm not going to take the thin retail margin, Apple wants to keep it for themselves.

I'm not arguing with you, I'm arguing the policy. I just don't get it.
2.2 would be the version that Flash was introduced.
You're giving us too much credit.
Defensive registrations, other than very common typos are silly.

You can never, ever, register all the variations and new TLDs come out every year.

In this day and age, users are not quite that stupid and all modern browsers have phishing site checks built in.
In defense of a cheesy classroom poster, a better verb would be observe. You're (reasonably) interpreting "watch" as something like "control" ("Watch this prisoner."), but it can also mean simply to look at ("Watch the tide roll in.")

As the human default seems to be blind acceptance of every rationalization that appears in our minds, simply being more aware (by observation) that who you are is a process and not an immutable state can be a profound step.
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Ask HN: Who do you think has the most karma on HN?
Just something I was wondering, who do you think has the most karma on Hacker News?

Also which thread do you think received the most karma?
Foreman is especially fantastic for development environments. In past projects our different services and daemons have always either been started ad-hoc, or by some awful bash script. This lets new team members get up and running really quickly.

I'd also like to try using it to generate server configs, but I still don't like what Monit makes you do in order to run a non-daemonized process. I'm not sure why it can't just daemonize the process for you.
Wow, I had no idea it was so easy. Could this in fact be used to combat copyright infringement for the likes of The Oatmeal on large scale, given someone (Google) with the requisite computing power?
Indeed, they're hitting the limits of their webservers. But they already have the most powerful servers EC2 provides. So they have three options:

* Move to a new provider

* Change the way things work so that the job can be spread across more servers

* Fix suboptimal things

All three of those options are extremely difficult to do quickly with a skeleton crew. Reddit's been improving scalability as fast as 3-4 engineers can, but their traffic is growing even faster.
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It seems to me that what you want is some kind of spatial index - you might not get an exact match on the hash, but instead get one that's one or two bits away, and you'll want something better than linear search to find it.
Not to come off as a fanboy, but im guessing this is largely so they can more easily litigate the free iDevice scam sites.
Utility for what. If things have real, actual value, then they can be exchanged for dollars, even if it's only on the black market. We don't mean there has to be an official exchange rate between bitcoins and dollars. We mean there has to be someone willing to say "I'll give you X USD for Y bitcoins" even if that's just under the table. If no one is willing to do that, then bitcoins have no value.

What I, and others, are saying is that in the future, no such people will exist. Our prediction is that the current bitcoin economy is transient and will eventually vanish. Hence, we say bitcoins have no value. It's similar to saying that a particular stock has no value if you think that that particular company will collapse.
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One plausible scenario is that you have to upload all your non-iTMS while your iTMS music can be streamed right from the start. Well, that’s at least the minimal required scenario to make this service attractive when compared to Google’s and Amazon’s services. Apple gets extra points if you can immediately stream all the music in your library – no matter its source – if it is also available in the iTMS. (That would, by the way, also save them space and bandwidth and make it possible for them to be pretty competitive.)

My guess is that it’s either unlimited or has a pretty high limit. Google’s service is currently capped at 20,000 songs†, Amazon’s free service has space merely for a few thousand songs (5GB or 20GB if you purchase an album from Amazon MP3).

Paying $30/year (after buying an album and getting the 20GB bump) gets you altogether 50GB of Amazon Cloud Drive space. That would be my minimum expectation for Apple’s service, too. (I would still be disappointed. 50GB still fit my current music library – but for how long?) A 20,000 song limit (that’s about 160GB assuming 3:30 long 256kBit/s AAC files∆) would be more reasonable and at least be much cheaper than Amazon’s service (if you go with Amazon, 100GB cost you $80, 200GB cost you $180).

It’s also possible that those $25 include some or all services that are currently part of MobileMe (iDisk, email, calendar and other syncing, …).

†It’s currently free and requires an invitation but might be no more after it is out of beta. Comparisons with Google Music are at this point in time moot.

∆Apple wouldn’t actually need all that space and the associated bandwidth. First of all, not all people have 160GB music collections. Also, all music bought from the iTMS (and maybe all music available on the iTMS depending how the service will work in the end) doesn’t have to be uploaded and only one copy of it has to be saved. I have 20GB of music bought in the iTMS and 20GB of ripped music, I would only need 20GB of space.
Google developed and has been hugely successful with the business model (Ad Words) that makes profitable this bad behavior. It would seem a technical, automated means is extremely difficult to impossible. The mechanism under the law of the US is the DMCA notice. Removing a site from search and adwords that continually gets such notices would fix the problem. I have had searches where such notices were mentioned, so Google would seem to have the means. Cut off the money and the behavior will stop.
http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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Highest voted recent comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

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That makes way more sense, thanks!
And don't forget S'mac.
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Doesn't scaling the images down (to 32x32 for the pHash approach) achieve essentially the same thing? Images that differ only slightly will likely scale down to the same thumbnail to begin with, and the resulting hash still bears some relationship to that thumbnail — so you should be able to look at similar hashes to find similar inputs.
It's the same basic concept as product placement in movies. The whole point of the program is advertizing. So, if you place the product in a negative light then the whole idea is wasted. (AKA, coke is not going to pay for a spot where someone says this soda is terrible bring me a Pepsi, even if the coke get's airtime and people see the bottle etc.)

PS: I don't know the details but the discount could easily drop the price well below apples production costs. And apparently you also get the right to use some of their IP (advertizing copy etc?).
That's not really true.

VirtualBox is basically the same as KVM with the exceptions of 1) their kernel modules are not upstream 2) they put a lot of effort into doing dynamic translation for non-VT/SVM hardware 3) their performance is really poor 4) they don't integrate very well with Linux mainly because of (1).
I wonder what percentage of HN readers are like me and just skim through the RSS feed every day. The top of the front page and the worthless submission make it into my Google Reader, and I read what I find interesting. Which is great, but at the same time I don't participate in upvoting articles. I would guess the more passive users would be more interested in the hiring thread rather than extremely trendy topics like bitcoin. But that's the tradeoff. I mostly consume rather than contribute, and therefore just take what I get.
"I'll use a picture of my next wife, Alyson Hannigan."

That had me doing a few google searches.
The investors are tasked with making money. The investors are going to have made a lot of money after the IPO. It doesn't matter much to them whether the Groupon CEO took their money and rolled it up and lit it to make a really awesome bonfire, if the investors put in $1 billion and get back $10 billion they're happy. That's why they allowed it, and it's also why they turned down $6b. They're all acting in accordance with their financial incentives.
The folks that through around type 1 and type 2 usually don't actually know what it means.

It refers to a relatively obscure set of formal proofs and doesn't have anything to do with what most people explain it as.
Bad for freedom, great for innovation. If you lock me down I will find a way around to root/jailbreak/whatever you.
Even on Windows it's a nuisance. Flash adverts are often so poorly implemented that merely visiting a website will push a laptop's fan to full power.

I am not against Flash though, I just wish they would put more effort into making it efficient and reliable on all platforms.
Wouldn't a cropped image have different hash then the original. Cropping an extra or one less pixel line changes the hash again.
Allegedly, the Iraqi Swiss Dinar is another example of a bubble that didn't crash (it ended in an orderly fashion when its holders were bought out).
The site founder, pg, appears intentionally to omit himself from the leader list. The source code for HN,

https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

illustrates how the site operates (apart from some recent experiments, I think).
ah, my understanding of icloud was that it is a cloud based locker for storing itunes purchases, and syncing across all devices linked with the account. no actual content included..

if however you're right, $25 a year for an unlimited music library.. that would be game changing indeed. it would basically end the need to pirate, certainly.
I love the green! However, white text is a bit difficult to read on the light green background in your footer nav bar. I'd recommend going the darker green there.
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Often you get things like images that have had text added to them (e.g. I often use tineye to find the original source image that someone has added a caption to), which means that the thumbnails will differ to some degree.
Some quick PW analysis from today's Sony breach
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I disagree with this, let's not forget RMS did a lot of "cracking" himself, like the ITS password hack and some shady things like reverse engineering code from Symbolics and gave it to Lisp Machine.

GeoHotz did a hard and ingenious hack to get his ps3 to do things it's not longer suposed to do. That's not cracking per se. I think cracking mostly happens with things like these folks did. Using a simple SQL injection (probably automated) to hack Sony's site.

It's all in the ingenuity level. That where the distinction should be.
1. "Boss, I love you, I love the company, but it's time for me to move on."

2. "I'll give you (at least) 2 weeks to find someone new."

3. "Heck, I'll HELP you find my replacement."

4. "Boss, I have total respect for you. I'm going to help you transition to the new person with no disruption."

5. "I hope you understand, and I hope you'll be cheering me on as I make my way with my own new thing."

Take the high road, but be firm; and everything will be just fine.

PS. Congratulations in advance. The end of your last day of those 2 weeks (or however long) will be one of the best days ever.
The man was repeatedly warned that he needed a license, and repeatedly refused to get one.
The only thing in the same category as Flash that has a similar reach is Java, and Java is worse.

Yes, Flash sucks. But there are certain things for which nothing is better.
I didn't say that Apple should or shouldn't do anything. Just that apps from the App Store are potentially safer than things in-browser. Of course JavaScript apps pose similar risks, but as Apple controls the JS engine (unlike the Flash runtime) they feel safer that way.
I was thinking something snarky about how unenforceable this might be, but then I considered the document:

official "Guidelines for Third Party Promotions,"

It seems unlikely that the word choice of "guidelines" and not something like "terms" is accidental. I couldn't find a particularly appropriate dictionary definition, but wikipedia says "By definition, following a guideline is never mandatory (protocol would be a better term for a mandatory procedure)" which more or less fits with my understanding.

Indeed, in the document it says:

Strict adherence is essential because
you and/or your company may be held responsible if your use of Apple products for promotional purposes do not conform with the following guidelines. In any event, we reserve the right to revoke our consent to your use of Apple products in your promotion at any time and for any reason.

Which makes the whole thing sound like it only applies to situations where Apple was giving their consent in the first place.
Are you suggesting there would be a peer pressure to use the system? What would prevent Google from covering the costs of the companies in the rollout?
What is difficult about figuring out what use cases there are? They want to replace swiped credit cards. Wherever you swipe a credit card - they want to be.

>>A far better approach would be to give it to every google employee and as many residents around Google HQ as possible

Theres not preventing this from happening, in fact that kind of is whats happening already. The announcement only covers general population rollout.

>>Giving it to a smattering of technorati and having a few businesses support it isn't likely to lead to much use.

"Giving" what, exactly? They are testing a service.
In practice Adobe has had very poor security response. Claiming that all technologies are equally vulnerable to security concerns is like comparing qmail and Adobe Reader and saying the same thing.
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What would be great is if iCloud is part of the long-rumored iOS 5 wireless syncing and updating for iPhones/iPads/iPods. One of the best things about my Android phone is that if I have a problem or want to mess around I don't need physical access to my computer to reload everything. While some apps, like Plants v. Zombies, are limited to WiFi download only, most are more than happy to use 3G.

Even if it doesn't include apps at launch, I think iCloud rather than iTunes gives Apple the flexibility to add whatever type of data they want in the future.
Actually, they have 7,107 employees.

From the SEC S-1 filing[1]:

We grew from 37 employees as of June 30, 2009 to 7,107 employees as of March 31, 2011.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/0001047469110...
Many YC participants do not announce their status as such right away. When people I know have gotten into YC, they've uniformly asked me not to say so until they announce.
1. Build brand equity.
2. Secure bookings with media
3. Book signings or the equivalent thereof
4. Appear on "The Daily Show" (or nearest facsimile)
5. Hire pro designer for print edition, which you sell in advance.

Repeat, modify, and add recursion as needed.
Ask HN: Why didn't this site catch on? (TruthTruthLie.me)
I recently launched a side project to try to leverage Facebook as a viral marketing platform to support a new social site called TruthTruthLie.me.

In a nutshell, people could create a "two truth and one lie" quiz about themselves and ask their Facebook friends to guess the lie. I created all the social hooks I thought I'd need (FB connect, FB comments, FB like, tweet this and all the big AddThis buttons), but regardless of how hard I pushed, I saw no virality at all.

I'd love you feedback as to why this experiment failed, my thoughts:
* requiring FB connect for login was too much to ask new users
* requiring login before creating a quiz was off-putting
* it was too hard to create quizzes (unlike ThreeWords.me, which was dead simple)
* it just wasn't that fun to do
* the concept was poorly executed

Thanks for you feedback, HN. Even though the site flopped, I'd love to get some shared learning out of it!

For reference, this is one of my own TTL quizzes: http://TruthTruthLie.me/mitch/Deadly-While-Driving/
Seems like something that could be done very easily with a browser extension or even a bookmarklet.

Although canvas is awesome when used responsibly.
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There is nothing wrong with taking money off of the table. In fact, if you want to strike it big... it's important to make sure that your management team is financially secure:
http://learntoduck.com/startups/it-all-changes-when-the-foun...

Andrew Mason was fairly explicit that taking a recent huge round was designed to "permanently solve the money problem":

(from the article linked below)

“For me, the reason to do this was to solve a binary life problem,” he explained.

In life, Andrew says, “You either have enough [money] or you don’t.”

“When people came with a lot of money to buy a very small percentage of Groupon and it was enough to permanently solve the money problem, why would I not want to do that?

“Now I can focus on making Groupon great.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/04/19/groupon-ceo-andr...
To do that, you still have to perform a transaction to transfer the amount from your recieving address to your sending address.
lolwut, SQLi is sophisticated and takes mad skills now? The methods employed are very low-brow to be charitable, brah. To be completely honest, I don't think Lulzsec is the first to discover this at all. They're just being loud about it all. For a sophisticated popular hack recently, look at the work by zerofor0wned or the Stuxnet worm (not classifying the two in the same category of course).
http://www.virtualrockstars.com/ does something similar (not affiliated)
Yes that would be an obvious mistake but I simply mis-typed.

Public debt to Public debt, the US is not notably high on relative to other industrialized nations.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_debt
This is actually pretty cool. When will the android app be ready?
Ah, nice! Hadn't seen that.
That's exactly what I'm saying - a simple index will only find exact hash matches, but what you want is images with "similar" hashes. If you define "similar" as a low Hamming distance - i.e. a small number of bit differences - and you want to find these image hashes with something better than a linear search / exhaustive combinatorial bit-twiddling, then you'll need to be smarter about your index.
The PDF that seems to be the source of this story doesn't appear to be on Apple's site, nor does it seem to be complete (it references "this Agreement" but bears no such title). I'm not really seeing the story here. It sounds more like something taken out of context and twisted into a scandal. (Oh wait, I'm on the Internet.)
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