skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that the "sync" just takes "minutes" I think the only thing you're getting is a bunch of freed up disk space thanks to a mass delete of your library and a 1-year licence to stream those songs from iTunes.
@ez77: It's a factor to consider, not the end-all, be-all deciding factor.

I was going to purchase a five letter domain name for $2,000 a couple of years ago. It was way under priced for a standard english word dot com domain name. Turns out he moved it from place place, and when I asked the seller why he had a terrible answer. I think it might have been a stolen name but I couldn't prove it. In the end, the lack of clarity was enough to convince me not to buy it.

That's all this article is supposed to do: help people figure out domain names and, in this case, figure out if there might be trouble associated with a premium domain name.
OpenFeint
Agree. I hear people on MacRumors saying the professional laptop should have the most features (thus, the optical drive) but for me, more USB ports and potentially a second HDD would do more for my day-to-day activities than an optical drive.
I've always wondered if you could incorporate damping into TCP with something like PID. So you'd have a transfer function to use the error rate as an input and adjust the transfer rate based on PID. Perhaps more CPU overhead, but we have amazing CPUs now.
> Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes.

Windows user?

I haven't found a worthy alternative on OSX.
Good point, matching is a difficult feature to get right. Google Music does an extraordinary job, but this is the type of problem that Google's engineers are good at solving. Apple's engineers (traditionally) aren't, so it will be interesting to see if they've spent a lot of time on getting this right, or if they only tuned to matching iTunes bought music.

EDIT: Interesting that MusicMatch Jukebox perfected matching over 10 years ago. Even after Yahoo bought and ruined it, I kept the program around simply because it did the best job of tagging music than any other software.
AAC, even at 256kbps, is not lossless. (Nor is it Apple-specific in any way.)
Well, every single way to read/write that string to bytes is unicode by default, unless you go out of your way to plug in a different encoder.

What are you trying to do, export a pointer and write the raw bytes to some destination while assuming it's correct unicode? If you're doing something that low level, it's always possible to corrupt your data and have invalid unicode, just set an invalid byte/rune somewhere in that byte string. Direct memory access always throws guarantees out the window.

It is annoying that getBytes() has to allocate and fill a byte array because of the mismatch between char/byte, but you can work around it when necessary and that's not really related to "not being unicode enough", if anything it's "too unicode" with the insistence on the char type for internal structure.
I was hoping they would have something to say about privacy/security, but they didn't so I guess there isn't any. That's too bad because I don't think I can live with all my photos being instantly sent to Apple. Probably some other document types too.
iOS updates will be OTA. They're tiny delta updates now too! It was mentioned in the keynote.
TaskAve (http://taskave.com/)
I would not say that this is "how apple works."

Apple innovates very well. The iPhone won not because it had an abstract "pristine sheen", it was just a better phone that innovated in the right ways:

Maps worked great, Safari was a full browser in the phone, and other features. It's software keyboard worked well and enabled a large screen for capacitive touch and multimedia. iPhone 1 had a plentitude of new features.

iOS 5 isn't innovating. iOS 5 is copying. I wouldn't be surprised if iPhone 6 has a hardware back button like android.

The iPad still innovates, and hopefully Apple has a cool new product around the corner.
The keynote did mention DRM free (along with the 256Kbps AAC line). It doesn't sound like it would disappear.
Wouldn't work for individual songs, this is where algorithms like the ones Shazam and LaLa use come into play since they'll actually look at the audio file. Getting this correct is pretty important or you'll end up with the wrong songs.

Pirates can actually try to game the algorithm and rip albums in bad quality to minimize file size but good enough for Apple to recognize the songs as such.
Does anybody remember how Yahoo/Google/Ebay handled this? I know their early investors got rich, but were they cashed out before the IPO?
Which domain? Reals? That's a lot of numbers. Infinity, in fact.
Yes, I was working on that last night before I crashed and went to bed. Definitely a good suggestion. I have a few ideas for which you wouldn't even need to use the URL at all... Wait and see. :)
I think it's as simple as, consumers don't want to deal with the latency. I pick a song, it plays instantly, within half a second. Online players for now seem naive.
So what's the solution here? To me the outcry over this seems pretty contradictory given the general antipathy around here towards software patents.

Either ideas are something that an individual can own and control and others are forbidden to use without permission, or everybody is free to implement them and innovate around them.

Is Marco going to have to do some work now to differentiate himself from Reading List? Totally. But is that a bad thing? He was no more entitled to a competition-free perpetual business model than the Record Labels or Movie Studios or Banking Industry or any other perennial target around here.

Marco is a smart and skilled guy and there's no way this is going to kill him off unless he willingly lets it.
What if there is a windows client in the works, or itunes integration? I think Dropbox should really be worried here ...
Small world, releasing a product from Turkey
If you're looking for purely mathematical facts, there's a list of something "special" about each number from 0 to 9999 at http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html.

For smaller numbers, Wikipedia is pretty good too.
Yes. All 45,000,000,000 of them. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s
I use rdio, and it's not the streaming that makes me keep paying them--it's the legal access to a mountainous library of most of the music I ever have a reason to give a listen to.
Ah, just the server version then. So this is pretty much a form of blanket amnesty.
IOS 5 Enters the “Post-PC World”
Location, location, location.

I have the workplace for work. While I share an apartment with my brother, I have my kitchen to cook, my bedroom to sleep in, my living room for entertainment. I'd like a quiet place to go to write, or maybe get back into programing, or whatever.

My only real option is to get a place with an extra room, and that's not in the cards for me right now. So, my problem? A place to get away and do "my thing." Sure, most would just as soon do it in their homes, but, it would be a luxury I'd consider.

... Hey, you asked.
osCommerce and their codebase being more horrible than Magento doesn't make Magento any less horrible.
So, is there no web access to iCloud content? No way to share, for example, photos or documents publicly (or in the case of docs, between apps)?

These seem like remarkably device-centric solutions for an increasingly web-centric world. Which is not surprising, I guess, for what is essentially a hardware company.
I am honestly curious how they are going to prevent pirated music from appearing unless by "ripped from CD" they ripped by iTunes from CD. But they mention support songs purchased elsewhere in their blurb.

Maybe they just don't give a shit.
I've been using showoff to develop against the github service hook. I've got a paid account so I have a static url which means I only had to set it up once in github. I use a lot of cloud services and don't bother with a VPS. For $5 a month it's a really simple service that does just what I want.
"When I read this, I wondered if it was about offering consumers the right number of choices. Cash Only sounds restrictive, while a laundry list of types of currency seems like you have options."

(Why did this comment from clarebear get killed? Anyway...)

I agree. Even though the vast majority of customers will never use any of those choices except cash and iou, simply having them sends the message that the shop is very open and flexible.
The incentive was having the music to listen to, and if you're constantly on the move and want easy access, you own an iPod, which Apple has sold a few of in the past.

And they'll justify it the same way they always have: poorly and completely out-of-whack with the actual damages inflicted.
It doesn't delete the originals, it just gives you access to the 256k versions from other devices.
I will probably keep paying Rdio, but I also recognize that I am in a minority of listeners that constantly listens to new stuff.

Before this announcement, Rdio had a huge value proposition even for normal people: instant access to all the music in their collection from multiple devices. Now iTMS has the same offering, for less money, and with better integration into every platform normal people play music on.
Magento is also a huge resource hog. Wordpress at least is somewhat tame in that department.
I more or less agree with you. My original comment was sort of tongue-in-cheek :-) I've heard other people make that same proposition with apparent sincerity, though.
there are no uninteresting numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
If you're like me, your number 1 problem is: How do I get users?

Approcity is a totally free link exchange network for web app developers. Feature a customizable (and non-blocking) bar on your website / blog / girlfriends site. When anyone clicks an app that is featured on your bar you will be rewarded with karma. Karma gets your app(s) featured on other people bars. Its reciprocity for web apps! I've also included some safeguards to prevent the overly-clever from racking up their own scores unfairly.
This is all just a guess, but... You aren't seeing this the right way. That money? Part of that is going to the labels. That pirate stuff you are adding? Apple will keep track of it, and the labels will get a cut. So yes, the labels know people are going to upload pirate music. At least now, they get some money from it.
Granting Creative License
would be awesome if there were an android client :) but seriously, I think I need to see more details on how this works. can I choose to download just one song at a time? can I create a playlist of my cloud'ed music, play it, and delete it?

currently with itunes you have to manually select which artists/albums you want to sync if you don't want to sync everything. this would be laborious to manage with multiple devices, especially if you've got 100gb of music on your macbook, and a 32gb iphone and a 16gb ipad. I'd much rather be able to selectively stream my music.
Joel Nielsen, founder of MediaShark, LLC, writes about overcoming the challenges of giving someone else creative control of a project. Have you had this challenge?
Things from CulturedCode
Awesome observation.

Another interesting tidbit. Imagine that bitcoin became the de-facto currency. Not only would the government be unable to tax, it would also be unable to control the financial systems it uses to affect markets. For example, the government can print a small amount of money for itself without causing hyper-inflation. This "inflation tax" would also be noncollectable. Further, the federal funds rate would be useless.
The bottom line is it's not free, just like MobileMe wasn't, so they will give a damn.
But first he has to figure out how to pay for N copies.
Ah, I misunderstood what was being proposed.
Rdio is still a great deal if you're the kind of person who listens to Yeasayer or Joan As Police Woman. It is no longer as good a deal for the kind of person who listens to Fleetwood Mac and Lady Gaga. The problem is, there are way more of the latter than the former.

More importantly, Rdio already had a lot of noise it had to spend money to cut through. What happens to their cost of customer acquisition after iCloud and iTunes Match?
It's an interesting thought, and one could always make good use of more feedback to make a control loop behave nicely with respect to throughput, fairness, convergence time and stability.

There have been many improved congestion control algorithms proposed with this train of thought: XCP[1], RCP[2] to name a few. One of the reasons why they have not caught on is that they require a lot of support from the network.

[1] XCP: http://www.isi.edu/isi-xcp/
[2] RCP: http://yuba.stanford.edu/rcp/
Evernote? This seems like a blow to them as well....
Being closed isn't relevant here. If Ubuntu built this feature into the OS the same thing would happen to 3rd parties.

The lesson is about hitching your wagon to one platform. Marco has been an outspoken "iOS only" developer and part of me wants to see him eat crow for taking that position. But that's not fair, at the end of the day he's a smart guy and he'll either adjust or come up with another killer idea. He made the smart play at the right time, but all good things come to an end.
Windows user. iTunes on Windows is almost painfully bad, and pretty much everything else I tried worked better for me, from performance, to customization, to simply working the way I'd prefer. I can expand on the various issues I've had with iTunes in the past if you'd like, but whenever I do so, it tends to become a bit of a rant.
Historically you could use OSX Server as a local update/patch server, and have other Mac's on the LAN use it instead of downloading the same stuff again.

They say they're making Lion Server free and easily configured, and I'm hoping that they're integrating the App store components as well.
Some related references:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KaprekarRoutine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174_(number)

The Wolfram link contains a list of Kaprekar numbers and Kaprekar sequences in common bases.
This has been said many times before but on OSX you actually need to reboot after updating Safari. I'm not 100% sure about iTunes but I believe it still needs a reboot after updating.
which is a pretty progressive decision by music companies. it's like they're accepting that people will pirate music no matter what drm scheme or lawsuit wave they throw out there, so they're trying to find a way to live profitably with it.
Open Windows talks to Global Logistics Media - Global Logistics Media
Ticket price? Stadium Size?

More people go to A LOT of things than the Super Bowl, but that's because getting in to the Super Bowl is no easy or cheap task.

Does not compare.
Finally, I've been seeing several job postings relating to this site for weeks!

I'm a big SC fan and have been watching the community and the money grow the last year, since SC2 got released. As they have on the frontpage, the SC2 community is huge and between TSL, MLG, GomTV, and NASL, lots of money is flowing their direction for ads and promotions. MLG Columbus took place this weekend with an estimated 110K viewers over the weekend. It's a growing market!
Icloud-digital-hub
These people were really working as human compilers, rather than programmers.

Then again, this is true of most "programming" employment today.
Anonymizing bitcoins is not difficult. For example, you can deposit your coins in an online wallet service, and then withdraw some fraction of that amount to an anonymous address. Because the wallet provider can pool its coins, the coins coming out can have absolutely no relationship to the coins going in, outside the private records of the wallet provider.

The wallet provider could, in principle, be subpoenaed / coerced /hacked / owned by the NSA. I imagine there will eventually be a Tor-like "onion" anonymization method, where bitcoins are routed through multiple such services, so that no single service need be trusted (except to not steal your money). The main challenge with these techniques is avoiding forms of traffic analysis, where I notice B$98.23 heading from A to B, and shortly thereafter, B$98.22 heading from C to D, and infer that these represent a single transaction chain despite being disconnected in the block chain record. Such attacks can be minimized by, e.g., settling on a fixed transaction amount for all transactions with a given service, and adding random delays commensurate with the transaction rate and degree of anonymity required.
The subtle (and not so subtle to others) difference is that iOS will have these features polished. Android just has them.
I'll be sure to update cantada.ca :)
The difference is Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive give nothing to the RIAA. But Apple gave over $100 million up front and will give a cut of each iCloud subscription to the RIAA going forward. The RIAA's outrage is just a shake down.
Only applies to integers. Most real numbers are not interesting.
Seems unchanged for me (I added an SSD, so the existing 7200 RPM HD became a rarely-used media drive).

I see ~5.5 hours real-world use on a 15" MBP, and my development environment includes a virtualized XP install.
The safe password rules are simple and well known:

1. Eight chars minimum.

2. At least three different types of chars out of these four: small and large letters, digits and special symbols.

3. No known words of any language and no names, not even interchanged with digits like 3 for E, 5 for S, 1 for l or 7 for T.

4. HTTPS secure login.

5. Never show or transmit unencrypted passwords.

Unfortunately too many website designers don't even know these rules or don't care to enforce them on their members. Some sites don't even allow special symbols or do not have a minimum length requirement.

If your site stores even more sensitive information like credit card data, SSNs &c. then this requirements and more are even prescribed by industry standards and in some cases even the law.

It's too bad PSN didn't care about any of this. They could have at least accepted PayPal payments, so that credit card data would not have been stored on their servers.
I'm using it on my site http://cAPPtion.tv at the top. I like the fact that it doesn't look like an ad bar - it looks like a legit "Here are the apps I'm featuring" bar.

edit: I work with the Approcity main dev.
I agree that this is really cool, but I'm a little confused about the details. Surely they must charge the app developers for the space they use up in their new fancy (and expensive looking) data center? Steve said that app files didn't count to your personal 5GB storage, so where does apple recoup the costs?
How much wait till some open platform pays $2.5 billion to developers?
Why Everything You Know About Murphy's Law is Wrong
Its all fun and games until you think May 21st is the date the world will end.

More seriously, numbers, and number theory, can be quite interesting and often leads to computational insight in algorithm computation or numerical solving. But ultimately, unless you're a numbers geek, it [ edit: Kaprekar numbers [1] ] doesn't [ don't ] really teach anything.

[1]Sheesh, this place has lost its sense of humor.
I am drawn to wonder if there is a discrete limit operation, and taking the discrete limit of Kaprekar's operation on all 4-digit numbers yields 6174.

My mastery of fixed-point mathematics is rusty, so I am unsure if that is identical to the above...
Graphics and UI/UX Designer wanted
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This is a rare chance to get involved really early with a startup with a great founding team and reap the benefits that come with it. And did we mention, we have A list investors on board.

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If we like your work, you'll hear from us within 24 hours.

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Competitive compensation, with all the standard bells and whistles of benefits. We’re also open to having you working on this on the side (if you have a day job and don’t want to leave it just yet).
At this stage, your portfolio and previous work (even if it is at school) will be the most important thing we look at.
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Murtaza@higear.com
I may be underestimating it's worth, but my first impression was that iTunes Match would be met (by users in general) with a feeling of paying for your non-iTunes music twice.
Stone-age enterprise customers pay their bills.
Agile Game Development: E3 and agility
Thanks for posting this, really enjoyed reading it.
wandering what they'll do with those who paid (recently) for mobile.me
LulzSec: Statement regarding "exposing" leaked logs
Posting this here for the start-up I work for because the community is awesome, and I'd love a chance to give back to HN.
Is this perpetual? For example, could I pay my yearly subscription fee, torrent anything I want, upload it and get a legit version? If so, this is $25 a year for all the music I want.

Which, if the labels have agreed to that, it's very surprising. It's sort of a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy: they start getting a cut of this fee from every participating pirate, which is a lot more than they used to get ($0), but a lot less than they wish they could get ($15 per album).
That's where I was expecting this story to turn in to an ad for Square.
So if I'm reading this right:

If a project that uses Agile fails, the participants have no incentive to blame each other.

If a project that uses Waterfall fails, the participants have an incentive to blame each other.

Because Waterfall in the failure case gives people an incentive to blame each other, it's a poorer methodology than Agile.

If I haven't confused your argument, then the weakness is that you have not shown that Agile is a methodology in which people have no incentive (or ability) to blame each other if the project fails.
"Available in beta now in the U.S. only" — http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
Intel has been trying to get into the GPGPU business for years. The problem for them, of course, is you have to have a credible GPU before you can GP with it. Here's where they tried to glue together a bunch of existing cores (yes P54C Pentiums) and call it a GPU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_%28microarchitecture%2... Like early experiments in aviation, it didn't fly.

I didn't know about Wilson. I'd somehow gotten the impression that this work had been supported by Intel. Oh well. If they didn't, they shoulda. :-)
Oh, well that's nice then. About time!