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Since the files are DRM-free, and your desktop iTunes is one of the 'devices' that syncs, presumably you'll have the iTunes-downloaded high-quality DRM-free versions of all of your songs sitting in your iTunes music folder waiting to be copied elsewhere. I'm sure Apple has some clause in the terms of service saying that when you stop paying your $25/year you need to delete those files, but they wouldn't have explicitly said it was all DRM-free if it wasn't set up to let you grab the iTunes-quality files manually and do what you want with 'em.
I actually keep my music matching separate, and do it in Music Brainz Picard. I went through and fixed tags for somewhere around 10,000 tracks rather painlessly. It will also rename and move your files automatically. Since it also uses user submitted data, it does a great job of finding some pretty obscure stuff too. I highly recommend it.
"Piracy is worse than never"
Is it? Something to back this claim up?
Unlike Anthony Weiner, LulzSec seems to handle the propaganda aspect of exposed logs pretty well.
Well what happens typically is people stop going for the low hanging fruit, and focus on specific verticals. When the best and brightest devs are working on specific areas they love then everyone wins.

When they're gap filling, then their best hope is acquisition, no matter how much they love their product. And remember acquisitions aren't guaranteed, and there are only ever one or two of them.
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

Today's exchange rate range is 16.45 to 19.23. That's pretty typical, and some days are a lot worse. In the forums, the consensus seems to be that any attempt at economic analysis is largely a waste of time due to there being way too many unknowns. The Bitcoin "investors" and "speculators" just look like gamblers to me. That qualifies as "nuts" to this coward.

However, I do like insulting people.
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It seems developers can use APIs in both Mac and Pc. I see no reason why there will not be a third party client for iClouds in Windows.
I've seen a lot of proposals for wikipedia to go over to a system that has this sort of thing, I think the primary issue is that it's difficult to come up with a visual indication of this information without significantly detracting from the usability.
Not just the special numbers.

Kaprekar's operation always results in a multiple of 9.

Given a > b > c > d. Kaprekar's operation gives:

1000a + 100b + 10c + d - (1000d + 100c + 10b + a)
=999(a - d) + 90(b - c)
=9(111(a - d) + 10(b - c))

And so on for integers with other numbers of digits.
They probably are - I agree. They should make personal licenses cheap and ubiquitous therefore creating mindset.

Most smaller orgs just buy machines and live with what is on them these days and only tech-focused companies seem to care what they run. The entire NHS (UK's free health system) seems to run on Windows 2000 and XP quite happily still because that's what the machines came with at the time.
Because it pays to. The risk/reward tends to work out.
I think the article makes a decent point to the value of Groupon (I think there's real value in Groupon's business). The issue I have with the article is how amorphous business relationship + ??? = $25 Billion Dollars[1]

[1] Must be said in your best Dr. Evil Voice.
I got an Evo 4G and got 4-6 hours with virtually no talking. My iPhone 4 usage pattern is similar and I get 2 days between charges. A friend who has one bought extended life batteries for his Evo and still only gets 4 hours from each if he's lucky. The Moto engineer I mentioned said that the phone is known for getting 2 hours of battery life.

Regardless of which number is correct, the phone never should have shipped.

Also, due to the various HTC provided customizations, users of the phone get locked into outdated versions of Android long after newer features have been added. This is the worst form of lock-in b/c it's so clearly designed to get people to buy a new phone even though their current phone is upgradeable. The Nexus One is a pure Google phone so it's upgradeable, but most are not. This means app developers have to target lots of old OS versions if they want a large install base.

Not sure if you've compared the quality of apps on either platform lately. But most of the apps on Android are gimmick apps such as "Free Nelly Ringtones" and other garbageware. The creator of that app released several hundred nearly identical apps, each with a different song.

Look at the top 100 free and paid iPhone apps. At best 10 in each category have an app of similar quality available on Android. Most that do are from major firms, not from indie developers or small studios.

Edit: I'm actually rooting for Android but let's not pretend that the race is close at this point. This is mostly due to Google letting the phone companies' perverse incentives get in the way of a top quality product.
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"Your Mac must have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor to run Lion. Find out if your current Mac has one of these processors by clicking the Apple icon at the top left of your screen, then choosing About This Mac."
"Unknown or expired link":

I frequently get "unknown or expired link" when clicking the "more" link after browsing to the bottom of the page. It's constantly frustrating.

If another page of links was shown to me, I'd be much happier. Just show the next page instead of an error. Just give me more links.
To add to your comment: I use Dropbox on both my Macs as well as a couple PCs (and my Android phone). iCloud won't work for my type of usage.
It MIGHT be a browser issue. Did you reload/switch browsers?
The lesson isn't "never mess with your landlord" so much as it's "choose your landlord carefully because they have a lot of power to mess with you."
Perhaps my app Remindly, but am waiting to see how easy they made it to schedule a reminder, as Remindly is intended to make creating an reminder simple enough that you can perform it in only a few seconds while multitasking, driving, on phone, etc.

The screenshots of Apple's location based alarms do make it appear much more robust than Remindly. I'm looking forward to playing with it to see how accurate they are, that's something I encountered huge issues with.
Apple launches iCloud; here’s what powers it
Any way to view this video on Win7 without downloading QuickTime?
Apparently, this is U.S.-only:
http://twitter.com/#!/adrianweckler/status/77813858793832448
I really feel for the folks at Red Pop today: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/786496402/red-pop
Arguably 256 AAC is better than 320 MP3. I doubt FLAC files will even upload to iCloud so you probably have to convert them to something like MP3 or AAC first. That is if you are even seriously considering it.
Doesn't eponymous mean that it's named after the band? Homonymous in this case means the album has the same name as the song -- Extraordinary Machine.

Also, you're missing a trailing slash. :)
Which kind of slavery? Wage slavery is alive and well. It is the slavery of the 21st century, and continues today. Or can you quit your job without going bankrupt due to debt unlike me and millions of others like me?
Sorry that you didn't find that relevant.
That only makes them interesting relative to a given well-ordering. Since nobody knows the details of any well-ordering of the real numbers, this severely limits the interestingness of a given real number.
Switched to Firefox, and still not showing a valid set. (quantity different, color different, fill and shape similar).

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Yes, it is. And I suspect the Scala people aren't advocating that it move away from the JVM.

However, I can definitely say, should a Scala on LLVM become available with trivial FFI with native code and close to compiled C performance even for the Scala interpreter (this is definitely possible), I would heartily switch to Scala from C.

I absolutely love the idea of Scala on the LLVM back end. That opens up a whole new world to me which currently doesn't exist.

I've recently been trying to design my own language on the LLVM Jit. So far, many of the design decisions I am making are very similar to, or the same as Scala, even though I am familiar with many different languages.

What's missing from Scala for me personally, is precisely what is proposed in this paper.
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Interestingly, the Twitter app is itself obsolete since it'll be built into iOS. All the negative attention that Twitter got over advising against implementing additional clients and then adding the dickbar to their client was for nothing.
So much for the open web.
Yeah, but that's an orthogonal point.

On one level, yes, we should not be afraid to be wrong, ask interesting questions, yadda yadda.

On the other, someone running for President should probably know more about US history than the average 3rd grader. This isn't a question of being bold and learning from mistakes, it's an example of startling ignorance (less startling for the repetition from this particular source, I guess).

I'm just flabbergasted at the mindset of the followers insisting on the wikipedia edits. If you asked them anytime from 3rd grade until last week, they would have had a different view of the facts than when you ask them this week. Palin managed to change established, historical facts for these people simply by fucking up. Subjective truth to the extreme.
If it doesn't stream, what's the point? Why do I care that I can redownload a song? You can already do that. As to iTunes match, so this is basically just a backup service?

I was expecting a streaming service for my iTunes and non-iTunes music... this is disappointing.
if it's new code, you can't bisect. think about it - you need all the new code to compile. if you only had half, it wouldn't compile.

bisecting only makes sense when it's modifications to existing code that can be applied independently.
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Another fixed point of the operation is zero, which is reached in a single step if you start with a number with all the same digits (1111, for example.) Zero is stable and attracting, it just has a very small basin of attraction.
> If you carry out your business in a friendly and unique way you can win customers and do things that are very difficult to pull off otherwise.

"cash only" seems unfriendly. You can get away with not being friendly as long as you are neutral and professional, but anything that gives a feeling of hostility is going to consciously or unconsciously drive away people.

I won't go to a "cash only" shop because most of the times I pay with cards and to me, it reads like the shop is asking me not to come in.

When he went for a list of currencies, rather than saying pay US dollars or don't come in, it read like we have issues with processing cards, but please do come in - we will see what we can do.
I'm not sure how people are surprised by this. If you already have the track on your hard drive and now you have to PAY to listen to it then Apple isn't really giving you anything you didn't already have (convenience, obviously). It's a nice service, but realize that they have already lost the sale.
Out of sheer curiosity: what's the bare minimum required to match a Gracenote entry?
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I hate to be dense, but I am not following you here. What are the two ways of being wrong that the author is conflating?

It seems to me that in either case-- whether you are a Silicon Valley leader or a faux-politician-celebrity, if you are wrong, you should own up to it, and suffer the consequences (and, one would hope, learn the lessons).

I think everybody should be devoted to the truth.

Could you elaborate on what you found distasteful in the OP, because I'm not getting it.
The music matching service does sound genuinely interesting, though I am unsure about how it works as a yearly subscription. Surely once you've matched your songs, that's it (until next time). Would the pay per use model not make more sense?

But as for TFA, the non-music sync features of iCloud seem underwhelming. At the risk of playing the "other-phones-already-do-it" card, Windows (both Phone and PC) already does this with the Live services and Skydrive. Contacts, Calendar, Office documents and Photos can all be synced automatically. In addition, you get 25GB of space - no silly 30 day limits as with photos in iCloud.

What's the current state of play for Android?
Which of those features aren't polished on Android? Or are you just another iOS customer that's never used any of these features talking out of their ass.
Really i rarely have an issue finding current non popular (Top 40) music via YouTube. If it's a current top 40 song I will find it on Vevo if not found on YouTube.
I hadn't thought about that; I'm sure it's the same across all 50 states. Wonder if baking them in the coffee shop itself would get around that: I assume they need a health inspection/certificate to sell coffee.
As the gaming team lead at Justin.tv, let me just say that I agree with you that there's a lot of structure on GOMtv.net or MLGpro.com (they don't own mlg.com unfortunately) that I think is awesome.

But when you sit at home watching Starcraft and you want to see NASL or IPL or MLG you catch it on TwitchTV. We carry (almost) all the biggest tournaments.
Not really. I think everyone knows, whether they want to admit it or not, that Apple gets to say what all the hardware buttons do. To what other end would Apple do anything with that authority other than to benefit Apple?

This wasn't some random feature that Apple capriciously decided wasn't allowed. It's not like they told Marco, "you're not allowed to make, save, and sync readable versions of web articles". The application you're talking about changed the behavior of the hardware buttons on the phone. Nobody was really surprised that Apple objected to that.
> I think HN has duplicate detection

Seems like a great time for that to kick in is just before posting the second comment.
By using a halfway decent router with properly configured QoS. It isn't hard. Between running lsof locally and rflow on DD-WRT, it's easy to isolate the ports used for your various backup services. Once you have that, it's trivial to put those services at the bottom of the queue for outbound bandwidth.
Wow. I can understand the need to commute for 3 hours a day if the person really needs the money/is in a financial situation. But this guy is potentially working at Google, and to me, the general tradeoff for 3 hours of your life every day isn't worth it. I guess its down to personal wants though, I hate commuting for work.
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I know what you're thinking. Provide the bare minimum for the complete ITMS library and release it as a torrent...
It's a bug. We're fixing it.
But is your point that this is commendable behavior from Apple? Or that developers should just shut up and put up with it regardless?

What gets me is that software developers aren't a little more discerning when it comes to fawning uncontrollably over all the good stuff Apple does and just explaining away (is that what you're doing here?) or blinkering out the bad.

Why can't this same energy and enthusiasm be directed towards keeping the hardware and software we all depend on for our livelihoods as open and accessible as possible?

We are the early adopters and the evangelists. We're the ones our friends and family turn to when they need suggestions on a new computer or MP3 player. Why perpetuate Apple's "our ball, our game, our rules" environment any more than absolutely necessary?
Interesting. What kind of questions were you expecting to be answered? I thought this is not a sharing service in the sense that you do not get a link to it, which means your stuff is not made public even if you want it to. So as long as the transit is encrypted (which it is) it should be fine. Also Apple is not selling you ads based on your photos, so no issues about reading or analyzing your data to get information either.
Interesting... this was posted a year ago and was also discussed on HN before too.

Anyhow, this combined with his post on the startup career path (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/are-you-in-a-sta...) are two of the very best pieces of advice you're going to get IMO. @yegg is the man and his posts always deliver.
Apple's new announcements touched so many startups it's scary. iMessage takes on all the free/group messaging apps that have been built lately. iCloud takes on (maybe not very well) rdio and other streaming music services. Airdrop takes on dropbox, box.net etc. Reminders takes on rememberthemilk and other GTD services. How about the camera plus app that Apple took off the app store for making the volume button a camera button? Now Apple implemented that feature!

The Paul Graham quote used in this article was spot on, especially the part about "...you may find that you were merely doing market research for them."

This is the problem with building apps on top of another company's API. You will forever be subject to their rules. Whether you're building on Facebook's API, iOS, or even Amazon AWS...you will always be competing to a disadvantage.
Good point, we probably shouldn't roll a second ad after login on a channel page.
I'm pretty sure there have been cases where you're required to hand over the password. But if you use truecrypt and make a shadow OS, you can hand over the password for the fake OS with nothing serious on it and they cannot prove the existence of a shadow OS to demand a password for. Some time ago someone also mentioned that if you remember a passphrase + key and sha it for your password, then you can legally say you don't remember your password even though you know (one possible way) to generate it.
If the audio hash & protocol gets reverse-engineered, though, it'll make filesharing very quick--- instead of having to trade mp3s, you can just email your friend a list of hashes.
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There's a complete list of new features here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html

To address the concerns of re-installation, they're including a partition with the system install disk on it (which can get to Time Machine or whatever else you need).
> Keep in mind it's $29.95 per year.

Lion is $29.99. iTunes Match is $25/y (this difference adds up)
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It's a few hours vs a few minutes.

No, believe me, it's not. I'm using the Google Music beta, and by my calculations, it will take multiple weeks to upload my collection.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=80+GB%2F10KBps

I know I don't have the best internet connection, nor do I have the smallest music collection, but that's a whole lot of time to be uploading at full speed (which makes my internet unusable).
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Spotify and Mog Music does this now
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So what's the difference between a vertical and "gap-filling"?

If Google didn't have product search, or blog search, and someone went and did that, would they be gap-filling or going after a vertical? Seems to me they're one and the same.
I like that Apple is copying (for the most part, I don't like the idea of another chat system that just talks to itself). There is nothing wrong with building on good ideas. I welcome the vast improvement iOS 5 will be. I just don't like that such a litigious company that has touted how many patents they have in keynotes past [1] is shamelessly swiping ideas.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZBLjxPBUU
No, I don't mean to imply that. I was trying to say that they have a current relative trajectory (flat on iPhone/iPod, solidly up, but slower than anticipated after Q1 launch on iPad) -- and this trajectory doesn't seem to change any more upward after this. In particular relative to Android.

To put it another way, if they didn't do this release at all and just continued to sell iPhones with iOS 4.x on it for the next 12 months, I don't think we'd see a difference in their sales numbers.

I think this is a testament to the current quality of their devices and OS. But it does feel like we've entered Mac circa 1991. It's getting long in the tooth and the improvements are really small, while a competitor with a late start is showing signs of accelerating.
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plot and characters and thoughts can not help but feel with all these people who are so personally affected by adoption, long ago, research in progress, and unexpected discoveries. Nobody's life is unchanged
I am a recent convert from iphone 3g to nexus one, and I am pleasantly surprised. One feature I like the most is the back button which makes Android feels like the web, you get in and out of apps just like you get in and out of websites. Android may not have the eye candy of iOS and tons of very well developed apps but it sure is very convenient.
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I, for one, will pay the $25 amnesty fee after being a pirate for fifteen years.
I think the only limit is 25,000 songs.

Bottom of http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/: Limit 25,000 songs. iTunes purchases do not count against limit.
Stay in the walled garden, and all will be well.
Do something outside it, gonna cost ya.
That's fair enough considering Internet Explorer, but there are some counterpoints to consider:
(1) If you watch the MS promotional video, attracting a wide range of developers is a stated goal of using HTML5; it would be counterproductive to that goal to add lots of proprietary code.
(2) It would be easier to stick with the status quo than to recreate HTML5.
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Yes, but IE has a history of being the slowest, most insecure, least standards-compliant browser, so if I'm trying to get people onto a "good browser treadmill," I'm going to steer clear of it.

If IE becomes the dominant Awesome, Fast, Safe Browser for 5 years running, I'll reconsider.