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1. Yes, that seems to be what Apple is selling. "You had CDs that you ripped to MP3s with crappy quality a while ago. Pay us $25 and we'll trade your crappy-quality MP3s for 256k AACs."

2. I don't think they're giving you a license. You're supposed to already have a license for the song you already have. Apple is merely replacing a likely lower-quality copy with a higher-quality copy.

3. Doubtful (to the point that I almost said no). You aren't going to get immunity from prosecution, but I'm guessing that Apple isn't going to try too hard to find people that have pirated their collection and I think the music industry knows that. It isn't Apple's style (there's no product key on their OS, no activation on their products, etc.). They might do something that tries to figure out if it was a legitimately acquired track, but maybe they'll just go the "we can't match that track" route if it's flagged. Just like #2, you're going to be in the same license and legality position that you were in before.

This is a convenience measure - for you and Apple. For you, this syncs your music between all your computers/devices. For Apple, if they can match the tracks, they don't have to store all the extra tracks as duplicates on their storage. A syncing service wouldn't be useful to you if it only dealt with the music you bought from Apple. They know that it's only useful if it does all your music and so they created a matching service to be bandwidth, time and space efficient. The service costs money to create and run and so they're charging a small fee for it. It's highly doubtful that it will change anything on the legal end.
They didn't try with me. They didn't try with any of my friends. I think they're trying with the wrong crowd.

Interesting side thought here (at least to me). MS has traditionally done very well selling to the larger enterprise market. As the headcount in those orgs go down, will MS' influence drop? Newer people coming in will probably have come from smaller orgs where MS is less prevalent, and when there's overall fewer people at an org, there's fewer people to influence/market to.

I tell a lie. I had/have an Ultimate Vista that I won at a local user group raffle. I've installed it, but in virtual machines, which I've lost a couple times. Getting it re set up by going through the 'call up and get reactivated' is always a pain. :(
I find the general look of the new notifications much closer to MobileNotifier, whose lead dev (Peter Hajas) was just hired by Apple.

That's actually the fairest case by far, as they basically "bought" the project through its lead dev.
I think that most people would be pissed off at having to go through so much to get a high risk position at a startup and not bother. It's best to develop relationships with people BEFORE you kick something off so you can snag a pool of good people without having to do all that.
I don't think that's how it works. At the end of the day, what matters is his revenue graph. If almost all his revenue comres from iOS, and Reading List muddies the water enough to cut into that, the "cross platform" checkbox isn't going to save him, because it's not relevant to the majority of people who pay him.

I don't think iP is doomed, for what it's worth; I just don't think this is the answer.
> There's no fair and objective way to measure the performance of people... blah blah blah...

You've avoided the question, and assumed I'm arguing against measuring performance. Basically, wrong on both accounts.

I'm not arguing that teachers shouldn't have some form of review. However, considering the nature of a public school system, knowing what we know, how should teachers be reviewed? The goal is to have good teachers teaching. Simply saying "we need to review teachers" doesn't help matters, as the question isn't whether we need to. It's the method that is the question.
waiting eagerly for the rest of the article.

# If you apply Murphy's Law, it will no longer be applicable. :D
For anyone who has illegal music, it's paying once not twice and it's hardly expensive (cheaper than music subscription services).

For anyone who has non-iTunes music legally, given the cost of music, chances are that for most people the yearly fee will be very low compared to the rest of their collection, it's basically ~2-3 albums worth. At leat for anyone who has enough music to be worth using this for (if you own 5 CDs, just sync them once, why bother), $25 will be a small piece of what they've paid for the music.
I absolutely agree (the Editor) ;)
I should have been more clear: the author is conflating the ways one can be wrong in a vein I find distasteful.

In Silicon Valley it is not a sin to be wrong because in being willing to be wrong you are embracing reality--the accountability is that you will suffer from your mistakes.

Palin's just a loose cannon on the ship of factuality, and that shit needs to get tied down before she punches holes in Wikipedia and sinks our ability to see reality clearly.

The author is saying that the types of wrongness are equal, which is clearly not so. We expect people who inform our knowledge, our leaders and government, to be devoted to the truth. Politicians must have accountability.

edit: The fundamental point is that Palin _should not have said that stuff about Revere in the first place_, because being that wrong is just _depressing_.
I'm not sure I understand the annual subscription. If I don't renew my subscription, does all my ripped/uploaded music go away? Or do I just lose access to more ripping/uploading?
Andreessen Horowitz Leads $20M Series B Round in Fraud Analytics Firm
Notes from talk on Distributed Builds with Jenkins #JenkinsCI
You don't need to manually select them, since the shuffle was released you could always have iTunes select them for you to fill the remaining space on your device.
Not just an infinity, but a bigger infinity than the integers.
I wonder if this is part of the reason there's a large number of [dead] comments that are perfectly reasonable. Either way, it seems like it would be a much better solution to simply delete the duplicate. If it can be detected to [dead] it, then it should be deletable, right?
True. Streaming is great and all but I wanted a monthly fee for all music...not a yearly fee to stream music I already have and/or purchase.
Dropbox, along with the rest of these, I imagine, have plenty of non-mac users.
I've been using tungle.me to schedule meetings for a while now, and it's a decent service. But the biggest problem is that it requires people who book time with me to click on an email verification link before they can request a meeting.

That makes for a really poor UX for them, so I'll definitely be interested to see how Google's new appointment slots work.
Are the Jailbreaking Days Over?
Does Apple's announcement today regarding over the air updates effectively end the "jailbreaking era"? Now that Apple can push updates to the phone without the user connecting it to their computer, won't jailbroken phones be constantly at risk of being bricked by the latest and greatest iOS update from Apple? I'm sure the jailbreaking community will come up with something, but what if...?
Apple Has Just Monetized Pirated Content
...and hands over your entire library to the music police.
Dropbox is designed to make your filesystem available on any device. iCloud is designed to make the filesystem invisible.

iCloud might win in the long term, but for now they address fundamentally different problems.
It doesn't seem to be a license. It seems to be an agreement between Apple and the labels that basically allows for fair-use treatment. Basically, if you already own the songs, you have the license and you're just having Apple provide a convenience service for you - syncing your music to all your devices as high-quality 256k AAC files. You aren't getting a new license for them. You'll perpetually have the files, but it isn't something that will change your legal status.

I'm guessing one of the reasons the labels agreed to this is that it provides them with ammunition that what Apple is doing isn't fair-use. If it was fair-use, Apple wouldn't be paying the labels. Therefore, Amazon, et. al. need to pay the labels for such services too. It sets a precedent that the labels like.
Almost all of his revenue comes from iOS because he almost exclusively develops for iOS. How much this stings is directly proportionate to how much he's invested into this one platform; in his case it's near 100%. In Evernote's case, they could (if they were in this position) take the blow, pivot a little if necessary, and continue moving forward.
Anybody surprised that there was Twitter integration but no Facebook integration? I know they probably don't want to get in bed with Facebook, but it's strange to me to have one and not the other.
iCloud lets you pirate all the music you wish – for $24.99 a year.
Same annoyances with computers in general. You're urgently downloading a huge uncompressed PSD a client sent you ... and all of a sudden something you can't find the name of without buying a third-party app suddenly start hogging the network.
I don't mean to be off topic, but I really feel, although this is an improvement on the price of Windows upgrade, I think that there is nothing in this release that would drive me off any Linux, particularly a rolling release distribution.

I know that for certain fields, such as multimedia, apple offers a lot, but with new offerings such as Gnome 3, a mature KDE 4, and Ubuntu's unity, for the standard desktop user or developer for that matter, I argue that Linux should enthrall and for one of the first times the difference in price tag isn't the only plus. Stability, Safety and polish are quickly becoming relevant keywords for Linux desktops.

Although the new Unity and Gnome Shell may lack the stability, you can always fall back on the watertight Gnome default desktop.
mp3.com tried something very similar without music industry permission in 2000. It was brash and very forward thinking; they pre-ripped a ton of stuff, would identify your CD when you put it in and then unlock it for you to be played through the site. My buddy's brother was working there at the time and when he told me they were trying this, my immediate reaction was "They are gonna get sued into oblivion." Which, of course, they did.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-235953.html
Fair enough. They'll have to devise a better strategy to prevent that
> It's really important that we not throw our hands up just because we can't objectively measure them.

Straw man much?

Avoid the question? You wrote a lot, but said absolutely nothing.

By what measure should we measure teachers? It's easy to say "get rid of terrible teachers," but if you can't define it, then you are back to square one.

I'm not the one throwing my hands up. You and dkarl are basing saying one thing: "Fire bad teachers." I asked you to define bad, and you merely respond with: "You have to fire bad teachers."

So, I'll try again: By what measure should we measure teachers? Test scores? Student performance? Parental voting? Secret peer ballots? Teacher testing? School board review (which pretty much amounts to parental votes)?
I'm just not that excited about pointing all my devices at a big metal cloud on the wall. Wonder if I can paint it.
This is narcissistic and a great example of how college doesn't prepare you to work. I'm guessing because I don't know Jason Fried personally, but I would wager that he did not create his company so that you could discover yourself. Find out why he created his company and how you can help him achieve his dreams and then you might have something to talk about.
Wow, awesome list. Those are some incredible insights.

You did extremely well with my giving you a hard time, this means that you are definitely going to be successful, just keep at it. (Whether 'it' is to continue with this one or to start completely new ventures.)
I just don't see how they're remotely close to the same thing. But opinions are opinions -- Rdio combines the ease of discovery of a service like Pandora with the selection of a decent music store. And that it can locally cache songs on a device means, well, why would I ever buy songs on iTunes again.

Granted, I have terrible taste in music (TERRIBLE), and maybe somebody who is a bit more sophisticated will have a better experience with iTunes. For me though, Rdio answers the desire: I can listen to any song I want wherever I want whenever I want, with one flat monthly fee.

iTunes can't do that. With iTunes, I can listen to a song I want, between 5-20 minutes from now, unless I've purchased it already. And synced it. Cloud or computer, what's dumb about apple's solution is that as far as I know, they haven't taken the sync out of the equation. You're just syncing with the cloud rather than your computer.
The subtext here is that people with cross-platform apps tend to report that the majority of their revenue comes from iOS, so that comment isn't really responsive.
I was thinking the same thing, what happens when you scan pirated music? There are basically two options, 1) it accepts it and gives you a high quality iTunes AAC copy that you can move to the various computers and devices you own and probably has your name and particulars branded in to it. Or 2) they can attempt to detect that it's pirated and block it somehow and I'm guessing that you get a
fairly shitty user experience when that happens. I'm also going to go ahead and guess that many of the MP3s you've ripped over the last
decade may also "fail" the test and be thought of as pirated.

On the other side, what's it harm? You're providing the media, they are just saving you the steps of uploading it. Now where you'd game
the system is if you had like 16kbit versions of some tracks and they upgrade them for you. If that works then there is kind of a new
avenue in piracy they may be opening up, you download small lo-fi versions quickly and then iTunes could fix them up for you... They
aren't giving you ownership of anything, they're just helping you get the media where you want it, within some parameters.

I wonder if the labels get access to the usage patterns and records, effectively this is Neilsen type information, only way better. Who
"owns" which tracks (that alone combined with iTunes buying patterns and some listening patterns potentialy gives you a huge clue in to who
are the pirates) who plays what, when, where? Seems like some really really killer social apps could be built ontop of this as well
as some incredible marketing information, someone somehwere is going to release a fully remastered, deluxe, Elvis everything box set and
ideally (for them) they'd do it at a time when there was an uptick in Elvis listening. You also can measure various popularity trends,
see how they move, maximize promotional dollars.
The OP's point was more about how confusing it is. We have an example right here - if 2 of you who did read the post aren't sure about the terms, how is Apple going to target its not-so-tech-savvy consumers?

If someone gets charged for an unexpected amount once, he might not be too enthusiastic about using it - since he does not understand the pricing. The people who read the pricing will very likely deem it complicated and might run off to other services viz. dropbox.
Oh, ok.. Thanks for the quick answer.
From what I've read Groupon makes a fortune. The others like LinkedIn are trying to convert their user base into a revenue stream without driving the users away.

The problem with many web 2.0 companies is that they don't have a clear revenue stream.
A lot of youtube music content is not available on mobile devices.
You are right with that, and I do know what you mean. However my real point was that you can't really generalize things and make a checklist-based decision on those two, or in my case three (with founding) alternatives.

I personally think you should not make this decision on a too much numbers/status/fact basis, but on a very personal or you risk to regret it sooner or later.
As a mostly-satisfied Rdio subscriber, I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I think Apple just put a shotgun blast through 80% of the "cloud music" market. I think people who really see value in getting instant access to any music every year is a small subset of the whole digital music market.
Why do developers continue to let Apple do this to them?
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Do you imply that current trajectory is downward?
And Apple does not sell iOS, it sells iPhone, iPod touch and iPads with that OS. I am sure iPad sales are not going to go down any time soon.
Governments WILL kill BitCoin and any other attempts. They are already issuing their own.

Nowadays the whole point of sovereignity is that you can issue your fiat currency. Allowing and thus defacto accepting this currency would mean that sovereignity has been granted. And this will not happen.
If you look close enough, all those "special" numbers are divisible by 9.

I made a quick experiment with other bases.

3-digits numbers, base 8 has fixed point 374_8=252_10. 252 `mod` 7 = 0.

base-9, base-11 and base 13 seem do not have fixed points.

base-12, 3 digits has (at least one) fixed point 5b6_12 = 858_10. 858 `mod` 11 = 0.

I think, it exploits some properties of positional notation of numbers so that fixed points all divisible by (base-1).
Ask HN: OK to use the word "bullshit" in our company tagline?
We're doing a homepage redesign and part of that is exploring a new tagline. In a meeting, one of us randomly threw out that one of our value propositions is "no bullshit" when finding a credit card processor. Somehow it stuck, and we all like "no bullshit" in our tagline... but we're unsure how the market perceives this.

Do you guys know if this turns some people off? We are a B2B site - FeeFighters.com … many of our customers are online businesses, but we also have a number of small businesses - dentists, restaurants, etc. We're contemplating changing our tagline to "Compare credit card processors. They compete. You win. No bullshit."
Is the general population offended by the word "bullshit" or has that gone by the wayside?
I've found that turning off Firebug significantly improves Firefox's performance. Have others had this experience?
there is always a solution, first of all, update to the new os with a jailbroken firmware(when it will come, if ever)can be a solution, keeping exploits safe is another, also i think iOS it's not the safest os ever created. the more you challenge the hackers to find something the more they will. There was always a bug "ready for use" so maybe noone looked very deep.

If there wil be the need hackers will find.
Links

Current site: http://feefighters.com

Wireframe options:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/homepage-pick-winner-keep-ho...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/homepage-they-compete-you-wi...
Let me correct the title for you
'	One More Thing: ‘iTunes Match’ Will DOWNGRADE Your Ripped Music For $24.99 A Year'. There much better.

I have my music ripped if VBR at low compression and FLAC. Clearly, itunes isn't dishing out nearly the same quality Music in return
What % of startups focus on enterprise
Fire Truck Quilt Set
How to Optimize Your Business for the F-commerce Era.
If Microsoft's app "eco-system" is any indication, people will allow Apple to do this to them for ever.
Also has happened to me. It's why I have showdead on.
I was thinking that an interface that colored content based on how old it was would be pretty cool. Then I realized that, duh, a SCM style blame function would be cool for wikipedia (which may be available in the diff functionality, I don't remember or use the history diffing ability on wikipedia enough to know off hand). Then I thought, it would be nice to have wikipedia content in SCM anyway, and was thinking of writing something to import it into git.

And it may already exist. A search turned up http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation and the code is at https://github.com/scy/levitation
ah man, that microwave eggs in a plastic bowl is a real soul killer. I hope people will dismiss that like the high fructose corn syrup.
Ahhh... I was just going by what was reported by someone at the keynote. Still, it's priced way cheaper than the previous versions, and I'd gladly pay the $50 for the convenience of a local patch/app server. (I have 5 macs in the house).

My biggest peeve is the download-only for the OS, as I have rather crappy internet access, and dread the thought of downloading a multi-GB update.
Interesting, but ran into an issue. Made a private game, saw a set immediately (all single, all stripe, different shapes, different colors). That one wouldn't take though. Mashing hint three times though highlighted three cards that weren't a set (single/single/triple,blue/blue/red).

Using IE8 but I don't think it would make a difference.

edit My friends and I are Set nuts though, so I'm kinda stoked about this for us.
The temptation is too high.

Being "the guy" who solves "the problem" that everyone has is really tempting. Everyone will say things like "Oh you should install that app by Des Traynor, it lets you do X (where X is anything everyone wants to do)

Its great for a short term publicity kick, to get your name out there. It's just not something to build a business on.
What Apple's iOS 5 "Borrows" From Android
IIRC, Steve, the designer of the langauge, hosts the site on his home connection.
It's telling that even Hacker News users are so intimidated that they are afraid to click on a link. I find it surprising and a bit scary (but I don't live in the US).
Which Apps are threatened by iOS 5
Here's what I don't understand about your (and a lot of people's, I don't mean to pick on you) comments, please help me understand this:

Pirated files are not necessarily identifiable as such, not in the digital world. If I download some albums from what.cd, you can't tell they're pirated, maybe I ripped them with the exact same version of LAME. What I'm trying to say is that today, having a pirated file isn't a property of the file, it's a property of how you got ahold of that file.

I don't understand what you mean when you say the service "legitimizes" (paraphrase) existing music. All it does is exchange one set of bits for another set of bits, and this set of bits or that set of bits don't make an audio file legitimate or illegitimate.

I mean it's a bit like transcoding, isn't it? Except instead of doing it yourself, you're paying Apple to do it. The fact that a third party is providing the service doesn't necessarily mean that the process as a whole is legit, in the same way that taking a PDF of a book to FedEx Kinko's to print doesn't make the copy legit, in the same way that buying a Windows upgrade to upgrade your old pirated Windows doesn't make the resulting license legit.

I realize we're in kind of a special circumstance here because Apple has paid the music labels a lot of money, but we're just speculating about what the contents of their license enables them to do, which is probably only to be indemnified in the event that people use the service with pirated music (but not to indemnify the actual users).

Or am I missing something?
Most likely your converted music goes away(music you didn't buy from iTunes) from the cloud storage. The music on your harddisk isn't going anywhere.
I'm wondering this too although it's a moot point since iTunes Match will be (yet another) U.S.-only music service
I'm not a developer, but i think it's the "that won't happen to me " syndrome that humans tend to suffer, just to deny reality. We do it in our lives everyday, till it happens to us.
There was a similar concept in Germany somewhere I seem to recall.

Always thought it would be fun to do. :)
I find Kaprekar's operation totally uninteresting because it is (or at least seems to me) totally linked to base ten representation of numbers.

If at least you had a result like "in any base, the analogue of Kaprekar's operation in that base has a fixed point for digits of length 3 or 4 only", it would be mildly interesting. But as it is it's not math, just senseless symbol manipulation.