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They certainly do – probably not for Apple but certainly for consumers. Apple currently only distributes Lion digitally. You can get it on a thumb drive in two months or so but it will cost you more than twice as much as the download. Apple wants consumers to download Lion.

3.7 GB (that’s the size of the download) are still a lot and keeping the size of downloads as small as possible is certainly a valid goal.

I think Apple shaved off about one GB or so compared to what they pressed on DVDs and that’s certainly noticeable for many people. My parents’ house (in Germany) has this really awful DSL connection, more than 4,000 kbit/s are just not possible. Having to download 1 GB less would save them over thirty minutes. (Downloading merely 3.7 GB would take them over two hours.)

Making stuff only few people use optional is still a great idea when you want people to download it. Not everyone has FIOS.
No they are not. Finnish company is subject to Finnish laws and Finnish laws only. If they produce something in Finland, then only valid Finnish patents are their concern. US Patents are not valid for Rovio in Finland.

Now. If and when their _product_ is sold in US and infringes some US patents then patent owner can block selling that product and this is the only thing they can do. No damages no nothing. In Rovio's case the only thing Llodsys can achieve is to prevent Apple for selling Angry Birds in US. Nothing more.
me too. I didn't know if ebay was trolling the patents office or if the writter was making fun of ebay. I had to search for the patent number to find out.
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For those of you who are seeing this for the first time and have any love for games like Minecraft, Civilization, etc... please take the time to break through the very steep learning curve to give this game a fair shake. It is truly a work of art.

Please note that the Wiki helps make the game playable: http://df.magmawiki.com/
Wow. The results are really polished!
Thanks for the kind feedback! The iPhone image we used to compose the product shots is actually not one of the marketing resources provided by Apple. It's based on a vector-based image made available by an independent designer for this sort of use.

As for the use of the App Store badge, I think our use fits within the guideline of "on a background image, as long as legibility is not diminished." I'm sure we'll hear from them otherwise. :)

Would be curious to hear other folks thoughts on this as well.
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I wonder, are there economists out there setting up and studying game worlds? Seems like a great way to run your simulation, and avoid the costs of phone surveys / data collection.
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It's also a known fact that the CEOs of these two companies are very close friends; it's unthinkable that they couldn't sort out an issue like that.
freakishly, the game actually uses opengl to display the grid of character sprites...
Well yes, but there's a big usability difference between:

"Finder used to know how to handle this file but now it doesn't. Please select the application to use for this type of file."

and

"This requires the Java runtime which isn't installed. Hit this button and we'll download it, install it, and then re-open this for you once it's working."
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The author is in high school. That may explain a certain immaturity in the writing and reasoning here.
Sounds good to me. I just wanted to make sure you were aware of a potential headache. Good luck to you, it is an awesome app, and I will most likely use it in the future.

Also, where did you get the art for the iPhone image? I would like to have more flexibility than what the Apple images provide. Thanks!
As someone who was deeply involved with Java a decade ago, I feel your pain over the "hijacking." In truth, that crowd would have hijacked anything that came their way, it is a dynamic strongly influenced by the BigCo culture, it isn't really a tool thing.

The moment you set up "throw it over the wall" processes where architects are rewarded for architecture and implementors are blamed for bugs, you are going down the road to something that looks like J2EE no matter where you start.
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Many Type II diabetics need to test their blood sugar levels as well.
These guys are one of my favorite startups, somewhere between Flippa and an investment bank: https://www.secondmarket.com/
Good luck, stay safe and avoid public gatherings for the time being.
I had that same first impression, and I'm Canadian (her majesty has us all feeling a disdain for arrogance haha)--I think it is a cultural thing and what I take from this is to know who you're writing/talking to.

Personally I'd tweak these templates in a different way, but that's the thing, their (great) templates and provide a good place to start. I always find that personal touches go a long long way in business.
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I think the fact that you are using a template is a great selling point.

Edit: You eat your own dog food.
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G+ has plans to open up to the 13-18 crowd after they feel they have the proper security features in place.
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Not to take over OP's thread but since relevant people would be reading and responding here, how is the startup scene in Oz? Compared to NZ and US?
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I'll buy my first car in a few months (at the tender age of 31). I was eyeing Mercedes already, and your comment only confirms everything I've read about it. Do you know if these features are available in their class C cars, or do I need to get an E class?
The suggested "bring your own" model of software deployment solves a lot of support problems, too.
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Man, this space is ripe for disruption.
http://twitter.com/#!/vicgundotra/status/94184809936601090

@thomasmonopoly You bet on Google. We owe you better. I'm investigating.

While it seems ridiculous that it happened, its neat that someone that high up is looking into it.
You mean just like in Java?
I think Apple should seriously consider looking into removing other obscure things as well. Their process of downloading optional stuff is very slick and painless.

After launching Minecraft (which needs Java) I had to confirm one dialog box. Java downloaded, installed and Minecraft launched. No user interaction required, it was completely painless.

I’m not sure why you are so hung up on Java. It’s certainly obscure enough to make it optional. Languages could certainly also be removed but OS X always had this philosophy of shipping every app and every OS with every language. There are no language versions of apps and Apple doesn’t like them.
it’s not going to be very hard to solve the problem technically (you’d be wrong, of course, but that’s besides the point)

Actually, I would say that the problems twitter is solving aren't terribly difficult. Now, doing it at such a massive scale is very difficult. But I think a large portion of twitter's success is that their solution seems rather easy to implement at small scale.
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You just reiterated what he said.
Since you said "most people," I guess I'm disqualified from saying that I have deep Java experience and dislike the language, you can simply retort that I'm not a True Scotsman, I'm just an outlier. But nevertheless, I press on. I built Java development tools in C++, I led teams of 20+ devs, I built online banking applications, I wrote a Scheme interpreter in Java, yak, yak, yak, and yes I put Java down.

C++ is another matter entirely. My experience is pre-Boost, so I don't consider myself qualified to debate current approaches.
Forgive a newbie question: what about virtualenv doesn't cut it?
Peg me down as sickened to the core. I've given up complaining about corporate influence. I don't even know why they bother putting up a farse anymore, they may as well just cut the crap and come out and say: we will destroy you if it stretches our margins in any way.
As Tibbon pointed, you are wrong. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793654
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Bravo, this site looks to meet the needs of many of us who want a one-click showcase. Great work with the domain management!
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I'm not sure what the problem is. I search for Oslo and get current news in the 'news' section just below the map, general info, etc. If I click on last 24 hours I get even more current news.
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This line of argument hinges on the assumption that braking input is the only means by which to avoid an accident. Cars have steering wheels and swerving is often an effective maneuver when attempting to avoid an accident.

Incidentally, heavy breaking reduces a car's ability to corner which may end up causing accidents which could otherwise be avoided.
This part confused me the most. So, if you infringe on even one claim of all the claims in any patent, you are infringing a patent? We're all screwed.
EVE Online has a chief economist. http://io9.com/5057849/real-economist-studies-virtual-econom...
Microsoft's strategy back in 2006 was to become #2 in a search duopoly, with a strong focus on the most lucrative forms of search. They've largely executed on it; spending Yahoo into the ground was a key part of it. And they've also increased their search quality, and with Bing's UX differentiated themselves from Google. Kudos to them.

In the process, though, they've starved the rest of their investments online. Remember when MSN Messenger was #1 in a lot of the world, and so was Hotmail? Remember when Spaces had initial momentum in the photo-sharing/blogging world and they were about to introduce Circles? Remember QnA, which had a shot at combining with algorithmic search to duplicate Naver's approach in South Korea? In order to devote resources to search, MS underinvested in the product in all of these areas. For the last several years Google has been far less resource-constrained than MS so #3 cuts against MS.

> Is it work $7.5B more to have a breakeven search business?

You do the math. What's the ROI from investing $7.5B and getting 0 return?

Apparently though that's not how they're making decisions.
It tends to work the other way around - a game world is set up, then economists study it. It's difficult to set up a world just for study, because people will not actually join and play unless it's an enjoyable game, and at that point you're a game developer rather than an economist.

The most interesting economic work I know is for Eve Online. The company that operates Eve has hired an in-house economist to study the game's economy and publish periodic reports, which are available online - a quick search will turn them up. The reports generally focus on the economic effects of adding new content to the game - "here's how players reacted to the last patch."
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Sexy! I do agree with a previous comment that the more technologies like these that come out, the more apparant it becomes that HTML as a whole needs a long overdue makeover.
I think this metric is invalid, the market rarely takes what's best, but rather what's trendy.

Before you begin to troll me, what I'm saying is that >>the metric is not valid<<, not that one language is better than the other.
Ask HN: How did British "phone hacking" work, is it still a problem?
I've read a lot about the British "phone hacking" scandal. From what I've read, many people left their phone voice mail PIN to be the default, allowing News of the World to listen in.

I have an iPhone in the U.S. As far as I know, I don't have a voice mail PIN. Do I? Was this something that only affected some phones? Was it a UK thing?

I figure some of you will know.
I would do the same, but the sad fact is that I'm more likely to lose all my data than Google is, even with the occasional mistake like this.
This is terrifying. The possibilities of a double-dip recession turn depression are growing by the day. Excuse me while I start working out, learn how to use a shot-gun and develop a taste for cider while deepening my voice.
May I suggest whichever rap song has the chorus "Move, bitch, get out the way"?
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Yes there are. AFAIK both WoW and Eve Online are regularly studied on various fields, including sociology and economics.
It doesn't look like it backs up anything important like email or calendar or docs. This is what I see when I click through (it's a Google Apps account):

https://img.skitch.com/20110722-fpcfn5iw8b1ub26wm67kx4bsej.j...
We need some empirical data on this - run tests, get results, interpret them, etc. Until then, it's all a bunch of pointless what-ifs - "But what if I'm being carjacked and I need to get away, BUT Adolf Hitler is blocking my way, BUT ALSO he's carrying the baby Einstein, BUT ALSO it's actually evil Einstein!"
Seriously? Twitter? You'd get a lot of noise and less signal.

I don't understand why its so difficult for the author to visit google news or press the news button to do a news search. Legitimate media beats twitter speculation.
2,000 bucks? Woah, and all I have to do is use the SDK/API? Awesome
I like how you put those 2 sentences together:

> This is pure unfounded speculation.

> In reality Apple probably wanted to make the Lion base install leaner.

Can't agree more - pure speculation.
Minecraft recently added rain, but I think it's mostly aesthetic at the moment. Your thoughts on flooding and erosion might make for an interesting mod.

Also, some things do collapse when you might under them. Namely, sand and gravel. It might be interesting to play with making other types of terrain collapse if there's enough weight and not enough support around. I have no idea how difficult that would be though since I've never looked very far into modding Minecraft.
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This is great! But why does this (as well as Volvo's) car AI require no special permission from the law, but Google's car AI did?

Is it because we welcome an AI which breaks, but not one which drives? Why?

Because passive AIs are less scary than active ones? And active breaking is still perceived as a passive action?
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Whoever downvoted me is an idiot.

The effect of left/right "flipping" is because we are left/right symmetrical and so we can imagine ourselves being the person in the mirror by turning that way. For up-down flipping to happen we have to be top-bottom symmetrical to even begin to think about it, although it might not be that simple since gravity continues to differntiate those directions.
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I think the article contradicts itself.

If you think of coal as the stuff you put in your barbecue, then yeah, that's not what makes diamonds.

But it IS formed from carbon atoms that are put under intense heat and pressure.
$1,000 for creating a Javascript library on Github based on the Socialize social API, and then another $500 for the first iOS app to go live using the Socialize SDK, and another $500 for the first SDK app to go live using the Socialize SDK.

Also, here's the recent press from our launch:

TechCrunch: http://go.GetSocialize.com/TechCrunch

ReadWriteWeb: http://go.GetSocialize.com/RWW
My ideal system would be a global open system where scientists would publish their results, not papers. Other scientists would be able to review, confirm and reuse your results transparently and third parties would be able to assess your position from your record and the feedback that you get from fellow scientists. That could involve many more signals rather than just the (journal+number of citations) that everyone uses now.
My guess is that there is some sort of Oracle licensing agreement that prevents Apple from distributing Java with the release. You'd think that these two massive public companies would be able to work something out

Maybe Apple simply didn't want to ship Java in their Lion installation, like how Windows doesn't come with Java. As soon as you try to run a Java app, Lion will prompt you to download a runtime. It's really not a big deal.
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"we call it 'the aristocrats'!"

See...doesn't have the same impact when you just tell the punch line.

The piece which was tl;dr for you was one of the most uplifting and inspiring stories I've ever read about watching a Shuttle launch, and you want distil it down to a punch line? Talk about missing the point!
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They don't ship it by default.

If you run `java` in the terminal, Lion detects this and automatically installs it.
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No. I prefer to continue hating Java.

Having recently decided to abandon my anti-Java prejudice from way back I've discovered that everything I hated about Java back in the 90s is still there, only worse.

COBOL at least had the excuse that it was first.
This reminds me how once, around 2005, Microsoft deleted all my email and the address book in hotmail account after 30 days of inactivity. I'm not touching anything that comes out of their MSN/live/whatever division with a ten foot pole, and I will never tire of telling this story. And Google's going in the same direction now.

The problem with these events is not that companies took actions to conserve their resources. They certainly do. The problem is that somewhere in those companies there are people that think "Oh, it's ok, I will nuke 5 years of this guy's data, and we don't really need to provide a way for him to export any of hist stuff. Who cares? I certainly don't. Bang-bang. Checked in! Time to go home.". A company that has this kind of employees can never be trusted.

Now that the trust is broken they would have to do something extraordinary to repair it. A compassionate tweet and restoration of one wrongfully disabled account is not going to cut it.
With an IMDB reference, this could go the other way.

"Our checkout process goes to eleven!"
Attitudes like that exacerbate the problem. It would have been "neat" if somehow Mr. Gundotra's involvement was prompted early on. Perhaps by a chance meeting at a conference and he overheard Dylan's issue and took it upon himself to look into it. But that's not what happened. Dylan took every single step possible. Even went way beyond what should be remotely necessary. Just to get an answer. And after all of that a Senior VP of the company is somehow notified (obviously by an informal channel) and decides to help. Most people won't be so fortunate as Dylan to garner that type of attention.

There's nothing "neat" about that.
The title is a bit misleading at first glance: each company is setting records against previous quarters of the company itself, not compared to every other company in the US.

Honestly, this doesn't seem like big news: each company is undergoing growth and it makes sense that they're spending more on a lot of things: including lobbying.
"Mister" is correct for any adult male. They may prefer the more exclusive title, but that's no more obligatory than my preference to be addressed as "Captain Awesome." And some style manuals (including the Associated Press Stylebook) actually forbid "Dr." unless the story is about medicine and the person in question is an MD.
Had to go looking for it again, but here it is: http://psd.tutsplus.com/freebies/psd/freebie-vector-iphone-4... . "It was designed by Cambridge-based designer, Hector Janse van Rensburg."
> IMHO, we are few scarce decades away from cars that will just be plain better drivers than the median meatbag.

...except that we've been a few scarce decades away from this for a few decades now. For the most part the history of this thought process is that we dramatically underestimate the problems involved.
The first papers I read on the subject were based around LambdaMOO. I've seen economic treatments of Ultima Online, AlphaWorld, and Second Life as well.

Here's an interesting book that discusses some of the spatial economics of game worlds:

http://www.mappingcyberspace.com

Unfortunately, due to bitrot and available time, I don't have an extensive bibliography to give you beyond this right now.
Actually, yes. Most of those will be available on the C class starting MY 2012.

If you live in North America you can probably expect 2012's to be available in September and October.

You can pre-order now, of course. Including a wonderful option where you go to Germany, pick the car up as it rolls off the line, drive it around Europe for up to 30 days, then drop it back off to them to have it shipped to the US: And you get the car at dealer invoice less 8%. That's a little involved for a first time Mercedes buyer, but I wanted to make you aware of it, it's a very great program they've got there.

The C is a great car. We've got one in our family. If you have any questions, http://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w204-83/ is a great C Class forum. I'm active there under the same handle.
One of the bigger issues of the voicemail system is that they typically use the phone number of the subscriber as an authentication token.

This means that if the voicemail system sees an incoming call from a specific phone number it assumes that the phone number is authentic and allows access to the voicemail system.

Simply by googling for "spoof phone number" you will find a host of services that still provide this ability to people for a few bucks a month.

You should get in the habit of setting a pin number on your voicemail, and most of them do support this (it is the way to pick up your messages when you don't have your cell phone) - it is a little less convenient but good security usually requires a change of habits.
Is this service a competitor to App.net, which was much discussed on HN a week ago? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765602
While I wholly agree with you and respect this point, I actually laughed out loud at your opening line; sometimes if you know the joke already, it's hilarious when the punchline is used to drive home a point.
The countless articles of hype on all the tech sites certainly qualify. HN was posting a constant stream of Google+ links every day.
Awesome. Thanks encoderer.
Hiring any programmer that can't adapt to an unfamiliar new language is a bad idea (TM).

I'm far from a guru, but I've been able to pick up quite a few different languages, frameworks and structures over my tenure. It's the ones that limit themselves to a single language (be it Java or not) for long periods of time that you need to worry about.

These are the programmers that will build a square wheel because that's what the spec told them to build. Employ them at your peril.
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