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I think it is bad for public image, whatever it is.
We don't need details, but we need to hear at least whether this violation happened over a month or longer or just in a recent day(s), and thus could have been due to compromised account.
As an example - I heard from many Blizzard fans that their WoW password got compromised and first thing offenders do are acts that violate ToS and get real account owner banned for life. Very painful, and unfair. Just sayin...
Over $100k so far (after google fees, but before taxes and expenses)

I don't like publishing which games they are because there's already a lot of competition in their genres, no reason to extend it. However, for each, I was actually one of the first few of their kind when the market was just getting rolling with paid apps.
I am sorry to hear that. I am just wondering why this is on HackerNews. But so be it. Did something happen to @thomasmonopoly account that he is not aware of?

I got banned from Adsense just over a Year ago and I thought about making Noise. BUT I wanted to work WITH Adsense and Google. Why Burn Bridges? So I tried to use the proper channels. But very disappointing that I was Ignored the whole time.

All I do/did was make Family Friendly YouTube Videos and occasionally post on my website. MY writings, My Original Videos. No Gaming the system no extra promotion, just let the views and the subscribers build naturally. I STILL have NO idea why Adsense Disabled me.

BUT there is an Issue that Many Partners have become Victims of. Clickbombing. There is no way to View or Track where impressions or clicks are coming from on YouTube. AND even if you report the activity, you still get banned. I was having slow steady Success. Was the Invalid Activity hidden in the Success data? I have no idea.

Looks like it is time to start a revolution. This might make National News.
Check out Funeral Innovations: http://funeralinnovations.com/

It solves the problem for both the customers/family and the funeral directors. Monument design, obituaries (with a social component), QR remembrance codes, whole webstack management (a la weebly) with custom site design and tracking & SEO, pricing and invoicing, iPad app, and more.

Done by Greg Young and Zack Garbow (YC alum, 08).

The issues they've faced tackling an old and sleepy industry averse to major change and innovation are interesting. There's a great interview on Tech.MN here with Zack about it: http://tech.mn/news/2010/05/03/minnesota-y-combinator-grad-t...
When I first read the title I thoght it said "Intellectual Vultures"
But the contents of each CDO and CDS was/is completely transparent to the buyer and seller. Maybe the buyers were less sophisticated than the sellers, but that's really too convenient an excuse. The whole CDO construction process was openly called 'Ratings Arbitrage' after all.

I agree that things should be transparent : And so the right thing to do is to force all CDS to clear vs. a central counterparty, with publicly known mark-to-market pricing. Similarly, banks should be required to mark-to-market on an arms-length basis. But somehow this legislation never gets passed...
I thought mathematics couldn't be patented?
I would invest:

- in 100 founders by giving them each $10k
- in 100 startups by giving them each $100k
- in 100 small companies by giving them each $1M
- in 50 medium companies by giving them each $10M
- and I would buy $10M worth of Bitcoins

That's $621M. I would keep the remaining $379M in safe long-term low-yield investments.

I would likely end up with much more than $1B a decade later.
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No revenue because my AdSense account was banned a few years back. :(
Funnily enough, this occurs much less in UK politics.
I just wanted to say thanks for a great post. It helps focus the conversation on some of the most important themes of your earlier post. Nice job defending your point of view in the HN comments on your earlier post, too.
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I guess I don't see how this is any different from the kind of expected bloat that say jQuery UI adds to a project.
You need to get some high profile people to get some buzz going. If you can get someone like Ashton Kutcher (it shouldn't be too hard since you look well-connected in the Silicon Valley) and get a vibe on Twitter going that's going to be a great coming out party.

I think Anyasq has a huge potential as a celebrity public interview site and there is a lot of revenue potential there.
I had an interesting problem with the OTA update (also from an iPhone 4 on 5.0b3): iTunes (b4) refused to sync with the device after it was updated, claiming I was no longer authorized to use the applications on it (repeatedly, verifying that I was then reiterating that I wasn't), and the iPhone stopped appearing as a wi-fi sync device. It also took several seconds to negotiate a connection when I plugged it into USB before it would register. Rebooting didn't seem to fix this, but restoring from the full 5.0b4 firmware seemed to. Oddly, my iPad 2 (also on 5.0b3 previously) pulled down the same update at the same time but had none of these problems. Perhaps the iPhone's update got corrupted while downloading?
It took about a month I guess. So yeah, it's been very slow.
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Yeah, that's definitely the next step.
Call me satisfied, but why not live off the interest?
I don't understand this comparison. Android tablets have not proven to be cheaper than the iPad (adjusting for screen size).

It is true that this cable is overpriced, but that is simply because there isn't a big demand for serial cables, and thus only one company (so far) has made one.

Apple's "approval" process is like the approval process for the appstore-- they just want to make sure stuff isn't going to take you to the back alley and mug you. Roach motels don't care.

So, I'd say, iPad is $49/night, with a deluxe breakfast, optical internet, and nobody takes you in the back alley and mugs you.
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It has been fascinating to watch the reaction to Panos' blog post on cheating. I agree and disagree with this follow-up post, however. On one hand, I agree that most reactions have generally been shallow and poorly thought out. On the other hand, I think that what made Panos' original post so compelling was his comprehensive listing of the many disincentives to fighting cheating at the university, including the impact on his salary.

Overall, the result of Panos clicking more or less a single check box (and, admittedly, doing a few Excel tricks) to detect cheating was: (1) 45 hours of students crying in his office, (2) his class took on a powerful negative atmosphere, (3) his best students were turned away during office hours, (4) his student evaluations went down, (5) he arguably made less money than he would have otherwise, (6) he was called a racist in at least one public forum, (7) the reputation of his university and/or program was damaged, and (8) he was sent a cease-and-desist letter.

Ultimately, this is a huge set of disincentives. It is not surprising that most would simply choose the more appealing alternative of just deciding that a professor cannot be responsible for making students want to learn.

What is most discouraging about the salary information is not the money itself, but the implication that even Panos' department was not willing to give him support when he tried to fix the problem in his own classroom. (Arguably, they must have known that addressing cheating would have a huge impact on course evaluations.)
yeah, i got to enable sms as well. thx for the encouragement.
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The same company makes a console cable: http://www.redpark.com/c2rj45.html
Ah, but how does this Superuser.apk achieve root privileges? By calling the setuid root `su` program, you say.

And how does this setuid root program actually gain root privileges? Why, the OS is able to execute arbitrary code with arbitrary privileges, and it makes an exception for `su`.

Wait... so Android could run processes with root privileges without asking you? Whoa!

Now consider that adbd on a rooted device runs with root privileges...
When I spent an hour reading (and salivating on) the whole thread, the context I got was Nathan ribbing his friend Steven A. Shaw a.k.a. "Fat Guy" by highlighting a few instances where he did not appear to be the fearless founder of one of the best food/cooking communities on the web.

"Ferran Adria is going to ascend to the ultimate expression of the culinary arts: he's going to become a food blogger. Actually he's going to become more like Nathan M.: head of a kitchen lab and creator of dishes, without a restaurant."

-FatGuy
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Yes, though the ISDA docs have standardized most of it.

But there are also a couple of major types of contract. (a) if there's a Credit Event, the protection seller pays 100 for the distressed debt (essentially taking a loss equal to however much the value of the debt fell). (b) if there's a Credit Event, the protection seller pays EUR40 (fixed payout, with a specific 60% recovery assumption).

By playing on the mix of these CDS, people are probably already be playing on the post default value of Greek Debt, even before anything has formally happened. My guess is that process started over a year ago.
I've made about $100 in ad revenue over the lifetime of this game:

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Almost covered hosting costs!
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Where are the lines blurring? You've got a client and a server, and the two are sitting on different machines, communicating only via HTTP requests. The fact that they can be written in the same language is nothing too special; you can do the same with desktop apps, and have been able to for ages.

If you could blur that browser-server line, I bet you could do some impressive things. Bonus points if you manage to do impressive things without opening up lots of security holes. :-)
Jobs probably won't be replaced
"Arguably, they must have known that addressing cheating would have a huge impact on course evaluations."

By the way, the evaluations of students who cheated were not counted, which mitigates things a little.

EDIT: "Moreover, the course evaluation input of any student who has an honor code infraction is removed from consideration when evaluating teaching performance." -- http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/nyu-prof-vows-never-t...
Hackers have been hooking up iPods for years. Apple doesn't mind it, and you don't need Apple's permission. The idea that Apple is "locked down" while others are "open" is silly.

When it comes to you, using your Apple hardware with any other hardware any way you want-- apple doesn't care. Strap C4 to both, and Apple won't care.

Just don't try and get a warranty repair after you blow it up.

What Apple does care about is people selling hardware that interfaces with its hardware. Apple wants to make sure that hardware doesn't run mains voltage across the Apple board os they get a stream of "mysteriously" dead iPhones.

Apple provides really first rate hardware support in all their Apple stores. I think a lot of people don't realize this. But they do. Often just replacing hardware if there's any debate, and even sometimes completely out of warranty.

The approval here is merely to sell an authorized accessory. If there's demand for these beyond the hobbyist market, the price will come down and others will make them.

If not, then the people who are using them don't care about spending $60. You could got to sparkfun.com or other such companies and get interface electronics to build your own in years past... this is just someone making one commercially to make it less hassle.
So, how many people actually use the internet in america?
Out of curiosity, do these messages ever do anything other than potentially fill up a government official's spam filter? Not trying to troll here, just genuinely curious about these letters' impact.
Then people with an interest in Greece defaulting will buy a small amount of all the short-term debt they can find, and play hardball as it comes due.
> Apple is a one product company

It depends on your definition of "product", but most would classify the iPhone as a different category of product from a mac, not just a different product. As different as a minicomputer is from a desktop. I think before long we'll see Apple launch yet another new category.

Even if we forget the special talents of Steve Jobs, most companies go downhill without their founder/s. Probably HP most famously. It's partly that others lack the unique clout of founder, as kenjackson says. In addition, founders tend to be insightful, energetic and bold (else they couldn't have succeeded as founders). Employees generally don't have that crazy extreme fire, or they'd be founders themselves.

But Jobs is unique beyond that, because it's rare for even founders to create more than one dominating industry. Jobs has done it with the Apple IIe, iPod, iPhone and iPad. It's that he can see what's important; and can make it happen.

I think his design talent/taste is in addition to this, and while yet another unique talent in its own right (and related), is not quite as important.
If you are paranoid you don't store the password in the first place.
Also, Lytro doesn't eliminate the creative decision about which focus to choose – it just defers it to a more leisurely time.

The author could argue the harsh constraint of requiring a snap decision which irrevocably discards every other option improves art, but he doesn't, and that'd be a more tenuous case. Disregarding resolution issues, you could always carve the same traditionally-focused photo from the Lytro data.
I'm against anything involving more information gathering, but I'm curious - can anyone explain how this differs from existing CALEA requirements?
Large chunk to SENS.org Foundation for research into the diseases of human aging.

Large chunk to Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (http://singinst.org/) because we need to work seriously on existential risks, include the ones posed by AGI (we need a theory of Friendly AI to make sure that when/if we develop artificial general intelligence, we can be as sure as possible that its goals are going to align with ours). All we'll have achieved so far will prove to have been futile if we go extinct because of <insert threat here> (super-virus, asteroid, supervolcano, nanotech gone wrong, AI gone wrong, nuclear holocaust, etc).
are you the guy who makes battery meter? because that is seriously the best $7 i have ever spent.
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Wait, why should a geek be appalled that Apple cares about the quality of accessories people sell?

Its not like two weeks ago, before this product, you wouldn't hook an iPhone up to an RS-232 port! You could always do that if you wanted to hack together a solution.

Apple just made it official.

And really, $60? Seems a bit high, but there's the fact that this is a specialty product for a specialty market, and realy, if you're hardware hacking the time savings of buying a working product is well worth the $60.

I truly do not understand the idea that "geeks" wouldn't love Apple. To me, geeks are either people who really love technology, or people who have very strong engineering skills. I have both. And because of both, I really appreciate Apple doesn't waste my time , money or energy with crap. Apple makes first rate products, and that means I get to spend more time geeking.

People also seem to think that Apple has everything locked down. I don't see that at all-- you can work with nonstandard hardware if you're a developer by using the Apple supplied accessory SDK. Sure, consumers-- that is to say, non-geeks,-- are kept from hurting themselves to some extent by Apple, but that's a good thing. Means I can recommend their products to my mom.
Thank you for leaving the original for context, it's drives me nuts when people delete a message or edit out the content when there's a string of replies.
Governments don't like it when it goes the other way.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2008566,00.ht...
Listen to Cook or Ive when they talk in public, they have the vision.
This guy is rather brilliant, methinks.
Wait, did you want to hack together a solution, or sell something in the App Store?

You can run any software you want on your devices without Apple caring at all. Either your company is an enterprise licensee, or you pay your $99. Big deal.

$99 keeps the script kiddies out-- you know the ones who download iOS betas to show their friends and then complain that they managed to brick their device?
Correction to the previous post -- I should have said ENGINEERS and lawyers.
iScrob - http://iscrob.com - a Last.fm scrobbler for iOS. It's free with ads, or $5 with no ads. I released it almost exactly 1 year ago, and it's averaged about $20/day in revenue since then.

It's unique because there's some trickery involved getting around the strict iOS backgrounding requirements, and most of my competitors haven't done a great job with it.
Steve Wozniak recreated a disk controller in assembly on a motorola 68k chip in less than a day, and it worked pretty much perfectly first time, and you are complaining that he's not much of a hacker?

What do you do in your spare time, if I may ask politely?
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TC link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/more-americans-are-on-faceb...

Love them or hate them it doesn't seem right to link to a site that just strips the content when the original is available.
wow, thanks! very clever. this type of thing probably works in a lot of places.
Except that Apple doesn't exercise any proprietary control, except if you want to sell in the App store.

If you just want to hack on your hardware, Apple doesn't care. You might void your warranty, but that's it.

Apple keeps the consumers protected, and doesn't stop the hackers.

This "very real threat" is literally an imaginary bogeyman that only "Free[1]" Software Hippies care about.

[1] So long as you use our license and only our license and never express an opinion contrary to the Chairman Richard Mao Stallman.

PS -- I've never met a real geek who thought Apple was exercising proprietary control outside of their realm. All of the people who complain about Apple like this-- that I know personally-- are not geeks who got into linux (and the "free" ideology) because it was cool, not because they're really hackers with engineering skills. But that's just my personal experience. Of course, they think they are the "real geeks" and that people who use macs use them because "they come with training wheels" and stuff like that.
Not saying he can't possibly share the spotlight, but that Ive is not extroverted. (Tim Cook isn't a keynote kind of guy either for that matter.) Scott Forstall is pretty good in keynotes.

It reminds me a bit of "Tactics of Mistake" -- an old SF novel by Gordon Dickson. No ONE person can replace Steve, but maybe two or three can.
is that why, probably the longest thread on fatwallet, is about ZenniOptical, which ships from China ?
> I hope NYU's reputation was not damaged as a result.

If 20% of students at NYU cheat (I can't access the original post to check the numbers it mentions, obviously, but I remember it being something like that), then NYU's reputation should be very damaged by that fact.
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155.000 million Americans are on Facebook.

139.334 million Americans are employed (June 2011).

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
How long until a former SNL comedian is holding Senate hearings about this major violation of privacy?
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My understanding is that one of the jobs of congressional staffers involves sorting and analyzing these sorts of messages.
Dwarf Fortress is, in many ways, the anti-nethack.

In Nethack, you can parse the source code to figure out nearly any situation, that is, it's a closed, nearly solvable system. (See http://sporkhack.com/design_concept.html for some commentary on nethack being 'solved'.)

Dwarf Fortress, on the other hand, is totally emergent. Toady logs in and plays to check if his coding worked well, that is he goes looking for the situations he is referring to in his code and observes them.

I love them both, but I'm enjoying dwarf fortress more right now.
Headline suggestion:

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Probably manga. The US manga market has expanded hugely since I started reading manga (~8 years ago). Just about any genre (or subject matter) you can name has manga dedicated to it, which contributes to its ability to appeal across all age groups.

The other big thing is that most of the hardcore fans (those who would also like to read on their iOS devices) like to download & read scanlations (A $10 manga volume takes at most 90 minutes to read, so this is an expensive hobby for a hardcore fan, many of whom are children. Also, the hardcore fans prefer the scanlations because they allow them access to manga that hasn't been released in America or has been Americanized by the official English-language translator/publisher.), which are easily placed on an iPhone/iPad, whereas American comics would much more often require legal licensing.
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This is just fantastic- great reporting, and in my opinion it would elicit the appropriate degree of moral outrage in most reasonable listeners. I hope this kind of exposure is at least somewhat helpful at raising people's awareness outside of the software industry echo chamber.