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I always suspect the entertainment industry behind stuff like this. I know the only reason Netflix doesn't run on Linux(even though it runs on ChromeOS, which is linux) is because it is open source. With "secure boot", they could be sure there is no way for you to do anything with the video/audio stream except watch or listen. I think this is the real reason behind this madness. The compromise will be that your hardware will still run, but certain features will be missing without an "approved OS".
Congratulations on so many users. I'm on the verge of giving my 2 weeks notice to strike out on my own.

Am I naive to think "All I need to be sustainable is 100 paying users"?

Did you have a portion of those 1,500 users lined up before you started implementation? Before launch? How did you
Well, the Galaxy Note is also due this month with a whopping 5.3" screen!
Personality is good, and gimmicks are bad. Or are they?

How do you distinguish a gimmick from a nice touch. Of course it helps to have the money to buy the best creatives, but it also takes strength of personality to sow the seeds and allow creativity to happen.

And you also need to know when weeds are growing too.

I often wonder if the gently breathing light on the old G4 powermac was the work of one person. "Your ONLY job sonny, is to design the thing that tells me the mac is sleeping. Make it special, real, ALIVE, but asleep. Now go. And don't come back untill...."

Or was it a team of turtle necks sitting around a big table brain-storming and drinking gunpowder tea, feeding off each other's creativity in vainglorious efforts to go one step further than the last?
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I think that sticker, if required, will obviously pressure OEM makers to obtain it. I believe Microsoft will not go through with implementing Secure Boot. There is no real benefit. The developers pushing this are trying to make Windows more resistant to malware. Secure Boot is not fail proof though. I think in the end, the cost of implementation and distribution of this will out weight its benefits and kill it.
Yes, I actually started learning Haskell recently b/c I thought it would help me better grok Scala, which seems to borrow mostly from the ML family.

Scala is definitely a better Java imho, and you get to keep the JVM and all its libraries, and the Lift web framework is superb, and you can even build Android apps with Scala.

But ironically I've found myself falling in love with Haskell and not wanting to use anything else. For the first time ever I know what a real type system is and what it's for, and Haskell basically pulls a Steve Jobs in completely rethinking how to do parallelism (strictly control global state and side effects by eliminating them by default, enabled only via monad).

Mind expanding indeed.
Best part about this article was the Buffet quote: “Invest in a company any fool can run, since some day a fool will.” Other than that- I don't think it really relayed anything but the CEO/founders influence corporate culture and that it is reflected in the product, which isn't news and doesn't really serve purpose other than to get employees a reason to bow to their founders and hope they don't leave.
This will also drive up the price on "free" hardware, since it will be different and produced in smaller quantity.
If Amazon dominates publishing, to the point of driving a noticeable number of publishers out of business, we'll have fewer choices in books. There will be more titles, and we'll find less worth reading.

Amazon sells an uncountable number of products because other companies make those products. Amazon cannot make all those products themselves.

Similarly, Amazon cannot shepherd within an order of magnitude the same number of more or less worthwhile books into the market as current publishers are doing today.

"Self publish yadda yadda whatever." Yes, Amazon will offload much of the production of books to the authors. And yes, Amazon can just say "yes" and print any book on demand. Paradoxically, I have a lot of books actually available to me because publishers have acted as gatekeepers/curators. I can't possibly find as many mostly-self-published printed on demand or kindle Amazon books worth my attention as I can currently by choosing from the pre-filtered publisher-produced books of now.

</old man>
If you're looking at a powered-off screen only, maybe all smartphones look the same. Do all laptops look the same? The design and construction of the bezel, sides and back of a smartphone contribute significantly to the user's experience. Design also serves to differentiate devices with very similar hardware and capabilities in a crowded market.

GP may have been referring to build quality/materials, but I could be wrong. HTC devices tend to use more metal and non-slip surfaces that feel solid, as opposed to Samsung's plastic. SGS2 vs HTC Amaze for instance.

I personally think Samsung phones _look_ better, but don't feel as robust as most HTC phones.
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> 1270x720 in a 4.5 inch device is staggering.

4.65", not 4.5

That's not really staggering, the screen is huge but at ~316dpi that's a lower density than a Sharp IS03 or an iphone 4.
Show HN: TouchBase (re-imagining the iPhone calendar)
These guys did a iPhone 4S / Canon 5d MKII side by side comparison. http://vimeo.com/30606785
I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting
Import duties on silly things are a problem the world over. I've recently read about the chicken tax in the USA, it's mildly mind-boggling.
I doubt if they "lost" anyting. They are probably writing-down something so that next year will be a bumper harvest.
Obama made money lending to Goldman. They paid all their loans back with interest.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/jpmorgan-repays-treas...
Good idea, but this on its own may not be that successful. Modern private schools use a combination of Saas apps and email to get info to students and parents. What you need to do is to find out what those major Saas solutions are, and get in bed with them. Also, there is a potential problem if the student replies to a text and replies to everyone that was texted to, which can happen easily on some devices, so it would seem that you'd want to ensure each text is separately sent.
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Say a concert? (I don't know anything about cameras, I was just thinking about that same thing and realised there are probably some uses for scenes longer than 30 minutes.)
Interesting. It reminds me of human-computer chess teams, a continuation of computer-augmented humanity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_chess_matches
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It depends on how the merchant treats a Groupon customer. They may make up for the customer acquisition cost by offering less (hurtful to them) discounts in the future. Take this spa for example, they did a follow up for Groupon customers offering the same 50% deal, but this time they kept Groupon's share:

http://feefighters.com/blog/who-groupon-benefits-the-contrac...
I don't know if this was the intent or a side effect, but one reason for strictly controlling side effects is that it improves parallelization of the code. Global state, mutable vars, other side effects are some of the biggest obstacles to code parallelization, and that's one of Haskell's solutions to it. Haskell and Erlang seem to be the only two languages that seem designed from the ground up for massive concurrency and parallelism.
Note that the 14 fps in the title for the 1D X refers to the amount of still pictures (18 MP, JPEG) it can take per second. iPhone 4S's time between photos was well publicized (and impressive for a mobile phone camera) at around 0.5 s, or 2 fps.
Compile to native code. Android has the NDK; they support C/C++.
"but I'm sure likeminded individuals are a little more aware of what could happen if you do something like that on camera in the 21st century."

It doesn't have to happen on camera. All it takes is one person to take it on himself administer justice, which is kind of the MO of anonymous...
Each text is sent separately. And replies go back only to the teacher, who can the reply directly to the student. Good point about the Saas apps out there.
Sounds like a search engine problem, not an operator error.
Umm, you wrote "so don't expect any kind of objectivity or even truth from them" (note the last phrase). I think 'kang' was right to challenge you.

Anyway for readers who don't know India: Tehelka is an independent newsmagazine that specializes in investigative journalism. I also hold them in very high regard.

Just my two cents.
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how-ston, not hugh-ston
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Developing new tech is expensive. The military has a lot of money. Firefighting departments don't traditionally have trillions of dollars to spend on R&D.
Yes, they'll have to implement Secure Boot if they want the little Windows 8 sticker. There's nothing there that says they can't provide an option to turn it off. All arguments make the assumption that Secure Boot is required to be on at all times and not just on on-by-default option.
Where's the obama github?

tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/derekwillis/status/126084472666984448
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Are you sure you're not overreacting?

Sebastian strongly believes that Patrick should use his genius (as he put it) to make a lot more money for himself. He wrote a post explaining that in great detail. What's wrong with that?
I must have been careless with my pronouns. I meant likeminded as in "think it's a good idea to assault 20yo girls who are peacefully protesting".

Noone's gone after this particular asshole at his house, or even advocated that others should do so, and that's a good thing, but he should lose his job at the least. And, yes, I'm happy that there's a precedent that doing this kind of thing will get you exposed publicly for it.
This would also break the code signing for Finder, I believe. (also bad)
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Operating systems we run Dropbox on at my house: Ubuntu, OSX, iOS, Windows, Blackberry 5.

Someday they may all have Dropbox-like functionality built in, and someday after that they may interoperate. Dropbox can stay in their current business a long time regardless.
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>>>>>>>
Did you have a portion of those 1,500 users lined up before you started implementation? Before launch? How did you
<<<<<<<

I would like to know the same.
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It is a big jump. And that first 2GB seems (or seemed at the time) very generous for free.

I wonder how many of DropBox's users are 2GB-only? I remember feeling very willing to try it, because it was free, and a lot of space for free. It worked so well for me (I'm still only 58% full) I have no need to upgrade. It's quite a loss-leader for DropBox, but presumably an acceptable one.

But looking at my stuff on disk, I've got:

- text and documents
- projects
- source files

which fit easily within 2GB, and

- a vast photo library
- an enormous music library
- a titanic video library

which don't fit easily within anything.

So for me a sensible jump would be from 2GB to, ooh, 2TB... :)
IMHO it's interesting that they continue to use CF cards in their pro bodies. Some expected the switch to smaller SD/SDHC/SDXC cards.

But I wonder why they decided to announce the 1D X so early? I suppose this will hurt their pro body sales for five months. (The new body will not ship before March 2012.)
"iCloud is never going to be on Windows"

The same was said about iTunes, but it eventually appeared there. It wouldn't surprise me if more aspects of iCloud eventually appear on Windows.
The article only says that JP Morgan paid back the loans with interest. Did GS actually pay interest on the loans?

Also keep in mind the returns also reflect stock appreciation (and buybacks of warrants)
You have to kinda feel for Ari Jaaksi: jumped ship from Nokia when Maemo/Meego was going down, only to find himself at Palm/HP...
What are the services that publishers provide that we really value? ... Is it thoughtful editing and careful editing? Maybe, but many people accustomed to reading lightly-edited posts on the web may think that this sort of production is overvalued.

This gives me an idea: use the readers as editors. For every mistake found, offer $0.X rebate off their next book by the author.
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I would recommend allowing people to draw without signing up. Or at least provide a demo that people can use before signing up.

Why not have the drawing pad on the homepage? That way you won't lose people, like me, who could not be bothered to sign up because it involved filling in a form.

Maybe have a save button and when they click on that force them to save. That way they have an incentive to sign up because otherwise they will lose their painting.
I wrote that calling publishers 'middlemen' implies that they add no value to the end product.

"Navigating bureaucracies, advertising, shipping, placing the product in stores and generally connecting producer with consumer" add no value to the end product.

Repackaging and translation for local markets do add value to the end product, but those aren't activities one thinks of when mentioning 'middlemen'. Those services would typically be performed by a localization consultant, hired by the importer.

Merriam-Webster defines 'middleman' as:

An intermediary or agent between two parties; especially : a dealer, agent, or company intermediate between the producer of goods and the retailer or consumer

An importer is higher up the chain, acting as an intermediate between the manufacturer and the distributor.
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It means "larger than the usual size".
Cool app. Am I the only one that's overwhelmed by the home page, though?

The "get TouchBase" button is clear enough, but after a minute my eyes have been redirected everywhere and I still don't know if TouchBase has a decent day/week/month view.

EDIT. Okay, here we go: "You might want to keep your iPhone calendar around if you really like/use the month view a lot, as TouchBase doesn't offer that."
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This is cool, but I think it's a necessity when using macros that the macro code itself be readable. Otherwise, it's very hard for someone else (or yourself later) to come along and figure out what the hell is going on. Although that runQ utility looked nice, its output, even when indented, is quite complex. Sure, I can figure it out, but I can't look at it and guess what it's going to do like, say, with quasi-quoting.

I mean, it might even be clearer-looking to output strings. Not saying that outputting string programs is good, but it is a good lower limit for how complex the code for your macro system can be in order for it to be useful.
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I was in the beta. TouchBase is cool, very handy if you're running around from meeting to meeting all day.
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> Here is what they told in late 2009 - don't know if these links still work:

They don't.
Impressive! Keep up the good work. Have been following from your annotation product webklipper.
iCloud is already available on Windows: https://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html
Well, perhaps I should drop the British reserve and send them an e-mail. I could have all my teaching materials in the cloud then. Everything that I've used in 10 years available anywhere...
Off-topic but in the past, tehelka has not been one of the most ethical publications so I would take their reports with a pinch of salt.

They were one of the few publications who were extremely pro-IIPM when investigative bloggers were pointing out that IIPM was a degree mill. It turned out later that the IIPM family was a big contributer to Tehelka.
revenue slumped 60 percent

So bonuses are going to be 60% lower, right? (not likely)
Excellent screencast! Looking for more like this.
It looks like this was made by Jason Zada (https://twitter.com/#!/jasonzada) according to a tweet by the actor (https://twitter.com/#!/billoberstjr/status/12614080094496358...).
How to spot a liar.
Apple's Siri was spun out of DARPA.
Why don't Google and Apple work together to create a single smartphone platform? In the end, cities are businesses. NYC's tax base might only be slightly improved if Boston becomes the east-coast leader. Alternatively, if Boston and NYC have some competition, each city will boost its scene and overall the east-coast will improve. There is nothing wrong with a little competition :)
There are definitely reasons for them signing up. Among them:

1. The risk of being sued. Even if the patents are bogus, they will still lose a lot of money from defending themselves.

2. Microsoft sweetens the deal with other business interests of theirs. For example, a discount on Windows licenses.
Everywhere I've ridden a bike, which includes Chicago, the suburbs, and the Seattle area.

Like anything, riding in traffic involves learning and practice. Read "Effective Cycling" to learn the rules and techniques, then try it out. 10,000 hours later (according to Gladwell), you'll be a pro. (I'm don't have this much practice, but I still feel safe. I can only think of two dumb mistakes I've made, and I recovered from them without disrupting traffic flow or being injured.)

A few techniques that I learned experimentally:

1) Don't filter forward unless there is a lane that you can use. Cyclists seem to want to get to that line when the light is red, but they never think about where they're going to go when the light changes. I wait behind the cars in the middle of the lane and never have trouble merging into the flow of traffic. (The cyclists that filter forward are faced with two possibilities. Stand around like an idiot while all the waiting traffic passes you and you can safely merge back into traffic, or run the light when the other direction gets their yellow, cutting in front of the waiting cars. Both confuse and annoy other users of the road, and the second one is illegal and dangerous. Drive your bike like a car.)

2) Most rightmost straight-through lanes are, in practice, right turn lanes, so stay out of them. If you don't, you just annoy people that want the opportunity to turn right on red. After the light changes, nobody will pass you on the right because the lane is blocked with right-turning cars waiting for pedestrians, and so you have a clear lane as soon as you get into the intersection. Failing that, nobody will pass you on the right because vehicles simply do not overtake slow-moving vehicles on the right. Verify this with a look backwards and a polite wave.

3) Cyclists never obey stop signs, so drivers are very confused when you are stopped at one. A hand signal to the person with the right-of-way is appropriate to restore the correct flow at the intersection.
Well, a camera that can't take the picture you want is as useless as the one sitting at home. And iPhone may be, in some cases, a camera that simply can't do what you want. It's a cellphone. Of course, you won't carry a DSLR camera with you all the time, and even that isn't enough, think about lenses, flash, tripod… but iPhone won't magically replace all that, when you actually need it.
No, now you just need a USB port. I developed the ZoomFloppy to read/write old formats from modern computers. This way we can archive bits that might disappear otherwise.

http://store.go4retro.com/products/ZoomFloppy.html
At 1D X's price range, all flash use is strictly on purpose - no one would have used flash on a 1D because it's too dark, it's all for the effects it enables with bouncing and gels and all sorts of expensive gadgetry.

The technology filtering down to consumer level in a couple of years is pretty exciting, though as elithrar noted, the exposure is going to be difficult as it's hard to tell between "dark area you want to see" and "dark area that's the background".
So basicaly, when someone is successful with a product, others should not do the same thing because they were not first? Way to go to stimulate competition and innovation.
What if the car belongs to the local bank manager who left his work laptop on the passenger seat?
Hey all-- We built this at http://www.startupworkaway.com (15 geeks in a beachhouse!). It's our first foray into the mobile market but we're pretty excited by the beta feedback/love we've gotten. Would appreciate your thoughts!

(edited to fix link, thx)
We had a closed beta of one month. We kicked it off on HN about 6 weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941589

Couldn't have done it without HN!
I just misread "frenchmen" and was thinking, "what on earth this has to do with anything?" My sitcom mind.
I think you have a good point generally speaking, but iCloud does in fact run on Windows.
An enjoyable read, with good food for thought.

One disagreement:

"We’re pretty nice guys to work with, as long as you love cats like us of course (dog people need not apply, sorry!)."

Having "need not apply" in a job description can be off-putting. You might be in violation of the ADA (Americans with Dogs Act), and you unnecessarily antagonize people with dogs and people without dogs.
If the bot posts (legally) objectionable material, I'm guessing it's not the bot that goes to jail.
One interesting thing about how this was designed, it for some reason doesn't get your location from your facebook profile. It uses your IP address, which led to hilarious results because while my facebook rightly says where I am, I was using a SOCKS proxy to access this in a different city and when it showed him looking at a map it showed the route to my SOCKS proxy instead of me.
I guess I'm safe and the crazy guy won't kill me :)
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I don't know the details, but it looks like an array of S-band horns. Those won't get smaller without changing the frequency.

http://www.q-par.com/products/horn-antennas/2-18-GHz-wide-ba...

btw: I would also guess S-band was chosen for a reason. Three are all sorts of atomic vibrational resonances as you scale up in frequency, which might make it harder to get the desired view.
We actually ran a closed beta program for a month or so with an invite system. We released invites slowly while we got the product up to speed, and then launched.

And, yes — there's more to going fulltime than hitting X customers. How much cash do you need in the bank to avoid cash flow issues? What's your margin like — is it really X users, or is it X*2? What's your churn rate? If you don't know the avg. lifetime of a customer, you may be out in the cold.
Fixed link, http://www.startupworkaway.com
I was lucky enough to be in the beta -- this is basically the missing calendar app for iOS. Apple really should have included these features from the get go.
Hurting customers is like an issue group's protest blocking traffic. It doesn't make the average person want to help such a cause, quite the opposite.

"Evil is a decision, often of unthinking, not to be honorable."
My heart bleeds...
on the other hand i feel slightly locked in with google docs.

it doesn't seem to let me export my revision history, for example.

also, does it actually offer a download format such that:

"google docs" -> "download as" -> "upload to google docs"

returns you to exactly the same document?
Yaw, I think you're right-- the home page is pretty dense. Any ideas on a big/simple headline that conveys the value prop better? We struggled with that.

FWIW, I've largely stopped using the normal calendar app in favor of this one. If we see a lot of demand for a month/week view, we might well add it in.

Thanks for the feedback!