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I'm not sure that it's legal or not but it is certainly widely adopted. I'd imagine that it becomes "illegal" once it's monetized beyond shared expenses. If you help pay for the gas/service of the vehicle, that's quite a bit different than paying for the service. Just my hunch.
"Someday this is gonna work and it will be awesome! In the mean time please invest huge amounts of money in us!"

This guy have the same business model as Groupon.
That just made me remember that I used to draw during class often. Over time, teachers forced me to stop. Looking back on school, I started out as a well-behaved, good student, and finished as disinterested, depressed, and moderately disruptive. I wonder if there was a connection.
In point of fact, I run no regular antivirus on my windows machine and have had no viruses ever. I verify this with a boot scan. It's not about macs vs PC's it's about user savvy and market penetration.
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That's a great story. Thanks for posting it.

Actionable material.
Not sure I agree with that point: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=ipad%20help&cmp...

Yes, they're easy to use. Are they so easy to use that nobody ever needs any help with them? No.
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There is also another side of the story: you buy a piece of hardware and run your software on it and then the hw producer pushes firmware updates and turns your dear hw into an expensive brick.

Take the Sony Playstation or their rootkits for example...
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A good discussion.

There are a variety of reasons as to why this occurs, particularly in the uk. The most prominent is the lack of awareness of joining a start-up as an achievable or even applicable career option.

NACUE, the business which I work on, encompasses a network of 40,000 enterprising students. And our biggest barrier is enabling students and grads to understand that are different modes of being entrepreneurial post graduation, and therefore 3 career options:
1. Launching a company
2. Being entrepreneurial whilst working for one of the big boys - an intrapreneur
3. Joining a start-up team

The third has the greatest potential. Given the thriving start-up community in London and others areas, and still, the record graduate unemployment.

We're working on raising the awareness of the above problem. Looking to launch a programme next year - this can hopefully tie into the milkround.

Lastly, I don't think you need to be on campus. What we all need is to be visible, and that is achieved through networks (i.e. ADCAS, EEUK) and online, social media - that's where they're engaged.

I've promoted this across network - have a good one this weekend. Also, based in Old Street if you want to share some ideas.

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Super sure. Very reproducible. :)
I'm a female programmer and I have a problem with this.
The article was a disappointment. It was full of hype and no substance. The article pulled people in with a head line claiming a potential science and energy break through but whose contents focused on vague details of the human story around it. Bait and switch I say.

That is what I expected though from the head line. Just like I would expect it from the below headlines:
"Homeopathy either becomes reality or proved a scam today"
"Perpetual motion either becomes reality or proved a scam today"
Good. Here's a thought, spend less time suing yelp and more time invested in solving the problems your customer base has illuminated. The Yelps of the world aren't going anywhere and ultimately, the power they wield isn't theirs, it's the consumers.
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If you're not into pen and paper, there are a bunch of cool sites that let you doodle in the browser. I've been using this one for a few weeks and it's actually pretty cool:
http://doodle.ly/
Wait. Isn't this what Google TV is all about?
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Facebook is required? I have the demo of pro and as far as I can tell, I don't have Facebook linked up to it, not that they haven't suggested I could hook it up.
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I kinda like the way it looks, but mostly because it looks different. Some of these designs that most people think are ugly at first tend to grow on you, like the Nissan cube.
That's easy enough to do with a Greasemonkey script or other extension. Are you interested enough to write it?
Pardon my ignorance, but will there be a ‘alumni to attendee’ ratio maintained? Is there any guarantee if alumni will show up? If yes who and how many?
Or you could try to minimize, delegate and automate the boring work away as much as possible.

Of course, this really depends on what exactly you're working on and what you find boring, but I think there are almost always alternatives to most boring work in professions like programming.

I might think this just because I find almost every facet of development interesting now--I like designing and programming, but I also usually enjoy testing, debugging, polishing and sometimes even just maintaining/refactoring. And because I'm probably not nearly as disciplined as you so I grab at any excuse to not do boring work ;)
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Wow, I'm really excited!
But it still looks like a "car" :)
> 1) They make hardly any money from their 30 percent.

This is fascinating. Do you have any sources?
Unfortunately, the article seemed to indicate that the engineer disassembled a binary, rather than sniffing network protocol traffic.
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>Microsoft's concern is recent rootkit malware that loads before Windows even boots.

Nothing recent about it; boot sector viruses have been around way longer than Windows. I remember getting one on my 386DX from a floppy I'd used to grab a shareware version of Commander Keen from our local public library. Pain in the ass to clean up.
Hmmm daily deals with a twist? I like it.
It's pretty hard to make that kind of hw yourself but it's not impossible.
Based on some news here, it looks there are 10-20 years lag between the state of the art and what you can build on your own.
And there are a lot of Asian companies that don't give a shit on what Microsoft wants.
I think the library is probably the biggest thing for OP. I mean, when I first tried using Spotify and found out they only had a single track from Blink-182, I immediately stopped using it. They have their entire catalog now, but, I'd imagine still not some songs for OP which, if a service doesn't have an artist/song you want to listen to, why use it?
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Why would the customer be satisfied if the 1mW plant is only outputting 470kW?

I'll believe it when I see it.
On Linux and the Mac, the command line Pandora client "pianobar" works really well, and while API updates break it, it's always been mere hours before it was fixed, in my experience.
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Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am also a car enthusiast.

Have you driven an Ariel Atom [1]? Granted, it is less practical than the Tesla Roadster; however, the cost is considerably less, and you could easily afford a secondary car to supplement it.

"This is driving nirvana. You can forget anything you've ever driven. Anything. There is no car, nothing on four wheels, that's as fast as this. Nothing." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Atom

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4YNkurhLk
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I never have an issue with it. I do have an issue with the ethernet connection (I've actually never gotten that to work), but I've never had to reconnect it to the wireless.
Part of the problem is that lots of people have no idea what a FAQ is in the first place.
I agree that this is the direction Apple will probably take, but I'm not sure I like it.

When I sit down on the couch my brain thinks "I want to watch The Walking Dead" not "I want to watch AMC's The Walking Dead."

Think of how poor the interface would be on the TiVo if, instead of show titles, you were presented first with folders of television networks to select from.
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I am not sure either, but I would agree. Insurance/liability and licensing are significantly more complicated when one is driving for a business and transporting passengers. So-called 'commercial' driver's licenses face much more stringent regulation and subject the driver to health+saftey standards.
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There is some interesting reading about relations between drawing, perception and various modes of brain operation in "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards (excerpt here: http://drawright.com/drsbread.htm )
Well, see it's weird, I already thought I was pushing the envelope at that price, given that you can pick up a knit hat from a shop for a couple of bucks. (I guess it's not the same sort of hat, but still - I've often had people ask me why I would knit something when I could buy it for so much less than it would cost to knit it.)

If I were to do it again I'd definitely charge more, because a) I'm not desperate for cash, b) I have better things to do, and c) the exchange rate to the US dollar is not very favourable ;)

I like the idea of a "queue jumping price" though. I think I might use that next time! I actually also got pretty good tips (which I'm not used to, not being American), which was flattering :)
Throw Siri into the mix and it could be really cool. While watching a baseball game, just ask Siri questions about stats. "Siri, what is Albert Pujols' lifetime batting average with two outs and the bases loaded?"
Unfortunately, I live in a small apartment and the only desk I have has a computer on it, which makes it hard for me to concentrate on sketching or anything else. I guess I should go to the library more.
I would go as far as to say that G&L has more of the passion of Leo then Fender does, they are very amazing guitars 'specially for the price you can get them.
don't all fork it at once :)
I thought the researched decompiled the Skype client, posted the resulting source, reversed engineered the protocol, and wrote open source implementation. The decompiled source is definitely a derivative work and possibly copyrighted by Skype. It is hard to tell if the DMCA takedown is for that decompiled source.

The other problem is that by looking at the decompiled source, his source is tainted. He will have a hard time showing that it isn't a derivative work. Especially if he wasn't really careful writing the source from scratch and not cleaning up the decompiled source.
The Networks would _love_ this though, so I could see them being "happy" with it working that way.
That's interesting. My cable TV bill is about the same as my mobile phone bill, and it's not subsidizing any gear. And they call me about once a week with some upsell long-term contract "deal". Maybe it should be subsidizing something. Profits in their industry are about as obscene as in mobile.
The convenience of being able to instantly search and listen to the universe of music cannot be understated. It is a killer feature. iTunes Match is a step backwards compared to this - anyone that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.
Here is the relevant quote from Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer, made during one of Apple’s quarterly conference calls: “Regarding the App Store and the iTunes stores, we are running those a bit over break even and that hasn’t changed.”

This is by now an old quote (from January 2010 – how time runs) so things might have changed. There just isn’t any more current information. Nevertheless, if you look at Apple’s numbers it’s pretty obvious that they make the vast majority of their money by selling hardware. Music, videos and apps make the hardware more attractive, not a lot of money for Apple.
If you don't have any interest in hacking, why are you on Hacker News?

Of course hackers define ownership that way.
Just a quick little note: They've stopped production on the Roadster, so you won't be able to pick one up so easily. You'll probably be looking at a Model S with availability in 2013.
Wow thanks for that. Unfortunately, I don't see myself driving down California highways in that, but I will definitely keep an eye out for it!
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I <3 Grooveshark's UI, but every time I see 50 versions of one song I cringe.
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Exactly. Apple could make the same (win-win) deal they made with the mobile carriers: Let us completely control the user experience, while you get to charge extra for a premium i(Phone|TV) plan and lock in your customers for two year contracts.

In the TV case, it also solves a big problem for the cable/fiber companies, in that they know IP will be enough for everyone in a few years (and is already enough for more and more subscribers) but it will be hard to suddenly start charging $100/mo for "just Internet" when they had been charging $40. The new "iTV" plan won't be a TV or Internet plan, it will be a unified plan. It won't matter how you consume your content, the cable company will get their piece.
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Old Audiogalaxy shut down a few years ago. This is an entirely new thing, but with some of the same people and (re)using the same name.
It is false that "parallelizing a cellular automaton is trivial". I can't easily build my own, special-purpose hardware because Intel, AMD, and other such companies control the process, and that's mostly due to the expense of today's silicon foundries being unaffordable to hobbyists. Even if I use the latest FPGAs, such as the Virtex-7 (#1), I am still limited by the underlying technology choices made by Xilinx, as well as by the high cost and continued availability of these high-end parts. I realize that the OP is about some cool work that is merely at the R&D stage, but the bottom-line message is that this could lead to a technique whereby ordinary mortals, albeit ones with (potentially homemade) STMs, could create their own circuitry. It's a pretty big deal if this work results in me being able to build, with relative ease, a huge CA array, upon which I can then apply, through programming, a wide range of computational topologies.

#1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162791
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Shoddy math. You can't take the average time to answer a customer inquiry and then assume that reducing the number of inquiries will reduce your work load by that much. The questions that can be answered by a good FAQ are precisely those questions that can be handled quickly.

In other words, it overestimates the time savings from having an FAQ.
I wouldn't compare the two. I'd use both. You can't possibly dismiss iTunes Match as a killer feature itself could you?
"Unfortunately, there's a huge issue with Google TV: almost every streaming content provider has summarily blocked Google TV's access."

I would state that as-->
Unfortunately, there's a huge issue with almost every streaming content provider, they have summarily blocked Google TV's access.

This is FREE content we are talking about, but they want to extract some extra rents from cash rich Google putting their name on the device.

There should be no "deals".

Theoretically, I am wondering if opening up the platform to Android apps will mean that providers will have to block the Android flash player as well? (One wonders why they didn't block that, only the much smaller market of Google TV...)
What is the relationship between your Audiogalaxy and the Audiogalaxy that existed back in 2000?
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Many attendees list the company they are associated with in their profile, so you can get an idea from that. You can more or less crossreference the company names with yclist.com to spot the yc companies.
Rationality is about how to achieve what you want, not about what you should want. If it makes you happy, and you believe that it will continue to make you happy enough that you're willing to pay for it, then that is rational.
not much beef apart from the interesting fact that AP has the exclusive of the event https://twitter.com/#!/22passi/status/129811500599746560
I remember seeing an interview with one of them and he claimed that he never wanted to do that announcement. Rather, he was pushed into it by the University and was probably more responsible for ruining his career than the experiment not working.

As for the experiment, as I recall it did produce neutrons, an expected byproduct of fusion. There was certainly an interesting reaction going on but it turned out that it wasn't fusion.
I made a half-arsed attempt at replicating this a while back. The stuff I noted for my next attempt:

As your vacuum increases, the hand/wrist will be pulled further into the chamber. You have to have something to hold inside the chamber that is anchored to the chamber, or a container where having the fist jammed up against the back wall is reasonably comfortable. (My original attempt: using juice concentrate cans rather than flowing water through a handle. I wanted to avoid flowing water if at all possible.)

Due to the whole "arm getting pulled inside" thing, the wrist seal is more troublesome than I hoped. My next try is going to use a dry diving suit wrist-seal.

You want as small an interior volume as possible if using a manual air pump. It's much more time consuming than you'd think to hand-pump the air out and achieve the desired vacuum. I wouldn't want to risk using an automatic air pump in this case, myself, so I'm sticking with the hand pump while reducing the interior space of the container.

Let me know if you have success with this; or, heck, even if you don't, because you'll probably have some good advice as a result.
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The Prius is shaped like an upside down boat hull. It's a shape that offers little drag through a fluid.

I find the Prius OK, not beautiful, but not ugly either. Don't have one yet, but would likely consider one as a practical replacement vehicle.
My point is only that, do you feel like you own the other appliances in your home any less, if they had parts that were tougher for you to fix without voiding a warranty?

Or are we only having this discussion because we all here collectively care more about the hackability of electronics?
Great post. Minor quibble, I would say that "the unique cookie framework overestimates the actual numbers by 33% (40% instead of 30%)," rather than the 25% number given in the post.
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The problem with that is that the blood vessels clamp down in response to cold. The vacuum prevents that, and seriously improves the efficiency of the cooling process.
They could always claim half capacity was a trial.

The real question is how much power was put into it, for how long, to get 470kwh out of it, for how long.
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Meh. If you think of randomness as information entropy, then the uniform distribution is the unique most random distribution. So you can argue, "when you said at random, it's reasonable to assume you meant completely at random (i.e. in the most random way) not just somewhat at random (e.g. 99.9%/0.1%/0%/0%)."
"Discovery," both social and machine-generated, is MUCH better on Rdio. I suspect (but have no proof) that they use Echonest for the latter. There is also a slick Chrome extension that puts the Last.fm "Similar Tracks" under the currently playing song.
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You can't treat each day as an independent random event: if a user has a weak password (e.g. "password1") then they may be compromised multiple times in a year.
With iTunes Match, you have a tiny subset of all possible music to select from. Why limit yourself?
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At Mog (where I work) we have a highly responsive catalog department. We can pretty much get anything that is already in digital format. This includes bands who are distributed solely through CDBaby or other non-label services. Labels push stuff to us on a weekly basis, but for smaller bands, it may be a matter of making a request.

Then there's the flip side: bands who don't do digital distribution at all. Tapes and vinyl. There's nothing a digital music service can do for these. Unfortunately, a lot of my favorite bands are like this. They'll take convincing.
>People want a car or a phone that works. Outside of a few hackers and geeks, nobody cares if they can load their own custom software on it.

we'll talk in several years when it will be implantable devices and in several years more when they will be integrated into you neural circuitry and you will be under impression that these thoughts and memories are yours... well, until the DRM allows you to have that impression :) One can easily extrapolate how, like your photos today, Facebook will also have the right to use your dreams in promotional ad campaings.
As far as I know, is FLAC de- and encoding more battery consuming than using ALAC. So ALAC is the mobile format to go.
If you want to talk about not owning something that you paid for, take a look at the Ferrari FXX.

>Customers pay $1.8 million, but are only allowed to drive the car on special track days which are approved by Ferrari.
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I'm not sure if it's legal or not (or even whose jurisdiction it falls under), but I'd caution you that it's probably a lot more difficult than you'd think to determine if it's legal. When it comes to transportation, there are all sorts of levels of regulation (highway boards, transportation safety boards, municipal and regional codes) than you would think, and all like to regulate slightly different issues, and aren't very accessible to the average layperson.

The other thing I'd caution you about when trying to monetize this is that the local bus companies will almost certainly come after you, and will have legal teams who are used to fighting the minutae of transport law - so don't be surprised if you find yourself having to lawyer up with some very specialized (and hence, expensive) counsel.

As an example of both, here's ([1]) a story of a Canadian startup that was declared illegal by the Ontario Highway Transportation Board (a tribunal no Ontarian outside of the transportation sector has ever heard of) after the bus companies when after them. Seeing as it's in Canada that case shouldn't serve as a precedent, but does (as does the UberCab story) serve as an example about the challenges that come up when you try and disrupt something as established as the transpiration sector.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/12/ill-never-let-canada-live-t...
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I'm pretty happy with my account, the one downside is that with iTunes my wife and I could share an account. With Spotify only one account can be playing at a time. I realize they do this so people don't share accounts with multiple people, but it would be much better if you had five registered devices like iTunes allows.