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> the government acts like a rotten two-year-old that keeps trying until it gets its way

Point of clarification: the government itself has no inherent interest here, and is acting mostly on behalf of influential Big Content lobbyists. Like so many other first-world systemic problems, this is yet another government-industrial complex.

> the constitution is a whitelist of things the federal government may do

Yes, this is how it should work, but it hasn't worked this way for a long time; scope creep has taken on a life of its own. Without implying a simple, "magic bullet" solution, We The People should acknowledge just how broken our electoral system is, and that it is the central impediment towards regaining anything resembling a constitutionally constrained democratic republic.
So basically, Steve got a new Mercedes more often than I get new shoes. Now that's what I expect out of a multibillionaire. Good to see he at least kept himself in new-car smell on a regular basis, and certainly kept a local dealer quite happy.
The question was 'when will Amazon be making 5X what they make now?', and the answer (at current growth rates and current margins) is 48 months. Which is not a long time, thereby explaining the high P/E. If you think the growth will slow substantially or the margins will shrink substantially (or both) in the next 48 months, then the PE is too high. Otherwise, perhaps it's not so crazy after all.
In Keil's defense, it's not targeted at confused new users, and once you are set up and moving it is a beautiful tool. Perhaps the best embedded IDE I've ever used.
I think it's beautiful. This let him buck authority and beat the system at the same time. There was a monetary cost involved (and it could be argued that the system beat him out of fresh registration fees every 6 months), but... still. You gotta admire the gusto. ;)
Those lines are making my phone attempt widescreen, badly. Could you edit?
Please take your trolling elsewhere. Last I checked HN was a place where intellectual discussion takes place. Act accordingly.
It's interesting to see that "zero-gravity" was originally used in a context that actually _was_ a zero (or very small) gravitational field. The normal usage (where there's plenty of gravity, it's just that things are falling free in it) is deeply frustrating, because it misleads people into a misunderstanding of what gravity is. Similarly "micro-gravity", which is probably even worse.
that's the most moronic thing anyone can do.

pay extra to the dealer. pay registration of a new car every 6mo. hassle of dealing with it.

i imagine how many iphone prototypes the dealer found in the glovebox of hundreds of returned sl55 over that time.
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I am probably being biased here. But even nowadays I have very bad experiences with IE on desktop. The simple perspective to use IE again, even on mobile, feels wrong to me.
The problem is that the only people who bother getting up in arms about this are the objectively pro-piracy crowd -- the folks who think that they ought to be allowed to freely download a copy of any movie in existence without paying for it if they happen to feel like doing so. Otherwise known as the "I want to do X, therefore X should be legal" school of legal thinking.

I see some of that crowd in this thread. I'm not interested in arguing with 'em. But when the loudest spokesmen against some particular piece of silly law (and this is a silly law) turn out to be extremists with a position that most thoughtful people would disagree with, it makes it difficult to put forth a coherent argument against it.
Approaching 4 years of driving with no plates on the same car here in California. Just leave the paper dealer plate(the one with the dealership name/logo on it) on the car. Cops wont ever pull you over for lack of plates, even if youre missing the front plate as well, as I am.
Thanks for the feedback!

Twitter is coming in just a day or two - but integration is tailored to letting you tweet what you found while keeping you unlinked from your Thotly device ID.
Looks nice and I'm sure there is a great market for this kind of app. I'd be interested in hearing reports of how things.

As for me though, I still prefer the command line :)
I thought about voting that down or not. Instead I'm just going to comment. This smell thing is really uncalled for, isn't it. I must admit that I always admired what he does, but - maybe like you - I have come to the conclusion that this guy is probably not a nice person. Probably.

Also, he kind of comes across as a one-trick pony. He literally can only think about one single issue. I believe when he thinks about the entire universe, he just looks at free and proprietary software and he's done. There is nothing else. Yes, maybe that's what it takes. Maybe visionaries can't be nice. Maybe successful people have to be assholes. Then again, I hope not.
he probably got cancer from all the volatile compounds that gives new cars that smell.
did that too because DMV was loosing my papers for a while. drove almost one year without plates. no one ever complained. I had 'dealer' plates on both ends.

otoh, a friend got a ticket for missing front plates.
Intel has the AES-NI instruction in some chips. This is said to reduce the side channels considerably.

(Have fun figuring out if that laptop at the store actually has it though. The "Core I7" designation isn't enough.)
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I'm not sure, but I bet there's some way around it. And that lobbyists will be trying to unseat him.
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There are usually many people who attend who are not from the area.

The talks have been livestreamed on justin.tv in the past; I'm not sure if they are going to be this year or not.
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Ok, so how much would he spend on a night out, that would be useful onfo. 100 rupees? 500 rupees? Give us some context here.
Not yet, in fact I haven't heard much on the subject for a while now. Currently, a few of our major ISPs have agreed to a voluntary Interpol blacklist, but that's about it currently. And it seems to be working for its designated purpose well. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/10/19/telstras-filter-has-block...
I'd like to hear about any options, too. We've been using Google Calender for scheduling our technicians, but it's not entirely robust. I'd say we average 1 dropped appointment per week.
Now explain why he liked to use handicap spots and find the DMV loophole for that.

Or how he seeded Apple by selling something that would have landed him in federal prison today.
To not see a problem with this not being Cocoa is to miss what's good about Mac OS X in comparison to Linux and other unixes.

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My dictionary says this for perverse:

- Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences.

- Contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice.
That's why we have to have our own people working tirelessly to oppose this crap. The EFF, for example:

https://www.eff.org/helpout
>I've been scratching my head for years trying to think of a way out. But I just can't. The most powerful means of distribution and communication in human history is either in the hands of inept, short-sighted, unimaginative buffoons or subject to regulation from the same.

if you think about it, the Earth's most advanced political systems - the US and the other Western democracies - are just refined implementations of 2000+ years old architectural principles - the Greek's "democracy" (decisions and laws are made by a group of people limited to the size of the big room, the modern refinement of this ancient system is that the members of that group are supposedly elected instead of just being rich and powerful elite of the society) and the Rome's "rule of law" (a law overrides moral and any other motivation/rationale). It's somehow disappointing that human race hasn't been able to come up with (or more precisely - hasn't evolved enough for) a better system. [The most recent attempts to build new, and thought at the time as significantly improved, systems - fascism and socialism/communism - turned out to be catastrophic disasters.]

>I'm excited for the practical and technological revolution that upends this control. But I can't imagine what it would look like or how it would work.

every time significant technological development happens - be it steam engine, Smith&Wesson, radio, cars, phone, television - it looks like it would change the world and free the people from the control of the system ... well, as it happens, the system just absorbs the technological development as a more advanced tool for the control. And it is happening the same way with the computers and the Internet. All the improvement in the society comes from improvement in people (which of course is frequently technically facilitated and accelerated by the technological advances). "Peasants are also humans, not a property", "women are also humans, not a property", "blacks are also humans, not a property", "gays are also humans", ..., (some day we will even evolve enough to recognize the rights of animals and look back in horror to today's treatment of them as property) - all this is just a change in people minds, not a change in law (which follows the change in minds) and not a change in technology (which though does usually help a lot)

>And that leaves me a pretty sad panda while we wait for it.

Look at the "Occupiers" - like the new born kittens they don't know what to do, where to go, yet they have already "born" while we're sitting and waiting :) [ note : i don't have illusions - many of the Occupiers will become lawyers, government employees, political officials ... - ie. indistinguishable part of the system and will try to forgot their "stupid mistakes of youth", yet just for a moment they are "born" and it became an undeletable part
of the whole human race history and evolution]
Looking at what they have now, they have a pretty different value proposition. I wish them the best with the pivot :)
>>handicap spots

Cancer could qualify him for that, maybe?
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Twilio is GA in the UK today, we have 5 more countries in Europe in beta today, and 11 more announced to go into beta in the coming weeks leading into the end of 2011... with the rest of Europe to open. No geography lessons, no shenanigans.
The problem I think is rooted in piracy, at least as it is practiced in first-world countries where convenience is worth more than price. Piracy has several built-in practical issues, because it is frankly inconvenient to be conducting illegal business, and DRM provides another inconvenience. But despite these endemic problems with piracy, it does offer a huge convenience: universality. The legal movie market is fragmented and therefore a pain to deal with, where the black market is very universal, with mirrors of content on all the major distribution channels (torrents, rapidshare/HTTP sites, and USENET are the big three).

I think you're overestimating the effect of piracy, because you tend to hang out with young, tech-savvy folks. The average Netflix customer would have no idea how or where to pirate a movie even if they did want to (not to mention there are some people in the world who aren't completely amoral and as such wouldn't).
In Canada, phone contracts are 3 year.
Hmmmm. Maybe there could be a SVG to CSS converter!
This entire comments thread has a higher than expected level of subtle/downplayed humor. I appreciate subtle humor, but I don't know if Hacker News is the place for it.
If we could somehow collect information on the power usage of their data centers i think that would be the most accurate measure. You might be able to do that by using a thermo camera to determine how much heat is dissipated by their cooling systems.
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I believe his point is more about focus: building for relevant use cases. You can have the underlying, big conceptual vision you are talking about. That's what drives the emotion in the product.

But the execution can't directly reflect the vision or few will understand how it solves their needs.

It's all about the search for a model that is ubiquitous, right? A lot of small points of value that build into huge influence.
I don't get it - what does django-dbbackup offer over 4 lines of bash:

outputfile=/tmp/database_`date +%Y_%m_%d`.sql.gz
pg_dump fashiondb -U fashionuser | gzip > $outputfile
s3cmd --config ~/.s3cfg put $outputfile s3://mybucket
rm $outputfile
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...for the hour.
There are a few startups working on the Indoor Navigation part: http://www.qubulus.com/2011/06/07/the-indoor-positioning-mar...
And you can crank up the stack size (tho this SO has a link to Duffy talking about increasing stack on the CLR)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7538584/f-vs-ocaml-stack-...
The other reason is because people continue to infringe upon their rights. If people stopped taking what's not theirs, you'd have a hard time getting anyone to spend time on this legislation.
As usual, an excellent summary. Economic models based on low level data (essentially better "instrumentation", capturing bank transactions, some contracts, individual spending etc.) might be quite useful at least for short term prediction. Perhaps old ideas of "optimal control" can be to some extent realised.
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Your first claim is false.
Just had this pop up on my reader: http://appicurious.com/2011/10/26/inglorious-applications/#....

Like another poster alluded to, save up some money (keep your job). Interview 5+ developers with entrepreneurial tendencies, pick one, thank the others, hire the one you picked, tier their compensation on milestones.

You already founded this, so looking for a co-founder is fairly moot. Hire someone, give them a chance to shine, bring them in as a partner. If trying to force the "tech co-founder" isn't working, try something else. As for outsourcing...I think it is a silly word that means "not committed". You're not committed to them, they are not committed to you...in the end you have your prototype, but know far less about it then if you hired someone, even an intern, and had them walk you through their process and the code...most outsourced help would probably not do that for you. A less risky move is to hire someone on 1099 for the project...you probably know more about those rules than most.

If you waste too much time fretting over the details, you'll never get it off the ground. Check your balls, take the leap. You will never be 100% correct (you damned accountant! : ) so take your best shot and learn what you are made of.

Post an email link or phone number in your about and I'll give you a call and a swift kick in the ass if you need it.
The article is for march 2010. I don't think there will be part 2.
I wonder if "a very precise voltmeter" can fit inside of a non-suspicious looking USB device

I would think so. Since the signal is over such a small range that removes a big engineering consideration. It's also a relative measurement at (relatively) low frequencies. An off-the-shelf 12 or 16 bit A/D converter would probably work just fine with the right input conditioning.

Also, don't overlook the possibility of pointing a telescope at an illuminated LED being powered from the motherboard. It will vary in brightness just as (or even more) accurately as the supply voltage from a USB port.
$a and $b are special due to their use in sort functions. This is a wart that predates "my".

Newer languages have warts, too, you just don't know what they are, yet.
I think the 360 Pano guys have a potential solution for the update challenge: http://www.occipital.com/360/verse

I'm curious what long-term incentive would be for updates, though.
They won't pull you over if they see the dealer plate on the back though. I had a cop coming towards me, flip a U when he saw no front plate, see my dealer plate, flip another U and go on his way. This was after about 2 years of driving with that dealer plate, mind you.

If you get stopped for something else, you'll get ticketed. It's a fix-it ticket though and costs around $25 and two minutes to get signed off.
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target="_blank" may or may not be a minor annoyance to some users. I've personally never gotten a complaint about it on any sites i've built/run. Just like every other tool it has it's uses. The standard way I've been seeing it used is to open links to new sites in new windows/tabs and open links that keep the user on your site in the same window/tab.

I don't see anything wrong with continuing to use it.
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I think your poor English isn't sufficient to understand the dark humour at play in the post.

The foreword from Edward O'Connor might just as well be rewritten: "In which I consider the latest example of my own utter lack of humour." I love his casual Asperger's syndrome diagnosis. Then Edward goes on to write authoritative posts on empathy, on hypocrisy, and on overpopulation.

As it says on top of his homepage: Edward O'Connor is a web standards developer in San Francisco, CA.
Agreed. It would be incredibly naive to suggest that AWS is anything other than a huge source of income for Amazon for a long time to come.
Weird coincidence. I just saw Wyden speak a few minutes ago at a town hall style meeting here in Oregon, and asked him about PROTECT IP when he was taking questions.

I'm not sure he can keep it on hold indefinitely, but he definitely sounded committed to doing whatever is within his power to oppose it.
IMHO, this is a good idea from Apple. Prior to that, I have to press two buttons to unlock my Sony Ericsson phone. I have to press and hold the Play button on my Blackberry to unlock the key pad.

Though I don't have an iPhone, I would love the ability to unlock with just a swipe instead of figuring out the where the button to unlock the keypad on my phone is in the night
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The iPad had whatever came with the iPad2 by default, which I assumed was the latest, maybe it wasn't. Anyway, I haven't upgraded to 5 yet since it has seemed wrinkly for a lot of people.

Wrt notifications... I just don't understand _why_ they didn't touch it between iOS1 and iOS5. It was so bad :) I'm sure it's much better now.
You plan to have an SLA? That would be a game changer. In-city delivery API, guaranteed.

Add Lockitron[1] to the mix with secure boxes for pick up and delivery and you got a winner.

[1]: https://lockitron.com/
Yeah, the people we think of as parasites and the people they think of as parasites are two different sets.

Brand them as the parasites and kill it. Maybe a Googlebomb is in order, listing the sponsors of this bill as e-parasites? Sadly, the document linked on SCRIBD doesn't seem to include the list of cosponsors and mentions only "Mr. Smith of Texas".

Does anyone know where to find out who all is sponsoring this? A quick search only found a bunch of news about it and copies of the bill, but no further information.
DoJ puts in budget requests to Congress, which then grants, modifies, or denies them as it sees fit. Heads of agency have a surprisingly limited amount of budgetary autonomy; they can't just reroute millions of dollars because they think it would be sensible. Check out pages 59-62 of this document to get an idea of amount of begging required for the pissant sum of $2 million bucks: http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2011justification/pdf/fy11-usa-ju...

Congress has the power of the purse, and can keep the executive branch on a very short lease if it chooses. Meantime, subjects of an investigation can often borrow a tactic from civil litigation and bury the other side (in this case, the DoJ) with heaps of irrelevant or incidental material that will be enormously time-consuming to sort through.

Partly because of Congressional funding decisions going back for years and partly because of inefficiency, government legal investigators are badly lacking in the technical department. Sadly, this state of affairs suits some people very well.
Tourette syndrome?

(cf. Curb Your Enthusiasm)
>Even £40k doesn't give a great standard of living in London

That all depends on your definition of "great standard of living". I started out on £20k and have never felt that I was slumming it in London.
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I would hope that an engineer or scientist is happy to be doing what they love. I imagine S. Jobs was happy building companies than being an engineer. You are successful doing what you love while earning a decent living.
CSS is the wrong tool for the job. Your example would be better served (and easier to maintain) with SVG or Canvas.
An RSA encryption requires doing the same operation over and over again, with some inputs the same each time, for much longer than 100,000 instructions.
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It's a lovely app and it's got a beautiful website, too!
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Another good thing about Amazon is that, via Prime, you also get awesome shipping. So for the cost, it is hard to beat.

But, UX-wise, Amazon has a lot of issues.

With their streaming movies, if you leave a program half-way and come back later, you have to search for it all over again to find it and resume the program. There isn't a "recently viewed" section or any of that.

The site is also very static (pretty lame content discovery). Not nearly as compelling as the actual Amazon stores, oddly. It's as if it isn't hooked into your search history or viewing preferences. At. All. The experience is painfully mimicking the store experience, but without the typical Amazon recommendations. It's disappointing, to say the least.
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>Large human organizations tend to judge both at their worst, and to be negative on unknown people for a longer time than any single rational actor would be, which is why "dues paying" periods are so ridiculously long. What this means is that the people who get ahead are people who can sustain a middling performance over a long time without even a whiff of failure, and not the creative, passionate people who take a lot of risks and can hit the high notes but occasionally screw up.

The problem I think is most are based on top-down command and control and managing by fear, not passion.
If you would just like to build it and test it on OS X and share the build with other:

git clone https://code.google.com/p/script-cover/
cd script-cover
./build.py
gem install crxmake
crxmake --pack-extension="build" --extension-output="ScriptCover".crx
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I've never understood why people fight against AT&T/gas syntax when they're using gcc and therefore gas to do C compiling. It just creates extra work to have to switch back and forth between two assembly syntaxes.

It's like using an Intel compiler that's bundled with a ntel syntax assembler and then coding your assembly in using gas. This is just more work.

Why not just use an assembler that uses Intel syntax? Because you like extra percent signs, a different order of operands, etc.? These are small differences.

What do you achieve by using an Intel syntax assembler? A few small sytanctical differences? Some small differences in macro facilities? Assembly language does not have heaps of abstraction. That's the whole point of using it. A machine instruction has only one form. It's a number.

So why do we need multiple assembly language syntaxes?

Maybe some people just like extra work. Let's write a new language just for fun. Let's change some syntax just for fun. Let's fix something that's not broken, just for fun, ignoring all the things have remained broken and unfixed year after year.